Emily Nigma

Emily Nigma (formally known as Emily Riddle) is the former Diary Horcrux of Lady Voldemort, turned full person, with the help of a ritual and of the unforeseen shenanigans of Chaos Magic.

## 1992:

She spends most of her year in her diary form possessing Ares Black and working on her plot to regain a body. She officially re-opens the Chamber of Secrets on the night of Samhain when she uses the basilisk to petrify the Caretaker's cat, hang it in front of the girl's out of order bathroom from the second floor, and write on the wall in front of which the cat is hanged that the Chamber has been re-opened.

At some point during the night between November 7th and November 8th she petrifies and moves Colin Creevey into the Chamber of Secrets. Her second and third victims come in the form of the Weasley Twins, soon after midnight, on December 12th.

## 1993:

On the second floor corridor, on the evening of January 8th, Emily is sneaking towards the Chamber of Secrets. She is headed to set another *piece* to fall into place so that when her resurrection occurs she may cross into the realm of the living without peril, while allowing her in the future to sate her curiosity that has been eating her alive for the better part of the school year — most likely about Harry Potter.

She ends up petrifying and dragging Daphne Greengrass into the Chamber of Secrets on January 10th. A couple of days later, on January 14th, during an emergency Wizengamot session, the warning that she had sent —not to close Hogwarts if they hoped to ever see the missing students ever again — is read. On the night between January 31stand February 1st she petrifies and kidnaps Lillian Moon into the Chamber.

While masquerading as Ares Black, she starts her plan of slipping into Harry Potter's group on January 25th.

At some point during April 21st she breaks in the Gryffindor Tower and leaves a taunting self-destructing message on Charlus Potter's bed.

On the night of May 30th, in the Chamber of Secrets, Emily is pacing in her newly acquired body. She is thinking about how close her plans in gaining a new body are, and how, when acquired, she will be able to think without the constraints of the single-minded compulsion that has been imposed upon herself by the diary.

The evening of June 4th finds herself using Ares body while "looking for clues" with Harry on the second floor corridor, as she herself has suggested to him to do that night. At some point, she makes her move, revealing herself to be the Heir of Slytherin, defeats Harry in a short lived duel and uses Legilimency to simply take control of his bodily functions and render him unconscious. She drags him into the Chamber of Secrets where he ties him up. Eventually he wakes up and a conversation ensues where she prods information out of him. She revels that Emily Riddle is the birth name of the one who is to become to the future Lady Voldemort. Emily confides in Harry that for the time being she is bound to a blasted book — pointing at a black diary lying on the floor — but that soon enough she will have her own body and her own volition. Thus, she wants to know what magic was at play on the night of Samhain 1981. As Harry refuses to answer her, she proceeds to use Legilimency on him. She pulls Harry's memories about Lady Voldemort, but she stops her search right before he writes for the very first time in the linked diary. Emily apologizes for the inconvenience, and for the ones that are to follow this evening. Thus, she ends up explaining the compulsion placed on the diary in which Ares wrote the whole year at the behest of her mother, of the compulsion that makes her yearn for a body by any means necessary, and for her plans to gain a new body by taking control of Ares once and for all, resulting in the young girls death.

She proceeds to finish the preparations for her resurrection, and she starts to chant to channel the magic. By the time that Charlus and Lockhart enter the Chamber, the ritual is underway. Riddle has a quick verbal spar with the two before unleashing the Basilisk upon them. Because Harry Potter is removed from the ritual circle, Ares ends up taking Harry's symbolic place as a donor, and, as a results, she gains a solid form, making her alive once more, and leaves her unconscious on the floor.

She wakes up with her magic blocked, thus making her realize in whose care did she end up in — that of the Unspeakables — on the evening of June 5th. As panic starts to spread, an Unspeakable appears informing her that they are offering a proposition, that is, after she has answered some of their questions about horcruxes. Backed into a corner, Emily ponders on the deal offered by the Department of Mysteries — then she eventually agrees. She informs them of her other self potential horcruxes, answer their questions honestly, and sign several magical contracts, whilst agreeing to being heavily monitored. In turn, they will classify her connection to Lady Voldemort as a Department secret, thus ensuring that anybody who tries to link the two together will end up looking foolish and will ensure that Albus Dumbledore does not directly contradict the wishes of their department.

Some days later, on the evening of June 12th, she returns in secrecy to Hogwarts. There in from the Room of Requirements, she retrieves the Diadem of Ravenclaw turned into a horcrux by her future-self and proceeds to her next goal of the evening. Some minutes later, she arrives in the the out-of-order bathroom from the second floor. There she ponders how many things had gone wrong when Myrtle simply slipped and died — something that was not meant to happen. Breaking out her train of thought, she places that entrance to the Chamber of Secrets under the Fidelius Charm and she departs from the castle.

The next night, in the Department of Mysteries, she watches as the horcrux is being destroyed by Fiendfyre. She realizes that the destruction of the horcurx does not bother her as much as she would have expected.