Nina Potter and the Cup of Ankh

Chapter One: The Talking Snake

Disclaimer; I do not own Harry Potter, or House of Anubis. If I did, Fred wouldn't have died, and Denby would've become a sinner instead of Patricia.

Author's Note; This whole thing will be in third person point of view. I won't give away any spoilers. Yup, that sounds convincing and I'm sticking to it for now. I'll update soon. I think.

Nina Potter woke up to a rapping at her bedroom door. Well, it wasn't exactly a bedroom. It was a broom cupboard. Under the stairs. But that was where she slept, and where she kept her things.

"Get up! It's Dudley's birthday and it's time for you to make breakfast!" Her Aunt Petunia yelled.

Nina Potter lived with her AWFUL relatives, the Dursleys.

See, her parents died in a car crash when she was a baby. She survived, but with a lightning bolt shaped scar on her forehead as a reminder. Nina usually hid her scar under her hair because people teased her about it.

She was sent to live with her only stable relatives left. The Dursleys. She had a gran on her mother's side that they sometimes visited, but she lived in an old folk's home.

So Nina sat up before her cousin came down the stairs. He always stomped so that dust rained down on her. She got out, just as he started coming downstairs, and ran into the kitchen to make breakfast.

"FORTY-TWO?" Dudley screamed in protest. "ONLY FORTY-TWO PRESENTS? LAST YEAR I GOT FORTY-THREE!"

"That's just because your presents are bigger then they were last year."

"BUT I GOT OLDER! I SHOULD HAVE MORE PRESENTS AND THEY SHOULD BE BIGGER!" He yelled. "IT'S NOT FAIR!"

You're right Dudley, thought Nina. It's not fair. It's not fair that I get no presents on my birthday and you get forty-two. It's not fair that I get a broom cupboard and you get two rooms. One for you and one for your junk! It's not fair.

"But Duddykins, we're going to the zoo today! There we'll get you two more presents. Then you'll have forty-four presents!" Petunia says, reassuring her son. "And look, Nina's finished breakfast!"

While they were eating, the phone rang. Vernon went to get it, and came back ten minutes later with a frown on his face.

"Bad news. Nina's sitter canceled and everybody else is busy." He said. "She's going to have to come with us."

"NO! I DON'T WANT NINA TO COME TO THE ZOO WITH US!" Dudley yelled. "SHE'LL RUIN MY BIRTHDAY!"

"Well why don't you invite one of your friends to come along! Then Nina will stay far away from you two and you won't even know she's there! Right Nina?" Petunia asked, glaring at Nina like it was her fault all of the sitters were busy.

"Yup." Nina said, avoiding conflict. She gulped down the rest of her breakfast and got into black leggings and an orange sweater-dress. She put on her sneakers and an orange headband.

Nina was so excited! Whenever the Dursleys went out, they always left her at a baby-sitter's house. This was the first time she was going somewhere besides school and a sitters'.

She rushed outside and Vernon pulled her away for a moment. "No funny business, do you understand me girl?"

"Yes, Uncle Vernon, sir." She answered quietly.

He was talking about the time Nina's Aunt Petunia gave her such a short and ugly haircut, that before she went to bed, she wished would grow back. Long story short, it did, and the Dursleys blamed her.

Nina had long, wavy, dirty blonde hair and emerald green eyes. She has her scar of course, and tan skin.

Anyways, when they were in the reptile exhibit, Dudley and his friend were looking at a snake. It was asleep, so Dudley tapped the glass to wake it up.

"DAD! It won't move!" He yelled.

Vernon came rushing over and knocked sharply on the glass. "WAKE UP!" He yelled.

Dudley then declared the snake boring, so he walked away. Nina went over and started talking to it.

"Hi there. Sorry about Dudley, he's always like that. A big bully. I know, because I'm his cousin, and he teases me a lot. I'm Nina by the way." She read the sign about him. "Born and raised in captivity, huh? Sounds like me. Except, I was born free."

Tell me more, Misssssss Nina. The snake answered, and un-coiled himself up so that he and Nina were face to face.

"Well, this is my first time out somewhere that isn't a baby-sitter's house." Nina answered.

Interessssting. He answered.

"That isn't even the half of-Ah!" Nina was saying, before Dudley and his friend pushed past her. She fell to the ground and squeezed her eyes shut.

She wished for a second that they would fall through and be the trapped animals once. She opened her eyes in time to see them fall in.

Nina started laughing, as the snake slithered out. Thankssssss! He said. I'm going to Brazzzzil!

"You're welcome! Have a nice time!" She said back.

When Dudley tried to get out, the glass re-appeared and he started banging on it and screaming. That just made Nina laugh even harder.

She kept laughing until her uncle came over and glared at her. Uh oh, she thought. I think disappearing glass and talking snakes count as funny business. I am sooooo grounded.

As soon as they got home, Vernon threw Nina into her cupboard and locked it. "One week in here, for ruining your cousin's birthday!"

That was the longest week of her life.

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~Idizzle22