(Note: I am aware that the chapters are short, but they really arent chapters to me, just little sections that i don't really feel like organizing properly. Feedback please!)
Nagini Regin was never normal. She wasn't always a snake, as so many wizarding folk believed; she was a girl, an orphan, living on the streets of London.
Maybe she would've been adopted by some family or a lonely lady who may come across her while doing their shopping if she seemed more like a little girl, but she wasn't. Her black eyes held something very odd in them, something malevolent, something mysterious, something that simply did not belong on the face of an 11 year old girl. Her mother had died when she was merely five years old, and her 6 years on the streets of London had changed her into something you would never expect to find in a little girl.
However, what made Nagini so queer, even to the wizarding folk was that she had long mastered the art of wandless magic before she had set foot in Hogwarts. She was a thief, and her abilities had prevented her from ever getting caught. She never stole much, merely a few pence to ensure that she wouldn't starve, so no one really cared or noticed either.
And that was what she was doing today. In her earlier days, she had to make herself feel extremely sad or angry or simply hungry to manage to make a few pence float out of someone's purse or pocket, or maybe a few cookies out of someone's grocery shopping, but now it was extremely simple. She simply had to concentrate on those coins floating off toward her and she would grab them out of the air. Then she merely had to go off into some dark alleyway to make her rags look presentable enough to walk into a store without any suspicion.
And that was Nagini's life until an old woman had walked up to her and asked? "Are you Nagini Regin?"
"Yes," she said, her eyes full of suspicion. "Who are you and how do you know my name?"
"I am Professor Merrythought," she said, smiling warmly, though Nagini could tell she looked somewhat uneasy about Nagini. "And I am a teacher at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry."
Surprise flitted across Nagni's face for a split second before going back to a cold stare, though it was more thoughtful and a tiny sliver of happiness seemed to show through. "What do you mean?"
"You're a witch, Nagini, and I am here to ask you if you would like to go to a school, Hogwarts to hone your abilities," Merrythought said, still smiling despite Nagini's cold look. 'It is a boarding school where you and thousands of other young witches and wizards go to."
Nagini's face suddenly split into wild happiness, and in the first time in many years, she really smiled, and the effect on her tiny, thin face was beautiful. She could not doubt that she was a witch, all these years she had been making strange things happen, very controlled things, unlike other young witches and wizards, but strange things nevertheless. She knew it was the reason she was still alive at this point.
Merrythought handed Nagini a letter, in an envelope of thick parchment. "Here is your acceptance letter, along with the list of supplies you will need-"
But Nagini cut her off, "but I don't have any money, if I did, I wouldn't be living on the streets." Her voice held 6 years of bitterness.
"A fund at Hogwarts will pay for all your supplies," she said, handing her a bag full of gold, silver and bronze. "You may need to buy some things secondhand of course, but it will suffice. If you like, I can accompany you to Diagon Alley to buy all your school things."
"Thanks, but it won't be necessary. Could you just tell me where it is? I'll be able to find it."
"Follow me," Merrythought said, and they made their way down to a grubby looking pub. "This is the Leaky Cauldron," she told Nagini. They made their way in. The people in the pub greeted her as they went through to the back. Merrythought took out a long wooden stick, a wand and tapped one of the bricks on the wall. Suddenly a hold appeared and expanded into a large doorway.
"Are you sure you don't want me to help you find everything?"
"I'm fine." said Nagini. "But how will I get to Hogwarts?"
"You will go to Kings Cross at the first of September to Platform Nine and Three Quarters. Everything's in that letter." She smiled again, and said, "good bye, Nagini, we'll see each other in Hogwarts."
"Bye," she said shortly, before Merrythought disappeared with a small pop. She faced Diagon Alley, and pulled out her supply list, staring into the beginning of her new life.
