Title: Parseltongue
Summary: Written for the "Bestiary" hp100 challenge.
100 word drabble.
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Dreaming of talking to snakes as a child had never prepared Harry for this. There were snakes of all shapes and sizes, smaller than his forearm and green or as thick as his waist in vicious striped shades.
Vaguely, in the distance, he could hear their screaming victims.
He carefully stroked a small viper and hissed in its ear before placing it on Draco Malfoy's shoulders where he stood chained. It bit Draco in the throat; the poison moved slowly enough for him to whimper before he died.
The next day, Voldemort agreed to take Harry on as his apprentice.
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