Authors Note: This story is for the Houses Competition and thank you to my team and Rejooc for doing the beta for this story. Otherwise I hope you like it!

House: Ravenclaw

Category: Drabble

Prompt: The Forbidden Forest is forbidden for a reason.

People often wonder why the Forbidden Forest is forbidden. While there are many creatures that could be considered dangerous, there is another reason. There is a dark creature that lived there for years, then someone made them even darker than put them back.

"Go Nagini, go to where you rest" he hisses and I obey. I slither for ages and ages, the stones of the Muggle road hard, rough ,and uneven on my skin. Then comes the coldness of the train tracks, and water as I swim through the Great lake. Then finally somewhere with some semblance of belonging – a forest. My belly aches from all the rough surfaces it has passed over but I continue to slither and slither, and slither until I reach it.

I reach the centre of the forest where I must stay. Where I did stay until he came and made me one, one out of seven. And now I am back again and must stay here until my master orders me otherwise. I stayed there for another 13 years, until he called.

And that is the true reason it is forbidden.