p id="docs-internal-guid-b285903c-7a72-6171-74be-f858f12fa160" dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"Disclaimer: I own nothing/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"Harry's female name comes from an Indonesian love story and will be more explained later on./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"Acira means brief, swift, or fast and is an Indian name, as I discovered Nagini means almost perfect or lucky and is Indian./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"~words~ are parseltongue/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"-.~Chapter One~.-/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"All the lies, all the manipulation, it all becomes clear as I look back at the past. I had tried to pass it off as insignificant before when I noticed the little things that just didn't add up, but now. Now, I know an innocent man, a man who could have taken care of me all these years instead of the Dursleys, a man who is /spanspan style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"family/spanspan style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;", spent eleven years of torture in a cold cell within the walls of Azkaban. Eleven years such a long time when he should have never even ventured near the accursed place had the headmaster informed the authorities that Pettigrew was the /spanspan style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"real/spanspan style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" secret keeper. I mean really, Dumbledore had been the one to cast the charm over the house./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"He probably wanted me to be more mendable and with Sirius around he couldn't accomplish that. He wants me to be his little weapon, his sword against Voldemort. Well, he should have known that some swords are double bladed, and can cause just as much harm to it's wielder just as easily as it's given opponent. He should have had a tighter grasp on his weapon for it has now fallen out of his grasp. Even as I sit in my Summer prison locked away from most of the world./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;""I won't be here much longer though will I, girl?" Hedwig hooted in reply as if to agree/spanspan style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;". br /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"An almost silent noise of leaves being rustled alerted me to a new presence. ~Acira, do you have a message for me?~ A three foot long water moccasin leaped from the tree it had been climbing in and into the small room through the open window./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"Tucking my long curly hair behind one ear as I moved closer to my familiar. Remembering how I had found her in a Zoo just about three years ago. We had instantly connected on a higher level than what I had known before, so we planned her escape which looking back on I am surprised worked. She had hidden under my baggy clothes while a boa caused mayhem for all around us./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"~Let a serpent rest, first. You never stroke my scales as much as you use to, and I shall not tell you what he said until you start to make up for it.~ She slithered to me cuddling when she got close enough to rest herself next to me, as I laid back down on my bed gently petting her./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"~Oh, Acira. I'm so sorry. You know it's always hard adjusting after I leave school. Please, tell me what Tom has said.~ Tom had been communicating with me for a year now. Ever since I helped him come alive from the diary in the Chamber. Tom had of course offered for me to join him, which at the time I declined thinking of my friends and that they were firmly in the light. All it took for me to help him though was me willingly pouring my life's blood onto to the old book for Ginny to survive with him- something he revealed to me after I questioned him on how a emsecond/em year could help him. When he emerged fully from the diary it had crumbled into ash not use to being away from the dark magic it had been soaked in for so many years./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"Acira's eyes flashed at the remark of the difficulty at being back at Privet Drive again. ~I still don't see why you haven't let me terrorize them just a little. I don't need to/spanspan style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" bite/spanspan style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" them. Though they /spanspan style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"should/spanspan style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" be bitten though for all that they have done to you.~/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"~Their screams would only bring trouble, and we do not need anyone snooping around finding out things we would rather they'd not.~ I sighed, and closed my eyes.~So, what did Tom have to say?~/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"~ He said-/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"Then, a loud boom echoed through the house causing all of us to look towards the door with /span/p