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Chapter 4: Sabrina's Lament

Sabrina slithered through the grass as she watched her Harry practicing his martial art skills. She had been watching over him and guiding him for years now and it would soon be time for his eleventh birthday and for his Hogwarts letter to arrive.

After finally standing up to the Dursleys, Harry would study magic in the garden and practice in the woods. He soon got a good grasp of performing basic spells after a few weeks and was able to apply that confident and knowledge to more complex spells, allowing him to learn them faster.

Harry also started to take lessons in karate and judo to work on his physique, fitness and defence against physical attacks. This was a good choice as he soon had Dudley and his gang try to beat him up for revenge after that day, but he was able to finally defend himself and take Dudley down, which made the other boys run off after seeing their leader get beaten.

As the years went by, Harry grew to be just taller and more muscular than other boys his age thanks to having the blocks removed and his continued physical activities. Sabrina was proud at the progress that he had made and was confident that he would take the Wizarding World by storm when he returned.

However, thinking about the Wizarding World also made Sabrina worried for Harry. Already, he had been betrayed by those in power who should've done better. It was people like that who allowed the war to continue for so long. It was people like that who allowed her mother and her bond partner to die.

Sabrina still held fond memories of her time with her mother and her bond partner. Her mother was called Ruby and her bond partner was called Alice and helped to look after her when she was younger. Alice would make sure that she was well fed with the best food like her mother and would take her everywhere. In those few years, everything was good...until the war started.

The war destroyed countless families and homes, leaving many in fear of dying or losing their loved ones. Alice was a muggle-born, so she was even more at risk as she was considered to have inferior blood by Lord Voldemort and his death eaters. Eventually, Alice, Sabrina and her mother were found by a group of death eaters scouring the area.

They tried to fire the killing curse at Alice, but she fortunately dodged it. Ruby then struck at one of the death eaters, poisoning him with her venom for attacked her partner. Unfortunately, the other man saw this and quickly fired a killing curse, ending Ruby's life before she could even turn her head.

With tears in her eyes, Alice told Sabrina to get away from there now and never look back. Choking back her grief, she slithered away as Alice fought the remaining death eater as the bitten one was slowly dying from Ruby's venom. Unfortunately, Sabrina looked back one last time to see a green light engulf Alice's body as she fell down dead. At this, Sabrina went as far away from her home as possible in case she was found by the death eaters. She had no-one left; alone in the wild.

Sabrina barely managed to survive for the first few years as she fed off of small rodents that just happened to scurry past her. Eventually, she felt a surge of magic and felt a wave of calm and hope flow over her. She knew that she needed to find the source of the magic as she knew that it signalled the end of the darkness surrounding the world and she somehow knew that she could help the person who sent out the surge.

Eventually, Sabrina made it to Privet Drive and found Harry, but knew that the time would not be right to reveal herself yet as he was too young at only about two or three years old. She kept a close eye on him as the years past and was always ready to strike at his relatives for their abuse. However, she knew that by doing so, she might lose him by either his or her death at the hands of those nefarious people as she was not strong enough to poison them as badly as she wanted to. His magic would fortunately protect and heal him from any permanent damage until he was seven when she finally made her move, and she was glad that she did as her wait had paid off for him. He was stronger than ever before and would become even stronger as time would go on. Not even adults would be stronger than him once his formal magical education started.

Yes, at long last, the world would be bathed in light again as long as her Harry was able to stop the darkness. The only thing that worried Sabrina was the glimpses of his own inner darkness that had emerged ever since that day in Diagon Alley. She could only hope that he would not allow his anger to control him, or everything they had worked so hard to accomplish would be for nothing.

As Sabrina thought about the future, Harry finished his exercises for the day and headed over to her. He got concerned when she didn't seem to notice his presence, so he decided to pick her up to get her attention.

~Hey, Sabrina. What's wrong? You looked pensive there~ Harry asked.

~Just thinking about the future and how Hogwarts is going to have a shock when you walk in~ Sabrina answered with a sly grin.

~Yes, it shall be interesting to see the professors and students reaction to me, especially Dumbledore. I can't wait to teach him a lesson he won't forget~ Harry said with a determined look in his eyes.

~Just don't go too far, my Harry. Don't stoop down to his level~ Sabrina warned Harry.

~I won't. I just want to make sure that he knows that he doesn't control me as he thinks he does~ Harry replied.

And with that, Harry and Sabrina went back inside the house and up to the bathroom. After he got showered and dressed, he sat in his room to contemplate his next move. After the incident all those years ago when his core was unbound, the Dursleys gave him Dudley's second bedroom and kept mostly away from him. This allowed him to train and think in peace.

Yes, Harry's letter would arrive soon and he expected someone to deliver it and make sure to make Dumbledore out to be the 'Greatest Wizard Alive' or something along those lines. However, Harry would be ready and had no problems with playing this game for now. Hogwarts itself would be a different story, however. Soon, he started to yawn as the day turned to night and he went to sleep with Sabrina curled around his arm as she too dropped off to sleep. The time to make his move will soon come, and he needed to be prepared.

A/N: I hope that this chapter cleared some thing up about Sabrina. If not, then ask me any questions in the reviews and I'll reply with an answer if I can. The next chapter will go through the Diagon Alley portion with Hagrid and will complete Harry's life before Hogwarts, so stay tuned.