I own nothing! I don't own Harry Potter or any of the characters! I just own the Snape family members (except for Severus, of course), and the other OC's.
The basilisk was hatched right on time, and just a few weeks before Halloween. The entire shenanigan was just waiting for the day to arrive, but something was bothering Chessie, Severus knew, and soon, just days before Halloween, he found out why. He discovered as a letter, written in perfect Japanese Kanji, arrived by a school owl and landed right on his plate, smearing itself in his morning pancake syrup. He scowled, cleaning the letter with a swish of his wand, and Umbridge's eyes narrowed dangerously at him.
Kiru frowned, and waving her hand in front of her face, Umbridge's eyes got all glossy and misted over, just as Severus realized what the girl was doing. She was giving him a chance to read his mail in private, and he opened the letter and read it. He reread it once, twice, then three times, his brow furrowing each time he reread it. He stood up, looking around at the others on the staff, but not finding the one who had sent it. He stumbled, and then collapsed.
There were yells of shock throughout the hall, and these yells of shock allowed Umbridge to snap out from under Kiru's control, and the teen raced forward alongside Draco to her father's side. She snapped her first two fingers to his jugular, just to check his pulse. They both breathed a sigh of relief at his pulse and breathing rate being virtually normal. Umbridge, however, wasn't pleased. She attempted to yank the letter out from his hands, but the letter immediately went blank in her hands. She was immediately red in the face, and demanded that Kiru read it aloud.
"I can't," Kiru swallowed fearfully. "I can only read Katakana. This is Kanji, the much more complicated form of writing. It's either that or Mandarin, but I can't make heads or tails of this, Professor."
"Then you'll kindly take me to your father's office so that he may translate it for me," she growled.
"No, you're going to let me go and leave me the hell alone," Kiru glared, channeling her magic ever so slightly stronger into the woman. Severus' limp body was being moved out by a wary McGonagall, who took Draco and the letter with her to his office. She smiled softly as she set the potions master down on his own chair, using a slight spell to bring him back to the waking world.
He stared at her, confusion evident in his dark eyes, and then jolted upright in shock, searching frantically for the letter. McGonagall held it aloft, and Severus tapped it with his wand, translating it so that only the heads of houses could read it. she gasped audibly, and Draco was almost able to read it over her shoulder, but it sensed him and vanished.
"I have a right to know, too," he whined, "Kiru knows, and so does Professor McGonagall. Why can't I know?"
"You'll find out in due time, Mr. Malfoy," the two animagus snapped in unison. "You'll all be figuring it out in one way or another this year. So much for her lasting more than one year like we'd hoped."
Okay, so the holidays are going to be getting hectic, and I know and apologize that this is a short chapter. Umbridge is being a bitch, but that's not anything new to those who read the books (which I would think is everyone who's reading Harry Potter Fanfics).
Review? Please? Yeah, I know, I messed with the Basilisk, but technically the books say nothing about the bonds between a familiar and their person. So technically, that idea was all mine to use on the restraining orders for the snake.
