A snake's family
Hp
Disclaimer : Harry Potter and unoriginal characters not mine…
chapter 1
Today they were going to the zoo for dudlys birthday and Harry was thrilled he was allowed to come; he saw the leopards, elephants, monkeys, giraffes, and many wondrous animals. Their final stop at the zoo was the reptile house. As they wandered about looking at the lizards dudly was whining, " This is boring, they won't move!" Dudley was getting annoyed "why won't they move?" before he demanded uncle Vernon "make them move now!" Vernon banged on the glass of a rather large python around 8-10 feet in length, it did nothing and they moved on to the next reptile. Harry stayed at the pythons window " sorry bout that, they don't know what it's like having people every day pressing their ugly faces in to watch you." the snake raised it's head level with Harry's and looked into his emerald eyes, Harry was curious and started to talk to the snake more.
"Can you hear me?" the snake nodded and Harry was confused "I'm sorry but this is my first time talking to a snake, have you ever talked to anyone else before?" the snake shook it's head "I wish you could respond I would love to hear what else you can do" the snake nodded in agreement and placed it's tail on the glass showing this to Harry it did too. Harry placed his hand on the spot of glass the snakes tail was on and smiled, "you know this talk alone is the closest thing to a friend or family I have ever had" the snake looked questioningly towards the dusrlyes. Harry understood the look "in a way I am like you caged and forced to put up with them (he pointed at the dursleys in disgust) day after day" then Harry whispered " they even hit me, call me a freak and make me clean, cook for them every meal and leave me either scraps or nothing and have me do anything they want. All I have is a cupboard smaller than the case that you live in"
The snakes eyes widened as Harry told the snake this, how could the family treat a child that required more than it to starve, work, clean and then harm him and make him live in a place not fit for a rat. Harry could see the snake was shocked at this "even though I have to go back to them would you agree to be my friend?" the snake shook its head and with it's tail wrote family in soil of its case and looked up to see Harry understood and wiped the soil clean.
Then dudly say the snake and shored Harry to the ground hard "hay look mom dad look what the snake is doing!" he yelled as he plastered himself on the glass of the case. Harry angrily looked up and all of a sudden the glass was gone in fact all the glass the all the reptile cases were gone. Dudly fell forward into the case as petunia shrieked in horror, Vernon's went pale and watches in horror.
What happened the glass was gone the snake could smell new air new smells, I'm free it thought and slithered over to Harry. It stopped in front of him and hisses" family protects one another and stays together." then slithered over Harry's stomach and around his shoulders in a hug and Harry could feel the serpent had only the intention to 'hug' him warmly, Harry in turn put his arms around the snake. There was a small blue glow around both that no one saw and Harry then hissed back "my family" as a tears fell from his face.
Dudly was climbing out of the case as was all the other reptiles did the same everyone was running out of the reptile house screaming. When he was embraced by petunia and Vernon they herd the python the freak boy was hugging and froze as it hissed louder this time, Harry heard this "this boy is family and we shall protect him!" there was hissing all around as every snake in the reptile house gathered around the dursleys and Harry "agreed, family" they all hissed and glowed blue for a moment and Harry glowed as well.
The dursleys saw them all glow and hiss all looking at Harry and were terrified petunia shrieked gaining an angry hiss from the snakes. Petunia screamed at Harry "you...you stop this... you... freak!"
Vernon was red in rage "for this you will be lucky to live boy!" he spat. Dudly was whimpering and trying to climb back into the python's case thinking it was safer. The doors to the reptile house flew open and the snake wranglers flooded in wearing thick leather to prevent any bites from puncturing their skin. At this all the snakes gathered around Harry hissing. The wranglers saw this and thought the boy was going to die, one man grabbed a snake to stop it from getting to the boy when Harry screamed at the man " STOP DONT TOUCH MY FAMILY!" the wranglers glanced at the dursleys, no snake was near them anymore. He tightened his grip on the snake in his hand it hissed in pain and the boy glared straight at him and hisses like a snake before saying, "let m family go". The man started to scream his arm fell to the floor severed from the man's shoulder, the small snake he was holding slithered to Harry. Harry picked up the snake angry and concerned, angry that they hurt his new family and concerned for the little snake.
"Are you ok little one?" Harry hissed the small snake shuddered and didn't move. No, no, no, one of his now family was dead Harry was in shock. The snakes hissed in anger then Harry yelled "how dare you kill you family I'll kill you!" he turned to glare at the snake wrangles. He python hissed to Harry " be calm little snake family avenges family" and at that 20 snakes raced at the dursleys and struck Vernon over and over. Petunia jumped into the case with dudly shrieking and dudly jus whimpered crying " get away...get away..." as Vernon fell dying the snakes went back to Harry, Vernon was beginning to foam at the mouth before he stopped moving... he was dead in under 20 seconds. Harry wanted to disappear, to leave with his new family to be free and safe. All the snakes could sense this and all hugged close almost creating a massive blanket of snake and with a loud pop they were gone.
The ministry of magic had reports of Harry potter using a slicing hex at a zoo; the minister of magic fudge was in a panic. Many were saying that Harry was the next dark lord and only rid the world of you-know-who because he was in the way. "I KNEED THIS INVESTIGATED YESTERDAY!" he yelled to secretary, he was hoping that the boy had only used the hex cause he was defending himself and not because he was worse that you-know-who.
There was 5 loud pops and the aurors started to interrogate the zoo snake wranglers and petunia dursleys, for an unknown reason the fat child looked like he went insane because he would not come out of the python case. After cleaning the seen and modifying all memory's to believe the reptile house was being remolded and the snakes were released to their respected homes, one of the aurors went to petunia and asked her side of the story and about Harry. While she was questioned the other 4 men where as #4 privet drive little Whinging surrey searching for any reason Harry had done this. They use spells that would show magical residue (children often 'bleed' magic where they sleep because their magical cores are very open to what's around aka treatment, emotion, injury ect.) and the level of the bled area. (It ranges from 1-20, a child happy and healthy would normally be a 4 or 6 because they can't stop the magic flow)
They were confused as there was no residue in the house, did the dursleys make him sleep outside? They started to move outside when the newest aurors was muttering the residue spell down the stairs "you don't have to check the stairs, not even a child does that." said an aurors with a peg leg and magical eye. "But sir you always tell us constant vigilance and I wa... wats this? Sir can you check this please?"
"What is it?"
"I think I got some residue here by this cupboard beneath the stairs sir"
"Let me see" he grumbled. "Open it and lets see shale we?"
"Yes sir" they opened the cupboard found the residue count to be at 12, the child was either very powerful or was injured allot in here.
Moody was reporting the findings and showing the memories of the wranglers to the minister. "Minister this show that the boy is a parselmouth but he was trying to protect the snakes"
"Yes but why did he say 'don't touch my family' when the dursleys were fine?" asked fudge
"It appears the dursleys were abusing, starving and making the boy work"
"How did you find this out?"
"... Veritaserum..."moody muttered
"What? You used that without permission and furth..." fudge was interrupted
"The spells showed at residue of 12! 12! For a child and he lived in a cupboard under the stair way, I had to know"
"Oh...you... you did the right thing moody thank you. They are clearly not what Harry was calling family."
"I believe the snakes were only protecting the boy because Harry only lashed out when a snake was hurt or killed. It seems the boy trusts the snakes more than he trusts anyone else sir."
"Yes it seems so... not good"
"Sir, who put potter in that place to begin with?"
"Dumbledore stressed that they were his only family and the blood wards on the house"