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Disclaimer: Not mine, only Janguli and the Nightside are! Harry and Co. are JK Rowling's (don't know if I spelled that right) And he should be shoved down a basilk's throat, that is, if I didn't want to hurt the Basilk! Anywayz, any bashing thought is mine, some quotes aren't, and I forgot to tell you, I LOVE YOU ALL FOR READING!
An Unsolved Riddle,A Puzzle,A Rose
Chapter Two-"Carpe Nocturne - seize the night"
"Miss Weasley, what are you thinking, walking around the school with that?" Snape whispered furiously, shoving the diary back into her robe pocket. Ginny rolled her eyes. Everyone was so damn paranoid.
"Professor, it's not like Dumbledore is keeping a hawk eye on my anymore. Besides, he thinks I refuse to ever write in a diary again. Do you think that he'd search my person simply because I said a name and had a book?" Ginny asked, her voice incredulous.
"Don't correct me. If I hadn't known about Tom in all of this, I would have sent you off. But it seems you know what you're getting into. Do you know how to use any of the Nightside spells or powers?" Severus asked. He sighed, he didn't want to go through this all over again. Last time he had tried to train a student, the girl had ended up making herself able to turn into a cat like person, and not even on accident, but on purpose!
"Yes, sir. I can cast the Ancient's Wall, the Freezing Time spell, and the Shifting Spell," Ginny told him. Snape felt his eyes widen in surprise. She knew the Shifting Spell? It took most pupils of the Nightside years to learn it! He heard Ginny giggle.
"I know that's a scary thought. But sir, don't you think if you're going to teach me, we should freeze time, lest we attract more than just petty rumors," Ginny told him. Snape felt himself blush again. That's what had happened with her.
"Not tonight. I must go find my books and such. Go back to your room and go to bed Weasley," Snape sighed. "I never thought I'd be teaching a Weasley the Nightside."
"Well, looks like you didn't think too far ahead," Ginny told him. She laughed and turned from him to head for the door. But there was suddenly a crackling in the air, and the next thing they knew, Dumbledore's voice was speaking out of thin air.
"Students and teachers, we have a new student. I wish for you al to come to the Great Hall to see her sorted. There will be another small, midnight feast for you all, filled with roasted marshmellows and such!" His voice laughed. Ginny could almost see the twinkle in the old coot's eyes.
"Let's go Virginia," Snape told her as he walked past her. Ginny followed him to the Great hall and walked to the Slytherin table, sitting next to Pansy. She looked at the head of the Hall where a girl with green hair up in two buns sat, her head bowed, almost as if she didn't want to see someone.
"Students, this is Janguli Kakupacat, I hope you all make her feel welcome. Now on with the sorting!" Dumbledore's voice boomed. Ginny watched the girl with interest. Janguli, she had heard the name somewhere before. Dumbledore set the hat on the girl's head and stepped back while the hat worked it's magic. Ginny could see the hat thinking. She wished she knew what the girl was thinking though.
Janguli listened to the hat try to decide, then pushed it out of her head and thought about this news.
"Snape, here? I don't believe this. He'll hate me for those rumors back in America. I wonder if he's mad at me for the shifting trick..." Then the hat's voice came back to her.
"Well, Ravenclaw is out of the question, you might be book smart, but you don't have the greatest amount of common sense, though you have street smarts, yet, not much wiseness. Not Hufflepuff, you're too tough. Gryffindor, no, too cunning and not the greatest amount of honor, oh, Slytherin yes! Very nice, cunning, knowledge, and tough! SLYTHERIN!" The hat boomed the last word all through the Hall. The Slytherins pounded their mugs on the table as Janguli walked towards them, taking the empty seat across from Ginny.
"Hi," Ginny told her. Janguli's head snapped up.
"Hello," She told the red head.
"Hi, I'm Draco," Draco told her, reaching his hand over the table and past marshmellows. There were small fires going in little bowls to roast the things on.
"I'm Janguli, as you know," Janguli told them. Her cat-like green eyes flicked across the hall, where they settled on Snape, her teacher and lover. Janguli thought she'd never see him again.
"I'm Ginny, and this girl is Pansy," Ginny said, pointing to a sleeping girl with purple-black hair.
"I guess I didn't arrive at an opportune time huh? Sorry if I woke someone up in this house," Janguli told them.
"It's cool. What does Janguli Kakupacat mean?" Draco asked her.
"Janguli means knowledge of poisons and Kakupacat means fiery war god," Janguli told them.
"Cool," Ginny said, trying to get Pansy to wake up. Janguli laughed outright when another student fell into their plate, which was filled with gooey marshmellows.
"So Ginny, Draco, and Pansy.. Any people I should stay away from?" Janguli asked. Ginny and Draco quit trying to wake up the almost comatose seeming Pansy.
"Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, who's my brother, Hermione Granger, and Cho Chang," Ginny told her.
"Ah, the famous Harry Potter. I think he's probably some sort of jerk considering he's 'famous'. I think I'll stick with Vol- er, you guys," Janguli told them.
"Are you a Death Eater?" Draco asked Janguli, whispering it in a low voice that could not be heard by anyone but her, Ginny, and himself. Janguli's only reply was pointing to her left breast and nodding a yes.
"Ah, okay. I am too," Draco said, pointing to his arm.
"They put the mark on my breast and on other women's breasts because they think it won't be seen there as easily as it would on our arms," Janguli told him.
"I see. Hmm, Ginny, look at Snape, he's all bent out of shape looking. You'd think he'd be happy for another student," Draco told her.
"No, he knows me already. Back in America where he taught about a year ago, he only stayed three months, he met me. He taught me the Nightside, but rumors flew about us and I left and he left. I guess he thinks I'll try and ruin his job. Honestly, I didn't think I'd ever see him again," Janguli told them, her green eyes, which matched her hair, flashing with some emotion. Ginny looked her squarely in the eyes.
"You like Snape don't you?" Ginny saw a tear slip from Janguli's eye.
"Yeah. I won't say anything though. I don't want his career ruined because of me," Janguli almost sobbed.
"It's cool. You know the Nightside?" Ginny asked her. She knew she could shrug it off if the girl didn't know anything about it. Say it was a poem or something. She didn't know if the girl had actually learned anything from Snape or was a spy to turn her in.
"What's the Nightside?" Draco inserted. Janguli smiled and nodded.
"Yeah. I can change into a half cat half human thing. I'll show you sometime. And Draco, the Nightside is an old order. I have the Original Grimore. My great, great, etcetera greats, Grandfather started it. So I inherited the book from my father when he died," Janguli told them. Pansy suddenly groaned and looked up.
"Hey, you the new kid?" She asked in a groggy voice.
"Yeah," Janguli said. Pansy nodded and her head thumped on the table as she began to snore again. Ginny rolled her eyes. Again, for probably the third or fourth time that night, Dumbledore's voice boomed over everyone else's.
"Everyone, back to your common rooms! Have a good night's rest. Since tomorrow is Sunday, classes are not going to be cut off, I hope you all have a nice night's sleep," The old man said as he sat back down. Snape took this as a signal to sweep from the hall in billowing black robes. Janguli looked up and slipped from her seat.
"I'll be in the common room, I need to ask the Head of our House a question," Janguli told Ginny and Draco as she slipped past everyone, trying to get past the students unnoticed. She used her own instincts and the scent she remembered to try and track Snape. She prowled along the dungeons and past several classes, until she saw her goal.
"Severus," She whispered slightly, more of a cat like hiss. She saw him jerk and look around. She came form the shadows and looked up at him. "Long time, no see," She told him. It had seemed to be an eternity for her.
"Janguli, go back to your room! I don't want more rumors flying around here too!" Snape hissed at her furiously.
"Severus, I have the Grimore. Ginny told me you're teaching her the Nightside way. If you truly want to teach her, you'll need the Grimore. Let me try and learn more from you," Janguli whispered, hoping he'd say yes.
Snape looked like he was thinking intensely for a moment. Finally, he sighed. "Yes, Janguli, I'll try and teach you again. I think you know most everything I know, but you can help me with Weasley," Snape told her. He looked at her again. She had on that blasted mood lipstick, which was always green for some reason beyond him. Janguli caught him staring.
"Will it ever be like old times?" She asked him, her voice nostalgic.
"I don't know, but this time we can't be caught. Last summer during research was bad enough, but at School, I don't know if we'd survive or not. Janguli, remember what I told you the night before you left," Severus told her. Janguli looked hopeful, and then stood on tip toes to kiss Severus fully on his lips. Her tongue sought entrance and hit home when Severus opened up to her. He pulled back, gasping a short spell under his breath and pulling her into the hidden rooms that were his quarters. He pushed her up against the wall and kissed her savagely, nipping her lips and down her neckline.
"Severus, not now, I can't, on my period," Janguli gasped, her green hair falling from it's buns, falling in an appealing way around her face. Snape cursed. When a girl was on her period, there was no potion or pill or formula to prevent pregnancy.
"Soon love, soon. Until then, can you point me to my own rooms so I might get some sleep?" Janguli asked him, her eyes wide and somewhat glazed with lust.
"Yes, they're down the hall to the right, the painting of Bloody Mary, and the password is portismors," Snape told her, looking down at her. He knew she was older than she appeared, but he also knew that she was a student, his student, for the next two months. Thank Gods she was in her seventh year!
"Okay love, I'll see you soon," Janguli told him as she slipped from his grasp in a teasing way, out of the door. Snape laughed when she poked her head back around the door and blew a kiss and winked before running down the halls.
Janguli was elated. Snape still loved her! She ran past the painting twice before finding it in her happiness and said the password to the scary looking woman. She walked into the cozy common room to find everyone looking straight at her.
"Hi everyone, you know me, Janguli Kakupacat, seventh year, registered animagus," She told them all, sitting down in a chair next to Ginny.
"You're an animagus?" One boy asked loudly. Janguli giggled.
"Yup. I also found a way to be halfway between. The ministry wants to know how I do it," She told them.
"Do it!" Everyone chorused, except for Pansy, who was still sleeping, only this time, her head was on Draco's lap.
"Fully or halfway?" She asked them.
"Half, I want to be able to talk to you," Ginny told her. Everyone nodded.
"Okay," Janguli said as she began to concentrate. She felt her pelt grow, sleek, black fur, her whiskers sprouting, her nose becoming smaller, her ears morphing, a tail poking out, nails changing to claws, her eyes becoming slanted and slitted, and her senses getting stronger. Finally, she was done, and she looked at them all.
"So, what do you think?" She asked them, her arms outstretched and looking down. When no one spoke, her tail twitched in agitation.
"Hello?" She asked. Everyone burst into applause.
"That was so cool!" Pansy said, who had woken up at the applause. She saw Janguli and gasped. The girl's green hair was still in place, but her skin was now black, sleek fur, her ears huge and catlike, but at the sides of her head. Janguli's eyes were slitted like a cat's, and her nails were claws and her hands almost paw like. Whiskers went every which way, and her nose was like a small black triangle.
"Thank you. Now, I think I'll transform all the way and curl up by the fire," She told them. She did so, turning into a black cat with green eyes, and went to the fire. She circled about four times, and then laid down in a little tight ball of fur.
"That was odd. Hmm, she must be the youngest animagus ever!" Draco exclaimed. Ginny nodded. If Janguli was also into the Nightside as she said she was, it would make for an interesting next few months. She went from the common room to her own dorm, which thankfully, she had to herself.
She pulled the diary out of her pocket and looked at it with wondering eyes. Janguli said that Voldemort thought men wouldn't se a mark on a women's breast...
Did that mean he really did brand women Death Eaters on their breast?
Ginny, having become rather bold of late, decided to ask. She opened the journal.
"Tom?" She asked him curiosity bursting out of her..
"Yes Ginny?" Tom asked her.
"Is it true you would put the Dark Mark on a woman's breast?" Ginny blurted. She heard the sigh from Tom.
"Yes, it is always unlikely a woman with make love to a man she doesn't trust completely. Why do you ask?"
"Janguli Kakupacat," She started.
"Kakupacat? Are you sure?" Tom asked, surprise evident in his voice.
"Yes, why?" Ginny asked him, her curiosity getting the better of her.
"I knew her father. He was in one of my close circles. Her father and mother were masters of the Nightside," He told her. "And my half brother, his wife, Circe, was my sister in law," He added quietly.
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