A/n. My next chapter! Woo! Let's just say I got this idea from a snake I used to have for a pet. *sighs* I'm going to kill my dad if he doesn't get me a baby. *cough cough* Well anyway, I do hope you enjoy!

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Moro, Space, What's the Difference?

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The hat waited a minute, thinking. Are you sure you want Slytherin? I feel Gryffindor blood in you. The hat's voice boomed through Moro's head. Moro mumbled something, and the hat fell silent for a few more minutes.

"Slytherin!" The hat, finally, yelled. Space was overjoyed at the hats decision. She got down from the seat, and walked over to the cheering Slytherin table.

"Told you, you looked like a Slytherin." Draco said to Space when the crowd stopped cheering.

Space sat down at the first year part of the table, and waited for the rest of the children to be sorted and the feast to begin.

Slytherin got ten new students, including Space. The ghosts of the houses introduced themselves, and everyone started to talk about their first year at Hogwarts.

Space knew she'd do well in her first year, since she had already been a first year. She felt very out of place with the first years, though. She was taller, looked older, and knew more about Hogwarts then them. She knew she would have to be careful not to let too much get out, or she might be found out.

Nothing else happened at the feast. Space went up to the Slytherins common room with the rest of the first years and found her bunk. She wondered what her first day back at Hogwarts would be like.

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She woke up with ten minutes to spare, to get down to the great hall, so she sat on her bed and looked out the window beside of her bed. She could see a very pale mist hovering around the ground, and some thinner fog above it. The orange rays of the sun were eating their way through the mist.

After looking out her window she decided to go to the great hall early. She walked down all the flights of stairs, slowly, and reached the great hall in about five minutes.

She went over to the Slytherins table, and sat down. It looked like almost all the other Slytherins were there too. She looked up at the teachers table, and saw only McGonagall up there.

Soon a few of the other teachers came in and sat down. Space recognized all of the teachers, but one. She figured she must be the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.

Now all of the Slytherins were sitting at the table, and the last of the other students came into the great hall. After all of them sat down, breakfast appeared, and Space began to eat.

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She was about half way through her third plate of scrabbled eggs, when she felt something sliding across her feet. Her eyes widened, and she leaned down to look at what it was.

She saw what it was, and sighed a sigh of relief. She grabbed what was sliding across her feet and picked it up. Some of the other first year Slytherins saw what she was doing, and saw what it was and got up, and moved away very quickly.

Now this caught the eyes of the teachers, and most of the other students. They looked over at Space. She was holding a snake. A very long, dark, snake. Now almost everyone was trying to get away from Space.

"My word, You, Space, What are you doing with that!?" McGonagall asked, in a panic. Space looked up at him.

"I'm picking it up. It could get hurt down there." Space replied.

McGonagall eyed Space for a minute then yelled at her, "I want to see you in my office now!" She paused. "And bring your little snake too."

McGonagall stood off and walked toward a door very quickly. She looked over her shoulder before exiting through the door. Space put the snake around her neck, and got up.

All of the students were eyeing Space in fear. "What's wrong with you all? It's just a poor little snake!" Space yelled. Everyone looked away and went back to their seats.

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Space reached McGonagalls office, and went inside, and sat down. The snake was sitting quite happily around her neck.

"Space," McGonagall said, sounding quite appalled by the snakes presence. "do you know what type of snake that is?" She asked. Space though for a minute, and glanced down at the snakes tail, hanging off of her neck.

"No." Space finally answered. McGonagalls eyes widened.

"You don't know!? Space, that snake has enough poison to kill the whole school!" McGonagall yelled. Space looked at the snakes tail again. "Well he isn't acting like he wants to, so I don't see why." McGonagall cut her off.

"Space that snake is a Basilisk. It's a sign of. Voldemort. I must ask you to take the snake out to the forbidden forest to let it go. I don't want to see that thing in here again." Space's eyes widened. With one look the snake could turn her to stone and kill her.

"But what if the snake follows me back out of it's own will? Then what? I can't just keep on taking the poor thing away then it crawling all the way back here just to be put out again." Moro explained.

McGonagall thought for a minute. "If that thing follows you back, then we will have to do something else." Space glared at McGonagall.

"If you do that one more time I will take points away from your house. Now leave. And take that cursed thing outside to the forbidden forest." McGonagall said, noting Space's glare with the threat of taking points.

Space got up, and started off toward a door to the outside. "Basilisk or not, your still just a poor snake. You seem to like me, and I trust you. I mean here you are you could go and kill the whole school, and you let me pick you up, and you sit around my neck." Space told the snake, with a hint of nervousness in her voice. She was still not sure wither it would turn her to stone.

She knew the snake couldn't hear her, or understand her, but she talked anyway.

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She finally reached the edge of the forbidden forest. She took the basilisk from around her neck, and set it down on the ground. "Please don't come back. I don't want you hurt." Space said. The snake just looked at her, and stayed where it was put down.

"Didn't know you could speak Parselmouth Space." A cool voice said. Space looked around, and saw Draco. She narrowed her eyes at him, wishing he hadn't followed her now.

"I can't. I was just talking to it, in human language." She paused. "Wasn't I?"

Draco glared at Space with an evil twinkle in his eye. "No." He said. Space looked down at the basilisk.

"No way I can speak Parselmouth." She mumbled to herself. Draco laughed quietly.

"There is a way. You have to be related to Voldemort."

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A/n. Short chapter, I know. It was three pages before I revised it, now it's four lol. There was only so much I could add without running into the next chapter. Well anyway, please review! I love reviews! ^_^