Harry's Twin by Gemzgurl Chapter: The Italian Vampire Kitten

Lei came round, opening her eyes a little bit, then shutting them tight as the light from the torches burned brightly. Seeing all that light hurt her eyes after being in the dark for so long. She suddenly remembered the dementors and bolted into a sitting position. Her eyes darted round the Great Hall and she realized that the dementors were gone. Next to her Harry was coming around too.
"Are they gone?" Harry asked.
"Yeah," Lei answered. "They're gone, for now at least." Her scar didn't hurt anymore, but she did have a headache.
"That was amazing, Harry!" Colin Creevy said loudly, rushing over to Harry and Lei. He snapped a picture of Harry. Harry groaned as little lights danced before his eyes. "That was the best Patronus charm I've ever seen!"
"Thanks, Colin," Harry answered, rolling over onto his side. "I guess."
Someone shoved a piece of chocolate into Lei's hand. She looked up to see a plump witch standing beside her, holding an enormous basket full of chocolate chunks. "Eat up, dear," the witch said kindly. "It'll help." She winked at Lei before handing Harry a chunk of chocolate as large as Lei's, which seemed to be twice a large as the rest of the pieces of chocolate.
"Madam Pomfrey will have my head if I don't make you eat these," the witch added quietly, nodding toward another witch across the room, holding another basket of chocolate. She was dressed in a white uniform.
Harry took a bite of his chocolate, knowing that it usually helped. "Eat up, Lei," he said round his mouthful of chocolate when he noticed that his twin wasn't eating her piece. "It really does help. Trust me."
Lei shrugged and bit off a small chunk of chocolate. What could it hurt? It was only chocolate, after all, and even though Lei didn't really fancy chocolate, it wasn't horrible tasting. Her headache subsided after a few more bites of chocolate, and by the time that she had finished the whole chunk, she was feeling much better.

That night as Lei was getting ready for bed, Piccola came in the dormitory and jumped onto Lei's bed, staring at Lei through glittering green eyes. Lei absently patted the top of her little kitten's head before pulling on her pajamas and climbing into bed. From the bed beside her, Hermione's bed, Crookshanks started hissing at Piccola.
Hermione came out from the bathroom at that moment and hurried over to her hissing cat. "What has gotten into you, Crookshanks?" she asked her cat, scratching him behind his orange ears. He wouldn't take his glowing eyes (A/N: Yes, eyes, as in plural. I believe I made a mistake in a previous chapter by saying that Crookshanks only had one eye, but I was confused. Thanks Hermione Elizabeth Granger for pointing this mistake out to me) off of the tiny black kitten.
Lei glanced down at Piccola. Her black kitten stared back at her, unblinkingly. "D'you think that maybe Piccola is evil then?" she asked Hermione, who looked back at her, startled by the question.
"Why on earth would you think that about Piccola?" Hermione asked Lei.
"Well, you said that back in your third year here Crookshanks wouldn't leave Ron's former rat alone. And then you came to find out that was because he knew that the rat was evil. Now Crookshanks is hissing at Piccola, and I was wondering if maybe that meant that she was evil."
"But what would make your kitten evil in the first place?"
"Kat bought her for me in a weird place, where all the animals had something wrong with them," Lei answered slowly. "But so far I haven't been able to find out what's wrong with Piccola."
Hermione shrugged. "I wouldn't know if your kitten is evil. She doesn't seem like she is, but then again, neither did Ron's rat."
Lei shrugged too and looked back down at Piccola. The black kitten was now walking around Lei's bed and trying to find a comfortable place to sleep, kneading Lei's duvet with her tiny claws.

Lei awoke in the middle of the night because there was something on her chest and breathing right her in face. Piccola's green eyes shone brightly, even in the dark dormitory, down at Lei from her place on her mistress' chest. Lei raised her eyebrow at her kitchen and tried to roll onto her side. Piccola dug her nails into Lei's chest so that she was forced to stay in one place.
"You rotten little thing," Lei whispered to her kitten in Italian. (A/N: Sorry, but I'm only learning how to congregate verbs in Italian, so I don't know how I would say that sentence in Italian, which is just as well for those reviewers who don't understand Italian.)
Piccola bared her white teeth at Lei in what seemed like a mischievous grin. But instead of having normal sized teeth for a kitten her size, Piccola had four long fangs: two were on the bottom of her mouth, and the other two were on the top. When Lei looked back at Piccola's face, she noticed that her eyes were red, not green as they had been before.
Lei gave an alarmed cry and attempted to dislodge the vampire kitten from her chest. All she succeeded in doing was making Piccola dig her claws in deeper. Lavender, Parvati and Hermione were stirring from their sleep and rubbing their eyes, trying to figure out what Lei was yelling about.
"Off!" Lei shouted at her kitten. "Get off me! For Heaven's sake Piccola, GET OFF ME!" In one last attempt to get the kitten off, Lei cried, "Tu scendi!" (A/N: I believe that is "You get off," or something like that, congregated from the verb scendere, meaning to get off.)
At once Piccola jumped off of her mistress and onto the floor, where she landed on her feet with a soft thud.
"What was that---?" began Hermione, but at that moment, Crookshanks jumped off the bed and tried to pounce on Piccola, but the little kitten had raced out the door before Crookshanks had hit the carpet. Crookshanks went running after Piccola, who was mewing loudly in protest of being chased.

The next morning at breakfast Lei, Hermione, Lavender and Parvati all sleepily ate their food, having lost a large part of their night's sleep chasing after Piccola and Crookshanks. Piccola was now curled up in Lei's lap, safe from her orange enemy for the time being. Lei was sneaking her vampire kitten some eggs underneath the table, since Lei didn't eat eggs.
"Here Lei, have some sausages," Harry said, passing Lei the plate of sausages. "They're really good. You should try them."
"I don't eat meat," said Lei, shaking her head at the plate of cooked sausages. "But thanks for offering. I'm sure they're delicious, to people who eat meat."
Hermione took a sausage from the plate that Harry was offering to her and held it out to Piccola, her way of trying to make amends with the kitten for Crookshanks chasing her all over the common room the night before. "Here Piccola, have a sausage," she said, holding the sausage out to the kitten.
"Don't get your hand too close to her," Lei warned Hermione. "She might bite. And I don't think she understands English, because ever since I got her I've spoken to her in Italian, and last night she wouldn't get off when I told her to in English, but she would when I told her to in Italian."
"Oh." Piccola snatched the sausage from Hermione's hand and gobbled it down, then nudged her head against her hand and purred loudly, obviously forgiving Hermione for her cat's behavior.
"Hey Ron, which class do we have first today?" asked Harry, buttering a piece of toast and taking a bite.
Ron cast an oddly sympathetic glance at Lei before answering disdainfully, "Potions."
Author's Note: Hmmm...I wonder what should happen in Potions class with Snape? Have any suggestions for me? Like something that you want to happen in Potions? Just review and tell me, and I'll try and use it in the next chapter. Bye!