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Thoughts

"speech"

"Beastspeak" (the context will explain which type of animal)

'parseltongue'

"flashback"

Chapter 5: Friendships

"Harry, can't I let you go out anywhere without you attracting trouble?" Said a distinctly female voice in a mock exasperated tone. Looking up at the speaker and seeing the brown locks of wavy hair and the chocolate brown almond shaped eyes that were framed in a perfectly heart shaped face with the cutest button nose, Harry felt his breath catch as well as his heart miss a few beats for no reason that he could determine. Without thinking he ran forward and enveloped the surprised girl in a very tight hug.

"MIONE!" He cried at an initial lack of what to say. "How are you? Are you ok? I missed you. And probably not, but if you are with me the trouble will still find me, I'm just better prepared for it." He finished rather quickly. She giggled at his obvious ranting, but secretly pleased at the attention and reaction. She decided to answer him, "I'm ok, just hungry and thirsty, not to mention lost. Do you know where we are, or you Professor Lupin?" She directed the last at Remus, which caused the ex-professor to sigh to himself.

"Hermione, when was the last time I was your teacher?" He asked her. "Two years ago." She answered puzzled at his question.

"Exactly! I'm not your professor anymore; please call me Remus, both of you!" He finished daring them to say anything against calling him by his first name.

"Er..sure thing pro..Remus" Harry finished with a small grin, causing Remus to grin back. "And to answer your question, no I do not know where we are, but I imagine you two are going up for the same reason as I and want to get a look around, but first if we could get to a more agreeable place we could have some dinner, because if you two have bee here since morning like I have, then you probably have not eaten anything, and I can conjure us some food." Remus said while looking at the obvious hungry expressions of his two companions.

"Did the wolf-man ssssssay food? Becaussse I'm hungry" Sarina said to the surprise of Harry because he didn't think that the snake could understand English. "Yesssss, he ssssssaid food, but how did you underssssstand my language?" He asked her curiously. "When you offered me friendssship and companionssship, I bonded with you becaussse I could ssssense that you are trusssstworthy, that letsss me underssstand what you underssstand and it protectsss you from my poisssson and eyessss when I activate their power" She answered him. Which while answering his question, also added more.

"Harry, where did you get that snake?" Hermione asked him in a worried tone. Startled out of his thoughts Harry looked at her and then at Remus, "Let's find someplace to eat and then we can swap stories over dinner." He suggested, to be met with approval by both.

After about ten minutes of walking in silence they reached a small clearing in which Remus started to conjure the food they where going to eat while Hermione lit one of her famous blue ball fires big enough to not only provide enough light but also heat. While Harry set up some basic perimeter and alarm wards he'd learned from the books the twins had given him. He also set a weather repellant charm around the small clearing. Remus was surprised but pleased at this knowledge, while Hermione started badgering him on how they were done and the theory behind them.

When Remus was finished conjuring their food, they started to recount what had happened during the day, starting with Harry. Which to their amusement he started with the first interesting thing to happen to him after waking up in the field, which was how he'd nearly drowned himself in water and the "Vinio" charm.

"After that the next thing that happened was meeting Sarina here who was about to eat an egg when I found her, after convincing her not to eat it, I decided to bring her along with me, since I could use a companion to talk too, I was quite bored at the time." Finishing his sentence he brought out the egg he'd stopped the snake from eating. "Do either of you know what animal this egg belongs too? I know it has to be magical but I do not know what kind."

"WOW! It's very beautiful, but I don't know. I wish I had some books to do research on it!" Hermione said in a voice that plainly indicated her need to learn. "I'd have to agree with Hermione, it is a very beautiful egg, but I am sorry to say that I have never seen one like it. By the way Harry, would Sarina by any chance be a magical snake, I seem to recognize her from somewhere." Remus added to Hermione, who now looked at the snake to see if she too recognized it, and gave a gasp of fright when she did. Pushing herself back from the others she nearly screeched at Harry.

"Harry, that's a bloody Basilisk!" Both Remus and Harry were very surprised at these words; neither of them had ever heard Hermione curse before.

"Ssssssarina, are you a basssssilisk?" Harry asked looking at the snake; his question caused her to look at him in confusion, "What'ssss a basssilissk?" She asked. "You told me that you have venom, you alsssso told me that I am protected from the power in your eyesss, whatssss the power they possssessss?" Harry asked after it became obvious that Sarina did not recognize what a basilisk was. "When I am older I will have venom, but that won't be for a few moonssss yet, I am alsssso too young to use the power of my eyesss fully, all I can do issss caussse pain, when I am older I can kill by a look, but assss I sssaid you are protected asss my bonded and ssssso are thosssse who you trussst."

"Yes she is, but don't worry Hermione, she says that since I am bonded to her, her sight won't affect me, even if she looks at me with her power activated, she also says that as you are trusted by me, she will not harm any of you, so you are also protected, but as she is young, she can only cause mild pain, and her venom hasn't yet developed. And from what she has told me, I have gathered that she is 5 days old, when she hatched she found her mother and her clutch slain, she is the only survivor. If her words do not reassure you, believe me when I say that I would never let harm come to you." Harry said.

"Fascinating Harry, you do know that this proves that basilisk can come to be without the need of a toad over a chicken egg till it hatches. This had not been known before; imagine all that we can learn from her! A natural born basilisk, I wonder what difference she will have from basilisk born from chicken eggs." Remus said in a voice that sounded just like Hermione.

"Harry, you know I trust you and it was obvious that she did not mean us harm but I was just a little surprised. But Remus is right. But imagine that, you bonded with a basilisk and I bonded with a telepathic owl! She's just a little baby, mind you. But she's the most adorable thing I've ever seen! Her name is Arith. Such a beautiful name!" Finishing her sentence with enthusiasm practically dripping from her, Hermione unbundled the cloth that she had been carrying to reveal the ugliest thing that Harry had ever seen and looking up at Remus he could see that he wasn't the only one thinking it, but knowing better than to comment on the looks of the baby owl he decided to ask Remus a question, "Are all owls telepathic or is there a special breed that is?"

"Well there used to be a breed of fully telepathic owls called Atinean owls, but they where believed to be extinct, as far as I know the only telepathic owls left are the Snow Owls, like your Hedwig, and they can't communicate in words, just thoughts, feelings and images, which is why you might have noticed that you understand her better than other people do their own owls, but it also helps that she happens to be a very smart bird." He answered and continued, "Now that you two have introduced your friends, I think you should meet Kiba, he's a young wolf I saved in the forest." With this the small wolf that had been hiding behind Remus and staying out of the sight of the other two now came forward. He was small, just a pup, but for his age he was big. He had grey white fur and very clear blue eyes. He lay down next to Remus and looked at the other two humans as well as at Sarina.

"I don't know about you two, but I am quite tired and it is very late already so I suggest we all go to sleep, and leave reaching the top for tomorrow." Remus said and looked at his two companions for their thoughts.

"I agree, if you could just conjure a tent I could put some wards in it, and you better make it permanent because I have a feeling we'll be gone from civilization for quite a while." Harry added. Hermione nodded her agreement and went to help Remus with the expanding of the inside and conjuring things inside of it while Harry put more advance wards on the tent, as well as making it invisible to all who didn't know it was there. He also added a notice-me-not charm and repellant charm so that anything that came near would immediately have the desire to go do something else.

AN: this chapter is shorter than the ones before, I know. But next one should be longer, and should be posted some time tonight.

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