Serpentine Incident

Chapter Three

"Oh my."

Shannon Morgan had seen many things in her twenty-eight years of living, but never before had she seen anything like this. Looking innocently and slightly frightened at her was a four or five years old snake-boy. The child had spent the entire day with his head down and face covered and now she knew why.

The boy had slightly translucent and scaly skin. His vibrant green eyes were slits and his nose was nearly nonexistent. He looked at her, probably expecting something, boy her mouth didn't seem to work. All she could think was 'Who does thing boy belong to?'.

Harry waited patiently for the teacher to say something. He hoped that he was right when he meant to trust her, but now he feared that the woman would call him a freak and kick him out like Uncle Vernon.

"Miss Morgan?" he questioned and she jumped slightly. She must have seen his forked tongue, "Are you okay?" After the teacher composed herself she frowned at him.

"I don't think she understands you, Harry." Perseus' head popped out from Harry's large shirt.

"Huh?" The boy scrunched his eyebrows at the snake.

"Don't you remember, Mother said that humans don't understand our language."

"But I'm not speaking snake."

"Yes you are."

"No I'm not."

"Yes you are."

"Nuh uh."

"Uh huh."

"Nuh uh."

"Uh huh."

"Don't you understand me Miss Morgan?" Harry stared directly at the teacher, who still frowned at him.

"So that was you hissing this whole time?" the woman asked Harry.

"Yes it was." Harry answered while nodding.

"Do you speak English?"

"Yes." Harry nodded again.

"So why don't you speak?"

"You don't understand me." Tears began to well up in the five-year-old's eyes. He was speaking his snake language this whole. It finally dawned on him the he couldn't speak like English and probably never would again.

"Now, now don't cry little one. It's okay if you don't speak." Miss Morgan began to comfort him, but Harry wouldn't stopped crying. His body began to shake with silent sobs. "You can't speak English can you?" Harry shook his head 'no'. "Well there are ways around that don't worry."

Harry looked up at the teacher with hope in his eyes. Maybe she could help him be normal again.

"Do you remember your ABC's from today?" Harry nodded his head vigorously. "Do you remember the sounds and how we put them together." Harry nodded again. He liked when they did the alphabet and spelled the words from the picture book. Unlike the rest of the class Harry had actually tried to read the book while the other children tried to ripped out the pages and eat them.

"Well do you think you could spell your name?" Shannon knew it was a stretch but she had to at least had to try and get the boy's name.

Harry jumped up from his chair, nearly dropping his snake, and rushed to where the giant letters were. He tried to sound out his name and even Perseus helped him. 'H-A-R-I P-O-T-R'.

"Okay then… Harry Potter." Harry jumped up and down and hissed enthusiastically. She got it on the first try. He found a way to talk to someone besides snakes.

Miss Morgan smiled at the boy. She must have guessed his name right. This boy was very smart. Of course his spelling was still off, but the boy was five after all. Suddenly she heard a knock at her door. She called out to Harry and made him hide behind her desk.

"Come in." The door opened to reveal the officer from before. "Well hello Officer Whitman. What can I do for you?"

"Well I was just wondering if you still had that boy I brought in earlier." The older man smiled at the teacher.

"Actually yes I do, come out little one." She smiled back at the police officer. "We were just playing a bit of hide and seek.

Harry came out from behind the desk with his head down and faced covered.

"Still shy I see." The Officer Whitman tried to look at the boys face, but he kept it down. "Well it seems we may have found out where the boy lives. Someone reported spotting a small black haired boy walking down Privet Drive."

"Is this true. Do you live on Privet Drive?" Miss Morgan asked him.

Harry hesitated before nodding his head. His Aunt and Uncle were going to be so mad when they found out.

The officer agreed when Miss Morgan smiled at him again, and Harry found himself leaving the classroom and walking towards what he guessed to be his teacher's car.

They drove to Privet Drive and Harry pointed to Number four when they got to it. Miss Morgan seemed eager to take him home. Maybe she just wanted to get rid of him. Harry held tightly onto her dress when she knocked on the door and Uncle Vernon opened the door.

"Yes." He said in a gruff voice.

"Are you Mr. Potter?"

"No," was all the large man said before trying to close the door, but Shannon stopped it with her foot.

"I need to talk to you about Harry."

Vernon opened the door wide and saw Harry cowering behind the young woman.

"What are you doing out here you freak! You're supposed to be in the back yard! Who told you leave! You're going to wish you were never born when I get done with you," Vernon nearly screamed at Harry.

"Excuse me, that doesn't sound very responsible of you." Miss Morgan interrupted and glared at the clearly overweight male. "Now are you or are you not this boy's parents. If you are I will have to take him and report you for child abuse."

Vernon's face turned a dark purple before his wife came to the door.

"Vernon, what's going… Oh hi. I'm Petunia Dursley. Can we help you?" The horse-like woman put on her fakest smile at the visitor.

"If you want the freak you can have him. He's nothing but trouble to us anyway." Vernon cut off his wife with his still purple face.

"Vernon what are you," she looked down and saw Harry, "Oh its you. Take him if you want him. That freak has clearly no relation to me."

"Well I just will then." Shannon was outraged at the audacity of these people. "Come on Harry."

The boy hesitated, then ran to the back of the house, to everyone's surprise. He came back with a very large garden snake around his neck and four others in his arm. Harry then proceeded to walk to the car. Miss Morgan followed him and with that they left Privet Drive never to return.


A/N Okay so its short I know, but it just felt right to leave it here. Don't worry this is a double update so there should be a new chapter up for this tomorrow. Funny story. I actually wrote the whole story down on o Post-It but I lost the note so I am trying to doing everything from memory. It's such a pain though. Oh and new story coming soon. I just finished the layout. Oh and to answer a question. Harry had been walking for a long time before he got picked up so he wasn't on Privet Drive then.

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