Trapped in a Serpent's Coils

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" Avada Kedavra"- English

$ Avada Kedavra$- Parseltongue

An Elusive Eleventh:

Harry blinked and the Professor's eyes were brown again. Quickly schooling his features back to one of open friendliness, Harry introduced himself to Professor Quirrel.

"I-it's ve-very g-g-good to me-me-meet y-y-you Mr. P-p-potter," Stuttered the man.

Suddenly the man gasped as he saw Tähdet and Käärme and pointed toward them, his entire body trembling. Although the cowardly professor seemed on the verge of fainting, Harry was certain he saw cold calculation seep into the man's eyes. Something in the proferssor's gaze told Harry that he'd made a decision… right before Professor Quirrel's eyes rolled up and he collapsed in a dead faint.

Harry had no time to help the Professor up; however, as he was bombarded with crazy fans that appeared out of the blue. Twenty minutes later, the serpentine family and Hagrid managed to escape outside. Harry was panting and out of breath leaning, against a wall. He was very glad to have escaped with all of himself intact. Suddenly the halfbreed groundskeeper handed him a small cage.

"'ere 'arry. I know yer birthday passed, but 'ere's a present for yeh."

Inside the cage was a pretty snowy owl with big golden eyes. Harry's mouth unconsciously twitched into a small genuine smile, and at that moment, he looked every inch the sweet young child he was supposed to be. He looked up at Hagrid and smiled again.

"Thank you Hagrid."

The large groundskeeper smile happily, pleased to have found an acceptable gift. Seizing this chance to befriend the boy, Hagrid asked what they had bought.

"Oh, the usual, clothing, books, and other supplies."

Hagrid was going to continue the conversation in this vein for a while, but then realize something.

"Where yer wand 'arry?"

The little family looked completely dumbstruck.

"Wand?"

$Wand?$

"Yeah 'arry, wands are used by wizards to cast spells."

Two sets of eyes swiveled to face Tähdet, who had scrunched up her face as far as snakely possible trying to remember. Suddenly, she had an epiphany.

$Oh, yousss meansss the ikle ssstickiesss the wizardssss would wave around? I thoughtssss they were sssseeing who could poke each othersss eyesss out firssst!$

Harry sighed and turned to Hagrid, "No, it seems we've forgotten it."

This, of course led the entire group taking to trip over to Ollivander's. Upon entering the dingy little shop, Harry felt strangely uncomfortable, as if there were some, strange magic in the air… Suddenly there was a muffled squeak as both of Harry's parents attacked a small, odd looking man.

He was tiny, with strangely luminous silver eyes and was currently completely encased in Tähdet's coils. Harry decided then and there he dislike the man. Did he wait in a corner all day, just to scare people or something? These wizard people really needed to get some hobbies. Harry's mother on the other hand, was very happy with her new toy.

$Lookssss at the sssilly ikle Foodlings, Hatchling. It thinksss it can ssssneaksss up on ussss. I sssentencesss it to death forsss imperssssonating a hunter…$

$Sorry mother, it's still useful, don't kill it jussst yet.$

Tähdet reluctantly let the man go. The little wandmaker immediately sprang up and started to ramble on and on about James and Lily Potter again. Really, why did all these people talk to him about those losers anyway? He didn't want to learn about some dead couple, especially when they were some light side martyrs. Harry was snapped out of his internal grumbling when the wandmaker's tape measure flitted in front of his face, and was forced to settle for angry grumbling instead. Finally, Ollivander quit his incoherent mumbling and called the Tape measure off… Only to thrust wand after wand at Harry, demanding that he try them, before tossing them away again.

Unfortunately for the bored little family, the pile of rejects grew and grew. At long last, Ollivander took a small box from the back and brought it to Harry.

"Try this , holly and phoenix feather, nice and supple."

The parselmouth gave the new wand a halfhearted swish… just to fall back in surprise as a shower of sparkles shot out of the tip. In fact, they were all astonished; Tähdet so much that she fell off her perch on one of the shelves and collapsed onto . Again. Harry was almost too startled to stop the wandmaker from going on another rant. Oh Ajatar, the man would probably say his wand was the brother of the Dark Lords, or something equally as daft. These Wizarding types would say anything to make some money.

Harry quickly handed his money, throwing in some extra for a wand holster and left. Great, now it was time to face the idiots at Hogwarts. Did the stupidity ever end? The family held on to Hagrid's portkey, another moldy dog treat, to their infinite disgust, and were whisked off, back to Hogwarts.

A/n: I'm so sorry I'm late on this one! I was unexpectedly busy and then I went to go volunteer, so I had no time to update. Also I do apologize for this chapter, I know it's not very good and I'm sorry. For some reason, it just didn't flow quite right, and I finally gave up. Something else I want to address is please, someone please beta for me? Please? Thank you! Also, as lord print pointed out, in parseltongue, all the sss make it quite difficult to read, so I will cut down on them… except Tähdet, unless further prompted. I like crazy snaky talk. Anyway please review, it means a lot to me!

Ceti H. Black- Thank you so much and I'm glad you enjoyed it. I definitely will be adding Slytherins, so don't worry!

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Stardust of Orion- *tackles with a glomp* Yay, thank you for your kind reviews! I'm so glad you liked the shopping scene, I really tried hard to make it good! I do try to make Tähdet as interesting as possible so thank you! I hope you like a potions loving Käärme, I promise I do have a plan for it!

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