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Chapter 5 - Unexpected Visitor

"Stop it!" Petunia screamed but could not do more as she and the rest of her family were petrified by fear, because even though the snakes were mostly not venomous - not that the Dursley's knew that - there were still a few snakes in there with low amounts of venom, a single bite wouldn't kill but would hurt.

The floor was soon covered in snakes, some snakes began climbing up the furniture and the now silent Dursley's. Even Dudley stopped screaming, if only to reduce the risk of aggravating the snakes.

"How the hell did this happen?" Harry gaped.

"Last night when you were sleeping, I went out and met some more snakes." Jet spoke in a proud voice. "I told them that you needed help, then they went out to get more snakes."

"We will protect the speaker." Another snake hissed proudly.

The next thing happened that happened happened before Harry could stop it, and once it happened he didn't bother stopping it, Harry laughed. It started off as a small laugh, but then Harry's laugh grew. It got bigger, louder and less restrained. Eventually it turned into full blown laughter, full blown maniacal laughter. Jet matched him, or as closely as a snake could.

At that moment, Dudley was desperately trying to work out what was going on. Meanwhile Petunia and Vernon were coming to a realization, perhaps it was a bad idea to abuse the boy they knew would eventually grow and end up becoming a wizard.

A few years passed and Harry was now eleven years old, sitting on his bed and reading a book in what used to be Dudley's room, or at least it was until Harry kicked him out of it and took it over. ever since becoming friends with Jet his life had improved beyond what he could of ever dreamed of.

The Dursley's were now beyond scared of him and Jet. Jet would occasionally call back the other snakes if the Dursley's ever needed reminders of why they should not mess with Harry. Though Jet was a big enough reminder on his own, the snake was now clearly longer than before, but was still small enough to be able to rest on Harry's shoulder.

The Dursley's had originally tried to rebel against Harry but that ended quickly thanks to the help of Harry's snakes. Harry, despite how tempting it was, did not have his snakes bite the Dursley's...much.

Harry was smart enough to know that things would be 'difficult' at best if his snakes ended up killing one of them. For the most part a snake would simply climb up and hiss in their ear or wrap themselves around their necks, though they non-venomous ones would bite at them threateningly but would rarely bite them.

"Harry," Jet hissed in his ear. "you have a visitor." He said, Harry frowned and looked up to see and a bird flying towards his open window, the bird ended up being a brown owl, one that happened to be carrying a letter that was tied to its leg. "Can I eat it?" Jet asked when it landed on Harry's desk.

"No." Harry rolled his eyes as he stood up with Jet still perched on his shoulders, Harry slowly walked over to the bird, hoping he doesn't spook it. The ow looked wary of Jet but otherwise did not react beyond raising the leg that had the letter tied to it. "I'm assuming that that is for me." Harry said before he took the letter from the owl, he opened it and began reading.

'To Mr Harry Potter,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of of all necessary equipment's and books.

The term begins on September 1st, please respond via owl and do not hesitate to contact us if you need to do so.

Yours sincerely,

Minerva McGonagall

Deputy Headmistress.'

"Hogwarts." Harry said softly before he quickly went to his desk and began writing his reply, once he was done he looked at the owl who was still there. "I'm guessing that you're going to be the one who will take my response back?" Harry asked, the owl nodded in response, Harry wasn't too fazed by that, he had spent the last few years talking to snakes after all. "Wait there," Harry said as he ties his response to the owls leg. "done." Harry said, the owl hooted before taking off and flying away.

"Hogwarts," Jet repeated. "what kind of a name is that?" He asked.

"Beats me, but finally I can learn about magic." Harry grinned.

"You can't just learn about magic," Jet replied. "you need to be the best!" He said enthusiastically. "You're my master! My master has to be better than the other stupid wizards and witches!" He said, Harry simply laughed and shook his head in amusement.

Bathsheda Babbling, nineteen year old Professor of the Study of Ancient Runes at Hogwarts, arrived at Number Four Privet Drive, to speak to Harry Potter about his induction into Hogwarts.

This wasn't normally her job, in fact she had not ever introduced a muggleborn or muggle raised to the wizarding world before, imagine how nervous she felt to be starting with Harry Potter, the most famous child in the wizarding world. In the wizarding world it was hard to find someone who didn't know who Harry Potter was.

"Oh merlin, why me?" She muttered to herself, before remembering exactly why. Usually it would be one of the four heads of houses that would introduce a muggleborn, but Professor Sprout, McGonagall and Flitwick were away while Professor Snape, the unpleasant ass that he is, refused to do that part of his job. Hagrid couldn't do it as he would stand out in a muggle neighborhood thanks to his size and Professor Dumbledore was busy with some international event. There were reasons for why the other teachers couldn't do it, such as Binns being a dead ghost and Trelawny being a drunk idiot.

Eventually it had been narrowed down to herself and Septima Vector, the Arithmancy teacher. Bathsheda was about to remind Septima that she shouldn't have to do this as she was the youngest teacher in the school but Septima had cut her off by simply saying 'dibs on not doing it' before she walked away, damn it!

"Great, try not to embarrass yourself in front of Harry Potter, you'll never hear the end of it." She said to herself before walking towards the house where Harry Potter was supposed to be staying in, she hoped she got it right, the houses all looked the exact same here. She knocked on the door and a few moments later it opened to reveal a cute eleven year old boy with messy black hair and dazzling emerald green eyes.

Harry looked up at the woman in front of him, she was a beautiful woman with light brown skin and chocolate brown eyes. Her black hair was in a bun and dressed in a black smart shoes, leg tights, a grey skirt that ended at her knees and a white shirt under a grey jacket. She looked slightly nervous in Harry's opinion.

"Hello, Mr Potter?" She asked.

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