The Snake :complete! Alternate Ending added:

Chapter Four: The Snake





Draco walked into his father’s old study, his steps were quick, he hated being in here, especially now that the Dark Lord ruled over most of the house. He walked over to the big mahogany desk, and opened the long drawer in the front. Inside was a black leather hexagon shaped box, a gold latch held it closed and gold screws circled it, keeping the leather securely fastened to the old oak wood. Draco smiled, picked up the box and carefully opened it, inside there was a snake necklace resting gently on a light purple colored silk pillow, it reflected in the mirror that was on the inside of the lid; the mirror had spirals around edges that seemed to move with magic.



The snake pendent was twisted into a fancy S like shape. White diamonds trailed down its body until they stopped just before the tip of its tail; its eyes were black slits and a pear shaped diamond was hanging from the end of the second curve of its body. It was beautiful, in its dark sort of way. It was a powerful magical item, made for lovers.



Draco closed the box again and set it carefully on the desk before sitting down in the chair. He began to rummage through his father’s desk, looking to see if he could find anything else that would be useful for him. He frowned when all he found was an old leather book and a file on someone, taking a closer look at the file his eyes widened in shock. “Now this is interesting,” he said to himself. He then picked up the old book and flipped through it, it was a diary. He smiled to himself; his day had just gotten ten times better than it already was. Picking up the box, book, and file, he made his way out of the forsaken mansion and apparated back to Hogwarts.



Once back in the Heads’ common room he made his way up to his room. If it were not for him being a Slytherin he would probably be humming out of happiness at that very moment. He walked over to Mynas, who he had called for when he entered the school grounds and told him to wait for him in his room. Mynas was the plainer less elegant owl of the two he had. He was a deep brown with black spots and liquid gold color eyes. Mynas was used when he wanted to be discreet about his identity. He set the box down on the desk and then opened a small drawer; he took out a silver ribbon and tired it carefully around the black box. Taking out a small piece of parchment, he wrote a quick note in his scrawly penmanship and placed it underneath the silver ribbon. He then put part of the ribbon into the owl’s mouth, so that it could carry it. “Take this to Hermione Granger. She should be in the Gryffindor common room with her bloody friends.” The owl mumbled a hoot, before leaping from its perch and flying out the window.



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Hermione sat on the loveseat couch in the Gryffindor common room, Ron had his arm around her shoulders, as she read her book. Harry, Ginny, and he were talking about Quidditch, which did not interest her at all. She was not even really reading she was just sitting there thinking. Suddenly, a dark brown owl landed on her lap. She jumped slightly in surprise, before taking the box from the owl, which flew away as soon as she did.



“Who is that from Mione?” asked Ron, while trying to take the box away from her.



She held it away from his grubby fingers. “I don’t know, but it was meant for me, so leave it alone!” she snapped, even though she knew exactly who it was from. She had seen Malfoy use the bird before.



Carefully she pulled the note from underneath the sliver ribbon and read it quickly



Put on this necklace. Then meet me in the common room.



D.

P.S. Be careful of the mirror. Do not touch it.

I gave the necklace and box to my friend as a gift. If you want to see what it looks like, go here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cnhcdbe_Ro