Familiar

A/N...Hey guys thanks to everyone who reviewed, big thankyou to Draconayzia. For offering to help me with my mythological creatures.

This chapter is from the point of view of Krai. Its his thoughts and dont worry its not written with sssss, cos that would be too difficult to read and i thought that in his own head it would be perfectly normal its only when he speaks that the sssss are added.

Another thing if you notice that the language is off in this chapter, it is completely intentional. Lets face it he's a snake, he wouldnt have the same terms and pronunciation as us anyway. So if anyone says i've made grammatical errors they obviously dont read author notes.

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Chapter 4: Intermission

He curled up tighter, listening to his human uumm and aaahhh as he read the thin book with the bright blue cover. His human or Harry as he was known to the other humans was quite intelligent for a walker. But he seemed to have a low level of self-esteem, it was obvious that Harry was very insecure. He would have to have a good long talk with his human and find out why. It appeared to him that the insecurities came from his home life. Why else would his human leave his burrow early, human young stayed for many years with their life givers. Snake young do not, so for this young human to have left early there had to be a serious reason. As he had not grown up with his life givers he did not fully understand what young gained from remaining with them. But he had heard enough over his years of life to have a general idea of what a human’s early life should be like.

Human young were born live from the life givers they were not born in the egg like the snakes and were then looked after by the life giver. The life giver would bathe their young and provide food and skin for them. This was something the snakes did not fully understand about the humans, a snake would shed unwanted and old skin to make room for new, the humans gathered different skins of varying colours and shapes and piled them on, after wearing them for a while they would then remove them and put on some other skin. Many humans wore the same skins again and again after washing. This did not make sense to Krai. Or any other snake he had met.

His human had his feet up on another chair, he had a bit of a frown on his face. Knowing that he could do so, he slipped into his humans mind and read the thoughts there. He found most obviously the fear of manipulation and saw through his memories all of the times he had been used by enemies and even worse by friends and allies and never told why. Krai resisted the urge to taste the air with his tongue, he knew if he did he would scent Harry’s fear in the air. He was a very insecure human and his first job as familiar should be to increase his confidence but to do that he had to find the root of the problem, which meant that he would have to get his human to open up to him.

There were of course some things that he could ask the white owl, Hedwig. Harry had been quite interested when he had said he could see through her glamour too. There were things he needed to know about his human before he could help him and she would know many of them. Knowing the answers to these questions would help him plan talks with Harry. He would be able to prepare things to say to Harry to remove the self-doubt his human carried. He needed to know who his human trusted and who his enemies were other than the other Snake Lord. His human needed to be made stronger to defeat the dark Snake Lord. If Harry became stronger all of the snakes would follow him. He was powerful enough to attract and hold their loyalty. And then there would be a new Lord of the Snakes, one the wizarding world would be proud to worship.

He slept, and was woken when Harry pushed back his chair. Noticing his mood he slid over and attempted to alleviate his humans fears. There was almost a feeling of worthlessness emminnating from his human’s mind and he was glad when his words lessened its impact, the burden had been lifted but it would resurface. But all he needed to do when it did would be to repeat what he had just said to him, his loyalty and the firmness of his answers would reassure Harry and his self confidence would grow.

A conversation by the bar drew his attention, Harry had not noticed them yet. They were lions, he could smell them. They were speaking of Harry, asking the bald human behind the bar if he had seen Harry. He did the snakes equivalent of a smile when the human told them he hadn’t, when they pointed over here at Harry, who was still lost in his thoughts, the bald human shook his head. Krai gave a soft hissing laugh when the bald human told them that they had been staying at the Cauldron for a week and that the young mans name was Aidan not Harry and he quite obviously did not have a scar, “After all everyone knows that curse scars can’t be covered.” Yes that human was extremely smart, he laughed. When they had got back to the Cauldron he had told Harry to place a memory charm on the bald one. It had obviously gone quite perfectly, a further indication of the power Harry held. His young Snake Lord would need careful guiding, it would be so easy to slip too far down the wrong path. A Snake Lord needed an element of darkness to his soul and for Harry that would come when he killed Voldemort, but Harry was an overall good soul. He was just the ruler that the snakes needed to show the others that not all snakes were evil and only good for dark magic. His human was getting ready to move on now, after Harry had poked the white owl, he slid over and wound himself around Harry.

A moment later Harry heard the voices at the bar…
‘…Potter… yes, we’re looking for him...’
‘Dumbledore’s orders you know… left home…’
‘Missing for… have you seen…’
‘No sorry, hasn’t been… Did you ask…?’
‘…even asked at Gringotts, no ones seen him…’
‘…if they are not telling…’

Harry then grabbed the other bags, checked he had everything and walked over to the fireplace, Krai turned his head to watch the three at the bar, they weren’t even watching them. Harry’s spell had been very successful and that had only been a simple spell, they would have to try one of the more advanced spells next. Harry took some of the funny powder he had bought and threw it into the fire, the flames turned green which Krai found very appropriate, Harry then stepped inside and said immediately
‘Potter Manor!’

And then they were gone…