Itoshii Sune-ku

Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.


Itoshii Sune-Ku.

Chapter 6: Sansaku, Katari Hatamata Gamu.

"So, magic is real. Really real."

"Yes."

"And you're really part snake."

"I'm more than part, thank you. I'm more snake than I am human."

"Oh."

"Quite"

"So, your sister...Aji, is a werewolf."

"Uh huh."

"And your other sister...Amaryssein, is pretty much a vampire..!

"Pretty much."

"And your OTHER sister...Serena, is practically a cat."

"A lynx breed cat, to be exact."

"Of course."

"Yup.

"And your brother...Tremaine...Is what exactly?"

"We haven't really figured that out...Yet...We're working on it."

"Uh huh..."

"You're having trouble accepting all this, aren't you?"

"Just a little. No worries, though. I'll survive."

"Indeed."

Chew...

Tilts head to the left.

POP!

Rolls his eyes.

Chew...

"Uhh..."

Sigh...

"Harry?"

"Yes?"

"You really need to get out more."

"Sorry. I've been stuck in a cuboard for the last five years of my life."

Sigh...

"Harry?"

"Yes?"

"Why do you not act like a six year old?"

"Why do you not act like a seven year old?"

"Touche."

"Yes..."

"I don't act my age because I've never been my age."

"What does that mean?"

"Basically, it means that I aged, mentally, faster than I did physically."

"Oh."

"Yuh huh."

"How is that possible?"

"Do you read a lot of books?"

"As many as I can get my hands on. Usually Aunt Petunia will leave me at the library for long periods of time. Least when Uncle Vernon is with her."

"What age group?"

"Um, mostly stuff that I can understand. I'm not saying I'm a boy genius or anything, I just don't like reading children's books."

"So, it's mostly teen, to adult, or others?"

"Yah huh."

"Well, the way I am, is the same way you are."

"How so?"

"Take the way you're speaking, for example."

"What's wrong with the way I'm speaking?"

"Nothing. It's just that you're speaking as if you're more than you're age. As if you grew up in a prestigious house-hold. Like you were taught from a young age to be a proper little gentleman. When most children your age would still be babbling on and on about non-consequential matters. Some six year olds may not even be able to pronounce some of the words you undoubtedly know. Your mind is far beyond that of a child. There are just SOME things you've yet to read about. Do you understand now?"

"If I am the way I am, because I read a lot. Why are you the way you are? You said you were the mother of your family. But to be a mother you have to know how to cook, clean, how to teach kids things. And all sorts of other stuff. Right?"

"Well, I'm different. I'm not human. See, my mother--she's a snake, see. A very OLD snake, at that. (No offense to her, of course) But she can live a few hundred years, and still not die of old age, see? Now when I was born, I wasn't human at all! Now, don't look at me like that, I'm serious! I looked just like my mother. As a snake. I spent months in that form before the human...uhh...DNA took hold and I got a really cute human body. It happened with all of us, you know. Aji was a werewolf cub. Serena was a kitten--"

"And what about Amaryssein? She's a vampire. Did she age any?"

"I'll have you know, vampires are not like your stereotypical vampires. Nothing like Dracula. There are half vampires, full-blooded vampires, and then you have your all-time fun, vampire-human hybrids. Of which, my sister is the only one!"

Smile

"You're one strange girl."

"Why thank you."

"No prob."

"See? There you go with the speech thing again."

"Well, what about you? What's up with that Giminie Cricket thing?"

"It's my swear word! I'll have you know, I may be older than seven in mind but nobody wants to hear a seven year old swearing. So, I have made up my own swear words. There much more amusing than other swear words. They're fun, too."

"But...How can you even say it?"

"Like this: Holy flippin' Giminie Cricket. That answer your question?"

"Grrr...That's annoying."

"Yes, it is. Isn't it lovely?"

"No!"

"Tee hee."

"M..."

Chew...

"Um..."

POP!

"Uh..."

Chew...

"M!"

POP!

"Gr..."

Chew...

"So, what's puberty? And how do you know of it?"

"I'm not answering that question! Go away!"

"But why?"

"Because!"

"Because why?"

"Because you're too young to know!"

"But you just said I wasn't young."

"Fine! Then I'm too young!"

"But that's still not fair."

"Yes! It is! It'll scar me for life if I have to explain the whole thing to a SIX YEAR OLD!"

"Doesn't the others know anything about it?"

"NOO! They don't! And they won't until they're AT LEAST TWELVE!"

"Or thirteen. Maybe fourteen. I haven't decided yet."

"Mm!"

Whimper

"Don't worry. I can wait."

Sigh

"I'll wait a few months."

Cry

Sniffle

"Oh fine! I won't ask for a couple years! How's that?"

"Yay!"

"I like you. You're the first nice girl I've met."

"I like you too. You're the first intelligent boy I've ever met."

"Thank you."

"No prob."

Twin sighs

POP!

Eeny, meeny, minee, moe, catch a tiger by his toe.

Whispers: Sorry. Taking too long, I know. Whoever all is reading this, would you mind giving me your opinion? I need to know whether I should do what I suggested in the first couple chapters and turn Tiny Harry into something. A snake. Or a werewolf. Or something else? Your choice pretty much. Mind to help a girl out?