Harry Potter and the Monster of Gryffindor

Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Gen
G
Harry Potter and the Monster of Gryffindor
Characters
Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Neville Longbottom, Dean Thomas, Rubeus Hagrid, Seamus Finnigan, Tom the Barman (Harry Potter)
Tags
Other Additional Tags to Be Added Parselmouths & Parseltongue (Harry Potter) Harry Potter Has a Pet Snake Gryffindors Being Gryffindors Basilisks
Summary
In which one word makes all the difference.Instead of calling Harry 'amigo', the boa constrictor calls him 'wizard'. And in so doing sets about a cascade of events which sees Harry Potter starting Hogwarts with a pet snake. A snake hatched beneath a toad from a chicken's egg in the attic of the Leaky Cauldron. How does Hogwarts cope with two basilisks?Inspired by a prompt I found on tumblr, but I can't remember the originator.Edit: found it! was from aenramsden, and I will now have to add them as a gift recipient...
Note
A gift for Ethril, author of the fantastic Harry-is-a-Naga fic "Snake Scales and Serpent Tails", whose Tumblr account started me on the rabbit hole which culminated in this fic.Edit: also gifted to Aleph who was the originator of the ideaI don't like posting fics that I haven't finished, but I wanted to give at least chapter one of this to Ethril for Christmas/Solstice/etc.

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