Chapter 3
After the visit on diagon alley Harry spent time reading the books he had bought and today he would made a another visit to diagon alley to explore it better and after that he would go for shopping to London. So after waking up the morning he put on dark blue shorts, a dark green sleeveless and a black hat so they wouldn't recognize him and he left.
After taking the tube and arriving in London he headed to leaky cauldron.
"Good morning sir, could you open the entrance for me for the diagon alley" said Harry with an innocent smile.
"Muggleborn?" asked the barman.
"Yes sir, I would like to explore the diagon alley more" Harry said.
"Okay boy, wait a minute and we can go" said the barman as he put some things in their place and made sense to Harry to follow him, he took out his wand, hit it on the wall a few times and he opened it.
"Thanks sir" Harry said.
"Be careful" he said and with that he left.
Harry entered the diagon alley and after taking some money from the gringotts and changing some into muggle he headed to explore the shops.
After some shopping, Harry headed to a sign he was writing "knockturn alley"
Harry get into a shop that had many different animals. He could see cats, owls, toads, spiders and another animals that he did not know about but Harry wanted to get something else he had wanted to get for a long time and so he headed for the snakes. There are different snakes big, small, with different color and with different breeds. Some snakes were sleeping and some others were whistling to visitors
~annoying people waking us up from our sleep~ said a brown snake.
~Come a little closer and I will put my fangs in your hand~ said a another snake with blue blades and yellow eyes.
As Harry watched the various snakes he heard a snake say ~I feel your magic dark and cold like home, I know you can speak our language, take me with you speaker.~
Harry turned and saw a small snake about half a meter long with black and silver blades and green eyes.
~What is your name little snake?~
~I don't have a name, you can name me as you wish speaker~ the snake said.
~From what I understand from your voice you are male, i will call you Hades from the Greek god of hell~ Harry said.
~I like it speaker~ Hades said.
~My name is Harry, Hadrian Cadmus Potter you can call me Harry~ Harry said with a smile.
~You will take me with you harry ?~ Hades asked.
~Yes, but at the school I will go to, you can not take a snake with you, so unfortunately you will have to hide~ Harry said sadly.
~Do not worry Harry we can make a bond and when you make a bond between a wizard and an animal no one can or should try to break it~ said Hades.
~How do you know so much about magic? all the snakes I have known before have never spoken to me about magic~ Harry asked curius.
"I am a magical snake the last of my kind, the snakes of my species know about magic from the time they are born, the memories of previous generations are passed on to the next" Hades said.
~So how do we bond?~ Harry asked.
~I have to drink some of your blood and pass some of my poison into your own blood~.
~Okay but you have to do it fast~ said Harry as he went to a corner where no one could see him and said ~Do it.~
Hades slipped down his neck and put his fangs on his skin.
Harry bit his tongue to make no sound. And then he felt his magic get stronger and a warmth, a connection with the snake in front of him, he felt as if he were his family.
~It is done~ the snake said.
~Did you feel it too? The magic and the feeling as we......~ harry said.
~As we are a family, yes, I felt it because we are now, your blood flows inside me and my poison flows inside you~ said Hades.
~So hide under my clothes to leave the store~ ~said Harry and Hades went under his clothes making Harry laugh at the tickling.
After leaving the store he went to another one "Borgin and Burkes." They looked at him strangely rather because he was wearing muggle clothes while they were dressed in robes.
He searched the books and after finding some that he liked he put them aside to buy them. He found an old and dusty one which in the title was written Secrets of the Darkest Art in parselmouth he took it and went to pay for the books he got.
~I smell a lot of dark magic in the book you bought Harry~ Hades said.
~It's a book about the dark arts, I want to know as much as I can, people make mistakes, there is no good and bad only power and how you choose to use it~ said Harry as he was leaving knockturn alley and heading to London.
Harry's spent the last few days before go to Hogwarts with Nick, Alex and Alice.
On the morning of 1 September, after making his morning routine, he dressed in dark green shorts and a black short-sleeved graphic tee. He took his things that he had prepared from the previous day and went to the king cross station to take the Hogwarts bus.
When he arrived he searched a bit for the 9¾ platform and did what Dumbledore told him he ran over it but instead of hitting as he thought, he went through it, and there was a red train he went in and looked for an empty apartment to sit on, after a few minutes he found one towards the end of the train, he sat inside he put his things, he took out a book and waited for the train to start.
About 20 minutes after the train started, someone opened the door.
"Can we sit here? " said a girl with blond hair and blue eyes that looked his age.
"If you want" I said and made sense for them to sit down.
"Hi, my name is Tracey Davis and I'm 2nd year Slytherin" said a girl with brown hair and brown eyes.
"Daphne Greengrass, 2nd year Slytherin" said the girl with blode hair and blue eyes.
"Hadrian Potter but you ladies can call me Harry and I'm first year"said Harry with a charming smile made the two girls blush a little.
"You do not look much like Potter more Black I would say" said Daphne.
"Maybe" said Harry without wanting to say that he had never seen what his parents looked like.
"Where do you think you will sort ?" Daphne asked.
"I believe in Slytherin" Harry said.
"Potter is all Gryffindor no one has be sort to Slytherin for centuries" Daphne said.
"Let's place a bet" Harry suggest.
"What bet? "Daphne asked with interest.
"If I sort to Slytherin you have to give me a kiss if not you have to choose something" i said with a playful smile.
Daphne nodded "Okay when you lose and you sort somewhere else you will owe me a favor"
"Definitely my lady" I said and we shook hands.
"So tell me about Hogwarts" said Harry and they told him about Hogwarts lessons and stories about it.
It was getting dark outside and one student passed by and told us that in 10 minutes we would arrived and that we had to put on our uniforms. After we change we got off the train and I heard someone shouting "first years, first years here."
"Well better to go girls your company was amazing, we have to do it again" I said and went to find the other first years.
"Bye Harry, I hope to see you in Slytherin" said Tracey.
I found the first years and there was the biggest man I had seen, he was over 2 meters and had long hair and a beard that covered almost his entire face.
"first years follow me from here." We went to a lake that had many boats "No more than 4 people in each boat" said the giant.
I sat with a girl who had orange hair and brown eyes, the other girl have blond hair and a dreamy expression in her blue eyes and a boy with brown hair and blue eyes.
When the castle appeared I had to try hard to say and I with the rest of the wow, it was really beautiful and I could sit and look for hours.
When we entered we were greeted by a woman with gray hair caught in a bun and a stern expression.
"The first years of Professor Mcgonagall" the giant said.
" Thanks Hagrid, I'll get it from here" Mcgonagall said.
"Welcome to Hogwarts" Mcgonagall said. "Dinner will start soon. But before you take the seat in the great hall you will sort into the houses, the house are Hufflepuff, Griffindor, Ravenclaw and Slytherin".
McGonagall led them into a large room, the ceiling looked like the night sky and the room was lit by thousands of candles floating in the air.
There in an chair was an old hat that started singing
"Oh you may not think I'm pretty,
But don't judge on what you see,
I'll eat myself if you can find
A smarter hat than me.
You can keep your bowlers black,
Your top hats sleek and tall,
For I'm the Hogwarts Sorting Hat
And I can cap them all.
There's nothing hidden in your head
The Sorting Hat can't see,
So try me on and I will tell you
Where you ought to be.
You might belong in Gryffindor,
Where dwell the brave at heart,
Their daring, nerve, and chivalry
Set Gryffindors apart;
You might belong in Hufflepuff,
Where they are just and loyal,
Those patient Hufflepuffs are true
And unafraid of toil;
Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw,
if you've a ready mind,
Where those of wit and learning,
Will always find their kind;
Or perhaps in Slytherin
You'll make your real friends,
Those cunning folks use any means
To achieve their ends.
So put me on! Don't be afraid!
And don't get in a flap!
You're in safe hands (though I have none)
For I'm a Thinking Cap!"
McGonagall stepped forward next to a stool in an old hat and began reading names.
After many names I finally heard.
"Potter, Hadrian"
I stepped forward and sat down, McGonagall put the hat on my head.
'Hmmm, you have a wonderful mind young Potter and cunning that Salazar would be proud and thirsty to prove yourself, yes yes you would fit perfect in Slytherin I'm sure' the hat said in my mind
'Put me where I will become strong where I will become great' Harry thought
'You remind me of an another boy 50 years ago, he was smart and strong like you but his hate and his jealous made him a monster and led him to the dark path, I hope you choose the right path Mr Potter and good luck in' "SLYTHERIN"