[COMPLETED] Ivy Potter has just completed her third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry with her twin brother, Harry Potter. She came face to face with He Who Must Not Be Named in her first and second year but this year, she came face...
July 2, 1994: At midnight, Mrs. Malfoy knocked on my door. I opened it and was wearing a plain black dress with nothing else. No jewelry, no socks, no footwear, and my long black hair was free from elastic restraints. She wore a hooded cloak and escorted me to the garden that I grew up in. The cold blades of grass tickled my feet and sent shivers up my legs. Mrs. Malfoy stood about twelve feet from the tree that Lilith lived in. I stood six feet from the tree and six feet from Mrs. Malfoy. Lilith slithered down the tree and I heard Mrs. Malfoy gasp that an adder snake was in the tree that Draco and I climbed as children.
"Lilithhh, be with me, alwaysss," I hissed in parseltongue.
She slithered to my feet and raised her head up to my knee, "Withhh pleasssure."
The only light was from the partial full moon above us. I looked up at the stars and felt the wind blowing through my hair. It began to move on its own, as if they were snakes themselves. Trusting myself, I began the ritual.
"Poison ivy vines, weave in the wind," I said and from the grass, poison ivy grew quickly and began to circle around Lilith and I.
"Snakeskin and scales, return to the body that bears fangs," I said as Lilith and I began to lift off the grass and my body felt weightless.
I held out my right arm towards Lilith, "Tie now the green thread. Tie now the vines of our veins. The scales, so that we may not be separated. The hair, so that we may not come apart. Tie to the fir tree six times. Until the day the snake spits out its tail."
My hair flourished in the wind around me and Lilith looked at me eagerly for me to call her new name, "Come, Lilyth."
She lengthened her body and began to transform from her tail end first. Her body began to turn to black circles up until her head. The head grew to the size of mine and kept its scaly features. I needed a spell to summon her but first I cast a spell to finish the binding.
Keeping my right arm exposed, "Aitrosnepres!"
Her head and body became two dimensional and entered the skin of the palm of my hand. It felt like a paperthin coil was spiraling under my skin and up my full arm. The sensation was not painful and I watched a black snake tattoo spiral up my arm to my shoulder where her head stopped. Around my arm was a spiral of her black dotted body. As my spell ended, my left foot touched the ground and I brought down my right to stand firmly in the grass. Finally, I had to complete the spell.
With my right hand, I used it to point upwards to the sky, "Nake, snake. Cobra, cobra. Aitronsnepres!"
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Black electricity shot from my hand and into the clouds. The lightning bolts had the head of snakes and the cloud rumbled in black light. I cracked my neck and stretched it. My mouth opened and I felt my canine teeth grow slightly longer, slimmer, and sharper. Licking my dry lips from the cold, the tip of my tongue was split like a snake. My hair finally fell straight down my back and the poison ivy vines retreated back into the grass without a trace. I turned to see Mrs. Malfoy, a ghostly pale color with her hands held like in prayer in front of her mouth.
"I-Ivy?" she asked softly.
I was concerned if any other part of me was transformed, "A-Aunt Cissy, it's ok! Did something go wrong? Am I a beast?"
Tears rolled down her cheek and she revealed a smile, "No. You are beautiful."
"Do I look different?" I asked and looked at my hands and feet.
"No. Your hair reminded me of Medusa. I was concerned when the vines blocked my vision of you. You were flying with a snake. Look at this tattoo. She's more than that, I'm sure. What an honor to witness such ancient magic. The ritual was successful then?" she asked as we returned inside.
"Out for a midnight stroll?" Mr. Malfoy asked.
We stopped in our tracks and I saw Draco behind his father. They saw everything from inside. Mr. Malfoy examined my tattoo with Draco as Mrs. Malfoy explained what I was doing. When they weren't looking, I winked at Draco and showed him my tongue. He blushed and we hid our smiles. All of us returned to our bedrooms and went to bed. Lilyth shared her mind with me and we had a connection like a familiar would. I fell asleep holding Salem.
