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Chapter Four: Kora

After my encounter with those fools, I actually appreciate being alone since the day I was created.

Once I was alone in the cemetery, I walked over to the gravestone with the false name. I lifted it and revealed the underground tunnel beneath it. I changed into my original form, a snake, and slithered my way down the tunnel.

Eventually I made it to my cell. It's a room in the shape of a half-circle, one wall with cell bars surrounding it in the shape of a curve. Moss covers the wall as well as dust. I change back to my human form, which dosen't look very human at all, and sit on the bench provided to me when I was thrown in here. I sigh and look at the tray that supplied me with food when my father disappeared. Yes, it has a piece of toast and the glass has filled its self with more water. I am starving, so I start to eat only some of the toast to make it last a week.

That's when I notice that there are two books near the tray. I pick up one of them. It has a black leather cover and no title. I flip through the pages and find them blank. I pick up the other one. It has a picture of a boy with black hair and green eyes and a scar in the shape of a lightning bolt. He is wearing circular glasses and is flying a broomstick. He seems to be trying to catch a Snitch. The cover also has the words Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone written on it in gold letters. I scoff. That is the name if the brat who defeated my father. I flip through it, and flip through the black book again.

It actually has words this time, but only on the first page. It says READ THE BOOK. I decide to obey. I pick up the book with the picture of the boy and start reading it as I sit on the bench.