I am Hadrian James Potter

Chapter 2: The incident

A year had passed since Harry met the snake. It had been confirmed that it was a she and that she didn't have a name yet. Harry had decided to name her Bellator Cordis  which is Latin for Warrior of the heart. Harry had spent hours of research during school hours to find a name for her. At break times or whenever he had a free period, he would go to the library and use the school computers, or he would go old school and use hard copy books. A plus side was that he had learnt a new language during his search for her name.

He had always kept Bellator with him, and they had both decided that her nickname would be Bella. Whenever he went to school she would be underneath his sleeve.

He still remembered when he had brought her inside. His aunt Petunia had thrown a fit and Uncle Vernon had tried to hit him and make him take her outside. As soon as he lifted his hand to strike Harry, Bella had immediately tried to bite him but sadly Vernon had pulled his hand away in the nick of time. It pissed him off that wasn't obvious though seeing as Harry immediately schooled his facial expression. 

There had been a few... incidents at school where Bella would end up 'accidentally' nicking some people who were mean to Harry at school, but seeing as she could control how much venom she could administer in to a bite she only made it so they would get uncomfortably sick for a few weeks. 

Harry had never been a fan of people. He never really liked socialising, but maybe that was because most of the people he had met were intolerable pricks. Who knows maybe one day when he could go to Hogwarts - the place Bella had told him about he would finally fit in and maybe he would finally like socialising with others. Maybe then he wouldn't be an outcast unwanted by everybody he knew except for Bella. Maybe he would finally find peace and be happy.

On his walk home Harry noticed Dudley and his gang following him. They were not subtle at all, anybody with eyes would have seen it.

"Don't your parents pick you up after school Dudley? And you Peterkin, I know you're in love with me, but following me home is a bit much, don't you think?" 

Dudley and the rest laughed but it wasn't a nice laugh it was dark. Then Dudley spoke up next "We want to play Harry hunt today Potter, and we all brought toys with us today. See I got some wrenches and screw-drivers from the toolbox upstairs and Peterkin managed to get us a hammer, be that as it may it's a small one but it will make do. You should run now. Remember the rules. None of your freakishness and you aren't allowed to run too fast," 

Harry stood there, eyebrows raised and his facial expression unbothered "Right because your fat arses can't catch up can you" He said a small chuckle at the end as he started sprinting.

He didn't know how long he had been running, just that he had been running for a while, but as he continued to run he turned a corner and realised a second too late that he had run in to a dead end 

'Bollocks'

Dudley and his friends trickled into the alley way with twisted smiles on their faces, their eyes lit up with glee as they stalked towards him as if he were their prey, which was exactly what he felt like. He was trapped there was no way out of this. He knew it, they knew it, even Bellator knew it

Dudley raised his screwdriver as he struck Harry across the face with it. Harry grunted but made sure nothing out came out his mouth and made sure none of his pain showed through his face. He would never give them that type of satisfaction. He refused to do that to himself and he refused to do that for them. The rest joined in, eager to participate in the best part of Harry hunt. Harry did not utter a single shout of pain a few whimpers had come out but no screams or shouts of pain.

There was a single moment during the beating that some of them had hesitated to continue, and Harry had decided to take advantage of that.

"Now Bella" And immediately Bella struck, so quick that it felt as if it should have been impossible. She still looked very injured, obviously she had suffered the blows that had been aimed to the arms and chest.

She made sure to bite them all, she didn't know how much venom she put into it, she just knew she bit each and every one of them except for Dudley, she had been saving him for last she wanted him to suffer the most, she had been wanting to bite him for so long but she couldn't seeing as it would only make things worse for Harry at home, but today, today she didn't give 2 shits, she wanted him to suffer a slow agonising death.

She opened her mouth again her eyes blazing with fury, her teeth stained red with the blood of her enemies as she used her tongue to wipe the blood off she stalked slowly towards Dudley who immediately threw a wrench at her which she had easily dodged she jumped at him as she wrapped herself around his neck and squeezed, when she let go she bit into his arm, focusing on how much poison she wanted to administer she pumped enough to get him to die a slow painful death, a death that would make the rest of his remaining days a misery. She wanted to watch him die as it would be glorious to see.

"Ew. You taste disgusting, you filthy muggle!" She hissed out when she let go. As soon as she let go Dudley sprinted home, not yet realising he was going to die. It would settle in after a few minutes though.

She moved towards Harry, he was covered in blood and bruised everywhere. You could most definitely see which parts of his body were broken.

"Come on love, we have got to move," 

"I can't " Answered Harry, his voice hoarse.

"Yes, you can, now please come on up"

His body was on fire. The pain was the only thing he felt at that moment. If he moved even an inch his entire body would disagree with him, tell him to just stay there. Just go to sleep a voice in his head tells him. It will all be better after, you and I both know it. Come on Harry it's just a matter of closing your eyes. You can do it. It said, the offer was tempting, he would be able to leave every bad thing here, he wouldn't have to deal with it all. And maybe just maybe then he would be able to meet his parents. What about Bella? Another voice joined in. Are you ready to leave her too? Are you ready to leave her alone forever? Do you want to put her through that? Through the pain of losing somebody you love?

Harry tried to get up. He really did, and that's exactly what he did with all his might he managed to stand up with shaky legs he limped towards the house of the Dursley's not knowing what kind of Hell was waiting for him in there.

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Harry opened the door to the house ready to go into his cupboard and just lie in there forever. But was stopped by his Walrus of an uncle who had started his yelling.

"BOY!! HOW DARE YOU? AFTER ALL THE KINDNESS AND GOODNESS WE SHOW YOU. THIS IS HOW WE GET REPAID? OUR RUGS GETTING DIRTY AND OUR BABY BO GETTING BITTEN BY YOUR SNAKE?! YOU BETTER HOPE YOU CAN MAKE IT OUT OF THIS ALIVE BECAUSE I WILL NOT BE HOLDING BACK THIS TIME. WE HAVE BEEN TOO EASY ON YOU. LET YOU HAVE TOO MUCH FREEDOM, WELL ITS TIME FOR YOU TO PAY."

With each word Vernon took a step closer to Harry to the point where Harry could smell his breath. It was putrid.

And the beating had begun. 

Adding on to Harry's intense suffering when Bella attempted to attack she was hit too with such great force she flew back in to the wall. 

"No! Leave her alone. It's me who you want to punish right? " How are you still breathing? He asked himself. 

Vernon continued to beat Harry with his meaty hands and Harry begun thinking that he would die here.

Harry's magic didn't seem to like the idea. Next thing he knew Bella was in his hand and something was pulling at his navel. Not a very nice feeling when you're as severely injured as Harry was.