The Lights mistake, the Darks Gift.

Chapter 2

A/N: ~snakes~ = parseltounge

{10 Years Later/ 2 Days before Dumbledore Arrives}

Hadrians POV

"It's the freak again..." 

"I heard he should be placed in an asylum.."

"Did you hear he's the reason some kids end up in the nursery..?"

"He's just like the other boy, Tom.."

"He's crazy, he believes he has magic and the ability to speak to snakes.."

Freak. Psycho. Crazy. It's what they all say about me. I have grown used to it though. The only insult I don't understand is from a 50 year old lady who was a young orphan here in the 1940s. She is always saying I'm just like another orphan who would do the same things as me. It made me happy that there were possibly others like me out there in the world. But the others, they all call me names because they are afraid of me. Some even go as far as to try and rid of me. I make the ones who hurt me pay. I'm not sure how, but, I can do things to people that other children my age...can not. I can hurt the others with just a thought in my head or a flick of my wrist. It makes me feel powerful. But, a snake told me I was a wizard... that may explain it. Though, I am not as horrible as they say I am. If you treat me well, expect to be treated well from me. 

These people here don't treat me well so I don't treat them well. They're the reason I have never been adopted. The workers make sure I am never given a home. It makes me mad. I can't wait to get out of this filthy orphanage when I become of age. Though, I have something to look forward to, my birthday. It is currently in almost a day as it is 2316 hours. (11:16 PM) Everyone tends to ignore me on my birthdays, which I greatly appreciate. Though, I have a feeling something's going to happen this year and I am unsure if it is indeed a good or bad thing.

I turn my lamp off and put down the book I was reading and I close my eyes to sleep.

{0900 Hours/ 1 day before Dumbledore arrives} (9:00 AM)

Currently I am outside doing my chores, which today I have all by myself. Gardening. It is my favorite chore because it is when I get to speak to my snake friends. I found out I could speak to them when I was six and first doing this chore. Some snakes were talking to each other and I could understand them. I was shocked when I heard words coming from their mouths. They must've noticed my shock and asked if I was a speaker. So I tried talking to them, and to my surprise I could. And ever since then, I've always talked to the snake when I garden.

~SSSnakeling.. tomorrow issss your birthday, correct?~

~yessss it issss. I am very excccited, all of thessse insssolent people will leave me alone..~

~Sssnakeling, do you have the feeling ssssomething isss going to happen tomorrow~

~Yesss I have a feeling.. what age did you sssay wizardsss and witchesss get their Hogwartsss letter?~

~the sssummer of them being 11.. why do you asssk?~

~I'm turning 11 tomorrow ssso I wassss wondering if sssomeone wasss going to come in perssson inssstead~

~hmmm you  maybe on to sssomething sssnakeling..~

~Well, itsss 1230 hoursss i should be leaving for lunch.. goodbye sssuna~

I walked inside to the main dining room and grabbed a tray. I then got in line to get what they so called food here in the orphanage. While I was waiting two boys came up to me. They were both bigger and taller than me due to Ms Saline favoriting them and giving them extra food. They were the ones who bullied and teased me the most. They would always tell Ms. Saline whenever something out of the ordinary happened, and it was always blamed on me because I am 'the spawn of satan' as Jacob, one of the boys, liked to put it. Anyways as I was waiting in line Alex, the other kid came up behind me and yanked my hair to face him.

"Agh-" I gasped as I glared up at him, hatred evident in my eyes, that were such a vibrant shade of green it made them look like they were glowing.

"Don't you glare at me, you freak. I saw you talking to that snake earlier. I bet Ms. Saline would be delighted to give you another punishment.." Alex said with an evil grin on his face.

My face slightly paled. Ms. Saline's punishments were the worst. She would whip me with a ruler on my back, sometimes she would call an exorcist for me to have an exorcism done. She would cut my back with knives as well. It was just horrible with her.

"What do you want.." I mumbled knowing they would only do this when they wanted something from me.

Jacob responded to this question by saying, "Well I heard that they are running low on food so me and Alex here won't be able to get extra food.. so your going to give us yours or we will tell Ms. Saline." I just nodded my head knowing there really wasn't a way to get out of this situation right now. I'll just make them pay in their sleep later tonight, I thought with a smirk.

I got my plate filled with the slop of food and gave it to Jacob and Alex. I then headed up to my room and shut the door behind me. I started practicing some accidental magic I've done the past few years to gain more control over my magic and to make it stronger. Some things that I can do are create fire in my hands and being able to expand it to light things on fire. I can read people's thoughts while looking them in the eyes. I can summon things into my hand if I think about it hard enough. I can make people feel excruciating pain. I can make people/things float and either carefully place them down or just drop them until they reach solid platform. Then I also can speak to snakes. The excruciating pain and the levitation one are the ones I use most when I want to hurt people. It makes me feel powerful when others fall to the ground in pain that I caused. 

Anyways I started practicing the levitation one to be able to easily lift something up extremely fast then quickly drop it to the ground. I practiced doing that for around 3 hours and it is now 1600 hours, meaning I have 2 hours until it's time for dinner. In these two hours I decided that I was going to practice clearing and organizing my brain and thoughts. I lay on my bed and sort of travel into my mind. I start organizing all my thoughts by placing them in certain places. Time travels differently in my mind. What may feel like 10 minutes is actually 1 hour outside my mind so I can't really stay in here for for then 20 minutes. The 20 minutes pass and I exit my mind and start heading down for dinner. Jacob and Alex seem to ignore me so I assume they're getting there double meals tonight so I won't need to give them my dinner as well, which I was grateful for because I hadn't eaten breakfast today because it looked absolutely gut wrenching. 

After I finished eating Ms. Saline came up to me.

"Freak tonight you're cleaning the tables and dishes. Get to work." Ms. Saline is the lady who is always saying I'm just like 'Tom' I don't know who Tom is but apparently I'm very similar to him when he was here. In response to her telling me what to clean I just nod my head and began collecting the plates everyone left on the table from dinner. I headed into the kitchen and began scrubbing the dishes by hand. For some odd reason, the orphanage refuses to buy a dishwasher, and instead makes the children, 99.9% of time me, wash all dishes buy hand then dry them. This includes the dishes that were used to make the meals. So for any child it takes about 2 hours to complete, but for me since I do it so often it takes me around an hour and a half. But today Ms. Saline came to observe the dishes that I just finished and she claimed I did a horrible job and had me re-wash every. Single. Dish. Again. I swore one day I was going to burn this orphanage to the ground.

Finally after washing the dishes for the second time Ms. Saline approved of the washing job and I was allowed to leave the kitchen. It was around 2200 hours so I decided to just call it quits for the night and go to bed. As I laid in bed I remembered that tomorrow was my birthday and when I am supposed to get my letter for Hogwarts. I have a feeling something.. different.. is going to happen then. Oh well, only time will tell. I found myself drifting off into sleep, when I saw the same flash of light snoring towards my face and immense pain in my lighting scar that I've seen for as long as I can remember. I was then in a deep sleep.

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This is chapter two! Sorry for a little wait! Please comment a ship you'd like for Harry or I may choose one myself! Enjoy reading!

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