Harry Potter's twin sister Book 1 [ON HIATUS]

Chapter 2

You held on tightly to Harry's hand as you entered the reptile house. The first room held the snakes. Dudley was getting bored and you were nervous that he'd fall back onto his favorite punching bags for entertainment.

"Hey. It'll be ok, Y/N." Harry whispered. "Dudley will hopefully be less bored with poisonous snakes nearby." The two of you followed Dudley at a safe distance back so that you could also look at the snakes. Dudley called his father over because the biggest snake wasn't moving.

"Make it move!" Dudley whined. Uncle Vernon tapped the glass, but the snake didn't move. So Uncle Vernon tapped the glass harder and finally rapped on the glass very loudly. When the snake didn't move, Dudley got bored and moved on.

The snake winked and flicked its head towards Dudley. "Ssssss-ssss SsssSSssssS SSssS-sssssSs." Harry said to the snake. The snake nodded. You blinked, was this actually happening?

"Sss SsSS-Ssssss Ssssss-sssSsss?" You stared in shock as Harry spoke to the snake. The snake used its tail to point at a little sign near the glass. "Sssss-sss ssssSSSss." Harry seemed to be asking the snake a question and the snake nodded. You had moved closer, next to Harry because it seemed way too crazy to be true.

"HEY DAD! LOOK WHAT THE SNAKE"S DOING!" Dudley shouted as he rushed over to see the snake. He shoved you to the ground. Since you were so small and skinny for your age, Dudley could toss you around like a rag doll. You landed on the ground.

"Y/N!" Harry was glaring at Dudley as he started to help you up. All of a sudden, the glass Dudley had his face pressed up against disappeared. Dudley fell in the pool in the snake's exhibit and the big snake snapped playfully snapped at Dudley's heels before slithering out. It looked at Harry, hissed at him, then slithered through the panicking crowd.

You heard pounding and turned around. Right there in the snake's exhibit was Dudley behind the newly appeared glass wall. You giggled with Harry until you saw Uncle Vernon storming over with Aunt Petunia sobbing behind him. You darted behind Harry as he moved to stand in front of you. Uncle Vernon yelled at a zoo worker to get Dudley out as quickly as possible.

*Time skip*

Uncle Vernon pulled into the driveway and parked. You were shaking, terrified. Harry had put himself between you and Dudley so you were right next to the door. Uncle Vernon got out of the car and opened your door. You had just unbuckled your seatbelt with shaking hands and was about to get out of the car, but that was too slow for Uncle Vernon. He grabbed your arm and pulled you out, then he reached for Harry. The momentum was too much for your small body so you tripped and fell down. Your hands and knees burned.

"Hey, leave her alone!" Harry shouted as he jumped out of the car and tried to run to you, but Uncle Vernon grabbed Harry's arm. He dragged Harry over to you and yanked you up by your arm. You started breathing even more heavily and tried to calm down, but being dragged to the house did nothing to calm you down.

Uncle Vernon threw you both into the cupboard. "In the cupboard, in the cupboard." He was shaking with anger as he slammed the cupboard door shut.

As soon as Uncle Vernon's footsteps faded, Harry looked at you. You were in the middle of a panic attack, breathing heavily as your nightmares replayed in your head. "No, no. Leave them alone, they didn't do anything!" Your e/c eyes were filled with terror before they cleared. You blinked as you took in your surroundings, and your concerned twin brother was kneeling in front of you.

"Hey, hey. It's ok now, Y/N. Are you ok, now?"

"Yeah," you whisper. He looked at your hands and knees and reached under the bed for the first-aid kit he had put there a while back because you were so jumpy and often got hurt. As Harry cleaned your palms and knees, you asked him about the snake. "What was that, you were hissing at the snake and it winked?"

"Y/N, I was talking normally to the snake." Harry said as he finished up, sat next to you and hugged you. "Better?"

"Yeah, but you weren't talking normally to the snake." You gave him a small smile. "Though Dudley getting trapped definitely makes up for getting punished."

Harry chuckled, "Yeah." You leaned into him and sat in comfortable silence.