Harry gave a helpless shrug. "For all I know, you could be."
Kodachi was about to disabuse him of the possibility, when she thought back to her family. They were crazy loons, the lot of them. It was entirely within the realm of possibility that she might've had extra sibs no one ever told her about because they'd been high on spiked Cheese Whiz at the time they'd sold him to cannibals, or misplaced one at an airport and it was never important enough to look, or something.
Contrarywise, what if she was adopted? Or kidnapped? Or just bought from a black market child dealer because having their own proved too difficult or inconvenient? Considering how wacky her parents were generally such a thing was well within the realm of probablility, and how would she know if such a thing had happened? It was hard enough getting them to reveal they'd replaced the traps on the bathroom door or which of the kitchen cupboard knobs released a hail of poisoned spikes today.
Harry noticed her pause and she turned to him somewhat apologetically. "I'm sorry. I can't say for certain it might not be true." Thinking back upon the letter, she added. "They already appear to know more about my lineage than I did. Perhaps it is true, and we just didn't know it?"
"Wow." Harry sat heavily back in his seat.
He'd thought he'd had enough surprises already today.
"Excuse me," the door slid open again. "Have either of you seen a toad? A boy named Neville's lost one."
"Yes," Kodachi answered absently, her mind on other questions. "My snake ate one as we were boarding the train. I didn't know it belonged to someone. I'll gladly pay to replace it."
"Oh." Hermione said limply.
The snake hissed.
Kodachi sat up, arising out of her thoughty stupor. "For what it's worth, Shirousagi says it was delicious."
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(Posted Wed, 18 Jun 2003 00:43)
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