Celeste Black

Chapter 2

"What's your family like?" Harry asks, curiously peering at me through his black spectacles. I bite my lip and look down.

"It's ok if you don't want to say it. I mean we will not judge you, if you do happen to say it." Ron says gently. I nod, even though I only met these two a short time ago, I would trust them with my life. So I take a deep breath, hoping with all my being that they won't make fun of me.

"My mom is dead, and my dad is in jail. They think it's a muggle jail, but his powers were greatly diminished upon the terrible deed he did. So I have lived in the orphanage since October 31rst." I look up at them, giving a weak smile.

"Why would you think we would make fun of you for that? I mean I am also an orphan, the only reason I wasn't put in an orphanage was because my aunt and uncle took me in." Harry said, giving me a hearty smile. I felt a million times better and looked out the window contentedly.

A few hours into the train ride, a young girl with bushy hair, and large front teeth, accompanied by a large round faced boy, who looked like he was close to tears, opened the door.

"Have either of you seen a toad? Neville here has lost his." She motioned towards the boy. We all shook our heads and resumed eating the piles of sweets Harry bought. They thanked us and shut the door behind them. Not even half an hour later, the girl who asked about the toad was back.

"You guys should put on your school robes. We will be arriving shortly. By the way, earlier I didn't get to introduce myself. I am Hermione, Hermione Granger. And you all are?" She asks, scanning our faces with a stern look on her face.

"Celeste, Celeste Black." I smile at her. She smiles back and then looks at Harry.

"Oh, erm- I'm Harry Potter. Nice to meet-" But he did not get to finish his sentence.

"Wow! You're Harry Potter, I read all about you during the summer!" She says excitedly.

"Oh, you did?" he asks, uncertain about her.

"Yes of course! Didn't you? If it was me I would read anything there was about me!" She continues. She finally looks over at Ron.

"I am Ron Weasley." he says, holding out his hand for her to shake. She takes it gingerly and says,

"Pleasure." She then leaves hastily.

"Whatever house she's in, I don't want to be in it." Ron groans. Harry and I nod in agreement. I noticed something had moved in Ron's breast pocket, right at that moment. I had thought it was a handkerchief, but now I was not so certain.

"Ron, what's that in your shirt pocket?" I ask, gesturing to the bulge.

"Oh that is Scabbers, my brother Percy's old rat. All he does is sleep, he is quite boring." he reaches down his pocket and pulls out a fat, grey rat. I squeal. I hated rats.

"It's alright Celeste, he won't hurt you. Or do anything else really." He looked at Scabbers with a look of disgust. I nod.

"Hey, I am going to look at the train and talk to my friends from the orphanage. Alright?" I say, trying to make up an excuse as to not be near Scabbers. They nod and I open the carriage door and head down the train. I looked in each of the carriages and come across a carriage with two big boys, who looked mean and dumb. They seemed to be listening very intently to a smaller boy, with platinum hair and a smug look on his face. The boy was wearing smart looking robes which looked very expensive, so I came to the conclusion that the two bigger boys were his cronies. Feeling bold at the moment, I opened the door. The boy stopped talking at once and stared at me, surprised someone would dare open the door.

"Could I sit here?" I ask politely, wanting to know more about these despicable looking boys. Their surprised looks turn into a collection of smug looks.

"Sure." The boy with the platinum hair says, in a bored sounding voice. I sit down next to the platinum haired boy.

"What are you guys' names?" I say, staring at them intently

"Well that's Crab, and he is Goyle." The platinum haired boy says, pointing at the boys upon saying their names. I nod.

"And I'm Malfoy, Draco Malfoy." He sneers.

"Well I am Celeste Black, I am pleased to make your acquaintance." I say smiling at them.

"What's your blood status?" Malfoy asks abruptly.

"Well my dad is pureblood and my mom is...muggle? I think." I say, realizing I didn't know if my mother was a witch or not.

"So you're a halfblood?" Malfoy says, looking at me disgustedly.

"I don't know." I say flatly.

"What do you mean you don't know?"

"Because my mom is dead and my dad is locked up. I don't know who either of them are, or if my dad is in Azkaban or somewhere else."

"Oh, I see, so your dad is.. him." Malfoy says, grinning.

"What? Who's him?" I say, highly confused.

"Oh my my, you don't know? Well here's a hint, you're my cousin." And with that he motions to Crabbe and Goyle and exits the carriage. Leaving me, confused and thirsting for knowledge on my parents.

We finally arrive at Hogwarts. I hop off the train and see Harry and Ron, looking around the platform, presumbiling for me. I ran over to meet them and walked over to a huge man, who was twice as tall as a normal man, and maybe three times as wide, who was screaming.

"Firs' years! Over 'ere! Firs' years!" Harry's face lights up and when we reach the man he says,

"Doin' alrigh' 'arry?" Harry nods and proceeds to the docks.

"You know him?" Ron says, looking surprised.

"He is the one who told me I was a wizard and took me from the Dursleys, my aunt and uncle." Harry answers.

All the first years gather around the docks and the man roars,

"Alrigh' everyone! Four to a boat! You there! Is that your toad?"

We see the boy, Neville, from earlier run up and grab his toad. Everyone hops on a boat, and Harry, Ron and I, along with Neville, go on a boat. I look around trying to spot Hogwarts. But all I saw was a black lake. The man must of sensed our concern and boomed,

"Yer' gonna see Hogwarts after this bend 'ere." We crane our necks to see the castle and when we finally turn the bend we all collectively gasp. The castle was huge, it had many towers and loads of turrets, it looked positively magnificent.

"Duck under the vines!" the man roars. We all duck under the vines and bump onto another dock that was probably under the castle. We step off the boats and come up to this beautiful golden door.

"You there, still got your toad? Alrigh' everyone, welcome to Hogwarts." And at his words the golden doors open...

//A/N// I know this does not match up exactly to the book, but since this is a fanfic that should not matter too much. 

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