Harry Potter and the Secret Inheritance

Chapter 10

Adriane woke up the next day sore all over, and she groaned as she pulled herself out of bed and into the shower. She sighed in relief when she felt the hot water against her body, soothing her aching muscles. She got out of the shower a little while later and put on a simple yellow daisy sundress with thin straps to hold it up, along with a black twist crop top on top of it. She wrapped her tail around her dress to act as a furry belt and silently hoped that no one would notice it. She put on a pair of white low-heeled pumps that wrapped around her ankle to give her that little bit of extra height because, honestly, she was too short; even first-years were taller than her most of the time.

She put in some star-studded earrings that she had been told were for men, but she didn't really care about that. She had lived as a guy for the first thirteen-some years of her life, so she didn't care about the normal gender rules that people said everyone had to live by.

She then put on a necklace that was mostly just a plain golden chain, but it had a charm on it that looked like a black hole in space with stars that she thought went with her earrings nicely.

Adriane fed Usagi and hugged her before running out of the room with her bags to go to the first thing on her list: talking to Garnett. She sighed; she really didn't want to talk to anyone about her life as a guy before she found out about everything, but she knew that it was to help her get over what had been done to her. Well, not get over, but help her be able to not fly into a rage when she wound up seeing the traitors again.

Running into the room, she was surprised that she was early, but as Garnett said, it just gave them more time to talk about everything. The first thing Adriane did was awkwardly ask her how she was supposed to clean her new parts, getting a laugh out of Garnett, who then explained. The two of them talked about how Adriane was feeling about this and how she was taking everything.

Adriane was hesitant to share things with Garnett but was glad that she had someone to talk to at all and that Garnett understood that she had to work to earn Adriane's trust.

Next, it was time for breakfast, where Adriane ate more than she did yesterday to the approval of the others. Having been told that she had been starved by her relatives had made them all mad, especially Clara, because in her words, "No one should harm a kit; they're gifts to this world, and to starve one and treat them so badly is a crime! They are lucky that I am not allowed to go after them."

Adriane almost pitied her relatives because if they met Clara or anyone in this room, to be honest, then they would be in for a big, unpleasant surprise. Wait, could she even call them her relatives anymore? That was a question for another day; now she had to get to class.

Picking up her bag, she rushed off to the first class she had that day, Transfiguration with Gorgor. She spent the class doing the same thing as yesterday, trying out spells and seeing which ones worked and which ones decided to go all wonky on her.

After that, it was time for her to head to Arithmancy with Luggit. She had never taken Arithmancy before and found that she should have taken this class last year when she had the chance, but it's not like the teachers sat down with every second-year student and explained what classes they could choose, what they would need them for, and what they could do... Right?

Wait, knowing her luck and the things people tried to keep from her, it was fairly likely that the teachers or Dumbledore, most likely both, decided to keep it from her, so she didn't understand what jobs needed what and so she would follow Ron's lead in choosing two of the easiest classes there were.

That did sound like something they would do, and she didn't want to know anyway; she would prefer to ignore it, but sadly she knew that she couldn't ignore this forever. But goddamnit, she could try!