So young, So damaged

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September 1st, 1994

  It has been about two weeks since the Quidditch World Cup incident that frightened Draco, Blaise, Juniper, and many others. She and the boys got home safely with Lucius coming home a few hours later.

Juniper's parents went straight to the Malfoy's as soon as they found out, to take her back home. As for Blaise, his mother picked him up the next day as was planned.

Today will be the teens first day of fourth year. Excited as always, Juniper was up by seven o'clock on the dot this morning.

She got dressed up in a pleated skirt, black turtleneck knitted sweater, chunky heeled boots, and of course her everyday jewelry. She felt like she should wear her hair natural, so she just tamed the flyaways with some serum her mother bought.

After she got done getting ready, she made sure she had everything in her trunk, she couldn't forget Lynx, her black burmilla cat with gorgeous green eyes. He has been with her since first year, feisty little one.

"Miss Juniper, your mother said it is time to eat breakfast now" Our sweet, old house elf told me.

"Binx, how many times do I have to tell you that you can call me Mors?" Over the many years Binx has been with the Silvius family, he has never wanted to call her anything but 'Miss Juniper'.

Binx was close to Juniper, he took care of her when her parents were in long meetings. Though her parents cared about blood status, they adored other magical creatures. Not once have they ever abused Binx, physically or emotionally, this was very rare for pure blood families especially high ranks of the Sacred 29.

She looked at the teary eyed aged thing and said, "I'll be back before you know it! I'll miss you, now can you help me with my baggage? It's too much to carry all by myself, you can carry the light stuff."

They both made their way down the hall, downstairs and to the kitchen, putting down the bags right by the front entrance. Juniper ate her breakfast slowly since she had a lot of time, it was now half past nine. Juniper knew the train to Hogwarts left at eleven.

Once she finished her breakfast, she knocked on her father's study where her parents were having an adult talk. Juniper opened the door and peeked her head in, and proceeded to say, "Morning! It's almost ten, I believe we should be leaving to head to Kings Cross soon."

"Well then I guess it's time to bring you to your fourth year at Hogwarts!" Malia exclaimed, excited that her child is going to grow up to be an amazing witch.

Soon enough they apparated to a secluded corner of the train station. They found a luggage cart and loaded Juniper's baggage onto there along with her cat. With her ticket in her hand, the three of them strolled their way to the posts that were between Platform 9 and Platform 10.

Malia and Callisto held onto their daughter's shoulder and the three of them sped up their pace and jogged right through the brick wall. They were now on Platform 9 3/4, children and parents bustling around with theirs luggage's.

"Well, we can put your bags right here, and you can go along inside the train to find your friends. Okay?" Callisto seemed scared for her to leave their side, he didn't want his daughter to go.

"Okay, I love you guys. I'll see you guys for winter holidays" Juniper hugged both her parents and them giving her a kiss on her forehead. As she walked further away from them, they waved goodbye.

Juniper walked down the hallway of the train, passing by students of all ages. First years excited for their time at Hogwarts, through the Seventh years who were either ready to get it over with or not wanting to graduate.