Average height, chocolate coloured hair and jade green eyes. Just an average girl, well that's how I see it anyway. I picked up the Daily Prophet which had my brother on the front page, as usual. It felt weird being related to Harry Potter, though of course no one knows I'm his sister, everyone just thinks I'm one of the Wesley's because Harry told me I have to live with them for my own safety. Molly Wesley even told me that if anyone asks that I'm her daughter and the rest of the Wesley's seemed to have just went along as me being apart of them. I honestly don't know how people believed I was a Wesley, I mean they all had red hair and freckles and I didn't. Before I moved in with the Wesley's, I was living with Harry at the Dursley's. They were so mean to Harry, they made him sleep under the stairs while I got to stay in my cousin's second bedroom. My uncle Vernon was the meanest to Harry but he seemed so nice to me. It was bizarre. I still remember the day Harry went to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He didn't want to leave me alone and it didn't help with Dudley saying that it would be better if he left because he could hurt me. Which made me so angry because I knew Harry would never hurt me.
"Claire dear, dinner!" Mrs Wesley called from downstairs, snapping me out of my memories. Then there was a soft knock on the door. I turned to see Harry standing there.
"HARRY! YOU'RE HERE!" I screamed and threw my arms around him.
"Hey Claire Bear. How are you darlin'?"
"I'm good. I miss you, Ron and Ginny while your at school" I said with a sigh.
"I know you do. How's Beauxbatons?"
"I don't get to see you for ages and then when I do see you, all you want to know is 'how's school?'. Can we just talk about that isn't school, like how's Hermione? I haven't seen her since the Triwizard, which mind you scared me half to death when your name got called"
He just laughed softly at me and hugged me again. A minute later I was chasing him down the stairs because he took my hair out of it's neat ponytail. It felt like it was before everything became so dangerous, like we were back at home running around annoying the Dursley's. As soon as I got downstairs I saw Ginny, Ron, Fred and Gorge and I forgot all about Harry taking out my hair and ran over to them. I hugged everyone then me and Ginny began fast girl talk, which gained a few odd glances from everyone.
After dinner, me and Ginny were still in full girl talk. Ron tried to shut us up a few times but gave up like everyone else had. Somehow, we ended up upstairs again.
"I've really missed you Claire Bear. You never told me how school's been going, here I am telling you everything about Hogwarts and you haven't said a thing about Beauxbatons"
For the first time in seeing Ginny all day, I fell quiet. I had no idea what to say, if I said anything at all. How could I tell her about all the fights I've been in and all the continual visits to the nurse. I couldn't tell her, she'd tell Harry for sure.
"Claire?" Ginny said my name as if it was a question. I could tell I was hurting her by not saying anything. Ginny was my best friend and I told her everything. For me not telling her was just like me slapping her in the face.
"Claire, are you ok?"
"I don't want to talk about school ok!" I could see by Ginny's face that I really did hurt her, "I didn't mean it like that. It's just-" I trailed off, not knowing what to say.
"You've been hurt haven't you?"
"What? No, I'm fine really"
"Tell me or I'll tell Harry that there's something wrong" she threatened. I could see she didn't want to say it but she wanted to know so badly.
"Ok I'll tell you. Just don't say anything to anyone ok"
"Claire, when have I ever told a secret?" She asked with a sigh.
I gave her a tight smile and took a deep breath.
