Over the course of that month Celeano had read through all of her school books twice and had taken through notes. Celeano couldn't wait to finally be off to Hogwarts, not that she would ever admit it to anyone. In the privacy of her own room she smiled slightly at being able to attend early. It made her look more her age when she smiled rather than her normal sneer or smirk. Tomorrow was going to not only be her birthday but her first day of Hogwarts as well. She had no doubt she was going to excel. Hopefully she will become strong enough to make her parents proud when they returned.

Celeano abruptly sat up in bed before triple checking to make sure she packed everything for in the morning. She just couldn't sleep when she was so enthusiastic to start learning magic. Both her parents were extremely powerful and if her own accidental bursts of magic where anything to go by so would she. When she finally realized she wouldn't be getting any sleep tonight she snuck out her bedroom door before stealthily crossing the hall to Draco's room. If she couldn't sleep there was no way Draco was. Silently opening the door she slipped inside to see Draco sprawled out on his plush carpeted floor with a book out in front of him. "Couldn't sleep?" she asked as he looked up at her in the doorway.

"No, you couldn't either could you?" Draco smirked slightly at knowing he wasn't the only one that was having a hard time sleeping.

"Unfortunately sleep just doesn't seem to find me this night" She responded in a dramatic tone before continuing "I was wondering if you wanted to sneak out and do some night flying since first years aren't technically allowed to have their brooms." They both know they both had his father use a shrinking charm on their brooms so that they would have them as soon as the mastered how to unshrink objects.

Draco's eyes light up as he exclaims "But you hate flying, what no, I'm not letting you back out of this offer." He grabbed Celeano's hand and they both started to run quietly towards the broom closet. Both grabbing the newest model out they head outside before taking to the skies. Like Draco had said Celeano wasn't really all that fond of flying but she tended to like night flying. She loathed having to play quidditch. She didn't particularly dislike the game in general she more so disliked how Draco would get obsessed with talking about it once they did anything related to quidditch.

Both knew exactly where the wards where so that they would stay within them while flying. They have to be careful not to leave them while flying or else it would alert Draco's father and they would be in trouble. Lucky for them the wards where massive and they even had a quidditch pitch in the back of the house so the chances of flying out the wards are slim to none unless they were trying to fly outside the wards. Once they reached the pitch Draco started to touch down so Celeano followed him to the ground before asking "Why are we landing Draco?" He smirks as he pulls out his quidditch set and I hold back a sigh as he grabs out a practice snitch. "Oh, don't give me that look, you know we won't be able to fly on our brooms when anyone could see us at Hogwarts." Celeano ended up just shaking her head as he released the snitch into the air. Since it's a practice snitch it can be set to different difficulties, thankfully he only put it on a two out of ten. Enough for it to be fun but not so much that they wouldn't be able to catch it if they needed to hurry up and sneak back in. It was sort of an unspoken agreement between the two not to actually catch the snitch until they wanted to go in. They basically played a game where they would grasp their hand around the snitch for just a second and count it as a point, the winner was however touched the snitch most by the time they were done.

Celeano took to the air without a word and decide to try a barrel roll on her broom. She sharply turned her broom and started spiralling at a dizzying speed and loses her hold of her broom with her hands and is only on her broom by her legs wrapped around the broom. Pulling her body upwards she snatches the handle of her broom back into her hands and stopping the death spiral and leveling out forward laughing the entire time. Draco spread next to her yelling against the wind "That was amazing Celeano, you gotta teach me how to do that!"

Celeano smirks slightly as she responds "No way, that's my new signature move." She sticks her tongue out slightly at his disgruntled expression. Like she would ever admit she had lost control of her broom. They end up flying until the sun started to peek over the horizon. Draco swiftly caught the snitch and returned it before they flew back to the entrance and put their brooms away before heading back up to their respective rooms to bring their luggage downstairs. Once that was done they had an early breakfast together before they were joined by Lucius and Narcissa. A few hours later the four had traveled to King's Cross Station and the four calmly walked through the brick and concrete to reach Platform 9 ¾. The Malfoy's had taught them to mask their emotions so as not to make fools of themselves. Once they were across Draco gave Celeano a glance asking "Are you gonna come sit with me and the rest of the soon to be Slytherins?"

They both knew just about everyone that was soon to be in Slytherin. They had all been to there house over the years accompanied by their parents during the extravagant balls the Malfoys hosted. "I may join you guys later, I wish to explore the train first, not to mention I intend to slip into the prefects car and eavesdrop on the conversation and hopefully hear something that will be useful to me latter."

Draco rolled his eyes slightly before responding "Always the sneaky little snake, I'll save you a seat anyway. Let me know if anyone gives you any problems Cel." She smiled slightly at his nickname for her as he went into his brother like mode. Celeano was close with Draco where as she remained an appropriate distance from the elder Malfoy's. She had no intentions of becoming attached to them. Sure she would care if they were to be hurt but they weren't her parents and she wouldn't disrespect her parents by coming to think of others as such. Celeano said a quick goodbye to everyone before slipping into the bustle of the busy station and started to observe the people milling about. The first people to catch her interest was a rather large redheaded family, judging by their looks their definitely Weasley's. They were blood traitors and she knew her parents wouldn't want her to associate with them so she walked past until another group caught her attention. Theodore Nott and his father were standing by the station and Celeano watched the slightly drunk man berating his son. It wasn't uncommon for death eaters to be quite nasty to their own children behind closed doors. However making a scene wouldn't do so she swiftly stepped next to Theodore while speaking up "It's a pleasure Mr. Nott, I'm afraid I'm here to whisk Theodore away, Draco is undoubtedly waiting for him in the carriage we claimed. "

Celeano made sure to mention Draco as the man would never dare upset a Malfoy, drunk or no. Mr Nott nodded before shoving his sons cart at him before apparating away. "Thank you Celeano" Theodore mutters with his cheeks turning pink. He hated people seeing him that way but was grateful she intervened before it could have gotten worse.

"No problem, I'm sure Draco is around here somewhere, I left him a few minutes ago with my stuff and he promised to save me a seat. I assume you will be sitting with us?" Theodore nods and Celeano smiles before continuing "Well I'll see you later, I plan on sneaking in the Prefects carriage so it may be a while." With that they parted ways an Celeano continued to observe the station around her. She noted an elderly woman that looked to be extremely stern and noticed a small looking eleven year old waving good bye. It took a few seconds but Celeano quickly recognized the woman as Augusta Longbottom and so the boy must be Neville Longbottom. She had heard stories of how her mother and a few others had tortured his parents into insanity. Celeano shuddered slightly but tried to ignore it. She knows her parents aren't necessarily good people but she can't help wanting to make them proud and to live up to their expectations. She decide then and there she would avoid the boy to save herself the pain of knowing what her mother did to him. She new the Dark Lord had killed countless people and tortured just as many but she didn't think she would be able to deal with a daily reminder of just what they did and will inevitably continue to do. She pushed those thoughts to the back of her mind as she boarded the train and silently followed the Weasley with a prefects badge into the prefects car.

She quickly ducked into a small alcove making herself almost disappear from view. If anyone saw her she would surely be kicked out as it was obvious she wasn't even old enough to be a prefect. The train car soon filled up and started the prefects meeting run by the head girl and head boy. Listening in she was able to hear as the head boy was walking through the groups of prefects reminding or telling the prefects their common rooms passwords. The Hufflepuffs was a rhythm tapped out on a barrel, apparently the usual, the Ravenclaws need to answer a riddle, also the usual, the Gryffindors was currently going to be sorting hat and the Slytherin password was currently sleeping snake. That information by itself made Celeano's visit worthwhile. Soon it was just boring regulations being mentioned so Celeano slipped back out while everyone was occupied.

Once out in the hall she saw a couple of identical redhead with a boy holding a tarantula. Celeano new they where Weasleys and wasn't quite sure who the boy was and they all looked to be third years. She knew she shouldn't associate with them but she had never seen a live tarantula before and couldn't resist when she said "That's a beautiful tarantula, may I pet it?" The boys look slightly shocked before one twin stars "My, my, what do we have here?" The other continued "It looks like a fresh faced first year" they then continue as one "And the first thing she asks is to pet Lee here's tarantula." Celeano understood the innuendo behind the boy's words and watched as the boy name Lee's face started to redden to the same shade as the twins hair. Celeano quick as ever responded with a sly smirk "I would ask to pet yours but…" She glanced up and down both boys before continuing "You're obviously lacking." Both boys burst out laughing at the girls boldness and she then went on to say "All joking aside, may I" She said while gesturing to the boys tarantula. He handed it over as he introduced "I'm Lee. Lee Jordan, and these are Fred and George Weasley. And you are?" Celeano continued stroking the spider as she responded "Celeano Black, It's a pleasure to make your acquaintances." They all visibly reacted to her last name. It's well none how the Black Family was just as dark as the Malfoys and others. She was taken aback though when they didn't say anything about her name and instead simply invited her into their train car. She followed behind them tentatively. They didn't seem so bad for Gryffindors, and the two of them blood traitors to boot.

Celeano ended spending all but the last ten minuted with the boys in their car. She had even heard the stories of all the pranks the twins had pulled. She had even convinced them to allow her to help on some of the pranks. After all they were inventing spells, albeit mostly useless ones, to pull of some of these pranks, not to mention how sneaky they had to be to not get caught. It's a wonder they weren't sorted Slytherin. When it was time to change into their robes she exited the train car with a wave and headed into the first year Slytherins car. None of them had a doubt where they would be sorted. She then grabbed her robes from Draco and changed into her plain black robes. They didn't get their crests and colored ties until they were sorted do they wear plain black. After changing she reentered the car and joined in the conversation. Soon they felt the train pull to a stop and so they exited the train and followed the large and loud man calling for first years.

They followed him down to a shore of a lake and were told four to a boat. Celeano took a seat with Draco and Crabbe and Goyle hopped in after them. They were gliding on the lake and Celeano let her fingers trail on the surface as she said eyes flashing in the water at her curiously, she held back a gasp when she realized it was a merperson. It brought it's own hand up and trailed its fingertips against Celeano's. She was pulled away from the mesmerizing gaze though when she heard the large man exclaiming that they would see there first view of the castle soon.

The group seemed to gasp as one upon the first sight of Hogwarts and there were quite albeit excited murmurs going through the group as they docked. A stern looking older witch came out and lead them to a room that was undoubtedly outside the great hall and instructed them on what to do. After she left the group excitedly talked about what house they wanted to be in an most were spooked when a group of ghost came floating through. Celeano merely smiled and waved at them. Afterall it's best to be polite when you never know what you may need from someone. Not that that's the best reason for being polite but she is under no illusion that she is all that good of a person herself. Soon they had entered the hall, the hat had song, and the sorting began with a meek girl by the name of Hannah Abbot and immediately followed by me. As soon as I stand and head up to the hat I take a seat and before the hat even touches my head SLYTHERIN is shouted by the hat.I hear the loud cheers from the Slytherin table and I take a seat right on the end while waiting for the others to join me. Draco sat directly across from me and soon the name Harry Potter is called out and I have to reign in my fury. It's his fault I've never met my father and that my mother got caught. Thankfully the boy is sorted Gryffindor so I will not have to deal with him. Although the hat took longer than normal, certainly the so called savior of the wizarding world could be anything less than a golden Gryffindor.

After a few words by the Headmaster and dinner we are off to the dungeons common room. Celeano already knew the password so she ignore the small speech they said on basicly not forgetting the password and that it changes weekly. When the the Slytherins all enter the older years sit together in groups around the common room informing the first years that there head of house would be here soon to give his beggining of the year speech. While they waited the looked around there common room in awe. There where to spiral staircases that lead down that they assumed to lead to their rooms. The entire wall facing the lake was glass and they could see the murky green water and the creatures swimming by. There were plush green couches and silver throw pillows along with beautiful mahogany tables scattered around. Looking up one could see the beautiful floating green and silver lanterns that bathes the room in light.

The fireplace suddenly flared to life and Severus Snape the Head of Slytherin House came billowing out. He stood tall and imposing and Celeano noticed that many of the first years flinched away, while most of the older students just seem used to it. "Welcome back to Hogwarts and congratulations to those recently sorted into Slytherin." He didn't necessarily speak loudly but he had a sort of authority to his voice. "As for the new Slytherins we have a code in our house that we follow. Slytherins stand together. If you have a problem with a fellow Slytherin it is dealt with here in the confines of our common room. Slytherins have long been discriminated against and you will no doubt experience it within your seven years here at Hogwarts. If something bad happens or a fight is started without a doubt it will be you who are blamed. You must use your cunning to survive. But be proud to be a Slytherin, Merlin himself was a Slytherin, even if many conveniently forget this fact. All of you are to read the rules lists placed in your dorms and I expect them to be followed." With that he nodded before waving his wand and the room was decorated with balloons and streamers along with platters full of snacks. "I believe it's time to celebrate our new Slytherins, The night is yours but i expect everyone to be in their beds by one." With that he turned with his robes billowing and left through the fireplace.

"That was interesting" Commented one of Celeano's fellow first years, It was Pansy if she remembered correctly. One of the seventh years announced to the first years "Never mess with Professor Snape, His wrath is infamous but as long as you are respectful and follow the rules he's generally the best head of house you could ask for. He'll make sure you're alright and has rules in place to make sure we are taken care of. He's more involved than the other heads of houses and occasionally throughs us parties for celebrating Slytherin achievements." Everyone joined into the celebration and they had it all cleaned up by twelve thirty as the first years headed down the stairs. Each staircase lead down seven floors into the ground and first years had the first floor under and like all seven floors has a large circular room filled with flush chairs and a few tables scattered about for them to all hang out in. Then around the room where several doors that lead to each girl's room. Unlike most other houses they each had their own separate rooms while having a shared space. Slytherins need their space not to mention most were used to their lavish comforts at home so they expect nothing less. Celeano found the door with her name and silently slipped into her new room. It had a large four poster and seemed to have an entire wall filled with bookcases. She also had a nice bathroom connected to her room. She unpacked her things quickly putting her books on the book shelves and clothes in the large wardrobe. She then got everything for each of her subjects set out so that tomorrow when she got her schedule she would just need to run up and grab what she needed for the day.

"O you remember the look on potter's face in Potions. When Professor Snape banished his potion because it was an emerald green rather that mermaid green. Like anyone other than the Slytherin's would know that color" Draco said between his chuckling. It was the day before the end of term feast. With a deadpan expression Celeano replied with her dry sense of humor "If only it were not illegal to banish the boy himself." Celano and Draco continued their conversation on best school year memories with the rest of the first years. Celeano's thoughts started to drift too the merman she had seen through the common room window on nights she couldn't sleep. She was almost certain that it was the same merperson she had trailed fingers with on her boat ride to school. She had only ever seen him when she was alone but it was always a compassionate silence as they would both press their backs to the glass or or when she would laugh in delight and smile in joy when he would call the lakes creatures to thoughts drifted even further away. In fact, something was bugging Celeano though and she had finally found it out last night when she snuck into the Gryffindor common room. The three had snuck into the forbidden corridor and Quirrell had apparently had the Dark Lord living off of him. If only she had know she could have helped her father return, so far nobody knows what actually happened but it's too good to be true that they wouldn't mention it to make the precious Boy-Who-Lived look good. At least on the plus side even though Slytherin lost the quidditch cup do to the stupid boy being given special privileges when Draco on the other hand had been punished for flying earlier in the year they were going to win the house cup tomorrow.

As they finished Dinner they all headed towards the common room together. The next two nights their Head of House had announced they would be having parties both tonight and tomorrow to celebrate how well they did and the fact they had well over a hundred points more than those anoying Gryffindors. Well there were three Gryffindors that weren't so bad. She had helped the Weasley twins pull of several pranks on various people throughout the year. Although she never helped them when they would try to prank her fellow Slytherins and would often sabotage their pranks if she found out they were aimed at any of her housemates. Halfway through the year the three of them had convinced the entire student body and the majority of the staff that Peeves had somehow been split in two and was pranking twice as much. They managed it with both of the Weasleys working together so that one projected Peeves image and the other his voice while Celeano had used her wand to levitate all varieties of prank goods to make it look as though Peeves had thrown or set them off. It only worked because Celeano had convince Peeves to play along with it in exchange for a huge kit of prank goods. There was also Lee Jordan who wasn't too bad, sure he was a bloody prat when he would be the commentator of matches when Slytherin played but he was a generally nice guy and surprisingly really shy. He makes up for it though by acting loud and boisterous like the rest of the Gryffindors. Celeano would never admit to being their friends though. They only met in secret because Celeano couldn't risk being seen with Blood Traitors. She knows her parents would be disappointed and furious if they ever found out so she had silently decided to secretly protect them when the Dark Lord returned. Celeano is taken out of her thoughts when they finally arrive at the common room and see's the huge party set up. Even more surprising was that Professor Snape was waiting for all of his Slytherins when they got there. Normally he would set the party up and leave as soon as possible but today he sat there on one of the plush couches with a book in hand before standing as soon as they entered.

"As tommorow will be your last night here for this school year I would like to ask all of you to pack your trunks before commencing the party tonight, Leave out only what you plan on wearing tomorrow as all Slytherins are going to be here until the leaving feast tomorrow, everything is set up and there are no restrictions tonight for when you must all be in bed so… enjoy yourselves" Almost immediately the house as one cheered before heading to pack up there things quickly so they could commence their party. Professor Snape was without a doubt the best head of House they could hope for and was the only one who ever saw the slytherins less than proper behavior in the confines of their common room. They didn't have to put on masks in front of him and it was even known that he would often turn a blind eye when the Slytherins did anything in retribution for a fellow Slytherin. If they started something they would be in trouble but if they were only standing up for or protecting another Slytherin or themselves he would let it pass. After Celeano was fully packed she headed up to the common room and notice that almost everyone was already starting in on the party. She also noticed when a couple of the Seventh years spiked the punch with a bottle of Fire Whisky. The house partied well into the night and most everyone even the first years where sporting hangovers and got up around noon.

Once everyone was awake they headed out to the Great hall and smiled at the fact it was decorated in green and silver. They couldn't wait to eat after being awarded the house cup They had won the house cup for all of their hard work. They sat down and soon Dumbledore was standing and the room completely went silent. The Slytherins all looked on in anticipation of receiving the house cup. To their surprise instead he said there was some last minute points to be given out. Just like that he gave the Gryffindors enough points to have one the house cup. If he was going to give out points for any of the things he mentioned he could have done it much earlier. No he had to give the Slytherins the impression that they had one the cup and then he tore it away and gave it to the gryffindors. They had worked hard all year and they should have won but the headmaster just took it away. The Slytherins all felt betrayed by the headmaster. It was no secret he had been a gryffindor and that he favored him but what he just did was unforgivable. How could he do that. The Gryffindors started Cheering loudly as they won the cup when they should have rightfully been dead last. Celeano would not sit here and listen to the Gryffindors cheering and taunting the Slytherins that they won. Before the meal even appeared on the table she stood up. She was the only person in the entire hall standing up other than Dumbledore himself. As a first year she was on the end closest to the Teachers table. She turned her back to Dumbledore and the rest of the teachers and as the Gryffindors continued their cheering she spoke in a voice just loud enough for the Slytherins to hear "I for one will not eat in the same room as a man who would lead our house into believing we had one, which we rightfully should have, and then taking it and just giving it away to a house that should have lost and was well over a hundred points behind us. It's not only disrespectful to us but it bumped every house back a place and is disrespectful to them as well when they had also earned more points." With that she started to walk out of the Great hall and she noticed with glee that each Slytherin she passed stood as well and walked out of the great hall as one. Not a single Slytherin remained in the great hall to eat with the despicable excuse of a headmaster. In one action he had turned each and every Slytherin away from him.

Upon reaching the common room they all enter solemnly. Professor Snape had already set up for their party tonight but not a single Slytherin felt like celebrating tonight. With the wave of her wand Celeano banished all the party food and decorations. Draco began pushing the furniture to the walls and soon everyone had pitched in and they all sat in a large circle regardless of their year. One of the older students Marcus Flint was the first to speak "Dumbledore may have always given more points to Gryffindors but I never thought he would steal the house cup from us and give it to them. We worked so hard for those points and it was for nothing." Pansy then added in "There's no way it was just a coincidence, those points could have been given days ago not now. Why did we have to be Slytherin?" Tears started to leak from her eyes and Draco began soothingly rubbing her back as he spoke up "We're Slytherin and there is nothing wrong with it, Slytherin does not mean evil, we are cunning, we are ambitious and we are resourceful. Remember our beginning of year speech Professor Snape gave us?" He asked Rhetorically "Merlin himself was a Slytherin and he is respected as the greatest wizard in history." Theodore Nott spoke next "We will get over not having received the cup but what the headmaster did tonight is not something we can easily forgive." Everyone voiced their agreement and so Celeano finally decided to speak once more and with her natural charisma everyone was listening to her "Tonight is a night of mourning but tomorrow we will all leave proud, we will show no one that this has hurt us. We know that we deserved that cup and for now that is all that mattered. Let the foolish Gryffindors celebrate a false victory. Let them think they are better than us because we will know it's not true. Tomorrow we will hold our heads high and will get the satisfaction of knowing that we are better and don't have favoritism to thank for our triumphs" Sure their head of house gave them points quite a bit but that's because he make up for almost all the other teachers who favor the other houses, mainly Gryffindor. It's not their fault they are treated like they are. They are merely children like any other student at this school but do the other students see it, no they don't. On this night many of the Slytherins learned to despise Dumbledore and all that he represents. He ultimately pushed countless Slytherins away from the light with his blatant show of favoritism.