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I smiled back at Ginny, "Hi, I'm Ceraphina, but call me Cera. Thanks for coming."

She nodded and turned to Andromeda, "Mrs. Tonks, thank you for inviting me. I so glad I have something other to do on Easter Break other than homework." She then took out an extremely small present out of pocket, "Um, will you unshrink this for me?"

Andromeda nodded, "Of course hand it here." Its natural size revealed it to be a very gaudy, clumsily wrapped gift in red and gold. It was a square package and was probably the length of a book and the height of my dresser drawers.

I ignored the red and gold, and turned to Ginny who looked a bit awkward, "Thanks a lot Ginny; we will open the presents after lunch." Then I asked Andromeda, "Will you please set this on the table, Tonks and I are going to show Ginny my room."

She nodded and Tonks said, "Well it's nice to know I have a say in this."

I rolled my eyes and said to Ginny, "This is Tonks, she's 21, but she acts 12, buts she's fun to hang around."

She laughed, "Hi Tonks, Charlie used to talk about you a lot, well actually he still does when he comes around."

Tonks' hair turned red. She never blushed; her hair did it for her. I decided to break the moment of silence, "Anyhoo... Let's go to my room."

When we got up the stairs and into my room Aries was gone, which was good, I didn't want anyone to know about him yet. Tonks and I plopped down on my bed and Ginny sat in an armchair that I got on account of Tonks always coming into my room and needing someplace to sit.

"Sooo," I turned to Ginny, "Let's get to know one another, have you ever played 20 questions?"

She shook her head and grinned, "No, but does it involve asking someone 20 questions?"

I looked at Tonks, "This girl is a genius, I never would have known that by just the name!"

Tonks grinned and I said to Ginny, "Yeah that's the basis of the game, I'll ask you a question and you ask me a question and so on, until we reach 20. Unless we want to ask more that is the end of the game. Tonks can just sit and watch and interject the occasional comment."

Tonks pouted and Ginny laughed, "Ok you go first."

"Ok, what is you favorite color?"

"Gold, you?"

Well that was obvious, but then so was mine if she knew I wanted to be in Slytherin, "Green, what is your favorite thing to do?"

"Play Quidditch, you?"

Well she wasn't very original, "Read and learn new things about the magical world. I also like eating dinner her, it's very entertaining with all the stories Tonks tells. What Hogwarts house are you in?" I already knew this of course, but I can't seem too knowledgeable.

"I'm in Gryffindor. Why did you not live in the magical world? Didn't you know you were a witch?"

OK now some original questions, "No, apparently my mum was in danger in the last war. I was adopted by muggles and a block was put on my magical core, so I'm just learning."

We went back and forth like this for about 30 minutes until we got to twenty. Ginny was just about to ask another question when Tonks interjected, "Hey, I'm kind of felling left out here, so how about we go play quidditch?"

Ginny looked at me hopefully and I sighed, "All right we can go play Quidditch, but Tonks, you CAN NOT charm the balls to chase me and keep hitting me."

So Ginny, a very disappointed Tonks and I played 3-person Quidditch. This went on for about 45 minutes before I finally had enough and insisted that we go inside. When we walked in the door, with me exhausted and Ginny and Tonks still energetic, (honestly, how do they do that?!) Andromeda took a look at us and said, "Girls go wash your hands, lunch will be ready in ten minutes, and Severus will be here in five."

Ginny paled, "Wait, Professor Snape? He's coming here? Today?"

I nodded, grinning, "Yeah we invited him over for my birthday, he and my Mum used to be good friends."

Tonks was biting her lip as she tried not to laugh and Ginny looked faint as we walked up the stairs to go wash our hands.

I washed my hands quickly and kept hurrying Tonks and Ginny, "Come on! I want to go eat so I can open presents!"

Tonks rolled her eyes and muttered, "And you say I'm immature…"

I glared, "I think I am entitled to one immature day a year."

With that we rushed down the stairs with Tonks trying to trip me and vise versa and Ginny hanging back trying to stay out of everything. When we arrive in the Dining Room, Professor Snape was already there sitting at the table.

I grinned, "Hello Professor. Did Meda force you in the seat?"

He rolled his eyes, "Yes, she seems to think I am not getting enough to eat. Also as I am not your professor as of right now, you may call me Severus. However if you EVER start calling me any of Tonks' nicknames for me, you will seriously regret it."

He said this last but as Ginny walked in and she gulped, "Hello Professor."

He sneered at her, "Ms, Weasley, I trust you are well?" At her nod he said, "Have you done my essay?"

She nodded and seemed like she was going to say something but then backed down. So Professor Snape snapped, "What is it that you were going to say Ms. Weasley. I don't bite, contrary to the student's opinion, I am not a vampire."

I smirked as Ginny looked even more uncomfortable and stuttered out, "Well Sir, I have the rough draft of the essay complete, but I need more information on improvising and the side effects. I was wondering if you, maybe, knew any books that go a little more in depth about that?"

She said this all very fast and Severus raised an eyebrow, "You might want to slow down, I wouldn't have known what you had said if it weren't for four years of listening to Ms. Granger. As for a book, Cera is extremely adept when it comes to improvising, provided she can keep her attention on the potion long enough. I am sure she won't have any issues loaning you a book and explaining things to you."

Ginny smiled, "Thank you Professor, you know you're not so bad when you are not teaching."

He rolled his eyes and muttered, "Only a Gryffindor."

At this I smiled, "I don't know, I think a Hufflepuff might say that."

Severus shook his head in exasperation and Ginny turned to me, "Do you mind if I borrow a book on improvising potions? My last essay sucked and I need my grade back up."

I really hated people touching my books, this was part of the reason Tonks was betting I would be a Ravenclaw. However since Severus just had to give Ginny that idea… "Sure that's fine, but as soon as you get all the information you need send it back."

After she nodded I noticed Tonks wasn't with us. I turned to Severus, "Hey do you know where Tonks went?"

He smirked, "I believe Nymphadora went to help her mother in the kitchen."

"Oh No," I said dramatically, "Not the kitchen!"

Snape grimaced, "Yes the kitchen."

At this, a confused looking Ginny said, "Why is that bad?"

Like clockwork, there was a huge crash coming from the kitchens direction and Andromeda's voice sighing, "Oh, Nymphadora, I told you I was fine."

Then, "Sorry mum, I'll help clean it up."

Andromeda hurriedly said, "No dear, that's fine. Go sit down at the table with Severus and the girls."

Tonks came into the kitchen to see Ginny and myself laughing and Severus smirking. With a fake glare she said, "Oh, shut up guys."

After a couple minutes of small talk, (this basically consisted of Snape asking me what new spells I had been learning and ect.), Andromeda came in levitating multiple plates of yummy smelling food. There was some steak and pudding, vegetables, and baked potatoes.

It was all delicious. During the meal Andromeda and Severus talked in hushed voices about something they didn't want Ginny to overhear, but she was sitting on the opposite side of the table so they were fine. I occasionally heard snatches of conversation going like, "Dark Mark… getting stronger…"

"Dumbledore…doing nothing…"

And so on, all in all not a very cheery conversation. Tonks and I started asking Ginny about her family. We laughed at the stories of the twins who were Ginny's favorite brothers.

When we had eaten all that our stomachs could handle, Andromeda brought out cake and we ate some more.

Then it was time for presents. Andromeda slipped of into the living room and levitated them back in the kitchen, like she did the food.

She handed me a book shaped one wrapped in black paper with stars on it and said, "This is from Severus. He insists that he doesn't care and wouldn't have got you a present, but that it's simply educational." She grinned at me, "But we know that he wouldn't have bothered if he didn't care, because it would have taken away from his time, and we know all too well how he doesn't like that now don't we?"

I grinned, "Of course, and why else would he bother picking out such lovely wrapping paper?"

At this Severus snapped, "Just open the present and shut up."

I smiled and did so. It was a journal. It had a black leather binding and a silver stripe next to the spine and silver cursive letters on the bottom right corner saying "C.P. I opened it up, and there was a letter written on the first page.

Cera,

Use this journal to write down your experiences at Hogwarts, The good and the bad. Also every good Potions Master or Mistress needs to have something where they can write their findings and things they change. I have place privacy charms on this so only you can read what you write in this journal. It also is never ending, once you use the last page, a new on appears.

Severus Snape

I smiled at him, "You just had to get something relating to potions didn't you?"

He smirked, "For your information, the place I got this at had nothing to do with potions; I was merely stating a use of it."

I grinned, "Whatever, Thank you though."

He tilted his head in acknowledgement and Andromeda handed me the red and gold gift that Severus sneered at, "Here's Ginny gift."

I nodded at Ginny and opened the present. It was a camera. I smiled at Ginny, "Thanks a lot, now I can take pictures at Hogwarts too, instead of just writing everything down. I hope it wasn't too expensive though?"

I knew the weasley's didn't have a lot of money and it really didn't make sense that they would buy me something this nice when they had never even met me.

Ginny smiled, "Normally it would be for us, but Fred and George have been raking in the galleons with their…" She glanced at Snape, "Business... So they let me borrow some. The camera is really advanced, as soon as you take the picture it prints out."

I smiled, "Again thanks a lot Ginny this is cool, I'll have to send a thank you letter to your brothers for their part."

She grinned, "I feel sorry for you if they send a letter back."

I was seriously not going to eat anything they sent me. Andromeda handed me another gift, this is from Tonks."

This gift was really heavy and I looked warily at Tonks, "It's not dangerous is it?"

Grinning, she shook head, so I opened it. It was a set of books. There was, Saucy Tricks for Tricky Sorts,Powers You Never Knew You Had and What To Do With Them Now You've Wised Up,Madcap Magic for Wacky Warlocks, and finally Curses and Counter-curses
(Bewitch Your Friends and Befuddle Your Enemies with the Latest Revenges: Hair Loss, Jelly-Legs, Tongue-Tying, and Much, Much More.

I grinned at Tonks, "thanks, this is brilliant."

She grinned back, "A brilliant person picks out brilliant things."

Rolling my eyes, I responded, "You wish."

Andromeda was laughing at our antics as she handed me my last present, "Finally this one is from Ted and I."

I smiled at her as I took the gift. It was in a rather large square box. As I was opening it Andromeda said, "Actually our gift is similar to the journal and camera, funnily enough. We didn't plan it that way."

When I opened the box there was a little round basin with runic markings that went around the whole thing. I looked at Andromeda, "Is this a pensieve…"

She smiled, "Yes, you'll be able to put all your favorite memories in here. Or if you need to listen to a lesson over again, you can view it in here."

I smiled, "Thank you SO much Meda. I am so glad I am staying here, I really appreciate it."

She shook her head, "It's nothing Cera, Ted and I think of you as a daughter, he would say so to if he didn't have to go to work."

At this moment Severus spoke up, "Speaking of wok, Albus wanted me to look over something for him, so I really have to go." He nodded at me, "Happy Birthday Cera, have a good day everyone."

We all said good bye to him and he left. I asked Ginny I could take a picture of her, since she did get me the camera to take picture, and this was a really cool birthday. She nodded and smiled into the camera. The picture turned out really good. Tonks however had to insist that I take a picture together with Ginny, and then forced me to put my arm around her. Ugh we were not best friends or anything.

We all cleaned the wrapping paper up and I asked Ginny, "Do you have any friends that you think I would get along with that I could send letters with over the summer besides you?"

She thought a minute, "Yeah, you'd get along with this girl Luna Lovegood really well because, well don't take this the wrong way, but, you're a little odd. But you'll get a long perfect with her."

I grinned, "No offence taken, will you tell her to send me a letter?"

She nodded, throwing a piece of paper in the trash, "Yeah, she'll be glad to, she doesn't have that many friends."

I nodded then remembered that she needed to borrow my book, "Hey Tonks, do you mind finishing cleaning up with Ginny? I have to go get a book that I'm lending her."

Tonks shrugged, "I have a feeling that I am going to do it anyway so, sure."

I grinned at her and quickly went up the stairs to my room. Aries still wasn't there, which kind of worried me, but he would be fine. I searched through my bookshelf until I found a slightly more advanced potion book, that I knew talked about improvisation.

I bounded back down the steps and handed the book to Ginny. She smiled, "Thanks, this will like really help me on the essay, I want to be a healer when I graduate and I need potions."

I didn't know that, I had always assumed she would be a quidditch player or something, so I said, "Really, that sounds cool, they will probably need healers in the not too distant future, since the Dark Lord is still alive."

She looked startled, "You know, I hadn't thought of that, but you're right. Do you think he will come back soon?"

I shrugged, "I know less then you do, I only was aware of everything, about 1 month ago."

She nodded and there was a moment of silence, with all three of us, Tonks Ginny, and me all looking pensive.

The doorbell rang and interrupted our brooding, and Ginny said, "That will be my mum, we couldn't get another port-key on such short notice, and the only reason we got one before is because mum didn't have any other choice."

I nodded and followed her to the living room, which led to the front door. I opened the door and saw a plump cheery woman with darker hair than Ginny, but still a vibrant red.

She looked at us fondly and said, "Hello dears, I hope it wasn't too much of a trouble having Ginny here."

I arranged my face in a sad look, "Actually, Mrs. Weasley, it was horrible, my birthday was ruined."

Ginny then slapped me on the back of head and said, "Hey!"

I pouted at her, "What are you saying hey for! You just messed up my hair."

She rolled her eyes, "Get over it." The she grinned at her mum, "She's just kidding, we had a brilliant time, am I side apparating with you?"

Mrs. Weasley nodded and looked at me, "Were you kidding, because I know how my kids can-"

"No Mrs. Weasley, we really did have a good time, I'm just joking, she entertained us with stories about her brothers, and we played quidditch."

She smiled and pulled me into a hug. Which was weird… I did not know her, and I am soooooo not a huggy person. When I was done being crushed by a ton of Mrs. Weasley, she looked at Ginny and said, "Well come on dear, we need to go past the wards then we will apparate. Do you need to give that book back?"

Ginny shook her head, "No, she let me borrow it for Professor Snape's essay, she knows him."

Mrs. Weasley looked surprised but nodded and turned to walk out the door, "Oh well, come on Ginny."

After she left and I shut the door, I heard the sound of them dissaperating away and Tonks said, "So what did you think of Ginny?"

I thought for a minute, "She's nice, but she is kind of materialistic, and way to peppy. We will probably be acquaintances at Hogwarts, but never really good friends. Her twin brothers however…"

Tonks laughed, "Yeah I know what you mean, they sound hilarious. Come on I'll help you bring all your things to your room."

I suggested levitating everything, like Andromeda did. Tonks responded, "Yeah, I'll levitate everything, but you carry the pensieve, it could break if we drop it."

We arrived in my room and Aries was waiting for me, he looked brighter. As I set the pensieve on a stand that Tonks conjured up I said, "Aries, why do you look like you have been polished?"

Aries rolled his eyes, "Because in a sense I have, snakes do shed their skin you know."

I smirked, and fondly said, "Aries, is is possible for you to say one thing without sounding condescending and sarcastic?"

Aries merely rolled his eyes again, (which he seemed fond of doing ever since I told him what it meant) and crawled up my arm to hang from my shoulder.

Tonks shuddered and said conversationally, "Cera, you do know you sound really creepy when you are talking snake right?"

I smirked, "Well you do remind me of it everyday. So I have kind of caught on."

She nodded, "Well I'm just going to go away and leave you to your… conversation with a snake."

I nodded, "You do that, I am going to be writing letters."

Tonks nodded and walked out of the room. Aries asked, "Who are you writing to?"

"Ginny's brothers, and a girl named Luna Lovegood."

"The twins?" He asked.

I nodded as I got out a parchment and quill from my desk and sat down in the chair. I told Aries everything I knew about what was going to happen. I told him my favorite people, and things I thought were funny.

When I finished the two letters it was almost dinner, so I looked over them quickly. They said…

Fred and George,

Hey, my name is Cera, the girl whose birthday Ginny went to. I just wanted to say thank you for lending her the money to buy the camera, it was an awesome gift. She told some Hilarious stories about you guys. She also said that if you reply to this letter, you will probably send me some candy and not to eat it. SO DON'T TRY ANYTHING!!

Thanks -Ceraphina

Luna,

Hi my name is Ceraphina Peneroe, but I go by Cera. Ginny Weasley came to my birthday and I'll be starting Hogwarts next year, in my Fifth year. I asked her if she knew anyone I could write to, so I would know some people and she recommended you. So I'm writing this. So if you want to write to me, could you tell me about yourself?

Thanks –Ceraphina.

I frowned as I got up, I was not very good with a quill yet, so my handwriting sucked. I went to Tonks room, it was a dark purple, and had weird sisters posters up (the weird sisters are actually men; I guess that makes them weird.) Tonks wasn't in her room so she probably had already gone to work, I looked at her clock, yep it was 5:30. She usually left at 5:00, I must have not heard her. I shrugged and took Faye, who was sitting on her perch next to Tonks window. I tied the letters to her foot, and told her to deliver them to the Weasley Twins and Luna Lovegood. She fluffed her feathers and I opened the window so she could fly out.

I went back to my room and took a closer look at the pensieve. There was a not attached to it

Cera, to use put you wand to the side of your head and think of the memory you want to remember. Place the memory in the pensieve. To get in just touch the liquid, to get out, think these words,solvo ex memoria."

I decided I would put some good memories of my best friend in the muggle world. I pressed my wand to my head and I thought of the time my friend Anna and I were making crazy webshows, and me trying to teach her how to ride a four-wheeler. I then put my memory of today, my first birthday in the magical world.

When I was done, I left to go see Andromeda; it was time for my etiquette lessons. These were by far my most boring lessons I had. But the was always an interesting tidbit here and there.

My lesson was an hour long, so I went to my room and took out the journal Severus gave me. I wrote random thoughts in it, and what I should do when I get to Hogwarts.

The next four months were amazing, I could basically cast any Charms and DADA spell that a regular fifth year could cast, I had a bit more trouble with transfiguration and I was no potions prodigy, but I could catch up. The Weasley twins sent me letters occasionally, getting me to test their products on Tonks, Andromeda and Ted. They quickly learned not to take any candy from me. I sent letters to Luna, and we quickly became good friends. I invited her over, but she was searching for crumple-horned snorkacks.

It seemed to take forever, but September 1st was finally here…

A/N: Please review, and answer this question, "Who should Cera meet first on the train? Harry, Draco, or Luna?"