I need to burn that portrait. "Wake up you half blood brat!" I got dressed and stood before her cursed painting. Great grandfather Arcturus came to the hall, bemoaning before he got his wand and cast a silencing charm on her.
He gave me a look. "Good, you're dressed like a propper wizard! Nothing of your half blooded mother." I stayed silent otherwise it would be the Cruciatus again. None of them said a thing about my mother only she was a filthy half blood.
"Kreacher make breakfast and boy on that table now! my hips acting up, Narcissa said she would be happy to take your Hogwarts shopping. Don't dishonor this family further, understood?!" I nodded and did as told, when the letter came from Hogwarts I was relieved, it meant I would be free and that I wouldn't be killed for being a squib.
After breakfast I took out a page from uncle Sirius's journal he had hidden in the floor boards. In his—or better said my room. Hogwarts always sounded so much better than this dark grimy place! I swear when great grandfather finally has a stroke, I'm going to burn every dark object here and drown them in basilisk venom!
after my breakfast and thanking Kreacher, I got my note book out writing an idea for things to get at diagon alley. After an hour of waiting I ran to the fire place. "BOY! Don't run around like some crazy dog!" I slowed down, walking to the people who entered the house.
I looked down as grandmother Walburga taught me to never look at an adult until spoken to, I looked at the blond nine year old in front of me. "Hi"
"Cepheus?" I looked up, she was a beautiful woman, platinum blond hair. "I'm Narcissa and this is my son Draco."
Draco smiled at me offering his hand to shake and I took it. "Nice to meet you."
Narcissa smiled at me? "We will be going to Diagon alley with you." I nodded smiling at her, it was the first time someone had spoken to me without a harsh remark.
I heard Great grandfather Arcturus coming out of his room. "Make sure you keep a leash on that boy! He keeps trying to poison me!" He slammed his door.
Narcissa sighed. "That man is becoming more insane with each day isn't he?"
I nodded and I followed her to the fire place. "Where is the floo powder? Kreacher!" The elf came out of thin air like always. "Bring the floo powder." She said and he brought it in less than a second. "Good take some powder, now throw the powder, then say Diagon alley and you will be there. Wait for me there, don't go running."
I stood in side the fireplace and threw the powder. "Diagon alley!" I came out at the floo station and I looked around terrified, Luckily Draco came after me and caught him before he fell to from missing the step.
"Thanks." Draco said smiling at me, with excited eyes. "How about we run to the broom store before mom comes?" I remembered quidditch from my uncles journal.
I nodded, sadly Narcissa came through and brought me to Ollivander's Wand Shop. "Now Cepheus, Ollinvander is eccentric to say the least. Don't worry he won't hurt you just go in and we will be waiting here."
He jumped toward me almost scaring me greatly. "Hello." I spoke, almost whispering at him. "I'm Cepheus black."
"Yes, your aunt wrote me, Now let's begin shall we? which is your wand hand?" I raised both and looked at me a bit irritated. "Rare to find someone finds this humorous." I gulped but I kept both hands up, Narcissa said he wouldn't hurt me. "ambidextrous?" I nodded and measuring thing flew around me.
"Let's try this, Willow unicorn hair 14 inches." I held it and the thing jumped out of my hand as I waved it. "Oh let's try this Dragon heartstring vine 10.75 inches." I held it and I had let go as it burned my hand. "Odd reactions. You're a rare customer!" My jaw tightened, I didn't know if he would attack and he seemed a bit unwell.
He went far back into the store. "Now these wands are galling so maybe with a master like you it finally have a right home. Elderberry wood, dragon heart string 13 inches."
I held it and felt correct but something was off, so I swapped it into my other hand it was perfect! I actually felt some form of trust. "It's perfect." I waved it again and it was light as air.
"It is always great to see a wizard or witch use their wand for the first time."
"Protego" a small shield formed around my hand, and I stared in aw.
"Good, that will be seven galleon." I dug in my pockets the coins that the old fools would lose and I brought out thriteen silver, three copper and fourteen yellow coins. "These will do." He took seven of the Yellow coins and left the store with a smile.
"Took a while what kind of wand did you get?" She asked actually interested unlike the old fool I lived with.
"Can I hold it?" Draco asked looking at it.
"Eldenberry wood, dragon string core." She nodded and Draco held it. "Be careful I held the wrong wand and it jumped out of my hand." as did my flying out of Draco's hand toward and I caught it.
"Did you use wandless magic?" Draco asked annoyed.
"No, I just caught it. Sorry Draco." He stopped pouting and turned to his mother.
"Mom can we look at Quidditch supplies?" He almost yelled excited.
She caved in to his minor demand. "Do you want to go Cepheus?" I nodded, I saw no issue with it and I bought a snitch odd they cost a galleon.
"Auntie Narcissa how much is a galleons worth?"
She smiled. "One Galleon is seventeen Sickles and a Sickle is twenty six Knuts." I nodded we went to Flourish and Blotts Bookseller.
We went to the the next store Potage's Cauldron and then after buying the supplies listed, auntie Narcissa pulled me to Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions.
After getting my robes She brought me to the fire place, she gave me the floo powder and I didn't know anymore as I stepped into the fireplace. "Come on, I need to get to the ministry." A man with a top head said.
I gulped and threw the powder, I whispered. "Grimmauld Place 12." I came to the other side with my great grandfather drunk on fire whiskey, luckily he was asleep and I walked past him with my trunk.
I cursed as I remembered grandmother Walburga screams whenever the old goat saw me. I quickly Changed my form to look like my great grandfather though the height was an issue for me, I got past the evil woman before she realized Great grandfather wasn't the height of a eleven year old.
I sat down on my desk got the books out. I wanted to learn everything I could, so I wouldn't be cursed or even under the heel of a Classmate.
I locked myself away for the months until the first of September, honestly I never let my wand out of my hand during that time. Through January to September, that morning ran to the fire place and flooed to 9 3/4 I waited there for the train to arrive. When it did I ran inside and slept in one of compartments, then I heard three people laughing and I woke up. "Good morning!" one of them yelled scaring the other three.
My face covered so I decided to play a prank on them, I lifted the robe to reveal skeleton head screaming. "Good morning!" They all screamed as I turned my face back to normal laughing. "You should have seen your faces!"
"Blimey me! How did you do that?!" He almost yelled, I looked a bit worried tightening my grip on my wand.
"Don't worry, Fred's just being dramatic, I'm George Weasley." I shacked his hand my eyes still half open.
"As my better half said, I'm Fred the smart one."
I nodded. "I'm Lee Jordan." I shacked his hand.
"I'm Cephues, but call me Ceph." They nodded. "Ok which one is the evil twin?"
"Ask anyone one in out family and we both are." We all laughed.
"So what house do you wanna get?" Jordan asked I shrugged.
"We're gryffindor all the way!" The twins spoke full of pride. "Our brothers are there and so was our dad."
"I'm hoping Gryffindor, house the brave and honestly it sounds the most fun." Jordan explained.
"Same, but if I do my grandfather would bury me alive." I smirked. "If I get into Slytherin it would be easier to prank the entire house from the inside!" They all laughed with me. "Wanna see a trick?" I asked they nodded and I pulled my nose and it acted like rubber as I did so.
"Blimey! How are you doing that?" I chuckled and made my hair turn red and look like one of the twins. "Mom didn't tell us we had a lost brother!" Fred said while George was laughing.
Jordan sat up. "Can you look like me?" Shrugged and in an instant I changed my face to look like him. "What spell is that?" I smiled before returning to my original face.
"I'm a metamorphmagus, I can just change at will. Like this!" I started growing a large white beard until it reached my feet. "Who wants their Christmas presents early?" I joked and Jordan felt they if the beard was real.
I saw a mischievous grin on their George's face?. "You could cause a lot of chaos with that "trick". Maybe going out during curfew?" I smirked and made my beard disappear.
"If I end up Slytherin, I'm going to go around as the headmaster and scare them straight." I remembered a picture of the old wizard in a chocolate frag card and turned into him though it took a few minutes. "Good day Mr Weasly, Mr Jordan don't be late for class now." They laughed as I turned back. "Still have issue with height though and voices can stump me a bit, Can't change my bones without it taking a few hours and it's sort of painful." The twins nodded and Jordan thought about it.
Jordan smiled. "So if we see a tiny professor, it's you?" I laughed and so did the twins.
"Or maybe it's a goblin taking some potion." I answered. "I need a bit of practice before I replace the minister and declare all Slytherins to have idiot written on their head." We all laughed though I hoped not to regret those words later on.
When the train stopped we left the compartment walked to the great hall. "What do you think the sorting will be?" Turned around to a girl asking.
"Percy said it was some test." Fred or George? said while I shrugged.
"Hope it's something easy, like writing your name and the ink changing to yours houses crest." Jordan looked at me if had something stuck on my face while I was looking at the ground.
"What's with you?" Looked at him.
"I was raised by upper crust dark wizards and if I looked at an adult without being spoken to I would be cursed as punishment." Jordan's face deformed into a look of horror and disgust.
"What why?" He asked, I shrugged even though I knew it was be because of my half blood status.
He entered the great hall and stared at the floating candles and nights sky on the ceiling. I smiled and then they started singing and Covered my ears, the damn hat sounded too much like the hag! "What's wrong?" George asked worried.
"That hat is the worst singer I have ever heard." After the song was over the sorting waiting a few seconds I stood up.
"Cepheus Black!" professor Mcgonagall called. They whispered as I walked to the stool, I sat down and the tattered old hat was placed on my head.
"Hmm I wasn't expecting any of your sort here. The younger black's dead and the older brother is in Azkaban! Hmm Gryffindor wouldn't do you well, Intellect is worthy of any Raven cloth yet! Your ambitions are great… Why do you wish to murder your family members?"
My eyes Widened "what did this thing mean?"
"I can see your mind child, even if you build a wall around those thoughts."
"What do you expect?! My grandparents are monsters and my uncle left me with them!"
The hat hummed thoughtfully "What is your dream?"
"To purify Britain of dark wizards and witches who only view magic as power and not a tool to improve the world. Toujours Pur."
"Slytherin!" I stood up and walked to the Slytherin table and I stayed silent glaring at anyone who touched me. I followed to the slytherin common room with a perfect the name Jake Flinton.
After getting my schedules I saw a name on the list. "Snape?" I said out loud and the prefect from yesterday told me.
"His the head of our house." I nodded he sneered at me for some reason.
I decided to practice before the first charms class and get his Knickers out of a twist. "Alarte Ascendare" I whispered and he was pulled by Knickers like I had hoped and while he decompressed from Having his Knickers fly into the ceiling.
I left to get and went to the library.
A hand caught my shoulder and with a furious Jake attached to it. "You're getting detention with filch you little prat." I raised a brow, before he pulled me by my robes to filch a man who looked like had the worst of life thrown at him.
"Filch here's a rule breaker for you!" He pushed me into a windowless office and I saw the Weasley twins.
Jake left and Filch looked at me. "What did you do?" He said writing down something I didn't know.
I shrugged. "I made some knickers fly into the ceiling." The Twins burst out laughing, while filch got more irritated.
"SHUT IT! Stand and be silent! I need to take care of something. You three one word and I will bring you to the headmaster, understood!"
"Yes, sir!" I answered, which felt disgusting and it always did since I was seven.
"Good! Atleast one of you have some respect!" He left and I sighed.
"Hey what was that all about?" George asked and I shrugged.
"I was raised to, anyway wanna see what's in the cabinets before the old coot comes back?" Like they they got excited and started digging through Filch's things, mostly write ups on students he had for detention a love letter to someone named Madam Pince? I shrugged and then Fred yelled.
"Guys come here!" Confiscated and Highly Dangerous was written on the cabinet and looked at a bit. "What do you think inside?"
I shrugged. "torture devices?"
Fred pulled it open to find the usual Acid pops, a few Dung bombs, a Chocolate bar? I Took that and a piece of parchment under it. "Filch is coming!" I ran to my position after closing the Cabinet.
The Angry old man came in. "I need hunt a specter, get out of here!" He yelled and we did as told.
I was about to enjoy a bite of the chocolate. "No!" Both Weasley twins said and I looked confused.
"If you want some, just ask." I said a bit irritated at being yelled at.
"That's hiccough, cep if you ate that you would be stuck Hiccoughing." I put it in my pocket and looked at the parchment. "What's that?" I shrugged.
"I'm not the joke expert, it was in filch's office, room? Coffin let's stick with Coffin." They laughed and George took a look and letters formed.
"Padfoot welcomes the young heir." We all looked in shock.
"Prongs says Cepheus got none of his fathers looks."
"Good to know, How does papier know my dad Regulus, better yet what are you?." I asked and it answered.
"The marauders, treasure says worm tail."
"Who are the Marauders?"
A poltergeist came running and he floated down to us. "You said marauders?" He said grinning with a bunch mismatches clothes.
George grinned. "Yea who were they?" I looked at parchment and hummed who could have made this?
"THEY WERE THE BEST CHOAS BRINGERS THIS SCHOOL EVER HAD!" He yelled and I sighed never going get used people screaming. "In fact they pranked the entire school easily! no one was better than 'em. Well except me of course." I raised my brow.
"Hey peeves, could you give these to the prefects? Nothing wrong with a few sweets right?" I winked and he smiled before floating off.
"Don't forget to offer filch some!" Fred said as peeves turned a corner.
He looked at the parchment. "So how do you think it works?" George asked.
"Let's ask it." I took it. "Would you kindly show us where the treasure is?"
"Moony says. You're far from reaching our treasure."
I gave it to Fred. "I will do no good?" George and me looked as the writing appeared.
"Are you truly up to no good? Prongs ask's."
I looked at the Map. "Yea, we're up to no good." George said Excited.
"Worm tail says, you're too close for comfort."
George turned to me. "Do you have something to write on?" I always had something in my pocket and I wrote down 'up to no good' part. "Ok maybe it's a phrase?"
"I need something to eat, Lunch is about to start." We entered the Great hall and found all the prefects having hiccups or coughing.
Fred laughed. "Peeves pulled through." George crossed his arms, smiling.
We sat down "Hey snake, get to your nest!" He demanded I started to stand up.
"Lay off" I was surprised, why would they—
"His our pal so lat off!" I sat back down with the prefect hiccoughing to the other prefect Gryffindors, "what a prat."
I smiled "Oh dear friends and rivals, how about I spread more choas In a few minutes?" My friend were intrigued.
"How would you do this my friend and rival?" I left the great hall and turned into to look like Peeves,
transfiguring my robes to look mismatched as I started running to Slytherin prefects tables laughing at them before saying. "Oh the Hufflepuffs were right this is hilarious!" Then moved to the Ravenclaw. "The Slytherins were right this is hilarious" before and continued to prefects acting like children and so chaos reigned!
I left the hall and came back smirking as Jordan laughing at the arguing prefects. "Hey, how's "peeves" doing?"
"His fine, though I hope he enjoys this show." Before knew Peeves was laughing above us.
"How did you do that with the hat?" Fred asked.
"grew my hair out and then made change into a hat." George shacked his head laughing.
"Cep, I'm glad you're on our side." I chuckled, wouldn't want to witness the prank war we would end up making.
First on Monday class was transfiguration was boring until the teachers desk turned into a pig and it got boring again as I wrote the complex art/science of transfiguration. "I need to invent a self writing Quill." I Whispered to the Ravenclaw girl next to me. "Honestly I read through the book three times."
She nodded taking her own notes, while I started planing on the next prank writing down who would be next. The Gryffindor head gave us matches and I made it into Iron, I scratched my head and then changed it's form into a needle. Jumped at my seat when she said that. "Five points to Slytherin, Well done " I wish they wouldn't be so Loud.
"Please write your thought process and how you done it." I wrote down the process mostly going through two stages to simplify it.
First change the material, then shape though honestly the shape part would become harder the larger and if a object was to made of different materials like a closet, you have to remember the hinges or else you would have a crate.
Once the bell rang I walked to the next class which was History of magic. I looked into the room and stepped back out. "Sorry is History of magic the class taught by a ghost?" I asked a second Hufflepuff year who nodded.
"You should get a pillow." I raised a brow what did he mean? I walked into class and stepped after the bells rang, remembering absolutely nothing!
"Hey cep! How was history for magic?" I blinked Seeing Goerge, Fred and Lee Jordan Came one the twins asking.
"It was so boring that, I don't remember anything. The class was just really boring! I mean it's history but the man kept talking about the goblin rebellion if nothing else happened." I sighed. "I need to take my pillow next time." I walked to Lunch and they walked next to me.
Jordan smiled. "Charms was great! We made a feather float and Professor Flitwick is Awesome!" I nodded and I told my experiences with Professor Mcgonagall.
"Transfiguration was ok, we took alot of notes. The teacher is nice but I wouldn't cross her if I were you." They nodded I bet unlike me knew about their head of house.
"Hey, do you ever let go of your wand?" Fred asked and I looked at my wand. "You could accidentally break it." I pulled my wand, why haven't I let go of you?
"It's sort of my first friend." I thought and shrugged and continued let go down my sleeve. "I live in Slytherin house, always need to be ready." They gave me odd looks, but shrugged it off.
We spent our break setting up a sticky charm I read in my uncles books and watched a few confused third years cursing.
the break ended and the three went to herbology while I went to Charms to professor flitwick.
Charms was writing for a few minutes and then we would try our first charm, honestly preferred this over the Gryffindor head's way. The first spell being the levitation charm, or as I like to call it the progenitor of all charms that made objects move with ones wand.
"Levitation Charm is the first one a young wizard and witch will learn, now students take your wand, remember wingardium leviosa, don't forget to pronounce it correctly, the more you practice the easier it! One day you won't even need the words."I smiled at with a kindness to his eyes, why couldn't I have been in raven claw?
I would have had the nicest professor and no worry about my house mates killing me while I slept. The first Charm was simple using the though I wasn't the first in class to do it it was a ravenclaw that sat next to me in Tranfiguration, what was her name? Atleast I was able to do the spell in class, unlike the rest of my Slytherin class mates.
I walked to the great hall my stomach growling, I went to see the prefects still blaming one another for the Hiccoughing incident. "I ate my meal and enjoyed the pumpkin juice. "Where did you learn that charm?" Jordan asked excited to find out more.
"My uncles journal, I view it as a gift." Jordan took it and looked through it.
He went through a few pages and sighed. "Blimey, can't believe a Gryffindor could betray his friends like that." I smirked.
"Don't worry, you three are stuck with me." They laughed. "If I left you alone the school might fall apart." We continued talking about our next plans until lunch was over.
Astronomy theory by day and Wednesday we will stay up and look at the stars, what a drag.
Dinner was the same as lunch, though exploding snap was addicting.
Honestly none of my housemates were fun and bad luck for me, all the Slytherin boy's my age they only wanted to talk about quidditch, so I ended up staying in the and library studying until curfew, because I couldn't enter the Gryffindor dorm.
I saw my house head going to the forbidden area, odd but honestly I didn't care much. I opened my Potions book as it was the last class of the week and I wouldn't dare be the idiot who loses points for the house.
I sat next to Jordan, talking about the floating charm and how much of a git some of my house mates were. He stepped through the door his robe billowing as he stepped."If anyone here is to do nothing but waste our time, leave." We all stared and stayed silent I smiled.
"In this class, I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death." I smiled the ideas he had said was amazing and I wanted learn how to do so.
"Black, name me a common ingredient for the poison antidote potion." No writing or pointless lectures? Oh this class would be my favorite.
I cleared my throat. "Bezoar, sir. It found in the Stomach of a goat." He looked again.
"Name me the most common poisonous plant used in potions." That was hard going through head.
"Wolfs bane, Monkshood and queen of all poisons. all names for aconite family."
"15 points to Slytherin, and the rest of you take note." I smiled as he continued to explain what potion we would be brewing.
Cure for boils was simple, I cut up and weighed the ingredients as written in the book. While Jordan brewed the potion until I caught his hand before the porcupine needles were added. "What are you doing mr. black?" The professor stood behind us.
He asked in a tone that I honestly couldn't tell if he was about berate us, like the rest of the class or give us an explanation. "Why are you stopping him from adding the last Ingredient?"
"The instructions says to add the porcupine needles after taking it off the fire, sir. I'm certain I-it would a mistake to add them now." He nodded and decided to give an explanation.
"Another reason why is because it would have melted cauldron if done so. 10 points to Slytherin." He looked at cauldron. "And 1 points to Gryffindor." Jordan sighed with relief.
He continued his rounds and jordan and sighed with relief after he looked over our bottled potions. "I well done." Oddly he looked at me as he said that and I felt pride for the first time in my short life.
After a shower and I changed, looked at the mirror once everyone else had left to see scars reappear. The years of my family throwing the cutting charm at me if I was to ever disobey. I put on a face cream so if anyone woke me up they wouldn't see the scars on my face.
Then I heard a Gasp from Adrian Pucey he tried to run but one stupify later led him to the ground, I pulled him into one of the stalls and a reverto later he was awake with my wand to his throat. "What did you see?" He blinked scared and possibly about to piss himself. "Tell. me. right. now." Whispered almost growling at every word.
"I saw the scars, please I will stop calling you a git behind your back." I took one long breath.
After calming down. "Fine, but if you tell anyone. I will make sure we match." he ran out of the stall and I went to bed, I prayed everything would stay normal from here on out.
Authors note: I wrote this in a week and please review.