Celesta had curled up and fallen asleep, waking up when she felt the weight of the seat dipping down onto her back. Yipping a little, the sound covered by the sound of the car turning on, she and her familiar slipped from under the seat, startling George in the passenger seat as his eyes widened. Having recently graduated from being third years, they had learned of Animagi, as well as the punishments for not being registered.

Being pranksters though, they understood the need to getting around unseen. They didn't have the patience to become one themselves, but they had wondered about it. Before Ron caught on to the twins' astonishment, they both laughed under their breath as Ron gave directions to Harry's place.

"Me, you, and Fred are going to have a talk when we get back to the burrow, Miss Malfoy." George whispered as he leaned down, picking her up and settling her in his lap, Maera sitting next to him.

Fred noticed the pair of foxes a few moments later, George putting a finger on his lips. With a mischevious grin, he nodded, winking down at the foxes with a wink.

It wasn't much longer than two and a half hours before they finally pulled up to number 4, Privet Drive, settling right by the window. Celesta woke when they stopped, having fallen asleep with George petting her slowly. Ron had spotted the foxes, but merely thought that Maera had a friend, not connecting the dots. He was a slow one, her red-headed friend.

She watched as they tied a rope around the bars on Harry's window, laughing when they came off. Thankfully the noise generated was silenced by the noise the commotion caused. Once her mother likened the noise to a Dementer's gasp.

The twins helped Harry get his things into the car, Hedwig's noises awaking a ruddy looking man as he burst into Harry's room. He was just quick enough in grabbing Harry's ankles that he almost suceeded in keeping Harry with him, but instead he only suceeded in getting pulled out the window, his shock making him let go of her friend, falling onto some bushes. It was lucky Harry was only on the second floor, and not the attic.

The ride home was filled with Ron and the twins talking with Harry, getting the story about Dobby. At that name, she jerked a little bit, putting paws over her face. Hopefully, the twins would only interogate her about being an animagi...she'd need to make them do the vow. Or another blood pact...but the vow wouldn't be as noticable. As long as they never spoke of it without her explicit permission...it'd be fine. She didn't know why, but the thought of them dying...it made her whine a little under her breath.

She perked up when the conversation turned to her, Harry seeming surprised she was staying at the Weasley's as well.

"Yeah, she's staying in Ginny's room, of course. Oh, you'll be staying with me, Harry." Ron explained flippantly, Celesta only quieting her growl when Fred, who had switched places with George, settled a hand on her back.

"Quiet lovely, Ron's too young to know about how pretty a bird you are," he whispered under his breath. If she had the ability to blush, she would've, instead hiding her face once again.

They got back to the burrow right as light crossed over the horizon, the red glow of the sun appearing just as they touched the car down. The boys got out first, George whispering to have her meet them in his and Fred's room as she made a break for the house. She didn't get far, into the house, however. Oh no. None of them did. They barely made it inside before Molly decinded upon them in a storm of fury.

"Where have you been!?" she exclaimed, glaring at her sons before catching sight of Harry. "Harry! How wonderful it is to see you dear," she said, walking up to him welcomingly before glaring at her sons once more, her hands on her hips. "Beds empty! No note! Car gone! You could have died! You could've been seen," she yelled out in a frustrated tone, softening as she turned to Harry once again. "Of course I don't blame you, Harry dear."

"They were starvin' him mum! There were bars on his window!" Ron exclaimed, the twins nodding. Even she was nodding, Maera being lucky enough she was able to sneak back up to Ginny's room.

"Well you best hope I don't put bars on your window, Ronald Weasley." she said sternly, before turning to the twins. "Go wake your sister and Celesta dears. C'mon Harry, time for a spot of breakfast."

Seeing her chance to escape questioning, at least for now until she figured out how to get them to keep her secrets, she ran up the stairs, turning back into herself just in time to slam the bathroom door, her code to let Luli know she was back and that she could disapperate away for the moment.

"Ginny needs to wake up boys...questions later~" she taunted the twins, her cheeks both red and pale. Thehy were quite fit, after all, and she'd spent the better part of nearly six hours on their laps. Oh what her mother would say!

Changing quickly, using a couple spells to make her seem well rested and fresh faced, she combed through her white hair before pinning it back with an elegant braid. They were due their Hogwarts letter anytime, so she knew she needed to look her best if she was to be in Diagon Alley.

By the time she got out of the bathroom, Ginny was running down the stairs. She went to follow, only to see the youngest Weasley pause and run back up, presumably to change clothes. Ginny had been grilling her the whole time about Harry, so it must've been a shock to see him, and in her nightclothes as well.

"Celesta dear! Good morning! Look who's arrived!" Molly exclaimed, Celesta smirking a bit mischeviously.

"Good to see you, Harry. Hope you didn't have too much trouble getting here?" she asked, tilting her head in an innocent fashion as Molly guided her to an open seat...which happened to be between the twins, both of them clamping their hands on her thighs under the table as she was served breakfast.

"Morning Weasley's!" shouted Arthur as he came in from work, "What a night at work. Nine raids. Nine!"

Celesta started to eat as Ron explained what Arthur did for the Ministry of Magic, Arthur Weasley taking a seat at the head of the table, Molly fussing over making sure everybody getting served breakfast. Celesta had insisted on helping with food funds these past few weeks, Narcissa not taking no for an answer when Molly had owled to ask her mother to make her stop. It was a matter of pride, but Narcissa had explained that with not only Celesta but Luli too feeding off of the Weasley's, it was only right that they pay for their food, if not for more.

"Now, who are you?" Arthur asked as he started to cut up his eggs.

"Oh, sorry sir. I'm Harry, Harry Potter." Harry had explained while Celesta finished with her sausages, cutting up her food into lady-like bites.

"Are you really?" Mr. Weasley asked, Harry responding with a nod. "Well. Ron's told us all about you of course. When did he get here?"

"This morning. Your sons flew that enchanted car of yours to Surrey and back last night." Mrs. Weasley said, he hands back on her hips as she looked between Arthur and the twins, Ron getting included in her glare.

"Did they really?" Arthur asked almost breathlessly, "How'd it go?" He managed excitedly, only to receive a wack on the arm from Molly. "I mean! That was very wrong indeed boys. Very wrong of you." The boys in question looked contrite for a moment before sharing secretive smiles, Molly having gone back to tending the stove and Arthur cutting his sausages, taking a bite. "Now Harry, you must know all about muggles. Tell me. What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?"

"Oh. Um..." Harry trailed off, trying to think. Celesta chuckled under her breath a bit, but the moment was disrupted by Errol, the Weasley family's owl, announcing his arrival with a screech.

"Oh that'll be Errol with the post!" Said Molly, everybody turning to watch the old bird coming in for a landing, only for him to crash into a window. Percy got up to fetch the stack of letters the bird had been carrying.

"Oh look, it's our Hogwarts letters. Even Harry and Celesta's are here." Percy stated, handing out the letters to everybody individually.

"Dumbledore must know you guys are here. Doesn't miss a trick, that man." Arthur had stated, Celesta tuning out of the conversation to read over her supply list, calculating what she herself would need to grab.

"There's only one place we'll get all this!" Molly exclaimed. "Diagon Alley. We'll go after breakfast, everybody."

Everybody finished their food around the same time, but Molly and Ginny still had yet to eat, so the twins had at least forty minutes. After letting Celesta change into day clothes her parents wouldn't mind she be seen in, they dragged her into their room by gripping both her biceps, lifting the four foot eleven and growing no further albino and carrying her.

"Now lovely," began Fred.

"You have just got to tell us how you," continued George, the twins taking turns until speaking together.

"Became an animagus being only a first year."

Celesta, having been placed in the two beds pushed together, bit into her lip as she looked up at them. "Shut the door first," she sighed out, squirming and toying with the hem of her skirt. Watching them do it, she waved her wand, placing a simple charm, Muffliato, around their room so they wouldn't be heard. "Before I tell you anything...I need assurances. You can't tell anybody that doesn't already know without my explicit permission," she continued. "Either an unbreakable vow or a vow upon your magic, you must swear this to me."

The twins took a moment, communicating silently and sharing glances. "You'll be the witness." They finally said together, each of them holding their hands as if shaking them. Celesta had stood, holding her wand over their combined hands.

"Do you, Fred and George Weasley, solemnly swear never to reveal my secrets to those who don't know in any shape or form without my explicit permission?" Celesta started. The twins spoke together when answering, golden chains weaving around their wrists.

"We do."

"And do you swear that you'll protect me should I ever be in danger around you?"

"We do."

Celesta nodded, finishing the incantation, the vow sinking into the twins' soul, untraceable. Retaking her seat as the twins turned to face her with expectant looks, she sighed as she lay back, closing her eyes. It was the only way she was going to get through this.

"Right. Well. Now that you can't say anything to anybody...my real name is Celesta Hecate Selwyn. When I was a baby my mother was hunted by You-know-who. Well...she didn't...she couldn't get away. So she sent me with Luli to my aunt, Narcissa Malfoy, and made sure Luli would take me away if she didn't take a similar vow. Obviously she did, and house elf magic is very powerful. Working with goblin magic, everybody in the world, even in records, became aware that I was Celesta Hecate Malfoy," she started, holding up a hand to the boys.

"Narcissa raised me as her own, but her vow was more extensive. You see, my mother did something unspeakable, turning me into an animagus as a newborn and not registering me. For my protection against Him you see. So Narcissa had to teach me to hide it from everybody else. Maera has too many tails now for me to be mistaken as her, though obviously around Malfoy Manor Narcissa can explain that Maera found a friend in the nearby forest if Lucius or Draco see me in fox form. Hermione knows. She's too observant for me not to have let her in on it."

The boys stared at her for a few moments, before looking at each other and nodding.

"Right well. That's that. Now c'mon love, mum's gonna be looking for us any minute." Fred finally said, pulling her up.

"And, as now we know, you'll get to be our princess." George said with a smirk both boys shared, an inside joke. They were, after all, of the age girls were becoming fit.

They all gathered in the living room with cloaks, Celesta with Maera and her parasol with her bag, before she stopped dead in the entry way. There was a reason she never floo'd anywhere. Unlike other wizarding travel ways, she had a violent reaction whenever she floo'd.

"Um...Mrs. Weasley. I can't floo. It's too bright with my eyes, and no matter what charms, I always get a nasty burn." Celesta called, taking a few shakey steps back.

"Alright dear. Can your elf take you?" Molly asked, nodding understandingly.

"Yes, she's able to apparate. Shall I meet you in Gringotts?" she asked, calling for her elf. Luli appeared in a loud 'POP', smiling gently.

"Young Miss Malfoy is in safest hands with Luli, Missus Weasleys. Luli will take Young Miss to the bank Gringotts, and will wait for you and your family," her elf said, grabbing onto Celesta's hand and turning on the spot.

Once at the bank, she suffered the twists and turns down to her Vault and back up, taking enough galleons to purchase her books as well as two other sets, as well as to have treats on the train ride and for a new dress. She made sure to have enough for her potion supplies, Uncle Severus having taught her more advanced spells earlier that summer.

When she got back up to the top, she met with the Weasleys, Harry and Hagrid walking up, the former covered in dust. They parted ways from there, Fred and George getting money for their school supplies, dragging Celesta with them. They were all going to meet back at Flourish and Blotts for their books in one hour exactly according to Molly.

The boys left her in the Apothecary to visit Gambol and Japes, the wizarding joke shop located in the Alley. They came back just in time for them all to head to Flourish and Blotts, the twins borrowing her bag. 'Just until the train.'

When they got to the bookstore, they had to pass many witches, and some wizards, in line for what appeared to be a book signing. Harry, Ron, and Hermione joined them soon after, just in time for Gilderoy Lockhart to be presented to the room.

Hermione and Molly seemed to be taken by Lockhart, though for one reason or another Celesta could only glance at the twins beside her, feeling warm with each glance.

"It can't be..."she heard Lockhart exclaim. "Harry Potter!" The press photographer snatched her friend, dragging him up to Lockhart, who grabbed him by the shoulders before turning back to the camera. "Nice big smile, Harry. I gather you and I make the front page." He paused then for another photograph, Celesta sighing and turning into Fred's arm, who was the closest twin to her. She couldn't explain it, but she felt safe around them, like she belonged.

"Ladies and gentlemen!What an extraordinary moment this is! When young Harry stepped into Flourish and Blotts this morning to purchase my autobiography, Magical Me," he paused there with the applause, grinning cockily. "Which incidently, is currently celebrating it's twenty seventh week at the top of the Daily Profit's Best Seller's list," Another pause, more applause. Celesta looked around and spotted her brother, her eyes widening. Draco nodded a little bit, before his eyes darted away, alerting her that her father was around. Immediately she fixed her appearance, turning to her twins. She'd question her possessive adjective in her thoughts later, when she was alone and it wasn't a big deal.

"Please don't act too outlandishly unlike me. Not until it's safe." she said, swiftly turning back to the stage, the twins nodding, pulling her gently until she was between the two of them. They'd gathered that Lucius didn't know that Celesta wasn't really his, and they knew that she had to keep appearances while in public.

"He had no idea, in fact, that he'd be leaving with my entire collected works, free of charge." Lockhart was saying, shoving a pile of books into Harry's chest. "He also didn't know, that I'd be joining Hogwart's staff, as their Defense against the Dark Arts Professor!" he exclaimed flamboyantly.

The children were quickly ushered to the front, Celesta catching Draco ripping a page out of a book. She looked at him oddly, but he merely shook his head, flicking his fingers in the secret way they spoke to each other, letting her know he'd tell her about it when they were away from their parents.

She didn't pay much attention to his confrontation with Harry, picking up the book he'd discarded and taking it to the teller, grabbing a second copy for herself. She purchased both of them quietly, just in time for her father to appear.

"Now now Draco, play nicely. Ah, Mr. Potter...Lucius Malfoy." her father said, holding out a hand. "We meet at last. Forgive me," he said, pulling Harry close and looking at his scar. "Your scar is legendary. As of course, is the wizard who gave it to you." Smiling a bit, he released her friend, turning to her. "Celesta dear, I hope you've been behaving?" he questioned, her nod dismissing her from his attention.

"Voldemort killed my parents. He was nothing more than a murderer." Harry replied, stepping back. Everybody flinched a little at the name, though they all made it seem somehow natural.

"You must be very brave, to speak his name. Or very foolish," her father replied.

"Fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself." Her foolish friend Hermione spoke up, Celesta's eyes widening, her form tensing. It took both of the twins's hands on her back, their fingers curling into her cloak, for her not to interfere.

Lucius turned towards Hermione. "And you must be Miss Granger. Yes, Draco's told me all about you. And your parents. Muggles, aren't they?" He asked, before holding out a hand expectantly towards Celesta. "I do hope Celesta hasn't been too troublesome, dragging you to the library all year." Celesta stepped up to her Father as he wrapped a hand around her shoulder. Her friends could see she looked uncomfortable, but it was masked by the small smile she put on for her father. Only the twins could see the way her eyes had tightened. "Let's see here..red hair. Vacant expressions, tatty, second hand books...you must be the Weasleys." Lucius continued, eyeing her friends.

Arthur reappeared then too. "Children! It's mad in here. Let's go outside, yes?" He said, clearly worried about the way Lucius was speaking to them.

She wasted no time, grabbing the twins and stepping behind them, using them as a sheild. Her father said something about the Weasley's sinking lower, and Arthur went at him, fists flying. Celesta however, had no intention of being taken away from her friends. Quickly, she made her way outside, calling for Luli to take her back to the Burrow. With a 'POP' they were back and she made herself at home on the couch, silently crying. How could her father be so awful.

Author's Note: The second book. Oh my gosh guys. I tried to stick with the movie/books as much as possible, but seeing as they went to school soon after Harry got to the Burrow, I fudged the timeline just a little bit. I also used the movie mostly, but kept the fight scene.

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