Chapter 2
The next morning Carina woke early with the rising sun. She put on her uniform and robe and quietly exited the dorm to go to the common room. When she arrives there are a few students starting to file into the common room. She sits in a chair by a window watching the sunrise. When the common room starts to fill up more she exits the portrait hole and heads down for breakfast. When all the owls started flying in for the morning mail deliveries she saw her snowy owl Orion fly towards her and land on her shoulder and drop a letter in her morning eggs and toast. It was her mothers penmanship. Carina opened the letter and it read
Carina, I guess now is as good a time as any to tell you the truth. Your father and I aren't your real parents. We adopted you when you were a baby. You see your mother was a friend of mine from my days at school who had a brief relationship with my cousin Sirius. You look more like her everyday. Her name was Marie-Alice Blackburn. She never told Sirius about her being pregnant and I don't blame her for it. Your birth mother had asked me if I would take care of you and raise you as my own if anything happened to her. I agreed and shortly after I heard that she had died in childbirth. Now all the proper paperwork was filed and you are legally a Malfoy and my daughter. However your father has asked that you stay at the school on holidays. And if you absolutely have to, you can come home for summer vacation. Your fathers words not mine.
Well with that being said, have a good school year and we will pick you up when school lets out for summer.
Love always, Mom
Carina looked at the letter slack jawed. She was so focused on the letter she didn't see the twins from last night sit on either side of her.
" Hey Carina you ok?" Fred asked her
" I don't think she heard you, Fred." George said
Orion nibbled lightly on her ear to get her attention causing her to jump and spill Pumpkin juice all down her front. " Shite!" She whispered under her breath then noticed the twins sitting there. "Oh hey guys when did you get here?" she said nervously.
"Only a minute ago." Fred said
"Yea you were staring at that letter pretty hard. You wanna talk about it?" George asked.
"Well after what I said last night about wondering if my parents were actually my parents, it turns out I'm adopted." She said simply pouring herself another glass of pumpkin juice. "That and my "father" doesn't want me to come home on holidays. I'm pretty sure he doesn't even want me to come home over summer break. I'm not feeling too well" Carina slowly got up and walked towards the ladies bathroom. By the time Carina entered the bathroom she fell to her hands and knees next thing she knew she had paws, a tail and and ears. WHAT HAPPENED TO ME? The door opened and
Carina slipped out and started wandering the halls as a dog. She found the great hall and decided to wait. She wasn't there long before she heard a voice. Carina looked up to see the headmaster himself, Albus Dumbledore.
"Well well Miss Malfoy. Please follow me." He said and headed towards his office. Carina padded along after him.
Once they were in the comfort of Dumbledore's office he sat down. "Miss Malfoy you need to calm down once you do that you should return to your human form. But until you are able to do that I shall write to Professor McGonagall and have you excused from lessons for today."
Carina paced back and forth, still trying to process what her "Mother" told her. She paced around for what felt like hours. After a while she felt weird she closed her eyes to wait for the weird feeling to pass. Once she opens her eyes she can tell she's back in her human form. "Professor what just happened to me?" She asks scared.
"Ah yes Miss Malfoy welcome back. You were like that most of the morning. You see it's almost lunchtime. I've ordered lunch for us here. Now I believe you have some questions." Professor Dumbledore said.
"What just happened to me and why? Those are the only questions I have." She said flatly.
"To easily explain it, you had your first animagus transformation. Now that form is actually one I'm somewhat familiar with. Now the person who could turn into a large black dog was a former student of mine about 15 years ago or so. His name was Sirius black. As for why, I'm not entirely sure. I've never met an animagus who has inherited her ability and form." He explained calmly.
Carina took the letter out of her pocket. "Actually Professor I think I might know why." She said quietly and handed the letter to him. She sat down as a tray of sandwiches appeared on the desk along with some pumpkin juice. She took a few sandwiches and a glass of juice.
"Well well that would just about do it." He said as he finished reading the letter and handed it back to her. "All the feelings you had over this letter are what brought about your change and it seems you have inherited your fathers form. However I unfortunately have to register you with the Ministry of Magic. I can not have an unregistered Animagus wandering about. But at the same time I will talk to Professor Mcgonagall about teaching you to learn control of this ability because we don't need you transforming in the middle of classes if you get angry."
When Dumbledore finished talking to her about everything, afternoon classes were just about to finish for the day so Carina went to the common room.
