"Wait did you say Potter?" Harry asked as he and Oceanus exchanged looks.
"Yes Harry, Rylee or Oceanus, which ever you want to go by, is your sister." Harry just looked at Dumbledore eyes wide unblinking. 'Oh my god!' Harry thought 'I had a crush on my sister!'
"Professor Dumbledore since the only people who knew me by Rylee here at school are Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Harry I would like to be called by my real name." Dumbledore nodded and Harry looked at Oceanus as a thought popped into his head.
"Are we going to let it be known that she is a Potter?" Harry asked. Dumbledore nodded. "What about Voldemort?"
"Tom already knows, that's why he came after you in the first place, Oceanus. He somehow tracked you down." Dumbledore stared into space for a moment. "Anyways you best be getting to your common room and get some rest for your first day of school tomorrow." They both nodded and left his office still in shock.
"So, what's it like being a Potter?" Oceanus asked and Harry laughed.
"Better now that I know that I have more family alive then just the Dursleys. You know you look sort of like mum." Oceanus nodded.
"That's good" They walked up to the Gryffindor tower and to the portrait. "Mimbulus mimbletonia." The portrait opened and they walked through seeing Ron, Hermione, and Ginny waiting on the couches they walked up to them.
"Whoa Rylee, what happened to you?" Ron asked.
"Her real name isn't Rylee Oceanus Young." Harry said.
"Harry, what are you talking about? Of course it is." Hermione stated.
"No it's not. Dumbledore informed me that I was adopted before the age of one and transfiguration spells were done to my appearance." Oceanus notified them.
"Then what's your real name?" Ginny asked. " I ask because I assume you will from now one be call by it, right?" Oceanus nodded as she looked at Harry.
"Oceanus Rylee Potter" They said in unison.
"You're joking, right?" Ron asked, they shook their heads. "So let me get this straight, Harry." Harry's eyes widened knowing what was coming next and lounging at Ron to cover his mouth but it was to late. "You had a crush on your sister." Oceanus's eyes widened, Ginny put her hand to her mouth, and Hermione hit Ron on the back of his head.
"You had a crush on me?" Oceanus asked.
"That was before I found out you were my sister I swear!" Harry had put his hands in defense. Oceanus nodded and then Evan jumped off her shoulder walked over to Harry and sat in front of his feet looking up at him. Harry looked at Evan and then sneezed causing Evan to hiss and run behind Oceanus. Oceanus, Ginny, and Hermione started laughing. "What's so funny?"
"Evans is afraid of your nose!" Oceanus shouted causing everyone in the common room to look over as the group laughed at the memory of Harry's milk on the train.
"Ginny wait up!" Oceanus cried as she ran after Ginny, who was running to the Quidditch pitch to practice for tryouts. But as she was running a human obstacle appeared out of nowhere and she ran straight into it and fell to the floor.
"Hey watch where you're… going." Oceanus looked up to see a boy with platinum blonde hair and steel blue eyes looking down at her.
"Sorry I was in a hurry and wasn't paying attention to my surroundings." Oceanus said as she took the boys offered hand to help her up.
"Are you new here?" He asked. "Cause I think I'd remember those eyes." Oceanus smiled at the compliment.
"Yes, I am new I came to be in the same school as my brother instead of studying in Romania." She replied.
"Your brother, huh? Who's brother?" the boy steadily move closer.
"Umm… well … he's…"
"OCEANUS!" Her head jerked over to where the voice came from to see Harry looking furious. "What are you doing with him?"
"Well I was running to catch up with Ginny when I accidentally ran into him." She explained.
" Well, make sure you stay away from him." Harry told her.
"Who are you to tell her that, Pothead?" the boy said firmly.
"I'm her brother, Malfoy!" Harry said in reply just a firm. Draco just stood in shock as Harry dragged Oceanus to the Quidditch pitch.
"You aren't to talk to him ever." Harry told Oceanus as he led her through the tunnel towards the field. "You understand me."
"Harry I don't see why it's any of your business of who I do or don't talk to." At that Oceanus mounted her broom and flew into the air.
Oceanus and Ginny had both made it on to the team as Chasers. Oceanus was so excited the day she made the team that she went to find Draco to tell him the wonderful news. She finally spotted him in the Library and started towards him he looked up and then vanished behind bookshelves. She searched for a half an hour before realizing 'He's avoiding me!'.
Two weeks passed and Draco still ignored her and she had just about enough of it so she developed a plan. She tricked Draco into meeting 'someone' out by the lake at six once she got there she hid so he won't run away when he saw her. Five minutes later Draco appeared and sat down by the lake waiting so she came out of hiding.
"Why are you avoiding me, Draco?" She asked as she walked up to him. Draco jumped as he heard her voice and sighed realizing he had fallen for a trap.
"Do I really have to answer that?" He replied turning back to look at the lake. Oceanus sat down next to him and turn to face him.
"Yes because the only reason I can think of right now is my brother being Harry Potter." Her raised in pitch, when she spoke her brother's name.
"Ding, ding, ding we have a winner!" Draco said with annoyance.
"You've got to be kidding me! Why?" Draco shrugged.
"I don't know, self-preservation maybe."
"What?" She asked confused.
"Your brother is my sworn enemy!"
"So?"
"So, it's not something that's done."
"I'm not a known traditionalist." Oceanus smirked. Draco stood up and walked towards the lake.
"Oceanus, you're a Potter I'm a Malfoy son of a Deatheater…"
"But are you one?" she asked not taking her eyes from him. Draco turned to look at her.
"What?" Oceanus got up.
"Are you a Deatheater?" Draco looked down at the ground.
"No." she walked over to him.
"Are you going to be?"
"No." He looked up at her and into her eyes and Oceanus stood there for a moment.
"Then it shouldn't matter." She turned on her heel leaving Draco to his thoughts as she made her way back to the castle.
The next day Oceanus was walking in the hallways with Ginny listening to how she planned on making Harry have a crush on her, when Draco roughly bumped into Oceanus causing her to drop all of her stuff. He walked away making Ginny shout at him to watch where's he's going. Oceanus bent down to pick up her stuff noticing there was a piece of paper that wasn't there before her encounter she picked it up hoping to read it later alone.
"You know, Ginny. I think my brother would fall head over heels in love with you if only you had the courage to be yourself in front of him." Oceanus said as she got up and continued walking to the common room to do homework before Quidditch practice. Once they got to the common room they sent their books out on a table and started working on Transfiguration. Oceanus looked at Ginny to see that she was too engrossed in Trans that she wouldn't notice very much, so she took out the note and decided now would be the best time to read it.
Oceanus,
I've been thinking about what you said yesterday, but you know what it does matter sure I want to be friends with you but I can't. Do you know what my father would do if he found out he'd beat me until he figure out that he could probably use our friendship to get to you and your brother and then beat me some more. Your probably thinking well then don't tell your father, but unfortunately my fellow Slytherins would do that for me even without my consent.
Sorry it couldn't work out,
Draco
Oceanus got up and threw the note in the fire and got a spare parchment and started writing.
Draco,
1. All of your friends will see this note as a note from a family member of your choice. 2. Don't thinking you know what I am thinking cause you don't I wasn't thinking that we don't tell your father I was thinking we don't tell anyone (At least until your ready). 3. You must know by now that being a Gryffindor and a Potter comes with extreme stubbornness and the want to do things for others over thy own want. So with that said I refuse to back down, if you'd like to convince me otherwise or just talk (cause the convincing will not work no matter what) meet me at the Shrieking Shack tomorrow at one (no it's not haunted).
Sincerely,
The Sea
She picked up Evan who was lying on Oceanus's lap and tied the note to her collar.
"Evan I need you to take this to a Draco Malfoy the boy we talk to at the lake." She whispered so no one but Evan would hear. Oceanus placed Evan on the ground and she ran out the common room and out of sight.
"Where is she going?" Ginny said curious the Evan was leaving Oceanus's side.
"Oh she probably saw a mouse or something." Ginny nodded accepting the answer.
Evan ran through out the castle in search of Draco she laid down to rest being only a kitten she could only run so long. When she was lying down the old man Oceanus had called Dumbledore came over and sat down on the bench next to where she was resting.
"I believe you will find the person your looking for in the dungeons in the Slytherin dorms." Evan looked up at him and blinked
'How did he know?' she thought as she got up and ran down to the dungeons towards the Slytherin common room. Once she was there she saw him walking up some stairs so she followed running into the room before he could close the door. Evan needed to get his attention now so she started rubbing on his legs.
"What the?" Draco said as he looked down and saw Evan. He squatted so he could pet her fur. "Where did you come from?" Evan shook so the parchment would fall out of her collar, she picked it up with her mouth and walked closer to him so he would get that it was for him. He offered his hand, "What do you have there?" Evan dropped it into his hand and start purring as he continued to pet her.
'I like him' She thought 'He's cute for a human.' Draco stopped petting her for a moment to open the note and then resumed petting as he read the note.
"Your Oceanus's cat, aren't you?" Evan meowed and continued purring. "I guess I really have no choice but to meet her tomorrow especially when she sends a beautiful kitten with her message." He said with a smile.
'He called me beautiful!' Evan thought 'If Oceanus ever decides to have him as a mate then I approve.'
"Well, best get you out of Slytherin territory just in case." Draco picked up Evan and stood up from squatting and walked out the door, through the common room and out the portrait hole. He put Evan down on the ground and petted her one last time. "Be careful wouldn't want a beautiful thing like you to get hurt now would we." Evan meowed in reply, which made Draco smile as he went into the common probably to lie on his bed and think. Evan made her way down to the Quidditch pitch where Oceanus would be practicing with her team. As she got there she saw her master flying around in the air so she laid down on the side lines and rested while the Gryffindor Quidditch team practiced.
"Okay team, good practice tonight! Get some rest and we'll meet here on Monday at 7pm!" Harry yelled as they descended on to the field.
"Evan!" Oceanus shouted with joy as she saw her cat lying on the ground. Evan perked up and waited for Oceanus to come over and pick her up. "Okay Evan lick my nose once if he got the note and isn't coming or lick it twice if he got the note and is coming." Oceanus whispered. Evan started purring like a maniac and licked her nose twice causing Oceanus to smile.
"Wow looks like she missed you!" Ginny said as she walked over to where she was. Oceanus just nodded causing Ginny to laugh.
"Oceanus, are you going to spend the day with us tomorrow?" Harry asked draping an arm over his sister's shoulder.
"Nah, I think you should go on a date." Oceanus said looking a little too smug at Ginny whose eyes became wide when she realized what Oceanus was doing.
"With who?" he asked looking over at his sister.
"With Ginny of course." With that Oceanus walked away with Evan in her arms to the Gryffindor common room leaving Harry and Ginny looking at her stunned.
"Did you expect that?" Harry asked Ginny after a couple of minutes of an awkward moment.
"No." She said timidly keeping her eyes on the ground.
"Would you like to go on a date with me?" Ginny's head shot up and looked at him shocked. "I mean just to get to know each other since I don't really know you all that well…"
"Sure!" Ginny said quickly interrupting his babbling.
"Ok so I'll meet you at the entrance at 10 or 11?" he asked smiling.
"10 would be great. Now if you'll excuse me I have to go humiliate your sister for revenge." Harry laughed as Ginny walked away.