Her Everything Chapter One

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT own anything having to do with Harry Potter or whatever JK Rowling has written. The only thing I do own is the story line/plot and the original characters I have made up.

FULL SUMMERY: Picture this. No such thing as Harry Potter nor Voldemort's return or even Snape turning his back on Dumbledore. Impossible to call a Harry Potter Fanfiction, right? Wrong. Celeste comes from a family where her mother's a witch and her father's a muggle. She just got accepted into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Learning everything she needs to know, she begins to strengthen relationships with her loved ones over the years. Even though it's Severus Snape, the deep and mysterious anti-social Potion's teacher, Remus Lupin, the school's Werewolf and best Defence Against the Dark Arts in history, Draco Malfoy, the meanest Slytherin ever who seems to have a thing for her, and Cedric Diggory, the kindest Hufflepuff wizard she ever met who treats her as his equal . Trying to get over her past loves and trying to find happiness from the future, who's love will she be able to find in time before she graduates from Hogwarts?


Chapter One - The Letter

Celeste sat at the kitchen table with her mother and her father. The sun had just set, casting the full moon's glow across the kitchen's white stained linoleum floor. In the middle of the table sat an envelope in which all three people at the table were too nervous to open. Their gazes were glued to the 'H' engraved red wax seal that held the envelope together.

"I can't believe it," Celeste's mother finally said, breaking the awkward and rather scary silence.

"Just open it already, Karen," Celeste's father urged.

Celeste's mother shook her head instantly, sitting back in the old wooden chair, creating a loud and obnoxious creak that Celeste was sick of hearing.

"No."

"Just do it."

"Why don't you?"

Her parents fought back and forth about this until suddenly, Celeste let out an annoyed sigh as she grabbed the folded parchment with her name and address on it, immediately ripping the letter open. Her parents stopped and looked at her with widened eyes, eager to hear what was in the letter.

Celeste's eyes roamed the letter, reading swiftly through it. "It says that I'm invited to join," Celeste says, letting out a sigh and sitting back in her seat lazily, her hand that held the letter falling to the table top just as her father ripped it from her hold.

Her father's eyes roamed the letter next. Then he looked at his wife with blue eyes that were crossed with concern and puzzlement. Celeste's mother looked at him, shrugging her shoulders in a guilty way.

"What's wrong?" Celeste asked as she looked between the two.

Her mother finally looked at her. "Nothing...just that...we thought that you wouldn't have any wizard blood in you...I'm a muggle...your father's pure blood..." her mother trailed on as she got up from her seat and stopped before the kitchen sink, staring out the small window that hung just above the sink. Her hands rested on each side of the sink.

"Mom, I think I'd have power regardless," Celeste said, blinking at her mother.

She soon heard hear father give a short chuckle. "Told you she'd say it, honey," her father said to his wife.

"But can I go?" Celeste then asked, ignoring her father's comment.

"Of course you can, sweetie...just that-" her mother stopped mid-sentence and sighed, looking at her daughter and then back outside.

"Just that...what?" Celeste questioned.

Her mother sighed a stressed sigh and looked at Celeste once again as she came and sat back down at the kitchen table. "I'm just so shocked is all..." her mother murmured as she folded her hands before her on the table top as her husband rested his hand on her shoulder in a comforting way.

Celeste took the letter and re-read it over two more times, a small happy smile appearing at her lips. She then shot out of her seat and skipped around the table with her arms flailing in the air, the letter still in hand. "I'm so excited! I'm going to Hogwarts!" she screeched excitedly as she did a few laps around the table before her father chuckled and gently grabbed her wrist for her to stop.

"Now this is a month away, sweetie. Save the excitement for later," her father said, chuckling as her mother finally relaxed a bit and cracked a smile.

"I can't wait to see which house I'm in!" Celeste said as she sat back down in her seat, moving every which way with full expression.

Her mother sighed and sarcastically glared at her husband. "You let her read up on those history books...didn't you."

He chuckled and gave her an obvious guilty look.

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Celeste stood before the brick wall right behind The Leaky Cauldron with her arms crossed over her chest, impatient. Her father was taking his time with remembering the combination. When he finally remembered it, he turned to Celeste. "You have your supplies list with you?" he asked. Celeste's mother was at work today, so it was just Celeste and her father.

Celeste's eyes widened when the bricks parted as her hand that was in her backpack froze. When the bricks finally finished parting and her and her father took a step into the town, her hand took out the folded piece of paper with the list of supplies she would be needing for Hogwarts written on it by her mother just last night.

"Yeah...here," Celeste murmured as she handed her father the list, her eyes still widened as she watched everyone walk here and there down Diagon Alley.

Three sets of plain black works robes, one plain black pointed hat for day wear, one pair of dragon hide or similar protective gloves, one black with silver fastenings winter cloak.  The Standard Book of Spells (Grade 1) by Miranda Goshawk, A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot, Magical Theory by Adalbert Waffling, A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration by Emeric Switch, One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi by Phyllida Spore, Magical Drafts and Potions by Arsenius Jigger, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander, The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection,  1 wand,  1 cauldron (pewter, standard size 2), 1 set glass or crystal phials, 1 telescope, and 1 set brass scales.

So after taking their time in the Cauldron Shop, the Stationary Shop, Flourish & Blott's, Madame Malkin's Robes for All Occasions, Olivander's Wand Shop, and Eyelops Owl Emporium, the sun was just setting as they were walking out of the town with Celeste's cart all full. Celeste had dinner with her father at the Leaky Cauldron as they ate two bowls of beef stew, on the house.

"So...how long will I be there?" Celeste asked her father as she picked at what was left of her stew.

"Sixteen weeks," her father answered as he took a sip of his mug of beer.

Celeste nodded her head and took a sip of her Emerald Ale. "Will I be coming home for Christmas Vacation?" she then asked.

Her father took a moment to think. "Depends on how early we'll be back from grandma's."

Celeste's grandparents lived all the way in the United States in a state called Ohio. Wasn't the best but from the times Celeste had visited, it was rather comfortable. Though...the weather there, she swore was bi polar.

She sighed. "Well...if everything goes okay, I won't mind having to be at Hogwarts for Christmas," Celeste sat as she drank what was left in her mug.

Her father nodded his head. "Alright, well...don't want to finally talk anything over without your mother," he said with a short and low chuckle. Celeste smiled a bit and nodded her head. She knew how her mother was always. If you talked something over without her and she found out...you were in big trouble.