Chapter One!

"ALBUS!" She called up the stairs hoping he would hurry up. They were going miss the train if he didn't get out of bed soon. Finally giving up on yelling for him she scurried up the stairs and threw his door open.

"What's up Rosie? I'm heading down now."

"Well that would have been nice to know ten minutes ago! I thought you were still asleep. I figured y you would make us late again."

They had had to borrow cars from the ministry for the past two years because Albus Severus Potter could not wake up before it was time for them to leave the house. Now they were in their sixth year at Hogwarts and she was fed up with being late.

"Why are you even here Weasley? Don't your parents have their own car to take you to kings cross?"

"Yes they do. But Aunt Ginny called me this morning to see if I could get you out of bed because you are the laziest of us all."

"My mom tattled on me to my cousin?"

"She has done this every year! I don't see how you are still surprised by it. Now if you don't hurry up we will leave without you."

"You're just mad at me because I'm a Slytherin aren't you?"

"Nope I'm mad because you are a last git! Now hurry up. Everyone is in the car already." Rose laughed and walked out skipping down the stairs excited for the new school year. She was a prefect; she had quidditch to look forward to, not to mention she had potions with Slytherin again this year which probably meant that Scorpious Malfoy was in her class. And she could beat him at every text again.

"You are abnormally happy Rosie" James laughed as she slid into the seat next to him in the car.

"Just glad to be going back"

"What living at home not good enough for you?"

"Home is fine. But home doesn't have the amazing library that Hogwarts has. Not to mention I was way more power there as a prefect than I do at home."

"Good point." James Potter may have been one of the most insufferable cocky blokes in school but he was the closest thing to an older brother that Rose had so she did her best to put up with him.

"All right, all right! Don't worry I'm here!" Albus said climbing into the seat with them causing us all to slide over. Poor little lily was mushed against the opposite door.

"James! Move over!" she whined trying to push back but being the youngest one in the seat and the only one who wasn't muscular from years of quidditch practice, she couldn't do much. It only took her a few moments to realize this fact and she stopped trying and just contented herself with looking out the window.

"Rosie!" Albus yelled looking into a compartment "I think I got one!"

Rose, James, Hugo, and Lily all followed him and peeked into the compartment that Albus had ducked into.

Rose being the first to see who else was in the compartment sighed and made a face at Al. "Why do you feel the need to make me suffer today! I mean really? Him?" she said angrily

"I can hear you, you know." The blond boy said completely unamused. He didn't even look up from the Prophet to see who had been talking

"Scorpious is my friend Rose. If you don't like it then oh well because you have to deal with it."

"I don't think he is that bad…" Lily piped up sitting down across from him. James and Hugo sat on the bench with lily leaving Rose and Albus to sit next to Scorpious who was sitting annoyingly in the middle of the seat. Meaning that she would have to sit next to him or ask him move which he wasn't likely to do.

"I do. No offense Scorpious but you aren't exactly the guy I want hanging around my cousin and my sister."

"At least I haven't slept with all the Ravenclaws in my year" Scorpious joked lightly

"Nope, just all the blonds in school." James retorted quickly

"Touché potter."

"I swear I have never seen a more unlikely pair of friends." Rose laughed before seeing the look on James's face "sorry I meant to say acquaintances"

"This coming from the girl who willingly dates a Huffelpuff?"

"Yep. I-" she said before getting cut off

"James…I don't think…" Scorpious started but he stopped and looked back down at his paper

"You don't think what Malfoy?"

"nothing."

"Something" James challenged

"Hey look guys! The candy trolley!" Hugo burst out looking out the door at the cart. He was already pulling money out of his pockets as he walked to the door. Somehow the twelve year olds meaningless outburst diffused all arguments as they told him what to get us.


As they walked into the great hall for dinner she grabbed Scorpious' arm and pulled him aside for a moment.

"What is it Weasley?"

"I was just wondering what you were going to tell James on the train?"

"Oh… well why do you want to know that?"

"Well, it saved me from having to answer back to him. Honestly I didn't have a comeback to that.."

"The famous Rose Weasley rendered speechless"

"Just answer the question Malfoy"

"I was going to tell him that whoever you loved it was your business and he should butt out of it."

"When did I ever say that I loved Lysander?"

"You don't?" He asked slyly leaning towards her and whispering "Then why are you with him?" he walked away from her with a small smile before she could respond.

She sat down at the table next to Albus just like any other night but tonight she couldn't get Malfoy's question out of my head. Did she love Lysander? Could she love Lysander? Why was she still with him if she didn't? If she couldn't?

"What was that with Scorp?" Albus asked. Rose shrugged and laughed "I wanted to figure out what he almost told James on the train."

"and what was he going to say?"

"Oh nothing… Just that he didn't think James had the intellect to insult anyone."

"James has no intellect so that would be an accurate statement…" Albus laughed and dismissed the conversation.


That night Rose sat up in the common room for hours after everyone else had gone to bed. she sat thinking about Lysander Scamander and if he was someone she wanted to date. In the end she had decided that Scorpious Malfoy was simply an annoying git who was trying to mess with her head and went to bed without putting too much more thought into it.

When she saw Lysander the next morning at breakfast she gave him a snog that reassured her of her feelings for him. And as a side effect, she got his hopes up about something that she was not trying to imply.

"Someone looks chipper this morning" James laughed wiggling his eyebrows as he walked by them.

"Oh bugger off Potter!" Rose and Lysander called in unison before breaking apart and heading to their tables to eat.

"How is your schedule Rosie?" Albus asked sliding into the seat next to her

"Double potions with Slytherin, Defense against dark arts, Muggle studies, a study period, and charms"

"We have potions together and that is it."

"Damn. I liked having you in all my classes last year. I didn't have to actually do ANY homework"

"Yes but you did have to tutor me so I could do the homework that you copied and corrected so that you have a better grade than me."

"What can I say? I like to win."

Albus shook his head at her and laughed "Rosie that may just be the biggest understatement I have heard in a while."

she nudged her cousin and laughed. "So James has a new girlfriend already?" She asked nodding to where he was snogging some random Ravenclaw.

"So are there any more Ravenclaws he has not snogged? My last count was that she was the last. Other than the first years."

"Yep. She was the last. Sadly this probably means that he will move to the other houses. In all honesty I think it is his personal goal to snog every girl in school" Rose sighed wondering how many children her cousin would have by the time he finished at Hogwarts

"My brother may be even worse than Dominique and Roxanne" Albus stated plainly as he looked back at his plate to finish his breakfast. Rose had never seen anyone eat more than the boys in her family. They could all pile in at least four servings per meal and somehow they all remained rail thin.

Rose laughed "Did you just call the most vicious women in our family whores?"

Albus sputtered "NO! I… I …. I was merely thinking that… They are going to kill me aren't they?"

"They are probably rushing here from their dorms because they sensed that they had been insulted. Yeah you are pretty much a dead man. What kind of flowers do you want at the funeral?"

"Well would saying roses or lilies be a bit over rated?"

"nope. Just weird. To have your sister and your cousin be passed around and hung up at your funeral? creeepy"

"Oh fuck off Weasley!"

"You know you love me"

"Just enough not to murder you in your sleep."


Professor Pefifenberg (Peh- fif- in- burg) was a new teacher at Hogwarts and the students were having a hell of a fun time with his unusual name.

He had given them assigned seats next to a person who was not from their own house and to Rose's dismay she was placed with Malfoy. She set her books at the empty space next to his and grimaced inwardly. She had no clue how she was going to deal with a whole year of Scorpious being in her class.

"Alright class, today we are going to be working on a simple love potion. The directions are on the board and you can also find them in your books. When you are finished raise your hand and I will come check to see if it is correct." Pefifenberg said sounding incredibly board as he wandered the classroom keeping an eye on their progress.

"I don't understand why we always make love potions in here!" Scorpious was complaining. Rose was fairly sure that he was talking to himself but she turned to him anyways

"Don't question Professor Pefifenberg the Proprietor of Potions" she giggled glancing across the room to make sure her teacher had not heard her. to her satisfaction Scorpious started to laugh. He hid it well at first but when he saw her looking at him and tried to hold it in it caused him to laugh harder. Rose covered her mouth to smother the bubbles of laughter that were rising.

"Is there something funny Malfoy? Weasley?" Pefifenberg asked walking over to the pair.

"I'm sorry sir I just happened to catch a case of the giggles and Scorpious seems to have caught it from me. We will be quiet." Rose recovered quickly seeing the stern look on his face but almost as soon as he turned around she burst into another fit of laughter.

"We need to get started." Scorpious said taking a few deep breaths

"Yeah but lucky for you I have brewed this before. Uncle George uses this in the love chocolates that get sold around Valentine's Day and he has me help out a lot."

"I guess it is my lucky day then." He said as he watched her work. He wrote notes as to how she did it if only just to make it seem like she wasn't doing all of the work. She had him doing the odd job parts like cutting and chopping but she wouldn't let him do much more than that.

"And….voila! We are done!" she said dropping the last shreds of peppermint into her cauldron.

"You finished that in like twenty minutes Red." Scorpious said sounding impressed. "I don't think anyone in class was supposed to finish before class ended."

"Well anyone is not me." She said ignoring the fact that he called her Red. At this point she didn't expect any less of him and she didn't feel like getting into an argument.

Scorpious rose his hand into the air and waited for Pefifenberg to walk back over. "Do you need help?" he asked looking eager to actually teach us something.

"Well… not exactly sir. You see we are done."

The Professor looked down at the slightly simmering cauldron and smiled "Indeed you have. Now may I ask how you did it so fast?"

Rose blushed "I help out at my uncles shop over summers and holidays. I helped brew this a few times for the shop. And Malfoy has a photographic memory so neither of us needed to look at the book and we knew what to do exactly."

"I knew I choose to easy a potion for a sixth year class." He muttered. "Clean your spot, put the potion in a vial and onto my desk for me to grade, and then you may go" he said to his students.

Once he had walked away again Scorpious looked at her strangely "How did you know I have a photographic memory?"

"Your best friend and my best friend are the same person. He was complaining about 'why didn't he have a photographic memory like Scorpious' while we were studying last year"

"Oh… right." Malfoy packed his bag and left leaving Rose highly confused as to what she had said to piss him off.


So hope you guys like it... there are more chapters to come. R and R please?