My Harry Potter drabble/oneshot for WhiteFerrets's 'The List Challenge.'

Character: Rose Weasley

Quotes: "Curiousity killed the cat" ~ "And satisfaction brought it back, so tell me!"

and

"No sh*t, Sherlock." ~ "Who's Sherlock?"

Object: Homework

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Rain splattered against the Gryffindor common room and inside Rose Weasley was doing her Potions homework by a crackling fire. It was a particularly boring essay on the 12 properties of dragon's blood and she still had another foot and a half to go.

Sighing, she put down her quill, stretched and stifled a yawn. She'd never get this done tonight, not with the thought of the Christmas holidays, snow, presents and mince pies, floating round her head. But she really did needed to though, as she didn't really fancy having to attend that detention Professor Slughorn was constantly threatening to give her, to ruin her festive cheer.

Sighing again, she picked up her quill and continued to write.

She had been writing again for about five minutes when her cousin, Albus, flopped down next to her and grinned.

"Hey Roise-Posie , cousin-wosin-wo-wo."

Rose glared at him menacingly and he leaned away from her, eyes wide with fake terror, pretending to be terrified by her evil glare. Rose giggled at him and he stopped his act, laughing too.

"Seriously Rose, if looks could kill, I'd be dead now and you would all be morning over my body, tears streaming down your faces, hating yourselves for not being nicer to me."

Rose rolled her eyes at his melodramatics and returned to her essay.

"What ya doing?" Al asked, peering over her shoulder at the parchment in front of her.

"Curiosity killed the cat, Al." Rose mumbled.

"And satisfaction brought it back, so tell me!" Al whined. "Plus I'm not a cat." He added.

Rose tutted and him. "Homework." She said with distaste.

"Homework?" Al said with horror. "B-b-but it's only two days to the holidays!"

"No sh*t, Sherlock." Rose muttered under her breath.

Al recovered from the horrific news on homework so close to the holidays and his expression changed to confused.

"Who's Sherlock?" He asked.

Rose rolled her eyes again. "You need to read more, Al. He's a muggle detective."

"Oh." Al said, still looking confused. "What's he got to do with this?"

Rose laughed.


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