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A little girl sat in the corner of the train compartment, her face in the shadow of a book. The girl had wavy red hair, a childish, pretty face dotted with freckles, and a thin form.
The door to the compartment slid open and a boy her age walked in, a cheerful grin on his face.
"Hi, Rose." Albus plopped down next to her.
Rose rested the book on her lap and looked up at her cousin.
"Need some help with that?" Rose asked.
"What...? Oh..." Albus lifted his broken glasses by the lens, letting the other half dangle dangerously. "It's alright. I only use them for reading anyways."
Rose rolled her eyes. "My mom taught me this." She took out her wand. "Reparo!"
The glasses snapped into shape immediately.
"Thanks," Albus said ruefully, stuffing his glasses into his bag.
"They're going to break again if you do that," Rose pointed out.
Albus shrugged, dropping his backpack on the floor. Rose, hearing something crack, grinned.
"Drop them off the astronomy tower," she suggested. "Or feed them to-" she stopped as the door slid open once again. A wiry boy with white-blond hair was standing in the doorway uncertainly. Rose recognized him immediately from the platform. She jumped up and walked to the door.
"Hi! I'm Rose." She stuck out her hand, smiling.
"I'm Scorpius," he said shyly, shaking it. "I was wondering if I could sit in here. All the other compartments are full."
"Of course!" Rose motioned for him to come in, closing the door behind him, finalizing the decision.
Scorpius sat down across from them, perched on the edge of the seat.
"This is my cousin, Albus," Rose said, looking over at Albus. She couldn't read his expression yet.
"You're Scorpius Malfoy?" Albus asked.
Scorpius cringed at the mention of his last name. "Well...yes."
Albus smiled and nodded. "Nice to meet you."
Scorpius looked slightly surprised, but remained silent, and the conversation turned away from parents and towards Albus's glasses. By the end of the train ride, Scorpius understood that Albus and Rose excepted him, and didn't care about any family feuds that had been brewing over the years. In their eyes, he was equal and just as good as them.
Rose smiled from her place in the corner of the compartment, exactly the same spot she had been in five years ago. Not much had changed since then, she reflected. She, Scorpius, and Albus were still best friends, and she knew they were in for yet another year of troublemaking and detentions.
The door opened and two boys tumbled into the compartment.
"Hiya,Rosie!" Scorpius plopped down next to Rose. Rose lowered her book. "Hi, Scorp."
"Why didn't you wait for us?" Albus complained.
Rose shrugged. "I wanted to get a few seconds of peace before you two came in.
Albus sat down He tilted his head forward, and his glasses slipped off, crashing against the hard floor.
"Oops," he said, picking them up.
Scorpius rolled his eyes. "That's lame, Albus. Blow them up!"
"I tried that already. My mom put a spell on my glasses that blocks all spells besides reparo," Albus explained, picking up his barely dented glasses.
"Let them fall off during potions," Rose suggested.
"Then I'll fail potions class."
"Because you won't be able to see the board, or because there will be glasses in your potion?" Scorpius asked.
"Both."
The three of them thought for a moment.
"We already tried the astronomy tower," Rose began.
"And the lake," Scorpius continued,
"And Hagrid's Blast-Ended Skrewts,"
"I still have the scar from that one." Albus rolled up his sleeve to show them a burn scar on his forearm.
"You could leave them in the common room by mistake," said Scorpius.
"Someone'l return them to me." Albus showed him the engraving on the glasses: Albus S. Potter.
"What about-" Rose stopped as a loud rattling sound filled the compartment. Looking over at the door, Rose already knew what she was going to see; James and Fred impatiently trying to open the door. Sighing, Rose stood up and opened the door.
"See? You open it like this," Rose explained, showing her cousins how to open it.
James shrugged. "Normally rattling it until it opens or breaks works just fine. What are you guys up to?"
"Mom fixed my glasses again." Albus showed his brother his glasses.
"That's too bad," Fred sympathized. "Maybe we can help."
"What are you going to do, chuck it out the window?" Scorpius asked, exchanging mischievous glances with Rose and Albus.
"Good idea."
James muttered a spell, and the window dissolved. He took Albus's glasses, and, leaning out the window, chucked them as hard as he could. Rose, Albus and Scorpius moved slightly to the side, away from James, grinning at each other.
"See? It's that easy. I can't believe-" Before James could finish his sentence, a pair of glasses flew back through the window and whacked him on the head with such force that he fell backwards, toppling onto Fred. Albus and Scorpius were chortling at the dazed look on the older boys' faces.
"That was unexpected," Rose reflected, sending the boys into a fresh bout of laughter. James stood up, and the glasses immediately began pounding him on the head, much harder then you would expect from mere eye were. The sight of James cowering and covering his head as Albus's glasses beat him relentlessly was too much for Scorpius to bear. He fell off his seat, almost taking Rose with him, rolling on the floor as he laughed uncontrollably. Fred, having recovered from being flattened by James, was snickering at his cousin, and Albus and Rose were now also laughing at Scorpius and James. When they all finally recovered, and Albus's glasses finally relented, all of them had tears in their eyes, particularly Scorpius. Of course, the recovery didn't last long...
Albus picked up his glasses, examined them for a moment, and then threw them right at James. They bounced off his head, and landed on the floor. The lens shattered. James was still in shock, his mouth hanging open. Albus and Rose were staring at the broken glasses.
"Well, that's one way to do it," Scorpius said. And the laughter started again.
Wiping tears from her eyes, Rose sat up again and picked up her book. She watched Scorpius and Albus lifted themselves from the floor and back onto the bench. Fred grinned at them.
"See you at Hogwarts." he and James walked out of the compartment.
"I'm actually glad mom put that charm on my glasses," Albus said.
"That was funny," Rose agreed.
"And now we don't have to worry about Al's glasses for..." Scorpius trailed off, looking at Albus.
"However long it takes for James's letter to get to my mom,"