Just a small one-shot about Rose Weasley's departure for her final year at Hogwarts.
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Hermione Weasley's daughter was boarding the Hogwarts Express for the last time as a student. Rose Weasley was seventeen, and this would be the year that she graduated from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a fact that made her mother proud, and her father extremely sad. It seemed that Ron Weasley couldn't get over the fact that his little girl was growing up and Rose looked upon that in scorn. She wasn't a little girl anymore, she was a grown woman who was going to become a Healer like her cousin, Victoire, and while she did that she was going to work part-time in her Uncle George's shop in Diagon Alley. She was already working at his Hogsmeade store on Quidditch free weekends and a few evenings after school after getting express permission to leave the grounds from Headmistress Minerva McGonagall. Far from being excited to go back to school, though, Rose was anxious. This was her last year, and she had to get it right. For the first time in her life, she was reluctant to get on the train, and her mother sympathised.
"It's okay, Rose. I felt like that in my Sixth Year before your dad, Uncle Harry and I went off to hunt the Horcruxes. It gets better though. You've got everything you need, and anything you want you can easily provide for yourself. You can write to me every day, if you want, Rose, if it makes you feel better. This is your year, Rose. Make the most of it, and get on the train. I love you."
"I love you too, Mum. I won't be writing every day, though. I'm not a First Year."
"I know Rosie. I'd tell you to be good, but you're a Ravenclaw, so I don't have to, do I?"
"No Mum," said Rose, rolling her eyes. But she hugged Hermione tightly. "Try and come to the shop next weekend, okay? We can have lunch together."
Hermione assured Rose that she would be there, and Rose got on the train. This was her last chance to get it perfect, and as the new Head Girl, there was no way she was missing out on the chance to have it all fall into place. Not even her favourite cousin, Albus Potter, was going to stop her in the climb to greatness. She was going to win the Quidditch Cup, the House Cup and she wasn't going to get a single detention. The school year of 2024 – 2025 was Rose Weasley's year.
As the train pulled out of King's Cross Station, Rose thought about everything she had done in her time at Hogwarts, and all of the things she had learnt. In one memorable detention, she was sorting out a detention drawer full of the wrong-doings of her Uncles Fred and George. Suffice it to say, Rose never received another detention after that. She smiled as the scenery zoomed by and when the lunch trolley came around, she bought herself a chocolate frog, only to have a card with her mother on it. Hermione Granger-Weasley did it right in her last year, and her daughter was going to happily follow in her footsteps.
This train ride was the most important of her life. She tried hard to remember that as she remebered watching her mother wipe a tear from her cheek through the cold glass of the carriage window.