Chapter 1 - Why's It Always Me!?

Rose POV

"Rose! Come on we're going to be late! Hugo you too, hurry up." My mother, Hermione Granger-Weasley called up the stairs to my brother and me.

Hugo shouted back down that he was just putting his Eagle Owl, Iris, into her carrier for the journey to school. Hugo and mum were the only ones in this household who had an Owl, I didn't want a pet during my first year at Hogwarts and I just used to borrow my cousin Albus' Owl Gynx during term or use my mum's Owl Rhea when she sent me letters. That was until third year when over Christmas break Crookshanks brought home kittens. He had fourteen in total between three different mothers, all belonging to our crazy cat lady neighbour Mrs. Willow; she is an elderly witch who breeds Kneazle's and cross-breed Kneazle's for a living. Since these were accidents though she decided not to charge us for any of them, however my mum did give her G500 for the inconvenience.

I had already packed everything I needed except for my cross-Kneazle cat, Vixen; she was currently asleep on the end of my bed.

Picking up Vixen quickly I put her in her cat travel box, which she absolutely hated and hurried down the stairs.

We quickly ate breakfast and then headed off to Kings Cross station in London, we currently live in Godric's Hollow. It's a small Wizarding community in the West Country which many Muggle's do not know about; we have to apparate to the station because the drive would take too long. Since I was now a seventh year I could now apparate on my own so I told my mother I would meet her on the platform.

I pictured the platform with the Scarlett steam train which takes me to my second home and felt a tightening in my stomach and felt a pop. Opening my eyes I saw a bustling platform full of children from the ages of 11 to 18 years old all heading off to school. Some were still dressed in their Muggle clothes like me and others were already in their robes. Walking a bit further in I spotted my Uncle Harry Potter and his wife Ginny Potter with their two children Albus and Lily the second and third of their children.

"James decided to give it a miss?" I asked as soon as I arrived, hugging Lily and nudging Albus.

"Yeah, he has training today along with Fred and Roxy," Albus said as he ran a hand through his untameable hair and grinned, obviously happy for his older brother.

"I can't believe they all made it into professional Quidditch. Even if they are on the Reserve team at the minute" Albus said laughing. James, his older brother, and Fred our cousin were the Chasers for the Gryffindor House Team which won for five years straight, beating Albus' Slytherin team by a mile. Roxanne, who was Fred's twin sister, played Beater with Xavier the current captain for this year and also my ex-boyfriend since just before the summer of this year, but since she graduated last year we have to find a replacement, and for James and Fred too.

"I know being picked up by the Montrose Magpies is amazing. Although I am surprised that Roxy went to the Holyhead Harpies, but that has been her favourite team since forever, but she never normally likes playing against Fred." I said to Albus.

He was my closest cousin, out of the whole lot, even more so than Lily, Victoire and Dominique. Albus has been my playmate since birth since our birthdays are about three months apart myself being the oldest out of both of us. We have always been close, even when he got put into Slytherin we still remained close. He comes to hang out with me on occasion, sometimes even spends time with my friends, although I do think that's because he had a crush on my friend Bleu-Belle Thistle before he started dating Verity Robertson a fellow seventh year Slytherin, although it was actually Francesca Longbottom otherwise known as Frankie who had the crush on Albus. I find it hard to keep up with the love interests of my cousin; whether it is the ones that like him or the ones he likes himself

"It might be because she wants to distance herself from her brother, you know?" Albus said to me.

I just nodded in reply; Roxy and Fred's relationship was a difficult one. They loved each other and they were as close as a set of twins can be, complete each other's sentences and they get on really well but the rivalry between them is ridiculous. They always try to outdo each other, and when Fred and James were offered spots of the reserve team of the Montrose Magpies but with no spots for Roxy she was really upset, so she went to the next best team in a league which Aunt Ginny happens to be the Manager for, even during her job at the Daily Prophet as a Quidditch correspondent.

"Rose, you do know who the Head Boy is right?" Albus asked taking me away from my thoughts.

"No why?"

"Because I think you might need to know who it is. Its –"Albus said before he got cut off.

"Rose, sorry about that,"mum said, "we saw some reporters so we had to skirt around them. They follow us all year round, when can't they just leave us be. It's not like everything is already being documented for the whole Wizarding world to see." My mother practically growled. We knew who she was talking about. An elderly reporter who must be at least in her sixties now called Rita Skeeter. She loves to report on those of the Weasley/Potter/Lupin families. Unfortunately it's not even as though we are safe at school, her grandchild Holly Skeeter is a seventh year Hufflepuff, she is practically the gossip queen. She sends her grandmother and her father the gossip that's around school. That's how Witch Weekly found out about mine and Xavier's break-up it hadn't even been a day before it was plastered all over the Gossip Columns of Witch Weekly.

"It's okay mum." I smiled and hugged her hard. I would miss her. It must be so hard to be at home on your own all the time. Ever since dad died it's been hard.

My dad died when I was in my second year of Hogwarts – Hugo was a first year –, He was on a mission with the Auror Department when it happened. A former Death Eater that they were trying to round up managed to disarm and then kill him with the Killing Curse and escaped. Uncle Harry who wasn't there at the time set a team of highly trained Hit Wizards after him. They managed to find him and brought him back to be tried and sentenced to Azkaban. He was sentenced to life by my mother. It's not enough though, it doesn't bring him back. Nothing will.

My mum had to go through a lot of counselling and even had to be medicated. It was horrible. Hugo and I were at school at the time, so the rest of the Weasley's especially my Aunt Ginny were looking out for her. Not well enough though apparently, because my mum tried to commit suicide at one point. She then got committed to St. Mungo's where a team of specially trained Healers helped her get better. She is a lot better now though, but she still attends counselling.

I looked at the time and saw it was quarter to eleven, and my mum had wandered off to talk to somebody. Looking around I saw her talking to Astoria Malfoy. Yes, you're probably wondering as to why my mother is talking to her sworn enemy's wife. Well, you see believe it or not, Astoria is a Healer. She was actually one of the Healers who helped my mum in the first place, through that experience they became friends, and ironically she became friends with Draco Malfoy too. She goes round to their Mansion, they sold the Manor not long after Draco inherited it from his father who was in Azkaban, he then destroyed it along with all the dark artefacts in there and moved himself, his wife and his mother Narcissa to a nicer, newer Mansion in Cornwall, not too far from us in Godric's Hollow actually.

Astoria although Pureblood is actually one of the nicest women you could meet. She doesn't believe in all of the blood supremacy crap that was being said during the second Wizarding war. She actually fought on the side that my parents were fighting for. So when her parents found out they disowned her, her sister Daphne did too. Now however, she is a respectable witch and head of her department at St. Mungo's. She also caused Draco to grow up and fix his reputation. He has done that by becoming the Deputy Head of the Law Department which specialises in sending bad wizards to Azkaban.

Their son however, Scorpius Malfoy, is the bane of my existence. Since Dad passed away we have to spend a lot more time with the Malfoy's because my mum sometimes goes over there to talk to Astoria out of office hours, when she isn't feeling great and spends a bit of time there. Since Draco is the Deputy Head of the Magical Law Enforcement division in the Ministry, he goes in there and covers for her when she needs it.

I sighed, better get this over with, I thought, I headed over to the Malfoy's, Albus in tow, my brother decided to stay with Albus' younger sister Lily.

"Hello Rose, lovely to see you sweetheart. How was your summer?" Astoria Malfoy asked me politely. She was always so polite, and well spoken.

"I'm fantastic thank you Mrs. Malfoy, and my summer was very good thank you. I made Head Girl, so I'm looking forward to that." I said smiling feeling very proud of myself.

Scorpius' younger sister Phoenix then started giggling. She looked to Albus who shrugged.

"You haven't told her yet I take it Al?" Phoenix said with a smile, holding back laughter.

"Nope, didn't get round to it, Nixie thanks." Al looked slightly ashamed.

"Get round to what?" I asked, just as I did I saw Scorpius walking over with his current slag Mitzi Parkinson, she was pretty I grant you but she was as thick as a troll, maybe she was part troll. Her younger sister Missy isn't much better either in all fairness, their half-sister Lorelle Goyle however, is actually quite smart, but she is ugly as sin.

"Oh Weasley, it's so nice to see you, had a good summer I hope. I heard you made Head Girl, guess that means we will be seeing an awful lot of each other this year what with us sharing a dorm and whatnot. See you at the Head's meeting. Bye mum, bye dad, I'll write soon." He said turning to hug his parent's goodbye he then turned to get on the train.

I can't even form a proper sentence and stand there with my mouth open as Scorpius saunters away. Out of all the boys in their seventh year, he was the one that was chosen. Him! He couldn't even put a quill to parchment let alone be a head boy!

I watched as he walked off and onto the train with his little girl toy following after him. I turned to Albus and he started backing away with his hands up in a surrendering posture. I had wished for Albus to be chosen but when he didn't I'd at least hoped for a Ravenclaw or a Hufflepuff, those I could work with… but a Slytherin… that would have been harder to do. Yet even though Leyson knows this and my dislike for Malfoy because of our numerous verbal duels… she doesn't know about many of our actual duels. This is going to be hard.

"I promise you Rosie, I was going to tell you. But so many things happened over the summer it slipped my mind and I tried to tell you earlier but your mum showed up and now this. I'm so sorry." He said quickly.

"You Albus Potter are in deep trouble." I practically growled.

"Now dear, there is no need for that. I doubt Scorpius will cause you that much trouble. He's a good boy." Astoria said smiling. I scoffed and even Phoenix stifled a laugh, the youngest Malfoy's however were not that controlled, the twins Lynx and Lyra Malfoy began laughing hysterically.

"What's so funny Lynx, Lyra?" Draco asked.

"They may be okay in front of you guys but normally if there isn't a fight between them within two weeks of school starting then some thing's wrong with them. Making them work together as head students was a death wish waiting to happen, wouldn't be surprised if the school was completely destroyed by the end of the year." Lynx said walking away laughing with Lyra following onto the train Phoenix not far behind them.

"Well, no fighting this year okay Rosie, anyway you should probably get on the train now. Have a great last year my darling. See you soon, I love you," my mum said and hugged me and my brother goodbye.

"Make sure you write Hugo, and make sure your owl gets let out!" mum called after Hugo who just waved his hand in acknowledgement without turning back round.

I shook my head and headed towards the compartment that my friends and I have had since our first year.

Upon entering it I found that my two best friends were there, Bleu-Belle Dove Thistle and Frankie Longbottom, along with Jonathan Wood, Belle's boyfriend and Xavier Shacklebolt my ex-boyfriend fortunately we are still friends though. Lorcan and Lysander Scamander were in there too as were Paddy Finnigan and his girlfriend Carmen Adler.

Bleu-Belle was a Metamorphagus just like my cousin-in-law Teddy Lupin is. She is the only one in her family out of four siblings, she keeps saying she was adopted but I doubt it, her younger sister's Fern Raven and Arden Swan would look so much like her if their hair was bright pink. Arden's twin Aspen Jay though looks nothing like any of them, looking more like their father than their mother. Her hair is her favourite colour of pink, a bright magenta colour; her eyes though were a pale blue. If you ever wanted to know what mood Belle was in you always look at her eyes. Pale blue is her happy, excited colour. When she was over worked they turn to a grey type colour, when she's tired more like a silvery colour and when she's angry, the best way to describe that colour is like the colour of thunder clouds. Belle changes her appearance so much it's hard to tell what she actually genuinely looks like, but she tends to go for a more hourglass figure, which I have naturally.

Frankie however, looked very similar to her dad in many ways. She has the dark hair and rounded face, she has long eyelashes which I am very jealous of because she never needs to wear mascara, and her dark brown almond shaped eyes look just like the colour of chocolate. Frankie isn't as skinny as Belle and I, but she has a beautiful figure nonetheless. Unfortunately though, because she does hang around with Belle and I she is the bigger one out of all of us, not by much mind you she's still fit and healthy but that doesn't stop all the bitchy girls and their fat shaming antics. During fourth year Frankie suffered with an eating disorder, she is getting better now after having to be admitted to Mungo's, but she is much better.

"How was your summer Rosie?" Frankie asked me as I walked in the room and hugged me.

"It was great, I made Head Girl." I said smiling, I was super excited.

"You never told me you made Head Girl Rose?" My ex-boyfriend Xavier mentioned.

That's right, I hadn't told him yet. He was away with his mum in Italy for three weeks – to get away from me after we split up just before the summer I suspect – whilst his father was on a mission for the Auror office.

"I'm sorry I didn't tell you before just now Xav, since you know you ran off to Italy to avoid me all summer and I wasn't going to mention it in a letter. I thought we'd agreed to be friends after things between us ended, yet as soon as schools out you bugger off to Italy for however long." I said with look, we had agreed to stay friends and obviously that was one sided.

"Yeah, I'm sorry Rose. I just needed to get away to get over us." Xavier said to me looking down at his feet.

"Yeah, I felt the same way, just didn't expect you to go half away across Europe to do that." I said with a perfectly sculpted red eyebrow.

"I'm sorry Rose. Anyway, So who is the Head Boy then?" Xavier asked obviously interested.

"It's Scorpius Malfoy." I said sneering, they all knew of my relationship with Malfoy. Yes we got along for the benefit of classes, since we are always paired together because we are the smartest students in the year and because he is my cousin's best friend, but that doesn't mean that we are best friends. In fact, we are nowhere even near being friends.

"Oh no, that's going to be fun sharing a dorm with him Rosie." Belle mentioned.

"Yep, tell me about it, and guess who his new toy is this year."

"I heard it was Diamond Vaisey?" Frankie laughed, Diamond Vaisey was a complete idiot, no wonder she made Slytherin, she was the ditsiest person going.

"I heard it was that Ravenclaw girl Ehren Bates?" Belle added

"Well, I think Ehren was during the summer because I remember seeing her at his manor, and Diamond was in the middle of sixth year. No, he is dating Mitzi Parkinson now, the sixth year Slytherin, or better known as 'the whore of Slytherin'. No wonder he went for her, at least she's an easy lay." I said shaking my head.

"Well, at least you know how to cast a Muffalito charm. You're going to need that on his bedroom door." Lysander said, it was the first time one of the twins had spoken.

"Yeah, good thing I learnt that in third year, I had to use it over the summer because of James and his girlfriend at the time. Urgh." I said cringing that was something no thirteen year old needs to hear.

"Rose, shouldn't you be going to the head meeting, it's half eleven now." Lorcan mentioned.

"Shit, cheers Lorc, I'll see you at the feast guys." I said goodbye but not before giving Belle and Frankie a hug each. Xavier didn't look too pleased to be left out and after he found out that I was sharing a dorm with Scorpius he didn't seem in a very good mood.

Walking down the train towards the front I come across a compartment with a lot of shouting in. I open the door and see Malfoy's siblings Lynx and Lyra along with Phoenix and their cousin Dahlia Greengrass-Page. Keira Finnigan – Seamus Finnigan and Dean Thomas' daughter – and Hugo and Lily were also sitting in there. Since they were best friends with Phoenix that made sense, however what didn't make sense was the fact that they were all arguing.

"What's going on in here, I could hear you from halfway down the hall." I yelled, so I could be heard over all the raucous.

"Nothing Rose, we just can't agree on something." Hugo said to me.

"This better not be about the annual start of year prank." I said with a smirk. Ever since Victoire and Teddy had been at school well, more Teddy because he started two years before Victoire, the Weasley, Potter and Lupin families would do a start of year prank. The years that were the best were when James, Fred and Roxanne helped since they're the pranking masterminds, now however, it's left down to the younger family members to sort out the prank, and apparently they'd enlisted the help of the Malfoys'.

"Maybe, but you can't get us in trouble. We aren't at school yet." Lily pleaded.

"Look, I may be Head Girl but that prank is tradition, I'm not going to be the one to break it, so when it happens, make sure you all have Plausible Deniability. That includes me, Albus and any other person linked closely to us."

"Don't worry we've got that covered." Phoenix smirked.

"Well, good, and good luck" I said happily as I left them to their planning.

Continuing to walk down the corridor I didn't encounter anything amiss again so once entering the Head compartment I wasn't expecting anything to be wrong.

Once in there however, I saw Scorpius Malfoy with his trousers unbuckled and Mitzi Parkinson pressed against the wall with a pair of panties on the floor. Her head flung back making a hell of a lot of noise. Obviously somebody had remembered a Muffliato spell but not a door locking spell; which doesn't surprise me considering Scorpius' lack of brains.

"What the hell is going on here!" I screeched, even I admit it was an unattractive sound.

Stopping suddenly and stopping what he was doing Scorpius stood back and almost looked pleased that I'd caught them, tucking himself back into his boxers and turning round I blushed as I saw how big he was. Do not think like that Rose!

"Mitzi, I think we're done here. I'll see you later." Scorpius said dismissively to her.

"But I wasn't done Scorpius..." she trailed off seeing the look in his eyes.

"Go set you wand on vibrate or something and finish yourself off." He said waving his hand at her. She looked upset but left anyway.

Turning back around to face me, he began to do his buttons of his shirt back up and rearrange his tie.

"Did you like what you saw Weasley?" He said smirking.

"Yes, lovely way to treat your girlfriend 'put your wand on vibrate and finish yourself off' yes very classy," I said rolling my eyes.

"That's not what I meant and you know it, I don't give two shits about Parkinson, she is just a good shag. I saw when you looked down at my cock you blushed, never seen one this big?" He said smirking whilst buckling his trousers up drawing attention back to the rather large bulge in his pants.

"Nope, I've seen bigger. I get bigger, I would just rather not have to see yours."

"Uh huh, whatever Weasley, let's get on with this meeting shall we."

"Yes. Oh and Malfoy? It's Granger-Weasley in case you forgot!" I snapped at him. He proceeded to ignore me and my correcting him about my name, and sat down at the desk.

After following suit and sitting down at the desk I noticed a piece of paper with writing on it and a blank piece of paper. Looking down I scanned the piece of paper and saw all the names of the prefects and what extracurricular activities they did, such as Quidditch, Duelling Club or Gobstones Club.

Sorting out who was patrolling with who proved to be difficult. Apparently there was a spell on the piece of parchment that stopped us from being able to do same sex or house pairs. So that left me and Scorpius having to do our rounds together. I very kindly put Hugo and Phoenix together on patrols as well as Lily and Cassius Zabini who she has had a crush on since fifth year.

Once all that was sorted we then began our rounds after duplicating the patrol time table five times and sending them off to school to be placed in the house common rooms for the prefects to look at, they would start their patrols tomorrow, the first nights patrols is always done by the Head students and then some of the faculty. If there are any problems they can switch among themselves with permission granted by either me, Scorpius, the Headmistress or a Head of House.

Once they were sent off Scorpius and I had to patrol the train and then we could head back to our compartments for the last thirty minutes of the train journey.

"Sorry for being rude earlier…" Scorpius said trailing off running his hands through his messy blond hair.

"Yeah, whatever you say Malfoy. I think you should apologise to Parkinson not me, but I doubt you will." I say disbelievingly hoping he will keep quite... no such luck though, as usual.

"So how was your summer, your mum came over a few times but you and Hugo weren't with her?" Scorpius asked politely, my mum went over to the Malfoy's to talk with Astoria and to sort things out to do with work for Draco.

I give him a look that said 'really?' with a raised eyebrow and head slightly tilted. He shrugged.

"I'm just trying to diffuse the tension we have building up. What's the problem with making some small talk? If it gets to personal we can stop. We do have to work together for the rest of the year after all." He said to me with a smirk and a slightly raised eyebrow back at me.

I guess he does have a point.

"Yeah I went to America and France for a couple of weeks with my older cousins Vicki and Nicki, what with their fashion design business Vicki needs to keep up with the latest trends for her V.A. Weasley stores, both Muggle and Wizarding clothes since she caters to Muggleborn's too, so we went to New York first to view the fashion shows there and to Paris afterwards to see them there." I answered Scorpius, not that he would care of course, since he was just making small talk.

"What about Hugo?"

"He was with my Uncle Charlie in Romania studying Dragons." I mentioned.

"Oh that explains the lack of you lot at our Mansion this summer, you normally tag along when your mother comes over to see mine." He said laughing, he obviously knows about my mother's issues with depression since my father's death since his mother treats my mother for it and his father works with her.

We had reached the end of the train and all seemed well, there was a slight queue for the toilets at the end but that was fairly common this time of day because of students changing into their school robes. We continued down towards the toilets when we heard some soft moaning. Looking towards each other went to the toilet on the left hand side and listened carefully for a moment. Yep, there was definitely moaning.

"Alohomora" I said to the door, it instantly clicked open and we pushed it. Standing there pressed up against the wall of the toilet was none other than my cousin Albus with his girlfriend of sorts Verity Robertson.

"Oh really Albus, could you not have waited for another half an hour until we got to the castle." I mumbled, this was not the ideal position to be seeing my cousin and his girlfriend in.

"Well, I guess but I was horny now…" Albus said trailing off with a smirk of his face. Bloody Slytherin's all have that good for nothing smirk, I wonder if it's a requirement or they teach a special class in it?

"I'm going to dock house points from both of you. 20 points each, seems fair doesn't it Malfoy?" I said raising an eyebrow daring him to undermine me.

"Nope, seems fair to me, in all honesty mate it's not something I particularly want to walk into…" He said trailing off as I scoffed at his deliberate attempt at pretending that the same thing didn't happen to him less than an hour ago. He was just lucky I didn't take points from him and Mitzi too.

"Anyway," I say loudly as if to hurry things along, "we're nearly at school. You two better get changed. See you at the feast Albus." I said shaking my head, to my dear half naked cousin. He blushed in a un-Potter like manner and closed the door.

We walked away from the toilets and went our separate ways. We did after all have to get changed into our robes too

I entered my previous compartment with my friends. Lorcan and Lysander were playing exploding snap with Paddy and Carmen. Belle and Frankie were gossiping over a copy of newest edition of Witch Weekly. Xavier and Jonathan weren't in the room, which probably meant they were getting changed.

"Rose, I know he's your cousin but Louis is so hot." Belle said as soon as I sat down beside them, whilst Frankie nodded beside her. Louis was in there modelling some new Wizard Robes for Madam Malkins Wizard Wear for All Occasions.

"Seriously guys, that's disgusting. I'm not exactly going to find my cousins attractive am I? At least this isn't as bad as what I had to walk into a second ago." I said under my breath shivering. Belle managed to catch what I said though and raised her eyebrows in question.

"What did you walk into a second ago?" She then asked after I refused to answer her silent question.

"Well, Malfoy and I were doing our rounds and we heard a noise coming from the bathrooms up the other end of the train. So we unlocked the door only to find my cousin Albus hooking up with Verity."

"Seriously? Albus Potter, was having sex on the train?" Paddy asked over hearing what I said.

"Bloke's a boss." Lysander said laughing to himself.

"No, bloke's a douche. I really didn't want to see that first thing in the morning." I mumbled. I was still trying to erase the image from my brain.

"Well this is going to make for an interesting year isn't it then…" Frankie said sighing at the end.

Yes it was. A very interesting year indeed.

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