I am a spy.
Yes, you read that right.
Spy.
Stealthy.
Quick.
Trained in the art of super-awesome-evil-ninja-fighting magic.
And my most difficult mission yet?
Playing matchmaker.
Sounds easy?
Perhaps with two normal people.
But no, these are the two most difficult, stubborn, and just plain crazy people in the entire wizarding world.
But Rose Weasley and Scorpius Malfoy you see…
They're meant to be together.
Only, no one can see it but me!
The way their eyes sparkle when they look at each other.
Or glare at each other I suppose…
The way he bumps against her in the hall.
So that she'll drop her books…
The way she rolls her eyes every time he does something stupid.
But I swear it's out of affection!
I'm Paige Creevey, and here is my story:
"Rose?"
No response.
"Rose?!"
Albus waves a hand in front of her face.
"ROSE!"
"What?"
"What are you staring at?"
"Staring? I wasn't. I was… thinking."
"Mhm…" And then he drops it. Just like that. Its so obvious what (or who) she was staring at. I write this down in my spy notebook.
November 14 Lunch in Great Hall
Then they start talking in hushed tones and I can't hear anymore.
So I start listening to Scorpius.
He's speaking to Luke Thomas and Connor Flint.
I've done a background check on Luke. His father was a Gryffindor, and he's not a pureblood (though I suppose all that's changes since the war of whatever-whatever).
He's really not all that mean.
But he is clever. And I suppose narcissistic too.
"No way dude. Dominique Weasley is nowhere near as attractive as Rose."
"Yes she is! Rose Weasley has no curves."
"Yeah, but she's prettier."
Malfoy hasn't been voicing his opinion in the conversation.
"They're both bloody Weasleys!" He says, just a bit too loud.
"Oh right, like you've never fancied a Weasley. They're all over the place, mate! They make up like half of the school's population!"
Luke and Connor snicker, but it doesn't look like Scorpius finds anything funny.
I mark this down and continue to listen and stealthily glance over occasionally.
"Whatever. That potions homework is so hard!" Luke adds.
"Scorpius? Did you get it?" Connor wonders.
"Scorpius?"
"Scorpius?!"
"SCORPIUS!"
"What?"
"What are you staring at?"
"Staring? I wasn't. I was… thinking."
You see what I mean when I say meant to be?
Its hard to hear anything from this stupid Ravenclaw table…
"Paige!" I hear someone yell.
I whip my head around. It's Luke.
"Yeah?"
"Stop glancing over here all the time."
So much for stealth…
"Oh. Sorry." I must say I'm quite taken aback. How could they have noticed? Don't they know the meaning of stealth?!
It means, "don't notice me!"
I take more notes in my spy notebook.
And then lunch is over…
I skip over to my friend Madison Avard of Gryffindor.
"Hey B.O." I say.
"Don't call me that!" She looks offended. Oh well. She picked Blue Ostrich for a codename.
I smile at her sweetly.
"No." She says flatly.
"You don't even know the plan yet!" I whine.
"No."
"Please, just hear me- "
"No!"
"Just for this one class pleasepleasepleasepleaseplea- "
"Fine! What?"
"Thank you. Now, since you have Charms with Slytherin today, I need you to watch Rose and Scorpius and take notes on what they're doing."
"Why Rose and Scorpius? What do they- No way. Come on Paige, that's the worst couple I've ever heard!"
"Madisooon… You already said you would." I'm a great whiner when necessary.
She groans.
"Thank you best mate!" I grin at her widely and skip happily away.
"You're not welcome!" She yells after me, but I'm too happy to care.
When I get outside I'm instantly frozen to the core. Whoever decided it was warm enough for Care of Magical Creatures in November is bloody insane.
"Alrighty then students." Hagrid starts. "Today we'll be learnin' 'bout Nifflers."
Nifflers… What in Merlin's name is a Niffler?
Care of Magical Creatures has never been my favorite class by any means, and though Hagrid is sweet, sometimes his lessons are just pointless.
Like raising Flobberworms. They don't do anything!
He's very nice, but he's always been considered a bit of a joke in Ravenclaw…
Sometimes I wonder how I've ever ended up in Ravenclaw.
It's not that I'm not smart I suppose.
I just… have a different way of thinking.
Like a lot of the time I'm found solving the hardest riddles, just to get into the common room.
But in my classes? Sometimes I don't do so well.
And I suppose it's my lack of effort as well, but I've never gotten spectacular grades or anything of the sort.
And a lot I find my mind wandering, which gets me in trouble in class because I'm never paying att-
"Miss Creevey? 'Ello, Miss Creevey? You gonna answer the question?" Hagrid is smiling at me.
"Oh, I'm sorry… huh?" I ask.
Everyone snickers. Great, even the Hufflepuffs think I'm stupid…
"I asked what you knew about Nifflers…"
"Ahh… well… they… they live underground… and are attracted to shiny things and… are often owned by Goblins who make them burrow for treasure and… they have a long snout and… that's all I can really remember…"
"That's pretty much righ'. They can also 'ave up t'eight babies in a litter."
"So, as Miss Creevey said, Nifflers're attracted ter shiny things so if anyone's got anythin' shiny on 'em, err well, take it off. Nifflers 'ave been known ter bite."
Everyone removes their jewelry and such.
"Pair up please!" 'Agrid- I mean Hagrid- yells.
I find Rob Chambers and we walk over to the Nifflers.
"So…" He says.
"What's up?" I smile at him.
"Nothing… You?"
I decide to tell him of my plan.
"I'm getting Rose Weasley and Scorpius Malfoy together."
"Really? I always thought they'd make a nice couple…"
He always gets it.
He might just be the only other person in my house that's not a prat. Except the Lovegood twins.
I suppose they're pretty cool…
Lorcan gets a tad spacey though. Apparently gets it from his mum.
Oh, and Audrey Quirke, though as her last name implies, she's a bit, well… hate to make a bad pun but… quirky.
We're a strange bunch, us Ravenclaws…
Oh, finally! Class is over!
Now lets check on our friends Rose and Scorpius…
"Maaaaadisoooon!" I yell across the grounds.
"Paaaaaaiiiiiige!" She calls back.
We run up to each other.
"Well?! What happened?!"
"Well… We reviewed banishing charms. And then we worked on colour change charms."
"No! With Scorpius and Rose!"
"Oh! Well first Scorpius messed up a banishing charm, and Rose laughed her arse off about it. So Scorpius turned her hair bright bleeding pink. And then Rose became furious and tried to turn his skin green, but he ducked and it hit Aiden Harper. And Aiden Harper shot one back, but he missed and it hit me. And then Professor Gerber demanded that we stop this nonsense, and someone shot a curse at him and now we all have to write an extra three inches on our essay."
"What?! No! They cannot be fighting already! This is not part of the plan! Something will have to be done about this immediately…"
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