Author's Notes

This story continues the tale of Rose Weasley and her friends. Thus, unless you have read "The Four Witches Go to Hogwarts" and "Serena Tippet and the Monster of Slytherin," you will probably be rather confused about this story. As before, I do not own the Harry Potter characters or Hogwarts, although there are some characters in this story who are my creations.

Chapter 1: Bookshop Conversations

After years of waiting, Lily Potter's wish was going to come true. She was going to become a student at Hogwarts, and learn magic just like her brothers! To make this dream of hers come true, she first needed her school supplies, and where else to find them but in Diagon Alley? That is the reason Lily and her brothers were at Flourish and Blotts one hot July day, getting the books they would need for their next year of school. It would also be Hugo Weasley's first year at Hogwarts, and thus he was in the book store as well along with his older sister and parents.

"Look who's here too! Teddy! I'm starting Hogwarts now!" Lily called, noticing that Teddy Lupin was in the store too. He was looking to see if there was a section for teaching materials, as he was going to be starting work that September as Hogwarts' new Divination teacher. Along with him was Scorpius Malfoy, who had been staying with Teddy's grandmother Andromeda Tonks that summer.

"I know, Lily. I'm looking forward to seeing all of you when I start teaching," Teddy agreed.

"I signed up to take Divination. Did anyone else? I think it sounds interesting. I don't think I'm really a Seer myself, but that and Muggle Studies are the electives I thought I would like to study the most. I hope I can prove to Professor McAngus that I don't hate muggles like my evil father if I take her class," Scorpius said, sounding rather determined.

"I hope you can too. Galaxy and I are also taking Muggle Studies, so we can help you if Professor McAngus is unfair to you," Rose said, trying to be reassuring.

"Maybe she's not being unfair. Maybe I deserve to have her hate me," Scorpius sighed. Suddenly, a boy Lily's age with blond hair popped out from behind one of the shelves, pointing a rectangular device at Scorpius's face.

"How interesting!" the boy exclaimed, "You have a perfect example of Upper Received Pronunciation!"

"But I don't remember receiving a...do you mean a proclamation? I don't have one," Scorpius said, completely confused. He recognized the boy as being Lorcan Scamander, as they had met last year at the World Cup, but otherwise, Scorpius had no idea what this "Upper Received Pronunciation" was.

"Not a proclamation, I mean pronunciation! I mean you have an extremely aristocratic and posh accent," Lorcan clarified.

"But I hate myself! I'm not a snob, but...maybe I am! I'm cursed to be an evil snobby Malfoy! I deserve to be punished for being a snob!" Scorpius wailed, and he threw himself on the floor and began hitting himself in the head with a book.

"I didn't say you were a snob. Why are you hitting yourself like that? I just want to get a recording of your accent," Lorcan said. It was his turn to be confused, as he didn't understand why his newest subject of linguistic study was having such an outburst.

"Because there are people who hate him for his family, and he takes what they say seriously," Rose explained, and then she knelt down to Scorpius and gently but firmly took the book out of his hand. "Please stop hitting yourself. I don't think Lorcan meant to call you a snob, and I don't think you're that way at all."

"But you SHOULD be a snob. You have every right to feel that you are superior to the riff-raff you associate with. In fact, you shouldn't be associating with people like that at all," a horribly familiar voice butted in. Pansy Parkinson was standing nearby, with a disapproving look at Scorpius.

"They're NOT inferior! They're better than me! The Weasleys and the Potters are the most wonderful people in the world!" Scorpius declared as he literally jumped to defend his favorite heroes. Unfortunately, he tried to stand up to face Pansy too quickly, and he ended up tripping and falling down again.

"How far the noble have fallen. Well, maybe you will have changed your mind for the better when I see you next in school, Malfoy," Pansy replied coolly. She turned to leave, but Scorpius grabbed the bottom of her robes.

"No! I will NEVER change that! The Weasleys and Potters are my HEROES! They are the noble ones, not me!" he snarled.

"Get your filthy little blood-traitor hands off of me," Pansy hissed, yanking her robes away from him, and she quickly stepped out of Scorpius's reach. She then was able to leave this time, although that didn't stop Scorpius from shouting one last retort.

"I'm proud to be a blood-traitor! Blood doesn't mean anything, it's being a good person that counts! And you and my father are EVIL!" he screamed.

"I'm glad he's so talkative. I've been getting a very good sample of his aristocratic accent on here," Lorcan grinned. He had been watching the whole time, keeping his enchanted recording device pointed at Scorpius.

"You should apologize to him. You should ask people if they want to be recorded first, it's rather rude to record someone's voice without his or her permission," Rose scolded.

"Aww, but I get better data this way. When people don't know I'm recording them, they speak more naturally and don't hide their real accents as much," Lorcan pouted.

"Could you at least apologize to Scorpius for calling him a snob? I know you didn't intend it that way, but he's very sensitive about people thinking he's like the other Malfoys," Rose explained.

"But I didn't do anything wrong! I just told him what his accent is!" Lorcan protested.

"He doesn't need to apologize to me. No one should have to apologize to me. I don't deserve it," Scorpius whimpered, "Please don't punish him for telling the truth."

"Now I definitely know he's not at all like the other Malfoys. I take back what I said, Rose, you can get as close to him as you like," Ron commented.

"Why didn't you believe him before? Like when we visited Hogwarts 2 years ago and he said he admired you and you made him kiss your feet. Why did you think he was lying?" Lily asked innocently.

"I guess it's because of Weasley is Our King," Ron answered, "It was a song Draco made up to insult my Quidditch playing back when we were at Hogwarts together. I thought Scorpius was being sarcastic when he said he admired me and Hermione, since I just couldn't believe that a Malfoy would say something like that sincerely."

"My evil father did WHAT?! I watched you playing Quidditch in the yard when I visited at Christmas and you play very well! How could he even THINK you're a poor Quidditch player?!" Scorpius exclaimed, horrified, "You're better than I could ever hope to be!"

"I don't know, Uncle Ron, that's not much of a compliment coming from someone who can't stay on a broom for more than two seconds without falling off," James smirked.

"I didn't mean it that way! I really DO think that you're a good Quidditch player, I mean it! My evil father was probably jealous when he made up that song!" Scorpius protested.

"Well, thank you, Scorpius," Ron chuckled, "You're just surprising me more and more, and I mean that in a good way."

"Can we get my books now?" Lily blurted out impatiently as Scorpius whimpered something that sounded like "I don't deserve to be praised like that."

"Sure, let's go get Hugo's too. Teddy, Scorpius, do you want to come with us or go look on your own?" Ron offered.

"How about I show him the Divination books? Do you want to come look too?" Teddy asked, specifically talking to Rose and Albus, who were also starting their 3rd year.

"No, I'm not taking Divination, but I think Albus is. Go on, Al, it's always important to look at your books ahead of time," Rose said, sounding very much like her mother. After Albus, Scorpius and Teddy left to look at the Divination books, Hugo had a question too.

"Can I get a pet too? Lily has that dog now, but I don't think I want a dog. I want something scarier that can attack my enemies," he grinned.

"I don't think you're allowed to have your pet attack people, but we can take you to the Magical Menagerie after we're done here," Hermione told him.

"Can I get a big tarantula and scare Dad with it?" Hugo joked.

"Of course not! I know you LIKE spiders, but your father and I are the ones buying the pet, and we want to make sure that everyone in the family will get along with your pet, including Rose's Pygmy Puff, so no getting anything that eats those," Hermione warned, "It's not just with your pet, it's more that we already went through issues with our pets not getting along when we were your age and we don't want to have that happen again."

"You could get an owl or a cat. They're both animals that hunt, so they could be scary sometimes but I know they wouldn't eat Pygmy Puffs," Lily piped up, "I mean, if you're looking for a predatory animal, Hugo, instead of one that is usually prey."

"That's true, and I could use an owl to send letters so I wouldn't have to borrow the school ones," Hugo thought, "Let's get our books and then I can get an owl!"