My cousin Rosie had changed a lot in her fourth year of Hogwarts; towards the beginning of the year she wore jeans and t-shirts, and enjoyed Quidditch, reading and dancing, among other things. But now... she wore high heels and skirts; that couldn't really be described as skirts, but more as some lace on a waistband; and she covered her face in make up...hell, last Hogsmeade trip she asked Lily, my sister to get some lipstick in a ridiculous shade called 'Razzle Dazzle Rose' whilst she was in detention. My Rosie-nerd in detention! Something's changed with Rosie and I want to find out what.
I went off to find Hugo, Rosie's brother. He was out near Hagrid's Hut patting Claw, his massive dog.
"Did anything with Rosie change in the holidays, that I didn't notice?"
"Good morning to you too, Jamesy!"
"Sorry Hugo, I'm just worried about her..."
"She's changed a lot hasn't she? Sorry, the only thing I noticed was an abnormal amount of owls, one every second day at least. I just assumed it was Emma."
"Probably, that's ok Hugsy, everything helps..."
"Wanna' play snap?"
"That depends, Exploding or Auntie Hermione's version?"
"Exploding, of course! Mum's version's boring."
After six games of snap and a lot of heated excitement we decided to leave it as a tie, and we went off to dinner, my favourite time of the day at Hogwarts.
After dinner, I was sitting alone because Fred was on a date with some blonde Hufflepuff, when I noticed I wasn't the only one alone.
Emma was sitting there right next to the fire on her own reading. I'd swear last year she didn't spend a moment on her own, she was always with Rose...
I walked over to interrogate my next witness.
"Hey Emma! Do you know where Rosie is?"
"Nope, haven't seen her since Charms."
"But you two are always together!"
"We were. But since she got a Boyfriend..." I cut Emma off
"BOYFRIEND! Since when has Rosie had a boyfriend? Who is he?"
"I've only known for a couple of days but apparently they started going out before the end of last year."
"But Emma, who is Rosie going out with?"
"No one knows, they've kept it very hush-hush."
"Hey, wait a minute, how many owls did you send Rosie last holiday?"
"One per fortnight at most. Why?"
"You weren't the only one owling her over summer... See you later Em!"
"Bye..."
I knew the only person who would be able to help me was Lily, my sister, who was almost certainly at the library.
"Hey Jamesy!"
"Hey Lils, Have you seen Rosie?"
"Charms room I think, why?"
"I really need to speak with her."
"Ah... James that might... ah...not probably be- ...ah...the best idea..."
"Why?"
"No reason"
It was obvious I wasn't going to get any more information from Lily so it was time to confront Rosie.
"ROSE WEASLEY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
"Jamesy- this isn't what it looks like..."
"Well it looks like I just walked in on my cousin snogging her boyfriend. So either you aren't my cousin or he isn't your boyfriend or I'm not here."
"Well maybe it is what it looks like but..."
"No buts Rose, who is your boyfriend anyway?"
"Um... James, meet my boyfriend Scorpius Malfoy."
Just when I thought this couldn't get any worse, I finally found reason to laugh when Rosie's ears turned the same colour as her lips. She may not be my Rosie-nerd any more; I think a better name for her would be Razzle-Dazzle-Rose.
AN I really enjoyed writing this piece because I really love writing RW/SM but if you thought it was weird with the colour reference I was doing a challenge where I got the colour 'Razzle Dazzle Rose'
Beta-ed by Lily-Rhiannon.
Written with help from Lunalongbottom, miss you girly xx
Yours truly GJ
