"Rosie, put that down." My dad's stern voice comes from behind me as put a cigarette between my red painted lips, I turn 'round. What in the bloody hell was he doing at Hogwarts? I let it dangle loosely in between my lips, "Dad?" My best friend Harley puffs out a ring of smoke, "Rose, what is he-" "I don't know, maybe-" "I'm not sure,did V-" "No, she didn't but she was a bit weird over break-" "It must be the-" "Yeah, it has to be." We bounce off one another, finishing eachothers sentences, Dad doesn't look amused as he walks up to me and pulls the cigarette from my mouth, throws it on the ground, and crushes it under his boot. "You are too young to be smoking." I laugh in his red face, "Dad, I'm sixteen. That means I'm legally allowed to smoke just as long as someone else buys them for me." He stumbles, his perfect daughter was rebelling, he wasn't prepared for this. "Rose!" I loop my arm with Harley's, "Let's go back to the common room." She laughs as we walk away from my fumbling dad, Harley takes the half-smoked cigarette from her mouth and passes it to me, I blow a puff appreciatively. "No wonder you're a Slytherin!" My dad shouts from behind us, "A disappointment," I stop, my famous temper flaring as I stomp up to him and slap him 'cross his face. "A disappointment? I have excelled in all my class, am co-captain and beater of my house quidditch team, and can fly better than anyone in my year. So so-orry if I didn't get put into Gryffindor." I glare icily at him, "Wait, I'm not! I chose to be in Slytherin, I chose!" This seems to hurt him even more than the slap, "The sorting hat gave me a choice, it said, "Be a Gryffindor where you will be overlooked and misunderstood or be a Slytherin where you can reach your true potential and be great. Can you guess why I chose what I chose?" Harley puts a hand on my shoulder, "Rose," she warns but I was on a roll, "But I guess you can't comprehend why your 'Little Rosie' chose for once what she wanted, not what Ronald wanted." Dad steps back from me, shell-shocked, "Rose, I-" He starts but Harley and I are already gone, disappearing into the Slytherin dungeon.
"Students, please settle down; I have an announcement to make. Students I said QUIET!" Headmistress McGonagall shouts at us, the hall goes silent, McGonagall never yelled. Never. "Ahem, I am proud to inform you that this year Hogwarts will be hosting the Triwizard tournament."