Author's Notes

I do not own the Harry Potter characters, I am just using them for this story, as well as their children. I did make up several of the characters who are in this story, since it's set 19 years after the main Harry Potter stories end. This story is set after Deathly Hallows ends, right at the end of the epilogue. Thus, if you have not read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, you will be confused and spoiled. If you don't like that, don't read this story. Unlike with my Sailor Moon fanfiction, I don't have a character list since people in the Harry Potter universe don't normally have alternate identities like the Sailor Senshi do.

The cover art is from the Harry Potter movie series.

Chapter 1: Family Expectations

"It's me. I'm extremely famous." Rose Weasley laughed at her father's joke along with her cousin, Albus Potter, as they watched out the window of the Hogwarts Express.

"Hi, Rosie! Come sit with us!" called a familiar voice. Rose looked and noticed a small girl named Galaxy Baghill with long brown hair was already waiting in a compartment. Sitting near Galaxy were her other two good friends, the blond half-giantess Bunny Simmons and the Jamaican muggleborn Serena Tippet. Rose waved good-bye to Albus as she entered the compartment with the other three girls. As she sat down next to Serena, she sighed, remembering what Ron had told her and the others earlier.

"What's wrong? Aren't you excited to go to Hogwarts? I know I am!" giggled Galaxy perkily.

"I'm worried about the Sorting," Rose admitted, "My father told me and my cousins that he would disown us if we didn't get in Gryffindor. I think he was joking, but I don't know. What if I end up in Ravenclaw? I mean, I've always been told I'm smart, and that's the house for smart people. I don't think I'm brave enough to be in Gryffindor."

"What kind of father disowns his children over something like that?!" Serena exclaimed indignantly, "I personally don't care which house I get in, as long as I get in one of them."

"You don't understand, Serena, you're not from a wizarding family. Most of my family has been in Gryffindor, and they're expecting me and Albus to carry on the tradition. But I just don't feel like I would fit there," Rose whimpered, close to tears. Sure, she had a few cousins in Hufflepuff and one who was even a Slytherin, but they were still the minority.

"It's okay, Rose. I don't think you'll be disowned. I know your parents are nice people," Bunny said quietly, trying to reassure her. "If they were that prejudiced, they wouldn't let you be friends with me." Rose nodded, smiling slightly. It was true, many parents wouldn't let their children play with a half-giant like Bunny, there were people who were scared of her. She then was startled as the door to the compartment was yanked open by a boy with very pale blond hair. He looked angry about something, and Rose shrunk back, afraid of him. She knew he was Scorpius Malfoy, Ron had warned her about him. Was he coming in to pick on them?

"Hi! You can come sit with us!" Galaxy invited him, cheerful and oblivious to who she was talking to. Surprisingly, Scorpius sighed in relief.

"Finally someone will let me sit with them. I am so SICK of everyone avoiding me, just because my stupid father and grandfather were Death Eaters!" he declared as he sat down in a huff, right between Bunny and Galaxy. Amazingly, he fit, although it was a tight squeeze.

"That's stupid. What is it with these wizard families and expecting everyone to be just like their parents? Or do you magic people do cloning? Is that why?" Serena snapped. Rose gulped, looking at Scorpius and Serena anxiously, dreading what would come next. Surely he would call her a "mudblood," since she just gave away her origins so obviously.

"No. It's not possible. There's no way of cloning a person with magic. Because if there was a way to do that, then I'm sure my father would've had a clone of himself made rather than having me the normal way," Scorpius commented bitterly. Rose stared at him in surprise for a moment, but then she was relieved. Though he seemed rather grumpy, Scorpius probably wasn't going to be as cruel and snooty as his father was. She then thought of something Uncle Harry had told her, about someone else who was from a family like the Malfoys, who was also a rebel...

"Sirius Black!" she exclaimed, realizing who she was thinking of.

"Who's that? Another friend of yours?" Serena asked, confused. Galaxy giggled.

"No, he's not alive anymore. He was a wizard who lived 25 years ago. People thought he had killed a bunch of people, but he really didn't. He died before his name was cleared, though," Galaxy explained cheerfully, "I'm surprised you don't know about him, but I guess muggles wouldn't."

"He was my uncle's godfather. He was like you, Scorpius. He came from the pureblood Black family, but he didn't want to be like the others, either," Rose said quietly.

"How did he die? Did his parents kill him for rebelling or something?" Scorpius guessed.

"Sort of. His cousin Bellatrix did it. Your great-aunt, if I remember," Galaxy added. Rose put her face in her hands; why did Galaxy have to mention that? Wasn't it obvious that Scorpius was angry enough at his family?

"That exactly why I am NOT following in my father's dirty footsteps! For one thing, I don't care if he gives me a Howler over it, I am NOT getting sorted into Slytherin! Nothing good ever came out of that cursed house, nothing!" Scorpius ranted, enraged at the thought of who he was descended from.

"My cousin Louis is in Slytherin, though, and he's not evil," Rose admitted, "At least, I don't think he is. He's kind of bossy, but that doesn't mean he's a bad person. Severus Snape was a Slytherin, too, and he wasn't evil. He wasn't very nice, but he spied on Voldemort for Dumbledore until his death."

"I still don't want to be in that cursed house. Maybe not all Slytherins are evil, but I don't want to be like my father at all. I want to be in Gryffindor. Harry Potter's house, the house of heroes," Scorpius sighed.

"Well, we'll just find out when we get there. Now we can just have fun on the train!" Galaxy giggled perkily, "Here comes the snack cart! Mummy was a witch and she told me about all the wild things Hogwarts students can eat, like these weird jellybeans that can taste like anything!"

"I don't like those," Rose commented nervously, "They literally can taste like ANYTHING, which means some of them are disgusting." Galaxy grinned and bought a pack of the dreaded jellybeans from the snack cart, along with some of the more "normal" sweets such as Chocolate Frogs and Jelly Slugs.

"Aww, but that's the fun part, the part that makes eating them like a fun adventure," Galaxy pouted slightly, "But I guess some people don't really like adventures as much as I do."

"There's another reason I don't like those, and it's because of my little brother Hugo. I love him, but he likes to play pranks on people and some of them are really mean. Those beans are banned in our house because of him," Rose continued. As she listened, Serena grabbed a brown jellybean, curious. She ate it.

"Are they really that weird? The one I just had tasted like chocolate," she commented. Galaxy grabbed another and popped it in her mouth. In her case, she almost spit it out.

"They are weird! I can't believe there's jellybeans that taste like vomit!" she laughed, and Serena and Rose stared at her for a moment. She then stared back at Rose. "Go on and finish your story," she said, "I want to hear what your brother did."

"He liked to trick muggles into eating the beans," Rose sighed, "Including Grandma and Grandpa Granger, and Mum's taught them a lot about the wizarding world. But they didn't know about the jellybeans."

"That's sick! If you hadn't warned ME about what the jellybeans might taste like, I could've been tricked too!" Serena exclaimed, horrified.

"I agree. That sounds like something the Death Eaters would do. It was people like my father who would practice muggle-baiting, things like your brother did or jinxing toilets to explode," Scorpius added.

"That's exactly why those awful beans are banned in our house. It looked pretty bad since Grandad Weasley's job is that he's supposed to stop people from practicing muggle-baiting."

The train sped along down the tracks, taking the four girls and one boy to the magical school of Hogwarts. When they arrived at Hogsmeade Station, they followed the other first-years to where the fleet of boats would lead them to the castle. Bunny stared in awe when she saw the man who was directing the boats. He was huge, just like she was! Was that...

"Is that Rubeus Hagrid? Because you always told me there was another half-giant who worked at Hogwarts, and it always gave me hope that someday I could get a job too," she whispered to Rose, who nodded. Bunny climbed in a boat with Galaxy, who was small enough to fit with her, while Rose and Serena took seats with Scorpius. Despite her original fear of him, Rose had decided that they might be able to be friends while they were at school together.

"Here we go! This is so exciting!" Galaxy giggled eagerly. As she watched the castle loom closer, Rose felt some of her petite friend's enthusiasm, but she was also nervous about the Sorting. Which house would she end up in? She was afraid of what her father would say if she ended up in Ravenclaw, but then again, her non-Gryffindor cousins were still treated like they were part of the family. That thought reassured her, and she smiled.