I do not own anything, other than the characters I made up for this story, JK Rowling is the best! Hope you enjoy the story and continue to read to endeavour on the journeys of each next generation character at Hogwarts.

Rose Weasley's point of view.

I was there, I couldn't believe it. I was actually there on the Hogwarts Express, 19 years after my parents had left, well except Mum, she went back to take her exams. And strangely, I wasn't too sad about leaving my family, instead I was thrilled at the excitement of actually going to Hogwarts, being sorted into Gryffindor and enjoying my life there, as well as working hard, at least that's what I hoped, but I intended to enjoy every minute of it. I was left with Albus to find a compartment with, since James and Fred had left the platform before us to get on the train, they were closely followed by Molly, our annoying cousin, who despite being one of the family, caused much annoyance to the other members. Albus had to be my favourite cousin, I could talk to him about anything, I trusted him more than anyone and the feeling was mutual. But he wasn't really himself right now, clearly worried about the sorting, we'd discussed it all before, and I'd tried to calm him down, saying things like 'Albus, your Dad was a Gryffindor, your Mum was a Gryffindor, all of your grandparents were Gryffindors, I doubt you'll be in any other house!' but he always retaliated with the fact that for his Dad's godfather it hadn't been like that, to which I had no reply.

On our way down the train we passed many familiar faces, most of which were our family members and their friends, we were invited to sit with Ciara Finnigan and her friends who were in second year, but were ushered off by James and Fred, clearly they wanted the long train journey without their cousins' worries. And further along the train we spotted Lorcan and Lysander who were the year above Fred and James , they were sitting with Jack Day, Lavender Browns son who was the year older than us, I instantly recognised him based on his smart uniform and perfectly styled hair, I'd heard about him a lot since he was the most popular victim to James and Fred's pranks, they teased him and mocked him, even when he wasn't around, but the boy seemed perfectly happy to contribute to the Potter/Weasley clan, even as a dimwit. Even if he wasn't their best friend, he knew them, and would even sometimes be associated with them, this is what Dominique had told me anyway, although he seemed to prefer the company of Lorcan and Lysander, even if he wasn't entirely included in their conversations. After saying a quick hello to them we continued on down the train.

Unfortunately this was the first time we bumped into the 'Slytherins', they hadn't been sorted yet so we couldn't really call them that, but anyway that was how we described them.

"Well well, if it isn't little Weasley and Potter?" one of them said, he was tall with dark hair. Stood beside him was Scorpius Malfoy, the boy that Dad had said I had to beat in every test. And a girl with Dark curly hair, I didn't recognise her or the tall one.

"Little?" Albus retorted "we're the same age as you!" they couldn't think of a comeback.

"And clearly more intelligent" I muttered. Albus shot me a smile.

"Really? Well you definitely do inherit your famous mothers brains Weasley, and you Potter, your famous fathers quick wit!"I didn't understand this, was it a compliment, hang on famous?

"Hang on, you know our parents?" I asked, confused.

"well, your intelligent, you can figure it out!" the tall one said again, earning a laugh from curly, but not a reaction from Scorpius, I hadn't expected this, I thought he would've been the one giving us a hard time, not his friend.

I glowered at the boy, and so did Albus, I felt my wand in my pocket, I was so tempted to curse him, and Albus knew, he grabbed hold of my arm.

"Aw are you two holding hands!" curly mocked.

"Jade? What?" said Scorpius, finally "they're cousins, just leave it!"

I really didn't get that, but unlike me Albus didn't dwell on it.

"if you don't mind we'd like to get past?" he said casually, he went forward slightly pulling me and his trunk along with him, our owls were with Molly, who had generously offered and insisted to carry them for us, I'd have to rescue Lightening from her later. As we walked past the 'Slytherins' the tall one said "remember my name, you'll be hearing it a lot, its Josh Zabini!"

Curly piped up too "yeah and I'm Jade Night"

We both turned to face them again slightly, I could see Scorpius mocking Jade slightly with his eyes, silver they were.

"We don't need to tell you ours." Albus said "seeing as you already know who we are." He smirked, and I beamed at him. Josh seemingly couldn't think of a comeback and simply whipped out his wand, Jade echoed his movement, to which Scorpius simply wandered off. Just then we were joined in the train corridor by none other than Fred, Ciara and James.

"Aww is Kiera Zabini's ickle brother, trying to take on Albus and Rose!" Fred mocked throwing an arm around Josh, who glared at him, putting away his wand.

"Seems not Fred." Laughed James, I couldn't help but smile at my cousins; they managed to make every situation go in whichever way they wanted with a few jokes and laughs.

"This isn't over." Josh said, turning to follow Scorpius back down the train, Jade followed.

"Bye guys!" Fred called after them. I could still hear Josh muttering 'Damn Potters and Weasley's' as he went off.

"They don't mean it Rosie!" James whispered in my ear, then he turned to Albus and said "oh Al, you're going to have to hang around with them when you get sorted into Slytherin!"

"Shut up James! I won't be in Slytherin!"

"We'll see!" he said before winking at us and going back to his carriage with Fred, Ciara stood by smiling at Albus with sympathy. "It's okay Albus, don't listen to James, word has it your Dad was almost sorted into Slytherin!"

"Ciara? How is it that everyone knows so much about our family?" I asked her, I trusted Ciara, she was a family friend, and I'd seen her a lot, mostly around Christmas and sometimes in the summer holidays when we were round the Potter's which was quite a lot of the time. And according to Al, you could make James blush by mentioning her. But now Ciara suddenly looked uncomfortable, she ran her fingers through her chin length hair in a worried gesture. Her green eyes, so very similar to Al's avoided ours.

"What is it?" Albus asked.

"Oh…urm…"

"Ciara?" I prompted.

"Well…" she thought for a moment "I suppose you'll find out soon anyway." She said before briefly telling us, that our parents were so much more famous than we thought, they'd saved the entire Wizarding world, and basically every single thing about them was known to pretty much every other wizard and witch in the world.

"Wow!" I said, I wanted to sit down.

"Yeah, just please don't tell James I told you!"

"We won't! Thanks!" Albus said, taking in the news quicker than me. Ciara smiled and then followed her friends up the corridor.

"Wow!" I said again.

"I know, it's weird, I mean we were told stuff about it, but I didn't know it was that big of a deal!"

"I know, I knew something was up when people were staring at us at the station! I can't believe James, Fred and Dominique didn't tell us!" I left out my the other older family members that were at Hogwarts, we weren't so close to Molly and Lucy , they took after Uncle Percy in their ways unfortunately, he was my least favourite Uncle. And well Victoire, I used to be close to her when I was little, I was her favourite little cousin when I was younger, but ever since her and Teddy had become a couple, she had spent a lot more time with him, and a lot less time with us. I missed her. In fact I was actually looking forward to this year because Teddy wouldn't be around, not that I didn't like him, he was pretty much another member of the Potter family.

We found a compartment a while later, it was practically empty, just another girl the same age as us it seemed for she wasn't wearing a signature tie.

"Hi, mind if we sit in here with you?" I asked her, she had long straight black hair, and brown eyes, she was very pretty.

"No of course not!" she replied smiling at us both in turn. "You're Rose Weasley aren't you? And Albus Potter!"

"yes." I said smiling, it was odd to be recognised but I was adjusting. I turned to look at Al, wondering why he wasn't talking, his ears had turned red, just like Dad's did when he got embarrassed, it was clearly in the Weasley genes since Fred did it too!

"Yes we are. Who're you?"

"I'm Cadi Smith." She said suddenly smiling excitedly "our parents were friends at Hogwarts! I'm Cho's daughter!"

I'd heard of Cho Chang of course, she was Uncle Harry's first girlfriend, she was part of Dumbledore's army, we'd all heard the stories!

"Brilliant! We've heard all about your mum! She was in Ravenclaw right?"

"Yes, she was. I suppose you two want to be in Gryffindor?"

"Yeah." Albus finally said "I guess you'll want Ravenclaw?"

"Well I'd like to be. But Gryffindor sounds amazing too, father said if he ever went here he would've wanted to be in Gryffindor, he said that it sounds like they had the best fun!" she laughed, I noticed Albus beam at her laugh.

"So which school did your father go to?"

"Oh he's a muggle, he went to his local primary school and grammar school later on."

"Oh right, that's cool!" said Albus.

"Anything from the trolley?" we heard an elderly woman's voice call from the corridor. Immediately all three of us jumped up, we'd clearly all been promised wonders by this trolley as we appeared in the corridor the plump woman greeted us with a smile.

"Anything from the trolley dears?"

Cadi had managed to get to the trolley in front of us. "Two pumpkin pasties please, and… what're they? They look delicious!" she asked pointing to some sweets. Me and Al peered at them over her shoulder. And then gave eachother the same worried look.

"I don't know dear."

"Well I'll take some anyway!" she said grinning.

"NO!" Albus yelled.

"What why?" Cadi said looking at Albus with worry and confusion. He looked at me to answer, seeing as I could handle my cousins, and if he told her, well James and Fred would hex him.

"Well they're our Cousin Fred's sweets, they, well, they make you throw up!" Cadi just looked at us as if we were mad, as did the elderly trolley lady.

"On second thoughts, I'll just take the pumpkin pasties." She said, holding back a laugh at the woman's facial expression. The woman handed them to her, a lot less cheery than before. Cadi escaped back to the compartment as soon as she had hold of the pasties, we followed after her laughing, and slamming the door shut, falling onto the seats in hysterics.

After recovering from our giggle fit, we began talking about Quidditch, I was terrible at Quidditch, but I enjoyed playing it and watching it as much as every other witch and wizard. Al of course was brilliant as a seeker, as I'd learnt from various Quidditch games played with my family. He was just as good as Uncle Harry, maybe better. As it turned out Cadi was too. So I left them talking about seeker tactics as I began reading my book 'Hogwarts: a history'. Mum had given it to me.

I don't know how long later, for the time didn't matter since the whole journey was so excitable, the train came to a stop. We jumped up, grabbing our trunks as we left. Molly was waiting outside of the corridor for us with our owls, I took Lightening's cage and stroked her through the bars, she pecked at my hand, clearly irritated about being left with Molly. "At least it wasn't Lucy!" I whispered at her.

"Aww, is Rose talking to her owl because she has no other friends?" Josh called at us.

"Hang on Josh, who're you talking to?" I said giving him an innocent grin before ambling off of the train, Al and Cadi followed me. As we got off we noticed Fred and James talking to Hagrid. You could hear him from miles away.

"James, I 'ear your brot'er is 'ere this year!" We didn't hear James' response but we heard Hagrid's.

"Well where is he then!"

"Al! Rose!" James called. We walked over to him, Cadi following behind us, she smiled at my cousins who smiled back.

"Albus, Rose, it's loverly ter see ya again!" he said shaking our hands violently "you'll have ter come an' see me in me cottage soon!"

"Of course Hagrid!" I smiled.

"Sorry Hagrid, we've got to go, don't want to miss your carriages, and well you're meant to be taking the first years to Hogwarts!" Fred grinned.

"See you later Hagrid, and good luck guys!" James said smiling at us. I did love my cousin.

We went in the opposite direction to our cousins and back towards the other first years.

"Righ', firs' years this way!" called Hagrid, leading us to the boats that would allow us to cross the Black Lake and reach Hogwarts Castle, the lake was truly huge, however I got my first view of Hogwarts castle. James and Fred had gone on about when that had first seen Hogwarts two years ago in their first letters home. And now I was here, looking at truly the most beautiful building I'd ever seen, the turrets were tall and majestic. With hundreds of tiny windows each lit up like the stars in the night sky that formed its backdrop.

"Wow!" I breathed like many of the other first years.

"Beautiful I'nt it!" Hagrid whispered to us.

"It really is!" Albus said back, in as much awe as I was. We climbed into the boats, and they went off without the need of paddles. The wind whipped my hair, and endless splashed hit my face. And yet it still wasn't enough to take my eyes from the beautiful castle in front of me. When we finally reached the castle we finally realised how truly massive it was. And how amazing. Even the 'Slytherins' were in awe of it. The other students had gone through the majestic front doors already. And now it was our turn. The doors opened and my breath caught in my throat.

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