Yes, I'm back!

And yes, it's another threeshot!

The reason for two threeshots being posted in a relatively short amount of time is that I was convinced I had writers block, only now I'm kind of thinking that I don't. And that maybe the real reason why I haven't written a story I'm supposed to have besn working on is because I'm lazy. Or something.

Anyway this is for HollyWrites's It's Quite Simple, Really Challenge on HPFC. I had to write a story including Rose/Scorpius and the house Slytherin in the period NextGen with the prompt "What the fizzing whizbee?"

Hope I did well enough for you all!

"What the fizzing whizbee is THAT?"

Rose blushed as her brother stared at the tiny diamante on her belly button.

"It's a piercing," Rose said, touching it protectively. "All the girls in Gryffindor have been getting them, ever since Nancy Myers found the spell to do it during the holidays."

"There's a spell for that sort of thing?"

"Shhh!"

Hugo glanced guiltily at Rose's closed bedroom door, and the two were silent as they listened for sounds of their parents coming to investigate. When they had waited for a minute and no noise had come, Rose sighed, dropping her top to cover her stomach again and flopping down to sit at her desk chair.

"I just can't believe you got a piercing," Hugo admitted, his tone disbelieving. "I mean, Lily might get one, sure. But you? Why do you even want a piercing anyway?"

Rose shrugged in response, spinning on her chair to glance out the window, looking down at the gravel drive way at the front of the house.

It was the morning of the last day of the Christmas Holidays, and Rose and Hugo were waiting to be picked up by Harry and Ginny, who'd offered to take them to station so they could get the train back to Hogwarts. Courtesy of Hermione's impeccable planning, both siblings were already packed, with their trunks set neatly by the door of the house, Hogwarts robes and Rose's shiny Prefect badge on top so they could get changed on the train.

In an effort to escape from their parents' embarrassingly long goodbyes, Hugo had come up with the plan to hide out in Rose's attic room until the last moment. The Potters were famous for always running late, and if they were in a rush to leave, Ron and Hermione would have no choice but to wave a quick goodbye as Hugo and Rose were hurried out. It seemed like a good plan, but the main problem with it was that it demanded the two children to sit in a room together for almost an hour, making as little noise as possible and checking out the window every so often to see if their aunt, uncle and cousins had arrived yet. It was in this atmosphere of intense boredom that Rose had shown her brother her new piercing, which she had been hiding quite successfully since the last day of last term.

"The other girls were surprised, too," Rose confessed, spinning her chair back around to face Hugo again. "I don't know why. Just because I get good marks doesn't mean I can't do anything even slightly rebellious."

Hugo lifted his hand to his mouth, chewing on his thumbnail with a pained expression that Rose tilted her head questioningly at.

"Actually," Hugo explained, "It sort of does."

"What does that mean?"

"Well, everyone just expects you to be so-" Hugo broke off as Rose suddenly spun around again, peering out the window.

"Is it them?" Hugo jumped up from his spot on the bed and ran over to the window, watching in delight as a car pulled in to their driveway, Harry and Ginny's faces visible in the front seats.

Exchanging grins, the siblings watched as their three cousins tumbled from the car: James now a mature sixth year with a book clutched in his hand, Albus taller than ever, and Lily, her waist-length red hair fanning out behind her as she ran to ring the doorbell.

"Time to go," Hugo announced, and didn't bother waiting for his sister as he hurried to wrench open her door and disappear downstairs.

Rose laughed at the sound of him sprinting away, eager to get his moment of male-bonding with Albus before she disrupted them. She checked her top, pulling the hem to straighten it and make sure the fabric didn't catch on her piercing, and grabbed a hair-elastic from her desk. Tying her hair up in a messy ponytail, she left the room, careful to close the door behind her. before leaving, Rose pulled her wand from her pocket to cast a quick locking charm on her door. Of course, her mother would have no trouble breaking the spell, but Rose inwardly hoped that, if her parents discovered the charm, they'd accept her attempt to keep them out of her room and refrain from prying.

At least, that was the plan. However, Rose reflected as her mother plastered her with kisses and her father insisted on a 'Weasley family hug' before her and Hugo were permitted to leave, even the best laid plans could go astray. Catching a glance of Albus and Lily's amused expressions from under her father's arm, she silently vowed never to follow Hugo's advice again.

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