Disclaimer: Do I really need to say it? Haven't you people figured out that I DON'T OWN HARRY POTTER!
"So, how'd they take it?" Scorpius asked Rose nervously. The two of them had recently started dating and they had both decided to tell their parents during the summer after their seventh year.
"Um, well," Rose said scratching the back of her neck. "It could've been much worse. Dad dropped the really expensive glass bowl he was holding, but that's easily fixable. Mum looked a little disgusted when I said that I was dating you and then she just looked really disappointed at me. It went better than I thought it would actually!" Rose said trying to fake brightness.
"Oh," Scorpius said not quite sure how he was supposed to react to that.
After a few moments of awkward silence, Rose asked, "So how did your parents take it?"
"They disowned me," he said simply as though it were nothing. Rose wasn't sure which was worse, the fact that they disowned him or the matter-of-factly tone that he used to say it.
"Oh, Scorpius! I'm so sorry!"
"It's fine," he said shrugging. "They were going to do it at some point anyway. If they had found out that the friend I'd been staying with over the holidays was Al, I would have been disowned years ago!"
"Still, I mean they were your parents! It must be really hard on you."
"Not really. I mean yeah, they were my parents, but they didn't really like me that much. I didn't really like them that much either, now that I think about it….." his voice trailed off the way that it did whenever he was deep in thought. After a few moments of silence where he stared off into space, Scorpius shook his head and said, "Anyway, my point is that if they were going to disown me, it should be for something that makes me really, really happy," he took her hands in his, "Like they say, if you're going to have a stomach ache, you might as well eat a lot of chocolate frogs."
"Who has ever said that?" Rose asked giggling.
"No one, but I'm trying to get it started." Rose laughed and Scorpius smiled. "I'd better get going. I'm staying at Al's until I can find a place of my own." He kissed her on the cheek and disappearated.
Rose sighed and walked back into her house. It was getting late and she probably ought to go to bed soon. She walked up the stairs and Hermione let out a sigh of relief. Hermione had been sitting in the living room and she'd heard the entire conversation that her daughter and Scorpius had just had. Despite that the very idea of her daughter dating a Malfoy disgusted her, maybe this boy wasn't so bad after all. It would be hard to convince Ron, but maybe Rose didn't have such bad judgment after all.