They sat at the table at the Burrow for the Standard Christmas Eve dinner, all cousins lips shut tight. Some on the verge of laughter at the nights coming events, some thinking about the disaster they would be. They had all had a memory, they had seen or heard a conversation, as innocent as talking about school when Al was out of the room. Some had heard their first arguements, and the younger cousins have seen the tears, fights and all out explosive arguements.
Every person saw what they saw and did not tell a single soul. Each one had a different piece of the puzzle that was Rose and Scorpius. Everyone of them knew that no good would come of tonight, but will they find out about what the others know? Will Ron find out what Rose has been doing? Who she is friends with?
These questions rang in all their minds, because tonight was the first time Rose had said she was bringing someone to dinner, and they only one who knew who that person was was Albus. The rest had one guess and were contemplating sharing their stories. Tonight would be a night of revelations of how they became who they are today. We start out with what one Teddy Lupin saw...
It was a warm summers day after Al and Rose's first year at Hogwarts. Malfoy and Harry had agreed to let the kids hangout at Harry's house and it just so happened that Rose was there too.
Teddy was going to get Al, but instead walked in on what was a clearly a pricless scene that neither kid seemed to notice. Rose and Scorpius were playing. Malfoy and Weasley getting along. They were talking about school and their favorite classes, and old things that had happened in those classes. Simple '...and then the potion blew up...' and '...then Professor McGonagall dragged James and Fred to her office...' could be made out in almost every story. They laughed and talked, and they were acting like friends.
Teddy slowly backed away from the room and went to find Al, his original mission. He searched a few rooms and found James trying to do some sort of experiment on Al.
"James let him down your dad wants him and I really don't feel like getting you in trouble right now." I said
James put him down and Al followed me out of the room into the hallway. The thought of Rose and Scorpius still in my mind, I decided to see what Al knew.
"Hey Al, do you know if Scorpius and Rose are friends?" I asked casually.
"Yeah they have been for awhile now. I mean it all started out when Scorpius made fun of her and she followed him around anyway. I think she wanted to make Uncle Ron mad. Anyway she wouldn't leave him alone and we...sort of...got in a bit of trouble...and she almost got in the way...and almost got hurt...and Scorp pulled her out of the way...then McGonagall caught us...and she bailed us out! After Scorp made her cry and everything! and then they became friends! They argue like hell though. But still he always wants to protect her like I dunno he just seems worried about her, but doesn't tell anyone. I don't really know or care right now. Why?" he asked after he was finished ranting about how they met. You got to love Al. He will tell you the whole story, and then want to know why you asked in the first place. I bit back my laugh, and said: :"No reason just saw them talking."
He stopped dead in his tracks and got this look on his face. Then the whole way down to the living room he muttered 'idoits...' and '...wants me to keep their secret when they can't even bloody keep it themselves...' Again I bit my laugh back and, when we reached the downstairs, went back to what I was doing.
Harry had told me that I was free to look through the old memories he had in the pansive and I was taking full advantage of that. I picked through some and found one that said 'Ron, Hermione and me become friends.' intrested on how the 'Golden Trio' met, I dived in.
I sat back and watched Ron make her cry...Scorp made Rose cry...Ron saved her...Scorp pulled Rose out of the way...Hermione bailed them out...Rose bailed them out...they became friends...they became friends...
I left the memory. Ron and Hermione were married. Those stories so similar. Did that mean... I laughed so hard I fell off the seat I was on.
Ron was stupid to tell her not to get to friendly with him. Now look what she has done. All I knew was that in the back of my mind was that, Ron would not find out, others...maybe. But Ron did not need to know about their friendship yet. I continued to laugh as I got up, and walked out of the room...
As simple as this memory was right then, innocent some might call it, it was the biggest puzzle piece of all, friendship. This was the time that Scorp and Rose had truely bonded without Al in tow. they laughed and talked and learned to know each other better then before...
Present
Teddy sat in his chair still trying to stiffle his laughter at what bhe had discovered all these years ago. He looked around the table. The adults were talking and bickering over Quidditch. Vic looked scared next to him, James, Fred and Luis all looked like they were trying not to laugh at the guest of honor, who has seemed to just show up. Scorpius malfoy indeed it was, locked arm in arm with Rose. I really tried not to laugh...
tell me what you think., I plan to do this for all the chapter, everyone pensive around the table, go minto the next memory, then go back to the present in that character's mind. Though when I get to Al, since he is friends with them, he will have the biggest memories of all. I think I want him to remember their biggest fight, when they got together and images of Scorp and Rose breaking down over their relationship, which is love hate like Ron and Hermione's. I will make references on how sim ilar the two relationships are. Please read and review and leave your suggestions.
I will also do the 'no one would know what effects this would really have' thing a lot. This is kind of a view from above.
