A/N: Usual disclaimer, most characters and places belong to J.K. Rowling, but I have some OCs and ect. :) characters are next generation, as shown in the last chapter of The Deathly Hallows. enjoy!

Rosie slid into a compartment. The train rocked gently. "Can't you sit somewhere else? I'm waiting for Nick," said a familiar, drawling voice. Scorpius Malfoy smoothed down his white blonde hair, and glared at her with his icy blue eyes. She remembered very well what he had looked like in his first year, and he still looked the same, even though he was fifteen now, like herself. Rosie frowned. She spun around on her heel and stepped out of the compartment. She promptly bumped into a boy with messy dark brown hair, who was heading into Scorpius's compartment. He looked at her, then excused himself and slid into the compartment with Scorpius. Rosie frowned. That must be Nick, she thought, and hurried off to find her cousin James.

Teddy sat in the compartment and watched James nibble a leg off a chocolate frog. Every first year on the train who passed by their compartment stared at him. Teddy guessed that all of their parents had warned them to keep away from the "werewolf kid". Teddy found it totally unfair. It wasn't as if he was a werewolf. He heard the compartment door slide open and saw Rosie slip into their compartment.

"Hi, Rosie!" James had finished off his chocolate frog and was cheerfully waving at Rosie, while opening another one.

"Hey, James, Teddy! I was trying to find Albus, when I bumped into this kid. I've never seen him before."

"First year?" Teddy said.

"No, he looks about 14 or 15. He has dark brown hair, and brown eyes, and his name is Nick."

"How can you have not seen him before? We never get new kids who are older." Teddy looked at her incredulously.

Rosie looked flustered. "He seems to be friends with Scorpius. Anyone know who he is?"

She brushed her straight brown hair out of her eyes.

"Brown hair with brown eyes?" James looked thoughtful. "And new?"

"Yes and yes." Rosie looked eagerly at him.

"I haven't the faintest idea," James shrugged.

Rosie raised her eyebrows. "You haven't heard anything? All those days of sneaking up to the passage to the headmistress office and you don't know anything?" She said in disbelief.

"Nope."

"One heck of a cousin you are." Rosie rolled her eyes and turned towards the doorway.

"Give him a chance, Rosie." Teddy said wearily.

"No, I should go anyway. I wanted to go see Albus," Rosie said, stepping out of the compartment.

"Wait!" Teddy said. She poked her head back in.

"What?"

"If we wait until the sorting, we can tell if it's his first year."

"That's a good idea! Thanks, Teddy!" She said brightly.

"Do you have to do that every time?" He scrunched his eyes up in concentration as his hair changed from blonde to dark brown. A bunch of girls jumped away from the door as they were walking by.

"And you wonder why people stare at you. Stop changing your hair so much, you don't need to show off that you're a metamorphmagus. We all have to work at changing our appearance," James made a face at Teddy, then grinned good-naturedly. A girl with white-blonde hair opened his compartment door, accompanied by a group of Slytherin girls.

"Hey, Potter! Still hanging out with your werewolf pal?" She made a disgusted face and smirked.

"Leave him alone, Malfoy!" A girl glared from the other end of the car. It was Alisa Bell, from the Gryffindor Quidditch team.

"Who are you, his girlfriend?" the blonde girl said, flashing a scornful look at Alisa. The group laughed.

"Actually, yes," Alisa smirked.

"Like anyone would like her!" a girl giggled.

"Go cry to your brother, Christina," James scoffed at Christina Malfoy, almost daring her to pick a fight.

"No point to fight, there might be teachers around," she muttered to her groupies before wandering off, undoubtedly to bully some first years.

"Mind if I sit with you?" Alisa asked. Teddy nodded, preoccupied with changing his hair color. James noticed that it seemed to change depending on his mood. Alisa snuggled in next to James, reminding Teddy that they were now a thing.

"We'd better put on our robes. We're almost at Hogwarts," Teddy said.

"Right," Alisa said.

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