Chapter One:
Hermione's Law
·Rose laid on her bed. -"I can't believe I'm doing this" she thought. She could not believe she was about to sneak out of her bedroom at midnight to duel with Scorpius. Those were the two things she thought she'd never do.
Looking at the blue cloth over the four-poster bed in the Ravenclaw girls' dormitory, she analyzed what had happened at lunch that day, what led to the unfortunate event about to happen.
-"How can you hang out with that... with that mudblood?" said Cooper Tofty, in the Slytherin table, looking at Rose over his shoulder.
Rose freaked out. How could that disgusting troll call her that, when her own mother had forged a law that forbade it?
But what made the hairs in the back of Rose's neck stand up was Scorpius's response: -"I don't even know."
Even though she could notice the hesitating in her friend's voice, she could not believe it. She did not want to believe it.
She walked to the Slytherin table with a nervous pace.
-"Excuse me, Tofty, have I heard right? How did you just call me?"
-"A mudblood. And I don't regret it." Rose thought he was not very wise saying that to the daughter of the Hermione in Hermione's Law. -"You shouldn't care. I'm no influence on your boyfriend."
-"He-e-e-ey, Cooper. I'm no one's boyfriend. She's my friend." Scorpius stood up.
-"You did not do much to defend your 'friend' barely a minute ago." said Rose furiously. -"You encouraged Tofty."
Scorpius did not answer. He was trembling nervously a little. -"Let me talk to you apart for a second."
Rose hesitated, but still went with him.
-"See, I only said that to shut him up. You know how he gets when others disagree with him. I'm very, very sorry." He sounded sincere.
Rose thought that too, because she was about to forgive him when Rinnika Thompson appeared. She had apparently heard the whole conversation, because she added a comment of her own: -"But if you said the other day in the common room, that Rose's parents were blood traitors..." Rinnikka added maliciously.
Scorpius couldn't excuse himself out of that one.
Rose pulled out her wand, feeling threatened. Scorpius pulled his out too. He thought that was the only way to defend himself.
But Rinnikka was making the most out of her Prefect badge. -"Weasley, detention." she said sternly. "Scorpius, put that away and don't make me give you detention too." This time she was being sarcastic.
Roselooked at Scorpius and frowned, and madly whispered -"Tonight, midnight, Room of Requirement hallway."
And Rose's thoughts were now back in the dormitory, looking at her wand, which lay on the bedside table. With a glance at her watch, she realized she couldn't put it away any longer. She got up, checked that everyone was asleep and grabbed her wand. She put a Dissilussionment charm upon herself, opened the door and left.
