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Rose and Albus walked back to the castle together when they heard an annoyingly familiar voice.

'That Longbottom's got more hair than he has brain,' Scorpius was saying, 'What a joke!'

'I heard his parents went loony.' Said one of Scorpius's friends.

Rose and Albus stopped walking to look at Scorpius. Scorpius smirked looking at them.

'Problem Potter?' he asked looking at Albus, then he looked at Rose and added 'Weasel?'

'You can't talk about professor Longbottom like that.' Said Albus coldly.

'Don't worry Al.' muttered Rose throwing Scorpius a dirty look, 'he's just sad because he didn't get a match.'

Scorpius scoffed, 'hah! look you might be desperate enough to use magic to match-make for you but that's not me.'

'Yet you might be desperate enough to kiss a hippogriff,' shot back Rose.

'I could stand here all day and explain to you why you are desperate Weasel,' said Scorpius coldly, 'but honestly I neither have the time nor the interest to speak to you.'

With that he walked away with his friends sneering at Rose who turned scarlet.

'I hope we are pairing up to practice the bat bogey hex today,' snarled Rose, 'I know exactly who I want to pair up with.'

Albus laughed and they set off for their next class.

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Later that evening Rose sat alone in the common room. Albus, Lily, and the rest of the people she usually hung out with were at the quidditch field. All of them were on the team but her.

She was still stinging from Scorpius's remark and feeling very lonely.

She put her hands in her jeans and felt her hands close around a piece of parchment. She took it out and looked at it.

Anonymous

She suddenly got an idea.

'not that owl posts work this way,' she told herself, 'but just for fun I'll give it a shot.'

She took a fresh piece of parchment and wrote neatly-

Hello

-Esro17

Then she folded up the parchment and went up to the owlery.

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Scorpius lay on his four poster bed in his dormitory. A strange pecking sound made him look at the window. A tawny school owl was perched on his window. He walked up to the owl which held up his leg and untied the small parchment.

He sat down on his bed and opened the parchment his eyes curious and wary.

Reading the mail his eyes became wide.

He looked around the deserted room to make sure no one was coming. Then he took out a piece of parchment and wrote in his cursive writing-

Hello to you too

-Anonymous

Then he began to tie the letter to the owl but on second thoughts he rummaged in his bag until he found a blue ribbon and tied up the roll of parchment and then tied it to the owl.

Scorpius then went back to his bed but he had a slight smile on his face now.

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