9th September 2017

Rose hurried down hundreds of stairs with her potions essay clutched in her hand. It was just over a week after starting Hogwarts and so far she was having the time of her life. She had made many new friends and was finding she excelled in transfiguration and astronomy and was also doing extremely well in all her other classes. All of them that was, apart from potions. It wasn't that she was terrible, it was just that she wasn't very good and Rose liked being good at everything. Her poor performance so far in potions was a subject of great amusement to Albus who was thrilled to beat her in a class.

Today their first potions essay was due and although Rose had started it the day it was set there was one point that was eluding her, which property of daisy roots it was that made it essential in a cough potion. Albus had not finished his essay until last night and Rose had been so determined to find the answer on her own that she had not asked him. However no book had given the solution and now Rose was rushing to find Lucy who she was sure would know the answer. Finally Rose skidded to the doors of the Great Hall and slowed her pace. She soon spotted the bright red hair of Lucy at the Ravenclaw table and hurried to sit next to her. Although each house had tables it was strongly encouraged that students sat at whatever table they wanted during meal times (unless it was a feast). Rose had learnt that this rule had come in soon after the Battle of Hogwarts to promote inter-house unity. This meant that no one batted an eyelid as Rose slid in next to Lucy, as each table was made up of students wearing different coloured house badges on their robes.

"Hey," Rose said, slightly breathless.

Lucy glanced up very quickly from the large book she was looking at and smiled before looking down again.

Rose sighed slightly and poured herself some tea and grabbed a slice of toast, waiting for Lucy to finish. After eating half the slice she came to the conclusion she may have to interrupt her.

"So I have a homework question." She said. Lucy nodded vaguely but still didn't look up.

Rose made a noise of annoyance at the back of her throat. Lucy could be quite infuriating sometimes.

"Do you know which property of Daisy Roots makes them essential in a cough potion Lucy? Lucy!"

Finally Lucy looked up.

"It is funny how potions is the one subject you can't get your head around, isn't it?" Lucy asked, frowning at her "I wonder why?"

"Yes it's highly amusing." Rose ground out. "Please can you just…"

"It's the sap."

Rose whirled round in her seat to face the person who had spoken. Scorpius Malfoy had sat opposite them without her realising. Rose looked at him blankly.

"The sap from the roots, that's what's essential from them for the cough potion. It has soothing properties."

Rose blinked at him, annoyed that he'd been listening and had butted in.

"I didn't ask you." She said quickly

Malfoy raised an eyebrow and leant backwards in his seat. "Does it matter Weasley, you got the answer."

Rose turned away from him to face Lucy again.

"Is that right?" She asked.

Malfoy snorted. "Of course it is."

Rose ignored his interruption and continued to stare at Lucy.

"Yes it is right, thank you Scorpius." Said Lucy, who did not seem at all annoyed at his interruption or his presence and was turning back to her book.

Rose began to stand up.

"Aren't you going to write it in your essay?" Malfoy drawled, looking amused.

"Not in your presence. I don't need you peering over my shoulder and telling me I've written the wrong amount of hellebore or something." Rose snapped.

She muttered a quick goodbye to Lucy and strode off to sit with Albus at the next table, not glancing back to see Malfoy's reaction.

AN: yay their first interaction! Do you think I'm going in the right direction with them? Remember that you can send me any ideas/headcannons you have if you'd like - I've got each year kind of planned out but I'm struggling to think of one-shots for 2nd year between them - thoughts?

I think I'm going to update this story once a week on a Sunday (yes I know todays a Monday shhhh!) and then the occasional one on a Wednesday if I'm very excited about it haha! So follow this story to see more and pretty please review! x