Rose waved at her parents and Hugo until they were out of sight, then sank down onto her seat.

"So, titches, we're off,"James said, giving a wave and left with Fred and Louis to look for their own compartment just like Dominique before them. Victoire smiled at them encouragingly."Don't worry about the sorting, all houses have their perks. I have to go, too. Head Girl stuff!"

"Easy for her to say,"Albus mumbled."She's already been sorted ages ago. Bet she was freaking out just as bad."

Rose only shrugged in reply and before she could come up with anything else to say, the door opened.

"Oh, good, we found you already!"Molly exclaimed, beaming at her cousins. She sat down next to Rose, two boys following her into the compartment. The older took the seat next to Molly, grinning."Hiya. Michael Wood, remember me? We met at Molly's birthday party."

Albus and Rose nodded, then both looked at the other boy who still stood at the door awkwardly.

"That's my brother Evan,"Michael said and the younger finally sat down aswell."I can talk for myself, Mike!"

"Yeah, sure you can,"replied Michael, rolling his eyes. Molly elbowed him in the ribs."Be nice, Michael! Don't mind him, Evan."

"Never do,"Evan said, albeit looking embarrassed. He looked from Albus to Rose."You're first years aswell, right? What house do you think you'll be in?"

"Hopefully Gryffindor,"Albus said immediately while Evan nodded his agreement. Rose, on the other hand, gave a noncommital shrug."Wherever the hat puts me, I don't really mind."

Evan blinked, nonplussed."You don't mind? How can you not mind?"

"Well, the Hat knows what its doing, doesn't it?"Rose replied happily."I mean, wherever it thinks I belong, I obviously belong. It knows better than you know yourself sometime. I do wonder whether it actually has some kind of enchantment to be able to look into your future. Generally divination and such is obviously quite rubbish but seeing as the founders are basically the four most powerful -"

"Ravenclaw alert,"Molly interrupted with a snicker."Seriously, Rose. I don't need special founders hat powers to see where you'll be going."

Rose tutted in mock annoyance."We can't all be Gryffindors, Molly, can we now?"

"Well, that would certainly make Quidditch boring,"Michael replied, pretty much deciding the topic for the next hour or so.

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Rose walked back from the bathroom when she noticed an almost empty compartment.

Well, that was definitely odd. Most of the train was crowded to breaking point.

She peered in through the window and saw a white blond head that had been pointed out to her earlier. She shrugged and continued on her way, but stopped dead after a few steps.

Okay, so her dad wanted her to not get too friendly with the Malfoy kid. But surely just saying hi would not be too friendly?

The first train ride to Hogwarts was special, not something you should spent alone. It was supposed to be fun and the boy looked so terribly sad.

That decided it.

Rose turned around and opened the door to his compartment."Uhm... hey."

He looked up, clearly startled that anyone would come talk to him."Hi?"

"Yeah. Hi. So... uhm,"Rose muttered, not quite sure what to do now. Okay, so she didn't want him to have to be so lonely. But she didn't want him to be embarrassed and think she pitied him or something."Hi. I'm Rose. Rose Weasley."

"Scorpius,"he replied,"Scorpius Malfoy."

He said it as though he expected her to leave immediately but she stood her ground and smiled."So, Scorpius, wanna come sit with us? We have a free seat."

He stared at her as if certain she was joking."Sit with you?"

It didn't sound as if he were put of by the idea or anything, just as if he were genuinely surprised. Now Rose felt really bad about almost walking past. He obviously had no friends on the train."Sure, why not? My cousin Al could really use someone to play chess with. We're all kinda sick of losing to him, to be honest."

Finally, Scorpius's face broke into a smile."Okay. I'll come along."

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Sorry I took so long! Unfortunately I always start new stories and then forget about them :(

Would anyone be interested in me posting my headcanon ages for the Weasley/Potter kids on my profile along with some info about my OCs?