A/N: Here's Rose Weasley, who I imagine to take after her father rather than her mother, which is apparently the complete opposite of everybody else's head canon :D I also don't ship Scorrose. Oops. Anyway, here we go, sorry for the long delay by the way, I was too busy with my finals, I'll update more regularly from now on! If you have any particular character you wish to see in the next chapter, let me know in the reviews!
1. Many people would think that being the daughter of Hermione Granger-Weasley - the war hero, the brains of the infamous Golden Trio, the witch who almost single handedly revolutionized Wizarding Law – would put an unbelievable amount of pressure on Rose Weasley. She certainly had big shoes to fill.
Shoes that she had no intentions of ever stepping in. She doesn't give a damn what is expected of her. Sure, she is a smart girl, but she is nothing like her mother. She has a loud mouth, a wicked – if a tad unkind at times – sense of humor, a certain knack for getting into trouble and a mighty appetite. "Honestly, she is basically a female Ron," her aunt Ginny always says with an amused look at her mother. The only things she has in common with her mother are her determination to stand up for what she believes in and her love of reading.
However, much to the annoyance of Hermione, she prefers trashy Muggle romance novels.
2. Despite her love for romance novels – and her secret inner romantic – she is the true definition of a tomboy. She lives in her jeans and Weasley jumpers, knows more swear words than most of her male cousins combined and hardly has any female friends that are not related to her. Even as a little kid, she'd never been one to have tea parties and play with dolls, preferring to play outside and get dirty. She never fully grows out of it, and though she did eventually become interested in boys, she's disliked dresses all her life.
3. She adores Quidditch. Ever since she was a little kid, she's been to every single Chudley Cannons match with her dad. She knows the team statistics like the back of her hand. However she has serious acrophobia, so she cannot play. She's quite frustrated by this and has tried to overcome her fear numerous times, getting on a broom only to freeze up and end up being helped down by others, shaking violently. So she overcompensates by reading every article on Quidditch she can get her hands on and helping her brother and cousins train.
4. She is every bit awkward with relationships as her parents were at Hogwarts. She is a little immature and has a tendency to speak before she thinks. She can come across as insensitive at times as well, because even though deep down she is an emotional person, she usually finds it hard to express those emotions. She particularly has a hard time with showing her softer side, since she fears vulnerability. Of course, the fact that most of the guys at Hogwarts consider her "one of the boys" hardly helps.
As a result, she has a really messy love life, breaking a lot of hearts without even realizing it and being on the receiving end of heartbreak quite often as well. The tales of her love life, or lack thereof, never cease to amuse Hugo, who does his best to give her advice, even though Rose is mostly unable to follow it and ends up messing things up even more. However no matter what Hugo says, Rose is still confident that one day she will find her Prince Charming, no matter how many frogs she has to kiss first.
5. She didn't like Scorpius when she met him. He came to her and Al's compartment to ask if he could sit there because apparently not many people wanted to sit with a Malfoy. Al being Al, of course befriended him right away but Rose was a daddy's girl through and through and couldn't help but be a little prejudiced against him. He didn't exactly prove her wrong either, he was reserved, pretentious and somewhat snarky, all qualities she dislikes immensely. She also expected a more grateful attitude to be honest, considering they were the only ones willing to let him sit with them. Once they arrived at Hogwarts and both she and Al got sorted into Gryffindor and Scorpius got in Slytherin, she forgot all about him, settling into their familiar twosome with Al.
However that first week, she and Al found Scorpius backed into a corner by his fellow Slytherins, their wands drawn on him. Albus of course stepped in to rescue him, and they grudgingly left Scorpius alone, not wanting to mess with Harry Potter's kid. A few days later, this time she had to hex two fifth year Gryffindors to get them off a battered and bruised Scorpius Malfoy, who mumbled his embarrassed thanks and practically ran off so that he wouldn't have to meet her eyes. She, just like Al, kept rushing to his aid whenever other students gave him a hard time just because of his last name. Because it didn't matter if Rose disliked him, the daughter of Hermione Granger would never allow anyone to be bullied.
By the time it was Christmas, the rest of the students had learned not to mess with Malfoy, at least not openly, and Scorpius had joined Rose and Al, forming a trio that would be known as the "new Golden Trio" throughout their Hogwarts years. Because, as their Uncle Harry would later say, there are some things you just can't share without ending up liking each other, and fighting off bullies for months is one of them.
6. Rose had never planned for anything to happen between her and Scorpius. She'd honestly never even felt attracted to him. But somehow, one drunk night, they wound up in bed together. She'd been quick to dismiss it as a one time mistake, but against her better judgement, it happened again. And again.
This time, she convinced herself that it was just sex and didn't mean anything. And to her, it truly didn't. However Scorpius had to go and ruin everything, confessing he liked her like that. As someone who's been "friendzoned" all her life, dismissed as "one of the boys", she hated to do the same to Scorpius, hated hurting his feelings, but it had to be done.
Thankfully, he ended up falling for another Weasley girl soon after, and after a brief rocky period, they continued to be best friends.
7. Rose is quite bright - despite being nowhere near her mother's level – but she is also extremely lazy. She'd rather be goofing off with her friends, laughing and talking about Quidditch. As a result, she always leaves everything to the very last minute, at which point the more driven side of her, inherited no doubt from Hermione, comes out and she neurotically rushes to complete her assignments or finish her studies for the exam, having quite a few nervous breakdowns along the way. She manages to scrape Es mostly – except she fails rather spectacularly at History of Magic – but no one in their right mind would define her as "academic". She is however quite nosy and Quidditch obsessed, so it comes as no surprise when she becomes a journalist after Hogwarts. She publishes her first book a mere three years after Hogwarts, a biography of Viktor Krum, which is a huge success. She ends up doing a complete series of biographies of prominent figures in the wizarding world, eventually becoming the first person to write an authorized biography of Harry Potter.
8. While writing her first book, she spends a lot of time in the Krum mansion, interviewing Viktor Krum. His son Stefan is usually around, either reading at some corner or brooding. He is always frowning, barely smiles even when she greets him. He treats her rather brusquely and he both annoys and fascinates her, so when one day he asks her out, she's shocked but unable to say no. Over their steaming mugs of strong Bulgarian coffee, she finds out that he's actually quite intelligent, well-read and that he flat out sucks at Qudditch, which caused him to be largely ignored both by the media and by his father in favor of his sister, who has inherited their father's talent and is currently off touring the world with her team.
Thirteen months later, they get married and he has this uncharacteristically huge smile on his face, his eyes shining as he looks at her. The sheer adoration she sees in those eyes takes her breath away, and with a rush, she realizes that she has found her Prince Charming after all.
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