Chapter 3
Rose frowned. She was going to be late for the first day of potion. And it was going to be her friend's fault. She hated waiting for her friend to get ready. Maybe if Liz didn't cake her face with makeup, Rose thought darkly. She'd be done by now.
Rose sat down on the dark blue sofa and waited for her friend to appear. While she waited she pulled out her potion book and began to read it. Last year she nearly failed potions. She swore it was because Professor Malfoy disliked her, as well as her siblings.
That dorkus maximus couldn't let go of the past. There seemed to be something between the Weasley family and the Malfoy family. They had never really like one another.
Rose was read the second chapter, when Liz came into the common room and said, "Sorry, Rose! I had to help my little brother with collecting his books and finding his quills. Daric had hid Sammy's quills in the frog's cage… under the frog poo! Let's hope Sammy doesn't try to chew on his quill today!"
Rose gave Liz a frosty glare. "You sure it wasn't because you had put on the wrong eye shadow?"
"'Xcuse me?" Liz retorted.
By this time, Rose was feeling a little impatient. "We're going to be late!" Rose declared.
The dungeons were cold. They were always cold. Even when it was sunny and warm outside, the cold never left the dungeons. Even when you left the dungeons, your very marrow felt damp and chilled.
Rose stormed down the steps, nearly tripping in order to get there on time.
"You're late," Professor Malfoy said, simply, looking up at Rose.
Rose nodded apologetically. "I'm sorry! I meant—"
"Ten points from Ravenclaw."
Rose sat down with a heavy thud on her seat and mumbled to her friend, "He's just like what dad said he was. Like Snape. Only jerkier."
"Ten more points from Ravenclaw, Ms. Weasley," Professor Malfoy said coolly.
Rose was about to jump up and object strongly, but Scorpius gave her a forbidding look.
From behind Malfoy's back, Roxanne Weasley, younger sister to Fred, winked at Rose and gave her the loser sign. Roxanne was a difficult cousin. She was a Slytherin and enjoyed teasing all ages. She was incredibly smart and cunning, so at time she could be extremely insensitive.
Everyone thought she was going to be a Ravenclaw. They were shocked when the Hat screamed, "SLYTHERIN!" But what shocked everyone even more was when the Hat screamed, "GRYFFINDOR!" For Scorpius Malfoy.
Rose tossed her hair behind her and pretended not to notice, Roxanne, who was now grinning at Fred and giving him the victory sign.
Professor Malfoy glanced at Fred and then instantly shot Roxanne a look. Roxanne's face was trained well. She gave Malfoy a serious look.
"Where were we? Ah yes. Please group in threes for this on coming project!" Professor Malfoy boomed. "If the first year students would please group up with at least one student who has been hear longer."
Lily gave one look at James and then dashed to his side.
"I don't want you with me!" James hissed.
"But I want to be with you!" Lily pleaded.
"I can't believe Professor Malfoy wanted the first year kids to come with us!" James said disgustedly. "I'm not even in my second year! This is embarrassing!
Scorpius went to James's side and said, "Maybe he's trying to keep an eye on the Potter population as well as the Weasley population."
"Not helping, Scorpius!" James said, prying Lily (who was hugging him) off of him.
"Here, you can stay with us, just don't be clinging to your brother. I think, Lily, it embarrasses him to have you hugging him," Scorpius said, also trying to pry Lily off of James.
"I said not helping, Scorpius!" James said, nearly having to push Lily off with his foot.
"Look, she's obviously not going to budge, so just deal with it, James!" Scorpius snapped.
"FIFTEEN POINTS FROM GRYFFINDOR!" Professor Malfoy shouted angrily. "You either pair up or don't! And you, Scorpius, stop making trouble."
Scorpius bit his lip and scowled.
Lily let go of James and give him the puppy dog face. "FINE!" James said, throwing his hands up in the air. "If you get burned by the acids we're mixing, don't blame me!"
"In today's lesson, we are going to learn about how to cure a foot wart," Professor Malfoy said calmly.
Rose raised her hand. "Sir, we already—"
"Five points from Ravenclaw. Do not speak unless I call on you," Professor Malfoy said glaring at Rose.
Rose blushed and raised her hand.
"Yes, Ms. Weasley?"
"Sir, we already covered how to cure a foot wart in our first year of Hogwarts!" Rose said cautiously, not looking at Professor Malfoy.
"Do you remember when you learned about how to cure a foot wart?" Professor Malfoy sneered.
"Our first day at Hogwarts, when we were with the second year—" Rose stopped abruptly.
"Exactly. A review about how to cure foot warts isn't going to harm you. In fact, I believe its good review," Professor Malfoy said, turning to his book in his hand.
Professor Malfoy droned on for what seemed like eternity.
Albus took up his rubber bands and began shooting them off behind Professor Malfoy's back.
The bands smacked Lily's head. Instead of saying anything, she took up the bands and began shooting them back at her brother.
James tackled Lily and tried to grab the bands from Lily.
Scorpius inched away awkwardly, wishing he wasn't in their group.
The whole battle between them was done in silence, as Professor Malfoy explained the different kind of warts.
Eileen frowned and made death movements at Albus, who merely smirked back in reply.
Professor Malfoy went on talking. Albus went on causing destruction in silence.
Now Scorpius was in the fray. While James tried to pin Lily, Scorpius tried grabbing the rubber bands from Lily. Lily was a tough cookie, having two older brothers, so she knew how to fight them off.
Then, "What. Do. You. Think. You. Are. Doing." From Professor Malfoy. Professor Malfoy glared at them all with icy glares.
"Fifty points from Gryffindor. Where did you get the bands?" Professor Malfoy snapped.
"My bro!" Lily snapped back. James winced and Scorpius did a facepalm. "Albus was shooting them at me."
Professor Malfoy turned calmly to Albus. "Ten points from Slytherin."
Albus frowned hard.
Eileen gave a nasty glare at James, who innocently looked upwards.
Then Professor Malfoy turned to Scorpius. "Detention," He said to Scorpius.
A slight flush of embarrassment crept into his pale face. "Yes…"
"Sir…" Professor Malfoy added.
"Sir," Echoed Scorpius.
"And so David asked Princess out right away and I was like—"
"Do you have anything better to talk about other than relationships and boys?" Snapped Rose.
Liz licked off the jam on her fingers. "Sorry, but seriously, it totally grated on me. She's such a Slytherin!"
Rose had a sort of bored look. She didn't know why she bothered with Liz so much.
Rose's mood could change, one moment being nice, the other cold and a little insensitive. "So?" Rose said in a bored mood, looking down at her plate of salad. "I hate salad."
"Why are you eating it?"
"Because mum wants me to eat it…" Rose said, as if it was an obvious reason why.
"Has Scorpius asked you out?" Liz prodded.
"Shut up," Replied Rose.
"Do you like Scorpius?"
"No," Boomed Rose, a little too loudly. She flicked her eyes up at Scorpius who was sitting by Lily and James. She frowned ever so slightly.
"I-I dislike Scorpius," Rose said in a stately matter.
Liz was giving Rose an 'uh-huh' look. Liz gazed at Rose who now was looking at a dark haired boy in Slytherin. Rose's cheeks flushed a little.
Liz took that and shouted triumphantly, "YOU LIKE SORA!"
"WHAT THE CRAP! I do not," Rose hissed angrily at Liz.
Liz giddily bounced up and down. "You like Sora, you like Sora, you like Sora!"
Rose grabbed Liz's arm and jerked her close. She whispered in her ear, "I do not like Sora!"
Sora Wagner was two years older than Rose. He was exceedingly good looking Eurasian guy, with a soft Irish accent, who was the captain for the Slytherin quidditch team. All the girl liked him. His mother was Cho Chang, Ravenclaw's seeker back in the day. Cho Chang married Peter Wagner, and had her heart broken for the second time, when they divorced. Then Chang went back to Hogwarts with Sora where she got to be the teacher and Sora got to learn and watch.
Sora was a quiet guy, he could be cold without meaning to be, and he trained his team with brutal force. But extremely hard practice had paid off, for they had been winning for a couple years now. His goal was the Quidditch World Cup.
Rose glanced one last look to Sora and then looked away. Since the attention never went to Sora's head, it just made all the girls squeal over him even more. Ick, girls squealing… Rose hated super star people who were too proud to have a huge bragging swollen head.
Liz looked at her fingernails and said, "Wanna meet Sora?"
Rose said back, "No. I'm going to the library." Rose stood up and walked away, her face still warm feeling.
"What was Professor Ravens like?!" James asked Lily.
Lily glanced skeptically at James. "She was… okay. She uses strange words like, love and sweetheart and stuff like that." She turned back to her lunch.
Scorpius's curiosity go the better. "Was she a good teacher?"
Lily nodded and said, "Yeah! We went straight into Transfiguration! We didn't even read anything! She seems to like getting to do stuff right away instead of waiting at the last moment."
James pondered carefully what Lily said. "Hmmm… interesting… she doesn't sound too bad…"
"Rose has been acting really strange," Mused Lily.
"What do you mean?" James demanded exuberantly. "I'm her protective couz. Tell me!"
Lily hesitated. "Umm…"
"I haven't noticed anything wrong with her," Scorpius noted.
"You never notice anything," James snapped then turned to Lily again. "Well?"
Lily bit her lip and lowered her voice. "Ahh… umm… so I was in her room, because I asked to borrow a book and she had, kinda given me the password, and so you know I was, um, looking for the book, because I couldn't find it—"
"Will you get to the freakin' point?!" James barked at Lily.
Lily didn't hesitate. "She has a broom."
James's eyes grew huge. "What the heck?"
Scorpius frowned.
"I've seen her practice on it, she's really good!" Hissed Lily.
"But she's never tried out the last couple years I thought!" James said in shock.
Lily glanced at Sora and hissed in a mad rush, "She likes Sora, I've seen her watch the Slytherin's practice. She's been getting tips from Sora. She watches how hard they practice and practices herself."
"SORA!" James hissed. "She's been flirting with that Slytherin freak?! Ohhh… Wagner… my new sworn enemy… I knew that the Slytherin's had really hard training… but I just figured Albus was just… Lemme think… he's in his fourth year so he's… fifteen! Two years older than Rose!"
Scorpius snorted and gave James the Malfoy trademark smirk. "Glad you can do addition, James. You're not as stupid as you can be," Scorpius said, his smirk growing bigger.
"What?!" James said tearing his gaze off Sora.
Scorpius rolled his eyes, and said, "James, you are seriously paranoid. Stop freaking out, just because Rose likes Sora."
James narrowed his eyes and looked back at Sora. "Why would she fall for a Slytherin, hm?" James said snootily as he jutted his chin out.
"What?" Scorpius said in annoyance. "You—oy! What do you have against Slytherins?! My whole family was in Slytherin!"
James made a pshh, noise and said, "Sorry."
"No you're not," Scorpius snapped.
James said carelessly, "You're right, I'm not."
Scorpius rolled his eyes. "Whateves."
"Sooo…" Lily said awkwardly. "D'you think she started up practicing once she decided she liked Sora?"
"No," James pondered. "I think she's been practicing for a while."
All the sudden Scorpius's smirk flashed across his face. "Interesting… this Hogwarts year is going to be very very interesting…"
Lily seemed to get it next. "Oh my…"
Poor James was the last one to get it. "WHAT?" he demanded.
Scorpius and Lily looked at James and chorused together, "She might be the new Seeker for Ravenclaw."
A/N:
I recently wrote a Marauder story! I honestly really really like those 3 guys as teens. Notice how I said 3. Peter doesn't count. Here's how to find it! Click on Shinobi-saru-corp and then find The Fantastic Tales of the Four Marauders! It will have a picture pretty much like the Hogwarts seal.