ARIANA

I got back to The Leaky Cauldron by about ten. There were already a couple of people sitting at the tables.

'Hello darling,' my mum called from behind the bar. ' Did you have fun at Arya's?'

I winced a little. She came up to me looking worried. 'Are you okay?' she asked.

'Yeah I just have a bit of a headache. I'll be fine after a couple of hours of sleep.' I said.

'Here have this,' she said, pulling something out from under the bar.

I took a sip. It tasted vile but my head cleared up immediately.

'Thanks. What was that?' I asked.

'A hangover cure. I may be old but I am definitely not stupid. I run a pub, I can tell when someone's been drinking,' she said smiling at my discomfort.

'Sorry Mum,' I mumbled, very embarrassed.

'It's okay, you're over-age. And you need to have a bit of fun. I'd just rather you'd let me know before you went to a party.'

I nodded at her. She pulled me into a hug and told me to go upstairs to get some sleep.

'Oh I forgot,' she said, just when I was walking up the stairs. 'Your Hogwarts letter came. It's on your dressing table. We'll go shopping tomorrow.'

That's one good thing about living in Diagon Alley, easy access to shops. I got upstairs and ripped open my letter. A shiny badge with Head Girl on it fell out. I stared at it for about ten minutes; not believing it was real.

'Mum!' I shouted. 'Mum, come up here!'

'What is it Ria?' she asked when she got upstairs. She looked at me worriedly. I just held up the badge. She let out a shriek. She gave me a bone-crushing hug.

'You got Head Girl,' she said grinning broadly. 'I'm so proud of you baby.'

'Why didn't dad tell me?' I asked surprised.

'Oh he probably didn't know. It's mostly the headmistresses decision and I think she only asks the your head of house if you would be suitable,' she explained.

'Oh,' I said, my brain barely processing the information.

Dad came home about half an hour later. He's the Herbology professor at Hogwarts but he helps the Auror department when he has time. Especially when dealing with unknown poisons.

'I got Head Girl Dad,' I said.

'That's incredible sweetheart,' he said hugging me. 'I had my suspicions but I didn't want to get your hopes up.'

'But I though Rose…'

Dad snorted. 'Rose is a very bright girl but only an idiot would give someone the irresponsible a position of authority. You earned this badge Ria.'

'But…'

'You want to be Head Girl don't you?' he asked, worried.

'Yes, but what if I'm rubbish and I can't get anyone to listen to me?' I asked.

'You'll be great,' Dad said, comfortingly.

ALBUS

We were all still lying on the couch when the owls arrived. Six large school owls bearing letters flew in through the window, landed in front of us a stuck their feet out, looking at us expectantly. We all retrieved our letters. Rose shook her envelope but nothing except a piece of paper fell out.

'I didn't get it,' she said subdued.

'Don't worry Rosie,' I said comfortingly, 'now you can have fun with the rest of us.'

'Maybe not all of us,' Scorpius said awkwardly, holding up a badge.

'You got Head Boy?' Lorcan asked his eyebrows disappearing into his hair.

'Looks like it,' Scor said looking at his badge, puzzled.

None of us really knew how to react. We had all thought Rose would get Head Girl. Not because she was particularly responsible or anything but because she wanted it and what Rose wanted she usually got. Scorpius was actually the last person we had thought would get Head Boy. It's not like he wasn't smart or anything, he just didn't care.

Mum walked in while Scorpius stared at his badge in amazement.

'Congratulations Scor,' she said hugging him.

Lily ran down. 'I got it Mum,' she said excitedly brandishing a prefect's badge.

Rose's face hardened. 'Well I'd better be going,' she said.

'Give my love to your parents,' Mum called as she stepped into the fire.

'Will do,' she replied and disappeared.

I opened my letter and to my surprise a badge fell out.

'I got one too Mum,' I said smiling.

'Quidditch Captain?' she asked.

I nodded in assent.

'That's brilliant!' she said excitedly. 'Harry, come down quick!'

'Coming coming,' Dad said, rushing down the stairs. 'Now what's going on?'

'Lily got Prefect, Al got Quidditch Captain and Scorpius got Head Boy.'

'That's incredible! How about we go out and celebrate? Leaky Cauldron sounds good right? Well that is if we can still go there,' he said looking at me pointedly.

'I told you. Nothing happened. Rose was just being… well she was just being Rose,' I said.

'So is everybody in?' he asked.

Lorcan, Zabini and Scorpius nodded. Now you might think it's strange that Scorpius was celebrating with us instead of his own family but that was pretty much how things worked. He did everything with us. He didn't really get on with his parents. Despite being put in Slytherin he wasn't a pureblood supremacist. Honestly that stereotype is a bit ridiculous. Everyone thinks Slytherins are evil. They aren't, they just have their own set of morals. If we're being fair Rose was far meaner to people than either Scorpius or Zabini were. She still got put in Gryffindor.

So anyway, we all decided to go to the Leaky Cauldron for dinner and because my family is huge we ended up booking the whole place. Hugo got Prefect too so that was another reason to celebrate. I didn't really want to though because I knew Rose was pretty cut up about not getting Head Girl. And I also knew that Aunt Hermione being Aunt Hermione would force her to come.

We got to The Leaky Cauldron by about seven. Uncle Neville who was my favourite professor was bartender. 'Hello Al,' he said smiling when he saw me. 'Heard the news. Congratulations.'

'Thanks. Where's Ria?' I asked. She usually waits tables during the holidays so I was surprised she wasn't around. 'Wanted to know if would like to join us.'

'Oh she's upstairs with Arya,' he said. 'Thought we'd give her the night off; she got some pretty special news too. But sure ask them if they'd like to join you.'

'Cool.'

I went upstairs. The Longbottoms have an awesome house. It's on the top of the pub so you would expect it to be small, but then we're wizards so with the help of a couple of undetectable extension charms it ended up being pretty big. Okay so there was another reason I wanted her to join us. I felt pretty bad about Rose's behavior and I kind of wanted to apologize. Yeah the others call me the conscience of the group. They say I always try to set things right. Well that is if it doesn't inconvenience me too much.

I knocked on her door. Arya Thomas opened it.

'Hey, I was wondering if you and Ria would like to join us,' I said.

'Sure,' she said shrugging. 'Ria needs to get out more anyway. And now that she's Head Girl she needs to get over her irrational fear of people.'

'Arya,' Ria said throwing a cushion at her friend's head.

Arya just laughed and went downstairs. Well at least Lorcan would be happy. He's liked her for at least three years. Once when he was really really drunk he wrote a song about her.

'Well since my friend has decided that I need to be more sociable I suppose I must join you,' Ria said.

'Yes you must, and congratulations on Head Girl,' I said. 'Oh and I'm also sorry about today morning. I don't think I handled that very well.'

'Nah it's okay,' she said. 'No harm no foul right?'

'Yeah but I'm sorry about Rose. She can be a little…'

'Abrasive?' she said a smile forming at corners of her mouth.

'Yeah abrasive. So shall we?' I asked. She nodded and we made our way to the party.

a/n: So I hope you like this chapter. The next couple are going to be different POV characters. If you've read my other stuff you'll know I'm a Lily/Scorpius shipper so you can expect some of that. So please revieww :)