Chapter 7
It was Halloween and Rose had lost the bet between her and Malfoy. She had been waiting anxiously to see what favor she would have to do. Rose and Neville walked into the Great Hall before moving over to their tables. Rose sat next to Blaise who seemed considerably nice the past two months. "Hey how was the library," Pansy asked. "Did Neville get some action?"
"If you are implying that we are dating then no we aren't,"Rose said as she put some mashed potatoes and some carrots onto her plate. The feast proceeded on and Rose had a chance to look around at the decoration, floating pumpkins.
"You don't think these decorations are actually impressive do you?" Malfoy asked. She met his eyes as he took a bite out of the chicken leg he had resting in his hand.
"Actually yes I do,"she told him.
"Your joking,"he exclaimed.
"No I'm not," she snapped at him.
"How could you possibly think this was impressive, are you a stupid mudblood,"he asked her. Rose had asked Neville what mudblood meant and it was one of the only things he knew the answer to. Mudblood was half muggle and half magical. It was an insult in the wizarding world.
"Wow way to be a jerk Draco." Rose got up and walked out of the Great Hall. Rose didn't know what it felt like to be bullied but now she did. Rose walked around until she lost her way and walked into a room that use to be an classroom. Desks were pushed to the side and in the middle of room a mirror stood. The mirror was ornate and seemed ancient. She walked up to the mirror and touched the glass. She looked up at her reflection and what she saw startled her.
There stood a boy with a fuzzy face but messy jet black hair like the man standing behind her. Rose found her resemblance to the woman standing behind her impeccable. Rose didn't understand why her face was becoming wet when she realized she wa crying. Finally she came to the resolution that these were her parents. She felt the warm hands of her mom and dad but when she looked behind her they weren't there.
Rose stood in front of the mirror for hours unsure of what to do until the door of the unused classroom opened. "Miss Evans," Professor Snape said as he entered. "You're out of bed."
"Oh goodness what time is it?"she asked as Snape limped towards her.
"Past curfew,"he told her. "Now seeing that I believe that you didn't know you have been in here for so long I will let it slide but the next time this happens I won't hesitate next time to give you detention," he states not looking at Rose but at the mirror. It took her by surprise when he asked,"What do you see?"
"My parents,"she told him."And I think my brother."
"Your mother was a beautiful woman,"he told her.
"I have a question,"she asked.
"What is it?"
"What happened to Harry Potter's parents?"
"They were murdered by Lord Voldemort just like your parents,"he told her. "Now come on let's get you back into the common room."
Rose entered the common room and Malfoy instantly was up in her face. "Where were you?" he asked. What he had said before she left the Great Hall rung throughout her thoughts. Without warning the sound of Rose's hand on Draco's cheek echoed through the now silent common room. Tears brimming her eyes Rose ran up stairs to the dorms and collapsed onto her bed. She pulled the curtains tightly around the bed with her mother's wand, all of her homework, and the Tales of the Beetle and the Bard with her.