Chapter six: Famous Rose Weasley

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"Rose!" Janey shrieked as she entered the compartment, and Rose hugged her with a giggle.

"What happened?" she asked, her large brown eyes searching Rose's face. "Mathew sent me a letter about something."

"It's nothing." Rose whispered quietly.

"Nothing?" Scorpius snorted. "Wood called her a mudblood." Colin Wood was a Gryffindor who had a twin brother Liam. Liam had called her a mudblood when he had bumped at her at Diagon Alley.

"WHAT!" Janey shrieked, her voice deafening. Rose winced.

"Shut up Janey." Max said irritably.

"Well we have to get revenge somehow!" she plotted

"Does Wood have any relatives we can affect?" Scorpius asked.

"I don't want innocents to be hurt." said Rose, but Janey glared at her.

"The oaf called you a mudblood!"

Blood boiled in Rose's ears. "Fine." she said, to angry at Wood to care.

"His sister!" said Mathew all of a sudden. "He has a sister. Maybe we can talk a younger Slytherin firstie into bribing the sorting hat."

"Excellent idea." Rose grinned. "What house?"

"Hufflepuff."said Scorpius and they laughed. Hufflepuff was a joke of a house to Slytherins. Maybe they used to be good, but they were loyal. However, they weren't loyal to anyone. This ended up with them being very naive.

"Excellent." Janey praised. "Who will do the bribing?"

"My little sister is joining this year." said Bella. "Liz"

"Can you get her to do it?" Rose asked eagerly.

"She'll want a favor." said Bella skeptically. "And she's obsessed with you Mathew."

"Me!" said Mathew aghast. "I barely know her!"

"Yes, well she has it stuck in her mind that you're her soulmate."

"Fine." he grumbled.

When Bella came back she was laughing. "One kiss!" she gasped, barely catching her breath. "She want's one kiss!"

"WHAT!" Mathew yelped in a high pitched voice.

"Please?" Rose begged, giving him doe eyes. He was a sister to him and Rose knew it.

"Fine." he grumbled. "But at Christmas Break so that I don't have to put up with the rumours and gossip."

"Your sister's a bloody harpy." commented Elizabeth, and Daphne glared.

"Don't call her that." she said in a tight voice. "Only I can call her that."

"Fine." Elizabeth relented, rolling her eyes.

"Excuse me?" the group heard the bossy voice of Amy Wilson say as she entered their compartment. "Have you seen Albus or Colin?" she asked.

"Obviously not." Scorpius drawled.

"Get out." snarled Bella.

"Hmph. SO rude!" she flounced off. The lady with the sweets came. Rose got out to buy some things. Her eyes flashed when she saw Albus. He looked at her and he looked... unforcotable. Rose bought some snacks and left without a hello.

It started raining outside. Rose stroked her new owl's Artemis and glanced out of the window. All her friends except Scorpius were asleep. She let her head fall at his lap.

"Exciting about getting back?" he grinned and Rose nodded. They sat silent enjoying each other and they both fall asleep.

"Hey, lovebirds wake up!" Mathew yelled. Rose and Scorpius jerked their heads and blushed. They quickly changed in their robes and got out. They let their carriages and moved to the Great Hall.

It's nice to be back." she grinned, and Mathew smiled.

Soon the Sorting started. Hogwarts was just like Rose remembered. Innumerable candles were hovering in midair over four long, crowded tables, making the golden plates and goblets sparkle. Overhead, the bewitched ceiling, which always mirrored the sky outside, sparkled with stars.

Through the forest of pointed black Hogwarts hats, Rose saw a long line of scared-looking first years filing into the Hall. Emily Wood was among them, easily visible. Also, Louis Weasley was among them. Meanwhile, Professor McGonagall, a bespectacled witch with her hair in a tight bun, was placing the famous Hogwarts Sorting Hat on a stool before the newcomers.

Every year, this aged old hat, patched, frayed, and dirty, sorted new students into the four Hogwarts houses (Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin). Rose well remembered putting it on, exactly one year ago, and waiting, petrified, for its decision as it muttered aloud in her ear. Eventually it put her in Slytherin.

A tall, blond haired boy had been called forward to place the hat on his head. Soon the mousy boy was sorted into Gryffindor.

Liz went up, and after a few minutes she was sorted into Slytherin. She winked at Bella.

"Perfect." Rose smirked. Soon Emily Wood was called up. She was a slip of a girl with flaming brown hair and a freckled face. After a few minutes, the Sorting Hat called, "HUFFLEPUFF!"

Hufflepuff cheered, but Hermione saw the Wood's silent. Their sister in Hufflepuff? The house of duffers? Emily looked rather defeated as she slunk down to her table.

Piles of delicious food appeared on the table in front of her, and as she and her friends began serving themselves, they continued filling each other in on their holiday activities. Rose's present caused quite a stir. She had been on the top of modeling and girls wanted to ask ger about boys, clothes, make up etc. Thet even came from Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff. Of course no one from Gryffindor made this honour. Dominique was jealous because her family was thinking that she was the most beautiful and Rose the most ugly but after they saw her in front of a magazine more beautiful than ever they understood that 11 years was nothing. They hadn't realised the real Rose Weasley.

"I'd like to make a announcement" McGonagall said and the discussions stopped.

"This year it will be a big competition. The four houses will 'fight' each other in three tasks. One house will be the winner winning the House Cup and some more suprises. The first task is: You will choose one person from your house to sing." all started whispering and stopped when they saw McGonagall's face.

"In the second task two persons from your house, even the person who was in the first task will take part in a baking task. You will have some hours to build a cake. Only three houses will participate because the one which will be in the last place at the first task will have to leave the competition."

"And finally the last one with two houses. There will be eleven people for each house. They will have to run into a stalemate with obstacles, get to the end and throw some shots. The house which will win ten times, it will be the winner"

"The first task is in 13 of October, the second in 22 of January and the last in 2 of May. You have to give us who will participate in the first task in two days."

Rose was the first participant. She didn't believe that she had a good voice. Roxanne was amazing in singing and her mother had said that when you have a good voice you cannot stop singing. But her house was amazed by her voice so she couldn't wait for the first task. She was going to beat Gryffindors and make her house pride.

Second year began much like first year. Rose took all the same classes and found to her relief that they were no more difficult than last year and she was able to get away with doing just as little work.

The first two weeks passed by in a haze of renewed responsibility and waning summertime warmth. Rose found herself staying up in the common room hurrying to finish assignments nearly every night, but it was worth it because she spent nearly every afternoon on the quidditch pitch with Elizabeth or Scorpius practicing her keeping skills. She didn't want to be kicked out of the team.

Autumn at Hogwarts fluttered by as Rose and her classmates settled into the familiar school routine. Classes picked up and Rose found her pile of homework growing steadily, though she still managed to get away with doing as little work as possible, something which irritated her friends to no end.

"This isn't bloody fair!" Max burst out one evening in the library, throwing his quill down in frustration and glaring at Rose, who was folding a piece of parchment into an origami swan.

"What?" she asked, looking up in confusion.

Max's scowl darkened and he brushed a piece of hair from his forehead. "How can you possibly be done with this essay?" he demanded, gesturing rather violently towards the parchment in front of him.

Rose shrugged and turned back to her paper bird. "It wasn't very difficult," she said off handedly. "I did it this morning in history of magic."

"You were supposed to be taking our notes!" Elizabeth cried next to her, whipping up and also glaring at Rose.

"I did take notes," Rose said, fighting the urge to roll her eyes. "But Binns talked about that bloody Goblin Rebellion of 1648 for nearly fifteen minutes and there's only so much information to write down for that."

"You did your essay in fifteen minutes?" Mathew asked quickly, his expression melting from anger to mild admiration.

"It was probably less than fifteen minutes," Rose murmured, with a shrug. She tapped the paper bird with her wand so it turned blue, turning it around and eyeing her handiwork. "I did have to write down the dates and names for that goblin rebellion."

"You did the essay in less than fifteen minutes, then?" Daniel asked, his eyebrows rising. He looked almost impressed.

Rose shrugged again and tapped the bird one more time with her wand so that it flew around them on its own accord. "It wasn't very difficult," she said, watching her paper bird soar across the table.

"Blimey," Danny said in awe, finally looking up from his notes and staring across the table at Rose with undisguised admiration. "I've been working on it for an hour and I'm not even halfway done."

Rose threw a grin at him.

"This is bullocks," Max grumbled, picking up his quill and turning back to his parchment with a huff. "Why is everything so easy for you, Rosie? It's not fair."

"Not potions," Rose pointed out quickly, now directing the origami bird with her wand so it flew in figure eights around their heads. "I'm terrible at potions."

"You're only terrible at the practical bit and that's because you can't be bothered to read directions," Janey said, turning a page of her charms textbook and rolling her eyes. "Honestly, Rosie, if anyone else put as little work into school as you they would be failing right now, and somehow you're top of the class. I'm with Mathew on this one; it's not fair."

"You say that as though you're not right behind her, Janey" Mathew chuckled, glancing up and catching Janey's eye.

Janey blushed and hurriedly looked back down at her book. "That's not true," she said. "Scorpius is right behind her."

"So then you're third," Mathew replied, raising an eyebrow. "Which is still very impressive."

Janey's flush deepened and she tugged nervously at the ends of her hair but didn't look up. "I suppose I am," was all she said.

Mathew smiled at her for another moment and then returned to his homework. For a minute the only sound between the four second years was the scratching of quills and rustling of parchment. Rose continued to direct her paper swan around their corner of the library, grinning to herself as the bird swooped and ducked around the tables and chairs.

The day came. The day Rose Weasley was going to sing in front of all the students and teachers of Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry including her family. Roxanne was participating for Gryffindor. Since Rose had never sung, the Weasleys found ridiculous that Rose was going to sign and they knew that Slytherin would be in the last place.

Roxanne was amazing. Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw were also very well. Then it was Rose's time. She was wearing a green dress, red lipstick, mascara, eyeshadow. She was very beautiful. But she wasn't going out and pose in front of a camera. She was going to sing. A song she wrote.

"And now for Slytherin, the one and only famous Rose Weasley" *cheers* "who will sing the song "My number one".

Cheers were erupted both from the houses and the people who were there. The scene was dark. Rose took a big breath. The music started and the lights opened. All gasped at her appearance. Rose took again a big breath and started.

Not even Hermione Granger had words about this. She just rocked her ten months old daughter Louisa and stared at the scene.

Fifteen minutes later:

"The results came"

Rose was sitting in a chair in front of the scene. In the other three, Roxanne Weasley, Celine Bones and Caledon Smith were sitting.

"Unfortunately, Hufflepuff will not continue"

Small cheers erupted.

"Now I want to say that... the girl who made her house pride has won a permanent 'job' with the best singers in the wizarding world!"

There was a gasp from all the people.

"Ravenclaw takes the third place"

Rose was pale was a sheet. She glanced at Roxanne and she saw that she was the same. In fact, she was praying.

"In the second place is...

Three,

Two,

One

"Gryffindor!"

Rose almost burst into tears and run to hug Scorpius. This was amazing. Her life was perfect.