In the Hospital Wing, a strict Nurse called Madam Pomfrey healed my mouth with the wave of her wand. If only I could do had! So I was out of the Hospital Wing in no time. When I came out of the Hospital Wing Malfoy wasn't there (thankfully). I didn't bother to go back for the rest of the flying lesson. I hid in the Library amongst the books. I had a nice evening reading instead of suffering on a useless broomstick.

During Monday morning at breakfast, I received a letter from Hagrid. It said in an untidy scrawl:

Dear Rosie,

Would you like to come around to my house and have a cup of tea with me this evening? I want to hear all about your first week at Hogwarts. Bring Albus with you, if you're coming. Send your answer back.

Hagrid

I smiled down at the piece of parchment knowing I would have something to look forward too after classes. I took out a spare piece of parchment from my bag and wrote:

Dear Hagrid,

Of course, Albus and I will come this evening. Can't wait!

Rose

I got up out of my seat to go over to the Slytherin table to tell Al.

"Where are you going?" Abby asked me from her seat at the table eating toast.

"To the Slytherin table, I have to tell Al something."

Abby turned to peer at the Slytherin table and said,

"Do you want me to come with you, for backup? Just in case, Malfoy tricks you into injuring yourself again."

I scowled. Merlin, the way Abby phased that makes me sound so gullible!

"No, I won't anywhere near him, if I can help it."

I walked over to Slytherin table. Albus in the middle of Malfoy's gang talking and looking like he was having fun. As I approached the Slytherins they went quiet and their expressions turned cold and suspicious. I started to feel nervous, maybe I should've brought Abby for backup.

I was about to open my mouth and say something when Malfoy who was sitting next to Al demanded,

"What do you want, Weasley?"

I threw my best sneer face at him. Malfoy couldn't possibly think I was over here for him? If so, he's more of an egotistical maniac than I thought.

"I'm here to talk to my cousin." I stated.

"What, Rose?" Albus asked annoyed.

I was kind of taken back by his annoyance and then there was silence.

I huffed. "Hagrid invited us to his house this evening."

The Slytherin group laughed like I said the funniest joke in the world. I rolled my eyes.

"Have a problem, Weasley?" Malfoy asked he saw me roll my eyes.

"I just don't see what's so funny?" I snapped.

Malfoy smiled evilly and said. "Okay, then let me explain the joke to you. That half-"

Albus quickly interrupted Malfoy. "Rose, I can't come to Hagrid's."

"Why?" I asked thinking of how disappointed Hagrid was going to be.

"The guys and I," he said gesturing to the group of first year boys surrounding him. "Are going to watch the Slytherin quidditch try-outs."

"But, Albus-," I said outraged that he would choose stupid quidditch try-outs that have nothing to do with him over Hagrid.

But Albus cut across me. "Bring your friends instead of me, Sliverton and Templer."

The Slytherin table laughed again.

"That's not my friend's names." I hissed as I walked away from Slytherins.

I walked out of the Great Hall to send my letter to Hagrid in the Owlery (I finally was able to get there without getting lost!). I could've gone to Hagrid house and told him, but he told me at the start of the year not to bother coming to his house in the morning because he is usually in the Forbidden Forest preparing for his lessons.

When I got to the Owlery I took out the note I had written to Hagrid and scratched out Albus' name with my quill. I picked a school owl and tied the parchment to its leg. I checked my watch as the owl flew away. I had to start walking to class or otherwise, I would be very late (again).

When classes ended I said goodbye to Abby and Jane and headed down to Hagrid's hut. I didn't bring Abby and Jane like Albus suggested because they were too busy studying for a surprise Defence Against the Dark Arts test tomorrow which Professor Crepsely (our DADA professor) randomly sprung on us.

He told us the test was on the Knockback jinx but it was only theory. To my disappointment, we still haven't used our wands in DADA. I already knew the theory about the Knockback jinx, I had learned about it over the summer from books and my mom. I didn't think I needed to revise it, I thought a visit to Hagrid's would be a better use of time.

There was a steep hill leading down to Hagrid hut which made me hot and out of breath. I dreaded having to go back up it. As if all the stairs in Hogwarts weren't bad enough. I approached the small wooden hut at the edge of the Forbidden Forest. I went up to it and knocked on the door. I could hear Fang (Hagrid's dog) barking inside and scratching at the door.

"Back, Fang!" I could hear Hagrid say before he was opened the door. "Come in, Rosie, make yerself at home."

Hagrid held Fang back by the collar so I could come in without being licked to death. When I came in Hagrid shut the door letting go of Fang. Fang bounded towards me and licked my face attempting to jump on top of me, causing me to fall back into the chair behind me laughing.

"Watch yerself, Rosie." Hagrid said laughing as he took a kettle off the boiling open fire.

"No Al, eh?"Hagrid asked trying not to look disappointed.

"No." I said. "He went to the quidditch tryouts with his friends. I'm sure he'll come next time, Hagrid. But you have me."

Hagrid smiled at me and gave me a cup of tea. "I made rock cakes." He presented a tray of hard looking round things. I politely took one and struggled to bite into the hard tasteless rock cake. It felt like I was going to break my teeth. It tasted nothing like cake. It tasted like what I would imagine a rock would taste like maybe even worst.

"James was here a few days ago sayin' abou' Al with the Slytherins. I hope Al isn' gettin' in with a bad crowd." Hagrid said worried. "He's a good lad, like his dad."

I gave Hagrid a reassuring smile and told him. "Don't worry, Hagrid, Al is fine, he can handle himself."

Fang had put his enormous head on my leg and decided to drool on robes, but I didn't mind. Fang was just so cute! There was a pause and then Hagrid asked me brightly,

"Why don't yeh tell me abou' yer week at Hogwarts, Rosie?"

I told him everything. When I told him about my Malfoy encounters he would chime in with phases like,

"That Bastard! Yeh best stay away from 'im, Rosie."

When I finished my stories Hagrid offered me more rock cakes which I was too polite to refuse and quickly put in my robe pockets when he wasn't looking. He said,

"Well, yeh sure had an eventful week!"

"Yeah, it was." I agreed with him. "Did anything happen to you this week?"

Then Hagrid jumped into this funny story about how this boy in his Care of Magical Creatures class lost his baby flobberworm and had to go looking for it in a damp ditch at the edge of the Forbidden Forest. Only to discover one of his mates had put it in the hood of his robes. He found it when he put up his hood when it started to rain.

"Why didn't he just summon it?" I asked knowing flobberworms could be summoned by the summoning charm.

Hagrid laughed. "I told him that, but he wouldn' believe me."

Hagrid then looked up at the big clock on the wall of his hut.

"Yeh better be gettin' back, Rosie, dinner will start soon."

I gave Fang one last pet and lifted his head from my leg. But before I could leave Hagrid asked,

"Would yeh like to take some rock cakes to take with yeh, Rosie?"

Oh, merlin!

"Sure, Hagrid." I said politely.

Hagrid then gave me a paper bag full of rock cakes. I felt very weighed down with the rock cakes in my pockets along with the bag he just gave me. I thought of the dreaded hill and how was I going to get up it now.

"Share them out with yer friends."

No offence to Hagrid, but I think I wouldn't have friends anymore if I gave them these. I politely nodded and said goodbye to him and left.

I struggled to make it up the steep hill with all the rock cakes. I eventually just dragged them to the top with me. As I was approaching the castle I heard a familiar voice calling me. I turned to see it was Albus running towards me breaking free of his Slytherin friends.

When he got to me, he was flushed with excitement and out of breath.

"Rose, I'm the seeker!"

"What do you mean, Albus?" I asked.

"The Slytherins let me try-out and they made me the seeker!"

"I thought first years weren't allowed on the quidditch teams." I stated.

"Well, I'm on the team. Yaxley, he's the team captain, let me try-out because my dad was the youngest seeker in a century and a good player!" He said bursting with excitement.

By this time, Albus' Slytherin friends had reached us. The group of boys looked happy for him or maybe for themselves to have a friend on the quidditch team. But when I looked at Malfoy I saw something behind his mask of happiness for Al maybe envy or jealousy. Albus didn't seem to notice it, he was too busy in his own bubble of glory.

Malfoy then looked at me and pointed to my robes.

"What's on your robes, Weasley?" He asked in crinkling his nose in disgust.

I looked down at my robes to where Malfoy was pointing. It was Fang's drool from earlier. Yuck! The Slytherin laughed and rudely began to speculate what was on my robes. I ignored them and quickly withdrew my wand and said the incantation "Tergeo." Removing the drool from my robes and wiping that stupid smirk off Malfoy's face.

Albus was about to continue with his story but Malfoy interjected

"What's in the bag, Weasley?" Malfoy asked snidely with a hint of curiosity.

"None of your bleeding business, Malfoy!" I snapped.

A chorus of oooohhhs came from the Slytherin crowd. A boy taller than Malfoy at the front of the group stepped towards me producing his wand and pointing it at me. It would be a lie if I said this wasn't a small bit intimidating. But I kept my cool and stared at him fearlessly in the eyes hoping I would grow a few heads to match up to his height.

The boy said threateningly as he approached me. "Give us the bag, Weasley."

Albus was watching this looking like he was trying to think up a great idea to get me of this. Suddenly to my surprise Malfoy step in front of me blocking me from the boys view.

"Leave her, Avery. Weasley is not worth the jinx." Malfoy said snidely.

Was Malfoy standing up for me? What in the name of merlin was going on here!

"I'm sorry, Malfoy, I didn't know Weasley was your girlfriend!" sneered Avery causing the group of Slytherins behind him to burst out with laughter.

EW, EW, EW, EWWWWWWWWW! I wanted to beat the Bertie Bott's Every Favour Beans out of that prick! I HATE MALFOY AND HE HATES ME!

Malfoy's pale face turned bright red. He moved from in front of me and glared at me like he wished that I was never born. I glared back attempting to burn holes through his eyes.

"Shut up, Avery! Look at her, no way!" said Malfoy distastefully.

His words hurt me inside for a millisecond, but then I came to common sense why should I care what he thinks of me! I felt my skin glowing red with anger. I felt my hand reaching for my wand, I wanted jinx Malfoy so bad that he would have to spend the rest of the week in the Hospital Wing! Even though I have never actually used a jinx before.

But then an evil idea came to me.

"You know what? You guys can have this." I said holding my bag of rock cakes to them. "There really nice cakes. Hagrid gave them me to give to Al. So can you take them, Al was probably going to share them with you anyway."

I tried not to laugh as Avery took the bag from me. As they started to share them out a between them I made my getaway. But before I reached the castle I heard a screech from Malfoy.

"Ow! My tooth!" I heard him yell out.

I laughed and went inside. I couldn't wait to tell Jane and Abby all about it.