The Red Roses

Chapter 2

France VS England

Louise found it rather difficult to find her own compartment, all were nearly full to bursting and when she wandered past one with an empty seat in a bag was casually dropped onto it.

Louise didn't mind this very much, in fact she was rather used to it, truth be told, like on the ride over when she had tried to sit next to a boy she knew from school. He stated very clearly he didn't know her and insisted she move because he wasn't in the mood for talking. Her eyes travelled from compartment to compartment and it seemed forever that she wandered the thin corridor on the train. At last she found a compartment that was being shared by a boy with dark hair, a blonde haired boy and three girls who, although Louise couldn't be positive, were flirting with the blonde haired boy.

It wasn't that Louise was horrible, unattractive or even mean, people just didn't seem to want to get to know her, one boy had commented at her old school that she always looked pissed of and depressed. Maybe that was why no one came near her, but she was friendly enough, but in the end Louise stopped thinking like this and pulled back the door of the compartment forcefully. Just as the dark brown haired girl was placing a bag on the vacant seat Louise held her hand up and said.

'You know what, I've been wandering around for almost 20 minutes, all I want is a bit of cushion beneath my arse, not a lot to ask for and you're about the seventh person who has kept a chair for there bag and I'm pretty sick of it, but you know what never mind,' and she began to leave when the blonde haired boy grinned at her and said

'Have my seat; I'll sit next to Bell,'

'Thank you,' Louise said curtly

'Lucius, what an earth are you doing now?' Narcissa inquired curiously as the blonde haired boy proceeded to push a heavy piece of parchment in a minute owl's beak.

'I told dad I needed an eagle owl but does he listen, no of cause he doesn't!' Lucius complained as he shoved the tiny owl out of the small window and into the howling wind that now surrounded the train as it ran ever onwards into the countryside.

'Why you don't buy one yourself is a mystery to me, mum always tells me to save-'the dark haired boy muttered

'Why buy it myself when my dad can buy it for me, Sev?' Lucius chortled as if buying something himself was ludicrously stupid

'Because,' Snape added 'then you could have an eagle owl straight away any time you wanted,'

'Why did you just push that owl out into the storm?' Louise voiced

'Because I forgot to pack my snackbox, Ginger' Lucius said in an aggravated tone.

'I have a name,'

'Yeah, Ginger,'

'No,' Louise said rather heatedly 'my names Louise,'

'Like the French prostitutes?'

'No!' Louise said more defiantly than ever 'just Louise as in Louise, the name, no history alright?'

'Fine, you're bloody sensitive you, aren't you?'

'I'll show you some blood if you like,' Louise grimaced, and then added threateningly 'and it won't be mine,'

'Ohhh,' Lucius teased 'big words from a tiny witch,'  

'I'll get my father on you!' Louise roared, that was her answer for everything these days, ever since her mother died she had been rather dependant on her father.

'And whose thee father witch?'

'Robin Witchstaff,'

'Witchstaff?' Lucius choked 'you mean the…'

'Oh for goodness sake,' Louise said ruffled and left the compartment furiously. Then shouting through the glass as she left

 'Of course I mean the Bloody Minister!'

Louise trundled further along the carriages until a hand rested on her shoulder, she spun round quickly, preparing herself for an attack and noticed it was one of the girls from the compartment.

'Sorry about them,'

'You don't have to apologise for that meat head,' Louise said quickly 'I shouldn't have been so sensitive, he was right, its just moving over here so suddenly and-'

'So your dad is really the Minister?' the girl exclaimed, Louise sighed but nodded.

'I want to be Minister some day,' she said dreamily.

'You do?' Louise choked, looking confused 'you want to be separated from family and in meetings all the time? You want to prepare Hit Wizards and inspect prisons?'

'No I didn't mean-'

'No its my fault,' Louise apologised 'I am sensitive,' she paused, 'whys that guy in there staring at us,'

'My names Andromeda by the way,' the girl introduced herself, she turned round and grinned then spun back to Louise 'and that's my cousin, Sirius,'

'Is he, erm, ill?' Louise asked sceptically peering round Andromeda to look at Sirius who was waving positively at them

'No, he always looks like that,' Andromeda explained, turning and waving back at her cousin

'Are you coming in or not?' said a voice from behind them in the compartment.