A/N: I know - it's been ages since I updated. I'm very, very, very sorry. However, I promise to post another chapter within the next few days, so hopefully that sort of makes up for it.

Beginning Of The End

Rose Weasley,

I am delighted to inform you that you have been awarded the position of Head Girl this year. As I'm sure you are aware, this will add to the duties you already fulfil as a Prefect. Your badge is enclosed and you will be expected in the Prefect's carriage as usual on September the first in order to organise the meeting and make new Prefects aware of their duties.

Professor Dabinett

Headmistress


Scorpius Malfoy,

I am delighted to inform you that you have been awarded the position of Head Boy this year. As I'm sure you are aware, this will add to the duties you already fulfil as a Prefect. Your badge is enclosed and you will be expected in the Prefect's carriage as usual on September the first in order to organise the meeting and make new Prefects aware of their duties.

Professor Dabinett

Headmistress


Rose,

I'm Head Boy! Can you believe that? Please, please, please tell me that Professor Dabinett made you Head Girl! She must have. How could she not? You're the most obvious choice by miles. Me, though! I never dreamed I would get chosen for Head Boy.

Mum and Dad are absolutely thrilled. Dad was Head Boy, but only because the Death Eaters were in charge that year so he doesn't really count that. And Mum was a Prefect, but she was never Head Girl, so they were really pleased when I told them. And Grandma's staying here this week, but she didn't seem very surprised when I told her. She just smiled like she'd known all along it would happen, but was pleased anyway.

Anyway, write back soon and let me know if you did get it.

Scorp


Scorp,

Yeah, I got it. My parents were thrilled too. Well, Mum was. Dad muttered something about "Bighead Girl" but I'm fairly sure he was pleased anyway. Uncle Percy warned me not to let anyone anywhere near my badge though.

Anyway, it's going to be great! I can't believe we're going to get to be Head Boy and Girl together! If only Al could do it as well, but at least he's still a Prefect, so we'll go to all the meetings and stuff together.

Got to go now – see you September first!

Rose


Dear Grandma,

We have now been back at school two weeks, and the teachers are already talking endlessly about our NEWTs. We get piles and piles of homework and are told we ought to be studying for at least three or four hours a day. It's as though the exams are tomorrow, rather than months and months away! It's not as though I'm not taking them seriously – because I am – but I think it's a bit ridiculous to get this worked up so early.

On top of all the work, of course, I've got all my duties as Head Boy, but I'm quite enjoying that. It's a little strange, being invited along to staff meetings and having teachers consult me about the running of the school. Rose is in her element. Of course she wants to come back to Hogwarts to teach in the future, so I suppose this is all a great experience for her.

It's funny how natural it's become: Rose and I dating. We still hang out with Al and all the others the way we always have, and the only difference is that now we're a little more than just friends. There's no obvious change in the way we behave; we've always been best friends and done pretty much everything together anyway. It's just like an extension on our friendship. I guess that's the best kind of relationship to have, isn't it?

There's not much other news from Hogwarts, I don't think. Oh yeah – Al has sworn off girls for the foreseeable future. He asked a Ravenclaw in our year – probably one of the few girls in our year who hasn't dated Al yet – to go out with him the other day, and she turned him down. Not only that, but she accused him of being a heartbreaker – which probably isn't entirely untrue – and said she would never want to go out with someone like him. I think it shocked him a little bit – not being turned down; he's not that arrogant – but finding out that some people see him as a heartbreaker. So he's decided to be single for the next little while, until he finds someone he can have a longer, more serious relationship with. I guess that's probably quite a good idea really.

So apart from that, there's not much else to tell you.

Love,

Scorpius


Dear Grandma,

I can't believe it's Halloween already! The year is going so fast. I don't want it to. I want it to go on and on forever, so I never have to leave Hogwarts. That's silly though. I can't stay at school forever. I wish I could.

Anyway, there's no need for me to get upset already. I still have over half the year to go, and I'm enjoying it loads, way more than I thought I would enjoy my NEWT year. Perhaps it's knowing that I will soon lose all of this that makes me appreciate it more. Perhaps it's because Rose and I have finally got together. Or perhaps seventh year is simply awesome.

Sorry this is quite a short letter but I've got to go now – wouldn't want to miss the Halloween feast!

Love,

Scorpius


Dear Grandma,

Merry Christmas! Dad said in his last letter that you were staying with him and Mum for Christmas. I hope you're all enjoying yourselves. Sorry I couldn't be there; it's just that we all agreed our last Christmas as Hogwarts students should be spent at Hogwarts.

Thanks for the present – I've wanted that book for ages, as I'm sure you know. The others all thought I was mad for wanting a book of muggle fairy tales for Christmas. All except Rose, of course. She understood. Rose always understands.

And talking of Muggles, I have exciting news! My Muggle Studies teacher managed to get in touch with the Ministry official in charge of starting up that new programme I told you about ages ago, and she says I could send in an application for a job in it. It's all so exciting! I can't believe this might actually happen. It's been my dream for … oh I don't know how long. I'm going to write to Mum and Dad first though, probably just after Christmas. Not that I need their permission – I'm going to do it regardless of what they say – but I would like their blessing.

Give my love to Mum and Dad.

Love,

Scorpius