and here is installment 6 of Twenty Things! i hope you like it. Rose is one of my favorite next gen characters, and i had a lot of trouble capturing her in my own words. Props to you if you see the reference to a famous fic, one that's been in the works since 2005, and one of my favorites, at the end of this. The author is favorited on my page, though the story isn't on her ff account. Amazing though. That part is my homage to the next greatest hp author after JKR herself. well, cheers!


Rose Weasley

1. Rose Weasley really loved her name. People always said that it suited her perfectly. Beautiful, red, and a bit prickly if you grabbed it too fast, but manageable if you were gentle. All of those were characteristics of Rose Weasley.

2. Her nickname, Rosie, didn't suit her at all. At least, not to her. It was just so damn sweet. But everyone called her it. Her grandparents, her aunts, her uncles, cousins, friends, family…you name it. They all called her Rosie, and not just when she was little, either. They called her Rosie in her Hogwarts years and well into the rest of her adult life.

3. She was glad that she, Al, and Louis would be starting at Hogwarts the same year. It just wouldn't feel right to go anywhere without her two best friends, and her two favorite cousins. There was always the fear of them being split up though. She didn't think she could stand being separated from those two. They'd always done everything together. And that would mean they would constantly be playing Quidditch against each other…

4. The hat told her some interesting things. The hat had already put Al into Slytherin, (Slytherin!), and Louis into Ravenclaw. Rose was conflicted. Her two best friends had been split up, and she had to end up with at least one of them. She told the hat that unless she was absolutely Slytherin material, don't put her there. She wanted to go to Ravenclaw, if she could. But then the bloody hat muttered something about courage and bravery and valor outweighing any of the cunning or brains that she had so…

5. Then they got split up. All she had to say about it at the time was that she sure was glad she'd been the one that got sorted into Gryffindor. There was nothing like the joy that came when she, Louis, and Al were writing their first letters home. There was something about writing the words I'm a Gryffindor. On that piece of parchment. Watching Louis write Well, I've got sorted into Ravenclaw and Al writing The hat told me Slytherin was something magical that she just wouldn't be able to learn under instruction in Hogwarts.

6. She was constantly under pressure. Pressure to be as smart as her mum, as responsible and sensible as her mum. Constantly under pressure to do well in Quidditch like her dad, but be able to handle crowds with finesse that he never had. At least, now, house tensions didn't run as high, so people were a lot less vicious about her bookishness and about her keeping abilities.

7. Yes, she was a keeper, just like her dad. Yes, she was pretty good at it. She made the team in her third year, and stayed on it, eventually gaining the position of captain in her seventh year. In the years that the Weasleys and Potters were on the Gryffindor House Team, the House cup never left Gryffindor possession. Especially when she and Lily were on the team together. Those were games that were quite worth watching.

8. She didn't start off all that fond of Scorpius Malfoy. At first she didn't like him because she thought he was taking her place; after all, two eleven year old blokes in school no longer wanted to hang out with their cousin. Then when she realized he wasn't encroaching on her spot, she resented him a bit because he was intruding on their group. She was a bit resistant to change. She started warming up to him a bit come third year, which is when she started to have to listen to the girls in her year talk about how good looking he was. Her marginal liking for him turned into marginal dislike.

9. The two of them bickered a lot. There was just no getting around it. She had to live with giggling teenage girls who were suddenly in love with her two cousins and him. And since he was the only one that wasn't family, she had to bicker with him. It wasn't til her fourth year that Lilly pointed out that all their bickering might possibly mean she fancied him?

10. She did. Good Merlin, she fancied Scorpius Malfoy! She did the only reasonable thing for brilliant, direct Rose Weasley could do. She told him. From then on, they became casual snogging partners. Neither of them wanted to tell Al or Louis, just in case they all fell apart. Both of them dated other people at the same time. It was wrong, and in their fifth year, she decided Scorpius must have lost it, because after the Gryffindor vs. Slytherin match, he flew towards her while she still was by the goal hoops, and kissed her. In front of the whole school. Al punched him and broke his nose, but afterwards he said it was worth it.

11. When she brought Scor home as her boyfriend that summer, her dad (and every male relative that had been part of the War generation) was not happy in any way shape or form. He could deal with Rose being friendly with the kid. He was a little bit uncomfortable with Rosie becoming friends with the Malfoy boy. What he absolutely could not take calmly was his two nephews announcing to the family that his little girl and the Spawn of Pureblood-Ego-Maniac-Prick were snogging left and right while they were living under the same roof of the same learning institution. He learned to live with it, as Rose learned to deal with him.

12. There wasn't a year that Gryffindor lost the Quidditch cup while she was on the team. Something about the combination of her and her various relatives rendered the house team invincible. In her third year, when she first became keeper, it was her, fifth year James Potter, and her fellow third year cousin Dominique Weasley. The Keeper, Beater, and the Chaser. Each of them affected a part of the pitch. Her fifth year, Lily Potter joined the team, and suddenly Quidditch games became much, much more intense.

13. She really did have limitless possibilities. Talent on the pitch, talent in the classroom. Prefect, Head Girl, Quidditch Captain, in a relationship with one of the most influential names of the Wizarding World. Her best subject was Potions. And DADA. And Transfiguration. And Charms. And Herbology. All around brilliant, in general. Limitless possibilities. She was even okay at Divination, much to her mum's dismay.

14. An Auror. That's what she decided to become. In her 7th year, she walked into her NEWTS knowing full well that she would pass brilliantly, and become an Auror. There was just no other way for her to go. And really, it had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that Al became an Auror too. She really did choose years and years in advance. Besides, she was much smarter, in her opinion.

15. Between Scorpius's Quidditch schedule, and her Auror training, they didn't have much time for each other after school was finished. They nearly broke up, three times. One time they actually did, for about two months. Then both of them realized that they were never going to fall for other people again. Not after being with each other for so long. When they got back together, her wonderful dad sulked around for about a month. She thought he was being altogether childish about it.

16. Her very demanding job that was respectable and well sought out was…a bit calm. You know that time of peace that usually comes right after a war? What about that time of peace that comes after a war that had been going on for nearly two decades before your mum, dad, and their best friend put an end to it? No, there were not too many dark wizards out and about trying to take over England. Mostly it was paper work and getting to look over dark objects that were fascinating in theory, but either terrifying or revolting in actual practice.

17. Then Rose got assigned to be a part of the Minister's personal detail. Merlin, that was an experience! She got to meet so many important people and go to so many interesting places and it came with a huge pay raise. Enough that she and Scor, what with their fancy Ministry pay and Quidditch National League salary, could buy a house. A house that could possible hold a family. Not that she ever said anything out loud to Scorpius. He'd always been such a Slytherin when it came to commitment…

18. Which was why his proposal came as a bit of a shock to not only her, but to Al, Louis, and the rest of her family too. Ironically enough, the only person in the family who even had a little clue about his intentions towards her had been Ronald Weasley. Scor, the brave boyfriend- fiancé- that he was, had asked her dad for permission to marry her. He had even helped Scorpius come up with the idea to propose to her.

19. Rosie had always been one for show. The type that didn't want to be wooed on the balcony in the DADA room. She was the kind that didn't mind being declared official in front of the whole school in the form of a blonde Don Juan shoving his tongue down her throat for the world to see. She was the type that absolutely knew Scor was the right one for her when he proposed to her at one of his Quidditch games. Homage to how they had announced themselves to the world in the first place. She knew, that when the quaffle flew straight to her, and she caught it with the same old Quidditch reflexes and it exploded out of her hands into brilliant fireworks that spelled "ROSE WEASLEY, CARE TO BE ROSE MALFOY?" emblazoned on the Quidditch Score Bored, that Scorpius Malfoy was the right one for her.

20. They got married, and Rose was happy to break the "one child per Malfoy family" tradition. Oh, no. She didn't do it on purpose. She was loose cannon, but even she wasn't expecting the Weasley trait of redheaded twins to get her, too. Ron Weasley secretly celebrated not only because he was a grandfather, but because he knew in fifteen years, those two strawberry blonde girls would be giving the Malfoy boy double the frustration that his little Rosie had given to him.


here's to hoping you liked it. feedback is welcome and wanted. review if you liked, review if you didn't! and none of this nonsense of favoriting and not leaving me a reason ;) Hugo up next! or shall i put Scorpius up as a companion as i did with Teddy and Victoire? decisions, decisions.