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First year begins. Roses P.O.V.
"Come on Al, hurry up!" I exclaimed as we walked down the train searching for a compartment. "Don't boss me Rosie, I'm looking." He replied hastily.
"I'm sorry, I'm just excited! Can you believe it, were finally going to Hogwarts!" I exclaimed "Yeah, I can believe it, it's all you've talked about for the past year." he said shaking his head.
Al was my cousin, and bestfriend. We'd practically grown up in the same house for merlins sake. We have an extremly close family. I have aboout forty Aunts and Uncles, and one hundred cousins lets just say the Burrow never has a quiet saturday. Poor grandmum Molly. To clarify things, I don't actually have one hundred cousins, or that many Aunts and Uncles. Cousin wise, Teddy, whos not actually blood related is the oldest. Uncle Harry is his godfather, but he lives with his grandmum, Andromanda. He's got bright turquoise hair and brown eyes. Next comes Victorie, who coincidentily has a 'thing' with dear old Teddy. Shes got long Blonde hair and Blue eyes, shes practicully a carbon copy of Aunty theres Dominique, who has brown hair (no idea where it came from) and the signature Weasley freckles. Domm and Vics brother Louis is the last of Aunty Fleur and Uncle Bills kids. Hes got blonde hair and brown eyes. Aunt Andrey and Uncle Percys kids are Molly, and Lucy. Lucy, my favorite girl cousin has light brown hair, and Molly has Long bright Red Hair. Fred and Roxanne, who are twins are Uncle George and Aunty Angelinas kids. Both have tan skin, and brown hair. Only Fred looks just like our uncle Fred, who died in the second wizarding war. James, Al, and Lily are all Uncle Harry and Aunt Ginnys kids. James looks just like Uncle Harrys dad except his dark hair has a redish tinge to it. Lily looks like a cross of Aunty Ginny, and Uncle Harrys mom. Al looks just like Uncle Harry, right down to the bright green eyes. The only thing he doesn't have is the bad eye sight, James got that. And last is me and my brother Hugo. Hugo has brown hair and brown eyes. I have long red hair that falls in curls. Don't get me wrong I love it, and its more tame than my mums, but sometimes it was still too much to handle. I'd gotten my dads eyes though. They were crystal blue, and they were one of the fews things I adored about myself. No, I'm not some misunderstood unconfident girl, I just didn't think I was exceptionally pretty like my mum, or Vic.
Hugo and Lily are two years below me, Al, and Lucy, who all start Hogwarts this year. James, Roxy, and Fred are all starting second year. Louis starts third. Domm is going into her fifth and Molly, and Vic are starting their last. Teddy has been out of school for Two years now and is training to be an auror like Uncle Harry and my dad.
"Yeah, well I'm excited." I said deffensively
"Heres one!" he said suddenly. We'd been looking for a while now.
"Great." I said opening the compartment door and smiling at the only person in the compartment. She had tan skin, wavy dirty blonde hair, and bright green eyes, they could almost give Al's eyes a run for their galleons.
"Hi, I'm Rose, and this is my cousin Al, mind if we sit here, we've been looking forever." I said showing her a small smile.
"Sure, I'm Arthina Zabini, but please, call me Artie, my blasted mother named my after her grandmum." She said smiling.
"Thanks." Al said as we put away our trunks. We sat down across from her.
\ " So your a Weasley, and your a Potter right?" she asked looking between us.
"Yeah." I said looking curiously at her. We were all used to our parents being recognized in public, and even a few grown-up knew our names, but I guess we took for granted that kids knew who we were too.
"My dad, and mum went to school with your parents" she explained "But they never talked much," "Who are your parents?" I asked curiously.
" Blaise Zabini, and Daphne Greengrass." She said.
"I recognize the name." Al said. "You do?" I asked. I didn't. "Yeah, my dad may have mentioned the names in passing." He replied.
Sudddenly the compartment door burst opeen, and in ran Lucy panting. She gripped a stitch in her side before finally catching her breath. "What is it Lu?" Asked Al, his eyebrows raised.
"Ja-James, F-F-Fred.." she gasped and she disappeared again. That was never a good sign. Someone running into a room, gasping James and Freds names, and then sprinting out never ended in anything relatively good.
"Oh merlin, already?" Al said jumping up and running out of the compartment. Artie looked around confused, her eyebrows pulling together at the middle. "C'mon." I said jumping up. I filled her in quickly on who Fred and James were, and their,,antics. After we walked down the train a while, we started to hear people screaming, and coughing, and then the smell hit us. It appeared that James and Fred had dropped dungbombs in the hallways.
Before I knew what was happening there were several loud bangs and the letters 'WWW' wizzed by in firework form. Fireworks were flying down the train at what I was sure was dangerous speeds. I was pulled to the ground by someone and dragged into a compartment. Artie was nowhere in sight. After coughing on the floor of the compartment for a few seconds my eyes adjusted and I looked up to see a pair of piercing gray orbs looking curiously at me "Are you trying to get the top half of your body caught on fire?" Asked the person. He had messy blonde hair that whipped around his forehead. I huffed "No, thank you very much." I said deffiently. We stared each other down for a minute before his face broke into a small smile.
"I'm Scorpius M-Malfoy." He said as if he was debating on saying his last name. I'd heard a lot about the Malfoys, but as much bad as I'd heard, also knew they helped Uncle Harry out, so I was holding any grudges, despite what my father would say.
"I'm Rose-"
"Weasley, I know, believe me, I'm pretty sure veryone does." He cut me off.
I frowned and felt my eyebrows pull together "Er..right." I said shaking my head. The compartment door slid open and in walked a boy about our age with brown hair and blue eyes "There you are Scor, I've been looking everywhere for you, crazy stuff going on out there huh?" He said smiling, he looked at me after a few seconds and a bigger smile crossed his face "Rose Weasley right?" He asked.
I sighed, starting to get annoyed. It was getting ridiculous, did all my older cousins have to go through this? I got it, our parents were famous, but that didn't mean I had my face and name on billboard across Diagon Alley did it? "Yeah, you are?" I asked. "Daniel Lifeing, call me Danny." He said bowing goofily. I laughed and Scorpius smiled shaking his head.
The compartment door opened a second time and in ran Artie, Al, and Lu. "Ah Rose, I see you've met my lovely cousin.' Artie said smiling and lightly punching Scorpius.
"You two are cousins?" I asked dumbfounded. "Our mums are sisters." Scorp explained.
"That makes sense,," I said.
Suddenly James, Fred, Rick Jordan, and Frank Longbottom, their two best friends ran by, being chased by what I assumed was the driver holding a broom. The four of them laughed merily all the way down the train. Silence ensued after they ran by, but one look around the compartment and we all bursted out laughing, we laughed for a good five minutes before composing ourselves and sitting down.
The rest of the train ride we got to know eachother better. We played exploding snaps, goblestones, and traded chocolate frog cards after pigging out on sweets from the trolley. Vic stopped in once to check on us and so did Domm. We talked quite a bit about Quidditch too. The only ones with hopes to be on the teams though was me, Scorpius, and Al. Danny loved the Wimbourne Wasps, but he said he wasnt much of a player. Scorpius's favorite team was Puddlemore United, and Al was a Holy Head Harpies fans, understandable because Aunt Ginny had played on the team. "Whats your favorite team Rose?" Asked Danny. Al snickered, I shot him a dirty look before mumbling unintelagably. "I'm sorry what?" Asked Al. I glared at him "The Chudley Cannons" I said deffiently. Just like my dad, I was a dedicated fan. I didn't even have a chance after I was was born. I was destined to love them. All my cousins and a few Uncles even, picked on me and my dad for our love for them. Lucky for Hugo he got away. Dad wasn't as persistant for him to love them cause he already knew I did. Hugo liked Bulgarias team.
Scorpius, Danny, and Al burst out laughing "Are you kidding me?" Asked Scopius increduously "Of all the teams in the league and you like them?" He exclaimed
"Hey, don't judge the Cannons!" I said angrily, though a smile was still etched on my face. I was used to it. I really didn't even get mad when people picked on me for it.
It's what happens when your Ron Weasleys Kid.
After a few hours of games, and talking it started to get dark. We changed into our robes and after another hour, and many complaints from Danny about being hungry, the train started to slow down. Al had started to get quieter after we'd put on our robes. I knew he was nervous about where he'd be placed. He really shouldn't be worried. He was going to be accepted where ever he was put, his parents wouldn't care. It was him making a huge deal out of it. I loved Al, but sometimes he was overly worried.
"You okay?" Artie asked Al, she too noticed he'd quieted down a bit. He looked up shocked. "Uhh...Yeah, I-I'm fine." He muttered before looking back down and blushing. All throughout the train ride I'd seen him shooting glances at Artie. I could tell he thought she was pretty.
The train finally came to a lurching stop. All of us grabbed our things and started to make our way out into the hallway. After a few minutes of bumping into people and getting squashed into the wall we were out on the platform.
A booming and recognizable voice could be heard over all the laugher and talk. "Firs' years over here! Firs' years this way!" It rang out. The six of us made our way over to it. "Hagrid! You never told us this was part of your job!" Exclaimed Lucy when she saw him "Hello there Lucy, Al, Rosie, all righ' then?" He asked smiling down at them. Hagrid was Al, and Hugo's godfather. He was always at the Burrow, excepcially when there was a sunday dinner. "Yeah, the train was fun." Lu anwsered him smiling.
Over the years Hagrids big bushy beard had become streaked with gray, but he was still one of the closest things Uncle Harry had to a father. And his heart was still just as kind and giving. "Firs' years over here!" he yelled again.
After a few minutes and after the platform started to clear up, we followed Hagrid down a path. The trees obscured any chance of seeing the castle just yet. Everyone craned their necks for a better look, but to no ado. "I can't see it!" Exclaimed a girl behind me, who was obnoxsiously jumping up and down. Scorpius who saw me about to tell the girl she was barking, and shot me a grin. I was slightly stunned, he had a sweet smile. before overcoming the shock. I smiled back timidly. Just then I bumped into Lucy who was walking in front of me. "Hmph! Sorry Lu!" I said "Yupp.." She said rubbing her back. "All righ' now, inter' the boats then!" Exclaimed Hagrid from the front of the group, I looked around Lucy and the others, and to my atonishment saw about a dozen boats sitting on shore by the endge of a lake, that looked like it stretched on forever. "Three per boat." He said as an after thought as Lorcan, Lysander, Danny, Al, and Lucy all tried squeezing into the same boat.
Lorcan and Lysander's mum was my mum and Aunty Ginnys best girl friend. Her name was Luna, she was a bit of a nutter as my dad put it, but I loved her. Her wacked out outfits and crazy stories amused me, and most of my other cousins, who listened to her talk when she sometimes came to the Burrow for dinner. Instead of being wacky like their mum however, Lorcan was a trouble maker, and Lysander was quite shy. Both were extremely funny once they were comfortable around you.
After a minutes of all the first years arguing over spots in the boats, me, Lu and Scorp were in a boat. We started to row. The water was water was black, most likely due to the fact that it was now pitch black outside. The only light came from the lanterns in the boats.
I heard a small splash and then Lu gave a little shriek. I whipped around expecting to see her overboard. She wasn't though, she was staring into the water franticly. "What?" I said curiously. "I swear I just saw a tenticle...I swear." she muttered again. "Right...well..." I said shaking my head.
Lu was known to be the drama queen in the family, In fact drama queen was an understatement. She once swore that she saw a dragon in Diagon Alley, and that it chased her into a shop before flying away. It in fact was a poster for a dragon show they were hosting the next month.
Finally we rowed around a curve. There was an audible gasp from everyone in the boats. The Castle in front of them was beyond anyting I had ever imagined. It was huge, with towers and turrets all over. It glowed in the night sky due to the light coming from windows. It was an eery and beautiful glow.
After a few more minutes of rowing, we got to land. The boats were beached and everyone jumped out of them, and excited hum filled the air as everyone started to chatter. "le's go, this way!" Hagrids voice rang out and everyone was silenced at once. After clambering up a few sets of stone stairs we came to an oak door, Hagrid banged on the door and it was opened. Behind the door stood a short man, on the large side with dark hair, and severe eyes. "Ahh Hagrid, good, you've got the first years." He said smiling down at us. "Righ', well I'm going ter' head ter' the feas' then." Hagrid said smiling at us, and with one last wave he was gone.
"Well hello then, and welcome to Hogwarts! I'm Proffessor Ninx, and I teach Transfiguration. The start of term feast will begin soon, but first you must be sorted into your houses. Your house will be your family, you sleep in your house dormitories, and relax and do schoolwork in your house common room. You have classes with your house, and sometimes other houses in your year. The Four houses are Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, and Slytherin." Al jerked beside me at the mention of Slytherin." Here at Hogwarts your triumphs earn you house points, and bad behavior loses them. At the end of the year, the house with the most points will win the house cup. You are about to be sorted in front of the school, please follow me." He said turning around.
Al was sweating next to me. "Al, calm down." I said taking his hand and squeezing it. He nodded but just stared straight ahead. I shook my head. He was hopeless. He wouldn't stop worrying until he was placed. Next we entered the great hall. Five tables occupied the space. Fred and James were standing in the corner of the hall next to Filch. Yeah, the old bag of bones was still around. When James saw Al he laughed out loud and called out "Yeah Al!" He shouted, knowing he'd throughly embaressed his little brother. Al had gotten whiter. Proffessor Mcgonagall shot him a warning look from her spot at the head table Mcgonagall was the headmistress. I'd heard plenty of stories about her from my mum, and dad. Not to mention my cousins, Aunts and Uncles. She was getting old, that is according to my father. Mum says she's still as sharp as a tack, and shes quick witted, thats why shes one of the only teachers James, Fred and Louis don't goof off around too much.
We reached the front of the hall, there in the middle of the floor stood a stool with an old mangled hat on it. "When I call your names, you will come forward, and place the hat on your head. It will decide where you are to placed." Said Proffessor Ninx.
"Banks, Joe" he said first. A boy with blonde hair stepped forward trembling and sat down. The hat was placed on his head and after a few seconds he hat rang out "Hufflepuff!" The boy wabled all the way to the Hufflepuff table as the Hufflepuffs cheered.
Bing, Tina was sorted into Slytherin, and Benz, Cody into Gryffindor. Curry, Mary was sorted into Hufflepuff, and Finnegan Jenny, who I'd met three times, went into Gryffindor. Flin, Peter was sorted into Slytherin. Danny went into Ravenclaw.
"Malfoy, Scorpius" Scorpius slid past me. After sitting down and putting on the hat the room fell silent. Everyone knew about the Malfoys. After what felt like hours the hat finally called out "Gryffindor!" Pure shock crossed Scorpius's face. The entire hall was quiet, then suddenly the Gryffindor table was clapping, just as it did for the others. Scorpius walked quickly over to the table and was patted on the back by Gryffindors.
Don Milnt went into Slytherin. A few more kids were placed.
"Potter Albus." The hat rang out. Trembling and pale white Al walked to the stool and sat down. After a couple seconds the hat called "Slytherin!" Just as it had for Scorpius, the hall went quiet. "Yeah Al!" Shouted James and Fred from the corner. Despite how much of a git James could be, he was a good brother. He knew Al needed reasurrance that we'd still love him if he went into Slytherin, and thats what James gave him. Shakily Al stood up, the Slytherin errupted into applause bigger than anyone else had gotten. Al sent a grateful look towards the corner James was standing in as he made his way to his table. I couldn't help seeing a tinge of sadness in James eyes though.
Thomas, Pearl went to Ravenclaw, and with no surprise to me, so did Lu. "Weasley, Rose" The hat called out. My breathing stopped. I'd been so focused on helping Al through his worries, I'd forgotten to deal with my own. I stumbled up to the stool, and Proffesser Ninx placed the hat on my head 'Another Weasley I see, no doubt you cousin who was just placed in Ravenclaw, and the Potter boy in Slytherin. Ahhh well where to put you. Brave, and very courageous, loyal to I see, hmmm...brains like your mother, and to my surprise to I see the trouble making trait your parents posess? Hmmmm...well, better be..'"Gryffindor!" It called out, I sighed in relief, and smiled over in Als direction. The Gryffindors roared with pleasure. Looking over at Al, I couldn't help but regret that he wouldn't be in all of my classes. Last to be placed was Artie. She went to Slytherin, much to Al's pleasure.
"Quiet down!" Said Mcgonagall as she stood up. Everyone was silencd at once. "Welcome back to our old students, and welcome to you newcomers! But we can leave the details for later. Dig in!" She said sitting down. The trays infront of them filled with foods even I had never seen before, and I have Molly Weasley as a Grandmum.
I was sitting next to Scorpius and Jenny. James and Fred were across from me with their friends. Filch had let them sit down finally, mostly because they had begun to chuck dungbombs at Mrs. Norris when he wasn't looking.
"You know James, Mcgonagall doesn't seem all that bad." I said matter-of-factly.
He snorted before saying "Yeah right, you've never been on the wrong side of her, it won't take you long though, seeings who your parents are." He said snickering.
"Oh thats rich, coming from the kid who got kicked out of muggle school for lighting the teachers hair on fire." I shot back. I loved arguing with James, and I knew he loved arguing with me, it was one of the ways we showed our cousinly love.
"I'm a wizard! I can't help what I did, I wasn't even trained yet!" He exclaimed, a smile threatening to creep aross his face.
"You were using a lighter!" I shot back. "Its not like you were half way across the room!"
"...Yeah...well...I,,touche Rosie posie, you won this time, but don't get used to it." He said. I grinned triumphantly. He rolled his eyes and went back to eating his chicken.
I looked across the hall towards the Slytherin table. Al was laughing with Artie and Peter Flint. He looked up automaticly, he could probably tell someone was staring at him. When he caught my eye he grinned, and then winked. I smiled back. Sure, Al wasn't in my house, but I always knew that was a possibility, and I wasn't going to let it bother me. I would still get to see him in class, and, I knew for a fact we didn't have to sit at our house tables during meals, so I'd see him then too. The important thing was that we were at Hogwarts, safe, happy, and well, together. If only we'd known it wouldn't last.
A/N: My first Fanfic ever! I've been reading them forever though, and I finally decided I would write one. And I apologize for any spelling mistakes :/ Please Read and Review! And any questions I'll be happy to anwser
~Ace