Chapter Three:

-Rose POV-

It was now the middle of the year and I loved it here at Hogwarts. Draco and I were best friends and I was pretty good friends with Pansy even though she told me she has a crush on Draco.

It was actually funny that she liked him because I knew for a fact that Draco saw Pansy as almost a bug, something that was unwanted and hated. Often Draco had told me that she was annoying and too clingy.

Walking around the castle it was time to head back to the common rooms so Draco and I started to but then Draco pulled me into a empty hall.

"What are you doing." I hissed at him.

"Shh! Look over there its Potter and his friends." Draco pointed towards Harry, Hermoine, and Ron who were leaving the castle. I had a feeling that I knew what Draco wanted to do but it was not a good idea at all.

"Draco." I said warningly as we stepped out of the hallway but he was already following Harry.

"Draco come back! I don't want to get into any trouble!" I yelled but he continued walking and called out.

"Trust me we won't and don't come if you don't want to." Draco said disappearing out of the castle.

Standing there alone I started to get nervous than I took of running to Draco.

"Draco wait up!" I yelled and he stopped.

"See I knew you would come with me." Draco said smirking and I lightly punched his shoulder.

"Oh shut up." Draco stopped at Hagrid's hut and went around to look in the window. Following him I stood next to him.

There in the hut was Hagrid, Harry, Ron, and Hermoine sitting at a table looking at an egg. Suddenly the egg start to hatch and out came a dragon. Looking at it my eyes widen as it spit out fire from his mouth. Was it even allowed to have a dragon, they were very dangerous creatures. I was to busy staring to notice when Hagrid spotted me but then Draco gasped when Hagrid started to get up. Grabbing my arm Draco took off with me running after him.

Arriving in the castle safely Draco kept running sighing I decided to head back to the common room now very tired.

-No POV-

Harry was startled once he saw Rose and Draco looking at them through the window at Hogwarts place. Walking back to the castle Ron started to speak.

"Now that Malfoy knows this isn't good at all." Ron said looking completely scared.

"Is that really a bad thing?" Hermoine asked looking confused.

"Yes it is." Ron stated nodding his head towards Professor McGonagall who stood there with her arms crossed over her chest, Draco Malfoy right behind her looking pleased.

"Care to explain?" They all started to stutter trying to find an answer but coming up with none.

"Fifty points will be taken, each." McGonagall said in a disappointed tone, "And to make sure this won't happen again all fourof you will have detention."

Draco looked around shocked. He thought that perhaps she had been talking about some one else but not seeing anyone he took a step forward.

"Excuse me Professor, did you say all four of us?"

"I a sure you that it is no mistake, you too were out of bed there for you also broke school rules." Sighing Draco backed up and crossed him arms.

Filch then came and collected them telling that they will go to the dark forest.

Heading into the dark forest with Hagrid, Draco was immediately scared but would never dare to admit it to anyone.

"Just wait in till my father hears about this." Draco said as he walked through the forest with Harry.

"If I didn't know any better Malfoy, I'd say you're scared." Harry said to Draco.

"Scared, Potter? Yeah right." Draco said trying to sound confident but stopped dead in his tracks the moment he saw a cloaked figure eating the blood from a dead unicorn.

Screaming Draco ran with fang all the way back to Hagrid with Fang following right behind him while Harry stayed put right where he was.

Later on Draco was told he was able to go back to the Slytherin Common Room and he gladly did finding Rose waiting there for him.

"Draco where have you been? I have been so worried about you that you have no idea." Rose frantically said while hugging him tightly.

"You have no idea what I went to. After you ditched me I got into trouble and then McGonagall said I had detention with Hagrid and then I saw this thing. I am lucky to be standing here right now I could have died you know." After Draco told his story he noticed Rose who stood there laughing uncontrollably at him. Offended Draco angrily asked what she was laughing at.

"Nothing. It's just that well I told you, you would get in trouble and well the way you describe your detention it almost sounded like you were scared." Rose laughed and Draco blushed.

"No, Malfoy's never get scared." Draco stated as he held his head up high.

"Keep telling your self that but you and I both know the truth. Can't fool me Malfoy." Rose then happily bounced away up to her room were Pansy was.

"You like him don't you?" Pansy asked sadly while looking down at her feet.

"What?" Rose asked.

"You like Draco." Pansy said looking up this time not asking but stating it.

"Of course I do Pansy. He is my best friend." Rose stated and went to get in her bed to get sleep but Pansy quickly jumped on top of her bed wanting to still talk.

"Not that way. You like him as more than a friend, I could see it and if you tell me I will let you have him." Rose then looked up at her friend like she was crazy.

"I don't like him more plus I am only eleven. I don't think I will want a boyfriend this early yet. If you want Draco then take him but I don't want to be a third wheel at all so don't think I will always hang around you if you start dating."

"Rose I know you. It is obvious that you like him and for that I will promise to stay away." Pansy told her friend looking sad that she had just agreed to give up the person she cared the most about.

"Pansy I promise you that I do not like Draco any more than just my best friend maybe a brother but never would I date him."

The next couple of weeks Pansy started to doubt her theory of Rose liking Draco but then at times it was so clear. In the end no matter how much her friend protested she told her that they were going to want to be together at one point and Rose could take Draco.

Before they had known it the year had come to an end, and there all the students stood waiting to get on the train and saying goodbyes to their friends.

Pansy and Rose hugged each other and said goodbye right then as they weren't going to see each other on the train, Pansy was going to sit with her other friends while Rose was going to sit with Draco.

"Promise to write me over the summer. I want to make sure that you don't forget about me and you need to write me the moment that you finally admit to your self that you like Draco." Pansy said while Rose rolled her eyes at the last statement.

"Promise. Bye Pansy see you next year." Rose said as the train's doors opened and she stepped inside. Taking a seat with Draco in an empty compartment they sat down and talked for the last hours that they had together.

"I don't want to go back home. Do you know that Nicholas hasn't talked to me this whole year at Hogwarts and I only received a few letters from my parents. I have a feeling that once I step in my house my parents will start yelling at me."

"Why? Slytherin is the best house and it's for pure bloods." Draco stated not seeing any problem at all with the house since his parents were proud that he was in the house.

"Please, they think Gryffindor is the best house plus the Dark Lord was in the house so they think every one evil is placed there." Rose told Draco and then noticed they were pulling into King Cross Station.

"You know you could always come to my manor. Father and Mother would be very pleased to meet you, I have told them all about you and they say you sound like a good person." Draco stated and Rose smiled up at him.

"I would love to go with you but my parents wouldn't like that to much plus I have to face them and after that I might be grounded."

Rose and Draco with all the other students stepped off the train and looked around for their parents. Once Draco had spotted his parents he hugged Rose and went off.

Looking around and spotting her parents she became nervous and started thinking maybe it was a good idea to go with Draco.

Walking up to her parents she hugged them both but stayed silent just like them and her brother. You could almost feel the awkwardness around them as they headed back to their house.

Arriving at the house Rose went upstairs and unpacked her stuff while everyone else were down stairs talking. Sighing Rose knew that know was the time to face them so she slowly went down and into the living room.

Entering the room her family stared at her almost like she didn't belong like she was the odd one. She knew that she was in fact the odd one all her family for ages have been placed into Gryffindor but she broke the tradition.

"Mom, Dad can I just say that Slytherin is a great house and you shouldn't be mad at me many great wizards were placed into the house."

"Yes you are right but also bad wizards have been placed there including you know who. Slytherin is no way good plus Nicholas told me that you are friends with Draco Malfoy." Rose's father said looking disgusted as he mentioned Draco.

"So what if I am friends with Draco."

"The Malfoy's are horrible. They hate all muggles and only like purebloods they treat everyone who is not like them like nothing."

"Well sorry but Draco is my best friend and if you get to know him you will see that he is a very nice boy. Maybe I could invite him over one day for dinner." Rose said smiling at thought of having Draco in her house.

"You will do not such thing! I will not have him in my house and you are grounded for associating with bad people." Rose mom screamed at her.

"Oh really, that's the best reason you could come up with you know what I don't care I am going up to my room." Rose said and then stomped up the stairs.

Getting to her room she took at a piece of paper and started to write a letter to Draco.

Draco,

Do you think that maybe I could come to your manor? Please, I got into a fight with my parents and Nicholas still hasn't spoken a word to me. I think if I stay here my parents are only going to get angry, they need more time to except this even though they are being unreasonable. Answer back as soon as possible.

Rose

Sending the letter with her owl named Snow she sat on her bed waiting for a letter back. Surprisingly she got a response back within an hour, she didn't know how far away Draco lived but it couldn't be that far since her owl went and came back in an hour.

Rose,

Sure. My parents can't wait to meet you. See you soon, come whenever by using the floo network.

Draco

Rose smiled and then packed her things once again and went to her fireplace.

"Where do you think your going you are grounded." She heard her father say behind her.

"I am going to Malfoy Manor. Bye, love you." Even though her father and mother protested against this she didn't listened and left through floo powder to the Manor where she would be spending her whole summer. Not the way she had planned to.