Ugh. Sorry for the slow upload. So this chapter is Rose with her first detention. With some minor Rose/Scorpius that Rose tries to conceal from Ron...very badly. I now see what people mean when they say that their characters write themselves...the Rose in my head was freakishly paranoid while Hugo was logical. And now they've switched. XD Don't take the following chapter seriously; it involves a random prank gone wrong, a madcap chase through Hogwarts, and Filch popping out of corners. However weird it may be, please don't hesitate to review. I don't want to be annoying, but four reviews for the first chapter and one for the second? I know I have readers...let me feel the review-love...
Dear Dad,
Please don't tell Mum, but I got my first detention today. I know she won't really mind - after all, she got hers in first year over the whole Norbert(a) affair - but I'd rather you knew first. Don't worry, I'm not crying my eyes out over it. In fact, I rather expected this. My record has been spotless for the past five years; something bad was bound to happen. I just wish it was for a worthwhile cause, you know? (At least for something less mundane than "running/performing magic in the corridors".)
So today afternoon, Albus and the Malfoy-idiot were studying for their Charms O.W.L in the library. I have no idea why those two even associate with each other. Honestly. Then Al suddenly remembered Quidditch practice, and asked me to save his seat while he was gone. And thus I was stuck sitting with Scorpius and a stack of textbooks. (No, Dad, we certainly did not have a good time. We were not practicing incantations together, we were not laughing over the ridiculous ways he messed up the aforementioned incantations, and we were not occupied thus for more than three hours. If anyone tells you otherwise, he or she is completely and utterly wrong.) Well, we were looking at the Colour Change Charm...take that back. I was looking at it in one book, and he was looking at it in a different book. Anyways, Malfoy went off to supposedly practice said Colour Change Charm, and then ran back in an obvious hurry. He stopped at the table to catch his breath, grabbed the textbooks, smiled (sorry, I mean frowned) at me apologetically, and dashed off again. A few seconds later those two Slytherin boys, Boil and Snot - excuse me, Goyle and Nott - stumble in from the same direction. I have absolutely no idea what they were doing in the library, of all places. I doubt Goyle even knows the alphabet, and Nott is street-smart, rather than bookish. Under normal circumstances, the two are comical...they were even more so with blue hair and orange skin. (And due to their lack of brains, they were obviously unable to reverse the charm.) When I burst into hysterical laughter, they started towards me, wands drawn. So I ran. Not that I was afraid of being hit by the few spells they knew. I was just afraid of being hit by their fists.
Where else to run other than after Malfoy himself? After all, he had bloody well gotten me into this mess to begin with. And it was truly a mess. Malfoy's former cronies after me, and me after Scorpius. We all ended up at the Ravenclaw Common Room at the same time; even though Malfoy had a rather large head start, he was utterly flummoxed by the knocker's question - something involving particles and Animagi, I believe. So he panicked (typical of him) and turned right back around, and the rest of us followed suit. But then that idiot did something so stupid that it was pure genius. He sprinted past Professor Longbottom, of all people, who then grabbed Goyle and Nott by their shirt collars and dragged them to his office. Apparently they were each missing three weeks of Herbology homework.
So it was just me chasing Malfoy, this time towards the Slytherin Common Room. It was mad, I tell you. We fought through a crowd of confused first-years, and almost tripped over Mrs. Norris twice. (Why on earth is that fleabag still alive? I mean, if she was around in your time too, who knows how old she is?) Anyways, Scorpius muttered something and dashed into the Common Room. I followed suit, but realized too late that the password I knew was outdated. And then I did something stupid. In fact, it was really, really stupid. I know you and Mum have told me to control my temper, but I was simply too angry to care. So I sent some random spell at the wall - I don't even know what it was supposed to do. And at that very moment, Filch conveniently popped out of a tapestry and gave me a detention (for the reasons listed above.)
I'm not looking for a way out of the detention; I don't think it's possible to argue your way out of a detention anyway. But some sympathy would be nice, if you could offer any. Oh, and if you have any advice involving cleaning charms, that would be helpful too. Filch will either make me scrub the infirmary floor or oil the chains in his office. (Yeah, those chains. The ones he's saving for the day when he'll be able to hang students from the ceiling.)
Sincerely,
Rose