5. Fall off the Astronomy Tower together. No, we weren't… doing romantic stuff! Get those thoughts out of your head!

"Scorpius. Scorpius. Scorpius! SCORPIUS WAKE UP!"

I woke up, blinking my eyes and trying not to fall asleep again. Why is the Slytherin common room SO DARK? And so MURKY GREEN?

"Uh. Hi?"

What in the world is wrong with Alex? Every growing boy needs his sleep!

"We're going to be late for Astronomy if we don't go…. In two minutes," said Alex.

I take back my second-to-last comment.

I yelped, much to the amusement of the older Slytherins. Seriously, I could hear their giggling from the other side of the common room.

"What time is it?" I asked.

Alex bit his lip (another sign of annoyance! I'm getting good at this. Wait, is biting your lip annoyance?). "Er… eight-fifty."

"What?! Do you know how TALL the Astronomy Tower is? We need to scram! Now!" I screamed.

Alex nodded and ran out the common room with me.

Halfway up the Astronomy Tower, we collapsed on the steep, stone stairs. I swear it should be illegal for stairs to be so steep.

"Ugh… Can't… Go… On… Any… Longer," I gasped.

I am not out of shape! I'd like to see YOU climb the tallest tower in Hogwarts! And the Gryffindor and Ravenclaw Towers are pretty tall. To be able to beat THAT...

That, folks, is why there are no fat people in Gryffindor and Ravenclaw. And since first year Slytherins have to climb SEVEN flights of stairs twice a day…

No wonder those Hufflepuffs are pudgy.

Alex grimaced. "It's eight-fifty-eight."

I cursed. "I hate Astronomy."

Nine minutes later, we made it to the top of the Tower, wheezing and gasping.

Professor Sinistra looked at us disapprovingly. "Ten points from Slytherin, Mr. Malfoy and Guadis."

I groaned, but didn't say anything. Alex and I grabbed a telescope next to each other.

"Sorry, Alex," I whispered.

Alex nodded. "It's OK, I fell asleep too."

"Mr. Malfoy!"

I yelped. The GryffinDORKs laughed. Idiots.

Aaand, that was like the most unoriginal insult in history.

I scowled, then quickly put on an innocent expression. "Yes?"

Professor Sinistra glared at me. "Identify that star over there!" she barked, pointing at one of the millions of stars in the sky that no one cared about.

I squinted. It looked identical to every other star. "Er…."

Sinistra sighed. "I would've thought that even you, Mr. Malfoy, would know THAT one."

Hey! We aren't all astronomy buffs! Jeez.

Well, at least she gave me a hint. Let's see… "Uh, Ursa… Major?"

Alex groaned, shaking his head. Oops. Must have been Minor.

I heard a few students snickering.

Sinistra sighed.

"Mr. Malfoy, I have, in over three decades of teaching, have never had a student mistake the ARMPIT for the BEAR," said Sinistra.

There's an armpit?

"That star is Ascella."

Oh.

Stop giggling, Gryffindumbs! Ugh, so hard to come up with a good one. Scrapping that one…

"Would anyone like to tell me why Mr. Malfoy is incorrect?" asked Sinistra.

Before anyone could answer, WEASLEY arrived. WEASLEY! Of all people, WEASLEY!

"Hi, Professor!" said WEASLEY. "Here are the books you sent for! And to answer your question, first of all, Ursa Major is a constellation, not a star. Second of all-"

"Weasley!" I whined. Oh, be quiet, you'd whine too if your arch-nemesis appeared out of thin air. "Of all people for Pince to send, it had to be YOU!"

Weasley whipped around.

"At least I didn't mistake a bear constellation for a star that represents an ARMPIT," she sneered.

I narrowed my eyes. "Are you implying something, Weasley?"

Weasley smirked. "Even an INFANT knows that Ursa Major is a constellation, stupid."

I glared at her. "Stupid? That's a lot, coming from you."

Weasley's eyes widened. She got her wand out.

Being ever the vigilant one, I got mine out as well.

"Ms. Weasley! Mr. Malfoy! Stop right this instant!" screeched Sinistra.

"ARE YOU CALLING ME STUPID?" screamed Weasley.

"MAYBE I AM!" I yelled back.

"I AM A BILLION TIMES SMARTER THAN YOU'LL EVER BE, MALFOY!" bellowed Weasley, looking like she wanted to murder me.

"KEEP TELLING YOURSELF THAT, WEASLEY!" I bellowed back.

"Worse than Lily and James…" mumbled Sinistra. Lily? James? Wait, Lily Potter didn't even go to Hogwarts yet! And I'm pretty sure James Potter didn't argue with/try to kill someone named Lily, even if Sinistra wasn't talking about Lily Potter.

Before I could figure out what she meant, Weasley fired a curse at me.

I ducked, and was about to hex her back when I tripped.

Shut up. They say it takes IMMENSE talent to trip over a flat surface.

I practically flew onto Weasley.

Normally, this wouldn't have been a life-threatening problem (OK, it would have been to me, but that girl needs anger management or something), but Weasley was standing right at the edge of the IMMENSLEY TALL Tower.

You should've heard everyone screaming. I sure didn't. Why?

My eardrums burst from Weasley's screeching.

She was falling RIGHT next to me! Why me?

Right when I thought that we were going to die, Professor Sinistra came to her senses and levitated us in midair, then slowly levitated us back onto the Astronomy Tower.

Sinistra's face was white. I'm serious, WHITE. Before she could say anything, I blacked out.

"Rose, how do you get into these situations with Malfoy? You've been here FOUR times! And it's only been a week!"

I opened my eyes groggily. A blurry blob with blurry black hair was talking to a red-headed blurry blob, and a blurry blob with brown hair and blurry blob-ish olive green eyes was looking at me. A blurry blob in white was flitting around, terrorizing the other blurry blobs who were in blurry rectangles.

I blinked. HD version:

Al Potter the Hufflepuff (explains the 'fat man' bit) was talking to Rose Weasley. Alex Guadis looked at me, concerned, with his olive green eyes. Madame Pomfrey flitted around, scolding the other students for their carelessness, while the students were cowering in their beds.

Alex looked relieved. "Hi, Scorpius. You gave me a HUGE shock when you fell off the Astronomy Tower," he said cheerfully.

Uh oh… This sounded familiar…

"Here's your homework, Scorpius!"

"Alex!"

A/N: So, hi everyone! Since I'm going to Europe really soon, this might be the last update for a while. Sorry.

I looked over this chapter and realized that Rose sounded pretty mean, so I would just like to remind you that this is Scorpius' POV, so he's just portraying Rose as he sees her, a snobby know-it-all who enjoys terrorizing him.

Also, I've been revising chapters before I post them, but if you find a mistake (grammar, spelling, etc.) please don't hesitate to tell me via review or PM.

-Dragon