Scorpius Malfoy was standing a few feet away from me with his usual smug grin. His white-blond hair was swooped to one side, and his foggy grey eyes were staring me down. I glared at him right back.

"What do you want Malfoy? Are you lost? This is the library, where people who actually know how to read come. Or are you just following me?" This was an exaggeration, Malfoy often came to the library, almost as much as me.

Malfoy smirked, "Actually I was chasing a jarvey. Have you seen one?" He was still poking fun at me being scared in class. I could feel my cheeks start to turn red from my anger.

"Why don't you go bother someone else? Perhaps a troll, so you can be with your kind." I jumped off the stool and started to walk past him. He put his hand out to stop me.

"Now don't leave on my account Weasley. I know you need a little extra help in Defense Against the Dark Arts. Perhaps I could tutor you?" Defense was not my strongest subject; it was the only subject where Malfoy was ahead of me.

"Sure Malfoy. And why we're at it, I'll tutor you in Potions. And Charms. And Herbology. And Transfiguration. And-"

"Little full of ourselves, aren't we?"

"Coming from you, Malfoy. Now get out of my way." I tried to move past him again, but he wouldn't let me.

"Your face is a little red Weasley, did you know?" At that comment, I stamped on his foot as hard as I could. I could still here Malfoy swearing as I exited the library.

In the Gryffindor common room, Albus had come over for a game of exploding snap. Usually students of other houses rarely came into each other's common rooms, but the Weasley/Potter clan went where they pleased. I was constantly in the Ravenclaw room with Roxy, and occasionally I went in the Hufflepuff room to help my younger cousins with their homework. I did visit Al often in the Slytherin's, but my visits were usually cut short by the presence of Malfoy.

I looked around the common room for Sarah, but she was nowhere in sight, so I figured she was in our room. As I expected, she was on her bed curled up with a book.

"Hey, why aren't you in the common room? You're not in your usual spot."

Sarah glanced up from her book. "I was down there, but then he came. He invited me to play exploding snap, but I politely refused and retreated here."

"Sarah you are going to have to either make your move on Al or get over it because you can't keep running when he comes near."

Sarah sat up. "I'm working on it! It's a process. Now tell me about the boyfriend."

"You'll never believe who it is," I plopped down on the bed beside her, "Blaine Solderini."

"The seventh year Slytherin Quidditch player?"

"Yep."

"The one that is Albus is scared of, so he won't try out for the team?"

"Yep."

"Seriously? So what is he like?" A look of disgust must of crossed my face because she said, "That bad?"

"It's obvious that he is stuck up and hates us all. He looks like the kind of guys who would kick a puppy."

Sarah grimaced, "Sounds like a real charmer."

Just then Dom walked through our door, with a huge grin.

"I suppose Rosie has already told you about my new boyfriend! Can you believe it? Me with Blaine Solderini!"

Sarah put on a fake smile for her. "Yes she told me, congratulations. I didn't know you even liked him?"

"Well I didn't think about dating him, until he came and asked me out! He wanted to keep it low-key until we were for sure dating. I so badly wanted to tell you two though! Isn't he perfect Rosie?" Dom sighed.

"Well he seems, uh, very-"

"Oh, I have to go send a letter to Vic! She won't believe it!" And with that, Dom raced back out of the room.

Sarah gave me that look of distaste, "I don't know if I can handle her talking about him every waking hour..."

"Maybe their relationship will only last a few weeks? You never know."

"If she stays like this for even that long, I'm going to die," said Sarah as she slammed her face into a pillow. "Oh," Sarah said as she was sitting up, "by the way, did you get that book we needed for transfiguration?"

"Yep, it's right here. Sorry I took so long. You'll never guess who I ran into."

"Scorpius?"

"The toad himself, it's like he follows me just so he can make me mad!" I got up and threw myself dramatically on to my bed.

"Well, at least he's hot."

This made me sit straight up. "What?!"

"I mean if you're going to have a guy that follows you around, at least he's nice to look at. I'd rather have an attractive enemy than one that looks like a troll."

I stared at Sarah, trying to process what she was saying. "What do you mean he's nice to look at?"

"Well, he has that gorgeous bleached hair, and it's always swooped so perfectly to the side. And his beautiful grey eyes. Plus he's pretty fit, to be honest."

"I didn't realized you spent some much time looking at Scorpius Malfoy," I scoffed.

"Well not that often," she shrugged, "But hey, I'm no different than the rest of the girls at this school."

I stared at her again, "Other girls like him too?"

Sarah looked at me like I was being ignorant. "Of course they do! Haven't you ever noticed all the girls fawning over him? And then when he ignores them so he can come fight with you, they're obviously jealous."

I couldn't believe what I was hearing. "I guess I never noticed."

"No kidding! I can't believe you never noticed how attractive Scorpius Malfoy was! Of course, he's not as attractive of Albus-Al is so much more perfect, with his bright green eyes and his black hair that always seems to be messy..." Sarah said dreamily. As she trailed off, there was a sharp knock at the door, followed by Al entering. Sarah jumped wide eyed, causing Al to look at us in confusion.

"What's wrong Sarah, you look like you've seen a ghost?" Sarah turned pale, so I quickly covered for her.

"I was telling her about these beasts I read about in my book who eat humans, and then you walked in and scared us." Al seemed to buy it.

"Oh ok then, I was wondering if you guys wanted to come down and play exploding snap, we are starting a new round."

Sarah stuttered, "Well...I...Uhm..."

"We'd love to!" I said, and grabbed her by the arm. It would do good for her to spend some time with Albus. And hopefully I could get my mind off of what Sarah said about Scorpius Malfoy.