Know-it-alls and Replies

That night Rose laid awake on her bed thinking over the day. She and her parents had always known that she was smart and sometimes a know-it-all, and it had never really bothered her at all. That was until she got to school. On the first day between classes she had heard a couple of girls talking in the bathroom. She didn't mean to listen, but she couldn't help herself when she heard one of them say her name.

Rose had heard the girl say, "Ya, I mean did you see that Rose Weasley girl in History of Magic. She's such a know-it-all." After, that Rose stopped listening. After all it wasn't her conversation even if they were talking about her behind her back. She didn't even know those girls.

Then, earlier today when Tina came up to them and she called Rose a know-it-all; it just broke her. Usually she was proud of her brains and smartness, but it was like it was a bad thing here. She would have been fine with it if it was only one person who thought so, but there was three people she had heard say it. And it was only the first week of school.

Then her mind switched to The Defence Against the Dark Arts class when Albus got a hold of the spell before she did. Rose knew she shouldn't be jealous of her cousin but she couldn't help it. She liked being the top and had always been at the top. But, now it felt like everything was falling down around her.

Suddenly a picture of Scorpius' expression after the incident with Professor Filk popped into her mind. It was a look of determination and holding back the angry tears that were welling up in his eyes. She had seen that look three different times in that day alone. She had asked him if he was ok even though he truly wasn't. He had said he was fine but he wasn't. She shouldn't have dropped the subject. Those boys and that professor were just mean bunch of people that no one should listen to, but Rose knew that Scorpius had listened to them. And now he had a detention with Filk all alone and it was her fault. She had distracted him by smiling at him. That was still bothering her. Why did her smile affect him like that? Unless he… But, he couldn't like her.

This sent her mind spiral for a few moments. But, afterwards she just shook her head to clear and whispered to herself, "Come on. You have classes tomorrow. You got to get to sleep." She tried to shut down her mind, but was left tossing and turning for another two hours before she finally fell asleep.

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The next morning when the post came Rose looked up and recognized her family owl coming towards her with a letter tied to its foot. Four different owls dropped a letter to each of them sitting at the table. Al and Yana tore into their letters eagerly, but Scorpius just sat their for a moment before opening the letter with shaking hands. Rose watched this and then looked down at her own letter before releasing their was another owl standing on the table in front of her. It was her mother's personal owl with another letter. Suddenly, she remembered the letter she sent specifically to her mom and felt like throwing up. She took the letter from the owl and it flew off. Rose was just about to open the first letter when all of a sudden she saw Scorpius stand up and rush out of the great hall. The others hadn't noticed this for they were too engrossed in their letters, but Rose reasoned that Scorpius probably needed comfort and her own letters could wait. So, she shoved her letters into her bookbag as she hurriedly followed Scorpius out of the great hall.

Rose caught up to Scorpius just as he got to the stairs and holding his arm so he couldn't get away asked, "What's wrong?" When he turned to face her she sucked in a breath.

There were tears streaming down his face and his grey-green eyes were filled with sadness as he said, "Here. Read this," shoving the letter in his hands into hers. They were quiet for a moment as Rose read this letter,

Dear Scorpius,

How dare you disgrace the name of Malfoy! A gryffindor! And friends with not just a mudblood, but also a Potter AND a Weasley! On top of that your favorite class is Herbology! You are not my son. You are a disgrace and I never want to see your face again. But, that won't work. So, I guess you can come here during summer holidays. But, that's it. And for the record you WERE accepted here, but not anymore. You are here-by disowned!

Your ex-father,

Draco Malfoy

How could anyone be this mean to anyone. Let alone their son! Rose thought angrily as she finished reading and looked back up at Scorpius who had stopped sobbing but still had tears sliding down his cheeks.

"I'm so sorry Scorp," she sympathetically told him.

"I don't have a family now," he sobbed as Rose wrapped her arms around him and pulled him into a hug.

Rose was about to reply when Albus' voice came from behind them, Al and Yana had obviously relieved that Rose and Scorpius were no longer sitting with them and got up to investigate, saying, "No. You have us. We're your family now." Scorpius nodded tearfully with his head resting on top of Rose's, for he was a bit taller than her.

After he had calmed down the four of them headed to class. Rose had still not read her letters and didn't really want to. But, at least I can't be as bad as Scorpius's letter. She reassured herself as class started and totally forgot about her letters only thinking about Scorpius's predicament and her classes for the rest of the day.

I know this chapter is long, but I hope you guys like it. Thank you to all those who favorites, fallowed, and reviewed, it's really encouraging. And tell me if any of you think that Draco would have reacted differently or if he was cruel. So, read, review, and enjoy.