The next day Rose and Erika walked down to the common room to wait for Albus and Daniel only to bump into James,

"Morning Rosie" called James as he came down from the 2nd year boys dormitories

"Hiya James, How are you?" Rose said walking over to greet her cousin

"Oh I'm as good as one can be on the first day of classes" he laughed, "And who is your friend?" he asked with a wink

Erika blushed furiously and looked at the ground while murmuring "I'm Erika, Erika Bryne"

"Pleasure to meet you Erika, I'm James, James Potter"

"I know" said Erika without thinking which made her blush even harder

"Oh my god James! It's the first day and you're already chatting up my friend! Stop it!" said Rose sternly which reminded James so much of her mother, his aunt Hermione

"Oh speaking of which can I talk to you for a minute alone?" James whispered motioning towards Erika

" Erika give me one minute James and I need to talk for a minute, family stuff you know" Rose called to a still blushing Erika as she and James walked into a secluded corner of the common room

"I hear Adam Taylor has taken a bit of a fancy towards you Rosie" James said with a dangerous glint in his eye

" Yes James I have heard that too but I won't be pursuing it so there's no need to worry" Rose answered " Anyway what does It have to do with you?" she added

" I share a dormitory with Adam, he's a cool bloke but he just plays girls and I don't want to see that happening to you"

"Well I appreciate your concern James but I am well capable of taking care of myself" this time it was Rose with the dangerous glint in her eyes " And from what I've heard you're a bit of a player yourself so you are welcome to get with Erika if you like but she is a shy little girl and she is mad about you so if you hurt her I will come after you!" she added dangerously "I know where you live James Potter" she whispered before stalking off seeing that Al and Daniel had emerged from their dormitories.

Impeccable grammar and threatening? So like her mother James thought with a shudder

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"But seriously Rosie he is divinely gorgeous, like an angel!" said Erika with a dreamy look in her eyes, he had been talking nonstop about James the whole way through breakfast and now the whole way to potions.

Rose and finally had enough " Okay Erika I get it James has beautiful eyes and flawless skin and great hair and he's so tall but come on he is NOT by any means and angel! Yes I can believe he said hello to you because I think he may well fancy you but now that we have gotten over that can we please get to potions before we're late!"

"Okay then" said Erika briefly looking offended, but not for long "You really think he fancies me?" she added with a huge grin

"UGGGH!" was the only thing Rose could say.

They arrived at potions to see that they were indeed late and Professor Snape was already there.

"Hello ladies thank you for deciding to join us I have just been explaining to everyone that the seats they are sitting in now will be their seats for the rest of the year" said Snape in his long drawling voice,

Rose and Erika scanned the room and their hearts dropped when they saw that there were only two seats left and they were at opposite sides of the class, then they realised that one seat was beside Lisa Fox from their dormitory and the other beside- of course- Scorpius Malfoy. Both the girl dived for the seat beside Lisa and were wrestling each other over it when Snape's sneering voice came over them " Miss Byrne you will sit next to Miss Fox and Miss Weasley you will sit next to Mr Malfoy and you will both serve detention tonight with me, maybe that will help you remember that this is a potions class not a WWE fighting ring" he finished

Erika reluctantly picked up her bag and dragged it across the room and threw herself down beside Scorpius,

"I am a little offended that you didn't want to sit next to me that much" drawled Malfoy

"And I'm a little offended that you called my family blood traitors, life is just not fair is it?" hissed Rose

"Fair point, fair point, will you meet me in the entrance hall tonight at 8 o' clock when you're finished your detention?" Malfoy asked innocently "I have some explaining to do I suppose"

"As if Malfoy, why should I listening to what you have to say?" Rose hissed disbelievingly

"Oh you sound like a reasonable girl I'm sure you will let me air my side of the story" This comment was answered my silence Rose seemed to have decided that she'd had enough and was not going to answer

"Well either way I'll be waiting in the entrance hall this evening at 8, don't leave me hanging Rosie"

Her only answer to this was "don't call me Rosie! We are not friends!"

For now Malfoy thought with a small grin

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That evening after spending a gruelling hour and a half with Snape in the dungeon putting all manor of potions ingredients into jars Erika and Rose left the dungeons, It was 10 to 8, just enough time