Take that bloody hood down

Chapter 3 has arrived

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Wow, Rose thought. This guy is like my favourite teacher, easy on the eyes, clearly smart, sees no reason not to trust us to sit where we want so he has faith. Shame about that hoodie, it kind of ruins his look.

The rest of the lesson was made up of unnoticed glares and a few lovesick glances.

The glares were all from Scorpius, every time he looked up at the front he saw Rose practically drooling over Professor Venustus, who was either unaware or just didn't notice that every time he smiled at her for answering a question right (which was a LOT) she would turn into a puddle of goo, his eyes would flash dangerously.

Most of the lovesick glances were from the Gryffindor girls (Slytherins never look lovesick… mostly) but one or two were going from a certain fair headed Slytherin (the one who wasn't currently glaring at the front) to a certain dark haired, acid green eyed Slytherin. (A/N: Hope you guys understood that because I sure didn't)

All throughout the day Scorpius was annoyed, after lessons his friends left him alone to get away from his constant bad mood. He spent the evening before curfew storming around the castle in a strop, not totally certain where he was going.

As he wandered around the castle he decided that some fresh air might clear his head, so he doubled back to take a secret passage down to the entrance courtyard, but when he slid his fingers around the edge of the sealed doorway to open it, he found it was already occupied. By Beth and Jace. Kissing.

Slightly amused in spite of his bad mood, Scorpius cleared his throat. They jumped apart.

"Oh, hey Scorp, um, we were just, you know," Beth looked slightly embarrassed, but Jace, who still hadn't let go of her, was looking deliriously happy.

"Urgh," Scorpius rolled his eyes. "If you must,"

When the end of the day finally came Rose was very excited, it was a Friday evening and she, Olivia, Cho, Jade and Georgina had managed to get permission from Professor McGonagall to have a sleepover in the Hufflepuff dormitories.

"Do you guys remember how to get into their Common Room?" Cho asked, looking round the corridor.

"The Hufflepuff common room entrance can be found in a small nook to the right hand side of the kitchen door, only those with good intentions may enter," Rose recited from what Georgina had told them earlier in the week, word perfect, as usual.

"Well where's the kitchen door, Miss Smarty-pants?" Olivia asked.

"It's just over here," Rose gestures to a painting depicting a bowl of fruit.

"How do you know that?" Olivia wondered, amazed her friend knew where a place was that she wasn't allowed to visit.

Rose blushed. "My cousin James showed it to me in our first week, said he'd be embarrassed if any relative of his didn't know at least a few secrets of the castle,"

"Right… hey is that a door?" Cho cried, pointing at a rounded door made of wood with the Hufflepuff insignia on it, one that certainly hadn't been there before.

"Can we just go in?" Rose asked, surprised that their common room wasn't more secure.

"I guess,"

Just as they entered the room Rose barely had time to register the fact that she seemed to be outside when she, Cho and Olivia were attacked by Jade and Georgina. By attacked I mean by hugs and squeals.

"You guys got in. I knew you would, you so have good intentions," Georgina yelled. Being the complete opposite of her father and, to use her words 'proud of it'.

"Is that all you need to enter," Cho asked, and Georgina and Jade both nodded. "But anyone could get in,"

"So why should we try and keep out people with good intentions? If someone has bad intentions they'd never be able to find the door," Jade shrugged. "Pretty good system if you ask me,"

As they headed towards the girls dormitories Rose had a proper chance to look around, they weren't, as she first thought, outside. Instead they were in a huge room with trees and plants painted along the walls to give the impression of being outdoors, and in the centre of the ceiling there was a huge yellow light. All around them were plants, some dangerous ones in little mini-greenhouses like Venomous Tentacula.

"Don't look directly at the light," Jade warned them as they passed through the common room. "It acts like a real sun so the plants in here can really photosynthesise,"

"Wow," Rose said, then, to distract herself from looking up she scanned the room and eventually found Albus talking with Jesse Finnegan. She waved at him when looked up and saw her.

Having followed a corridor to get to the girls dorms the five of them entered. The room was a semi-circle, with small arches around it that were partly hollowed out, which the beds were half set within. With the Hufflepuffs being hospitable folk, the room was enchanted to have as many beds as were necessary for the situation. Now they were almost the same as the Gryffindor dorms with five beds.

"Now we can get to what everyone wants to talk about," Georgina said, but she got some confused looks so she elaborated. "Boys,"

"Oh"

"Right."

"Am I the only one who noticed Scorpius today in DADA?" Cho asked.

"Huh?" Georgina and Jade said at the same time. After a quick explanation of their lesson they continued.

"So what was that?" Olivia was wondering aloud. "He seemed really upset with something,"

"Really? How did you guys see that? He was right at the back," Rose asked.

"Probably because they weren't ogling at Professor Venustus," Jade sniggered at Rose as she blushed.

"If I'm being honest I don't know how you weren't jumping him after he called you smart, you practically melted," They all giggled at Rose as she slowly turned from blushing to beetroot red. Some Weasley genes she hadn't managed to side-step.

"Can we move on, please?" She asked, fanning herself slightly in a vain attempt to calm her fiery cheeks.

"We can move on from him but I am certainly not done with the Slytherin boys," Cho said. "I think we should all take a moment to appreciate the beautifulness that is Jace Zabini, I mean come one, his dad is Italian and yet he is still blonde, or fair-haired or whatever, like wow,"

"It ain't gonna happen honey," Jade said with a sympathetic smile. "Have you seen the way he looks at that Beth girl? He is totally whipped,"

"Oh, Godric you are so right, if she snaps her fingers he just comes running, same as that Luke guy, he always has this goofy smile when he talks to her," Olivia added.

"Ooh, Luke, don't get me started on him, he so has his Grandmothers eyes, it's like, he looks at you and he can see exactly what you're thinking," Georgina said, flopping down on her, and she motioned for everyone else to do the same.

"His Grandmother's the one who used to teach flying, right, before Professor Scopa?" Rose asked.

"Yeah," Georgina replied, looking dreamy, clearly still thinking about Luke's eyes.

"I don't know why you guys are so hung up on Slytherins, I mean look at your house," Cho said.

"What about it?" Jade asked.

"ERM, hello, where have been whilst Jesse Finnegan has been around?" Cho said, waving her arm in front of Georgina, who looked as though she had gone into a mild coma.

"Jesse? Please, you can have him, I mean, I know Hufflepuffs are meant to be selfless, but he is too selfless, so much so that he kind of becomes a wimp," Jade scoffed.

"You should give him to Cho for a while, she'll turn him into a foghorn in a matter of days," Rose chuckled at her friend's indignation. "You know it's true, I barely said a word when I first got here but all it took was you shaking my shoulders and yelling 'why don't you say something?' at me to get me to speak up more,"

"Well that was back when you afraid to say anything you weren't sure was right," Cho reminded her.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, Rose used to be shy but she's fine, how fantastic, can we get back to the Ravenclaw guys?" Jade asked.

"EW, gross, even if Lorcan paid me I wouldn't touch him with twelve foot broom, he is so full of himself since he got all predicted O's in his OWL's," Olivia shuddered. "I hate cocky people,"

"I hear where you're coming from, but Alexander is so not like that, you would think with a famous dad and being smart enough to go to Ravenclaw his head would be bigger than the school but he's fine," Jade said.

"He really is," Georgina said, not referring to his personality.

A/N: I hope you guys enjoyed it. Special mentions or props or whatever you wanna call it for anyone who gets the reasons behind the teachers names :DDDD

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