AN: Hi guys! Sorry about the delay for this chapter! My excuse...I don't have one :S I've just not been feeling so creative lately and I didn't want to write because I want you to have the best, so to thank you for waiting, I'm uploading two chapters! This one today and the other tomorrow! This is more of a filling in chapter, but do read! So please leave review if you have 15 seconds to spare :) Oh! And sorry for the long author's note! By the way happy holidays everyone!

Beta-ed by HogwartsDreamer113

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The small blonde girl turns to me and raises her eyebrow.

"Well, Weasley?"

I feel a coolness fall on me when she eyes me. I nod immediately eager to impress. She smirks and embraces my shaking hand with her own cold one.

"Adrianna Wren."

I nod.

"R-Rose."

"You need to be louder."

"Rose." I exclaim louder then was necessary.

Adrianna rolls her eyes. Did I do something wrong? I look around...too many eyes in me...Just a helpless rabbit cornered by blood-thirsty wolves...

I wish I was with Val or Albus or Scorpius, even trapped in a serious conversation on which hairstyle Medea Marevlo, a famous novelist, would suit more with Carly...okay, Rose, just make an excuse...

"I...need to go. I promised Hagrid I'd have tea with him?"

Ebony looks at me blandly.

"The massive oaf who keeps Lethifolds in his house?"

I cringe, I remember it in the Daily Prophet:

"Man Breeds Murderous Lethifolds Inside Of Hogwarts"

I saw father reading it, shaking his head. Mum came in and handed him a cup of tea, squeezed his shoulders and whispered something in his ear. Dad then nodded, sipped his tea and went to the fireplace.

"Rose!"

Ebony exclaims. I jump and realise I was daydreaming.

"Did you just hear what I said?"

"Um..."

Ebony sighs.

"I said you have permission to go."

Permission? I turn on my heels and walk out, shutting the door behind me.

My ears strain to hear what the whispers were saying from the other side of the door, but I had no luck.

Hiking down to Hagrid's house, I'm sure I saw a loose black cloak on the ground. I didn't pick it up to check the tag as I had to get to Hagrid's before lunch.

I tap on the door and it took a few moments before Hagrid swings open the door.

"Hi Rosie! It's great to see ya! The others are here too!"

He shuffles out of the way as I enter, seeing Scorpius cramming rock cakes into his mouth and Albus looking at his watch, timing Scorpius.

"3,2,1, stop!" Cries Albus, looking up and breaking into a fit of laughter at Scorpius expanded cheeks.

"Boys, that's not how ya eat my cakes!" Hagrid scolds, though his eyes glitter happily. Scorpius goes to the sink and spits them out, then as he turns around that's when the boys notice me.

"Rose!" said Albus, sounding surprised.

Scorpius waves at me shortly, he seeming uncertain and then I remembered how I snapped at him. I smile and he smiles back, a silent truce.

Hagrid pours me some tea and I sit down with the boys. Al chats about his flying lesson and shows me a book on brooms one of his friends, Joe, had given him.

"-and it tells you all about the different models and styles! Joe said that Leonard Jewkes is making a new one right now! The Silver Arrow 360!" Albus stars dreamily at an advertisement of the new broom. It was completely shiny silver and it didn't look comfortable at all.

"Al...?"

"Yeah?"

"It looks really stiff."

"Well it can hardly be wobbly! Rose, this is a state of the art, best in the business, fastest in the world broomstick! You just don't understand."

I stiffle back a laugh. State of the art? Maybe Evelyn would understand, as she's by far the sportiest in our dorm. Her dad played for the Irish Qudditch team! Which remindsme...our flying lesson is tomorrow! Oh no...we are doing it with the Hufflepuffs, at least they won't laugh at us.

Then from the other room calls a voice, which I recognised as a Spanish accent "Hagrid? Where did you say the book was?"

Val. Hagrid calls back casually, no one noticing me stiffen.

"Top shelf, can ya reach it?"

"...no."

Hagrid looks at me and gestures to the door with his head.

"Go help 'er Rosie."

I nod not wanting to disagree with Hagrid, I walk into the only other room in Hagrid's wooden hut, which more a storage cupboard. Though unlike Professor Flitwick's cupboard, this one was scruffy and in no order. I saw Val stretching her arms towards the pile of books.

"Hi." I say, letting her know I am here. She turns around.

"Rose! Thank goodness!" She grins, and points to the book with the blue leather cover.

"Could you get that for me?"

I reach it easily as I inherited my dad's height. I pass it down to her and she accepts it gladly.

"Thanks!" She says happily, flipping through the pages.

"Val...are we friends again?"

She looks up.

"Trust me Rose, after a whole week of being with Vicky, going to the library again and again...I'm never going to leave your side! Plus, I'll need you tomorrow, because you'll probably be much worse than me on the broom, so I'll look better!"

I laugh when she winks and we go back as old friends.

Scorpius and Albus seem to relax once we come back in, smiling and talking to Hagrid. Albus, who had finally put the broomstick book away, glances at Val's book.

"Hey, Val? What's that book?"

"Oh...it's a picture book."

"Pictures?" Scorpius asks curiously.

Val blushed "Well...I have trouble reading normal books, y'know, ones with words in...when I try to read, the letters begin to jumble up on the page and I can't read it, so it's a lot easier to read with pictures."

Hagrid was the first one to react.

"Well, don't worry Val, just 'cause you can't read as well, don't mean you don't belong in Ravenclaw!"

"But that's the problem!" Val replies "I don't know why I'm in Ravenclaw! I was never the smartest at my primary school, and now I'm here I'm always the last to do anything." Val sinks back on the chair miserably.

I quickly change the subject, in order to save Val some embarrassment.

"So tell Al, what does flying feel like." I would never have asked it if I knew I was going to get a whole speech.

After an excessively cheesy speech about the wonders of flying and the feeling of being weightlessness and the sensation of feeling like you're on top of the world Albus had lectured us about...

"Albus?" Val interrupts, though it sounded quite funny, because she carried the "u", making it Alboos.

"Yeah?"

"Shut up."

Al turns red and Hagrid turns to me.

"Oh, Rose! I needed to give you this," Hagrid reveals a small book and passes it to me.

"Give this to ya cousin Molly, she needed it for 'er 'homework."

"Right, you four better be off," Hagrid says after I slip the book into my bag. "...it's, er, not safe out here when it's dark..." His eyes trail out the jet black window.

Val frowns. "You're acting suspicious."

"What?" Hagrid gets out of his chair and opens the doors for us. An unspoken plead for us to leave.

We grab out bags and march out into the darkness. Val left last, muttering about "suspicious behaviour".

"He's up to something and I want to find out what!" Val argues when Albus told her to leave it. We reached the bottom of the staircase to our common room.

"And what you think he's up to?" Questions Albus.

"I don't know yet! That's why I want to find out," Val replies "Don't you?"

"I do! It's just..." Albus trails off and I break their conversation.

"Can we please talk in the morning? I'm tired." This was not a lie as I realise I could barely stand. Val sighs and begins to walk up the staircase.

"Goodnight, Albus, Scorpius." She disappears around the curve.

Albus turns to me. "Night Rose." He and Scorpius smile simultaneously before continuing down the corridor.

AN: That's right! Another long AN! I am starting a competition for my readers! It will go on for the rest of the story and will be a Q&A! It will be multiple choice and you must leave your answer in a review! I will not count PMed answers. So your review could just be:

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and you wouldn't have to write much anything else! People who haven't been reviewing so far can participate as well, the more the merrier! I will keep the scores on my iPad and on the final chapter I will announce who has won and they get a special prize!

They choose to either:

1) Decide the name of a character

2) Influence the plotline for Rose's second year at Hogwarts

or

3) I review their story

Alright! The questions will be the bottom AN of every chapter!

Question 1)

What animal is on the two columns of main entrance gate to Hogwarts?

A) Winged Lions

B) Winged Stallions

C) Winged Boars