Rose walked into the classroom, where the desks had already been moved aside and the students gathered in front of Harry. "Come on in Rose." Harry said when he noticed her at the threshold. Rose dumped her bag in the corner and joined the crowd.

Harry began much in the same way and soon Rose and Alice were practicing the spell again. By the end of the lesson, Alice had managed to cast a Corporeal Patronus. She'd shrieked with laughter as the silver Labrador burst from her wand, bounding playfully around the room. Another student, a boy Rose thought was called Jerry Boot, had also managed to create a Patronus in the form of a grizzly bear.

When the echoes of the bell chimed through the school and Harry dismissed them from class, Rose walked out and saw Scorpius at the end of the hallway. "Hey! Scorp!" she called out cheerfully to him, pushing her way through the flood of students towards him. Scorpius looked over his shoulder at her and started walking quickly away from her. Rose frowned in confusion, but continued trying to make her way to him, thinking maybe he hadn't realised it was her. She called out to him again and he glanced back over his shoulder to look at her but he immediately turned away and continued walking away more quickly, around a corner and out of sight. Rose turned the corner moments later, staring down the corridor and looking for his unmistakable white-blonde hair. She searched the crowd of students for several minutes, but couldn't see Scorpius anywhere. Rose sighed and walked back the way she'd come.

Questions chased themselves around in her head as she walked across the grounds to the Greenhouses. Why did Scorpius walk away from her? Had he mistaken her for someone else? Had she done something wrong? Hw could she ask him what was going on if he was ignoring and avoiding her?

When Rose reached Greenhouse Number 3, she was still just as confused. For the start of the lesson, Rose only half paid attention, the other half of her mind wondering about Scorpius. Even though she knew it was pointlessly trying to answer her questions, she couldn't stop dwelling on it.

Rose was brought fully back to reality when she felt a tight squeeze around her wrist. She looked down at the Snargaluff plant on the table. The plant looked like a gnarled stump, yet slowly more and more vines were starting to expose themselves, reaching out and wrapping themselves around whatever they could find. Whilst Rose and the other two people she was working with (Lucy and Oliver: two Hufflepuffs she only knew by their names) hadn't started attacking the plant yet, it was starting to get a bit restless. Rose beat back a few vines with her secateurs, but the vines only seemed to become more feisty, so she just stepped back out of its reach.

Professor Longbottom began directing them, "Alright everyone, as you all know these Snargaluff plants contain pods that we'll be trying to extract. The vines that some of the plants are starting to display are its main defence. They're quite nasty and will try to eat you, but just beat them back. The pods will be in a hole in the stump. Ok, everyone got their gloves and goggles on? Start retrieving the pods in three... Two... One!"

As if sensing the oncoming attack, the plant instantly sprang to life. Its vines shot out in all directions, one wrapping itself around Oliver's head. Oliver yelped and started clawing at the vine and Lucy beat at it with her secateurs. Rose started grabbing several of the vines and tied them into knots. A hole opened in the middle of the stump. Lucy, who'd managed to remove the vine from Oliver's head, bravely plunged her arm into the hole, which immediately closed tight around her elbow. Oliver and Rose pulled at the vines until the hole released its grip and Lucy could extract her arm, holding a green pod the size of a grapefruit. The moment Lucy had freed her arm, the vines shot back into the plant and disappeared into it, leaving it looking like a dead, gnarled stump again.

Lucy put the pod into a bowl and Rose grabbed her knife and stabbed it. Pale green tubers spilled from the pod, filling the bowl. Around the greenhouse, everyone else had managed to retrieve their pods as well and were now trying to pierce them. Across the room, a student had dropped theirs and the pod was now rolling around the room, making a beeline for the closed door. "Make sure you don't let that pod escape, they can wreak a bit of havoc." Professor Longbottom called to the student chasing the pod.

At the end of their lesson, once they'd taken their bowl up to Professor Longbottom, the class was dismissed. Rose made her way back up to the castle, walking as slowly as possibly to the History of Magic classroom.

Rose arrived moments before the bell rang to signal the start of the lesson. As usual, the ghost teacher, Mr Binns, floated through the blackboard and hovered over to his desk. He began droning on and Rose instantly slipped into a stupor, only half paying attention to the lecture, absentmindedly taking notes.

Halfway through the lesson, Rose noticed a whispered conversation happening behind her. She turned and saw two Ravenclaw girls whispering to each other, a Daily Prophet spread on on their desks.
"What's so interesting about the newspaper?" Rose asked curiously.

"Take a look for yourself." One of the girls said, handing the newspaper over to her.
Rose looked at the front page and gasped, almost dropping the newspaper