Year 7
Rose was engrossed in her NEWT level Astronomy revision when a head appeared in the Head Dorm fireplace. It was Hermione Weasley. Rose didn't notice her at first, not until she heard her mother call out, "Rose."
Rose beckoned for her to enter without looking as she began to pack away. The fireplace flared green and a slightly sooty Hermione emerged. She cast a quick Cleaning Charm and removed her robe. She disappeared in the kitchen and reappeared a few minutes later with a pot of tea and two mugs. Rose finished packing her work away and joined her mother on the sofa. After a couple of minutes Hermione spoke. "So… Scorpius Malfoy. You've been dating for, what, three years now? How come your father and I have never met him? It's Easter soon, why don't you invite him over?"
Rose just sat there being bombarded by questions, not being able to get a word in edgeways (or was it sideways). Eventually, when the tea had gone cold and her mother ceased talking at her Rose nodded and replied with "Sure, why not! I'll ask him later!" Satisfied with this answer Hermione got up, gathered her robes and Flooed out of Hogwarts.
Later that night, Rose and Scorpius were huddled on the sofa watching a Muggle programme on the television that had been installed. Rose poked him in the side and then told him the news. He laughed at the beginning but at the serious look on her face he fell silent. After being promised that her father would not tear him to shreds he dubiously agreed.
On the week leading up to the Easter holidays, Rose noticed that Scorpius was beginning to panic so she invited family members over to get Scorpius more used to her family. Victoire and Teddy had tea with them on Monday; Hugo, Albus and Lily hung around with them on Tuesday; they met up with Fred and Roxanne in Hogsmeade on Wednesday; Dominique and Alex visited them briefly on Thursday to announce their engagement; and on Friday Molly, Percy's daughter, came to offer moral support.
Only Molly's visit seemed to really calm Scorpius down, after all Percy was the most uptight of the Weasley clan and when she introduced her boyfriend, Potions student, Reuben to her family it all went splendidly.
The first day of the Easter holidays dawned and Rose was awoken by a sharp rapping at the door to her room in the Head Dorms. Before she even opened her eyes and invited the knocker in she knew it was Scorpius. She could sense the panic behind the knocking and that set her on edge. She called out "Come in!" and Scorpius entered. He looked at her neatly packed suitcases, ready by the door, open and waiting for the very last items to be remembered and put in them. He then perched himself on the end of her bed while Rose got out of bed and fluttered around her room checking and double-checking that she had everything. He left to check all his bags, which weren't half as neat as Rose's, allowing Rose to get dressed, calm herself down and gather her thoughts.
When it was time to leave Hogwarts, Scorpius seemed more distant and distracted than before. Rose just thought he was worrying about meeting her parents but even being surrounded by the family members of hers that he had become friends with couldn't shake him out of it. The train ride was awkward with everyone talking about them and placing bets on how Uncle Ron would react. This made Rose wonder what her father's attitude to Scorpius would really be. I mean, sure, her mum seemed okay with it but Hermione was always the more reasonable of her parents, Ron was the more protective and defensive one.
As the train pulled into Platform 9 and ¾ Rose looked out of the compartment window trying to catch a glimpse of her parents to gauge their moods. She panicked, however, when she saw her mother deep in conversation with Astoria Greengrass and her father stonily ignoring Scorpius's father. Scorpius grabbed his and her bags and together they rushed out onto the platform, being carried along by a tidal wave of students all attempting to find their parents. Scorpius and Rose walked towards their parents holding hands which Hermione and Astoria noticed immediately and began squawking with happiness and cuteness overload. Draco and Ron disapprovingly glared at them. They quickly reached their parents and went their separate ways. The plan was for Scorpius to go home for the night and then come round for dinner on the Sunday.
On Sunday morning Scorpius woke up really early, far earlier than necessary. He got dressed and went down for his breakfast. He ate slowly whilst reading the paper and then rushed upstairs to avoid being confronted by his parents. God, it was going to be torture for the next week, for no particular reason. He holed himself up in his room until lunch when he had to go and eat with his parents but he avoided all conversation, deflecting it to schoolwork and job plans and things like that. He began to panic about half an hour before it was time to leave, which wasn't helped by his father talking to him about his first meeting with the Greengrass family. However, only after seeing his only child pale in absolute fear did he reassure him that this would be a lot less formal with Ron not being particularly educated in the Pure-Blood way and Hermione being from a Muggle family. As he stepped into the Floo both his parents wished him luck and told him to make a good impression.
Rose's day went slightly differently… She woke up late after staying up to catch up with her family finally meeting Reuben and James's girlfriend Lexy. She rushed downstairs and after quickly gulping cereal down she rushed back upstairs to get her cleaning clothes on. She spent the morning cleaning the whole house from top to bottom, helped by her mother, but not from her lazy brother and father. Hugo spent the morning sat on the sofa staring dreamily at the ceiling, not doing much. That changed in the afternoon when Albus came round to get him out of the house and drag him around to the Potter house to play Quidditch and stay overnight. When he had gone she helped her mother prepare the food, lay the table and then she rushed upstairs to get changed into something more suitable for Sunday dinner with her parents and boyfriend. She had just reached the bottom of the stairs when the Floo flared into life.
Scorpius stepped out of the Floo and immediately went over to Rose. They hugged and started chatting about their holiday plans and after a couple of minutes Ron was shoved out of the kitchen by a laughing Hermione which promptly stopped all conversation in its tracks. He saw them and awkwardly said "Hello Mr Weasley. Mrs Weasley." Unfortunately, no-one knew how to continue the conversation after this point so they all stood there looking at each other until the timer went off. Hermione dragged Rose into the kitchen and Ron and Scorpius sat down at the table. Ron sat at the head of the table and Scorpius sat on his left. Hermione and Rose brought the food out and then sat down, Hermione opposite Ron mouthing "Behave.", and Rose opposite Scorpius, who at this point was looking extremely nervous.
They started eating in silence, eyes flitting to each other and then back to their plates. Hermione finally started speaking to Rose about N.E.W.T.S but soon the conversation turned to the relationship between the two teenagers seated opposite each other. It was rather like a police interrogation, Ron being the bad cop and Hermione acting as the good cop. After hours of defending his intentions; promising to look after Rose; and promising his parents, mainly his dad, have changed, they retired into the living room.
After another couple of minutes of awkward silence, Rose got up and put on the Wireless. She also got out some board games including Wizarding Chess and Frustration. She sat on the floor and motioned to the other people in the room to join her. A couple of hours later it was time for Scorpius to leave and the evening had gone well. Ron seemed on side and Hermione had been proven right. As the Floo flared into life Scorpius hugged Rose, whispered "I love you" in her ear and then stepped into the fire disappearing before her eyes. She ran into the kitchen, kissed her parents on the cheek, hugged them and then ran up the stairs to get changed and read a book. On her own in her room she grabbed her IPod put on some jazzy tunes, put some comfy clothes and settled down on her bed.
A sharp rapping on her bedroom window awoke her from her reading reverie so she got up to let the bird in. As it flew around her bedroom, she opened her bedside drawer and got her owls treats out. At this the Malfoy family eagle stopped flying and dropped the letter next to her. She opened the letter and ran down the stairs. "Mum! Dad! The Malfoy's have invited me for dinner next Saturday! I need to reply! What do I do?" Hermione and Ron looked at her like she was stupid, made a shooing motion at her and nodded as if to say 'Go obviously. What else would you do?' She ran back up the stairs taking them two or three at a time before grabbing a piece of parchment and replying. She sent her reply with Aquila and slumped down in her chair.
That had been one hectic day.