A/N - So this is our new chapter. It's not much because both of us have been very busy but I hope you like it.
Now on our last chapter we received an anonymous review saying that this story is unrealistic and should be taken down. I just want to say that we are not going to take this down because we've had lots of good reviews on the last three chapters and one negative comment from someone that is probably just jealous will not put us off.
For the rest of the day, I remained in a foul mood.
I took it out on everybody else too; when a third year accidentally walked into me, I shoved him into the wall. When a seventh year Hufflepuff laughed loudly behind me, I turned round and yelled at her. When I felt somebody stand on the back of my cloak when a large crowd of people were walking up a moving staircase on the way to Defense against the Dark Arts, I turned round but stopped mid-yell;
"What the hell is wrong with you people? Can't you see I'm stood here? Are you that -," Stood behind me was my father and Uncle Harry, with Albus, James, Lily and Hugo behind them.
"Rose, are you alright?" Dad asked me, frowning slightly. I saw my cousins and brother glance at me quickly but when they met my eye, they quickly looked away.
"I'm fine, just sick of people walking into me today." I shrugged and turned back round. For the first in a really long time, I noticed that my Dad wasn't glaring or narrowing his eyes at me.
"What are you doing here?" I asked him, briefly looking over my shoulder.
"Giving a talk to the fifth years, you have DADA next, right? Al says he has that class with the Slytherins?" Dad smiled at me.
"Yeah, I do." I sighed and turned back to Ivy and Vinnie just as the staircase stopped.
"Great, I'll see you there." I heard Dad call over my shoulder.
I didn't reply and followed the other Slytherin's up the stairs.
"What's with your Dad?" Vinnie asked me, I looked to see him staring over my shoulder; following his gaze, I saw it wasn't aimed at my Dad, or even my Uncle.
He was looking at my fourteen year old cousin, Lily.
"Your guess is as good as mine. Maybe he took a spell during a raid or something." I shrugged and made a mental note of the look Vinnie was giving Lily.
As we turned a corner, I took a peak over my shoulder and saw Lily giving a very sly, if-you-didn't-look-for-it-you'd-miss-it wink towards Vinnie.
Lily saw me looking at her and when her smug look turned into a surprised, horrified expression, I couldn't help but smile at the fun I could have with this little scenario.
When we reached the Defense classroom, Professor Steele was stood at the entrance, allowing students to go in.
"Weasley, Goyles, Malfoy, Avery, Warrington." She put her arm over the doorway when the six of us walked up to the door. She allowed Luke Montague and the other Slytherin girls in the class, where I could see several Gryffindor's sat at their seats, but wouldn't let us in.
"I'm not going to be in this lesson, -" She began, giving each of us a very deep look.
"Aww, that's a shame," I mocked dryly.
"- you're being giving a talk by the Head Auror and his deputy, Harry Potter and Ron Weasley." She looked directly at me as she said this.
"Somebody give the girl a gold star!" Scorpius rolled his eyes, making us all snigger.
Professor Steele was the youngest professor in the school; she had only been here since the start of our fourth year.
This meant she was the easiest teacher to wind up.
"Weasley, Malfoy! Enough or I'll take the pair of you to the library to -"
"Oh, Professor! I didn't know you cared! I don't know if you know, but engaging in secret trysts with students is frowned upon!" Scorpius gasped dramatically, putting a hand over his mouth as he did. "And, I have a girlfriend. I'm pretty sure she'd be pretty pissed if I had a session in the library with my Defense teacher." He laughed, making us all laugh loudly.
What made it worse was that my father and uncle had just stepped up to us too, with Albus. James, Lily and Hugo walked onwards, ignoring us.
"Malfoy! One more remark like that and I'll be forced to give you a detention!" Steele hissed, trying her best to regain her composure.
"Ooh, Scorpius! She's trying to get you on your own!" I winked and laughed, making Steele turn her glare to me.
"Detention tonight, Weasley! I'm sure Professor Urquhart won't be happy to know you've already got a detention in your first week!" She told me with a raised eyebrow.
"I'm sure I won't care." I shrugged with a raised eyebrow of my own.
"Rose!" Dad hissed, making me shrug once more. "Professor, we can handle it from here. They'll give us no problems." He assured Steele, who looked at each of us 'bad students' once before she turned back to my dad and uncle.
"I'll be in the staff room if you need me. Goyles, Weasley, Malfoy, Avery, Warrington; I've warned you." She attempted to sound stern, but in reality she sounded like a little girl who was trying to be impressive.
"Well, not really," Scorpius pointed out with an amused grin.
"You'll be joining Weasley tonight, Malfoy." Steele snapped before she stormed away.
"In." Uncle Harry nodded, making me roll my eyes as he sounded stern.
I made my way to my usual seat, in between Luke and Ivy at the back of the class when my Dad shook his head and got his wand out.
"Take your books, a quill, ink and some parchment out. Then come stand in the center of the room." He instructed the class.
"Why?" I demanded, frowning.
Normally during their talks, my father and uncle just lectured the class as they took notes.
"Because I said so." Dad shrugged back at me. I scowled but did as he said as my friends snickered lightly.
It took only a couple of minutes for the class to get their instructed items and to go stand in the middle of the classroom. Once everybody was there, Dad waved his wand round the room, sending the tables zooming to the walls and the chairs to face each other, evenly divided in two opposite lines with a large space between them.
"Today we are going to be dueling;" Uncle Harry told the class, straight away the entire atmosphere changed. Instead of boredom, excitement filled the room.
Since when did Slytherin's and Gryffindor's miss a chance to hex each other?
"But first, we're going to split you into two different groups." He finished, he walked over to the desk and pointed his wand at two pieces of parchment. They rose into the air and evenly ripped themselves apart.
"These have numbers on, one and two. If you choose a one, go sit on the left. If you get choose a two, go sit on the right. The people you sit with are your team members; I'll explain more when everybody is seated. Form a line and go select a piece of parchment from the air." Dad told the class as the parchment finished ripping and hovered in the air, blank side facing us.
Amy Wilson, the first in the queue, walked ahead confidently and grabbed a random piece of parchment out of the air. She looked at it once and went to sit on the left side.
Eventually everybody was sorted.
I got a number two and went to sit on the right with Scorpius, Danny, Bella, Dominique, Albus, the Gryffindor's Milly Lott, Parker Henderson, Janine Martins and Craig Lambert.
Ivy was sat on the left side with her brother, Logan, Luke, Janey, Emily, Amy, Roxanne and the Gryffindor's Adam Goldstein and Billy Pearce.
"Right, now, the aim of today's lesson is to win." Uncle Harry nodded to the class; most of them looked a little confused so he carried on slowly. "You'll duel somebody from the opposite side and the more times a member of your team wins, the more points your team gets."
"The team with the highest points gets a slab oh Honey dukes chocolate for each team member." Dad smiled at us, meeting my eye briefly.
I knew without a doubt that the slab of chocolate would be the mint flavored one I absolutely loved.
"So basically, we duel, we win, we get chocolate?" I asked bluntly.
"That's the gist of it yes, but there's something else. For team one, I'll be the judge." Uncle Harry nodded and smiled at me briefly before he looked at the rest of the class.
"Team two will have Auror. Weasley. We'll be watching for how each team member's duel, we'll score you in secret and announce the winner when the last couple finish. You each have five minutes to duel - no harmful curses or hexes! Any harmful spells and the performer will be in front of their head of house before they can say 'Expilliarmus.'" He warned, looking at direct members of the class as he did.
I saw him look at Vinnie, Ivy, Logan, Danny, myself, Roxanne, Albus, Scorpius, Amy and for some reason, the Parker Henderson kid.
"Who's dueling who?" Amy Wilson asked, looking directly at me as she said it.
I met her gaze with one of my own, with a sardonic smile to match.
"Everybody write their name on the back of the numbered parchment. We'll pick a number one at random and a number two at random." Dad cleared his throat, making Amy look away.
I didn't look away from her though; I continued to smile at her.
My grin got so wide I showed my teeth when she fidgeted uncomfortably in her seat a couple of minutes later.
"Why did we have to bring a quill, ink, parchment and a book?" Emily asked, frowning at the materials in her lap.
"To take notes, we're assigning homework, an essay on the skills used in dueling. Professor Steele assigned it so it is compulsory, by everybody." Dad told the class, looking at me for a second.
I snorted quietly, loud enough for him to hear, and just looked at my lap. Uncle Harry quickly walked round and took the parchment with the numbers and names from everybody and conjured up a traditional British top-hat to put them in.
"Alright, first up are...Luke Montague and Parker Henderson." Uncle Harry called out when he and Dad both picked a name out at random.
I saw the Gryffindor's opposite me all sit straighter and look at one another when Parker whipped his wand out and stood straight, a slight smile on his face.
As one, each Slytherin looked at Luke; out of all of us, he was the quietest and by far the well behaved. He and Emily were the two students in Slytherin who had the best behavior, so it was them who got the Prefect badge.
Luke was also the tamest boy I know. He didn't like confrontation; he didn't like to hurt people.
Judging by the looks that the Gryffindor's were shooting Parker Henderson, he did.
I shared a quick look with Scorpius on my right and Danny on my left, both of them were looking a little apprehensive.
I certainly did not trust the smug look on Amy Wilson's face.
"Wands at the ready," Dad called out clearly.
Parker Henderson moved his wand so fast it was like a blur in the air.
Poor Luke wouldn't stand a chance.
"Three, two, one...begin!" Uncle Harry nodded his head, Luke opened his mouth to fire a curse, but Parker was too quick;
"Rictusempra!" Parker yelled, pointing his wand right in Luke's face.
We all flinched when we saw the jet of light hit Luke right on the nose, and then heard him laugh uncontrollably.
For about a minute straight, we all sat and watched as Luke laughed while Parker smirked and shook his head at him. The Gryffindor's laughed, Dad and Uncle Harry both looked amused as they conversed quietly, the Slytherin's either glared at the Gryffindor's or they looked at Luke like they wanted to help him.
"Screw this," I whispered so only Danny and Scorpius could hear me.
Since I always kept my wand up my sleeve, I was able to extract it by just enough that not everybody would be able to see.
My Dad and uncle didn't see it, Parker didn't see it, none of the Gryffindor's saw it either. A couple of Slytherin's saw it, but Slytherin's never snitch on one another, even if we hate the other person.
In this case, when Janey saw my wand tip pointing out of my sleeve, she just turned her head.
"Rennervate," My spell hit Luke, but since that spell didn't have a sound or a jet of light, nobody noticed.
Parker realized too late that Luke wasn't laughing any longer and by the time he did realize, Luke had turned his wand on him.
"Densaugeo!" This time the Slytherin's laughed as Parkers teeth started growing quickly.
Parker retaliated though, and pretty soon the two of them were just firing hexes at each other. Eventually, we all got bored.
It was only when Luke started throwing up slugs, did my Dad eventually stop the duel.
I think every Gryffindor, including Parker, was impressed with Luke's dueling abilities.
I know for a fact that every Slytherin wasn't impressed with Parker's.
"Let's see how Henderson feels when he goes up against people who actually know what they're doing?" Scorpius muttered so only Danny and I could hear. I laughed and agreed when I saw Parker sit down and start to brag about how easy it was to duel a 'slimy snake.'
"Dominique and Emily?" Uncle Harry called out, smiling as Dominique stood up.
On the outside, I wanted Emily to win.
On the inside, and because Emily was second to Janey in the little battle we had going on, I wanted Dominique to crush her. To humiliate her.
And she did just that; before Emily had a chance to open her mouth, Dominique was firing jinx after jinx at her.
Since Aunt Fleur took her children to France for half the holidays every time they went home, they all spoke fluent French, this turned out to be an advantage for Dominique because nobody understood the French jinxes she was firing towards Emily.
Emily tried to give as she got though, and when she realized that Dominique could easily bat away a jinx with her own wand, she did the smart thing and aimed for her feet. I realized that was a bad move as soon as she changed her wand direction; Dominique loved to dance, she was the best dancer I knew and whenever Emily shot at her feet, Dominique simply danced away from it.
Dad ended the duel when Dominique turned the green and silver of Emily's uniform, red and gold.
"Blondie got attitude." Danny laughed and grinned towards Dominique.
First Scorpius and Roxanne, then Vinnie and Lily, and now Danny and Dominique. What is it about my family that my friends find appealing?
"Alright, now you may think we're being bias, but that was some good wand and foot work, Dom. I hope to see your application in two years." Uncle Harry nodded to his favorite niece.
"You know it!" Dominique laughed.
"Blondie, an auror?" I whispered to Scorpius and Danny, loud enough that it carried out over the room. "All her hits will have to do it blow in her ear and everything will be forgotten." I laughed, making Scorpius and Danny laugh too. I saw Ivy and Vinnie grin, they heard me too.
"Well, Miss-I'm-Better-Than-Everybody-Else," Dad called across the room to me, making several of the Gryffindor's laugh, "let's see how you do. You and Janey Parkinson are up." He held two pieces of parchment up and smirked.
I smiled and stood quickly from my seat, pulling my wand out of my sleeve and shrugging out of my robe so I my arms were more free to move around. I preferred wearing my school uniform without the robe, but I followed some rules.
I saw the other students, both houses, glance apprehensively at one another; Janey's muggle jokes were known around the school.
According to Scorpius, who heard it from Roxanne, James and Fred were waiting for her to make a muggle joke to Hugo before they confronted her for it.
I laughed when I heard that, James and Fred couldn't scare a Hufflepuff, never mind Janey Parkinson.
They laughed at that.
Emily and Bella were smiling at Janey, but she wasn't looking at them, she was just looking at me with a blank expression.
I just smiled at her and went to stand at the bottom of the space between the two rows of chairs.
"Remember, no harmful spells." Uncle Harry reminded us needlessly. "Three, two, one, begin!"
I raised my wand but didn't say anything.
I wanted Janey to make the first move.
Janey didn't say anything herself for a minute, and just when people were frowning at each other and Uncle Harry was going to say something, she whipped her wand through the air and yelled a spell I didn't know at me.
I just smirked and barely moved my head to dodge it. She fired another one, but this time I had to jump out of the way to avoid it.
"What - is - wrong - with - you?" She snarled, firing the same jinx under her breath at me with every word. "Why aren't you fighting back?" Janey fired one last, heavy curse at me, and if I hadn't have moved the force alone would have sent my flying into the wall.
"Come on you muggle! Fight back!"
I smirked as she did what I expected. I flicked her second curse away from me and watched the blood drain from her face as I stood straighter, put my right arm out protectively and met her gaze.
"Alright, I will," I smiled and laughed as she looked a little panicked. I didn't laugh for that though, I laughed because she said it, she seemed to provoke me.
I could do anything and get away with it in the next few minutes.
"Ascendio!" I hissed, hitting her square in the chest. I watched as she flew into the air quickly.
"Aresto Momentum!" I yelled, hitting her with the spell, I laughed as she slowly fell back to the ground, nowhere near hard enough to hurt herself.
"Anteoculatia," I heard several people gasp at me doing a seventh year jinx. Causing an oponents hair to shrink back into their skull and then to spout antlers isn't something a regular fifteen year old should be able to do.
"Avis," A flock of bright yellow canaries appeared out the end of my wand. A sixth year spell.
"Oppugno," I aimed them at her head and I smiled as she screamed at the sight of the attacking birds and the sixth or seventh year spell.
Instead of them attacking her, the birds landed on her newly formed antlers and because I wanted them too, they lifted their tail feathers and proceeded to relieve themselves down her bald head, her face and down her neck so it ran down her back.
"You're covered in shit, pure-blood, here; Aqua Eructo!" I smirked as her eyes briefly widened at me doing a .T. level charm, most seventh years struggled with Aguamenti, never mind Aqua Eructo, which was making a jet of water come from the end of your wand, but keeping complete control over it.
Once I was satisfied, I flicked my wand, ending the charm.
"Listen closely, Parkinson because I am sick of saying this; I am not a muggle. I am a half-blood and proud. My mother is a muggle-born and she's proud to be one. My father is a pure-blood and he is proud to be married to a mudblood. Blood prejudice died out years ago. If I was a filthy muggle, I wouldn't be able to humiliate you like I just did." I sneered in her face, loud enough for the entire class to hear me.
For a minute, she just stayed on the floor, antlers still on her head, birds still swaying on her antlers, bird droppings still on her face, but then she seemed to regain herself and she ran from the room, leaving behind her bag and cloak.
I turned to my Dad and Uncle Harry, expecting to be yelled at, but they both looked at me strangely...was that a hint of pride I saw in their eyes?
"Take your seat, Rose." Dad cleared his throat and nodded to my chair. I nodded once, put my wand back up my sleeve and sat in-between a silent Scorpius and Danny.
"Alright," Uncle Harry cleared his throat after a couple minutes silence, "Vincent Goyle and Mark Lambert."
That evening, after Scorpius and I got back from our detention, Ivy, Vinnie and I were sat in the common room with Scorpius, Danny, Luke and Logan. Scorpius, I and Danny ate our slabs of mint-chocolate smugly in front of everybody. Nobody mentioned what happened in DADA, except Scorpius when he came back from having Dinner with Roxanne and he only said that the tale that I embarrassed and humiliated Janey Parkinson in front of not only her classmates, but Harry Potter himself, was being carried through the school.
I shrugged and carried on painting Ivy's toenails.
Janey and her followers were in the library, no doubt hiding away from us all. We were talking about the upcoming weekend and what we could do when I noticed a little first year hovering behind the leather sofa on which Vinnie, Danny and Luke were sprawled. I stopped talking and caught the young boy's eye. He visibly gulped and stood still. As I stopped talking everyone else did and all moved to look in the direction I was. Under the gaze of seven older Slytherin's the boy actually started to shake. Logan next to me started to laugh but I shoved him with my shoulder telling him to be quiet.
"Are you stood there for a reason kid? I asked trying hard not to snap.
"Yes...um, I have a message for Rose Weasley." He stammered his dark eyes flicking from one of us to the next.
"Well?" I pressured him, getting impatient.
"Head Mistress McGonagall would like to see you." He replied quickly and quietly his eyes finally falling on me. I frowned and groaned, thinking that the story had reached the headmistresses ears and I was to be sent home again.
"Now?" this time I did snap. The boy simply nodded before nearly running off towards the boy's dorms.
I groaned again before getting up and kicking Vinnie's legs so he would let me pass between the sofa and coffee table.
"I'll see you guys later." I told them before picking up my wand from the table and strolling out the room.
The corridors were pretty deserted, with only a couple of prefects patrolling, the two sets I saw, the Gryffindor seventh years and the Hufflepuff sixth years, both ignored me so I ignored them. It was only about an hour after dinner so everyone was either in their common rooms finishing of homework and chatting with their friends before bed or in the library.
The stone walls and floors were freezing and almost no heat was being emitted from the floating candles so I soon found myself shivering slightly and pulling my cardigan tighter around my torso, slightly regretting not bringing my robe or cloak with me.
I walked the familiar route through the castle until I reached the penultimate floor and spotted the statue of the phoenix at the end of the corridor. I climbed inside the little cave and stood still as the spiral staircase started to move up on its own accord like always. As the spiral staircase moved, I pictured the old griffin that my parents said used to protect the Head teachers quarters and wondered what that was like.
Was it as frightening and intimidating as the phoenix statue was when it was first seen?
When the sound of stone grinding together came to a stop, I climbed the steep spiral easily and knocked once at the door at the top. I didn't wait for an answer and instead just walked straight in.
McGonagall was at her large desk with a quill in her hand, she looked up as I walked in her cat like eyes instantly falling on me.
"Ahh Rose, I've been expecting you." She told me putting down her posh quill and leaning back in her chair.
"Yeah, yeah, what have I done this time?" I asked in a bored tone, slipping into my usual chair in front of her.
"It's not a question of what you have done but what you have already done." She replied confusing me with one of her many riddles.
"As you know you were recently suspended -" She carried on when I just stared at her.
"Well yeah, it's hard to forget when everyone keeps bloody reminding me!" I snapped getting frustrated.
"Now Rose remember you are still walking on a very thin line so anymore cheek like that and you could be suspended again." McGonagall told me sternly. I frowned.
"What is this about professor?" I asked swapping back to my bored tone.
"I've just been looking at your records and it seems that despite being an incessant trouble maker and spending more time in detention than in class you still manage to get perfect grades." She explained to me. I could see that she was trying to hide how impressed she was and that made me smirk. I shrugged.
"It's the stupid Weasley genes Prof, as much as I try I can't fail in my studies." I told her leaning back and putting my arms behind my head.
"Well I want you to put those genes to good use for once and as a punishment for your suspension I want you to tutor a group of students that are struggling in Potions." McGonagall told me firmly. My smile literally fell off my face.
"And it seems those famous genes you talk about don't apply to all Weasley's since you will in fact be tutoring your cousins Dominique and Roxanne in this group." She carried on. My face morphed into shock. Who would have thought little miss perfect Dom and Daddies little girl Roxy would be tutored by the family outcast. My shock finally faded as I realized the fun I could get out of this.
My headmistress looked surprised as I smiled widely and nodded my agreement at her.
"You're not refusing?" She asked, thoroughly shocked. I shook my head and carried on smirking.
"Very well then, your first session with them will be held on a Monday evening in the library. I will owl a list of all attendants to you." she finished and I got up. As I reached the door I heard her call out once more.
"Rose, I'm trusting you with this. Don't mess it up." She said desperately. I nodded once more before pulling open the door and hurrying down the stairs two at a time. I needed to get back to the common room and discuss this with Ivy. Having control over Dominique and Roxanne is definitely going to be fun, I just need to figure out what to do.
I gave the stonewall the password and hurried into the common room. My group of friends were still sat around the sofas. Somebody had obviously gone to the kitchens for a bag of marshmallows because several dozen of them were floating above the fire, toasting. As I walked over to the closest sofa, the one Scorpius, Vinnie and Ivy were sat on; I snatched one out of the air as it glided over to its owner.
"Hey! Oh, hey Rose." Scorpius stopped mid yell and smirked at me. I sprawled across the arm and smiled at everybody.
"What did old Minnie want?" Logan asked as he grabbed his marshmallow out of the air, instead of eating it he launched it towards a couple of second years in the corner. Judging by the scream a couple of seconds later, he made the shot.
"Well, since I'm a natural genius and just fantastic in general, she wants me to tutor a group of students who are failing potions. Part of my 'road to recovery,'" I put on a stuck up Scottish accent, which made the others laugh.
"It gets better, guess who's in the group?" I smirked at them as they all looked at me with eager expressions.
"Foxy and Blondie!" I laughed, making the others all roar with laughter.
Apart from Scorpius, he just sighed and looked at me.
"Rose, stop calling her that!" He groaned and fell back on the sofa, resting his head against back of it. "She needs help in Potions, so does Dominique. Serious help, Longbottom was saying that if Roxy doesn't pull her grade up he'll take her off the team." Scorpius sighed, looking towards me.
"Why didn't you help her?" Logan asked Scorpius, who smirked and looked a little too pleased with himself.
"Every time I tried we got a little distracted." Scorpius winked at the boys as Ivy and I groaned in disgust.
"This one time, we were in her common room and were going over the notes for Polyjuice and she literally pounced on me! I was convinced we were going to bang right there and then but her brother saw and practically dragged me away from her." He laughed and gave a smug look at the others.
Pretty soon, it turned into a regular boy competition on who's got further with a girl.
"Come on," Ivy muttered as she stood up, hitting her brother on the head when he started telling the story of how he managed to slip his hand up Demi Jackson's skirt.
"So, what's the plan?" Ivy asked as soon as we were in the dormitory. We both walked over to our own beds and began dressing for bed.
"Well, I was thinking I just basically tutor them in potions...I just make sure they can't understand what I'm saying." I grinned at her. She rolled her eyes and smiled too.
The weekend past in a blur, we all mainly just hung around in the common room and the Quidditch team had a practice on Sunday, but since McGonogall gave me the news of my new role, I was eager for Monday.
At breakfast I sat and waited for the post. As soon as I saw one of the school owls head towards me, I grinned and nudged Ivy.
"Who's on your hit list then?" Ivy mumbled around her mouthful of toast.
Instead of answering her, I ripped the letter open and leaned over so she could read it,
Miss. Weasley, here is the list of students that have been put forward for tutoring sessions. I will leave it to you to organize a date and time;
Dominique Weasley - Fifth year Gryffindor
Roxanne Weasley - Fifth year Gryffindor
Craig Lambert - Fifth year Gryffindor
Rihannon Lexis - Fifth year Hufflepuff
Tia Dobbins - Fifth year Hufflepuff
Christian Everdeen - Fifth year Ravenclaw
Lysander Scamander - Sixth year Ravenclaw - he failed his O.W.L. and is sitting a re-sit this coming year. He has agreed to attend the tutoring sessions.
Professor. M. McGonogall, Headmistress.
"Blondie, Foxy, Lambert, no surprise there." Ivy muttered as she looked over the list.
"Rihannon Lexis is alright enough, she came to a party over the summer, remember? She was a laugh. Tia Dobbin! Ha, ask her about her broom! Chris Everdeen, wow, make sure you mention me!" Ivy nudged me excitedly at the sight of Christian's name.
I rolled my eyes and shook my head at her crush on him; he didn't even know she existed.
"Lysander Scamander? Which one is he?" Ivy asked as she saw the last name. I looked toward the Ravenclaw table where Lysander was sat with his brother and their friends.
As usual, Lorcan was sat with a group of girls and was shamelessly flirting with all of them. Lysander was sat with the boys and laughing over something.
"The one with the ear piercing." I pointed the little metal hoop hanging out of Lysanders' ear.
I smiled as I remembered last Christmas when he came to the Burrow slightly tipsy with that in his ear. His mother nearly had a heart attack.
"I'm here!" Lysander shouted out to the entire kitchen. I looked up from my magazine and smirked when he stumbled in through the living room door. Ivy had left a couple of hours ago and I was all alone; as usual my cousins and I ignored each other, the adults ignored me and Lysander wasn't here to entertain me.
"Lysander Scamander! What time do you call this?" Luna scolded as Lysander came and fell into the chair beside me.
"It is," He winked at his mother and rolled his sleeve up to check his watch, "eight fifteen! I'm early!" He grinned and laughed.
"It's Christmas eve! You weren't supposed to go out and..." She froze for a second as she saw the light reflect of the new silver hoop in his ear.
"WHAT IS THAT?" Luna screeched so loudly several people jumped.
I laughed as the memories of Lysander and Luna screaming at each other came to mind.
"Ly is the cooler twin, Lorcan sleeps around and thinks he's all that." I smiled as I stood up.
"Where are you going?" Ivy questioned as I picked my bag and cloak up.
"To tease some kittens." I winked and walked away before she had a chance.
I saw the people from the three house tables give me curious looks as I made my way over to the Gryffindor table; I've never been at that table before.
As I got nearer I noted that if I'd gotten sorted into Gryffindor with my family, nobody would be giving me death glares.
I shook that thought away from me as I came up to the Gryffindor table.
As always, my family were sat together.
Scorpius was sat with Roxanne, which he sometimes did. What surprised me was seeing Vinnie sat with him.
"Hey boys," I smiled as I sat on the bench beside Vinnie, I ignored Fred giving me a small glare as I lightly touched him when I sat next to him.
"What do you want, Rose?" Scorpius asked quietly, looking wary.
"Just delivering a message." I shrugged innocently, leaning over to take a slice of toast from his plate.
"Foxy, Blondie, your first tutoring session is tonight, six o'clock, potions room." I smirked and spoke loudly so half the table heard.
"You too Lambert!" I called down the table, this time loud enough so the whole table heard me.
"Potions classroom, six o'clock! Don't be late or I'll give you lines!" I teased and sent him a wink, which made his girlfriend; Janine Martins give me a death glare.
"You are our tutor?" Dominique hissed, glaring at me so strongly I expected every piece of glass in the castle to shatter.
"Yup," I popped the 'p' and smiled innocently, "even with me being a little bit naughty, I'm the best in the school at potions. Part of me setting my record clean is tutoring students who are in desperate need of help." I leant over the table to grab the knife out of Hugo's hand. I used it to scrape the last bit of jam out of the jar in James' hand and spread it on my slice of toast.
"Come on boys, we're going to be late for Transfigurations. I want to speak to a few Hufflepuff's before the lesson starts." I looked at Scorpius and Vinnie, both of whom were trying hard to keep their amused grins from their face.
"You know what's interesting?" I turned back to the family and looked at each of their annoyed faces before I carried on, "You lot trash the Slytherin's for being wasters and just generally bad people...yet none of us need educational hand outs from a pussy cat." I smirked once more before I looked at Scorpius and Vinnie again,
"Your sister is waiting, come on." I smirked as they both stood from the table.
The Gryffindor's were too shocked to say anything.
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