Chapter 16
I do not own Harry Potter in any way.
A/N - I'm still going back and forth with what I should do in the end of this story. Lots people want Rosalie to go to Dark Side to be with Draco, but then some want her to side Harry, and some want her to be a double agent like her father. I just don't know, but luckily Rosalie and I still have some time to figure out.
A week later, Draco was walking to class. He passed Dumbledore's office, when the Headmaster stopped him.
"Mr. Malfoy, I was wondering if I could talk to you", Dumbledore said.
"I was on my way to class…" Draco said, hoping to get out of it.
"I will let Professor Binns know that I kept you", Dumbledore said.
Draco sighed and entered his office.
"Please have a seat, Mr. Malfoy", Dumbledore said and Draco did.
"I understand that you and Miss Snape had an argument during class", Dumbledore said.
"Yeah, so?" Draco snapped.
"It would be very wise to make up with Miss Snape. You will find each other leaning on each other very often in the near future", Dumbledore told him.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Draco asked him.
"You will find out soon enough", Dumbledore said.
Draco approached Rosalie later, who was eating lunch with Neville and Ginny.
"What do you want, Malfoy?" Ginny snapped.
"I need to talk to Rosalie", Draco said.
"It's fine, guys", she told them, "What did you want, Draco?"
"I was wondering if maybe you'd like to go to Hogsmeade with me?" he asked her.
Rosalie blushed and said, "I actually already made plans to go with Neville".
"Oh…" Draco said.
"But maybe you could ask Pansy. I'm sure she'd love to go with you", Rosalie said.
"Yeah. I'll go ask Pansy", he said walking off.
"Are you two still not talking?" Neville asked her.
"I don't know", Rosalie said, "He said I was a no good Gryffindor".
"I'm sure he didn't mean it. I mean…Buckbeak did attack him", Neville said.
"He provoked Buckbeak", Rosalie said.
The three heard someone clear their throat.
Rosalie turned and saw Blaise. "Blaise!" Rosalie said. She jumped up and hugged him.
"I was wondering if you'd go to Hogsmeade with me", he said.
"I'd love to Blaise, but I just turned Draco down, because I was planning on going with Neville", Rosalie told him.
"Are you two still fighting?" Blaise asked.
"Not really, but I don't want anything to do with him until he apologizes to me for calling me a no good Gryffindor", Rosalie said.
"Maybe I could talk to him", Blaise said.
"I doubt that would help, but you can try", Rosalie said.
"I'm so glad you asked me to Hogsmeade, Draco!" Pansy said clutching onto Draco's arm.
This had to be punishment for insulting Rosalie.
As they were heading to the carriages, Draco heard Rosalie's giggle. Draco turned to the sound and saw the Weasley twins making Rosalie laugh.
"Come on Drakie", Pansy said.
When they arrived at Hogsmeade, Draco managed to get away from Pansy and met Blaise in the quidditch store.
"Did Rosalie say why she wouldn't talk to me?" Draco asked him.
"She said and I quote 'I don't want anything to do with him until he apologizes to me for calling me a no good Gryffindor'", Blaise told him.
"She said that?" Draco asked softly.
"Mate, just man up and say you're sorry", Blaise said.
Meanwhile, back at Hogwarts, Harry was talking with Professor Lupin. "Before I fainted…I heard something. A woman screaming", Harry told him.
"Dementors force us to relive our worst memories", Lupin said, "Our pain becomes their power".
Mcken…Rosalie had said the same thing that night on the train, so it came as no surprise to Lupin that Harry would have the same reaction.
"I think it was my mother the night she was murdered", Harry said.
"The first time I saw you, Harry, I recognized you immediately. Not by your scar, by your eyes. They're your mother, Lily's", Lupin told him. He'd recognized Rosalie right away too.
She had the eyes of her father, James.
"Oh yes. I knew her. Your mother was there for me at a time when no one else was. Not only was she a singularly gifted witch. She was also an uncommonly kind woman. She had a way of seeing the beauty in others even, and most especially, when that person could not see it in themselves", Lupin explained, "And your father, James, on the other hand; he had a certain, shall we say, talent for trouble. A talent, rumor has it, he passed on to you. You're more like them than you know, Harry". You both are, Lupin thought. "In time, you'll come to see just how much", Lupin told him.
But while Harry took after his father, Lupin could tell Rosalie took after their mother. He had seen the way she was with the Malfoy boy.
She brought out the goodness in him and she loved her Gryffindor friends just as she loved her Slytherin friends.
"Professor, do you know anything about my sister?" Harry asked him. Harry's question shocked Lupin.
"She was the sweetest little girl I had ever met", Lupin told him.
"What happened to her?" Harry asked.
"No one knows", Lupin lied. Lupin wondered how much longer Snape would keep the secret from Rosalie.