39Her Messed up Life
Chapter 3
Stalker's Letter
And as the weeks passed, Rose focused on one thing, and that was beating everyone else in everything. Of course that wasn't exactly easy with Scorpius annoying her all the time.
"Wingardium Leviosa," Rose swished her wand and pointed it at the spoon she was eating with in the great hall one day. The spoon rose up in the air and started spinning around under Rose's command. She smiled to herself, she was getting good at this, and the looks of awe on her classmates' faces made everything better.
"Wow! Rosie made the spoon dance!" came Scorpius's mocking voice from behind her, she spun around in her seat and glared at him.
"Seriously, I want to know why mum and dad didn't disinherit you," he smirked as he sat next to her.
"What are you doing here, Scorpius?" Rose said raising her eyebrow "this is the Gryffindor table,"
"Correction, this is the Gryffindork table," Scorpius retorted mockingly.
"Then why don't you leave, oh great Slytherin?" Rose rolled her eyes.
"Leave her alone already, dude," James Potter, who was sitting next to Rose, said.
And then the bell rang, all the students got up and started going to their classes. James put a bagel in his bag, stood up, and ruffled his hair.
"Seriously, James, that's not gonna get the girls to like you," Albus stated as he, too, got up "and what's with the bagel?"
"I need something to entertain me, I got history now,"
"Listening would be a good idea," Rose rolled her eyes.
"Listening?" James stared at Rose in awe "now what fun is that?"
"If you listened, you'd probably get through your exams,"
"We're gonna have exams this year too?"
"James, you're maniac," Albus said and started walking out.
"I'm not a maniac!" James ran after Albus. "Oh that Malfoy girl! She reminds me a lot of aunt Hermione,"
"Oh really?" Albus replied sarcastically.
"What's with the sarcasm?"
"Well, if you haven't noticed yet, I've been trying to tell you, that Rose girl is our cousin!"
"Why won't you let that go, bro? Hey that rhymes!"
"Because it's really obvious," Albus stopped and looked at James "the attitude, the brains, and the Weasley's red hair!"
"What does hair have to do with anything?"
"Ok, forget the hair, how many Malfoys have you seen that got into Gryffindor?"
"Rose and...that's about it,"
"Exactly, Malfoys were bad people; do you consider Rose a bad person?"
"I don't know, I've only known her for a couple of weeks, but now that you did mention it, it is sort of odd,"
"Yeah, I know,"
"Hey wait! You're a first year, aren't you?"
"You just noticed!" Albus bellowed.
"Hey, I have a weak memory,"
"And memorizing the name of every girl in the school, and all the secret passages that lead you away from the school isn't hard for your weak memory?"
"Aw shut up!"
"What ever, so, now that you have finally had the honor of knowing I'm in my first year, what are we going to do?"
"Well, for starters, you're gonna stalk Rose!" James said happily.
"I'm gonna what?"
"Stalk the Malfoy girl,"
"I heard you the first time!"
"So, what do you think?"
"It's a lousy and stupid idea! Count me in!" Albus grinned.
"That's my brother! Now, get that thing off of your shirt,"
"What thing?" Albus looked at his shirt.
"Nothing," James grinned, hit the back of Albus's head and left.
"Git," Albus said, annoyed, as he walked to Herbology.
After Herbology Albus watched Rose get her bag and head off to the Quidditch field, they were going to have their first flying lesson today, but sadly, it was going to be with the Slytherins. Albus walked slowly behind Rose, without making a word so she wouldn't know he was following her, and hid behind a bush whenever she looked behind her.
"What are you doing?" Ashton Ross raised his eyebrow as he saw Albus walking in an awkward way.
"Stalking Malfoy,"
"And why are you stalking him?"
"Not Scorpius! I mean Rose!"
"Oh, so, why are you stalking her?"
"Why do you want to know?"
"Just curious, anyways, if you want to stalk her, you could just walk normally,"
"And let her find out!"
"well, you're in her class, so obviously, if you walk regularly, no one would get suspicious, and they'll think that you're going to class," Ash stated.
"Oh, good point," Albus straightened himself and walked casually behind the rest, whistling a strange tune.
"The whistling's a dead give away,"
"Oh," Albus stopped whistling.
The pair of them reached the Quidditch field and were greeted by Slytherins
"Hello there losers," said Annie Duckny.
"Hey, Potter, why do you have four eyes?" Matt Retell smirked, the group of girls surrounding him bursting with laughter.
"Leave him alone you idiots," said Ash bravely.
"Shut u mud blood," sneered Jackson Heartno.
"Who are you to call someone a mu-" Albus yelled but was cut off midsentence.
"Now all of you be quiet," came a witch in her thirties towards the group of Slytherins and Gryffindors. "We are here to learn how to fly; fighting would be in Defense against the Dark Arts,"
Murmurs of objection came from the Slytherins as all of them looked at the witch.
"Now I am Madame Flew, your flying professor and the one in charge of Quidditch matches.
"James told me she wasn't very nice," whispered Albus to Ash.
"Don't judge a person by what other people tell you," whispered Rose from Albus's other side.
"Be quiet goody two shoes,"
Rose sighed.
"Now, I want every one of you to stand next to a broom and say 'up'," ordered Madame Flew.
"These brooms are old and stupid," Albus heard Scorpius sneer from in front of him.
"That boy thinks he's all that," Ash rolled his eyes "he's nothing really,"
"That boy would be my brother, if you haven't noticed, Ross, I thought I introduced you to each other after we got off the train," Rose growled.
"Oh yeah, sorry, 'bout that,"
"You gotta admit, Rose, your brother," he sneered as he said his name "Scorpius, is a real git,"
"Hmph!" Rose picked up her broom, and walked over to where her dorm mates Lisa Hounder and Minnie Cross were standing.
"That girl has quite a temper," Ash said.
"Yeah, she does," Albus agreed. He looked at his broom "up!" the broom hovered in the air a little, and then fell down. His father, Harry, had taught him and his siblings Quidditch, James got his father's talent though, Albus got his mother's, but she wasn't as good his father. "Up!" he commanded the broom again and it went up into his hand.
"Up!" Scorpius said from in front of him, and the broom also reached his hand.
He looked towards Rose "up!" she instructed the broom, it also hovered a little. "Up!" she commanded again, it hovered higher, and then fell back down. "Up you stupid broom!" and the broom's stick went up and bumped her in the face.
Albus laughed, she glared at him, and he became quiet.
"Now I want all of you to mount your broom, hover for a minute, and come back down,"
"This is too easy," sneered Scorpius as he rode his broom and kicked off the ground.
Albus did the same Ash followed them.
Rose mounted the broom, but couldn't even make it hover.
"Okay now, get down everyone," instructed Madame Flew. Everyone went down, and the lesson ended after half an hour.
"That was fun," Ashton grinned.
"Yeah, I wish I could've wiped that smirk that was on Malfoy's face though," Albus snarled, remembering the smirk that Scorpius had when he was able to fly higher than the rest.
"I wasn't smirking!" yelled Rose.
"The other Malfoy,"
"Oh,"
"I wonder how they choose people to get into the Quidditch teams,"
"Probably a test or something,"
"A test? My father didn't get a test to be a Seeker,"
"And your father would be?"
"Harry potter,"
"Oh, him, well why don't you ask him?"
"Never mind,"
"Hey, Albus come here for a sec, will ya?" James, who was walking towards Albus and the others, called his brother.
"You two go ahead of me," Albus told Ash and Rose and they walked towards the dungeons for potions.
"So, is she our Rose?"
"I'm sure of it! She talks like aunt Hermione, she can't fly a broom, she's such a goody two shoes, that's our Rose."
"Well, how do we tell mum and dad?"
"We can send them an owl,"
"Do you think they'll believe us?"
"Not likely, grown ups hardly believe kids, but it's worth a try."
"Yeah,"
After Albus finished classes, he wrote a letter to his parents, telling them about Rose, and then he went up to the owlery and looked for Snowy, his white owl. Snowy came hooting over to him. "Hey there, girl" Albus stroked Snowy's feathers. "Can you give this letter to mum and dad?" Snowy put the letter in her beak, gave a cheerful hoot, and flew out.
The owl flew and flew until twilight came and at last, it found its destination and flew inside a house.
"Mum! Snowy's here!" a small girl called to her mum.
A woman with red hair came inside the room and looked at the owl.
"Harry!' she called to her husband "Albus sent us a letter!"
A man with untidy hair and green eyes walked in and took the letter from the owl's beak. "Thanks Snowy," he stroked the bird's feathers.
Harry tore open the envelope and took out the piece of paper. He read aloud:
"Dear mum and dad,
How are you? everything's fine in school, well, almost everything, there are these two annoying kids at school, their names are Rose and Scorpius Malfoy, Rose is bossy and Scorpius is a git-"
"Look what you've done Harry, you and Ron made the kids hate each other before they even got to know one another," Ginny frowned.
"Ron started it! And this is strange; I thought the Malfoys only had Scorpius,"
"They do only have Scorpius,"
"Then who's this Rose?"
"Read the letter and we'll find out, unless you plan to look in a crystal ball and see the future," Ginny replied sarcastically.
"Alright," Harry continued:
"James and I are suspicious of Rose, she's quite unlike the Malfoys, she sometimes hangs out with me and my friend Ashton, he's Muggle born, and it's strange because I thought the Malfoys only hung out with purebloods, like her brother. And she's not exactly mean, she's sorta kind, she also has red hair and freckles just like mum and uncle Ron! James and I think she's our cousin Rose, we wanted to know what you're opinion is,
I miss you a lot, and tell Lily I said hi,
Albus"
"Albus says hi!" Lily smiled.
Harry and Ginny ignored her and stared into each other's eyes.
"What do you think this means?"
Ginny asked Harry, "did the Malfoys kidnap Rose?"
"I don't think so, why would they kidnap a Weasley?"
"I dunno,"
"Knock knock," a man's voice came from out side their house's door, and a tall man with red hair and a long nose came in, his arm around the waist of a woman with bushy brown hair. The woman was holding the hand of a small boy, who looked like he was about eight or nine years old and had ginger hair just like his father, and she was smiling, as usual, once she saw her friends.
"Oh Ronald!" Ginny rolled her eyes "haven't you ever heard of knocking?"
"I said knock knock," the man named Ronald shrugged.
Harry laughed "how are you guys?" he said, giving a knowing look to Ginny. She sighed.
"We're fine," Hermione hugged Ginny "and how are you lot?"
"Perfect," Ginny said rather quickly, not wanting to start off her brother's visit with bad news. "And how's my nephew?" Ginny bent down to ruffle the little boy's hair.
"I got a chocolate frog!" the little boy smiled, showing his aunt the tiny box with the frog.
"Well that's nice, Hugo,"
"I got about a hundred of them," Lily said coolly when she saw the small box.
"Well, I got two hundred," Hugo said, proud.
"Well, I'm prettier than you are so I win," Lily beamed.
"Boys can't be pretty," Hugo stuck out his tongue.
"How about we have some dinner?" Ginny said sweetly, pushing the kids towards the dining room.
"What's up with her?" Ron asked.
"No idea," Harry lied.
Hermione started talking about what the ministry was doing and what was going on with her, Ginny nodded and sighed at the right moments, dreading what was to come after dinner.
"And then, Anna Mcphee told me that they were going to inspect some of the magical creatures in the forbidden forest at Hogwarts! Do you believe that?" Hermione bellowed "why inspect them? They never hurt anyone, besides Umbridge that is, but she deserved it! I hope the centaurs teach them a lesson!"
"Right you are, Hermione," Ginny said half heartedly.
As everyone cleaned up after dinner, Ginny took Hermione, Ron and Harry into the guest room, and made Hermione and Ron sit down on the chairs.
"Listen," Ginny said, taking Albus's letter out of her pocket slowly "don't freak out or anything,"
"Why would we freak out?" Ron raised his eyebrow.
"Here," she handed Ron the letter, and he read it silently.
Hermione read it several times, trying to let the words sink in.
"And this is?" Hermione said, looking up from the letter after she read it for the fifteenth time.
"A letter, from Albus," Ginny replied.
"I think I noticed that," Hermione replied coolly.
"Bloody hell, what's going on?" Ron exclaimed disbelievingly.
"Albus and James think they saw Rose at Hogwarts," Harry said quietly, looking at the floor.
"Is that so?" Hermione raised an eyebrow, Harry nodded, "well, may someone tell me who is this 'Rose'?" Hermione demanded coldly.
"Hermione!" Ginny exclaimed, shocked that her friend would actually forget her own daughter, "Rose is your daughter! You didn't forget her did you?"
"Well, that's strange, since I think the last time I saw Rose, she was only four years old, and she was lost in Diagon Alley, and when was that again? Oh yes, seven years ago!" she yelled "do you actually think that she survived being alone?"
"You read the letter, Hermione," Ron said "the Malfoys took her,"
"And what would the Malfoys be doing with a half breed?" Hermione demanded.
"I-I dunno," Ron said, taken aback.
"Harry, tell your children that this is no joking matter," Hermione said furiously.
"You actually think my kids are pulling a prank or something?" Harry bellowed.
"Well it seems so!"
"James and Albus maybe trouble makers and all, but they would never say something like this unless they actually thought it was true!"
"Oh, so now what? You want them to stalk her and ask her where she was seven years ago?"
"That's a great idea!" Ron said cheerfully, trying to ease the tension but not succeeding.
"Shut up, Ronald!" Hermione screeched.
"Just trying to ease the tension," he muttered.
"Look Harry," Hermione said slowly trying to calm down "let's say we do try to see if she is the real Rose or not, do you actually think Draco would let us take her if she is? Or do you have any idea how much damage it'll do to my heart if I get my hopes up but then we find out she isn't my daughter? You don't know what it feels like losing your child, Harry," Hermione sighed, tears forming in her eyes.
"Come on, Hermione," Ginny hugged Hermione "just give it a try,"
"You guys make it sound so easy," she muttered. "Fine, do as you wish, but I'm still not going to keep my hopes up,"
And with that reply, Harry smiled wide, a mischievous twinkle in his eye. He went to his room, took out a piece of new parchment, a quill, and started writing back to Albus.
So, what do you think? I feel lieke it's better than the last chapter, and I realized I had many mistakes in the last one, I tried revising this time before I published the chap. oh well, hope you liked it ^.^ Reviews are love :) And I would like to thank P.o.T.t.Y.F.a.N.x. for her great help with my story :D
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