Next Generation Pairings

Get Over It

Edited

Rose walked into the Burrow, noticing all her aunts and uncles sitting on the sofas, remembering their days at Hogwarts. Her cousins must be downstairs.

She tried slipping past them so she wouldn't have to answer their questions. Rose had told her parents that she was with her friend, Sarah, but really she was on a date with Scorpius. She couldn't even imagine if her parents found out.

"Wait, Rose," her dad called, "we were just talking about that Malfoy scum, Draco. Is his son as bad as his father?"

Rose blinked.

"I mean," Ron continued, "he is an ignorant fool and rule breaker, right?"

Rose moved an inch closer to the basement.

"Whoever told you that is mental. Scorpius Malfoy is the nicest person I've ever met," she said without thinking.

Her father clearly wasn't expecting that answer. He froze.

"What do you mean? He's no good, Rosie! His father–"

"His father changed. And if you're too stubborn to look past that, I don't know what to tell you. You're almost forty. Grow up," she said, expecting to be disowned or something. Rose had never said something so rude to her father.

But he just stared open-mouthed at her while she walked away.

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The next day, Scorpius was invited over by Al.

All the Wotter kids were playing Quidditch outside when the Longbottoms arrived.

"What's that, Ali?" James asked his girlfriend after snogging her. In front of everyone. She held out the orb.

"It's a Remembrall. It was my father's."

"Oh, cool."

He pulled her away, probably to go snog her in his room or something.

Scorpius noticed that she dropped the Remembrall.

"Alice!" He called. She turned. "You dropped this," he said.

"Oh, thank you!" Alice said, taking it. She turned to Rose.

"You've got a sweet boy, Rosie."

Rose was going to argue and say that he's not her boy for her father's sake. But she decided against it.

"I know."

Ron's mouth fell open.