First year
Rose
As we got onto the train, the elder cousins which included James, Fred, Dominique and Louis scrambled off to meet their friends. We (Albus and I) were left on our own to find a compartment.
After about half hour of searching, we finally find one with just one occupant. I realised with a start that it was none other than that Malfoy boy my father had warned me about. Before I could say anything, Al opened the compartement door.
"Hey! Can we sit here? Everywhere else seems to be full." Said Albus politely.
The boy gave us a look of surprise as if he was also shocked that we off all the people would want to sit with him.
"Umm yeah, sure. Why not!"
"Hi, I'm Albus and the girl's Rose "
"My name's Scorpius Malfoy."
Malfoy gave us a look, as if expecting us to run out of the compartement on hearing his name.
Albus merely shrugged and sat down. So did I. Albus immediately started talking about sorting. Sorting this, sorting that... I just tuned him them out and settled into a good sleep.
A few minutes later, or so its seemed, someone shook me awake. I opened my eyes to see a my cousin and Scorpius Malfoy. The whole compartment was filled with an assortment of candies-Bertie Botts, cauldron cakes, etc.
"The food trolley arrived. I bought some for you too. Here," said Albus.
He handed me a chocolate frog. I opened it to reveal a card of my father. Ugh! I have about twenty of him. I chucked away the card and started munching on my chocolate.
"Must be nice, isn't it? To have your entire family on these cards?" Asked Malfoy. I had expected him to be rude but he just sounded curious.
"Frankly, it is very irritating to find one of your family members on the cards everytime you open them." Albus said, before I got a chance to reply.
A few minutes later, Albus was snoring lightly on his side while I had taken out my muggle iPod to hear some songs. Malfoy, on the other hand, just looked outside the window all the time. Till now I hadn't said anything to him and neither had he. It seemed weird to be not talking actually. Just when I was preparing myself to start a conversation with him, he opened his bag to take out Hogwarts-A History.
"No way! You are reading Hogwarts-A history?!" I exclaimed, my mouth gaping. I had never seen anyone reading it, except for my mother ofcourse. It seemed among my cousins, I was the only one who had actually read it, and enjoyed it.
"Oh, she speaks! First of all, close your mouth before a fly flies into it." Malfoy said amusedly. I immediately closed my mouth shut. "And yes, I am reading it, not for the first time, actually. I rather enjoy it."
That was when I decided we were probably going to be the best of friends.
After that, we got onto discussing more about books. He had an impressive knowledge on this subject.
"My favourite author is William Hill. Have you read 'A month with a Hungarian Horntail'? I asked. "Yes! You won't belive me but I've read all his novels. He's my favorite too!" "No way!" I was now thouroughly enjoying myself. I hardly ever had such chats with someone. No one seemed to understand my adoration for books, until now. "What about 'Percy Jackson'? Its muggle, but absolutely great!" I said. "I haven't read a lot of muggle novels actually." "Oh! They are sometimes even better than the magic ones!" "Hmm. You'll just have to lend it to me then." "Sure!" I beamed at him and he gave me a smile.
He has a nice smile, I thought unconsciously. There are dimples on both of his cheeks that make him look very cute.
I was shaken from my thoughts-this seems to happen a lot today- when Albus started mumbling something about spiders. No wonder! That boy is just as afraid of them as my father. They should form a group- "Spider hiders" You know, because they hide from spiders...? No? Okay bad one.
"Hey maybe we should wake him up. It seems like we are going to reach soon."
Indeed, it had become dark outside. Time had flown away! Just then, I had an idea. I signalled Scorpius to keep his fingers on his lips. He gave me a confused look but kept shut.
"SPIDER!!!!!!" I yelled at the top of my voice. Albus awoke with a start and started screaming like a girl. "AAAAH!! WHERE IS IT!! GET IT OFF ME!! AAAAA!!"
Scorpius and I burst out laughing seeing him. We stopped to look at each other, then at Albus, and again started laughing loudly. Albus finally seemed to have realised that this was a prank and gave us a dirty look. "Bloody hell! You both gave me a heart attack! I could have died!"
We again started laughing at this. "Your.. face... Oh Merlin!" Scorpius said in between laughter.
The train finally came to a stop. We realised we had reached our destination.
