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DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of J.K. Rowling's creations. Also, I have so far only read 3 random one shots of the scropiusxrose pairings, so similarities in fics with other stories are completely coincidental.
WARNING! I researched but not extensive enough to guarantee I didn't make any mistakes on terms, names, and some other things. Please correct me if you have time. Thanks!
"This is spoken Language."
'This is someone's thoughts'
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CHAPTER I: Rose steps on a Banana
WEASLEY-POTTER RESIDENCE
Somewhere in the outskirts of Ottery St. Catchpole was a huge mansion that stood at the spot precisely where the Burrow used to be. It was large in the sense that there was double the number of rooms needed for individual members of the family, albeit it wasn't really too big for them… considering how 'lively' they are.
"O-OH! BOOM-! BANG!" A small but very good-looking young boy yelled Onomatopoeias as if the sound effects from the television weren't loud enough.
"That was awesome!" He added upon relaxing his hold of the joystick.
"No fair! I was… distracted, darnit!" A boy at around 10 years of age muttered. He had red hair and the freckles most of the people in the house had… or have. He was just killed in his favorite game… by a younger boy who hadn't even played for an hour.
Talk about painful to the ego.
The blonde boy scoffed. "Stop being such a spoilsport, Hugo. I win, fair and square." He grinned, particularly proud at himself from being able to 'use' muggle-weapons so awesomely. Hugo started to mutter words of self-pity when he decided to give him a little compliment.
"Nice game. It's cool to get kill people without using spells."
Hugo beamed. "I know, Loius! Wait til' you see the UTA32, the best killing machine s-!"
"HEY!" Hermoine, his mother, interrupted him.
"What the bloody hell could you be thinking about? And at 8am in the morning, too!" She nagged. She was about to tell them to get ready for their trip to Diagon's alley, but she saw that by some miracle, they were already dressed.
"Well, you two got ready early."
"We wanted to play without interruption." Hugo replied as –a-matter-of-factly.
'Kids and their addictions to visual gaming...' Hermione mentally muttered to herself before voicing out,
"Just don't get too close to the television, you two…" She stated and turned around back to the kitchen with Ginny just before adding an afterthought. "…And get those violent thoughts out of your head."
"Yes, Mother…" Hugo whispered and Loius just nodded passively.
But bloody hell they will…
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"May I ask why you're shaking your head?" Ginny asked while she chopped the onions. Hermione just sighed again.
"Hugo's getting violent. And I'm afraid he's following Fred and James's footsteps." She replied worriedly. The two older boys are very troublesome, especially due to the fact that they loved pranks. James was like his grandfather that way, too. And now that he's teamed up with Fred, who was gifted with the talent of invention – there was no stopping them.
Oh, how many points did Gryffindor lose because of them?
She loves Hugo very much but she, nevertheless, wished Hugo would be like his sister. She was a good and respectful daughter. Like her, Rose was a genius. But she raised her in a way that she would skip the know-it-all arrogant attitude that she used to have at her age- well, most of the time anyway. The mature predisposition Rose inherited from her Great-Grandmother helped as well.
Speaking of her daughter-
"Rose isn't awake yet?" She asked incredulously. Rose is usually the one who wakes up first. Like her father she is a heavy sleeper, but she was one of those people who can set accurate alarm-clocks just by willing themselves just before sleep.
"Yeah. She was awake until this morning chatting with Lily on her room." Ginny answered as she put the spices on the food. "You know how close they are… Now that Rose is leaving for Hogwarts in less than two days, they're making the most out of their time together."
Hermione nodded in assent but then went onto her pondering-mode."But she was so exited on coming with us to the alley… she would hate not being woken up…"
"I suppose so… Ask the criminals to wake them up." Ginny smiled. The criminals were the resident trouble makers – the younger ones- who seem to be the only ones who could wake Rose when she hadn't set her alarm.
She laughed awkwardly.
'Oh well…'
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Hermione didn't even have to wake the two up. They were already awake- seems like everyone's exited today – and busted into the living room with huge grins plastered onto their faces. They held out a weird looking contraption that resembled a seashell with buttons. Fred cleared his throat to make his grand introduction.
"This is the Aping Seashell Version 1.0, it's an awesome- I repeat, AWESOME – invention James and I came up with a few nights ago and just finished 87 seconds ago." He stated proudly.
"Just get to the point, I need some quiet time." A beautiful girl with shiny and long red hair interrupted him. Her sister, also gorgeous, nodded at her statement as she held her compact mirror onto her face. Albus remained quiet and just observed his amusing family.
"Bloody hell, Veelas, don't ruin the mood!" James stated irritably. Victoire and Dominique were only one-eight Veela but the beauty-gene was still in them. Even their brother, little Louis, was good-looking himself.
"Patience is a virtue." Fred nodded at the girls, who just ignored them and went back to preparing themselves for the outside world. They don't really need to buy anything for school but they loved to shop, any opportunity to do so is Golden.
"So… What does it do?" Hugo asked dragging the two back to their bragging mode. They made their business smiles again and held the contraption up.
"The Aping Seashell Version 1.0 is an awesome tool that allows you to speak with another person's voice." Fred stated. "Let me demonstrate."
Fred held the thing down to Hugo's level and clicked the red button. "Speak. Anything, even just a syllable would do."
"Hello." Hugo stated lamely. They smirked before Fred let go of the red button and held the contraption back to their level. He then pressed the blue button and started speaking with an evil grin on his face,
"Hello. My name is Hugo and I'm so lame."
Everyone didn't speak for a moment. He sounded exactly like Hugo!
James surveyed for his cousin's –and his brother's – reactions, and he laughed out loud. The faces just lasted for a second, but they were still golden.
"HAHAHAHA- Your expr-essions-! PRICELESS! HAHAHAHA! Did you get that, Fred?" He asked and then looked at his equally-amused partner in crime. There was a reason why they make announcements and pranks only on certain places.
"Of course, I did. We just had ourselves additional clips for our collection of blackmail materials." He whispered back. They hid nice little untraceable cameras in the living room, the kitchen, and at the Gryffindor common room. Anyone would be shocked if they get a glimpse of their… stock.
"AWESOME!" Hugo finally shouted in amazement. Everyone ignored how many times the word seemed to be used.
"Told you so." Fred leered.
"… I could pretend to be someone else over the phone…" Dominique thought out loud. Everyone gaped at her sly expression. She blinked at the realization that everyone was looking at her.
"What?" She asked in feign innocence.
"That's 15 sickles per one minute use, Madam. Want to be our first costumer?" Fred asked in a business-like manner. Dominique grinned, and Roxanne (Fred's fraternal twin sister) seemed to have remembered something, too.
"I'll be the second."
Hermione decided to wake her daughter up by herself since the criminals are too busy making money downstairs.
She opened the door to see the peacefully sleeping Lily on Rose's bed while Rose is… on the floor. She stifled a laugh at a certain memory.
(Flashback)
She was in a deep slumber that night, and she was woken up by a feel of someone kicking her face.
She lethargically opened her eyes to see that it was her 2-year-old daughter's petite feet. She sighed unsurprised, and moved Rose into a better position in their larger-than-life bed. What can she say? They needed a huge bed if they were going to sleep together. Otherwise they will all be kicked out of bed.
After positioning her family (she found Ron's feet outside the bed) into a more comfortable position, she laid back down to sleep…
… only to be woken up again.
But this time with a loud thud. She sat up immediately to find that her husband is no longer in the bed. And judging by her daughter's position, she deduced that Rose kicked Ron out of bed.
She smiled and then felt her daughter embrace her. She was sleep-talking.
"Nighty night, Mum…"
(End of Flashback)
She watched her daughter sleep for a few more minutes until she realized that she had to wake her up.
"Wake up Rose." She said as she shook her daughter on the floor. The girl stirred only by a bit.
"Rose." She repeated, only to be ignored.
"We'll be leaving for Diagon alley… Are you sure you don't want to buy those books?"
With that statement Rose opened her eyes and swiftly sat up. Hermione smiled, 'Thank goodness that she's excited about today...'
Rose ran to the bathroom to get ready and Hermione didn't bother waking Lily up. She didn't need to come to Diagon, anyway… it's better to have her rest.
Then, several minutes later, she heard footsteps come up simultaneously signifying that they just finished eating and was then going to brush their teeth.
"Rose. Everyone's almost ready. Get down as soon as you can and get your breakfast!" She yelled at her figure inside her bathroom. Not only did she not want any of her children hungry, it's also that Rose had a tendency to…
…Become idiotically like her father when she's hungry.
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Rose got ready in a flash. Not literally, but was very fast indeed.
She saw that her family's already gathered on the fireplace, so she hastened her pace and grabbed a sandwich off the table. She got a few 'Good Mornings' and she just smiled at them.
"Here we go!" Arthur stated and initiated the transportation.
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"*cough*Where am -*cough*"
Rose seemed to have separated from her family. And her sandwich.
Her eyes twitched at the realization.
"Bloody –"
Rose found herself in an unfamiliar street in Diagon Alley, she saw that there were very few people around… and that no food stores anywhere near the place she was standing on. She sighed and decided to read a book as she walked so that she could ignore her growling stomach a little while longer. There was only one way anyway, and that was straight ahead.
But not even 3 pages later, she was interrupted.
"OW!" someone shouted, and she realized she felt something under her foot. She didn't react on time earning himself a growl, "Watch it, Red-head!"
She casually put down her book and saw... some sort of boy who seemed to be bending down for some reason. But her brain, partnered with her stomach, pretty much ignored everything other than the shiny blonde hair the boy had…
She stared at the sight.
'I seem to have stepped on a banana…'
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END OF CHAPTER I
Coming Soon:
CHAPTER II: Rose officially becomes a Monkey