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I was only getting used to
being someone you loved
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ROSE'S POV:
"I think I'm gonna be sick." I said dramatically as The Weasleys, Remus, and I made our way inside King Cross Station. Today was the day I would get my first glimpse of Harry Potter, my little brother.
"Don't think about it, Rose, just wing it!" Fred said as he rubbed my shoulders in an attempt to cure my tension.
"Fred!" Molly snapped. "Don't tell the girl to 'wing it', she's about to meet her brother!"
"I was just trying to help, mum!" Fred said as he put his hands up in the air in a surrendering manner.
"You're going to be fine, Rose." Remus insisted as he placed one hand on my shoulder. I took a deep breath and let it out slowly.
"Now, Ron, remember you can't tell anyone about Rose once you are at Hogwarts. You have to remember it's a secret that Dumbledore asked us to keep for now." Molly reminded Ron for the third time in the past five minutes.
"I know, mum." Ron said as he rolled his eyes.
"Don't you roll your eyes at me, Ron Weasley!" Molly snapped again, pointing her finger at Ron, who looked down embarrassed.
"Rose and I will go first, Molly." Remus said calmly. "You can go after us."
"Alright." Molly said, giving me a short smile and a tight hug. "Good luck, dearie."
"Thank you, Molly." I whispered in her ear.
I turned to Remus, nodding my head as a signal to cross the barrier. We did, we crossed together, my eyes scanning the whole platform looking for a boy with a lighting scar on his forehead.
"Do you see him?" I asked Remus in a low voice.
"Not yet, Rosie." He said in an equally low tone. "C'mon, let's get put your trunk and your owl on the train."
As we walked further into the platform, I began to recognize a few people. I waved over to Adrian Pucey, Cedric Diggory, and Kenneth Towlers.
"What do you think he'll look like?" I whispered to Remus while he lifted my trunk up the platform with ease. I kept Jamie on my side on her cage.
"Well, when he was a baby, James used to say he looked like him but with Lily's eyes. So, maybe look for someone who has the messiest hair you've ever seen." Remus said as scanned the crowd once more.
Far into the crowd, surrounded by loads of people, there was a boy with dreadlocks with a lid box on his hand.
"I'll go say hi to Lee, alright?" I said vaguely.
"Yeah, go do that, Rose. I'll meet you back with The Weasleys." Remus said as we both moved apart from each other.
As I came closer to Lee, I realized that he was holding a giant spider on his hand. Annie was on his side, scolding him by the looks of it, but Lee of course paid no mind to her nagging.
"Lee, put it back in the box for Merlin's sake!" Annie said as Lee playfully brought the spider closer to Anne's face.
"Relax, it won't bite you." Lee said with a laugh. They hadn't notice I was watching.
"And if it does, i'll hex Lee for lying to you!" I joked, gaining both of their attention. They turned around, smiling brightly.
"Rosie!" Anne cheered as she moved to hug me. Lee doing the same once she let go.
"I don't have much time, I have to meet back with Mrs. Weasley, but save us a compartment, yeah?" I said as I walked over to where a family of redheads were talking.
I approached The Weasleys, noticing immediately that the twins weren't there.
"Found him?" I asked Remus once I was at earshot. He shook his head glomly, I gave out a sigh of defeat.
"Fred? George? Are you there?" Molly shouted into the train while the Ron and Ginny were fighting over chocolate frog cards.
"Coming, mum!" Fred and George's choroused voices sounded through the door.
In that moment, Molly took of her handkerchief, getting it close to Ron. "Ron, you've got something on your nose."
Ron tried to jerk out of the way, but Molly of course, grabbed him and began rubbing the end of his nose.
"Mum— geroff!" Ron said as he wriggled free.
"Ahh, has ickle Ronnie got somefink on his nosie?" Fred said as he came strodding our way. Fred and George smiled down at me, and turned to annoy Ron again.
"Shut up!" Ron grumbled.
"Where's Percy?" Molly asked as she looked around.
"He's coming now." I said as I saw him walking over us, his new shiny red and gold badge pinned on his robes.
"Can't stay long, Mother," he said. "I'm up front, the Prefects have got two compartments to themselves –"
"Oh, are you a Prefect, Percy?" said George, with an air of great surprise. "You should have said something, we had no idea."
"Hang on, I think I remember him saying something about it" said Fred. "Once –"
"Or twice -"
"A minute –"
"All summer –" I added, enjoying the moment.
"Oh, shut up," said Percy.
"How come Percy gets new robes, anyway?" said George.
"Oh not his again!" I mumbled under my breath.
"Because he's a Prefect," said Moly fondly. "All right, dear, well, have a good term – send me an owl when you get there." She kissed Percy on the cheek and he left. Then she turned to the twins and I.
"Now, you three – this year, you behave yourselves. If I get one more owl telling me you've – you've blown up a toilet or –"
"Blown up a toilet?" I said amazed.
"We've never blown up a toilet!" George said.
"Great idea though, thanks, Mum." Said Fred.
"It's not funny. And look after Ron."
"Don't worry, ickle Ronniekins is safe with us." Fred said as he ruffled Ron's hair.
"Shut up," said Ron again. He was almost as tall as the twins already and his nose was still pink where Molly had rubbed it.
"Hey, Mum, guess what? Guess who we just met on the train?" Fred said excitedly while giving me a proud look.
"You know that black-haired boy who was near us in the station? Know who he is?"
"Who?"
"Harry Potter!" They yelled at the same time.
I felt my face pale and Remus held my hand tight.
"Oh, Mum, can I go on the train and see him, Mum, oh please ..." Ginny begged while pulling at Molly's hand. Fred's words barely registered in my mind.
"Ginny! You've already seen him, and the poor boy isn't something you goggle at in a zoo. Besides, Rose has to see him first! Is he really Harry Potter, Fred? How do you know?"
"Asked him. Saw his scar. It's really there – like lightning." Fred said while placing a comforting hand on my shoulder.
"Poor dear – no wonder he was alone. I wondered. He was ever so polite when he asked how to get on to the platform."
"Never mind that, do you think he remembers what You-Know-Who looks like?"
"Fred!" I snapped, smacking his arm.
Molly suddenly looked tense and stren.
"I forbid you to ask him, Fred. No, don't you dare. For his sakes and for your best friends'! As though they need reminding of that on their first day at school."
"Er— I'm standing right here." I said as I waved my hand up in the air.
"I know. Sorry, dear."
"It's alright, Molly." I waved her off.
A whistle sounded.
"Hurry up!" Molly said as Fred, George, Ron, and I clamped on the train.
"Good luck, Rosie." Remus said as he kissed my cheek. "Owl me once you find him, alright?"
"I promise, uncle Moony." I said as I kissed the scar that ran along his cheek and smiled fondly.
The twins and Ron leant out of the window for Molly to kiss them goodbye as Ginny began to cry.
"Don't, Ginny, we'll send you loads of owls." Fred said, wiping her tears away.
"And we'll send you loads of pictures." I added as I kissed her head.
"We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat." George said brightly.
"George!"
"Only joking, Mum."
"Bye, Molly! Bye, Ginny! I'll see you soon!" I called out as the train began to move.
"I'll get a compartment." Ron mumbled gloomily once Molly and Ginny were out of view.
"Wait, Ron!" I called as I noticed with gloom expression. He turned around and I smiled at the boy. "We'll be there in a second, yeah?"
Ron's expression instantly brighten as he nodded his head eagerly and sliding into the first compartment.
Fred and George were giving me an annoyed expression.
"What?!" I asked.
"We don't want to be with Ron!" Fred said in indignation.
"Just for a couple of minutes!" I insisted. "Just to make sure he won't be alone."
"Fine!" George said as he rolled his eyes. "We go in, make sure he's alright, and then we leave. Deal?"
"Deal!" I said as I shook his hand.
"Hey, Ron." The twins greeted once we entered the compartment. There was a boy with jet-black messy hair, round glasses, and green eyes. He was looking curiously at me. I waved it off, thinking it was probably because my hair was still half brown and half purple.
"Listen, we're going down the middle of the train – Lee Jordan's got a giant tarantula down there." George said.
"Right," mumbled Ron, and I couldn't help to notice how gloom he looked.
"Harry," Fred said, my heart skipped a beat. "Did we introduce ourselves? Fred and George Weasley. And this is Ron, our brother. See you later, then."
Fred grabbed onto my hand, trying to pull me out of the compartment, but I pulled him and George back.
"Why don't we stay here for a while, huh?" I asked as I gave both twins a look.
"Fine!" They said, annoyed.
"Hullo," I said with as much confidence I could muster in a situation like this. I extended my hand towards Harry. "I'm Rose."
"I'm Harry, Harry Potter." He said nervously. I smiled fondly at him, my eyes shining with happiness.
"Can we go now?" George whined as he pulled at my arm.
"I— Er," I turned to look at Ron. Now I was concerned about if he really wanted to be alone with only Harry. Ron nodded his head, mouthing 'go!'.
I smiled one last time at both boys, before slipping out of the compartment with the twins.
3rd Person Perspective:
As Rose left Harry's and Ron's compartment, Harry got more and more curious. Ever since he had seen the girl talking with the red-headed family, he knew he recognized her from somewhere. Harry was not only attending Hogwarts to get out of his Aunt's and Uncle's evil clutches, no! He was there on a quest: to find his sister.
Aunt Petunia hadn't given Harry a lot of information about her, but she had told him that his sister was alive and attending Hogwarts.
Hagrid, the gatekeeper at Hogwarts, didn't really help Harry on his quest much either. Hagrid said that he was forbidden to talk about the girl, but of course, after much persuasion, Hagrid let it slip that Harry's sister was a short Gryffindor red-head who hung around the so called 'Weasley Twins' and could change her hair colour at will.
"Do you know her?" Harry asked Ron out of the blue, pointing to were Rose had left.
Ron's ears tainted red, and he suddenly wished that Rose and the twins were with him.
"Er— Yes, just a little bit. She's friends with my brothers"
"The twins?" Harry pressed.
"Right. She is the twin's best friend, well, apart from themselves." Ron said, gaining a little more confidence. "Though i'm sure she'll end up being my sister-in-law or something."
"Talking about sisters, do you happen to know if maybe she has a brother?" Harry asked Ron again.
Ron almost choked on his spit, he was almost sure Harry had figured the whole thing out in only five minutes. Ron was impressed, since it took Rose a whole year to figure out most of it, and she still didn't know it all!
"I- er..., well" Ron stuttered.
"Or do you happen to know her last name? She didn't mention it before." Harry pressed once more, eagered to find out if this girl was his beloved sister.
"Sorry, mate, i'm not really supposed to talk about this." Ron mumbled, and as soon as his words registered in his mind he clapped a hand over his mouth.
"Aha!" Cheered Harry, standing up from his seat. "So you do know something about her! Please tell me she's who i'm looking for."
Harry was now begging.
Ron knew that he must act like he didn't know what Harry was talking about, bit he couldn't do that to Rose. Bloody hell, he couldn't do that to Harry! In the few minutes that he'd know the boy who lived, Ron had already deduced that he was desperate to meet his only relative.
And Rose, oh Rose. Ron absolutely loved her. Rose was what Ron always wanted as a big sister, and he couldn't accept Dumbledore's request if it meant hurting someone he really cared about. Ron knew that if the roles were reversed and it was Rose who had to pick between the truth and the lie, she would choose the truth.
"Why don't I go get her?" Ron suggested. Harry grinned brightly at Ron, thanking him endlessly.
Ron knew he had done the right thing.