first year
Aimée Louise Rosier, the oldest daughter of the rosier, older sister to pandora, evan and felix. A lovely blonde girl with beautiful green eyes and red cheeks. A sparkly personality and too many things to say but not enough words to formulate them.
Felix had been crying all morning “don’t go, please” . He was almost four years old, still too young to fully understand what Hogwarts was.
“I have to, I promise I'll write to you” replied the sister, knowing that he didn’t know how to read yet, he looked confused.
Pandora, who stayed in her room all morning, ran down the stairs “is she still here?” yelled, Evan was right behind her “we did this for you” said Pandora catching her breath.
It was a box with a letter ‘open it when you are in hogwarts’ then she hugged her. Pandora was always too happy, living in that family was hell, but still she always had a big smile on her face, aimée felt tears in her eyes.
Their mother was waiting at the door, “Aimée come on, we need to go!” said the woman, she never looked her daughter in her eyes.
Aimée took her suitcase looked at her siblings one last time and the she walked out the house,
just one more year, she thought, one more year and Ev and Dora will be in hogwarts too, that thought made her realize that Felix will be alone after that, he was only four. a wave of sadness filled her body.
she didn’t want to think about it.
“Let's go” said her mother “we are going to be late” she looked sad, she always looked sad but now she looked miserable.
Her mother, Colette Rosier, was unsettling, she wasn’t a bad person nor a bad mother, at least not every time, when Felix wasn’t born yet she was kinder, she took great care of all of her children.
Her father, on the contrary, was a bad person and a bad father, he was rarely home and when he was he was always angry with them or with Colette, Aimée hated him, she hated the way he acted and the way he tried to force his beliefs.
He was a firm follower of Voldemort and expected his family to be as well.
Colette tried to say something to Aimée for the whole ride, but everytime she opened her mouth she instantly regretted it and closed it.
“are you— are you excited, hun?” asked her mother hesitant “sure” said shortly the girl “when i was your age i was pretty scared to enter in hogwarts” continued the woman “what i’m trying to say is that is normal to me afraid” she didn’t even sounded like her mother
After that talk there was an awkward silence until they finally arrived at the station.
Aimée had her bags, her owl ‘Elias’ and the gift her siblings made for her, she didn’t need anything else.
she was ready to get on the train, her mum still had that sad look, she was about to cry probably.
“I'm going now,” said awkwardly Aimée “sure— sure hun” she felt the need to hug her, but she didn’t.
she turned to her mother one last time, and she could swear she was crying, that made her heart heavy.
She searched for a place where to sit quietly, she was sick of all the noise.
someone knocked, a dark haired girl opened the door, “ can i— can i sit here?”
aimée nodded, she sat in front of her and didn’t say a single word, she looked nervous before aimée could say anything someone else knocked on the door.
“please tell me this cabin is—” before the girl could finish her phrase Aimée laughed “Rosie! bloody hell where were you?”
“Merlin! i didn’t think i’d find you” said the girl sitting next to aimée, she looked at the girl across the cabin.
“sorry for my bad manners” said giggling the girl shaking her hand “Rosemary Grace Malfoy, nice to meet you”
The other girl looked confused, “Rue” said quickly, her voice high pitched, she sounded like a squirrel for a second.
Rosemary and Aimée met when they were very little, both of them came from pureblood families and they met at the parties, plus her brother, Lucius Malfoy, once he was old enough was gonna marry Narcissa Black and the Black were pretty close with the Rosiers.
Rosemary though, was very different from her family, she was kind, probably the kindest girl in the whole world.
They talked for a while catching up with family dramas.
“Lucius spent all his time at the black’s house” said the girl “and you know what he says?” she took a big breath before continuing “he says Andromeda Black, Narcissa sister, may be disowned”
“why?” asked worried Aimée, she knew Andy, she was a nice girl, she was different, everyone saw it, she wasn’t like narcissa or lucius, “i think she has a muggle born boyfriend” revealed rosemary
After that the cabin went quiet, the only thing aimée could think was how bad Andromeda must feel.
aimée still had the box in her hands, she was playing with it trying to guess what it was, it wasn’t very big, maybe a book? Pandora knows she likes to read, mostly fantasy books even if her father never lets her read them.
“What is that?” asked rosemary “i don’t know” replied still looking at the box, “it’s a gift from my siblings” the other girl smiled “sweet!” aimée giggled
The train stopped. Before even knowing rue disappeared, she didn’t talk for the whole ride, aimée found her intriguing.
Rosemary and aimée got off the train, there were way too many people on the platform, she spotted lucius, he was with narcissa, rosemary waved at him but he didn’t see.
“let’s go guys!” screamed a boy Aimée turned face to face with sirius black, he stopped “ams!” said the dark haired boy “bloody hell!! it’s been ages!” said the girl, “hey ros!” said Sirius to Rosemary, she just smiled.
when they were younger they would all stay together during the pureblood gatherings since they were around the same age. Sirius and aimée were basically cousins.
“i thought you died” Said aimée laughing “very funny, Black” replied annoyed the boy.
“How's my favourite mate ever?” asked Sirius, clearly talking about Felix “you should see him, he's all grown up” that made her strangely nostalgic. She changed the subject quickly.
“and how’s regulus?” asked Aimée, sirius smiled awkwardly “fine i guess, listen girls we need to go, catch ya later, yeah?”
Aimée didn’t even notice he was with someone, two boys she didn’t recognize and james potter.
“bye Siri!” said smiling happily, rosemary “bye Rosy” replied the boy turning to his friends.
“That was unexpected” said aimée bursting out laughing “you two are pretty weird” replied rosemary confused.
They started walking. “I'm excited,” confessed Rosemary. “I can't wait to see hogwarts, and to be sorted in my house!” that made aimée shiver down the spine, the sorting
“What house do you want to be?” asked an ecstatic rosemary. “I will probably be slytherin but i think hufflepuff might fit, don’t you think aimée?”
“I can see it,” laughed aimée. She tried to avoid the question, she wasn’t sure she wanted to think about that “so? what house?” asked Rosemary “i haven't thought about it really, maybe slytherin?”
her friend audibly gasped “you? slytherin? don’t make me laugh, I think ravenclaw might actually fit you!”
“Wait, what?!” Aimée was pretty smart that was true, besides she really liked reading, but ravenclaw?
“do you really think?” asked genuinely curious Aimée “obviously i can’t place you in slytherin i’m sorry” Rosemary spat “you’re right, i don’t really think i will be slytherin” her friend sighed “that’s what i thought”
“Can I call you Rosie?” asked aimée out of nowhere “what?” replied confused the girl “everyone calls you Rose or Rosemary i think rosie is more fitting”
Rosie giggled “sure call me that”.