#I'm happy with the lace on Hermione's dress though!

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HP: Forbidden - Chapter Four

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Parings: George Weasley x Female OC (Slytherin)

Description:

Rosalie Riddle lives in the shadow of her father, going to Hogwarts made her feel safe and happy and when she meets George Weasley she feels a whole new emotion. Follow her story from the beginning of her Hogwarts Journey.

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Can fluff be a warning? Little bit of angst. Fred still dies, sorry.

P.s. So this is a rewrite from a fanfiction I originally wrote when I was roughly 16. It was awful, truly awful, but I adored the story so I decided to rewrite it ten years later. Enjoy.

I watched as the Great Hall changed from Silver and Green to Gold and Red. It was horrible, Harry, Ron, Hermione and Neville all won points for breaking the rules, I didn't win any. 

I was sat with Draco, whom seemed overjoyed that he had someone to spend the summer with, I was excited too I suppose. I had met Mr Malfoy once, and he seemed unpleasant, but I'm sure Mrs Malfoy would be lovely. 

Before we headed off to the train, Pansy, Daphne and I exchanged addresses so we could speak all summer, Draco said his parents had an owl I could use. 

"Bye Rosalie"

I turned around to see Harry, he smiled awkwardly at me, and I waved awkwardly back to him. My friends and I found a compartment and all squished in, I stayed quiet throughout the journey, my head still not feeling great. 

"Next year will be much better" Daphne smiled at me, I smiled back not believing her. I turned to watch outside g past, we were getting closer to London. I was looking forward to maybe having a more normal summer this year. Though really, I wanted to come back to Hogwarts, maybe look for that mirror again. Dumbledore had said it was gone, but I didn't believe him. 

"Come on Rose" Draco smiled, I followed him off the train and said goodbye to our friends. 

"My mother has come to collect us" He smiled, and pulled me through the crowds of people until we met up with a tall woman, wearing a wonderful long black dress with frills and lace. She had long white hair with a black stripe through it. She was beautiful/ 

"Hello Mrs Malfoy, thank you for letting me stay with you this summer" I smiled and curtsied. She smiled bleakly back at me and nodded her head towards me. 

"That's quite alright, anything for our master's daughter, come Draco" She spoke, we started walking towards the apparition point. 

"Hold onto my arm please" She spoke, Draco and I listened and held on.

"Malfoy Manor!" Mrs Malfoy spoke clearly, and in a puff of green smoke we were suddenly at the Malfoy Manor. 

"This is the floo room, you are not to enter this room unless I or Mr Malfoy are with you" Mrs Malfoy explained "Draco show Miss Riddle around the Manor, and to her room please, she will be staying in the guest room on your floor, dinner is at 6pm sharp!" And then she strolled away. 

"Come on then!" Draco grinned at me, I followed him as he raced throughout the mansion. It was huge, and dark, it was hauntingly beautiful. Draco showed me the gardens, and all the different living spaces, and the morning rooms and lunch rooms. But by far, my favourite room was the Library, it was huge. More books that I had never seen before. And the room itself was orate and dark, I would definitely enjoy reading in here.

"And this is your room" Draco smiled and walked off, which I was thankful for, I needed a minute alone. I stepped into the room, and looked around, it was huge like every other room in this place. It was lovely though, more toned down than the other rooms.

There was a perfectly orante queen sized bed in the middle of the room; which looked fluffy and called me in for a nap. In the other corner there was a huge bath, and room off to the side with the toilet. I noticed my Hogwarts trunk at the base of the bed and smiled, I couldn't wait to change out of my Hogwarts robes into something a bit fancier. 

I could tell this summer was going to be better than the ones I had experienced before...

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"Rose! Wake up!" I can hear Draco call, joined with the bainging on my door. I rubbed the sleep from my eyes and got out of bed.

"Give me a minute" I yell back to Draco.

I quickly got dressed into a deep purple dress robe, and plaited my hair, I needed a haircut really, it was close to hip length now. 

I skipped out of my room, and bumped straight into Draco. 

"Happy Birthday" He smiles to me. 

"Happy Birthday Draco" I grin back at him. We only found out a week ago, we shared a birthday.

"Come on" He smiles, grabbing my hand, we ran downstairs and into the dining room, where Mr and Mrs Malfoy sat eating their breakfast.

"Happy Birthday children" Mrs Malfoy smiled and swished her wand, and two small boxes floated towards us, they were wrapped beautifully. Draco's was green paper with silver ribbon and mine was silver paper with green ribbon. 

I was gobsmacked, I had never received a present before, I was in shock. 

"Thank you" I whisper, I could feel my eyes threaten to spill with tears as I unwrapped the present. Inside was a small box, containing a small silver chained necklace with a small silver snake, with green eyes pendant. 

"I love it" I smile up to the Malfoy's. I put the necklace on and turned my attention to Draco, he had unwrapped his present, which was a ring, apparently passed down through the generations in his family. 

I couldn't stop saying thank you, I may have annoyed Mr and Mrs Malfoy, they let Draco and I fly our brooms all day and then we had cake after dinner, it was probably the best birthday ever...

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"Ready?" Draco asked, as we walked into Hogwarts once more, I nodded, smiling the feeling of warmth and happiness washing through me. 

We sat down at the Slytherin table and watched the sorting process. It was nice not having to be stood up there this time. 

"I missed you Rosalie!" Daphne smiled, still hugging me, it felt weird, to be hugged. I wasn't sure if I had ever received a huge before. 

"I missed you too!" I smiled, hugging back. 

Daphne was soon becoming my best friend, along with Draco. 

Once the sorting was over we feasted, until we were ready to pass out. 

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The next morning I awoke early, and was dressed before Pansy and Daphne. 

"See you at breakfast" I smiled at them and left the common room, I skipped to the Great Hall excited to be back, and ready for breakfast. 

"Oh if it isn't little Riddle!" I turned around to see Ron's older brothers, the two I had briefly met in the owlery. 

"I'm in a rather good mood, so please don't ruin that for me!" I sneered. They were on either side of me now. 

"Don't be silly" One of them said.

"We're lovely" The other one added.

I rolled my eyes, this could get annoying. 

"Can I help you?" I asked, wishing I was closer to the great hall. 

"No, Ron was complaining about you all summer and well, we wanted to meet the lady who annoyed our little brother so" One grinned, the other laughed along too. 

We reached the Great Hall and one of the twins disappeared into the group of Gryffindor's, the other stopped me and turned me to face him. 

I looked up into his brown eyes and huffed. 

"Yes?" I asked. 

"I'm George, by the way" He smiled, and then scampered off to followed his brother. The Weasleys confused me. 

I walked over to the Slytherin table, piling my plate up with pancakes and syrup, eating away not paying attention to the rest of the great hall. 

Once I had finished my breakfast, the others had joined to eat their breakfasts, and then we walked to our class together. Defence against the Dark Arts with Gryffindors. 

We walked in and took our seats at the back of the class, Professor Lockhart was our teacher this year, after Quirrell's demise. And Lockhart was dense, he made us take a quiz about him. 

All the girls were fawning over him, including Daphne, gross. I still thought fancying boys and thinking boys were cute was kind of gross. Though that Weasley twin was cute, George wasn't it? He was cute... What was I saying. 

I was rather bored throughout Lockhart's lesson, we had to study him and all his wonderful achievements, and we learnt nothing about magic. 

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Over the next few weeks, lessons became harder, I had more homework than last year, though it kept me busy so I enjoyed doing it. Though the gossip was in plenty this year, mostly about the Chamber of Secrets. 

"Repeat after me, Vera Verto" Mcgonagall spoke, I had an owl from the owlery to help me with this lesson. 

"Professor" Hermione shot her hand up. 

"Could you tell us about the Chamber of Secrets?" She asked. 

Professor Mcgonagall sighed, but proceeded to tell us. I was grateful because I wanted to know as much as everyone else. 

"The Chamber of Secrets, is a secret room, apparently constructed by Salazar Slytherin to house a monster which would finish his 'noble work'" She explained "According to legend, Slytherin and Gryffindor argued over whether to allow Muggle-born students into Hogwarts and that displeased Slytherin, he left the school, we have searched for the Chamber, but it hasn't been found"

Mcgonagall explained a bit more about the story, but ended the class once she was done. I left the classroom, and slowly made my walk to the lake. I had a free slot in my day, which I dedicated to studying or doing my homework, and sitting at this tree by the lake was my favourite place to do this. 

I sat down and started reading, it was beautifully sunny, and there were many children playing or studying, thats when I noticed George and his brother strolling towards me. I sighed, I wanted to be left alone. 

"Good afternoon Lady Riddle" George smirked and they both sat in front of me, a few feet away. 

"Hello" I smiled politely, looking back at my book, truth I was trying to find something in the books about the mirror I saw last year, the Mirror of Erised, I needed something that would explain what I saw.

"How's second year work treating you?" George asked. 

"It's alright, a lot harder" I smiled, they had gotten their books out too, though it didn't look like they were reading anything from any classes, it looked more like doodles and blueprints. 

Suddenly there were more shuffles of people around, I didn't look up, thinking it was maybe the twin's friends. 

"Why are you sitting with her?" I knew that voice, Ron. I looked up and there stood Ron, Harry and Hermione. 

"Keeping her company whilst reading of course Ronny" The other twin smirked, I fought off a smile. 

"Shut it Fred" Ron hissed. So the other one was Fred, I felt relieved to know, I felt too awkward to ask. 

"She wants Harry dead!" Ron practically screamed, I rolled my eyes and went back to reading my book. 

"Honestly Ronald, don't be so over dramatic" Hermione spoke, she sat down and grabbed her books out too. Whilst Harry and Ron stormed off. 

"Thanks" I mumbled to Hermione, I wasn't sure if she had heard me. 

But I heard a small "You're welcome" I smiled, I felt like I had made another friend in that moment.

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Hermione had been hoping the dress would make her feel like a million bucks, and it did the job well, but it was also nothing compared to the way his gaze lit her on fire. There was a new little twist in her chest as his arms came around her, giving an unspoken promise of not only comfort but… safety? Was that it? She could most certainly take care of herself, but there was just a comfort knowing Severus was here. Merlin only knew what that meant, but she wasn't going to try and analyze it too much right now.

Her fingers laced together with his as they headed inside, as happy as two third years on their first date between playing footsie under the table and finding other excuses to touch each other. It was tantalizing, but beyond that it was also just fun. When was the last time she had had this much fun on a date? The whole thing would start to feel surreal if she thought to much about it, so for the moment she simply… didn't. They were worlds away from everything that had come before, and there was no one to shout at them for simply enjoying the present.

"Merlin, I was a swot." She laughed at his befuddlement, even though it made sense. Back then she'd been so determined to tell each and every person in her general radius about her plans, all but shoving it down their throats the way that Ministry itself wanted to. If she hadn't seen what she had when trying to help the boys get one of the Horcruxes, Merlin only knew if she would have turned out to be a perfect cog in their little machine. Strange how all sorts of things could change so quickly. And not that she wasn't a swot now, he still had to grade her papers - rather enjoyable reading material, she hoped. Things had just gotten complicated.

"Umbridge was the start of the end in so many things." She mused, resting her chin in one hand and playing with his fingers with the other. They'd already ordered wine, but the food would take a little while to come out. Better to get that pink circus out of the way before it put them both off their dinner. "Toss her into the mix of Fudge's incompetence, the registration commission, hell that god-awful magic is might statue…" She shuddered just at the memory of seeing it for the first time. "Kingsley is doing what he can, but people are going to have to want to change. The fact is most don't now that they're comfortable again."

It went for both sides, she was sure he would understand that. "I still want to help, in a way that matters, which is where the potions guild and the orphans come in. It's a small thing, but…" She gave a little shrug and a smile. It was something.

"I went to see my parents after the war." That was a more sobering memory, but when Severus gave her hand a little squeeze she knew she could take her time with it. She didn't think he was reading her mind, but somehow he simply seemed to know when she needed a bit of comfort. That was nice. "They have a daughter, little Oni. She's absolutely adorable, all big smiles and everything they wanted… I'd never rip their life away now, so… Harry's about it as far as family goes. I haven't said anything, but I'm pretty sure he would prostrate himself anywhere you walked if he knew you were alive." She gave a teasing little smile, trying to lighten what felt like a suddenly heavy atmosphere. This wasn't what she wanted the day to be about.

She caught him up with anyone he might not know about. Ginny and Harry were still dating, but they didn't seem to be in a big rush to marry either. She had her Holyhead Harpies and he was fixing up the house, just happy to be boyfriend and go see her games whenever he could. The Aurors were gagging for his face among their numbers, but everything was just sort of in limbo for the moment. Draco was actually funding a good part of her project, and she watched him closely at any mention of the Malfoys until he proved her right by confessing they knew. Of course they knew, she had heard enough stories to realize how close they were, and she was glad he still had a sort of tie to the wizarding world who would always be firmly on his side. That group included her now.

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One hour turned to two turned to four and yet somehow it felt like hardly any time had passed at all. It was much colder out when they left the restaurant, and Hermione took the excuse to tuck in close to his side as they walked back to his car. She didn't mind catching a cab back home or apparating from some alleyway, but that would mean leaving and she didn't want the evening to be over just yet.

Arm wrapped around his waist she laid her head against his shoulder as they walked and smiled at how easily they fit together, watching the sidewalk to make sure she didn't trip in these heels. The wine had flowed as easily as the conversation once they got started, and she felt a little woozy but not necessarily in a bad way.

"I really had a good time tonight." She mentioned when they made it, turning and leaning against the car door to hold onto his lapels. It was an evening she absolutely wanted to repeat, soon if they could manage it. Smoothing her hands over the fabric she ran them up over his shoulders to lightly loop around his neck. "How soon until I can see you again?" She had no shame in asking, laughing softly as she pulled him down closer to her level. Her nose bumped against his, lips only hovering but it was the closeness and the anticipation that she enjoyed most of all.

"Wouldn't have missed it for the world, my lioness," Severus murmured, wrapping his arms around her to pull her close. This was so... normal? Nice? He didn't even know what to call it. Things like this certainly didn't happen to him, and as much as he wanted to jump her bones, he also wanted this to go well.

"You look resplendent," he gushed as they pulled back from their hug. He took her hands and let his eyes wash over her. She was breathtaking. Show-stopping. Awe-inspiring.

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A year ago, the thought of proudly walking into a restaurant holding Hermione Granger's hand would have completely perplexed him. Now? He was thanking every fucking deity in existence that let him see the light of day after the war. He promised himself before this meeting that if he could somehow make her fall for him like he was quickly falling for her, he would do everything within his scope to keep her on his arm for the rest of time. He would crawl on his knees and worship her if he had to. He'd do whatever she asked, the moment she asked it.

"I've actually never been here," Severus said as they sat across from each other in an intimate little booth, the lighting dim and romantic. "I've heard nothing but wonderful things about it, but I have never had the excuse to come. It's rather fancy for just a night dining alone," he admitted. When she agreed to go on a date with him, this had been the first place to pop into his mind. What better occasion than to wine and dine the Brightest Witch of Her Age?

Their feet were lightly touching and caressing the other's under the table, and he felt twenty years younger. This was the kind of thing he wished he'd been able to do in his youth. He wished he could date, fall in love, be happy, be giddy like this. But everything worked out the way it was supposed to, and this was exactly where they were supposed to be now.

"In order to distract me from mentally tearing the dress off that gorgeous little body of yours, tell me what you've been up to since before we reconnected. You didn't want to go to the Ministry, you didn't want to be tied down and forced to pop out a redheaded litter, and now you're holed up in Headquarters again. Did you travel? What happened? When you were a sixth year, all I remember hearing about was your ambition to be Minister someday. I suppose a war puts things into perspective. Things changed, I assume? Or...?"