Chapter One

She's smart, she's witty and she's sick of watching egotistical witches and wizards preying on those who can't -- or, in this case, won't -- stand up for themselves.

Rose Weasley just can't understand why Scorpius Malfoy lets people walk all over him and she's determined to get to the bottom of it.

That is, until their first conversation consists of rudeness and hostility, and Rose begins to think that all her efforts to defend him were for nothing.

But there's more to Scorpius than meets the eye, and a pathetic squabble over a Charms book might just be the thing that shows her that.