She catches him watching her, and she promptly goes cross-eyed and sticks her tongue out at him. He can't help it - he laughs. He's never seen anything quite like her, with her bouncy steps and straight-forwardness. It's a small moment in time, barely lasting a few seconds, but in those few moments when they had each other's full attention, Scorpius starts falling.

"Oh, yes, James adores him. Dotes on him, even," Ginny smiled fondly at her two boys, somehow missing the evil eye that James had sent Albus a few mere seconds before. /Albus and James as they go through life together, fighting, tattle-tailing and hauling each other out of bed.

She's a flyaway girl, all giggles and curls and no substance, or, at least, that what he thinks when he first sees her and decides that he hates her. Sometimes, though, first impressions aren't right and it's so easy to turn hate into love... /Seamus, Lavender and overcoming first impressions.

Hannah pays a visit to the graveyard and stumbles upon an old school friend./war changes people and sometimes it's for the better.

Scorpius isn't really sure what's wrong with him. He knows that she's Lily Potter and he's Scorpius Malfoy and the two names just don't mix. They really don't. In what world does the name Lily Malfoy sound right, anyway?/his heart should be beating RoseRoseRose but somewhere along the line something went wrong and it beats LilyLilyLily instead.

Even her name is of powerful, sharp beauty... Hedwig. The name rolls off his tongue, a melody that he could listen to forever. Hedwig, Hedwig, Hedwig. He doesn't think that he'll ever come across something that sounds quite as magnificent as the name that that scar-head gave her (how a scar-head like Potter could come up with a name of such grace and poise escapes him).

It's difficult loving somebody when you're on different sides. Blaise/Parvati and Boggarts, dramatic exits, Arithmancy, lemonade in the face and, ultimately, learning that love is what you've been through with somebody.

Professor Slughorn, please find enclosed the final draft of my most recent article for the Daily Prophet... /in which Rita learns that you can't always please everybody and, really, being nice isn't the only way to get what you want.

"One day you'll meet somebody and you'll do anything to be with them, Scorpius. You'll fall in love and you'll realise that it's the hardest and most simultaneously satisfying and unsatisfying thing in the world, and being with them will hurt you but being without them hurts more"/Scorpius, Rose, and free falling into love.

Louis learns the hard way that you've got to accept yourself in order for others to accept you.