Black Rose

Prologue

It was Rose Weasley's OWL-year and she was even more stressed than her extremely stressed fellow students, because she took more classes than any of them. In fact she had so many classes that she had needed a time-turner since third year to get to them all and finish her homework on time.

"Rose, don't you think you are overdoing it a bit? You have so many classes that I have no idea how you manage it. Maybe you should drop a class or two?" Scorpius Malfoy her best friend suggested.

"No. I've been taking these classes for three years now. I'm not dropping one right before our OWLs!" she refused.

"But Rose, look at you! You look like you haven't slept or eaten in days", the blonde boy tried to convince her.

"No!"

Rose stayed stubborn. She was dead set on acquiring more OWLs than her mother and equally good grades. She was a Ravenclaw through and through and had inherited her mother's passion for learning and books. She loved to learn new things and was even more obsessed with books than her mother, if that was even possible.

Scorpius relented and went into the Great Hall for lunch. He didn't notice that Rose didn't follow him, instead making her way to the library, playing mindlessly with her necklace. Only it wasn't any old necklace but the time-turner and Rose had, lost in thought as she was, forgotten to count while spinning it. When she finally noticed her mistake it was already too late and time seemed to run backwards before her eyes.

On and on it went and Rose wondered how far into the past she would go. Days? Weeks? Maybe even months? It finally stopped and Rose carefully looked around.