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In the wake of the war, the Annual Hogwarts Halloween Corn Maze was started. Every year after the Halloween Feast, students were invited to enter the ever-changing maze, to follow clues, find treats, and attempt to get to the centre of the maze and then back out again.
Rose Weasley had grown up with stories of the maze which had been founded during her parents' final and unexpected Eighth Year at the school. Her older cousins loved it and as such she’d excitedly counted down the days from September 1st to Halloween, looking forward to entering the maze herself for the first time.
Everything had started out fine, she’d entered the maze with the other First Year Gryffindor’s and begun to explore the long corn-hedged passages. Seventh Years were dressed up in Muggle Halloween costumes, offering clues and frights to younger students.
It had been great, and she’d collected lots of candy along the way, but then the corn-hedge moved, separating her from the other Gryffindor’s and Rose found herself suddenly all alone except for a cobweb with a giant house spider upon it.
Rose let out a terrified scream and began to run away, tears streaming down her face as she escaped her biggest fear. As she rounded a corner in the maze, she bumped into something warm and solid, a pair of arms grabbing hold of her stopping her from falling onto the muddy ground below her feet.
“Hey, its Rose, isn’t it, are you alright, what happened,” a posh, boyish voice asked, Rose looked up shocked into the silver eyes of her cousin Albus’ best friend Scorpius Malfoy, she nodded silently at his questions and accepted a silken handkerchief that he passed to her.
“I got separated from my friends and then saw a big spider,” she explained feeling embarrassed, Scorpius didn’t laugh though, instead he smiled at her kindly.
“I got separated from my friends too, why don’t we stick together and conquer this corn maze,” he asked, Rose grinned and nodded.
By the time they escaped the maze three hours later, Scorpius Malfoy and Rose Weasley were thicker than thieves and vowed to do the Annual Halloween Corn Maze every year together. It wasn’t until their fourth time doing this challenge that anything changed between them, and they shared their first kiss in the centre of the maze that had started their friendship.
The End