Chapter 1: The Hogwarts Express
"Come on already Rose! Let's find a place to sit! How about with some cousins?" goaded Albus to Rose.
"Where though? Not James, he'd never let us. What about Molly? I'm sure she would. Although, there are a lot more cousins that would let us," inquired Rose.
Albus hit his head with his hand. "Oh! We have so many cousins. Let me just get my list out."
Rose raised her eyebrows. "You keep a list?"
Albus looked at her confused. "Well of course I do. You don't? I can just pull it out whenever I need to. It makes things so much easier."
Rose laughed, "Albus, you do know that by the time you do figure out whom to sit with, we'll be at Hogwarts."
Albus sighed, "Yeah, you're probably right. Let's just keep on walking until we find a compartment with a cousin."
So the two walked through the train looking for a familiar face to sit with. They must have all been in the back because it sure took a while.
They did find a compartment with a kid around their age sitting alone, reading a book, Hogwarts a History.
"Hey Albus, do you think we should sit with him? He looks kind of lonely," whispered Rose.
"Yeah," replied Albus.
They opened the compartment and stepped in shyly.
"Hi! If you don't mind, could we please sit here? We can't seem to find any of our cousins which is odd because we have quite a lot!" rambled Rose cheerfully.
"Of course!" the blond boy replied.
"Thank you. I'm Albus by the way, Albus Potter. This is my cousin Rose Weasley," smiled Albus.
"Hey! I know who your parents are! They're on Chocolate Frog cards! But WOW!" the kid said in a big breath. He then added, "Oh, my name is Scorpius Malfoy."
"Oh, uh, Malfoy?" Rose said looking quite taken aback.
Scorpius' eyes suddenly widened, "Oh, no! Please don't think I believe in that pure blood silliness! That's gone! I'm not like that! Please believe me!"
Now it was Albus and Rose's turn to be wide-eyed. "No. It's okay, we believe you. Don't freak out!" assured Albus.
"So, are you two first years too?" said Scorpius.
"Oh, yeah. We are," Rose replied.
At that time, a freakishly beautiful girl stepped in. Immediately, Scorpius fell off his seat, his face in awe.
The girl's face turned in alarm. "Oh! Let me help you!" But Scorpius wasn't paying attention.
"Hey! I can blow up the face of the earth with one spell I created!"
The girl laughed a friendly laugh, "Oh, well I don't think that's legal I'm afraid!"
Scorpius gasped, "You're afraid?! Don't worry, I'm here!"
"Let's tell him now," Albus laughed.
"Scorpius! Dominique is part Veela!" Rose yelled in front of Scorpius' face.
Veela were simply beautiful creatures that easily charm most males with their looks and cause them to say or do many extreme things that they would otherwise never do or accomplish.
Scorpius went out of the trance quickly. "Huh? Oh. No wonder. Still, she's beautiful!" muttered Scorpius. "How come you're not saying stupid things, Albus?"
Dominique answered that, "Well, he is used to it. We see each other a lot since we're cousins.
"Tonight, I'm going down to the Ministry to become the youngest Minister of Magic ever!" squealed Scorpius, in a daze again.
Dominique looked concerned, "Maybe I should go."
"No! It's okay. I'll just turn the other way," muttered Scorpius.
"Oh, no. It's fine. I just wanted to find Rose and Albus. I'll be off now. Bye!" said Dominique shaking her head. "Bye!" replied the three. She stepped out as her long, brown hair swished, causing Scorpius to gasp.
"So I think I hear the trolley coming. Let's get some candy!" piped up Scorpius. He was definitely correct because the trolley came wheeling through with all kinds of Wizarding sweets. Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes, Chocolate Frogs, Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, Jelly Slugs, and Liquorice Wands name all on the trolley. Albus knew them all!
"Hello boys and young lady!" the trolley witch said cheerfully. "What would you like today?"
Rose looked at Albus and Scorpius with a smirk on her face, and then said, "We'll take 5 of everything please! Oh, and 5 extra Chocolate Frogs!"
"I'll help pay!" said Scorpius quickly. "That will be 14 sickles!" said the trolley witch. The three split their money and got the candy.
"Mmmmm," Scorpius let slip, "I LOVE chocolate!"
"Oh hey, here's Mum!" said Rose excitedly, "I have like 15 of her already though.
HERMIONE WEASLEY (GRANGER)
This intelligent Gryffindor muggle-born witch contributed greatly in the defeat of the terrible Lord Voldemort! The smarts of the Golden Trio also got many rights for Squibs, Muggles, Muggle-borns, and House-elfs! She went back to Hogwarts for her seventh year and is now an Auror.
"Gee! I'm surprised they even used Voldemort's name!" scoffed Scorpius.
"I know right!" replied Albus.
Then at that time, the compartment door opened and a boy with brownish-reddish hair Mohawk-style stepped in.
"Hi Fred," greeted Albus.
"Hey Albus, Rose. Who's this? Slicked back blond hair, pale skin, gray eyes, you must be a Malfoy! Why are you hanging out with him? I'm surprised he hasn't called you filthy blood traitors yet, or has he?"
Rose widened her eyes, "Fred no!" But it was too late. Scorpius was on the verge of crying, his eyes filled with tears. The poor kid. "Fred! He begged us not to judge him as a pure blood maniac! He's not like that!" said Albus giving his cousin a death stare.
Fred immediately looked sorry. "Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't mean that! I just thought, well the Malfoys were, well, you know… I'm really sorry!"
Scorpius smiled at the apology. "It's okay, my family has been pretty crazy about that stuff."
"Anyway, I came here to tell you that we'll be at Hogwarts in around ten minutes so you'd better get your robes on," said Fred.
"What's Hogwarts like?" came Rose's voice out from behind her light red hair as she rummaged through her suitcase for her robes.
Fred grinned, "You'll just have to wait until you get there to find out."
"Ugh!" said Albus as he finally found his robes crumbled up. "Let's go change now," he said grumpily.
"Okay," agreed Scorpius as he picked up his robes. The three went to the bathrooms to change their robes.
When they came out, the sight amazed them! It left Albus with his mouth opened in shock at the place he was going to stay for practically the whole year! A spectacular sight for sure! Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!
"Wow! I knew Hogwarts was big and grand, but I never imagined it was THIS big and grand!" said Scorpius slowly.
"I know right!" said Albus and Rose together in perfect coordination. They then looked at each other awe-struck.
Scorpius went on, "Father said Hogwarts—" What Draco Malfoy said about Hogwarts they didn't hear, for at that precise moment, a frightened looking boy dashed up to them and yelled, "IT'S THE DARK MARK! RUN TO YOUR COMPARTMENT EVERYBODY! UNLESS THERE'S A DEATH EATER IN THERE!"
