Selcouth- something marvelous,rare,unfimilar

Scorpius was wondering how he didn't notice it before. Her. And once he noticed it no not it… her…she was hard not to notice. In his life full of shades between black and white she was a bursting glittering rainbow.

He had been friends…and friendlier with the Potters since his first year. Ever since this black haired weirdo Albus, sat down across him in the Hogwarts Express much to the dismay of his bushy haired cousin Rose and his older brother James. Eventually, they'd accepted their strange friendship. Both boys were the spitting image of the fathers, no matter how hard they tried not to be. Albus managed to do one thing that distinguished him from his family: becoming a Slytherin. Scorpius did the unthinkable in befriending a Potter…the others can think what they want. He didn't care….at least he pretended not to…he was a Slytherin, after all, …on the one hand…screw the opinions of others…and on the other hand…they did matter…especially if those others were people that were close to him. But his mother was fine with it, she was loving like that…and his father, Scorpius guessed, too…at least he wasn't openly against it.

On his first Christmas holidays, he visits the Potter's house in Godric's Hollow for the first time. He was a nervous wreck when he met The Harry Potter and The Ginny Potter (nee Weasley), a former player of the Holy Head Harpies (He couldn't deny to freak out a little. Quidditch was one of his guilty pleasures after all).

James, as Scorpius knew from several occasions at school was kind of an arrogant prick, priding himself with his name…but he was kind of, in a strange way, very brotherly…warmhearted…when he got Albus in a headlock and ruffled his hair, that James himself had been blessed with as well. Brothers had to be like that, Scorpius wouldn't know being an only child.

At dinner that day, when he was playing wizarding chess with Albus and Rose, who'd come to visit with her little brother Hugo (who followed around James like a little puppy) he first saw their sister Lily Luna. Oddly enough, he had been the whole day at the Potters' and hadn't caught a glimpse, or heard a sound, from the eight-year-old and now he just saw a wild mop of rusty red buzzing around the dinner table setting up the plates. When they finally sat down to eat, he uncomfortably avoided the gaze that the little girl threw at him with those huge eyes he wasn't sure of which color they had. She kept looking at him across the table squinting sometimes…then rushed to finish her food and excused herself from the table with a silent look to her mother and father, before she disappeared upstairs.

"Don't mind my cousin," Rose told him "She is a bit…strange…"

He didn't think much of it…kids were strange. Hugo was no better in his admiration of James' awful puns and he didn't ask much further…occasionally he got some information about her…Albus told him that she was very close to her Godmother Luna Scamander and her god brothers Lorcan and Lysander, twins who joined Hogwarts just a year before them. He knew the twins from sight, one of them was a Hufflepuff and the other was a Ravenclaw…but he didn't know who was who. Albus also informed that Lily was a very quiet girl in front of strangers…and it took very long for her to open up…even to her own family. She wasn't really close to anybody, except her brothers, including Teddy his girlfriend Victoire and Louis.

Lastly, he learned that she kept squinting because she needed glasses and kept losing them around the house…he had said it with a loving smile when Scorpius' father noticed that Albus didn't wear glasses.

"Lily is the only one who had dad's eyesight…," he said "luckily otherwise I'd look more like him," he whispered it so quietly only Scorpius could hear it.

In his third year, Albus couldn't stop worrying about his little sister on the way to Hogwarts. After they had boarded the train she apparently had wandered off alone…even though she had promised Albus to stay close and was eager to sit with them in the compartment.

"She'll be okay," Amaryl Avery said, who was the twin sister of their friend Anthony Avery "Nobody will pick on a first year."

"It's actually the other's I am worried about," Albus sighed "Ever since she got a wand and is still allowed to use it at home she is practicing spells…and turns out she is very good a charms…particularly the bat boogie hex…even if it sometimes turns out to be a hex of just giant flying black boogers."

We didn't saw her until sorting, hard to see…even between the sea of first years, and Scorpius was sure he'd never been so small, she disappeared because of her height…even with her flaming hair that someone had tried to put in a ponytail. She still didn't have her glasses on, and squinted while she tried to look for known faces from the tables. He saw Rose, from the Gryffindor table frown upon it…she had got the hang out of a sleeking spell and used a potion to keep her hair neat and clean…but then Miss. Weasley worried about Hugo who was so red in his face he matched the Gryffindor's table perfectly. It surprised nobody as the Weasley got sorted into the house…but everyone was kind of surprised when Lily Luna got sorted into Ravenclaw. She happily ran over, with little jumps in between walking and sat down next to one of the Scamander twins…Lysander...or was it Lorcan…and that was the last time…Scorpius really took notice of her…until a few years later.

I felt the sudden urge to write this.

Even though I'm suppose to submit some term papers in on Monday...

Well, anyhow I don't know yet in what path this story will take...let's find out together :)

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