(This chapter is really short-sorry)
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Chapter 1
"Mom! Dad!" Albus yelled as he bolted through the mass of people standing outside the great hall.
"Hey, Al," his dad said, laughing at his enthusiasm. He hugged his son, then pushed his glasses up his nose. Albus loved it when he did that. It made him feel at home.
"Where's your brother?" asked his mom. She was craning her neck, looking around for James. Albus sighed a little. "He's probably already inside. Let's go," Albus muttered as he led his parents inside.
All around him, he saw joyful kids reuniting with their families. He nodded at his Slytherin comrade, Scorpius Malfoy, as he walked by him and his parents, and laughed as his fellow 3rd year Kate Finnegan-Brown squealed when her dad threw her over his shoulder. He tried to ignore the stares and whispers that were always attracted by his famous dad and snake son. Parent's weekend was always crazy, and this was no exception. After the Hogwarts remodel (which had fixed all the old towers and had added a whole new wing,), Headmistress McGonagall thought it would be fun to have all the parents visit for a weekend in March, and listen to the teachers explaining what they had been learning. No more angry owls from adults demanding to know what the hell was happening up there, you wackos. The visitors all stayed in a temporary hotel that had been conjured up by the teachers and floated around the castle like a great big balloon, connected by a magical bridge. The students had school on the weekend – the only time in the year that happens - and the parents ate meals with the kids in the Great Hall and spent most of their time on tours in the classrooms.
"Oh, hold up, Al, it's the Weasleys," said his dad. He turned Albus to face towards a huge gathering of tall redheads who were all laughing and squealing as they hugged each other. As the Potters-minus-two approached the group, a familiar face poked out from between two people with their backs facing out. "Harry! Ginny! Oh come on, make some room, you lot," Uncle Ron said as he squeezed his ample frame out through the crowd. Albus' cousin Rose followed him, and a woman with bushy brown hair who must have been Aunt Hermy (James had started calling her that as a baby, Dad and Ron had laughed wildly for God-knows-why, but the nickname stuck,) squeezed out behind. "Hello Potters!" said Ron, and gave Harry a bear hug. Albus giggled as he heard his dad wheeze under the pressure.
There followed a lot of hugging, and by the end, Albus's brother James had made his way over to them. Albus sighed again as his mother embraced his tall, handsome, 6th year Gryffindor brother and immediately started firing questions at him as to how school was going and if he was still dating Adana Patil. "You never owl," Ginny scolded as his brother laughed and flipped his hair back.
"'Scuse me, I'm gonna go find Nerri," he said. "Ok, Al, be back soon," his mom said absentmindedly, then went back to chatting with James.