Moments
First year.
Scorpius had been put into Gryffindor, he couldn't believe it. What would his dad, and grandad say? He didn't know, he was currently sitting in an overstuffed chair, staring into space, his 11-year-old mind worried and a bit ashamed to be sitting where he was. His thoughts were interrupted by a loud raucous in the middle of the common room, a whole bunch of people, many of them read heads, were yelling, laughing, and patting each other on the back. A tall red head boy screamed, "WELCOME YOU TWO!" to a gangly black-haired boy, who looked very pleased with himself and a frizzy red-haired girl.
At that moment the black-haired boy turned around and saw Scorpius staring at them, he sailed over, reached over to shake his hand, and said "I'm Al, you're the Malfoy boy, aren't you?" he wasn't sure quite what to make of the Al, and just nodded.
"Come join us" The boy named Al said. "Fred managed to get some desserts, there's enough to share"
"No thanks" he answered, but at that moment the frizzy haired girl turned around and smiled at them. Al motioned for here to come over and said "This is my cousin, Rose, she also in our year"
Rose waved and said "If you guys don't come over soon, all of the sweets will be gone"
He felt it would be churlish of him to deny the offer twice, specially to a girl, that was standing there smiling at him so widely. He walked with them towards the noisy boys and the massive pile of sweets.
He knew now who this family was, the Weasley and Potter kids were infamous in the magical world. He had been raised knowing of their parents, but aside from the fact that they had helped bring the Dark Lord down, his family had made him think that they had nothing good to recommend them.
He grabbed a single chocolate frog, and just watched, feeling very out of place. Al, was standing next to him jabbering away with his mouth full, arguing with another black-haired boy who seemed to be named James.
The girl named Rose was sitting with a beautiful tall blonde girl, talking about the lessons that would start the next day. She caught his eye and stood "Bit loud, isn't it?" Scorpius said nothing. "I guess after being raised with them you stop noticing it. Do you have any siblings?" He shook his head.
"Not much of a talker, are you?" Said Al turning to them, Scorpius turned to look at the boy next to him, he was about to reply scathingly, he had been raised to do that very well, but he realized that there was no malice in the boy's eyes, he did not seem to be mocking him.
"Oh, leave him alone Al, not everybody likes showing people every bite of food they put in their mouths" said Rose rolling his eyes pointedly at him.
Scorpius spent the rest of the night in the company of the massive family, different members of this family came periodically to talk to them, poke fun at them good naturedly, offered more food, but generally just let them be. He knew from what his parents had told him, that the Weasley and Potter clan were a stuck up, sort of people, but all of what was happening now, seemed to contradict what he had been told all of his life.
Time to go to bed came, he said good night to Albus and Rose, and left by himself to the dormitory.
As he laid in his comfortable bed, he decided he would try to avoid the kids he had spent the night with, after all his dad and grandad could not had been this wrong, he would somehow explain that he had been put into Gryffindor by owl in the morning and make new friends that his parents would approve of.