A/N: Hi everyone! This is my first actual chaptered fanfiction. I hope you enjoy it and please leave a review. All comments are appreciated (except flames). Thanks!

Summary: We all know the story of Harry and the gang, but what happens in the future? Join Albus, Scorpius and Rose in a year full of adventure and mystery.

Disclaimer: I do not own this story or the characters. They all belong to the wonderful J.K. Rowling. If I were her, you would be reading this story from a perfect hardocver book. But I'm not, so you get to read typed pages. I am not recieving any monetary gain fo this work!

Chapter 1: An Uninvited Guest

Albus

He sat with his face pressed against the window, watching as his family disappeared around the bend. It was the first time he was leaving them. He was going to be gone for ages. Oh, how he was going to miss them. He had already planned what he was going to put in the letter he would write when he reached his destination. Then a sharp voice brought him back to earth.

"Stop your sulking, Al. We're going to Hogwarts!"

His cousin, Rose Weasley, was sitting opposite him; her arms crossed in front of her and her eyes were glinting. They were sitting on the scarlet Hogwarts Express, heading to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Albus and Rose usually got along, but when Rose was bossy, Albus got annoyed.

"Gosh, you don't have to get mad because I'm going to miss my family," Albus snapped. Rose opened her mouth to retaliate, but was cut off when the compartment door opened.

In stepped a pale-faced boy with sleek blonde hair and a pointed face. His head was lowered, not looking at Rose and Albus.

Albus sprang to his feet, whipping his wand out as he went. He knew this boy. It was Scorpius Malfoy, the son of his father's old enemy at school.

Scorpius raised his head, staring down Albus' mahogany wand. He looked fleetingly at the two and practically flew out the door.

Rose flipped her braid over her shoulder. "Well, I'm glad you got rid of him!" she muttered.

Albus merely grunted a reply. The look on Scorpius' face hadn't been what he had expected. I was of someone timid and shy, not the arrogant boy his Uncle Ron perceived him to be.

An elderly woman walked past the compartment. "Anything off the trolley?" she inquired.

Albus leapt up. Of course he wanted something! He planned on buying as many Chocolate Frogs as he could, to find a card of his dad to show off.

A few minutes later, Albus was completely covered in wrapper and hopping frogs. He was waving a card triumphantly in the air.

"Got one!" he called happily.

"No kidding Al. No kidding."

Fairly soon, the scenery outside turned from grassy meadows to rolling plains. A light rain was falling as the train wound through the hills. Rose had changed into her Hogwarts robes, and was nagging Albus to do the same. "You want to be prepared, don't you?" Rose inquired.

"Not so early," Albus muttered, "that everyone stares." He gestured to the window on the door where a large cluster of girls, still in their Muggle clothes, were staring at Rose in what appeared to be shock.

Rose, on the other hand, simply smiled and waved at the gaping girls, who scurried off down the corridor. "Hogwarts," Albus exclaimed. "I see Hogwarts!"

"Wow squirt, it is Hogwarts! Good for you!"

Albus jerked his head around. His annoying big brother James was standing in the compartment doorway. He was in his robes. "Just came to warn you one last time about Slytherin, Al," James taunted.

Rose frowned. "Stop teasing Albus," she spat at James. He just smirked and mussed up Rose's bangs. Then he shook his dark hair out of his eyes and left the two, chortling all the way.

The train pulled into Hogsmeade Station a while later. Albus had finally changed into his robes and Rose was already halfway off the train. Albus picked up his bag and raced to catch up to Rose. "Firs' years over 'ere! All firs' years!"

A towering giant was ushering timid-looking first years over to a flock of boats on the edge of an expanse of black water. Then the giant man turned. "'Ere's the little Albus," he boomed. Albus smiled at the large man. "Hi Hagrid!"

Rose smiled too, and then started on a long stream of chatter. "Can you really lift trees? Did you really get expelled? Is your brother a real giant? Are you a real giant?"

Albus knew that Rose didn't believe what her father had told her about Hagrid. She was too practical, and her father had tricked her enough times. Suddenly his breath caught in his throat. What if they were in different houses? This thought had occurred to him before, but he hadn't really registered what it might mean.

He wouldn't know anyone in his classes. He wouldn't have anyone to sit with at meal times. He would have to make new friends and that's what worried him the most.

Albus was terrible at making friends. At Young Sorcerers Academy, where he went before Hogwarts, his only friend was Rose. When she wasn't there, he was all alone. He was afraid that people wouldn't like him for who he was, only who his dad was.

"Yeh can get in the boats now, Hagrid announced. "We're all 'ere."

Albus leapt into a spot beside Rose in the closest boat. Scorpius Malfoy slipped unnoticed on the seat behind the duo.

The sky was just beginning to darken as the fleet of boats started across the black lake to Hogwarts castle.