I do not own Harry Potter characters, they belong to J.K Rowling. WARNING - Spoiler to the cursed child, don't read if you don't want to find out what happens in it for whatever reason that may be. BTW - Nothing happens to the twins - no lost ear and no death. Please enjoy and review!
Chapter 1 - The Train
Harry Potter was once again on platform 9 ¾. This time it wasn't him stepping on that train, it was his children. Harry and Ginny had married shortly after the Battle of Hogwarts, then they had had three children: James Sirius Potter, Albus Severus Potter and finally Lily Luna Potter. His middle child – Albus – would be attending Hogwarts for the first time, today. Suddenly, a whining voice interrupted his train of thoughts. "I won't be in Slytherin. I won't! I won't!" the voice came from Albus, he was continuing the argument that he and James had started in the car. "Yes, you will!" taunted James in a sing-song voice. Harry rolled his eyes, "James," he warned "Albus, come here I want to tell you something." Harry said turning to his middle son. Harry bent down to his son's level. "Albus, the sorting hat will take your choice into account. It worked for me," said Harry revealing a secret that none of his other children knew, or anyone else for that matter "Don't always listen to James, you know, he takes after my dad!" Harry grinned "Besides, even if you are in Slytherin, it doesn't matter. One of the people you are named after is the bravest man I know. He risked everything to protect me, I didn't realise this until it was too late…I wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for him. My point is, Slytherin would gain a great wizard, if you so happened to be in that house." Harry explained, Albus looked reassured and smiled at his dad. They walked back over to the rest of the group. "When are they going to get here?" Lily asked her mum. Ginny sighed and responded with the classic response of "They'll get here, when they get here." Lily frowned at her mum. Then, Lily squealed in delight, "They're here, they're here!"
Ron and Hermione, with their two children – Rose and Hugo – had just materialised through the barrier, "Ron, Hermione, good to see you!" Harry greeted his best friends but now brother and sister in law, whilst the children were having their own mini reunion. Like Albus, Rose would too be attending Hogwarts. In past years, Ron and Hermione would just be coming to see James off, this time, they were coming to see Albus, James and Rose off. Ron looked around and saw Draco Malfoy with his wife and son. "So that's little Scorpius, eh?" he pointed out. "Thank god you inherited your mother's brains, Rose, you are going to beat him in every test, otherwise I will disown you!" he told his daughter. "Ron!" exclaimed Hermione, nudging her husband in the ribs.
"What? That hurt!" he whined as he rubbed his sides.
"Don't say that!" she warned, reminding Ron of Professor McGonagall, so he shut up. "Thank you for the comment. Though, I seem to remember that you didn't like my brains in our first year – something about 'she's a bloody nightmare' and 'a know-it-all'." Hermione reminded Ron, as he turned a bright shade of red as he remembered the memory. Harry and Hermione laughed. "Sorry." Ron mumbled. "Fred, George!" Harry called Ginny cry. He turned around to see Ginny hugging her brothers, who were twins. "Ginny, I present to you…" introduced Fred.
"Messrs Fred…" continued George.
"And George." Fred finished. At the end of this they bowed dramatically, causing Ginny, Harry, Ron, Hermione and the children to burst into applause and laugh. "We must now be off." Fred ad George announced, they grabbed hands and skipped off into the crowd. "They never change!" laughed Harry, shaking his head. "Well, they do own a Joke shop in Diagon Alley." Ron pointed out.
The train whistled, and Ginny ushered everyone onto the train, very much like Mrs Weasley – her mother – had done. James and his friends went to find a compartment on their own, so Albus and Rose went to find one for themselves. They finally found one that was empty and sat down, they peered out of the window and waved goodbye to their family. "Mummy!" Lily was whining "I want to go this year!" Ginny smiled and sighed, her daughter reminded her very much of herself as a ten-year-old. "Not this again Lily, I told you already, you have to wait until next year, anyway you don't have any stuff – books, quills, robes – there wouldn't be any point, if you don't have the stuff, it's too late now." Ginny once again explained to her daughter.
"Fine!" Lily sulked "At least let me run alongside the train!" Lily pestered. "Okay, but come back after you lose sight of it." Ginny agreed. Harry checked his battered watch, twenty seconds to go, the Hogwarts Express was always on time, it left bang on eleven 'o' clock, no sooner, no later. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 and just as he had predicted, the train left as he reached zero. His daughter ran alongside the train as she waved frantically to her brothers and cousin, they waved back and Albus grinned, he was off to Hogwarts.
As the train passed through a long tunnel and Albus lost sight of his family a boy with blonde hair, resembling Draco Malfoy opened the compartment door. "Hi, are you expecting anyone else? Can I sit here, please?" the boy asked politely. "I'm Scorpius, by the way, Scorpius Malfoy." Scorpius told them before Albus could even answer. At the mention of his name Rose looked slightly uncomfortable, Scorpius noticed. "Sure, you can." Albus said.
"No, Albus." Rose hissed.
"Why?" Albus asked.
"Because he is the son of Draco Malfoy." Rose replied.
"So?" Albus questioned.
"So, we can't be friends with him." Rose said as though it was all obvious.
"Just because of some feud between his father and our parents?" scoffed Albus "Geez, Rose, you're smarter than that!" he told Rose. "Sure, you can sit down." Albus added, turning to the boy.
"Thanks, but I know that the real reason that she doesn't like me isn't because of our parents being enemies." Scorpius revealed, sadly
"Huh? What is the reason then?" Albus asked to no one in particular. It was Rose who spoke this time. "Well, he's rumoured to be the son of Lord Voldemort. I guess it is just a rumour, though. I'm sorry, of course you can sit with us." Rose said, apologetically.
"It's ok, I've been having this trouble for a while, I'm not that welcome. My father doesn't help matters much either, if it isn't the Voldemort's son thing, then it's my father. He really is my father – Draco Malfoy, I mean." Scorpius explained, sadly. For a while, they sat in silence, either reading or looking out of the window, watching trees and mountains go by. Rose was the first to break the silence at half past eleven. "A-a-a-albus, y-y-your forehead." Rose stuttered, pointing to it.
"What about it? Calm down Rose!" Albus said.
"S-s-scar." Rose stuttered in fear "Like your Dad's!" she whispered, gulping. Scorpius looked up from the book he was reading. "She's right!" he gasped, his eyes were wide open. Albus put his hand upon his forehead and felt around, sure enough a scar was there. "What does it mean?"
