A/N: Ok this is now warning number two, this is full of DH spoilers, coz it's set after the epilogue of that book if you haven't read it don't read this. Now to everyone still reading, hey all, how's doing? I'm going have a little play with the new characters; if you're not interested in them then this is not for you.

Disclaimer: Nope I don't own anything...if I did do you really think that I would be writing fan fiction?

The Hogwarts Express

"Al, Al, what are you doing come on" Rose Weasley called to her cousin who stopped outside the bathrooms of the Hogwarts express. Rose knew no one would steal their compartment because she'd set up a spell to make it look like it was full but she was still worried that something might go wrong because she'd never really done magic before, only small things. She ran back and grabbed her cousin's upper arm trying to pull him in the right direction.

"Wait Rosie, I thought I heard something" Albus said looking at his cousin with some pleading. That's when she heard it too, soft sobbing coming from behind the bathroom door, she looked at Al with a raised eyebrow, to which he just shrugged.

"Excuse me," Rose called through the door, "are you ok?"

There was a short pause in the sobbing which was followed by a hiccup and then another sob. Rose looked at her cousin, he looked right back at her, she bit her lip in deep thought then looked back at the door.

"I'm coming in alright" she said through the door, she was only answered by another hiccup and sob. Rose looked at the door, reached out and pulled on it, but it was locked. She took a deep claiming breath and took another step forward, then looked back at Al, for someone who'd never done magic she was doing a lot of it today. Pointing her wand at the lock Pose mumbled quietly "alohamora" and the lock clicked open. Pulling the door open Rose slipped into the room followed closely by Albus who pulled the door closed behind him. On the floor in front of them was a small pale, blond boy with his face hidden by his hands, sobs rattling his slight frame. Rose took a seat of the floor in front of the boy and looked at him.

"Are you ok?" She asked quietly as not to intimidate him. Albus looked her shaking his head and rolling his eyes. The boy front of the silently arguing cousins looked up, his ice blue eyes were red and puffy and his nose was running slightly. Rose and Al looked at the boy and smiled reassuringly.

"I don't want to go" the boy whispered.

"What? To Hogwarts?" Rose asked astonished "but why not? It's going to be great, you get sorted and then you make friends and go to classes and learn to fly and...and..." Rose trailed off rubbing her arm where her cousin had just elbowed her with considerable strength.

"I...I, people won't like me" The boy stuttered.

"But, how do you know that?" Al asked a little puzzled.

"Coz of my dad" the boy said lowering his gaze to his knees.

"Your dad?" Rose asked.

"Yeah, Draco Malfoy, people really don't like him much."

"Oh so you're Scorpius" Rose said realisation dawning on her, that was the boy her dad had been talking about. Albus looked at her, his eyes huge and he shaking his head vigorously.

"How...How do you know me?" Scorpius asked.

"Oh, I've just heard my dad talk about your dad is all" she said smiling at him.

"Sorry, we should introduce ourselves seeing as we barged in on you," Al said smiling at Rose, "I'm Al Potter and this is my cousin Rose Weasley."

"Haha, why didn't you use your whole name Al" Rose said looking at her cousin.

"Cause, it's dorky, seriously who wants a name like Albus?" he answered, "And no one ever calls me Albus unless I'm in trouble."

"Yeah, so most people call me Rosie, but you introduced me as Rose" the girl retorted.

"Fine this is Rosie Weasley" Al said to the blond boy who was starting to smile at them.

"Rosie and Al," he repeated, "well nice to meet you." Scorpius offered his hand to the cousins in turn and they both shook his.

Rose stood up followed by Albus, then both of the kids offered their hands to Scorpius who took them and was pulled up.

"Wow, you look worse for wear," Rose stated, receiving another elbow to the arm from Al, "Well he does Al and mum always says honesty is always the best policy."

"There are times when your kind of honesty is not needed, Rosie" Albus said rolling his eyes again.

"But I can fix that up, mum used to do it for me when Hugo used to take my toys" Rosie smiled and pulled out her wand for the third time that day and aimed it at Scorpius' face muttering a spell under her breath and smiled at her handy work.

"Wow, how do you know that kind of magic?" Scorpius asked looking at his fully normal face.

Rose shrugged "I just copy mum" she said. Scorpius looked awed at Rose for a moment before Albus broke in.

"Rosie you are such a show off" he stated opening the door to the bathroom and emerging into the hallway of the train. "OW," he yelled getting up off the floor, "oh man I forgot that was there, that bloody hurt."

"Al" Rose said giving her cousin an embarrassed look.

"Sorry, I didn't have a compartment so I just left it there" Scorpius said looking at Al who was climbing up from the floor after tripping over his trunk.

"We've got a compartment" Rose said grabbing the trunk and started pulling it in the direction of their compartment. "Here we are" she said stopping outside a full looking compartment.

"But there are people in there" Scorpius said.

"Ah, that's only what it looks like" Rose said as she tapped the door with her wand and all the people inside the compartment disappeared. She smiled opening the door and pulling the trunk in behind her. She looked at the trunk then and the space for it above their heads, then with a simple swish and flick of her wand the trunk was flying upwards and rested in the holder neatly. Rose plonked herself into one of the seats followed by the two boys.

"So what house do you want to be in?" She asked Scorpius.

"Um, well I'm not quite sure; they all mean you're good at different stuff. I think maybe Ravenclaw, you know, because then you'd know you were smart. But, it doesn't really bother me as long as I can make some friends in my house" he said becoming suddenly shy.

"Oh, Ravenclaw would be great, I think I'd either like to go there or Gryffindor, like my mum and dad. Al is intent on being in Gryffindor, says there's nowhere else for him. That, and he doesn't want his brother James to bag him out" Rose said laying herself across the seat she was occupying by herself.

"Rosie! You really need to learn when to shut up" Albus said turning the dark shade of red, that when you had Weasley in you either meant severe embarrassment or increasing anger, in this case it was embarrassment. "I'm not worried about what James will say, I just don't want to be in Slytherin" Al said looking at his cousin in a matter-of-fact way.

"Sorry Al, I wasn't trying to say anything offensive" Rose said laying her head on a rolled up jumper she'd pulled out of her trunk.

The three pre-teens sat in relative silences with only the soft strains of Rose's singing, and the turning of pages from the text book Scorpius was reading. Rose closed her eyes singing small parts of Eva Cassidy's Songbird to herself, more than anyone.

"You know Rosie," Albus said as she started a new song, "I don't know how you ended up with such a pretty singing voice, with the way uncle Ron sings, it sounds like a dying cat."

"Well thank you, I'm very glad you're comparing my singing to a dying cat Albus," Rose said without opening her eyes, "but yeah, dad's singing should not be heard by anyone with any hearing left."

Scorpius smiled behind his book, his family was never like this, there was just him and his parents, neither of which were very funny. He liked hearing this little tid bit of someone else's family life. He didn't envy them as such, he quite liked his family how they were, his dad was a good mentor, and taught him many interesting things and his mother was amazingly comforting when the other kids would pick on him and he knew both his parents loved him very much. But, this was different, he knew that there were there were 6 Weasley adults and that they're were at least 3 of their kids at school, their family things would have been crazy with all of them there, and all the things from the joke shop in Diagon Alley, this family would have been very different from his own. It was interesting.

"You know I didn't mean it like that Rosie, I meant you are really good and your dad sucks and I don't understand how that happened" Albus said defending himself.

"I know Al, don't panic" Rose said, before returning to her half asleep singing state, Al feel back into silence and pulled out his copy of Quidditch Through The Ages and began to read it for about the millionth time. Before long the lights came on up the train and people could be heard moving back to trunks.

"I think it's time to get into our robes" Scorpius said standing on his seat to reach into his trunk and pull out his brand new robes that had been crisply folded by his mother before he'd left that morning. The other two followed in suit and Rose left the compartment to find a toilet to get changed in.

Before long the three friends were making their way out of the train and onto the platform, it had finally happened, they were here and theirs years at Hogwarts awaited them.

A/N: Ok so that's the first chapter, I have a good idea where this story is going so I hope to be updating at least weekly...but no promises. So leave me a review and tell me what you think coz I always like hearing what you guys think. Um I think that's it except please do review!!

Much love and later dayz

Manda

P.S I need a name for this story, if it helps it should be Rose/Scorpius by the end but it might take a while, I'm thinking of a series. Any way if you have any ideas for a name please tell me.

Next time: Sorting!