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Chapter 1 (Surprise)

With a scowl, Scorpius Malfoy shoved his hands into the pockets of his grey trousers. It was pretty dark in the corridor except the occasional burning torch, so he made sure to stray near those. He was just going back to his common room from a tutoring session that had not gone well. He wondered briefly why Professor Witz had wanted him to tutor the Third Year anyway; Scorpius rarely tolerated certain people.

Witz was the Defence Against the Darks Arts professor at Hogwarts. Some students questioned if she was related to the retired Professor McGonagall as they seemed to share some of the same characteristics. Professor Witz always, always had every strand of her blonde hair in a tight, high bun on her head, but the bun was rarely seen since she constantly wore her pointy black hat. Scorpius sometimes cogitated if she wore the hairstyle when she slept.

Professor Witz was also seen as quite attractive in the mind of many boys, with her thin but tall body frame, light blue eyes, and face shape. The only turn-offs were her strict attitude, her ability to embarrass anyone if need be, and the amount of homework she loaded on her pupils.

Scorpius took his hands out his pockets to shrug off his robes, pull his jumper over his head, loosen his tie, and roll both sleeves of his white, buttoned shirt to show his forearms as he turned a corner that led to the Slytherin common room. Taking his robes and jumper, he held up his right arm and placed them over it, causing him to catch a glance of his watch.

10:09 p.m.

His scowl getting even deeper, he picked up his pace. As he walked the hallways, Scorpius could feel Goosebumps appear on his arms and thought about placing his robes back on. That's when the noticed something on the ground; he reckoned he would've never seen it without the torchlight stretching horizontally across the ground from where he stood.

A wand.

He started toward it before he stopped and looked around. He could only see as far as the torchlight went, so he quickly pulled out his own wand. "Lumos," he muttered. His wand tip lit up and he held it up, looking up and down the corridor. Who would leave a wand lying in the middle of the hallway on the ground? Once again, he looked around and tried to listen for sounds. He still could not see anything or anyone or hear any sounds, so he went over to the wand and bent down next to it.

The Slytherin was no wand expert, thus he couldn't tell how long it was or what its core was. With his own wand still lit in his right hand, he pushed the mysterious wand about the ground with it, just staring at it. He didn't know how long he had done that, but he finally stood up, the wand in his left hand. Just as Scorpius was going to walk away to report the wand, something fluttered to the ground from above. He paused, glancing at the parchment that had appeared.

Bending to get a better look at the words, Scorpius saw it was a list of books. Curious, he looked up to see where it had come from and was nearly sick. There was a girl hanging upside down in the air. The fact that scared Scorpius the most was that her face was completely flushed, which could only mean she had been up for a long time. The victim's eyes were closed and mouth was slightly ajar, her red hair fanning down. Her skirt was also down, but he was relieved to see she was wearing black stockings and, as a result, nothing was showing. Scorpius knew he wouldn't have time to go get a professor or student or anyone for fear of the girl.

"Okay," he mumbled to himself, "what was that Counter-jinx called?" Fortunately, he figured out the girl had been hung up there with the Levicorpus jinx but, unfortunately, he didn't know how to get her back down. "Fuck."

He closed his eyes, his grip on his wand tightening, willing himself to remember. He could recall reading about it somewhere, but he just couldn't remember the jinx. Then, miraculously, a memory came to him.

"Okay, Mister Malfoy, you are up next. Please, if you will, come to the front and use the spell I assigned you all for homework." Scorpius could feel someone nudge him multiple times, so he lifted his head from his arms which he had placed there to cushion the desk to get some sleep. He looked around confusedly.

"Go up and perform the Levicorpus jinx," Antonio, one of his dorm mates, muttered out of the corner of his mouth. Scorpius saw Professor Witz and some of his classmates looking at him expectedly, so he nodded gratefully to Antonio and went to the front. The professor pointed to a dummy he was to jinx.

He grabbed his wand, twirled it a few times for the girls, pointed it at the dummy and said, "Levicorpus!" The dummy was swung up from its ankles and hoisted up into the air. He could hear some applause from the class; most likely from the girls. Professor Witz walked toward him.

"Brilliant, Mister Malfoy, but if he had been paying attention–which you were not–or had done last night's homework–which you did not–then you would known that I wanted that jinx done nonverbally. Now, cast the Counter-jinx and do the incantation again." Scorpius glared as he heard a few laughs.

He sighed, raising his wand to the dummy in the air. Just as he was about to do as the professor had said, he faltered, realizing he didn't know the Counter-jinx. He could hear Witz's shoes as she came to stand next to him and out of his peripheral vision, he could see that her eyebrows were lifted, waiting.

When nothing happened in the next thirty seconds, Witz said, "You do not know the incantation to get the dummy down?" She may have phrased it as a question, but Scorpius knew it was more of a statement. His wand hand lowered slowly, so the professor took that as his answer. "You usually retain information, what has happened this time?" Scorpius still didn't say anything as he himself did not know the response to that.

Witz turned her eyes that had been boring into the side of the boy's face to the class. "Very well, then. Can anyone help Mister Malfoy?" Scorpius turned his face slightly to see a few hands in the air, including Antonio. He hoped Witz would call on his roommate so he wouldn't be too embarrassed, but, alas, she did not.

"Yes, Miss Weasley?"

"The Counter-jinx is Liberacorpus," Scorpius could hear the girl reply succinctly.

"Five points to Ravenclaw, thank you." Scorpius watched as Weasley beamed happily. "You now know how to get the dummy down, if you will." This part was directed at Scorpius, so he raised his wand arm again . . .

Scorpius's eyes opened; that day hadn't been one of his best, but, since then, he had redeemed himself to the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, though he felt he made some progress back after the tutoring session from earlier.

Licking his lips, he raised his wand to the subject as he had that day in Defence, and said clearly, "Liberacorpus." The blonde dropped his wand and the clothing that had been on his right arm as he quickly thrust his hands and arms forward to catch the girl. He fell on his knees, but was assuaged when he saw she hadn't been harmed any further. Struggling to stand up, Scorpius held the girl carefully. Luckily, he got up, but, unluckily, he couldn't get the wands that were on the ground unless he set her down.

"I'll just come back and get them later," he said. He really did not want to part with his wand, but for the sufferer, he would have to do so. "I'll just come back and get them later." Then he began a brisk jog to the Hospital Wing. He became aware of the fact he was moving her too much, so he had to settle for an efficient walk. Finally making it to the fourth floor of hospital tower, Scorpius couldn't figure out how to open the door with an unconscious person resting in his arms, so he ended up kicking the door and yelling.

"Madam Pomfrey, help! I need help! Poppy!" –kick– "Madam Poppy Pomfrey," – kick– "what are you doing . . ." –kick– ". . . sleeping on the job?" He was about to give the door another swift kick when it opened. Scorpius had to quickly stop his foot and almost fell forward with the girl.

"What is the meaning of this?" Madam Pomfrey appeared from behind the door and was tying a red robe in the front when some light from two candles she had lit and was levitating in the air filtered out in front of her a bit, helping her identify the hooligan kicking at her door at eleven at night. "Mister Malfoy!"

Scorpius was about to ask her why she brought two candles out instead of a wand when he remembered his own lying on the ground and the reason he was there. Before he could even tell her, though, she had moved the candle to his arms and gasped.

"Mister Malfoy," she repeated, "what in Merlin's name has happened to Miss Weasley?"

A/N: Yeah, you probably saw that coming at the end. Anyway, wanna tell me something about my (first) story? Please review! =)