Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Harry Potter characters, obviously otherwise my name would be JK Rowling.

Challenge: Written for yeah I'm a b1tch's 20 drabbles, 20 prompts challenge. My Character is Scorpius Malfoy and the prompts are the chapter titles.

Author Note: The first few chapters are going to be laying the groundwork, the main story will kick off in Scorpius' Fifth Year.

Chapter One: Assumptions

First Year

Scorpius Malfoy was dreading his first train ride to Hogwarts. Draco had warned his son of the prejudices that might follow him to Hogwarts but he could never understand why they would. It seemed bizarre to him why people could be mad at him because of something that happened years before he was even born. But they did. The fact that he was the spitting image of his father really didn't help matters. Whenever anyone looked at him all they saw were the mistakes Draco Malfoy had made during his childhood. It happened when he was walking through Diagon Alley, people would cross the street so that they wouldn't have to walk directly past him. It happened less when he was alone with his mother but whenever he was with his father they would sneer at him.

When Scorpius got on the train he went to find a seat but everytime he looked into a compartment the students inside would raise their eyebrows and whisper about him. Scorpius only caught a few words like 'dangerous', 'Slytherin' and 'Death Eater' but that's all it would take to identify that he was not welcome.

What was even more ridiculous was that Scorpius was nothing like that, neither was his father. After the war Draco had done his best to rectify the mistakes he had made. He gave money to War Victim charities, he abolished Malfoy Enterprises rules about a Pureblood only workplace and even provided money and resources to help rebuild Hogwarts. The depleted Hogwarts library was reimbursed with tomes from the Malfoys own collection.
Despite all this Scorpius was, of course, still sorted into Slytherin, which he was quite glad about, not because of the negative affiliations of the house but because he felt like he had a slight chance of fitting in there as some of his family friends were already in Slytherin. Although these were friendships forged on being thrown together at Society parties, they were friendships none the less.

Scorpius' first true friend however was someone he never expected. Someone that no-one expected. After being sorted, Scorpius sat down to see where the rest of his year group were to be placed. When 'Potter, Albus' was called a loud cheer came from the Gryffindor table. There wasn't a single child from the new generations of Weasleys that had been sorted into anything but Gryffindor, so it seemed like an almost certainty that Albus would follow in their footsteps. Scorpius had even overheard a conversation Albus had had with his famous father on the platform. He was worried about getting sorted into Slytherin but was told that he could choose what House he wanted to be put into as the hat took your choice into consideration.

So imagine his, and everyone in the rooms surprise when the Hat opened his mouth and shouted. 'SLYTHERIN'.

The room was silent as Albus made his way over to the Slytherin table and took the seat directly opposite Scorpius. It took several moments before shock had worn off and the next name was called. The two boys looked at each other across the table. Opposites in almost every way. One with black untidy hair the other with smooth platinum blond locks. Bright green eyes looked back across the table into the icy silver eyes of the other. Albus was sitting with a warm open smile whilst he looked around at the sea of shocked faces.

He reached a hand across the table "Albus Potter."

"Scorpius Malfoy" he replied, tentatively shaking his hand. "I think you've just caused quite a stir."

Albus grinned, taking a quick look over his shoulder to where his family was sitting two tables over. "Who wants to be just like their family! I'm something more than just Harry Potter's son, a member of the Weasley-Potter brood. Is it so bad that I want people to know me, for me?"

And from that moment Scorpius knew that they would be friends.