Chapter One
MALFOY MANOR
Scorpius felt himself being shaken gently but firmly from sleep. "Young Master Malfoy, you must get up Master Malfoy." Scorpius brushed at the hands of Blinky the house elf.
"Go away Blinky, I don't wana get up." His voice was still thick from sleep as he rolled over. He was almost back to the oblivion of sleep before the hands came again.
"Your father wants to see you, young Master." The voice squeaky and grating pierced through Scorpius's sleepy mind. He groaned rolling over and the next thing he knew he was on the floor. Rubbing his head and groaning he lay in a tumble of blankets with the Malfoy crest on top. He sat up and Blinky was beside him within the instant, freeing him from the blankets. An eleven-year-old boy with piercing blue eyes and platinum blond hair was revealed. The house elf first helped his young master up with his hands and then with his head.
"Thank you Blinky, I am sorry I was so hard to awaken." Scorpius said and brushed at his black pantaloons and nightshirt.
"It is most alright Master Malfoy." Blinky said, he was devoted to the younger Malfoy and Scorpius was the only one that had ever been kind to him. Blinky was just sixteen and was honored to serve such a noble house. Scorpius stood in his elegant chamber and smiled combing his hair before continuing downstairs. His father was waiting for him in the dining room and so were his uncle Goyle and his cousins Gregory and Vincent.
"Hello." He said to the twins. "Good morning father.
"I would have thought that you would have been up by now. I would not have woken you if I had known, you are useless in the mornings before you have a few drops of awakening potion." His father sighed and gave him the bottle. "Only a few drops otherwise you are too hyper for your own good." Gregory chortled at that. The twins simply smiled, an unfortunate dumb spell had been cast in the past, which made them both excellent bodyguards but not much more use than the power they carried.
"Thank you father." Scorpius said.
"You are welcome my son, today begins the first day of the rest of your life. Today we are going to get your school supplies." His father said and Scorpius smiled. His father always talked like this and after a while you got used to it.
"Yippy." He said using a muggle term that had grown in popularity.
"I do not know what this yippy means but I do not like your attitude for once in your life be serious Scorpius." His father said and Scorpius sighed he was always like this, a drama king of his own castle.
"Can I take Blinky?" He asked and his father paused considering for a moment.
"Yes, you may." He replied after a moment. "I will still have his mother." Scorpius smiled.
"Thank you father." He said.
"He will however have to be invisible, servants are not supposed to be allowed at Hogwarts. He is now your servant, you hear that Blinky?"
"Yes Master Malfoy." Blinky replied and bowed in his thin sack.
"I believe that a present is in order, you may get whatever animal you wish." His father decreed. Then together they left by floo network. They arrived at Diagon Ally. To all appearances the younger Malfoy was the perfect copy of the older. To all appearances he was which didn't actually make it so. In truth Scorpius was a troublemaker and resistant to all authority. He stared longingly at Wesley's Wizarding Wheezes but knew that if his father had a say he would never be able to go inside. Anyway what was to say that George wouldn't kick him out again? He fingered the money his father had given him and stopped at the shop. He pulled out his list and said that he could have an owl a toad or a frog but what he really wanted was a raven.
He stared at one of the birds before deciding to enter and buy one he emerged a moment later, the raven perched upon his shoulder and a small string in his hand. He carried a cage with him. He smiled and nodded to his father across the street who had just emerged from the bookshop.
"Ready?" He asked smiling at his son's choice. "A raven how original, they can carry messages after all."
"I like her, I think I will call her Rowena." He smiled. "You would like that wouldn't you girl?" The raven cawed and it almost seemed to be talking. He stroked the feathers gently as they walked to the wand shop. Olivander's wands for all occasions. An ancient wizard slept on a stool.
"Olivander?" His father said and the wizard's head snapped up.
"Willow nine and a half inches." The man said to his father and Scorpius decided that Olivander had to be completely insane. "Ah yes the boy, lets see what we have for him." He took down several boxes placing them on the counter that came up to Scorpius's head. "Well boy what are you waiting for give it a wave." Scorpius did so and his arm felt funny but not quite right. He shook his head and returned the wand. He tried five more before he felt a warm feeling all over and he looked up grinning, he nodded.
"Found it." He said and carefully put it back into the box. His father paid for the wand and together they made their way to the robe shop. Scorpius stood as he was poked and prodded and if it wasn't to his imagination he was being pricked with a pin on purpose. He sighed and bore the measurements. He then put on his black cloak with a simple clasp and together they left again.
His mother greeted them both with still warm gingerbread cookies. He grinned and took a few. "Thanks Mum." He said and bit off the head of the iced cookie. The cookie held a little wand and Scorpius pulled out his own to show his mother.
"That's beautiful dear." His mother said and hugged him, starting to cry. "You are getting so big." She said and Scorpius bore being enveloped in her dress, where he could only taste fabric and even breathing was hard. His raven called out and his mother glanced up. "A raven? How original." She smiled at the bird. "Aren't you a beauty?"
The raven preened its long black feathers. "Her name is Rowena, she's coming with me to school aren't you?" Again the raven called out and now Scorpius was sure that she was speaking but he couldn't quite understand.
"Well now soon you will be going to school and you will to busy with Vincent and Gregory to write me." She said and Scorpius smiled, he loved his mother but sometimes she could be as much of an extremist as his own father. He smiled and put his books away in his room taking out his spell book.
"Come with me, we will ward the room from the ministry. No wizard should be without magic once they are of age." His father decreed and he fallowed. He smiled as he entered the spell room. "Good now start practicing, you want to be better than everyone else don't you? Of course you do." His father said and Scorpius started on the first spell. Listening to his father he changed a button into a butterfly and made a feather rise into the air. He was hooked the moment he started. He continued to practice until Blinky came into the room. "Masters? Dinner is served and waiting upon the table." His father nodded to display that he had heard and together they walked into the dining hall.
Dinner as always was a formal affair and Scorpius increasingly felt himself wanting to go to school. He smiled giving the outward good boy appearance. He dug into his dinner and ate happily. He listened to his parent's conversation with one ear but listened more to his house elf than to his parents.
"This is exciting isn't it Master?" Blinky asked.
"Yes it is, very exciting. You can learn house elf magic in the kitchens and as soon as we are away you will no longer be my servant but my friend. At least I hope you will be."
"Yes, Master." The house elf replied and he squeezed the creature's hand underneath the table.
"Tell me how to get around the castle, I want to know the secret passages." He said and the house elf smiled and nodded.
"I will if it pleases you." He replied and Scorpius smiled. His parents were deep in discussion about the Potters; whatever his father had planned for him he would not do it. Instead he would cut his own path through Hogwarts.
He finished eating and left his plate for a servant to pick up, he then returned to his own room and by candlelight studied his new books. A few hours later Blinky came up, bedraggled to find his young master sound asleep a book still in his lap. Blinky smiled and gently dressed his young master in his nightclothes and put him into bed. He then like a dog curled up at the end of Scorpius's bed. "Pleasant dreams, young master." He said and closed his eyes dimming the candles in the room as he too fell asleep.
