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Chapter One -- Replaced

Scorpius Malfoy met the boy who had taken his place in Slytherin wandering throughout the Transfiguration hallways like an idiot, looking for the Potions classroom.

"What are you doing?" asked Scorpius finally, after watching him walk up and down the same corridor for the eighth time.

"Looking for the Potions classroom," said Potter. "Some boys in my House said it would be here."

"Potter, the Potions classroom in the lower dungeons. This is the transfiguration hallway. There is a mild difference. I know, surprising." he nodded as sagely as an eleven-year-old knows how.

Potter said stupidly "Oh." Then he wandered off down the hallway. Scorpius had no doubt that he would probably lose his way again, but didn't bother following him to be sure. He was a Ravenclaw, after all, not a Gryffindor.

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"Malfoy, you're doing it completely wrong," the Weasley girl says – but gently. "It's swish and flick, not flick and swish. Always remember Barnaby the Brave, who got trampled by a buffalo in his first year."

"He got trampled by a buffalo?" asked Scorpius incredulously. "How'd he manage that?"

"Poor wand movement, like you're showing. It amazes me that you're a Ravenclaw," she added disdainfully. "And it's Wingardium Leviosa, not Wingardium Leviosa,"

"Well, let's see you do it then," he challenged.

The Weasley girl swishes; the Weasley girl flicks. She says the charm; the feather floats. Gryffindor gets ten points; Ravenclaw loses five and Scorpius has homework.

He can't help but wonder how Barnaby the Brave really got a buffalo out of his wand. But that's why he's a Ravenclaw, after all, instead of a Slytherin.

Scorpius wonders how one becomes a Gryffindor; he wonders about House loyalties and Slytherins and Albus Severus Potter who replaced him, and he wonders about what qualifies him as a Ravenclaw.

He joins Devon and Kyan and Riona, and they go to the Great Hall for lunch. But he keeps wondering about Potter.