A/N: Just thought I would have a try with a longer story, please R&R so i know if I should keep going with the story or not. I might continue anyway :)
Just a few things: Yes, I invented a character, Scorpius has an older sister called Lacerta Malfoy. Sorry if you majorly dislike the addition. I actually had some trouble with her character and their relationship. Let me know if you think it works or not. Please give me criticism.
I am hoping there will eventually be some Scorpius/Hugo slash, so I am warning you now...
Also, thank you so much for reviews on my last story, it means so much to me, please leave your comments. I enjoy reading them ^^
"Good luck. And try not to cause too much trouble, love." Astoria murmured into his ear as she hugged him tightly.
Scorpius pulled away with a smirk. "I'll try, mother."
She sighed at her son's snarky comment and the elder Malfoy put his hand on his wife's shoulder. "Listen to your mother, Scorpius. We don't want to hear of any business concerning you and the Potters. They are not at school to be taunted, you know."
Scorpius snorted. "How can I take that seriously, coming from you?"
Draco Malfoy knew full well what his son referred to. He hadn't exactly set a good example for the boy with his own behaviour at Hogwarts. He had once done nothing but cause trouble for Harry Potter and his friends, and now he was lecturing Scorpius about it.
Sensing eyes on him, Draco looked up to see his former enemy, Potter, and his friends, staring at him. Draco straightened, gave a stiff nod then returned his own attention to his son, ignoring the penetrating gazes he felt from all over the train platform. Draco sighed inwardly, the lines creasing his forehead deepening. He wanted to tell his son that he had been wrong and he should never have done any of the cowardly things he had done at Scorpius' age, but unfortunately his only son seemed to have been brought up fearfully like his former self and wouldn't listen to his father.
"Just... have a good year, son." Draco said with a small smile.
Scorpius nodded his head slightly, before gathering his luggage and preparing to board the train.
"Goodbye!" Astoria cried as he left. "Stick with Lacey. She'll take care of you."
"I don't need taking care of, mother." Scorpius replied with a laugh, shaking off her kisses and closing the carriage door as a loud horn signalled the train was ready to depart. Both parents stood back from the train, sad to see their son off to Hogwarts. They turned away only as the train turned the corner and vanished from sight. Scorpius said he would write but Draco thought he would be too caught up in the magic of Hogwarts for some time. Draco could only hope they would receive something from him soon enough to satisfy his wife's concerns.
Scorpius couldn't find a single empty carriage on the train and found himself asking to sit in the corner of a carriage a frail looking boy had snatched. The boy nodded slowly and Scorpius carried his luggage in silently, and then flopped tiredly onto the seat opposite the small boy.
"You a first year?" he asked after a minute, disliking the silence. The boy squeaked a small 'yes', not daring to catch Scorpius' eye once. Scorpius cleared his throat. "My name's Scorpius."
"Gerry Parr." The other boy whispered. Scorpius continued to try some conversation; talking about the house he wanted to be sorted into, what he was looking forward to at Hogwarts, the rumours he had heard about this student and about that teacher. On and on until finally someone burst into the carriage.
Scorpius sat up abruptly to find himself looking at a Weasley girl. Not what he had expected.
"What do you want?" he all but snarled. He noticed the look of surprise Gerry was shooting him, but chose to ignore it.
Funnily enough, the girl ignored his tone. "Everywhere else is full." she announced, flouncing into the carriage with her auburn hair floating across her shoulders and her trunk dragging behind her. She didn't seem to have a problem hoisting the luggage into the overhead rack, and soon sat down on the chair opposite Scorpius. She flicked her hair back and sighed.
"Well then. My name's Rose. I'm a first year." She said it with a smile, but Scorpius simply scowled at her and Gerry introduced the two boys instead. "My cousin is going to come sit with us as well, if you don't mind too much." She directed this last at Scorpius in particular, but he remained silent, watching Gerry fidget awkwardly out of the corner of his eye. "Well, that's settled then. Now, which house do you think you'll get sorted into, Gerry?" she asked. And so the conversation proceeded without Scorpius' input, barely pausing while Albus Potter came in and sat beside Rose, as Scorpius was lying across the whole of the other bench.
Scorpius ignored everything happening around him for the next few hours, drifting in and out of sleep, waking only to change into his robes and get ready to leave the train. The train was already slowing as the carriage received another visitor. This time it was Scorpius' sister.
"Lacerta." Scorpius greeted the third year.
"Scorpius." She replied with a slight smile. "Ready for school, brother?"
"Sure I am." he said curtly.
"Well, come on then. I will lead you to where you need to go." She pulled at his shoulder, leading him into the corridor of the train. They both carefully avoided the interested gazes of the three people still seated inside the carriage and everyone else throughout the rest of the train who saw them passing. They were some of the first students off the train and onto the freezing platform of Hogsmeade. She guided her brother to the edge of the massive lake where he would take a boat to the massive castle they saw ahead of them.
"That's it then?" Scorpius murmured, slightly in awe of the massive towers and turrets.
"That's it." His sister agreed. She shook her head suddenly, shaking off the effect of the gorgeous sight before them. "I'll leave you here, Scor. Good luck, brother." Her mouth twisted upwards with humour, looking amazingly like her mother, "Not that you would ever need luck, eh?"
"You got that right, Lacey." They smiled briefly at each other.
"I think you're going to have a lot of fun here, Scor." She said mysteriously. A secret light danced in her eyes as she pinched his cheek and turned around, swiftly moving away to her friends who were waiting for her in the distance. He frowned briefly before a bellowing voice brought his attention back to Hogwarts and his first year of school, whatever it may bring.