The other end of the platform
Chapter 1- One of those memorable events.
"Do you think he'll enjoy it?" she asked excitedly lying in her bed. This was one of a long string of questions, and it was now at the 78th all her husband could do was groan.
"Yes" he said rolling his eyes. "You do realise this won't be the first time you have gone to Diagon Alley with him don't you?" He asked somewhat patiently considering it was almost 5 in the morning, a most un-familiar time to be seen by any person on their clock.
"That was different" she grumbled.
"How?" he said sitting up exasperatedly.
"Well…" She trailed off lying down "We'll actually be getting school supplies, do you realize that?"
"The letter he got from Hogwarts the other day was a bit of a clue"
"No need for sarcasm"
"This coming from you?" the woman laughs at his question.
"Sarcasm is one of my rather amazing traits" she said turning her pillow over to the colder (so basically the unused) side. "It's one of the reasons your married to me"
"Hadyn"
"Yes Draco?"
"Go to sleep"
"I was trying, you just kept me awake!" A gobsmacked Draco Malfoy looked slightly dumb struck after once again be bested by Hadyn Malfoy.
Scorpius Malfoy woke up as his bedroom filled with light from the rising sun. He looked at his clock and smiled to himself. He was going to Diagon Alley, this wasn't why it was exciting or making him smile. This time he was going to Diagon Alley for his school supplies, he was going to Hogwarts, finally. Every child brought up in the wizarding world looked forward to going to Hogwarts.
Scorpius remembered all the stories his mother would tell him when he was younger, of the Quidditch games, the feasts and all the trouble she caused (well his Dad told him about his mum causing trouble, his Mum still denies that she was anything but well behaved, at a young age Scorpius Malfoy knew the lie and could laugh at it along with everyone else)
With two parents whose reputations are still very strong in the wizarding world not only in the earlier generation with their memories of the war but also at Hogwarts. For crying out loud his Father tried to kill the most beloved Hogwarts headmaster EVER! And his mother still gets warning looks from any professor that they happen to see as if it any moment they'd be all to prepared to give her a detention.
However despite all the rumour, being judged solely for his name and the looks he clearly inherited from his father and grandfather, and a reputation he didn't know existed, yes despite all this Scorpius Malfoy was still VERY excited to go to Hogwarts. The kid would finally be able to use magic. Imagine growing up in a world of magic and enchantment, not to mention Quidditch, and not being able to join in.
"Morning Dad" Scorpius walked into the kitchen of his home to see his Dad working on toast for breakfast… and when the word working is used it is meant as: Draco Malfoy was deliberating whether or not to put Marmite on his toast.
"Mm Morning" Draco said looking at his son fondly.
"Where's Mam?" Scorpius said putting his own toast in the toaster.
"Asleep" Draco said crossly. How she could stay in bed today despite keeping HIM up (in spite of what she said) was beyond him. She had been going on about going to Diagon Alley for hours, which for Hadyn was a long time unless it was about getting a dog. If she ever let up on getting a dog, Draco promised he'd eat whatever she cooked for a week.
"Listen Scorpo, I gotta go to work I'll see you when I get back "Draco munched on his toast and ruffled his son's hair before grabbing his coat and going to the door so he could apparate from outside his house. Call it superstition but Draco had always felt safer apparating from outside rather than from inside probably has something to do with growing up around death eaters seeing how easily they could get into someone's house with minimal effort.
Just as he was about to open the door he heard someone open the very creaky door that closed off his bedroom from the landing. He saw Hadyn try to sneak into the bathroom without him noticing the notorious Malfoy smirk spread across his face.
"Morning sunshine" He called up stairs. Surprised that he hadn't already left for work Hadyn jumped at the sound of his voice. "Tired?" he asked the smirk still plain on his face. Hadyn poked her tong out at him, slamming the bathroom door behind her. "See you later love" Draco smiled to himself waiting for a reply after a few minutes once he was satisfied he wouldn't get a reply he turned and walked out the house locking the door behind him.
"OI" he heard a yell from above his head, looking upwards he saw Hadyn hanging out the bathroom window. He smiled at her.
"What?" Draco yelled in mock anger.
"You got any money I've lost my purse?" Hadyn asked grinning.
"Really? You've lost your purse? That's why you're leaning out the window" he asked slightly annoyed.
"Why?" she asked mocking his annoyance with sham shock. "Were you expecting something else?" Hadyn fluttered her eye lashes innocently as he glared at her.
"Maybe I was" he said defensively.
"Oh…" Hadyn asked, confused.
"Yup" Draco said popping the "p" loudly. Hadyn raised her eye brow.
"Shame, but I've got to get ready if me and Scorp are going to get all his school supplies in time for tomorrow" Hadyn grinned at him and lent back into the window.
"Well if you will insist on leaving it till last minute…" Draco grumbled trailing off, he couldn't admit it but Hadyn's laid back approach to the more trivial things in life is why he loved her. She was passionate about family and what she believed in but that carefree personality was the fresh air Draco had seriously lacked as a child with being raised by Lucius. However constant fear affects your attitude towards life.
"I heard that!" Hadyn yelled from the bathroom window. Draco grinned shaking his head, he couldn't help but think; eventually he learnt to make good decisions.
"Okay, we've got everything all we need is a wand" Scorpius said his nose practically stuck to his list of supplies for his first year of Hogwarts, as they strolled through the busying street that is Diagon Alley. Hadyn smiled at her son, she couldn't help but think of how nerdy he was. Not that there was anything wrong with geeky, she couldn't understand where it came from though.
Scorpius liked reading, chess and Hadyn was sure as soon as he went to school he'd enjoy studying. These traits most certainly did not come from Hadyn, clever as she was; her attention span had often been compared to that of a flea's by Professor McGonagall. Though being on her rare insightful train of thought Hadyn considered whether it could have come from Draco. It was clear to anyone that he was exceptionally bright. An exceptionally bright boy, who was prone to making incredibly stupid decisions, often. Not that Hadyn was judging but its common knowledge.
"We? In case your memory fails you I already have a wand" Hadyn replied smugly.
"Your wit never fails to surprise me, dear mother" he replied no even bothering to look up.
"You may look like your Dad but you're really just a clone of me" Hadyn laughed putting her arm around his shoulders. "Now Scorpius the moment you've anticipated since you were small… Olivanders a waits" she gestured as she went into a sprint towards old worn looking shop that's damages from the war were still noticeable. Scorpius snickered at his mother's behaviour and followed her at a jog (we would have sprinted for the kicks of beating her to the shop but he was carrying a LOT of books and a whole plethora of other objects and gizmos)
"What took you so long?" she said grinning, though panting a little, Scorpius shrugged off her jibes and entered the shop.
Their eyes wandered around the shop that, although fairly large, was seemingly tiny as it was full of boxes presumably that hold wands.
"Ah I've been expecting you Mr Malfoy" And old voice came from behind them.
"You have?" Scorpius asked surprised, Hadyn smirked she'd forgotten how Ollivander knew seemingly everything.
"Well, everyone else has already been for there wand" he said simply "Cutting it a bit short aren't we?" he asked. Scorpius glared at me, I just shrugged we had plenty of time. "Well let's start with this one, a 9 inch Hawthorn with a unicorn mane hair very similar to your father's first wand, it is reasonably springy, so there you go" he said handing the wand to Scorpius. Scorpius stood with the wand unsure of what was exactly required of him.
Mr Ollivander was seemingly oblivious to the young Malfoy's confusion carried on talking, "Though I'm not familiar with your character your looks are very clearly those of a Malfoy…Ah why aren't you doing anything?"
"Well… uh …I" Scorpius stuttered. Hadyn smiled when she'd entered Ollivander's that first time she'd been as helpless, trying wand after wand… let me tell you after the 5th wand the novelty wears off. Okay so it's not until the 15th at least but still, as an 11 old child all you want is the right wand straight away.
"Honestly why is it I have t tell all my clients this?" Ollivander muttered to himself "Give the wand a wave boy, a flick if you prefer" he said loudly. The volume shocked Scorpius temporarily but he shook his head and flicked the wand as he'd seen his parents do on countless occasions. Straight at a vase, this smashed.
"Ah…No. I think we can do better than that" Hadyn rolled her eyes, if that was the same vase that he had when she'd first been here she'd eat her hat (and in case nobody had notice; witch hats are quite big).
"Try this phoenix feather, rose wood, 11 inches. Fairly swishy and able in casting charms" this time Scorpius didn't hesitate when trying to see if this wand had picked him. It hadn't, this time the wand disintegrated the flowers on the floor that had tumbled to the floor when the vase had smashed.
"Okay so that's not right either"
"Clearly" Hadyn mumbled to herself half-heartedly.
"Mrs Malfoy, what's your wand again?"
"I thought you remembered every wand you ever sold Mr Ollivander?" she asked teasingly.
"That was before you my dear" Ollivander replied good naturedly. "You were in this shop so long I can't even remember which wand picked you in the end"
Smiling Hadyn rolled her eyes once more at the kind (very) old man. "Ah I remember now", he said feeling the wand in his hands, eyes closed. "9 ½ inches of Hornbeam with Thestral hair, it's popular belief that those who have Thestral hair core tend to be fairly morbid however like the Thestral there just misunderstood. I've often thought that they tend to be incredibly troublesome in a more mischievous way than death like" he said smiling at her.
"Its true talent lies in, is transfiguration" Hadyn defended herself grumpily.
"Sure it does mum" Scorpius muttered.
A few loads of 20 minutes later and a hell load of wand strewn all over the place and Scorpius still hadn't been picked by a wand. Mr Ollivander was look through box after box of all his wands, Scorpius was leaning against the counter tired, and Hadyn was curled up in an armchair in the corner of the old dusty shop, her face leaning in her hand drooling slightly.
"Okay let's try this one Mr Malfoy" Ollivander yawned handing one last wand to Scorpius "It's 13 inch Cherry with a mermaid scale core, particularly rare but considering how ling we've been here I'll try just about anything"
Scorpius stretched and took the wand in his hand. Swishing it towards his mother's general direction. Suddenly the dark shop filled with light and that armchair that held his sleeping mother began to rise. The magic lasted a few seconds before it came to a halt abruptly letting Hadyn and the chair fall quickly back down a couple of inches.
Rubbing her eyes Hadyn asked "Found one?"
It was getting dark by the time they'd paid for the wand and exited the shop. They walked down Diagon Alley towards the Leaky Cauldron so they can use their floo network to get home. As they were walking down the cobbled wizarding alley Hadyn saw Eeylops Owl emporium closing up the hoot of owl louder than what it is during the day. Her eyes focused on a small scatty looking Tawny owl, it was flapping it's wings madly in its cage, that looked considerably oversized in comparison to the tiny owl.
Once they reaches the Leaky cauldron the floo'd straight to their home, going straight to bed, not even waiting for Draco to come home or go out for their tea.
"Right have you got everything?" Draco asked his son as he looked at his watch, it read 10:40 they had 20 minutes until the Hogwarts express would leave the platform.
"Yeah Dad" Scorpius said smiling brightly, only just managing to contain his excitement.
"Come on Hadyn" Draco yelled up the stairs. Hadyn quickly walked down the stairs putting on her coat, she didn't utter a word as she was apparently deep in thought.
"Okay let's go" she says in an oddly similar voice to that of one Luna Lovegood. All 3 of them held onto each other's arms and apparated to kings cross station. Draco and Scorpius grabbed hold of the trunk and took it into the station heading towards platform 9 and 3/4s.
Hadyn clicks her tong and apparated back to Diagon Alley.
Now on the platform Draco and Scorpius were standing at one end chatting, coincidently it was the other end to the Potter and Weasly clan. "So that's little Scorpius. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank God you inherited your mother's brains." Ron said to his daughter glaring at the Malfoy's.
"How can we lose her when we apparated with her to the station?" Draco ranted, once again Hadyn Malfoy had managed to completely misplace her family and vanish before a single person looked left.
"She'll turn up" Scorpius sighed. He hoped so anyway his mum wouldn't miss seeing him off for the first time would she?
"Hello Draco" a giggling voice came from behind the Malfoy's. The voice belonged to his ex-girlfriend the extremely irritating Pansy Parkinson.
"Oh..uh hi Pansy" Draco stuttered after what happened all those years ago it's hardly surprising he was nervous.
"Um… Dad you know what?" Scorpius asked his father, giving the brunette a slightly scared look "It's getting you know time for me to get on the train" giving him a quick (Nano second) hug Scorpius legged it for the train.
"Wait Scorp… ugh you traitor" Draco grumbled as his son left him in Pansy's capable hands.
"So it's been awhile" she hinted flicking her hair over her shoulders, nothing had changed in the last 16 years.
"Well, yes ugh again I'm sorry" Draco stuttered. Talking about the events that occurred 16 years ago was a touchy subject in the Malfoy household. Trying to avoid her longing, and calculating gaze he started searching for Scorpius, he could see him hoping on to the train next to a black haired boy with round glasses. Potter entered his mind instantly like thinking Malfoy when a person saw Scorpius the boy was undeniable Potter, from his messy black hair to his bright green eyes (despite then originally being inherited from the Evans side of the family, but Draco did not know that).
"Scorpius" a voice yelled over the crowd of rowdy families crying and saying there farewells for the term. Draco's ears perked at that yell, that voice. He should have known her disappearances had reason. He should have known she'd turn up eventually.
"Ugh Sorry Pansy I got to go" he said smiling at her disgruntled face "That's my wife"
Running with a cage carried in her hand was Hadyn. But then the whistle blue.
"Argh Scorpius!" she yelled again. Now as the rest of the parents back away her voice was clear. Her blond hair son turned a small surprised look on his features.
"Mum?" he asked stepping forward looking out of the train onto the platform.
"I got you an owl" she said reaching him.
"You got me an owl?"
"Yes now here" she said placing the cage in his hand "Now go have a good time, cause trouble" she said waving him off.
And once again without fail the Hogwarts Express left platform 9 and ¾ s at exactly 11 o'clock. Mothers and Fathers were crying, waving, smiling and laughing at the thought of McGonagall punishing their children and Peeves torturing them mercilessly (good naturedly of course). Ron Weasly was smiling to himself his thoughts on the astounding feast his daughter will receive in only a fair few hours' time.
"How could you be practically late, when I apparated her with you?" Draco asked walking up behind her.
"Talent, clearly" she replied rolling her eyes. How her underestimated her. Looking out past the platform she could just see the train heading around the corner, she hoped Scorpius would survive being a malfoy in Hogwarts.
His name might not do him any justice.