disclaimer: For sake of my laziness, the disclaimer from the first chapter runs for the whole storey :D

Author's Note: I like smiley faces :D


Albus and Scorpius made their way off the platform following one of the biggest people Scorpius had ever seen.

"Hey Haggred, have a nice summer?" Albus asked the bloke as he walked arm in arm with Scorpius.

Haggred looks back and says in a gruff voice, "It was aight…"

Albus looked at him sternly, "Haggred, have you been looking for Gryffindor courage again?"

This prompted Haggred to give the two a strange look, which caused them to burst into laughter.

"So Scorpius, what house do you want to go into?" Albus asked after they both calmed down enough to speak again.

"My family is hoping for Slytherin, but I don't think I particularly care," Scorpius said, "On one hand, my family might actually accept me if I get sorted there, but I cannot stand all of that self-absorbed bigotry all the time. You?"

Albus chuckles, "My brother says I'll be disowned if I go to Slytherin, So I was trying to get into Gryffindor so he'd get off my back, but as long as it isn't Slytherin, I don't particularly care."

Haggred calls, "Alright first years, into the boats!"

"Hey Albus, wanna try to capsize it?" Scorpius said with a grin.

"Sure, we're already battered and bloody, let's show up soaking wet as well," Albus said before he called, "HEY ROSE! Ride with us!"

Scorpius just laughed as the three of them got into their boat, "Hey Rose, I'm sorry for acting like that, I was in a really foul mood at the time… So, are we good?" he asks as he holds out his hand as a peace offering.

Rose just ignores him, making Scorpius feel less bad for what they were about to do.

"Ready Scorpis?" Albus asked after they got close to the opposite shore.

"You know it!"

"Wait, what are you guys doing?" Rose asked as the two boys start rocking the boat.

"A little more, a little more, SUCCE-"

SPLASH

As they resurface for air, Scorpius and Albus look at each other and laugh, only to be renewed when Rose started yelling at them with teeth chattering.

"OI! You lot, what're you doin' in the water?" Haggred's voice boomed as his big hands scooped them out of the water and onto his boat.

"Hey Albus, think we could capsize this one too?" Scorpius asked still trying to contain his laughter at the sight of Rose's face.

"Nah, besides, we'd lose too many house points for tipping the boat with a Hogwarts professor on board, and we don't even have a house yet."

Scorpius just laughs some more, until they get to the Great Hall where they were greeted by a short, balding man.

"Welcome to Hogwarts, little ones, I am Professor Slughorn," Said the pudgy man. "You're about to go take your seats amongst your fellow classmates, but before you do, you must be sorted… Egads boys, what the devil happened to you two?"

Scorpius and Albus look at each other before saying in as straight of a voice as they could, "We capsized the boat."

"Yes well… Off you go then…"

They were then lead to the Great hall for sorting.

"I think the only problem we'd have is if one of us ends up in Gryffindor, and the other ends up in Slytherin," Albus said, ignoring the names being called.

"Bugger that, my dad would disown me for sure if I befriended a Gryffindor."

"And my brother wouldn't ever let me hear the end of it if I was a friend with a Slytherin…" Albus trailed off in thought. "My dad did tell me that if you ask the sorting hat, it'll put you in whichever house you want to be in."

"Which house are you going into?" Scorpius asked hoping that he'd be able to hear it before his name was called.

"Gryffindor I guess…" Albus said, "You?"

"Why the hell not?"

"Scorpius Malfoy!"

Scorpius made his way through the remaining first years to the Sorting Hat. As it was placed on his head, the hat exclaimed, "Sly-!"

Please no, Scorpius thought with all his might.

"Really now? All of the Malfoys have gone into Slytherin, though, you don't have the overall feel of one, I think Slytherin may be one of the better choices for you…"

Let me go to Gryffindor, Scorpius thought.

"Gryffindor," said the hat in a tone that said he disapproved.

That caused quite a commotion in the Great Hall. No one had ever heard of a Malfoy in any house other than Slytherin, let alone Gryffindor of all places. The Slytherin table jeered at him, proclaiming him a traitor to his pure blood family, just as the Gryffindor table jeered at the Slytherin table for being assholes.

For all of this though, they still looked at Scorpius distrustfully as he sat down at their table, and it wasn't till Albus was sorted into Gryffindor as well to vouch for the would be Slytherin that their new housemates decided to give him a chance.

Rose was inevitably sorted into Gryffindor as well, much to her mixed joy and disgust, though the disgust was more due to the fact that Scorpius was there as well.

And so began Rose, Albus, and Scorpius' magical school life at Hogwarts.