Welcome to Hogwart

Albus, Rose, Hugo, and Lily laughed. The train began to move, and Harry walked alongside it, watching his son's thin face, already ablaze with excitement. Harry kept smiling and waving, even though it was like a little bereavement, watching his son glide away from him. . . .

The last trace of steam evaporated in the autumn air. The train rounded a corner. Harry's hand was still raised in farewell. "He'll be all right," murmured Ginny. As Harry looked at her, he lowered his hand absentmindedly and touched the lightning scar on his forehead.

"I know he will."

The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well…

"We can sit anywhere, right?" asked Albus.

"Of course Al, just sit down before someone else does. This seems to be the only empty compartment available."

Albus and Rose settled in the window sits, eagerly awaiting more company.

"Rose, should we go and find James?" Albus mumbled.

"Don't even think about it. I mean, James won't like us being with him, now that he is with his friends, and hey…what are you so stressed about?"

"Nothing" Albus quickly answered

"Oh…your house, right?"

"well_"

"_can I sit here"

The cousins turned to a grinning boy with blond hair. He was just as thin and tall as Ron, but that's where their resemblance ended. They knew who it was. It was Scorpius Molfoy. Rose remembered that her father had warned them against him. Well, she thought, he can always be joking.

"Err... Of course, are you a first year too?" asked Rose, as she busied herself to make place for the newcomer.

"Yup! I had been waiting from ages for this day to come. By the way, I am Scorpius Molfoy."

"Err, I know who you are."

"You do?"

"Well, my dad warned me against you," said Rose, regretting her words as soon as she had uttered them. "Might be a joke actually, he is always joking." she added, fearing that the boy would storm out of the compartment.

But Scorpius grinned instead and said, "Well then, you must be Potter, that makes sense now"

"What makes sense?" Albus asked, eyeing the newcomer for the first time.

"Well, I heard dad telling mum 'Hell! See who is there, Potter's son must be in the same year as Scorp's!'" said, Scorpius, mimicking his father's voice.

"Well then, our parents sure did know each other in their days. Oh, I forgot to introduce myself, I am Rose Weasley, and this is my cousin Albus Potter."

"And it's nice to meet you" added Albus, offering his hand to Scorpius.

Scorpius shook the extended hand warmly, and repeated the same ritual with Rose.

The three soon started chatting continuously about their days to come, they argued about their favorite Quidditch teams, and of their preferred houses and gradually discovered how much they and their families differed from each other. However, they were all assured to be friends in their coming years. Scorpius was amused by Rose's the encyclopedic knowledge of Hogwarts, but later found out that she has a total of twelve cousins with seven of them already at school.

"Hogwarts is here!" Albus declared, sticking his nose to the glass window.

Rose and Scorpius joined him at the window; they just could not wait to set their feet on the ground. A voice echoed through the train: "We will be reaching Hogwarts in five minutes' time. Please leave your luggage on the train, it will be taken to the school separately." They hurried along to the crowded gates trying to be the first one to step in.

They could see a gigantic man approaching them."Follow me firs' 'ears. We 'ave to cross this lake 'ere. I need you to clim' carefully into these boats; we don't want anyone fallin' overboard do we?"He chanted joyfully, giving the impression of being an expert at the job. "And by the way; I'm Hagrid." He added, with equal enthusiasm.

"So this is Hagrid!" said Rose.

"So you know him?" Scorpius asked

"Well, he has invited us for tea today. You can come too I guess."Albus told him as he followed Rose into a boat "He teaches care of magical creatures, James says that he tends the deadliest creatures on land which don't actually need care"

"Albus! Rose!"Hagrid yelled joyfully as he came to sit near them , "how yer doin'?"

"How did you recognize us?" Albus asked, "I don't think we have met before…"

"Yer don't hav' t' meet a Weasley t' recognize one my boy. It common knowledge tha' all Weasleys are red-heads. Ahh, yes, you're an exception to the rule aren't hair's jet black… much like your father's. An' of course… green eyes. It leaves me with no doubt that you're a Potter."

"Err, good observation." Rose complimented, sensing that he have no more to say.

"Thanks Rose, but really, it's nothing difficult after all these years. This very boat carried young Harry. Ron and Hermione, jus' a few years ago, and James and Sirius a bit earlier… Merlin's beard! Albus, you're James' gran'son! I must really be getting' old and to thin' _HEY YOU! W'AT YER FINDIN' SO INTERESTIN' IN THE WATER? GET BACK OR YU'LL FALL IN…" Hargrid stalked off to pull a boy off the edge.

"Well, if you actually understood what he said. Hats off to you. " Said Scorpius as the boat approached a spectacular castle.

"Hey, it's not really no difficult, he was only telling us that we Weasleys are easily_

"_ we are here. We are here. We are at Hogwarts." Chanted Albus, completely ignoring Rose's explanation of Hagrid's speech. "Welcome to Hogwarts! "