Scorpius woke up peacefully, sun streaming in through the window next to his four poster bed. It was all calm, Edward snoring away to his left, hippogriffs flying above the forbidden forest, and someone in the common room crying. Wait- wha?

Someone in the Gryffindor common room was crying, their sobs reached Scorpius even while he was in his dormitory.

"First day of school, this is a great start", Scorpius grumbled as he put on his own robes. "Hey, Albus, are you awake?"

Albus didn't answer.

"Are you up here?"

Once again there was silence from Albus' bed. Scorpius took a look at the bed, and seeing no lump indicating a sleeping Albus, walked down the stairs to the common room.

There was a few people in the common room; most ignoring the sobbing girl in a corner. But Rose was also awake, trying to comfort what should be a first year girl, but instead looked like a puddle.

"It's fine, you're fine. Don't worry." She was saying to the puddle-girl. Through her sobs the first year looked up at Rhose and told her: "sobbut it won't be,sob, my friends are all in sob Hufflepuff, and I'm in Gryffindor! There's nothing I can do now, I won't have any friends!"

Rose looked at her with concern, "Remember that speech the hat said yesterday?" Rose tried to say to the girl, "we're all family here, and we'll be your friends now".

All that did was cause the girl to cry harder. Scorpius walked over and told Rose that "she isn't going to stop, you can only give her time to think. Eventually everyone runs out of tears."

Rose nodded and stood up, dusting off her black robes. "Let's go meet up with Albus, I heard he went to breakfast early." Scorpius agreed, and they started out to the Great Hall.

While walking down the stairs, Peeves rushed by them spraying ink everywhere from a straw and being chased by Filch. Peeves would randomly turn around and shoot a few splotches of ink at Filch, most times landing on Mrs. Norris, who was furiously licking off the ink.

"Wonder what that's about?" Scorpius asked Rose.

Rose watched the chase progress up the grand staircase. "Well Peeves has always had a war with the current caretaker of Hogwarts ever since Hankerton Humble in c. 900. I read it in my Hogwarts a History book."

Scorpius looked at her in shock, who reads that much anymore?

Well with that aside, they walked down to the Great Hall, noticing Albus sitting at Gryffindor table.

"Hey Albus," they greeted him with.

"Hey guys, how did you sleep?"

Scorpius gestured for Rose to go first.

"Oh, thanks Scorpius," she said, "I slept great, even with being really excited for today. We're finally starting classes!"

Rose's excitement began to spread to Scorpius.

"I slept well too, Edward kept me up a bit with his snoring, but otherwise there was nothing bad."

Rose and Scorpius sat down on either side of Albus and grabbed some food. They were just starting to enjoy some pancakes when a sausage flew through the air and landed squarely on Scorpius' back.

As it slid off, a grease stain remained behind, matching the texture of Scorpius' hair perfectly.

"I forgot." Scorpius told the other two miserably, "I'm not welcome here." He set down his fork and knife, "I'm not hungry anymore guys, sorry."

"GO BACK TO YOUR GRANDFATHER, SCUMBAG!" Yelled a Hufflepuff from across the Hall, earning himself a death stare from a few of the teachers.

If you had been in the trophy room at the time, you would've noticed a few gems shaking in the bottom of Hufflepuff's hourglass, kind of like they wanted to go farther down. But as it was, no house had earned any points yet, so the gems merely stayed in the bottom of the hourglass.

At that moment, the owls flew in through the opening in the Great Hall. And most of the first years gasped as they came in, it was a magnificent sight: seeing every kind of owl fly in at once. Snowy owls flapping massive white wings complemented by miniature screech owls who were zipping in between the wings of larger eagle owls. And all of the owls carrying some sort of package.

Across the hall from Albus, Scorpius, and Rose, a small second year sat all alone on a bench, holding a notebook.

An owl came over to him and he stuffed what he was writing on into the pouch the brown barn owl was carrying. "Take this to..." And the rest of his words were drowned out by the crowd of students who had now opened their packages and were talking again.

The barn owl blinked once at him, then with a massive flap he took off, beating his wings furiously to get lift.

This owl's name was Bear, a stupid name if you asked the boy who used Bear, but Bear was not that boys' owl. Bear belonged to the man he was now flying to, taking the letter across oceans, plains, and mountains to its destination.

This whole trip took poor Bear two days to complete, but he did it.

When it was finished a man in a black robe picked up Bear as Bear caught his breath. The black clad man picked out the note and read it silently. "So he's here," the man said under his breath, "prepare yourself, this one will be tough to get, but more than worth it." The last two sentences were directed to his immediate left and right, two other men wearing black robes.

"Has the boy found him?" One asked.

"Yes. And before his father can find us, we need to move in. Get ready to tell the others."

The other figure now spoke, "The boy's father will find us, that much is certain."

A grin broke out on the middle figure's face, lighting up his features with insanity. "Yes, I know that. But we can at least get our revenge. Revenge on the boy who lived."

So the main villain makes an appearence. This should get more fun from here on out. But here's another thing, as not many characters are known from after the Battle for Hogwarts, there is now a contest going on. You guys who are reading can submit characters, both original or not, into the comments section. You can also tell me what they are (student, teacher, villain, etc.). And if im interested i will message you. The winners will be honored in the next few chapters with their character's names. Thanks for reading so far, as I feel so honored that you have taken the time out of your day for this. Have a great day.