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Albus collapsed on his king size, four poster bed; Hugo and Rose sat beside him. "Well that was, different. I don't think the Sorting Hat has never been unsure; I don't think he'll last long in Ravenclaw."

"Ditto," Rose agreed, Rose looked at Hugo who also nodded. "I went to the library earlier . . ."

"Just like mum isn't she!" Hugo and Albus laughed, rolling along to bed still giggling. Rose looked at them sourly before hitting Hugo (with her satchel) hard in his stomach.

"Anyway, as I was saying. I went to the library and I looked up: Sorting Hat. Cut to the chase, there was a load of waffle about the hat being here for generations and it being a recognised historical figure, but then I came over some interesting bits. It turns out that this happened before . . ."

"What?" Albus sat up in surprise, "who was it; what happened to them?"

"Well, the problem is . . . it then referred to a book: "The Forbidden and Most Secret Book of Hogwarts" and as I guessed, it's in the restricted section," Rose sulked.

"Ok then," Hugo sulked as he began to unpack his bag, "treasure hunt over. Let's get back to our knitting and poetry."

"No!" Albus objected, "We may have only just met Barney, but he's still my friend and I'm not giving up on me. You may not want to do so with me, but tonight, I'm breaking in to the Restricted Section!"

Both Rose and Hugo stopped in their steps and slowly turned to face Albus. Due to his jaw hanging low in shock, Rose stomped on Hugo's foot before sitting by Albus and leaning on his shoulder affectionately. "I know Albus, and for the record I would come with you, but how would we get in and out without getting caught. We'd be in so much trouble; maybe even expulsion!"

Albus thought for a moment before jumping off the bed and began rummaging in his luggage, "if I'm right . . ." Albus continued to rummage through his luggage throwing out books, a wand, clothes, a sort of map that he had never seen before and finally: "INVISABILITY CLOAK!"

"That's more like it Al!" Hugo cheered as he leapt next to Albus, "but there's one more thing we need: a signature from a teacher."

"Simple," Rose announced, pulling McGonagall's letter out of her pocket. Rose opened Hugo's case and pulled out a pair of scissors and began to cut out the words: Professor McGonagall from the first paragraph and then stuck it to the empty space at the bottom of the page and separated it from the rest of the document. "McGonagall writes all her letters by hand, so we now have her signature; we just need to write in the rest!"

"You do know you're brilliant!" Hugo exclaimed. "So when is it that we break in, we can't do it tonight; all the teachers will be out later than usual for a reunion party, it would be way too risky."

"Next week Monday I think, it will give us more time," Albus said in agreement.

"Anyway," Rose announced, "we'd better be getting back to the common room, James and the others will be wondering where we got to."

James was waiting for the others in the common room with Jack and Robbie. When Albus, Rose and Hugo finally arrived, they joined the others around a circular sofa with a large bowl full of Bertie Bott's Every Floured Beans in front of them. "So, what do you think of Hogwarts?" James asked.

Rose leaned forward to answer James question; taking a handful of beans in the process: "It's amazing, better than it says in all the books; I just can't wait for our charms lesson tomorrow, and then I can finally learn some magic. You see, I've got mum's brains and dad's magic; Hugo's got mum's magic and dad's brains. Basically, I'm quite geeky and bad at spells; Hugo's a bit thick but is great at magic." Rose leaned backwards with her hand still in the bowl of beans and accidentally knocked it over, "sorry!"

"Don't worry Rose," Hugo raised his wand and pointed it at the bowl and the spilled beans, "redintegro!" Slowly, as if time was rewinding, the tiny shards of glass jointed together and glowed orange where the cracks joined together. The bowl placed itself together and sat itself on the table in front of them.

"Wow, I never knew you were that good Hugo! Where did you get that spell from; I've never seen it before?" Robbie gasped along with the others, each looking as stunned as the other.

"It's my own spell," Hugo replied, "I created it; it took a while to work though. There's this one too ..." Hugo pointed his wand at the beans that were still covering the floor, "hincilluc beans!" At once, the beans leapt up and fell into the bowl.

"Seriously, you are great at spells; show us another!" Jack pleaded.

Hugo pointed at the bowl, "abdo!" Albus focused on the bowl and noticed that slowly it slipped out of focus till it was at the point where he had to focus on the bowl and nothing else to see it. He had seen nothing like it. Again, Hugo pointed at the bowl with his wand, "indico!" the bowl was once again visible.

"I never knew you could do that Hugo! Tomorrow lunchtime I'm taking you to Professor Flitwick's office so you can show him your talent!" Rose exclaimed.

"No!" Hugo spat, "I don't want any fuss about it, it's probably 'cos mum and dad are talented; it probably rubbed off on me. Just keep it between us six and leave Flitwick and all the other professors out of it!" Hugo snapped before storming out of the room; not forgetting to point his wand at the bowl once last time and shout, "EXPULSO!" The glass shattered in all directions as Hugo swept out of the room.

"He's great . . . but vicious," Jack and Robbie laughed.

Albus gave Jack and Robbie a look of anger and rage before he followed Hugo the bedroom. The door was still open by the time Albus reached the bedroom door and he could see Hugo lying face down on his bed with a pillow on top of his head. "Hugo, it's me Al; no-one else." Hugo shuffled in his bed before deciding to sit up: his eyes were red and his skin seemed pale and cracked. "What's wrong Hugo, is it Rose and the others?"

"No. It's not them Albus," each word Hugo spoke looked like it gave him immense pain.

"Are you ok, you seem like you're in pain?" Albus inquired as he sat by him and placed his arm around Hugo's shoulder. "You can tell me; we're cousins remember."

Hugo faced Albus: a tear ran down the surface of his cheek. "All the secrets. All the many, many secrets I have kept from you, Rose and James; even little Lily Luna, Teddy and Victoire. I'm cursed Albus Severus Potter, cursed since birth; you will know soon Albus, but not until Trelawney's prediction; not until he returns."

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