Chapter Seven

Another plan

Scorpius walked up the driveway of the Shacklebolt mansion. He was nervous about seeing Rose again but knew that even though Albus had tried to screw everything up, her opinion of him wasn't changes. He saw her and smiled. Next to her was a boy who looked very much like her. Was that her brother? Why was he here? Would he disapprove of their friendship?

Rose ran up to him and threw her arms around him. He smiled even brighter as she let go and blushed.

"How are you?" Kris asked looking like he would explode with laughter any second.

"I'm fine Kris." Scorpius said.

Rose's brother cleared his throat.

"Hi," He said. "I'm Hugo, Hugo Weasley."

Hugo extended his hand to Scorpius with a smile and Scorpius took it happily. The four walked to the door of the Shacklebolt manor.

Albus stared at James as he entered the room.

"What do you want?" He asked. "I didn't give you permission to come into my room."

James laughed at his little brother.

"I heard what you did to Rose." James said with an devilish smile on his face.

"What about it?" Albus asked sounding truly annoyed.

"I think that was great." James laughed. "I imagine the look on Malfoy's face when Rose wrote him back, telling him that they can never talk."

Albus looked up at his older brother. He didn't understand.

"Rose wrote him back?" He asked.

James shook his head. "No, she wrote the Ministers son explaining it to him."

"Kris?" Albus asked as James nodded. "She went over there today. She went to meet Scorpius?" James Nodded again. "Hugo went with them? Hugo is on Rose's side?"

"Of course," James said. "They are like traitors to the family. They like to hang out with death eaters."

"What are we going to do?" Albus asked sounding concerned.

"Teddy and I had a great idea." James said. "We planned it out."

"Who planned it out?" Albus asked knowing that James didn't think too well on the outcome of a situation.

"Teddy did most of the thinking." James admitted. "I came up with the big picture."

"Who else is in on it?" Albus asked.

"Dominique," James said. "Oh, and Teddy involved Victoire. She'll have mixed feelings about this, I'm sure, but, Teddy insisted. Who am I to argue?"

"James!" Someone called from below. "Albus! We're leaving boys. Lily needs to be picked up from The Dursley's house."

Who could forget about their second cousin, Dudley Dursley? Albus didn't like him very much. Their father had told stories about how he had been teased by his cousin most of his life. Of course this hadn't stopped them from being friends as adults. Lily enjoyed going over to the Dursley's house to hang out with Annie.

"Rumor in the family has it that Annie will be attending Hogwarts next year." James had whispered to Albus after claiming to have heard their parents talking.

"Shouldn't the line have stopped seeing as the Dursley's are Muggles?" Albus had asked.

"Talk to mom and dad if you don't believe me." James said walking away from his brother.

The Potter boys threw flew powder onto the flames in the den of the Weasley house. James looked back at his brother as he muttered to the flames where to go. James smiled and Albus smiled in an understanding way. The eldest was gone. Albus stepped into the flames and felt like he was spinning as he came out into the fireplace of the Dursley home.

Scorpius watched as Rose wrote in a small book. Kris and Hugo had left the room to send a letter to Hugo's mother. Rose looked up at Scorpius and smiled in an embarrassedly. Scorpius blushed slightly and looked away. He glanced back and saw Rose giggle.

"What?" He asked confused.

"You're so cute when you're embarrassed." She said.

"I'm not embarrassed." He lied. "I just didn't want to seem creepy by watching you."

Rose laughed. It was the worst excuse she had ever heard. He liked to watch her. When they had been in the library at school he had never read.

"It's not my fault that when you turn pages it distracts me." He had said.

Rose had laughed at this as well. Scorpius wasn't a very good liar. He never came up with good excuses when he talked to Rose. He didn't want to lie to her but he didn't want her to know how badly he wanted to be with her. He didn't want to sound so desperate.

The last weeks of summer were going by fast. Rose wrote to Kris everyday and made sure that Albus wasn't around when her letters would come back. She had lost all trust in Albus and talked with him very little. Their letters arrived in the mail one day and they met with the Potters at Diagon Alley. James and Albus had been whispering one day and stopped when they noticed that Rose was close by. Hugo was excited about going to Hogwarts. He and Lily were dancing around the street asking if different objects were on their list.

The next day they went to Kings cross Station ready to board the Hogwarts express. Rose found a compartment on the train in the back. Hugo followed in with her and sat down. He had a very nervous look on his face.

"Relax, Hugo." Rose said leaning back in her seat and taking out a book.

"You were nervous about going to Hogwarts." Hugo replied defensively. "Why can't I?"

Kris and Scorpius entered the compartment. They smiled as they sat down.

"I hope you know that your plan is really stupid." Louis said taking a chocolate frog from Albus. "You're really going to hurt Rose."

"Maybe I shouldn't have told you." Albus replied huffily.

The two boys sat alone in a compartment with candy surrounding them. Louis bit into his chocolate frog and Albus unwrapped another.

"I just don't think you should hurt your cousin." Louis said.

"James thinks it's a good idea." Albus grumbled.

"Of course he does." Louis said. "He came up with the idea. He and Teddy worked on it for months. They were so thrilled to find out what you did. You apparently gave them motive to throw this plan into action."

"Say's you." Albus mumbled as they rolled along fields.