Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy
1.) He's terrified to be anything but Slytherin. He thinks his father will disown him, his grandfather will cast him out into the streets, and he will have to fend for himself. When the Hat puts him into Hufflepuff, he half-expects to be delivered the mother of all howlers and pulled out of the school entirely. All he gets is a simple congratulatory letter from both his parents, complete with a few scribbled drawings from his younger sister Ursula – all of which depict Scorpius in a black and yellow scarf.
2.) His favorite subject is History of Magic, but that's because there is no literature class at Hogwarts. Which Scorpius thinks is criminal, for one thing, and also it's just typical of the administrastion to think that fiction is just stories, and therefore childish and unworthy. It's no wonder they keep having wars over people's inability to imagine themselves in another person's shoes.
3.) He loves Ursula like a sister (which she is), but he can't help but be the tiniest bit jealous when she gets into Slytherin. Not because he wants to be in that House, but because he wants to look out for her and he can't do the best job of that from the Hufflepuff table.
4.) Violet Finch-Fletchley has been his best friend since before they could walk, and all through Hogwarts people assumed that just because they were so close, they had to be dating. But according to his father, he and his "Auntie Pansy" were exactly the same when they were Scorpius and Violet's age, so it's really nothing to be worried about. He and Violet usually just laugh off the comments people make about them, but sometimes he wonders what life would be like if they actually did start dating.
5.) While he and Albus Potter are not best friends, that doesn't mean they don't get along. They are Hufflepuffs and housemates, after all…and it would not do to be hated by the person who slept in the bed next to you for seven years. And besides, Al is a pretty level-headed guy who has a decent sense of humor, and he's also pretty much the only one who can calm Rose Weasley when she starts in on him.
6.) Scorpius is nearly finished with his proposal to the Hogwarts Board of Governors to actually incorporate literature as a subject. There are loads of fabulous Wizarding authors – and a lot of good Muggle ones, too – and really, if they're going to teach history in the most boring fashion possible, they could at least provide an alternative by opening windows on various periods through literature.
7.) He has a pen-friend in the United States from the time he is eleven. When he is nineteen, Scorpius travels to a magical city called "Buffalo" and stays with Reuben for a year. They go to Niagara Falls, eat chicken wings at a place called "The Anchor Bar", and even drive up to Canada for a week to watch the Stonewall Stormers play against the Fitchburg Finches. Reuben introduces him to hockey and Muggle musicians, and Scorpius is restless and bored the first week he comes back to England. But he can't help but hum Reuben's favorite song, You Can Call Me Al, every time he sees Al Potter in the Ministry cafeteria.
8.) Rose Weasley hates him their first four years of Hogwarts because of the things that his family did to her mother. She even tells him, during one of their particularly bad verbal sparring sessions, that she wishes he was dead.
9.) He is fourteen when he gets chicken pox for the first time, and he nearly dies. He spends three weeks in the Hospital Wing, itching like crazy and delirious with fever. He wakes up one morning with Rose sitting in the chair next to him, white and shaking and crying a little. She apologizes for the fighting, for blaming him for things that weren't his fault, for telling him that she hoped he died. She kisses his cheek and her hands are cool on his face, which is fever-hot and burning. When his fever finally breaks and his spots disappear, he's sure that it was another hallucination. But Rose is there to greet him at the entrance to the common room, and neither one fight again for the rest of the year.
10.) He's a great mimic. Every Christmas, he and Ursula put on a puppet show for their parents and grandparents, which usually end up being hilariously awkward pieces that he and Ursula work on the week before the Christmas holidays. They end up usually being of Lord Voldemort and Headmaster Dumbledore, or Headmaster Snape against Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley. Ursula does the voices for Hermione and Harry, and Scorpius does the ones for all the others, and he loves how their simple little shows can make his family laugh.
The one time he thinks that keeping this tradition up is a mistake is the first time Rose comes to the Manor for Christmas, and she is stone-silent as Ursula, in her Harry-voice, says, "I feel cranky and pubescent today, and I don't know why! Grr! I'm going to take it out on someone I like!"
He thinks she's angry, but afterwards she suggests making a Draco Malfoy puppet and performing the show for her family next Christmas.
