Albus and Rose boarded the train to return to Hogwarts. Albus stole one more look back at his dad before leaving. The boy who lived, Albus thought. Ever since his dad had told him the truth every time Albus looked at a familiar face a tittle or action that they did would pass through his mind. For instance that day when he saw Scorpious' dad at the train station he couldn't help but pass his eyes over the man's left arm and think death eater. The mark was hidden of course but all the same Albus looked at the man in a new light. He had decided that this new knowledge wouldn't affect his friendship with Scorpious though. All this stuff happened before they were born so why should it matter to them.

Albus turned to go into the compartment they had left Hogwarts in. Scorpious was already there waiting for Albus. Rose tapped Albus on the shoulder. He turned to her, she was giving Scorpious a stony gaze, "I'm meeting Casey with some of our Ravenclaw friends in another compartment. Ok Al?" she said. Albus nodded and sighed. Things were probably going to be worse between his two best friends now that Rose knew the truth. He had assumed that she would be sitting with him on the way there but she had other plans obviously. It was probably for the best, Casey and Albus could only hold polite conversation for so long before they broke and started attacking each other.

"Hey how was break?" Scorpious asked as Albus sat down.

"Same old same old you know," Albus lied. He had managed to hide his obliviousness for so long. No point in making a fool out of himself and let the world know that he didn't know about his father until a week ago. "Yours?"

"It was a bit stiff. My dad is all upset that they haven't found my grandpa yet. If he had been caught by the aurors at the battle of Hogwarts he would have been out of Azkaban this year and he would've been with us." Scorpious said nonchalantly.

"Your grandpas missing?" Albus asked not knowing what his friend was talking about. His dad had said that all of the death eaters had been sent to Azkaban after the final battle.

"Yeah he's been missing since the day Voldemort died. I figured you knew with his name being under the wanted wizards list every day and with your dad being an auror and all," Scorpious said as if it was obvious.

Albus shook his head he felt bad for his best friend. He couldn't imagine how it would feel if he didn't know where his Grandpa Arthur was or even if he was alive, "Um that sucks," he said.

Scorpious shrugged, "It doesn't really matter I mean I never knew him. It only really sucks when my dad gets all upset over it and ruins a holiday you know. He spent all Christmas sulking over it. Then my mom spent the whole day trying to make him feel better you know."

Albus nodded. He understood what it felt like now. It must have been similar to the way his dad acted about Grandpa James and Grandma Lily. When they got brought up everyone got really sad and his mom had to comfort his dad about it. Albus didn't know them though so all he really knew about the two was what his parents told him. Until recently that meant that he knew next to nothing.

"So what you get?" Scorpious asked changing the subject. Albus pulled out his potions tool kit held it up and grinned. Scorpious took the gift and looked at it, "Cool" he said. Then he reached into his pocket and pulled out a picture. In the picture Scorpious was holding a large black owl on his right hand.

"My mom didn't want to cage him so we had him fly to the Hogwarts owlry. Her name is Skye," Scorpious said.

Albus smiled, "He can stay next to my owl."

Scorpious nodded then there was a knock on the door. Albus opened it. There was a woman pushing the a cart full of snacks in it.

"You boys want something from the trolly?" she asked.

Albus reached into his pocket and pulled out some money, his dad had given him. His parents didn't usually let him get chocolate frogs. They told him over break that it was because they were worried he would get a card with their name on it. Before he left his dad had told him to buy one on the train.

"Two chocolate frogs please," he said handing the woman the money. The woman reached into the trolley and handed Albus the two off the top.

Albus took the first one and offered it to Scorpious but he shook his head, "I ate a huge breakfast," he said pushing the candy back to Albus, "Anyway I've got enough cards to fill up this whole compartment."

Albus shrugged and opened the first box. The chocolate frog immediately tried to jump for it but Albus was prepared. When it leaped towards the compartment door Albus caught it in mid jump. His dad had warned him that they would try and escape. Albus started to eat it as he examined the card," Albus Dumbledore," he read aloud.

Scorpious nodded, "Hes one of the more common ones I give all my extras to that shop in Diagon Alley where you can exchange cards. It takes twenty Dumbledores to get another card of any form of decency."

Albus examined the card. The man on the card had a long white beard and was wearing half-moon spectacles. He looked a little younger here than he did on the picture on the wall at home. Albus flipped the card and read Dumbledore's bio. It was relatively long with his very long list of achievements.

Towards the end of the card there was a line that read:

Also known for his efforts in defeating Voldemort. Albus Dumbledore was the head of the Order of the Pheonix and was known for greatly helping Harry Potter guiding him in his fight against the dark lord.

Albus understood why his parents didn't want him to have these cards before. Dumbledore's card alone would've given a lot away.

Albus turned to the other box and opened it up, "Hey its Uncle Ron," Albus said.

"No way," Scorpious said jumping to the seat next to Albus, "I haven't even gotten him yet. He didn't actually defeat Voldemort and didn't really have any other achievements outside of helping your dad so they didn't make that many of him. Maybe I should have taken that frog."

The picture on the card was taken a long time ago. Uncle Ron couldn't be more than twenty in this picture. Albus put both cards into his pocket and started to eat the frog that came with Uncle Ron. Scorpious continued to talk about all of the cards that he had but Albus wasn't paying attention much. His stomach was starting to bother him a little. He continued to talk to Scorpious for what must have been another hour when it started getting worse. There was a dull pain in his side and he felt kind of like he wanted to throw up.

He slowly stood up, "I'm not feeling too good," he muttered. When he stood up he felt his head starting to spin. Within seconds he was on the ground. He wasn't passed out quite yet but he knew it wouldn't be long.

"I'm going to go get help Al," Scorpious said. He sounded panicked as he darted out the door looking for a prefect. Albus rolled over and searched his brain for something that could've made him so sick. He felt like he was dying as a cold sweat started to roll down his forehead. The frogs he thought as he rolled over. Luckily he had thrown the two packages onto the floor near where he had fallen.

Albus reached weakly for one of them. On the bottom of the container written in a black chicken scratch hand writing that could only belong to James was a note.

You didn't honestly think you were going all break with all four of us and get away without a scratch did you? You can thank Uncle George for leaving his work bag lying unattended while Hugo was stuck to the ceiling. Don't worry you'll live. The effects will wear off eventually.

Yours truly

Albus rolled onto his back and let out a loud moan. The last words that passed through his head before the world went dark were that prat I am going to get him back for this.

A/N This chapter is a little bit on the shorter side especially after my last 4000 word one but its super important to my story line hint hint