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Scorpius was alone in the long and narrow Slytherin common room, sitting in a large overstuffed chair, and working on his charms essay by wandlight. Many of this Slytherins prefered to work by wand light in the common because the light from the green flames made it hard to see what you were doing.

Just as he dipped his quill back into his ink bottle he heard voices coming up the stairs from the boys dormitory at the other end of the room.

"Did you 'ear about that mudblood girl? The one who-" Scorpius could hear one of the boys saying.

"What is your fascination with mudbloods?" The other one snapped back.

"Filth." Another scoffed.

"I know, I know. I was saying she beat Finch in a duel yesterday. Finch got mad at her for some reason - I don't know why cause he's still in the hospital wing - but he challenged her to a duel and she beat him, bad."

"She must have cheated somehow." The third voice said again.

"Scorpius was finding it very hard to concentrate. He'd only come out here because it was late and he knew it would be deserted, but if these three were gonna be here long he might as well go back to his dormitory.

"Who's that?" One of the voices said quickly.

"I dunno some first year. But listen-"

"Shut up Nott!" The third boys snapped again. "That's not 'some first year' that's the Malfoy boy."

Scorpius gulped, something about the boys tone made Scorpius think that this might not end well for him.

"Lil' firsty in love with the mudbloods and the blood traitors."

"I am not!" Scorpius roared defiantly, but he knew when he did it that he had only made things worse for himself.

The three boys were walking closer now and Scorpius could tell who they were. The large one in the middle was his cousin Arcturus Black, his two solid black eyes absorbed all the light in the room making them look almost like holes in his head, and his right ear was pierced with six silver earrings - one for every person he'd beaten in a duel (Arcturus loved to brag about them at family gatherings). He did not recognize the two cronies who flanked him, but he thought the one on the left might have been the brother of Blaise Zabini.

"I 'eard ya wern't playin' nice wit da other ickle firsties, dat true blondey?" Arcturus mocked as he and his two cronies barked with laughter.

"My name is Scorpius!" He shouted back defiantly. "Scorpius Malfoy! And you will address me with respect!" He stared up at the three boys who were positively towering over him so high they blocked out all the light of the common room. But he would not back down. Scorpius reared himself up to his full height, which admittedly didn't help much since all three boys were at least a foot taller than him, and stared at them unblinking, which only made Arcturus laugh harder.

The pudgy black boy on Arcturus' right reached out a long arm and grabbed Scorpius by the scruff of his robes. He reached down into his pocket looking for his wand, but before he could use it Arcturus already had his drawn. "Expelliarmus." He said lazily, and his friends all laughed.

"Wut you gonna do now ickle firsty?"

"I TOLD YOU! MY NAME IS SCORPIUS!" Scorpius screamed as loud as he he could and swung his first blindly through the air catching Arcturus square in the face. Arcturus bent double, and clutched what Scorpius was almost sure was a broken nose, and a wry smile came across Scorpius' face.

"You think that's funny do ya?" The pudgy black boy holding him asked.

"No." Arcturus stopped his two friends from pulling out their wands as he stood up. "Put him down, and give him his wand." The other boys looked at him confused and so did Scorpius. "He clearly wants to fight me," It was Arcturus who smiled this time, it was a very unnerving smile not helped at all by his now crooked nose and the blood running down his face, he looked dangerous in the wash of green light. "So we're going to have a duel. Now pick up your wand." He barked the last words, and the boy holding Scorpius in the air let him drop.

Scorpius picked up his wand and straightened himself. He knew he had no chance of winning the duel. But he knew it would be so much worse if he didn't at least try.

"Good." Arcturus smiled again and Scorpius gulped nervously. "Now we're supposed to bow before a duel, but we'll just pretend we did that. Ready?" Arcturus asked, but without waiting for Scorpius to reply he fired his first spell.

"Stupefy!" He shouted and a jet of red light hit Scorpius and sent him crashing into the wall at the other end of the long common room. He heard their laughter as he slowly got back to his feet but before he could manage to point his wand he was disarmed again. He jumped behind the large green chair where his wand had landed.

"Bombarda." Scorpius heard Arcturus say a split second before the chair he was cowering behind exploded sending shards of wood all across the common room, one especially large piece lodged itself in Scorpius' thigh. He gave a shout of pain, but before he could wrench the shrapnel from his thigh Arcturus had fired another spell.

"Levicorpus." Arcturus said and Scorpius was hoisted into the air by his ankle. "Liberacorpus." He said a moment later and Scorpius fell five feet onto his head and shoulder. The three of them were now laughing so hard they didn't see Scorpius get to his feet.

"Carpe Retractum!" Scorpius shouted. He'd aimed the curse at Arcturus, but it had hit one of the cronies. The rope that shot out of Scorpius' wand wrapped around its victims neck and pulled him face first into the ground.

"Everte Statum!" Arcturus bellowed and Scorpius was sent careening into the wall.

"PETRIFICUS TOTALUS!" Scorpius heard a different voice roar before he slipped out of consciousness.


"Scorpius." A soft soothing voice rang through the air. "Scorpius dear, it's time to wake up."

With considerable effort Scorpius opened his eyes to see a pretty blonde haired nurse wearing pearl white robes, who could have only been out of Hogwarts for a couple of years if in fact she had left at all.

"Whe-" Scorpius began as he sat up. "Where am I? Who are you?"

"You're in the hospital wing, and I'm Victoire Weasley, Madam Chaussette's aid. You were in a fight with some other boys. Do you remember any of that?" She asked kindly.

"Yeah." Scorpius said sourly. "And I lost. Bad."

"Well you weren't seriously hurt that's the important thing. You had a cracked rib and a pretty nasty cut on your thigh, but we took care of it no problem." She beamed at him.

Scorpius gave a grunt, and Victoire smiled at him one last time before walking away.

"Do you know who it was that finally saved me?" He called after her.

"Albus Potter."


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