School was so very much better than last year, I'll give you that.

The Sorting was fun to watch, watching the terrified children go up and put on the ragged hat. It was interesting until one little girl went up. She had narrower eyes, so she must've been oriental, and her hair was so long, straight and black like a raven.

She almost became a hatstall, being up there a few minutes. She seemed to arguing with it.

I felt a pull to her, as if we were related, or like we should have been cousins or something. Her name was Katerina something. She looked familiar, somehow.

Finally, the hat yelled aloud, "RAVENCLAW!" and the table beside Slytherin clapped loudly. I looked at the girl, and in turn I caught Rose's jealous, hurt look at me and Katerina. Then, she spun around, and the James and Albus looked at me, and then laughed at Rose.

I wished I could join them, but I knew I was meant to be in Slytherin, and I had Goyle with me. It was fine. After the feast, I raced up to Katerina and introduced myself.

She gasped.

"Scorpius? My mother is old friends with yours!" she grinned, thinking to herself obviously, that at least she'd know someone.

"Who?"

"Cho Chang?" she tilted her head, as if I should know this.

"Oh, right." I knew that. Cho used to Uncle Cedric's girlfriend…until he died…then it clicked. Katerina would have been my relative if my Uncle hadn't died- if you know- she did exist if she had him for a father.

I immediately was pulled into the passing Slytherin crowd by Blake and Goyle.

"Zambini- what're you doing?" I asked, paying no attention to Goyle.

"Do you want to spend the night in the damp dungeon outside the common room all night?" he asked incredulously, raising an eyebrow.

"Of course not! But that wasn't nice!"

"Since when are we nice?" he laughed at me.

"Why must you all do your best to maintain Slytherin's old reputation?" I shot back.

"Who was that girl anyway?" Goyle asked shyly.

"…A…a friend." I said, I wasn't about to admit that she was like a long-lost relative, even if we weren't even related. I was sure Katerina didn't even know about my uncle.

I didn't until last year- thanks to James.

I thought back to earlier, even this morning, my parents hadn't seen me off. They left very early that morning, and kissed me goodbye and took one long look at me, sighed, and went to work. Later, I woke up in Rose's house. My parents had brought me there in my sleep with my belongings- like my top of the line broomstick for Quidditch and my robes and books and such.

I was the youngest Quidditch seeker since Albus' dad had been at Hogwarts. I'd, like him, got on in my 1st year, and James, like my father, got on in his 2nd year.

Of course, that morning was hectic, but Mr. Weasley had a huge smile on his face the whole time, not caring Malfoy spawn was in his house- maybe he finally saw me as a Diggory's son too. Maybe he'd finally gotten to accept that one of his best friends, one he loved like Mrs. Potter, his real sister, was wed to my father. Or maybe he finally realized he couldn't change who his children liked and who they were friends with, and that I was a good kid after all.

But that seemed so far-fetched, and he later said how this reminded him of his Hogwarts train days. Those September 1sts…for years…chaos in his childhood home…and how Harry and Hermione would stay with them…and that's where I came in. I was the guest he actually was happy to have.

I got hugged by not only Rose's parents, but her brother, and then Albus and James' parents and their sister. It was like a huge extended family. Once on the train, we playing a few games of Exploding Snap and such, and I thought of my parents and everyone else's. Why were my parents so wrapped up with work? Why was it confidential?

Albus elbowed James and they then threw Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans at me until I looked away from the window at them.

"Why so glum, chum?" James said, trying not to smile at his apparent joke.

"James! Ugh. If only Teddy or Victoire still went here! At least Lorcan and Lysander are. Go play with them- you're in their year- you're friends with them. Go away!" Albus pushed his brother out the door, and James was forced to go find Luna Scamander's twin sons.

"Watch- not only will the twins be in a compartment, but Lucy, Molly, Fred, Roxanne, Dominique, and Louis will be in the same one. All our cousins in one place…away from us. Not that we don't like them…it's just…we like you better." Rose blushed at the end.

I'd met practically all of these people over the summer.

The twins reminded me of Mrs. Scamander herself, and Fred and Roxanne came over to dinner sometimes- as my mother was very close to their father- George. I knew that whenever she called for Fred to help her with the dishes or something, tears would seem to arise in his eyes, but disappear just as fast- as if it were his namesake she was thinking about. I only knew the original Fred Weasley and my mother had been very good friends, and no more.

Dominique I'd seen around Hogwarts, but had only formally met once, when I got lost in a hallway, and her brother Louis was a year above us, and would give me and James' private flying lessons for extra skill whenever I visited Rose's or James' houses. But Lucy and Molly I had never met- I only knew they were total know-it-alls and according to their cousins- prats.

Now, in my dorm room, in my bed, I was looking up the ceiling, and Goyle along with the others in our shared room were sleeping, some snoring. But that wasn't why I wasn't sleeping.

Now that I was back, I'd have to go back into the searching of my family's past- or more like my father's past. It was all buried, and I'd dig it up, I had to. Rose and Albus and James and maybe others would help me on my quest to achieve this, because I knew I couldn't do it alone, I needed Rose's help- even if we had gotten tied for the top grades on exams last term- I still thought of her as the smarter one.

We'd have to find that missing chapter from that book, and that was basically my primary goal right now- as I figured almost everything would be in those missing pages. Maybe not the things about my mum that didn't tie in with my dad's life- but most of it would have them both together. And my parents change in behavior these past few months made me want to solve this mystery even more.