Wow, almost chapter 30…. I need to update Let Go Draco eventually, but I hope you like this chapter of Malfoy Legacy! Please review! And when I see please review I don't mean just this chapter, review any chapter you like one's you loved, hated, understand now etc etc.

Albus nervously followed Professor McGonagall up to her office. She had said she needed to talk with him, privately. It couldn't be anything bad, he hoped to himself as he followed her up the stairs to her office. His brother didn't look worried when she approached Albus after they had lost the game, of course worry was never really James' thing, and James didn't know half of what was going on, in fact he didn't know anything. Albus wondered shortly why it hadn't occurred to him to tell his older brother. James had been stressed with school, his N.E.W.T.S. and preparing to move to America with Jack, so Albus had barley seen him the second half of the year.

Albus sat down across from McGonagall in her office. Had someone slipped? Suddenly an awful idea grew in his mind, had anyone been hurt. He thought he had seen everyone at the quidditch game, but had something happened before hand? He had been busy playing after all.

He sat there, uncomfortably as she prepared to speak with him. He tried to focus on something, anything else to put him at ease. His eyes followed a small fly that flew around the office.

"Mr. Potter" she struggled to say from across the table in her withered old voice. It brought him back to where he was. She struggled for a moment, closing her eyes shortly and then forcing them back open. "It has come to my attention that you have been near during the times of death of two of our faculty members, and the poisoning of a third." She stopped clenching her fists for a moment "You were with Professor Hagrid the night he was poisoned, you were with Miss Malfoy when the two of you found Firenze, dead." she shut her eyes again, taking in a deep breath "And you were on your way to Professor Slughorn's the day he died." Albus thought he knew where this was going.

"Professor I didn't do it!" he exclaimed.

"There is no doubt in my mind that you didn't, Mr. Potter." She stood up straight now, reassuming her stance of control. She was getting old, getting tired. "I have called you here to ask you," she paused "if you have seen anything suspicious." Albus clenched his hands. He was alone wasn't he? Could he not trust Professor McGonagall? He took in a deep breath.

"Professor, I have evidence to believe that Jim Benson, and a group called 'the magic regime' are behind all of this. Scorpius and I saw them and -" Suddenly a glazed look fell over Professor McGonagall's eyes.

"That will be all Mr. Potter." she smiled dazedly "Thank you very much for your help. Please don't talk about this again; we need this to be a matter between the two of us." It was strange, the new light way in which she moved the strain that had left her voice, the unreal look in her eyes. "You may go now."

"I don't think you-"

"You may go now Mr. Potter." she cut him off. HE nodded, standing up and leaving.

It was weird, the whole conversation, he could trust Professor McGonagall, but was she already aware? Was this a matter the school was already dealing with?

He sighed as he walked to the Gryffindor Common rooms to take a quick shower. HE could ask Rose for the prefect password to go to the prefect bathroom, but he wasn't in the mood. Not after that, and besides, he needed to clean up for the celebration for the Ravenclaw team. He wasn't really paying attention when a force ran into him. It was Zeph. She was breathing unevenly.

"What's wrong?" he asked when she looked up at him, struggling with her words. "What happened?"

"It's Forest and Scorpius." she managed to sputter "They are in the infirmary. I got a call and-" she began to struggle again. He took her hand, and squeezed it, dragging her out of the panic that was overtaking her.

Down at the infirmary the two found Forest, completely fine. She rushed out to Zeph. Zeph grabbed her and hugged her tightly.

"You're okay!" she exclaimed squeezing her friend, but Forest still looked upset. She hugged back, but quickly escaped her friend's embrace.

"It's not me it's Scorpius." Forest said. "It all happened so fast."

"What happened so fast?" Zeph shot "When?"

"It was about, like 30 minutes ago." Albus listened, but a new thought appeared in his head. He had tried to tell Professor McGonagall about 30 minutes ago, maybe 40, but still it was close. "We were walking up to the Ravenclaw dorms because we had fallen behind after the game, and well the knight, it fell."

"It fell?" Zeph shot "how could it fall? It's magic, it can WALK, how does it fall?"

"I don't know! I don't know! I don't know!" Forest gasped. "It just did! And then the sword fell with it, and out and it was about to hit me and Scorpius pushed me, and it went right into his stomach!" Tears were building up in Forest's eyes, it would've hit me in the chest, I've been told."

The two girls continued talking and Albus became lost in his own head. This couldn't be his fault could it? It was just him and McGonagall, and, and, how would they have known? She could have died, and now Scorpius, he was injured. Was he even alive. He numbly followed the girls into the infirmary.

Scorpius lay on a bed, a bloody shirt on the floor. A very bloody shirt. His stomach was wrapped in bandages. There was a bottle of some sort of medicine on the table next to him. He went to sit up, but winced and laid back down, somewhat propped up.

Madam Pomfrey bustled through. "Mr. Malfoy, you need to not exert yourself!"

"I was just sitting up" he argued.

She mumbled something under her breath as she picked up the bloody shirt. She turned to Zeph and Forest "I've already spoken with him. He's healing right now, and he'll be right as rain in the morning." she said to them, and they nodded. "Good thing Mr. Malfoy moved you, it could have been fatal, and well" she paused "If you hadn't flown him here it could have also been fatal." She smiled "but everyone's alive and well now. I've been saying for years there are way too many accidents just waiting to happen here." she mumbled something else before leaving them alone in the room.

The three were silent for a few moments.

"I think it's a warning." Scorpius said cryptically. Albus gulped. He knew it wasn't a warning. It was a consequence, but Albus didn't want to reveal for what. Two people had almost died thanks to him. Almost. He reminded himself. They were alive. "A warning, because something big is going to happen soon."

"A bit extreme for a warning." Zeph argued, but Scorpius solemnly shook his head.

"We don't know who we're dealing with, what they find extreme," he paused "and what they find permissible."

Albus had dragged Rose to the room of requirement. Last time they were there no one heard anything, unlike the time with McGonagall. She was angry to be dragged from her studies, but after hearing the news that Scorpius was in the infirmary, and why, she followed Albus. They sat down and Albus quickly gave her a rundown of the day's events.

After he finished telling her she sat back for a moment and shut her eyes.

"So he was right," she said "When Scorpius was talking about how this might be bigger than just students," she paused "I didn't believe him, but now." she bit her lip "I'm just thankful that I never sent the letter to my mum and dad or the authorities. If they knew about your conversation, then they might very well be monitoring the owls." Albus nodded.

"I never thought of sending an owl to anyone." Albus mumbled.

"That's because you don't think." he glared at her "But it's good you didn't either." They sat quietly for a few minutes.

"You think they would've chosen someone close to me." Albus said. Rose shook her head.

"This just shows what we're dealing with."