"Hey Al do you remember this?"
"What is it Scor? Here it's all dusty I'll just wipe off the… Oh yeah I do remember this… description of the room of requirements: the room of hidden things, as discovered years after the Battle of Hogwarts - ASP & SHM
"Its a memory from our early years at school. Lets open it. The pensieve is already set up."
I guess since Starvision89 has been so kind and absolutely can't wait for an update, this extra chapter is for you (^_^).
"So Al ... what was inside?"
"Scor … It… it's ash… mountains and mountains of it… heaped and strewn in a vision of the incomprehensibly sublime. A whispering landscape of crumbling dust.
A great grey waste… a graveyard of darkness
—That place… it feels wrong…
a mausoleum of forgotten hopes… full of memory and sorrow…
shadows reaching, dancing naked across the scorched walls… crying out in fear and anguish through time itself… writhing in the horror of what must have been witnessed.
all the tokens of childhood entrusted to this place for safekeeping… are now gone… burnt to pale nothingness beneath the veiled moonlight that even now seeps through charred curtains.
There is nothing in there but echoes and icy void. A chasm of lingering purpose… each pile of ash a dread sentinel left to keep watch over the ruined skeleton of its master's remains… out of longing perhaps, to fulfill a mandate long beyond possible completion. I've heard stories about this place but …
but a monochrome boneyard is all that remains of that once sacred shelter.
Can you imagine how many of us must have come here for sanctuary, reprieve or silent contemplation throughout history?"
"Al…?"
"How many sought peace, or like us the secrets of the past...
And now it is merely a silent tomb… where secret love, blissful friendship and violent rivalry lie in equally measured death.
I have never seen anything as hauntingly beautiful nor as morbidly terrifying…
… Our fathers fought in there…tried to kill each other right here…"
"… Al… are you oka— ?"
"I… I think … we should go… promise me you'll never come back here… promise me you'll never actually look inside Scor… ok?"
"What? I get the most beautiful and frightening display of eloquence your little Potter brain could ever potentially muster and I don't even get to see the source o—
"Promise! We… just shouldn't have come here… let's just go…"
"Al it's ok … I… we can go if you want…but..."
"I don't want you to ever have to see that… promise!"
"Ha your not generally one for showing actual concern whats gotten into y—"
"Swear!"
"Ow Al your hurting me! I promise… it's ok Al just… Rose must be wondering where we 'slithered' off to, we should go find your imbecile cousin…ok?"
"… Ok"
"Here, hey your hand is freezing."
"Oh… Um… Thanks Scor"
"…Idiot"
...
"...Ponce"
"You would know wouldn't you Potter"
"Oh so it's back to Potter is it?"
"Al! Scorpius! Come on we're going to be late if you don't hurr… Oh… well I wasn't aware snakes held hands in public… hee hee hee"
"Shut up Rosie!"
"No no… it's a good look for you two, just don't let either of your parents ever see that, they might have aneurisms. Or James for that matter. Shall we? I think we might still be able to make it to transfiguration on time. Hey Scorpius can I hold your hand too or is that an honor reserved for my cousin?...
"You know I am starting to remember why I dislike you Weasley."
"You both are turning soooooo red."
"And now i've fully remembered."
description of the room of requirements: the room of hidden things, as discovered years after the Battle of Hogwarts - ASP & SHM
I wrote this chapter before even the prologue and was never even sure it would have a place in the story so if the three seem slightly out of character… they are. This always felt almost surreal to me for a number of reasons, namely because it was written without internal narration… merely with dialogue. The characters were both too young and at the same time too old in: spirit, word, and affect to seem plausible.
Since I love the poetry of a ruined room of hidden things I simply had to write about the children's discovery of its burnt remains. You may consider Al's words more an extension of my own mind than part of his character.
(Since i'm putting this in for Svision89, Hope you enjoyed! And don't worry this is NOT a substitute for a regular chapter, the next chapter may well be up in minutes. Although don't quote me on that. I am a whimsical individual who writes fanfiction for fun… you never know what I might do…you might get 2 extra chapters ^_^ or you may get none 0_o) 20,000 + words of following content already written, just have to edit and fill some chapter gaps.
If anyone else wants extra chapters dedicated just to them, review enough and you might just get them XD. (I hope guest Buford is still with us too)
Things to look forward to: Draco, Harry and Ron being ridiculous; drunk Weasleys over hols; funny house elves; amazing gifts; an increasingly funny Al and Scor; terrifying premonitions/revelations and the boys coming to each others defense time and again.
Next Chapter: Detention: A forgotten Hallow in the Forest (This one might take a while because i have yet to actually write it.)
-Cookies over money and the written word ABOVE them both. Thank you for reading so far. (I wonder if anyone will kill me when they realize my promises of hot chocolate etc... are all lies 0_o)
P.S. SV89 I warn you much of what i foreshadowed in my PM will be coming up soon when the boys go home for hols. (i decided to keep it for their first years... mwahahahah). I write to an intelligent audience because some people take the time to respond with equal eloquence ;) thanks for your kindness and your reviews.
