Chapter 24 – No letters?

"Albus, pssst." Scorpius tried to get his best mate's attention without waking the other boys in their dorm. Albus had a light sleep so it wasn't a hard task.

"Shut up!" Albus' answer was muffled by his sheets, but Scorpius knew once awake Albus would listen.

"I saw the Death Eaters in my dream again, and Snape. Do you think it's possible to miss someone you only met for an hour? I feel like I should have taken more time to get to know him. Maybe I could have asked him how to be stronger. I think he must have been a strict but really good teacher. My Dad always told me how much he looked up to him."

"Nice Scorpius, always a pleasure to be waken by you." Albus groaned but turned around to look at his friend. Making sure the curtains of the other boys were still closed he glared at Scorpius for waking him up. "We'll help Delphi with her task and make sure Snape stays alive, then you can ask him everything. Now let me sleep."

"Albus we can't kill Cedric again! You know how it ended the first time." Scorpius went even paler than normal but tried to keep his voice down. Something that proved to be difficult while he was still shaken from his nightmare. The eerie black shadows of his dreams were still laughing at him and taunting him. They told him he was unworthy to be Voldemort's son, so they would kill him and take his place as the heir. Even worse was what they did if he kept telling himself, and them, that Draco Malfoy was his father. They just laughed and laughed, making fun of him for believing a lie.

"You worry to much, there'll be a different way. Good night." with that Albus turned around and went back to sleep, ignoring anything else Scorpius wanted to say. He didn't want another argument in the middle of the night. He had his own doubts about what his girlfriend was asking of him, without Scorpius adding to them.

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The times Hugo approached his sister, especially at her own table at breakfast were rare. Her little brother was rather quiet, had few friends and he was way to shy to stand up to any Gryffindor. She had told her house mates years ago to leave him alone or else, but for Hugo they were to loud and extroverted anyway and so he stayed away from her and the rest of Gryffindor's House.

Hence it was no wonder Rose was nearly having a heart attack when a small low voice talked to her from behind and, she was quite sure, was her brother's: "Rose?"

She jumped up from the bench and turned around, thinking her cousin James was playing a joke on her again, just to see it was her startled little brother behind her, with two book pressed against his chest. His red hair was unkempt and his green eyes were wide open in shock.

"Sorry" he apologised right away: "I'll talk to you later."

He nearly ran away after he saw everyone looking at him because of the spectacle his sister had caused. Cursing, Rose sent a longing look at her breakfast before she hurried after her brother to catch him outside the halls. She knew he wouldn't talk while he saw others looking at them.

"Hugo!" she called after him once they were in the hallway and was happy to notice he slowed down. While he was two years younger he was already catching up in height and his legs were way to long for his body in her opinion. Outrunning him proved to be more difficult each year.

"You can ask me now." she told him and smiled. It had to be important for him to seek her out on his own.

"Did Dad write to you? I haven't got an answer from him in two weeks." Hugo wasn't looking at her but at the stones at his feet and it broke Rose's heart to see him like this. Their parents should worry about them and not the other way around. Since her talk with her mother she felt rather restless herself, so she had told Hugo to stay away from their mother. She didn't want her little pure hearted brother to get hurt by that woman. It might be harsh but in his own best interest. She didn't know what kind of spell had gone wrong and messed with her mother's memories as bad as it had but in her opinion she should be in St. Mungo's and not here at school. Having her still here told her something she didn't want to accept or even acknowledge, because it would mean she would have to deal with the story her mother had told her. All Rose wanted was to wake up from this, go home on the winter break and find her parents quarrelling under the Christmas tree. How she was supposed to explain something she didn't understand herself to her small brother she didn't know.

"No I haven't got a letter either. But Christmas is coming up so I'm sure he's really busy with Uncle George to set up the Shop for it. Don't worry, we'll hear from him soon." she tried to cheer Hugo up and kept smiling at him.

"Uncle George sent a letter just two days ago. He added a lot of sweets." Hugo told her and gave her a weak smile. "I need to get these book to the library. See you later." he told her when she was at a loose for words and left her standing in the Hallway, cursing her parents in her head for doing this to them.

I just noticed that we haven't seen Draco since Hermione left him in the morning. I think I need him back next chapter.