Title The Fake Professor / / / Rating T
Warnings Contains mild swearing in this chapter
-The Fake Professor-
Previously on The Fake Professor…
"Watch where you're going Potter!" the person said, a smile forming on the edge of his lips "You almost ran over my son!"
"Calm down Draco," Astoria Malfoy said, "You promised to get along with Harry, didn't you? Especially as he assisted in stopping your father going to prison."
"Astoria my dear, I know, but still I didn't want to encourage him!" Draco replied, "He is intolerable at the best of times, even though, I must admit, he is good looking."
"That's very funny Draco, and I guess this is young Scorpius I assume?" Harry asked, gesturing towards the young man who was the spitting image of his father.
Suddenly they heard a toot from the whistle of the train, signalling that it was only a few minutes until departure. "Looks like you better get on board," both Harry and Draco told their sons at the same time. The two first years ran to the train door and boarded
They got on the train, finding a window that they could wave out of. It was time to depart. The train pulled out of Platform 9 3/4 almost snakelike, huffing and puffing, slowly but surely, leaving the army of waving parents on the platform. But for Albus Potter, his school life was about to begin.
On-board the Hogwarts Express
1st September 2017
Albus walked past a legion of busy compartments until he found one with his favourite cousin, Rose Weasley sitting with his half-brother, Arthur Bones, and the son of his father's enemy come colleague, Scorpius Malfoy.
"Mind if I join you Arthur, Rose?" Albus asked, looking out of the window. "I noticed Uncle Ron doesn't like Mr Malfoy or Scorpius very much, does he?" Albus turned to Scorpius, holding out his hand. "Hi, I'm Albus Potter. You've met my cousin, Rose Weasley, and my half-brother, Arthur Bones."
"He doesn't," Rose told Albus, "But there again Father and Mr Malfoy didn't see eye to eye. Mother however forgave him."
"Hello Albus. I kind of guessed Rose was related to you. And how come you're related to the Bones scion?" Scorpius asked. "As you obviously guessed, I'll be the scion to the Malfoy name, if father dies before grandfather does. And I presume you're the scion to the Potter name."
"No, my brother James will become Lord Potter upon my father's passing, with your cousin, my Godbrother, Teddy Lupin becoming Lord Black." Albus responded."
"Anyway, has anyone noticed the way father acted around Mr Malfoy?" Arthur asked
"The way I see it is why should we judge people our age based on our parent's prejudices?" Scorpius said, stroking his blonde hair
"I agree!" came the reply from Albus. "We need to promote inter-house friendships, just like what happened eventually in Aunt Hermione's final year."
The door of the compartment opened, to find his brother, James, in the doorway
"Watch out younger brother," James Potter said to Albus, "You are going to be a snake and you know it!"
"Don't push me as Mother has shown me something which you won't believe" Albus warned his brother.
"You're just a good for nothing snake head," James taunted, knowing that magic wasn't banned on the train. "You won't be a Gryffindor anyway!"
"Sternumenta Vespertiliones" Albus said, his wand having been pulled out of his pocket, making his brother realise that he meant business. Everyone pointed at James and laughed. "You deserved that." he told James, laughing.
"Rose, can you lift this off me?" James said to Rose, bats coming out of his nose at high speed. "I'm off to see cousin Fred to see what he has liberated from his Father's shop and I don't want to have a Bat Bogey Hex as lethal as Mothers annoying me!"
Rose said the counter-curse, stopping the Bat Bogey Hex. "Now get lost" she said to James, clapping the shoulder of Albus.
Scorpius turned to Albus and said, "Anyway, before we were interrupted by Bat-Face, my Father, and all his ancestors, was in Slytherin, I would love to be the one that was different, as in getting housed in Gryffindor."
"For me, being the 18th generation Weasley, Gryffindor is a dead cert!" Rose said to Scorpius and Albus, "I think Mother should have been a Ravenclaw because of her brains, but she was a Gryffindor too. Where do you think you'll go Albus?" she asked her cousin, unaware of James taunting him all the time. But Albus didn't respond as he was thinking. Thinking of what his brother said.
Number 12, Grimmauld Place, London, England
14th July 2017
James was stood in Albus' bedroom doorway at Number 12, Grimmauld Place, laughing at his brother and how he had adorned his bedroom with posters of the Chudley Cannons.
"Snake head" James said to Albus, laughing at his brother, "When you get sorted, you'll be sent to Slytherin, no passing go, no collecting 200 Galleons. You're not brave enough to go in Gryffindor!"
"But...but...but I am brave!" Albus stammered, shaking at what his brother said, "I'm as brave as Father! You wouldn't be saying it to Lily but you do to me! What is your problem with me?"
"Look here," James told his brother, "You're just a little squirt who will end up in Slytherin, just like all the bad eggs do. You're just like that waste of space of a teacher that you were named after"
"Severus Snape was a brave man who protected Father" Albus said, "Didn't you read a book at school? He spied on Voldemort to protect Father and his friends. He stopped the Death Eaters hurting Mother too much.
"Severus Snape was a good for nothing waste of space who worked for Voldemort," James told his brother, leaving the room, laughing his head off, leaving Albus crying in his pillows. It wasn't fair.
Platform 9 ¾ at London Kings Cross Station, London, England
1st September 2017
Harry turned around, having waved his children off for a new year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He walked over to Draco Malfoy and shook his hand.
"Looks like you won the bet Malfoy." Harry said, smiling. He handed Draco a folder full of parchment. "Our Lily is mad for your Scorpius. Maybe you would be willing to negotiate a betrothal contract between the two of them?"
"I think that is a fair plan, especially as it would benefit the Malfoy family, as it is well known that Potter offspring are well. I will need to talk to Astoria as she will skin me alive if I did something like that without anyone knowing apart from us." Draco said, reading the proposed contract, frowning as he read it. "Plus, that Bride Price is appalling. Let me have a think about it, speaking to my Head of Accounts at Gringotts and I shall get back to you."
"I have already had my Head of Accounts look over it and it is iron clad, no loopholes for either of us to use to claim breach of contract." Harry said, smiling at his former enemy-cum-political opponent. "It is completely up to you.
"Fine Potter, I shall get my Head of Accounts to look over it, discuss it with Astoria and I shall let you know." Draco said, shaking his hand. "Are you all set for the meeting later? I believe it's your turn to be bad guy at it."
"Yeah, I am. I love our games at the Council meetings." Harry said, trying hard not to laugh. "All these political games we play are winding Granger and Percy up something chronic."
Suddenly an owl swooped down to Harry, who grabbed the letter attached to it. He looked at the letter and then frowned. "Is everything alright Potter?" Draco asked, confused at Harrys facial expressions. "What's wrong?"
"I need to head to the Ministry. This surely has got to be someone's idea of a sick joke." Harry growled. Harry left the platform, leaving Ginny, Susan and Lily to make their way back to Grimmauld Place.
On-board the Hogwarts Express
1st September 2017
"You ok Al?" Scorpius asked Albus, "You looked distant"
"Yeah, I'm fine. Just thinking really about things. I really want to be in Gryffindor but my brother thinks I am going to be in Slytherin, just like one of my namesakes," Albus said. "But Father told me something that I didn't know before about the Sorting Hat."
"Either way, we will still be friends Al," Scorpius reassured him, "You would make a great wizard either way."
"Thanks Scorp" Albus said to him, "You are full of sense." He turned to Rose, "I wonder what we will learn this year?"
"Levitation I think," Rose replied, "Plus I think we will learn to fly, even though you will ace that! I wonder when the trolley will come?"
"You think like Uncle Ron" Albus said, "With your stomach!"
"Ha ha," Rose said, rubbing her stomach, "Father didn't get home until late last night as he was busy working with Uncle George on something for the shop."
"I wonder if that was what James was referring to when he said he was off to see what Fred had liberated from the shop," Scorpius said, remembering what was said earlier
After what felt like ages the trolley came along the train, with Rose and Scorpius just buying Chocolate Frogs and Albus buying some Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans to go with his chocolate frogs.
Eventually the train pulled into Hogsmeade, when a sudden bang came from the engine. Everyone rushed to the platform to see what had happened.
"JAMES POTTER! FRED WEASLEY! GET HERE NOW!" The Head Boy shouted to them.
"One of the 3 W's exploding coal blocks," James said to Albus, Rose and Scorpius, "That's what Uncle Ron and Uncle George were working on!"
"Firs' Years! Firs' Years follow me" came Hagrid's booming voice over the sea of Hogwarts student's. He saw Albus and waved him over.
"Yer dad said you wer' worried." Hagrid said to Albus, ushering him, Rose and Scorpius into the front boat with him, "Yer brother playin' yer up again?"
"Yeah, but Mother and Father sorted him out," Albus replied to the half giant. "He's a good man, Harry is." Hagrid said, "He taught Defence Against the Dark Arts here years ago and he helped me wi' t' school. Yer shoul' be proud o' him."
"I am, I am," the reply came. The boats pushed off from the station to make their way across the lake. The new school year was about to start.
-The Fake Professor-
Coming Up in Chapter 03 - A Visit to the Minister's office and people are getting sorted…
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Story ID 066 / / / Publish Date 06/03/2017