In the Previous Chapter…
"He just wanted to invite us home for Christmas" Scorpius grinned before picking Rose off of the floor and into his arms. "Shall we go and have dinner then, hun?"
Harry watched as Scorpius carried Rose happily towards all of his nieces and nephews and was amazed at how easily they all got along. Harry walked towards then and joined them at the Gryffindor table.
"I haven't sat here in years" he said, looking up and down the table.
"Urgh, Dad's reminiscing" Al groaned before asking Scorpius "So, dad invited you to have a Weasley Christmas, huh?"
A week later, Scorpius held Rose's hand as they walked down to the carriages, his suitcase containing not only his belongings, but Rose's also, in his other hand.
Rose, at 5, had never been on either the carriages or the scarlet steam train, so was over excited about it all. She once again, seemed to have an unending list of questions up her sleeve.
"What pulls the carriages?"
"How big is the train?"
"What colour is the train?"
"Will you sit with my family?"
"How long will it take?"
"Is the station really a muggle bulding?"
"Do you ever stop asking questions?" Scorpius groaned slightly, looking down at Rose. They were queuing up to get into the carriages, and Rose's questions were beginning to try his patience a bit. "The carriages are pulled by creatures called Thestrals and they can only be seen by special people like me" he said.
At age 7, Scorpius had watched his Granddad Greengrass pass away in a St Mungo's bed from cancer, so could see the beasts. "Before you ask, it's hard to describe what they look like, but they've got a grey skin and look a bit like a shaved Hippogryff" he tried to explain.
"The train is red, and it's really long, so you should stay with me all the time when you're on it. Of course I'll come and sit with your family, as we're kinda going home with them, so I need to stay with them to find your family" he said, smirking a bit at the thought of a Malfoy spending Christmas with the Weasleys and a Weasley spending Christmas with the Malfoys.
"It'll take a few hours to get there, but we've got loads of things to do, and yeah, Kings Cross is a muggle place, so you'll have to be careful as to what you say when we leave the station" he finished.
Rose gasped as the carriage they were on rounded the corner and gave her her first view of the Hogwarts Express. "It's so big!"
"Come one, Rosie, stop admiring the train. We need to get on otherwise it'll leave without us!" Al called from one of the open doorways. Rose and Scorpius walked towards him and followed him further down the carriage to the Weasley compartment.
The trio walked into the compartment to find that everyone was playing a huge game of explosive snap.
"I love this game!" Rose giggled. "Can me and Scorp'us play?"
"Yeah" said Hugo, dealing out another set of cards for Rose and Scorpius, "But for now, you work with Scorpius instead of by yourself as you've got to remember that we're all a lot faster than you now so you might get your fingers burnt" he grinned.
Two hours and about 20 games of exploding snap later, the trolley lady came round. Of course, everyone was getting hungry, so grabbed loads of goodies. Scorpius grabbed a few pumpkin pasties along with some other sweets and offered some to Rose. He put two pumpkin pasties into his bag for later.
After eating lots of sweets, all of the teens and Rose were all getting pretty high on sugar rushes. They played loads of small games like hangman and wizard's chess in teams and before long, Rose began to tire.
After about half an hour of yawning, Rose finally fell asleep on Scorpius' lap, leaving the teens to finally talk normally.
"Now that Rose is asleep, what do you want to do?" asked Scorpius.
"We don't really know that much about you, Scorpius, despite the fact that you've been hanging around with us since September" Al said. "Would you mind telling us more about yourself?"
"Well, I'm Scorpius Malfoy, Head Boy, Slytherin, if that helps" he smirked sarcastically. "Okay, okay, I'll tell you lot my life story.
"I live with my parents and my grandmother in the refurbished Malfoy Manor. My granddad died in Azkaban years ago, but I barely ever saw him anyway. I had quite a lonely childhood as my parents preferred to avoid busy places as they would get attacked quite a lot, so I never had the opportunity to talk to people my age.
"My dad taught me how to ride a broom and use a wand when I turned 8. He only taught me this so that if I was ever in trouble, I'd be able to get away or get help" he explained.
"On the train to Hogwarts in first year, everyone stared and I ended up sitting alone in the corridor for the whole journey as no one would let me sit with them and all the compartments were occupied. I only really made friends with my housemates and didn't really see anyone else.
"I was selected to join the Quidditch team in second year, but had to quit the team after a Gryffindor beater smashed my face in with his beater's bat. I stayed in the hospital wing for 2 weeks recovering from concussion, amnesia and a broken nose."
"That was Fred. Sorry about that" Al frowned.
"Anyway, you know that up to about 4th year me and Rose constantly had a competition running between us so I got into plenty of trouble at her expense. From 5th year onwards, the teachers started to pair us up for work so we sort of developed a neutral friendship. I passed my 12 OWLS with Os, identical results to Rose, and was made a prefect and then Head Boy. And that's about it really" Scorpius finished.
"Well, you're not too bad then" Hugo nodded before leaning back in his seat. "What do you want to be when you leave school?"
"Transfiguration Teacher."
"Really? Always had you pegged for a Potions guy…"
"Nope, transfiguration."
"Rose wants to teach Charms, did you know that?" Al asked.
"No, I didn't, but she always did amazingly well in charms so it makes sense."
"We're almost at the station" Lily commented from her window seat, "Scorpius, you might want to wake Rose."
All of the Weasleys watched as Scorpius gently started to shake Rose awake.
"Rosie, hun, we're nearly here, so you have to wake up, hun" he said, gently shaking Rose's shoulder. Her eyes snapped open.
"We're nearly here!?" she asked excitedly
"Yes, so you need to wake up a bit."
Minutes later, the train pulled up in Kings Cross Station. The Weasleys, Potters and Scorpius and Rose all walked out onto the platform together and soon spotted their parents. Scorpius hesitantly walked over with them, slightly lagging.
"It's good to see you, Scorpius" Harry grinned, standing with his arm around his wife's waist. "Right, everyone hold onto a parent! We'll apparate you all to the Burrow."
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