In the Previous Chapter…

"Sorry mum, but he went too far" Scorpius tried to argue.

"We know, son, but- Have you had Chinese?" Draco said, sniffing midsentence and instantly forgetting what he was going to say.

"Yeah, sorry. Rose and I ate all of it. She's never had a Chinese before now, so I just let her eat what she wanted, which happened to be most of it" Scorpius smirked as Rose blushed in front of him.

"Appetite like your father's then, Rosie" Draco grinned. He turned to Rose as she did a massive yawn. "You've had a long day, Scorp. Take Rose to bed" he sighed.

Scorpius picked Rose up, turning to leave. "Night, mum, dad" he said, exiting with an already half-asleep Rose huddled into his chest, holding on to him by winding an arm around his neck.

Scorpius and Rose spent the whole of the next day at Leo's house. Leo had lots of pet animals, including 3 dogs, 2 cats and 12 chickens. Rose had only had one cat, and that was Crookshanks 2, who never liked her and scratched her a lot, so she was overjoyed by Leo's cats and dogs, all of which were competing for her attention.

"We're just going to go and have a man-chat, hun. We'll be upstairs if you need us" Scorpius said, quickly ushering Leo from the room. Once they were out of earshot, Scorpius turned to Leo and said "I searched my house last night and could only find a few photos, but I managed to get loads off of Al, Hugo, Lily and Rose's parents. Apparently they've been taking loads over the break. I bought the stuff too – I knew she'd love your dogs" he grinned.

"Let's get to work on this then" Leo said, leading Scorpius to his bedroom.

Scorpius emptied the contents of the bag Leo had given to him the day before on the floor. In the pile, there was a blank photo album, about 50 photos and a ton of craft materials like glue, glitter and sequins. The pair set to work, quickly sifting through the photos and slipping them into the protective pockets in the photo album, only half-filling it. Scorpius quickly duplicated the album, slipping one into his bag. "I want a copy of the photos before we give them to her" he explained. They then decorated the blank front of the album with all of the sparkly craft materials, leaving space for gold letters to form the words "Rose Weasley".

Leo quickly hid the finished album under his bed and vanished the craft stuff as they heard Rose bounding up the stairs. Scorpius was planning to give the album to Rose as a gift when she woke up after being re-aged.

"What've you been doing?" she asked as she walked in.

"Just talking, hun. Have you been having fun with Leo's dogs?"

"Yeah! I really want a dog now! But mummy probably won't let me have one"

"Oh well. Did you want something, Rosie, or did you just come up here to see us?"

"I wanted to come and play with you"

"Well, there's not much to do here. Leo, is there anything nearby we can do with Rose?"

"Well, there's a park down the road, we can always go for a walk. We can take the dogs as well" he grinned.

Minutes later, Scorpius and Leo were running down the road, sprinting after Rose, who was currently being dragged by one of Leo's dogs towards the park.

"Accio Rose!" Scorpius shouted, pointing his wand at the flying girl. Rose's tiny body jerked backwards straight into Scorpius, knocking the pair to the ground. Leo's dog came flying with Rose on the lead, knocking Leo off his feet as well.

"Wooooaah that was so cool!" came a voice from across the road. Scorpius and Leo's heads snapped up, searching for the owner of the voice. They stood up, and looked around to see a small boy standing across the road, staring at them.

"Shit, that's a muggle kid" Leo muttered. "Make up something, and fast!" he said as a kid ran towards them.

"Ummmm…" Scorpius searched for words.

"Are you a magician?" the little boy asked. He only looked about 8 years old. He short black hair, was quite tall and was staring with awe at Scorpius.

"Yeah!" Rose cried before Scorpius could stop her. "Scorp's a wizard!"

"Really?"

"Yeah, he can do loads of things! He can…"

"I think that's enough, hun" Scorpius said, putting his hand over her little mouth. After doing Muggle Studies for his 3rd and 4th years at Hogwarts, he knew what the little kid was thinking. "I'm sorry, kid, but you know, a wizard never gives away his secrets. What's your name?"

"I'm Sam"

"Well, Sam, do you like magic tricks?"

"Yeah!"

"Look, watch this" Scorpius said. He reached forwards, put his hand behind Sam's ear, then pulled his hand back, revealing a muggle 50p coin. "That's magic for you" he grinned. "Now, we've got to go, but Sam, can you keep the fact that I can do magic tricks a secret please?"

"Yeah, sure mister!" the boy said, looking down at the coin with a grin. "Can I keep this?"

"Yeah, go for it" Scorpius said, before walking away with Rose on his shoulders, dragging Leo by his sleeve.

Once they were at the park, Leo let his dog off the lead, and Scorpius let Rose run after him. He muttered a quick boundary spell to make sure that they both stayed within 10m of him, then sat down next to Leo on the grass.

"Explain" was all Leo said.

"Basically, muggle's have these people called magicians. They're basically illusionists, but muggle children are made to believe it's 'magic' until they are old enough to see it's all a trick. It's a good cover up if you use magic in front of muggle children by accident, actually. The trick I did with the coin – that's a standard muggle trick. You hold a coin in your hand, but don't reveal it until you've drawn your hand from the back of their head. They believe you've conjured it out of thin air" Scorpius explained.

"Did you have the muggle coin in your hand already, or did you actually conjure it?" Leo joked.

"Neither. Summoned it from my room" Scorpius laughed.

"Well, as cool as it looked to the kid, that was soooo close" Leo said.

"I'm surprised that we haven't had any mail yet to be honest" Scorpius muttered, thinking deeply.

Just as the words left his mouth, a red envelope fluttered down out of the tree above them into his lap.

"Shit, we need to leave, now" Leo said.

"That's from my dad, it's got his writing on the front" Scorpius said. He called Rose, scooped her up and ran. They ran all the way back to Leo's, the envelope getting hotter and starting to smoke in Sorpius' hand, burning him. As the door slammed close, the letter burst open.

A/N: Hello! I'm (temporarily) back! Updates will be random i'm afraid as still have 16 exams to go...keep reviewing and I will try to update as regularly as i can! - Rxx