chapter 3: the ride to Hogwarts

Albus was a cross between exited a nervous, he was exited that he was going to Hogwarts but nervous that he might be in sorted in Slytherin. James' teasing didn't help make it any better. "Hey snake boy it's time to go!" James yelled from down stairs.

"I'm coming!" Albus yelled as he stuck his wand in his pocket and grabbed Blue's cage as she ruffled her feathers and nipped at the cages lock. As Albus came down stairs James grabbed him and whispered in his ear...

"You ready to be sorted in Slytherin?"

"I won't be in Slytherin!" Albus yelled at him.

"Ok ok you little snake." James said with a grin.

"James Sirius Potter leave your brother alone!" Ginny said to her oldest son.

"Fine." James said as he climbed into the car but he knew his brother wasn't going to leave him alone so Albus walked to the other side of the car and sat down next to Lily.

"So Albus you exited?" Lily asked her older brother.

"Yeah." Albus replied back.

"Cool." Said Lily. "Man your so lucky that you get to go to Hogwarts and I have to wait two years." She said with a pout.

"Lily it could be worse I had to watch all six of my brothers go to Hogwarts." Ginny told Lily. Lily was still mad and her face turned as red as her hair and she looked like their mum when she was mad. Lily had the same brown eyes and red hair as Ginny making them look alot alike which was unlike Albus and James who had not gotten red hair like most people in their family. The others were Victorie, Dominiqe, Roxy, sometimes Teddy and formally Fred until his first year.

When they got there James was still bothering Albus about the fact that he would get sorted in Slytherin.

"Hey snake boy you should go get a Slytherin tie so you'll be ahead of the game." James said to Albus with a lobsided grin.

"I won't I won't be in Slytherin!" Albus yelled.

"James give it a rest." Ginny said.

"I only said he might be there's nothing wrong with saying he might be in Slyther..." He stopped after he saw the look his mom gave him.

James smirked at Albus than ran at the barrier and was gone.

"You'll write to me won't you?" Albus asked as soon as he knew James was gone.

"Everyday if you want us to." Ginny said.

Albus quikly replied "Not everyday James said most people only get letters from homes once a month."

"We wrote to James three times aweek last year." Ginny told him.

"And don't believe everything your brother says about Hogwarts." Harry said. "He likes a good laugh your brother much like his namesakes."

Albus, Lily and their parents ran through the barrier and emerged through platform 9 3/4 and James had dissapered.

"Where are they?" Albus asked. He wanted to see Rose, Hugo and their parents before he left.

"We'll find them." Ginny told him.

The vapor was really dense so he couldn't make out any faces.

While Albus was listening to his uncle Percy say something about broomsticks his mum tapped on his shoulder "I think that's them Al." She said.

They found them and Albus saw Rose and smiled at her and she smiled her back. Rose being Rose was already dressed in her robes and Albus rolled her eyes at her.

The two listened to Hugo and Lily talk about which houses they would be in.

Ron interupted "If you're not in Gryffondor we'll disinherit you." He said. "But no pressure."

"Ron!" Ginny and Hermione yelled.

Lily and Hugo laughed but Albus and Rose were nervous.

"He doesn't mean it." The mothers said. But Ron wasn't paying attention him and Harry were looking at a kid with blond hair that looked white who was standing between his parents.

"So that's Scorpius." Ron said. "Make sure you beat him in every test Rosie thank God you inherited your mother's brains."

"Ron for heaven's sake don't try to turn them against each other before school even starts." Hermione said.

"You're right sorry." Ron said. "But don't get to friendly with him your Grandad would never forgive you if you married a pureblood." He added.

"Hey!" James yelled as he ran up to them with a wild look in his eyes. "Teddy's back there." He said out of breath and pointing over his shoulder. "Just seen him! And guess what he's doing? Snogging Victorie!"

He gazed up at the adults dissapointed by their lack of reactions. "Our Teddy! Teddy Lupin! Snogging our Victorie! Our cousin! And I asked Teddy what he was doing..."

"You interrupted them!?" Ginny said. "You are so like Ron."

"Oh it would be so lovely if they got married!" Lily saidwith delight. "Teddy would really be part of the family."

"He already comes around for dinner four times aweek." Harry said. "Why don't we just ask him to move in with us?"

"Yeah I can give him my room and me and Albus can share a room." James said.

"No you and Albus can share a room when I want the house demolished." Harry said. "Well look at the tome you better hurry up."

"Remeber to give Neville our love." Ginny said.

"Mom I can't give a proffeser our love." James said.

"But you know him." Ginny added.

"Yeah outside of school but in school he's Proffeser Longbottem I can't go in herbology and give him your love." James said as his mom kissed him on the forhead than he hopped on the train. "Watch out for the thesterals Al." He said.

"I thought they were invisible you said they were invisible." Albus said.

"They are." Harry said.

"Bye Al." Harry said as he hugged Albus. "Don't forget Hagrid invited you to tea on Friday."

"What if I am in Slytherin?" Albus asked.

Harry bent down and began to talk. "Albus Severus Potter you are named after two headmasters of Hogwarts one of them was a Slytherin and he was the bravest man I ever knew."

"But just say that I am?" Albus asked.

"Than Slytherin house will have gained an exellent student." He said. "But if it really matters to you you'll be able to choose Gryffondor over Slytherin the sorting hat takes your chose inti acount."

"Really?"

"It did for me." Harry told him.

Albus was so happy after hearing that. Albus rushed onto the train and Lily shut the door behind him as people stared at Harry.

"Why are they staring?" Albus asked.

"Don't you worry it's me I'm extremely famous?" Ron said.

Albus,Rose,Lily and Hugo laughed as the train started moving.

Albus and Rose walked along the train looking for a compartment until they found one with a boy who had very light blond hair that almost looked white, grey eyes and perly white teeth. A Malfoy.

"Hi I'm Scorpius." He said.

Rose stepped up boldly. "Hi I'm Rose Weasley and This is Albus Potter." She said.

"Cool so what houses do you two want to be in?" He asked.

"Gryffondor." They both said.

"What about you?" She asked.

"Slytherin." He said. "I want to help my cousin Mick Greengrass make a new name for Slytherin.

"Oh cool." Albus said.

"Hey Al hey Rosie." Albus and Rose looked up to see Victorie. Victorie had blond hair and blue eyes the Gryffondor prefect and head girl. She was 17.

"Hey Victorie." Albus and Rose said.

"Who's this?" She asked.

"Scorpius Malfoy."

"Ok" Voctorie said. "Bye I have to go see you later."

Voctorie left soon to be replaced by James, Fred and Louis running in out of breath.

"Oh hey if Molly and Lucy ask we were never here." James said,

"Yeah we might have pulled a little prank on them." Fred said.

"A little prank?" Asked Albus.

"Ok a big prank but don't tell them we were here." Louis said. Then they ran out as if their lives depended on it(which it did.)

Pretty soon a girl who looked the same age as them came in. The girl had dirty blond hair and blue eyes. "Hi I'm Kristina Jonesbut I prefer Kris." She said with an American accent.

"Hi are you American?" Rose asked.

"Yeah and I'm muggle-born I was kicked out of my last compartment because of it." She replied.

"Ok you can sit here Kris." Albus said.

Pretty soon Molly and Lucy came in looking angry. The two girls looked alot alike with the same red hair but Molly had brown eyes and Lucy had blue Molly was 16 while was 14.

"Have you guys seen James?" They asked.

"No" They all said at once.

After a long ride they finally got to Hogwarts so they could be sorted.

AN: Hey guys what do you think I think this one is so much better than my original Albus Potter and this is my longest chapter. Sorry it took so long I was on vacation and than my beta never edited it so I just posted it sorry hopefully chapter four will be faster but if it is not I apologize.