Wow, guys, I'm in awe: two days on the net and both my little stories got reviews (good reviews, I'd like to proudly point out), and so many of you have put me into Story Alert, or in Favorites. YAY for me. I'm blushing. I'm really happy that you like what I'm writing.
I think that the best way I've got to thank you properly is giving you the next chapter of the Next Generation: don't lie, I know you were waiting for this one...
Things you don't know about...
SCORPIUS MALFOY
1. His first memory was of his father, crying next to a bed where rested a man who looked exactly like him.
2. He hated going to Diagon Alley with his parents; people would stop walking and look disdainfully at them. A couple of times people said bad things about his family. Once, a man spat at his mother's feet. Why was everybody so mean to them?
3. When the kids at the park would mock him for his name, telling him he was named after an insect (which, by the way, was incorrect), his mother would tell him that he was named after the constellation with some of the brightest stars in all the sky.
4. He was a solitary child; he got used to it, even liked it, but sometimes he wanted someone he could talk to without being constantly judged. Then, Seleena was born, and he wasn't lonely anymore.
5. The evening before taking the Hogwarts Express for the first time, his dad took him into the drawing room and told him everything. It took a lot of courage for doing that. He always thought there were different kinds of bravery. And, in his own way, Dad was a brave man; no matter how often he told his son he'd been a coward. The next day Scorpius jumped on the train, and he was really proud to be a Malfoy.
6. He went to the Potter House several times. He thought Al's dad was a nice man.
7. He made up for Albus Severus a nickname that really suited him: ASP.
8. The books in the home library were varied and numerous; there was even a whole section dedicated to Muggle Literature. He read all Shakespeare's tragedies; he thought Romeo and Juliet was overestimated and totally not-going-to-happen in real world.
9. In his fifth year he had a dream in which he was sitting between a bush of roses and another one of lilies. When he told Al about it, he didn't speak to him for a whole evening.
10. The dreams suddenly stopped when he caught Rosie Weasley kissing the Creevey boy under the tapestry.
11. He screamed to her she was a Mudblood.
She hexed him and ran away. Crying.
Merlin's beard, what was wrong with him?
He just didn't like to see Colin Creevey all over her.
12. The portraits got really upset at him, when he confessed what he did. Especially Severus Snape's portrait: he would called him a dunderhead over and over and talked about "making the same mistakes all over again", and some other nonsense about girls with red hair. When he calmed down, Snape just looked down at him and said: "Go and tell that girl you love her. Beg her to forgive you and pray that she would take you back."
13. Okay, maybe kissing her under the mistletoe wasn't exactly what Snape ordered him to do. But it kind of worked anyway.
Number 8 just made me laugh out loud while I was typing it. A Muggle library into Malfoy Manor? Bella would be ashamed. I also gave Scor a little sister: JKR did too, you know, but we didn't see her on Platform 9 3/4 that eventful September morning, because she was home with her nanny (or possibly house-elf...)
And yes, before you can even ask, Colin Creevey (did I spell it right?) is Dennis' son: what's with dead people and kids named after them? Go figure...
As for number 12&13...Raise the hand who wants to bear-hug the boy (or, alternatively, Snape) raising both hands: bless him, we'll be seeing a lot more of that mistletoe hanging in the next one, with which I'm finally introducing the Weasley-Potter clan.
Next is Rosie...