number four. JKR created, i just use. i'm a bit obsessed with his character. go read Because I Haven't That Much to Live Up to Anyway, if you haven't. have fun, i did, cheers!


Albus Severus Potter

1. Facts for facts, he thought his name was simply ridiculous. Not only did it give him ridiculous amounts to live up to, it also gave him the initials of a common snake, which pretty much made him being sorted into Slytherin the only viable option.

2. Being the middle child of Harry and Ginny Potter was no walk in the park. Especially since he was in the middle of James and Lily. He always lost the fights, always. Lily told him, looking up at him from those big blue eyes, that she was jealous of his green eyes, and that's why she always took 'Jamesie's' side. James just enjoyed playing the older brother, he guessed. James was tough and Lily was fierce. That was the Gryffindor in them, he supposed.

3. Not that Al wasn't brave. He was very, very brave. But he knew when to back down and how to make sure he didn't get hurt. It was hard to explain how to be careful to a family full of Gryffindors. He wasn't selfish, he wasn't a coward. He was just not recklessly brave. When Lily fell into the Black Lake during her 2nd year at Hogwarts, he did not jump straight into the lake as James had. He cast a Bubblehead charm first, then he jumped in. The fact that he did not have to come up for air, probably aided in his search and rescue.

4. Out of the many, many grandchildren, he was the only one that didn't have some form of red hair. No strawberry blonde. No reddish brown. No orange. Just plain, black, messy hair. Sometimes he, his dad, Aunt Fleur, Aunt Angelina, Aunt Audrey, Teddy, and Aunt Hermione all sat on the same side of the dinner table, just so they could watch all the redheads of the family arguing about who had asked for the butter dish first on the other side.

5. His best friends were his cousin Rose Weasley and his other cousin Louis Weasley. Aunt Hermione was ecstatic after they were sorted, because she claimed that it would bring about some "amazing inter-house unity that hasn't been seen since the founders first started!" Yes, of course it was a bit odd that a Slytherin, Gryffindor and Ravenclaw were all best of friends, but for Merlin's sake, they had been best friends as cousins for eleven years before being separated by that bloody hat.

6. He didn't care what his family had said. Scorpius Malfoy was one of his very good friends, and later, one of his very best friends. It's hard to hate a bloke that you share a dorm with, just because of his last name. He was glad that his dad and Aunt Hermione understood well enough, because they helped take some of the heat from his mum and Uncle Ron. As much as he loved his family, damn redhead tempers.

7. He met his namesakes a few times. Getting called up to the Head's office was a common occurrence, mostly because Uncle George was always sending them products. He thought that Dumbledore was every bit as crazy as Uncle Ron made him out to be, and every bit as brilliant as his dad made him out to be. Snape was intriguing and it was priceless to see his reaction when Albus told the portrait he'd been sorted into Slytherin.

8. Of course he'd gotten a spot on the Quidditch team. Just like his father, he was a seeker. Unfortunately, not like his father, he didn't get to join the team until his third year. Firstly, because the current seeker, Derek Smith, didn't finish school until after Albus's second year. Secondly, like his father, he was a scrawny kid. Thankfully, his Weasley genes also kicked in and he filled out a bit just after his thirteenth birthday.

9. After the Gryffindor vs. Slytherin match of his 5th year, he punched his teammate, and the team's best beater, Scorpius Malfoy straight in the face because after a game filled with tense Rose/Scorpius taunting, he had the nerve to kiss his cousin, one of his best friends. He didn't feel bad, either, because when he stood there watching Malfoy's nose bleed, Rose and Louis were laughing like crazy. It was gratifying to know that while Scor had a new place in Rose's heart, he was still lower than Al was.

10. He was amazing at Defense Against the Dark Arts, and he actually liked it too. Big surprise there, he was sure. He was terrible at potions, though. He blew up three cauldrons over his years at Hogwarts, something that the family was quick to point out every time he ever offered to cook at birthdays or parties.

11. He and his brother had to split the "Hogwarts Treasures" as they had come to be called. James received the Marauder's Map, which Al used to resent, at least until he got the Invisibility Cloak. Lily received her own special gift, which, in the end, both boys wished they had ended up with it instead.

12. He was made a prefect in his 5th year, much to his parent's adoration. James hadn't received the title, but Al, what with being much quieter and a good deal more intelligent, was picked to be the first prefect in his immediate family. There was no pressure from that or anything. And, it was rather fun being a prefect with Rosie and Louis. Their family couldn't believe that the three of the Weasley-Potter clan hadn't bribed the teachers to make them prefects until Uncle Bill pointed out that Uncle Ron had been a prefect, and there was absolutely nothing remarkable about him, so why not three of the most brilliant students in 5th year? It wasn't even as if they were in the same house.

13. He didn't get to be the Quidditch captain. If his mum and dad were disappointed, they didn't let on. He honestly didn't mind Scor being captain. Firstly, because it meant that they were even, since Scor wasn't able to become a prefect. Secondly, it was absolutely rib cracking to watch him and Rosie scream at each other on the pitch. As his Aunt Hermione reminded him, no one in the family had ever done absolutely everything. Rosie was quick to remind him (and her mum) that in fact, she had been the only one who achieved everything.

14. When Rose and Scor got together, he pretended to gag. Yes, he had been quite mature for a 6th year. But when they broke up, he stayed in and cried with Rose, and he pretended not to look when Scorpius got teary eyed. This was when he and Louis had to split time between their two best friends. That's why it was such a relief when Rose swallowed her pride and apologized to Scorpius for doing something very, very stupid that neither of them would tell Al or Louis. Those had been possibly the hardest two weeks of Al's school life.

15. He wasn't in love with being compared to "The Golden Trio." Al, Rose, Louis. They were a package deal, yes, but they were so different that if they hadn't been forced into friendship by blood, they would have never become friends. He loved them, but they weren't magical the way his dad and Uncle Ron and Aunt Hermione had been. They simply had gotten lucky and been born the same year in the same family. That really was the best luck he could have asked for, though.

16. He wasn't too wary of the Potter's-fall-for-redheads rule. He thought it was rubbish. All the redheads he knew were related to him, and there was no way that was going to work. Then he saw James fall in love with Molly Finnigan. He started to worry about that. Then Rosie decided that instead of letting him suffer soundly, as she had with James, to show him the pictures. Generations of redheaded Potter women. There were a few redheaded girls at Hogwarts, in his year, in the year below him, in the year above him, but none that really caught his eye. In fact, he dated Charlene Boot, who had beautiful, shiny, albeit, dark hair, for most of his 4th year and half of his 5th year. Then, for the rest of his 5th year, and half of his 6th year, he and Louis made it their personal goals to date or shag every blonde girl in 5th year and up. Rose just shook her head at the two boys. Scor pretended not to be amused.

17. The beautiful strawberry blonde 7th year, one Kendra Zabini caught his eye when he was in the latter part of his 6th year. She was tall, only two or three inches shorter than his tall frame. Her wavy hair stayed windswept and perfect looking all through the Slytherin-Gryffindor match. It was inhuman. Inhuman and strangely desirable. He was powerless to resist her. He openly and freely pursued her and she accepted, after he had quit his habit pursuing the blonde slags of the school. At the train station for the Christmas holidays, he was intimidated and happy to meet her parents: the infamous Blaise Zabini, and his beautiful half-veela wife, who had red hair so stunning, that it could only be compared to fire. Which it may well have been, her being mostly veela and all. It had been funny to watch their parents awkwardly shake hands with each other. At least at later family functions, Aunt Fleur and Saphira Zabini had plenty to talk about. Everyone was very careful not to make either of the women upset.

18. He, Scor, Rosie and Louis somehow all managed to pick completely different career paths. Though he had spent his whole life trying to get out of his dad's and brother's and uncles' shadows, he decided to become an Auror. He knew, he knew. Half the family was in the Department of Magical Law, but it was what he really wanted to do. He guessed he was a sucker for working in his father's shadow.

19. He and Kendra broke up. And got back together. And broke up. Finally, his three best friends talked sense into him. Scorpius told him to go back to her, because she really loved him and he really loved her. Louis told him that he wouldn't find another girl like her, not in the whole Wizarding world. Rosie told him to suck it up, and move on. He was too young to be tied down in love, especially at eighteen, and if they ever ran into each other again it would be fate. If not, then it just wasn't meant to be.

20. When he ran into Kendra Zabini drinking her brains out in the Leaky Cauldron, he knew it was fate. He had been drinking his brains out for the last month, too in that very pub. He wondered where she had been before. It wasn't until after they were married that he found out that Rose had given Kendra the same advice she'd given him. He started to suspect that a certain Slytherin had rubbed off on Rose when Kendra told him that while she had been drinking at the Three Broomsticks, Rose had approached her and talked, and as parting advice, told her that drinks at The Leaky were much cheaper. They weren't, but Merlin, he had never been more thankful that Rose Weasley was one of his best friends.


any sort of feedback is appreciated. positive, negative, neutral. whatever. either Rose or Scorpius is up next. possibly Lily, but probably not.