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Kings Cross was incomprehensibly crowded when the Potters arrived. Lily had been whining to her father about wanting to go to Hogwarts, and Albus and James struck up and argument in the car about Albus being sorted into Slytherin.

"I won't be in Slytherin!" Albus firmly told his brother as they walked towards the barrier.

"Well you never know..." James caught his mothers warning eyes and immedeatly dropped the argument.

"Right then, James you first" Ginny nodded toward her son, "Albus, you and your father will go next."

"Right" James agreed, casually looking around and leaned against the barrier. Albus's older brother disappeared as his father put a hand on his shoulder,

"Ready son?." Albus nodded not taking his eyes off the wall he was about to go through.

"Will you promise to write to me?" Albus quietly asked his parents, his eyes showed his anxiousness.

"We will write to you as often as you'd like" Ginny responded with a reassuring smile.

Platform nine and three quarters was even more congested than Kings cross was. Albus squirmed around trying to find a spot where he would not get trampled and look for his cousins, but it was almost impossible to see throught the steam and people bustling about.

"We were wondering when you'd show up" came a voice behind him. It was his uncle Ron and aunt Hermonie.

"Hey uncle Ron" Lily beamed "Wheres Rose?"

"I'm right here" came a voice and his brown haired, freckled faced cousin wearing brand new Hogwarts robes came into view. "Hi Albus!"she greeted turning to him

"Hello Rose." Rose was probably his favorite cousin. They were the same age and often spent a lot of time together seeing that his father was her fathers best mate and his mother was Rons sister.

"Isn't this exciting!! I cant wait to get there!" she squealed.

"Yeah" Albus laughed with joy. "I'm just a bit nervous"

"Oh don't worry Albus, everything will be great!" she encouraged him.

James had come running back from the train buzzing about Teddy and Victorie snogging but nobody seemed to be giving James's news much attention. James therefore gave Albus a kick and turned to give his mother a kiss and his father a hug. "See you later Albus, watch out for Therestrals" he called out with a smirk.

Albus eyes opened wide "I thought you couldn't see them!"

"Don't worry they're nice creatures and besides, you won't go up to the castle in carriages this year" Harry said pointedly.

The time came for parents to give their last good-byes and warnings not to get into trouble, which never seemed to phase James or his mischievous cousins. Harry took Albus aside and began talking to his son about the houses, the brave man he knew from Slytherin, and the Sorting Hat listening to peoples choices.

"I want you to have a good year son and remember that whatever house you are put in I will still be proud of you." Albus had no idea how his father knew of his fear but was grateful to have encouraged him not to live up to certain expectations.

"Thanks dad." He hugged his father fiercely and went over to bid farewell to his mother.

"Wotcher Albus" Ted Lupin was standing a few feet away from Albus's mother.

"Hello Ted. Seeing Victorie off?"

"Yeah" Ted blushed and turned to talk to his godfather which has just walked up behind him.

Albus waved out the window until his parents were no longer visible. He looked around and sighed, he was being stared at as usual. Albus tried to avoid all the eyes on him as he went along the corridor looking for a empty compartment.

"Where you off to little brother?" Albus turned to find James with Rose at his side looking expectantly at him. "Come on, then I'll introduce you to everyone. "Oye make way, Potters and a Weasly coming through!" James shouted through the corridor full of students still trying to get situated. Immediately they parted and let through James who was dragging Rose along. Again where James loved the attention Albus wished he could dematerialize as eyes turned and whispers broke out. Albus seized an opportunity to make a mad dash in the opposite direction until he was sure James was too caught up in showing off and hadn't noticed he'd gone.

Every compartment in the train was full with the exception of the last one which was occupied by a young boy with pale skin, pointed face and ghostly almost white hair. He was reading a book as Albus knocked and stuck his head in.

"Do you mind if I join you? Everywhere else is full." The boy peered over his book, looked at Albus with his stormy grey eyes and nodded his head in approval once before retuning to his book. Albus hauled his trunk in and unsuccessfully tried to load it up onto the rack.

"Would you like some help with that?" asked a voice behind him. The boy had put down his book and was now standing up inquiring at Albus's trunk.

"Yea, that would be great." With a tap of his wand and a murmur of elusive words the trunk floated into place a top the rack along with Atticus in his cage.

"That was brilliant." Albus praised as he stuck out a hand in the boys direction "I'm Albus by the way. Albus Potter."

"My name is Scorpious Malfoy." stated the boy as he took Albus's open hand.

"How did you do that?" Albus curiously asked

"Father thought it best for me to have some tutoring before attending school." came a meek reply from Scorpious, who had averted his eyes to the window.

"Well, that was really some great magic" Albus smiled as he took a seat.

"Thank you" Scorpious politely replied as he picked up his book once more and continued to read. Albus entertained himself with gazing outside, thinking over his fathers words about the sorting and answering the questions that Scorpious asked at random intervals. He could tell the other boy wanted to make small talk, yet seemed shy to do so as he would return back to his book once Albus answered his question.

"What house do you think you will be in?" Albus curiously asked the boy seeing that he had so far done none of the asking.

"Well I suppose Slytherin, I mean my entire family was." Scorpoius nervously traced the pattern on the seat next to him obviously not wanting to say the wrong thing to his new acquaintance. "And how about yourself, I suppose you want to be in Gryffindor since your entire family is." Albus took a moment to answer as he contemplated telling the truth of his thoughts.

"To be honest... I don't care which house I'm in." Albus finally sighed. Scorpoius looked at him curiously and raised an eyebrow.

"Really? What about your family?"

"Well so far my dad is the only one who doesn't care what house I"m in but I know my cousins and brother expect me to follow in their footsteps."Albus admitted. "I've decided I don't care what they expect, it's me who's being sorted not them. " Whatever house I'm put in I'll be just fine." Scorpous seemed to be mulling over these words as the compartment door slid open and a familiar face poked through.

"There you are Albus. I can't believe you left me there with James! I had to endure that all by mys-...." Rose stopped short and took notice of the other boy in the compartment. "Uhh.. Albus, there's room in the compartment next door if you want to join us."

"No thanks Rose, I'm quite comfortable here." Albus said simply.

"Er..well if you're sure you want to be stuck in here with that."Rose threw a look at the pale boy.

"Yeah I am." Albus replied giving her a challenging look.

"Fine" and she strode off with a "hrmmf."

Scorpious had sunk even lower behind his book. Albus felt awful that someone he was related to would treat another human being that way.

"I'm sorry about Rose. Her dad isn't the best influence when it comes to social manners." Which was the truth, uncle Ron was always so rash about people he disliked. He often talked badly about them to his children and the Malfoys just so happened to be one of those families that got dicussed a lot in the Weasly houshold. He never treated them with reserve and sadly that was something Rose seemed to pick up on.

"It's alright. Scorpious sighed. "I'm used to it."

Albus frowned "There's no reason for her to treat you like that." Scorpious gave Albus a small grin just as the lunch trolley came by.

With a small pile of various candies in the middle of the compartment Albus and Scorpious had fun going through the cards from the chocolate frogs the best.

"Oh look, here's Dumbldore. Strangely enough I haven't got him in my collection yet." Scorpious marveled at the bearded man.

"Really? I've got ten of him" Albus opened another chocolate frog and took out the card inside. A familiar face smiled at him from the small card in his hand and it warmed him to see it.

"Which one have you got there?" Scorpious took the card from Albus and observed it.

"My dad." Albus said quietly.

"I've got several of him" Scorpious set the card aside with the others and examined a cauldron cake before taking a bite.

The train stopped at the Hogsmead station and students began to pour from it. Albus and Scorpious made their way to the platform. Just as they were about to make their way towards a large familiar man calling for first years a hand grabbed the back of Albus's robes and he was hauled backward into the crowd of students behind him.

"Where have you been!?" James turned Albus around to face him and released his grasp.

"I was...I...well.." Albus was scrambling for some excuse as to why he ditched his brother earlier.

"Never mind" James sighed and looked his brother straight in the eye. "Be careful the company you keep Albus" he said giving a weary glance toward Scorpious who was with the group of first years a few yards away.

"Don't judge a book by its cover, or a person by mistakes that wern't made by them" Albus defended and turned to join the rest of the group that was headed towards a fleet of boats on the lake.

Tada!

Well now- Woohoo second chapter! Woah, I finished this a bit sooner than I expected. I feel a bit at a loss on how I presented people in this chapter so please tell me how I'm doing. I tried to stick to J.K Rowlings take on things written in the last chapter of her last book as best as I could.

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