Chapter 9: An unexpected arrival.

Top 5 things you don't do at hogwarts.

5. Trust Peeves.

4. Pull the tail of the tabby patrolling the halls.

3. Set of fireworks in the dungeons

2. Drop a pot plant in Herbology (It makes Professor Longbottom cry)

And number one. The most important never do at Hogwarts.

Never, ever get caught up in a chance between Mrs Campion and Fred Weasley.

But as per usual, that's where Scorp found himself that Tuesday morning.

Walking out the library, Scorp was knocked over backwards by a speeding Fred Weasley.

Fred offered him a hand and pulled him up.

"Fred," gasped Scorp "What are you doing?"

Fred realised whom he had knocked over and his face spilt in a relieved grin.

"Oh Scorp! Perfect, Listen, can you go down the slide and tell my dad to tell Teddy that Victoire won't be coming today? We err had a run it with…"
Mrs Campion came thundering around the corridor.

"Mr Weasley!" she bellowed, "Come back here!'

"Oops" said Fred, "Well gotta run! See ya Scorp!"

And with that he ran off with Mrs Campion in hot pursuit.

Scorp sighed and miserably dragged himself through the castle, over to the One Eyed Old Crone.

What was weird was that the hump was all ready open.

Fred must have left it open.

"Mr Weasley? George? Are you down there?"

Whether George was down there or not Scorp never found out because at that moment two small red haired children came tumbling out, straight on top of Scorp.

The girl jumped up first, "Sorry!" she cried as she helped Scorp to his feet, before turning to the other child.

"I thought you said you'd go slow!"

The boy shook his head, as if to clear it. "It's not my fault you're a snail and I'm a Griffin."

"You are not"

"Am so!"

"Are not!'
"Are so!"

"Are-"

"QUIET!" yelled Scorp.

The children stopped.

"Who the hell are you two?" asked Scorp.

The girl straighten up, "I'm Lily Potter."

The boy lifted his hand, "I'm Hugo Weasley."

Scorp groaned, "More Potters and Weasleys? Oh well, go back down there. You can't be more than nine at the most."

Hugo nodded.

"Well then" continued Scorp, "You shouldn't be here. So down you go."

They both looked distraught

"No," cried Lily, "I'm not going before I see Al and James!"

"Yeah! And I'm not going til I see Rose."

Scorp just stared at them.

How did it come to this?

"Fine," he said, "We'll go see them, just hand on."

He pulled out a piece of parchment and a quill and hastily wrote a note to George.

Dear Mr Weasley,

Fred passed me (he's being chased by Mrs Campion) and told me to tell you to tell Teddy that Victoire can't come today.

I think they got caught trying to come down to you.

By the way, two kids coming up the slide fell on me.

They say their names are Lily Potter and Hugo Weasley.

Did you know they were there?

They won't leave until they see their brother/sister so I'm taking them to Al and Rose.

Yours truly,

Scorp.

He rolled up the note and dropped it down the slide.

He turned back to Lily and Hugo.

"Alright, come on."

He shoved them towards Gryffindor tower.

The Fat Lady peered down at them.

"Who are they?" she asked.

Lately she had become much nicer to Scorp.

"Relatives of Al and Rose, no one to worry about."

"Alright then. Password? And do cover their ears so they won't know."

Scorp looked at the kids pleadingly and they did as she asked, and covered their ears.

"Bloomsbury." Whispered Scorp.

The portrait swung back and Scorp and the kids scrambled forward into the Gryffindor common room.

"Al! Rose!" yelled Scorp.

From the very far corner Al and Rose looked up from their homework.

"Lily!" gasped Al

"Hugo!" cried Rose.

The kids ran forward and hugged their siblings.

From the fireplace James stood up.

"What are you two doing here?" he asked.

Lily ran over and hugged him tightly,

"I wanted to see Hogwarts!! Two years is too long!"

By now all of the Gryffindors were watching the odd family reunion.

Scorp just slumped in the nearest armchair.

He wasn't made for this.

Al walked over to him.

"How did you find them?"

"They were coming out of the One Eyed Old Crone. Fred sent me over there to tell George that Victoire wasn't going to see Teddy today. Or something like that."

Al blinked at him, 'Fred? George? Teddy? Victoire? How do you know all of them? And what's a One Eyed Old Crone?"

Scorp looked at him, "Oh yeah, I haven't told you guys yet. I knew there was something I had forgotten."

And then he told Al the secret he had kept for months.

The Map. The slide to hogsmead. Meeting George and Fred. Everything that he hadn't had the guts to tell Al before now.

Well, that's not true.

He didn't tell him about he encounter with Zane, but that was completely off topic.

Al just gaped at him, "Why didn't you tell me?"

Scorp sighed, "At first it was because I thought you might take the map off me, after all it is your dad's. But then, it just wasn't the time and after that. Well I forgot."

He reached into his pocket and pulled out the map, then handed it to Al.

"There. You should have it."

Al shook his head and handed it back, "No." he said firmly, "I'm sure you found it for a reason. You should keep it."

Scorp took the map and smiled at his friend.

Al smiled back.

It was a nice moment quickly interrupted by a crying Lily.

"Al! James says I have to go home! I don't want to!! Tell him!"

James appeared behind her, "Look I'd love you to stay, but where would we keep you? You can't stay here. The teachers will find you and send you home anyway! There's no where."

Al grinned, "Oh yes there is! Follow me!"
He ran off through the portrait hole, James ran after him, pulling along Lily.

Scorp jumped up, "Come on Rose!"

He ran after Al.

After chasing him through the corridors for a good 10 minutes, Al finally stopped at a place Scorp recognised well.

"Hey! This is the place I found the map!"

Al smiled, "of course! The Room of Requirement. Think what you need and it shall appear!"

Scorp gave a small smiled.

He had been thinking he needed a map then.

Al faced the wall,

"We need a space where two nine year old children, one boy and on girl, can live undetected by the teachers and with access to the Kitchens."

The door appeared in front of Al.

He opened it and stepped forward.

James shrugged and entered leaving Rose, Hugo and Scorp outside.

Rose smiled, "May as well" she said as she pulled Hugo forward into the room.

Scorp followed.

The room was big, one side was pink, obviously a the girl's side. It had a single bed, bookshelves, a cupboard, a desk and chair and a door leading to a bathroom, complete with a full bath.

The other side was blue, with Quidditch posters plastered all over the place.

It had the same features as the girl's side.

And in the middle was a trap door, which revealed a tunnel leading to the kitchens.

"This is amazing Al." Said Scorp.

Al grinned, quite pleased with himself.

"So we can stay here?" piped up Lily.

James reluctantly agreed, "Only if you tell mum and dad and uncle Ron and Aunty Hermione okay."
"Okay" replied Lily and Hugo.

"Alright then," said Al, "If you want anything more, just ask the room clearly. You can't get food from thin air though. You have to go down to the kitchens. Or I'm sure a house elf will gladly bring food up here okay?"

The kids nodded, clearly pleased that they could stay.

Scorp looked at his watch.

8:15.

"Crap! Al, Rose! We're late!"

Al jumped clearly afraid, but then he recovered.

"Don't worry. It's Defence Against the Dark Arts. Professor Jordan's cool."

Rose shook her head. "No remember what he did to the last person late?"

The trio shuddered at the memory of Stacy Fagles' head being dunked into Frog juice.

At the time it had seemed funny. No it was just darn right terrifying.

A/N:

I know what you're going to say. Stop bringing in new characters!

I'm sorry but I rally don't know if I'm going to continue after their first year so I just want to get everyone in there okay? I'm sorry if that annoys people.