Author's Note: And a platinum-blonde wizard takes the stage!

Albus and Scorpius are best friends in this.

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P.S: Hints of ScoRose

- A Creature Of The Dark

Scorpius wouldn't be hearing the end of it.

The little furry ball was jumping its way through the mass of feet in the DADA classroom conducted by guest teacher Harry Potter, while Scorpius' best friend, Albus Potter was trying his hardest to stifle a laugh.

"Oh, cut it off already," Scorpius grumbled.

This made Albus shake with barely contained laughter. Some students around the room were already laughing without any shame. Scorpius would deal with them later.

But one teary- eyed redhead caught his eye.

She was at the back of the class, with her wand raised, and tears of mirth had welled up in her eyes. How dare she?! – Scorpius thought.

He didn't know why this particular Weasley always caught his attention or why he was always had this urge to bug her. Nonetheless, Scorpius made his way towards her.

"Found something funny, Weasley?" he snarled.

Rose Weasley, student extraordinaire, looked at him with deep blue eyes, biting her lips to refrain from laughing. At his scrunched up face, she couldn't hold it back and burst out giggling.

Scorpius must have looked very pissed off because Rose stopped and took deep breaths.

"Ooohhh, Scorpius Malfoy, Slytherin prince, lady's man and the so-called hottest guy in Hogwarts in this year, has a cute little squirrel for a patronus?" and cue laugh.

"Shut up, Weasley! At least I produced one. Seems like you aren't happy enough, huh? Who would have imagined Rose Weasley as a grumpy hag?" he growled, mentioning Rose's inability to conjure a patronus yet.

Rose's face immediately turned to stone, her expression all too familiar from the times he had teased her and she told him to bugger off. Oh, he had set her temper off all right. Nobody beat Rose Weasley at academics. Except for maybe Scorpius Malfoy.

"Bugger off, Malfoy," she muttered, repeating the line.

Scorpius just huffed and walked away.

The squirrel was now standing on its two feet on a chair near the wall, head and hands twitching as if it had consumed too much caffeine.

Scorpius couldn't believe that he had concentrated so much to produce that. He couldn't help but feel that the memory of his parents having fun in the pool in Malfoy Manor had resulted to a small ball of fluff.

It was a summer and the Malfoy family was in their Manor. Draco Malfoy, now recovered from his war induced trauma was happily married to Astoria Greengrass and had a son Scorpius, who was an exact copy of his father. Draco had added a swimming pool to their Manor to 'modernize' it, although Astoria thought and appreciated that it was mostly because he wanted to free the Manor of the previous Malfoys' strict traditions.

While the three of them were playing near the pool, Astoria sneaked behind Draco and pushed him inside. Draco, caught off guard, fell into the water with a loud splash!

Astoria was busy laughing and so, her husband emerged from the water, coughing and with a playful glare at his wife's direction, grabbed her ankle and pulled her into the water with him.

When both of them emerged, baby Scorpius was giggling at the edge. Both 'adults' started splashing water at each other, and it soon drenched the baby, who was rolling on the ground, unable to stop laughing.

The memory always reassured Scorpius that his father was not a bad person. It helped him remain sane in his first year, when people taunted him for being a son of a 'Death Eater', a 'traitor' and a 'power-hungry git'.

The squirrel on the chair spotted Scorpius and jumped off it to run on his furry little legs towards him. It did some ninja jumps and landed on Scorpius' left shoulder.

"Mate, that squirrel is sure attracted to you," Albus snickered, and with him the dolphin behind him made a snickering noise.

Like wizard, like patronus – Scorpius thought, shaking his head.

When he had come to know of his friend's patronus, he wasn't shocked very much. He always knew Albus had a loud and noisy side, he just hid it. The boisterous patronus was overdue.

Albus must have sensed his disappointment at the patronus because he sighed and dragged him to a nearby bench. His father, Harry Potter, nodded at them with a small smile, making Scorpius fight an urge to hide his face in embarrassment.

"Look, Scorp. You don't have to be disappointed at your patronus. It's a um….patronusification of your nature," Albus scratched his head at the new word.

"A squirrel is…well, I don't know much about animals but…. I think a squirrel is resourceful to itself. It's intelligent and smart. Before winter comes, it stores nuts, doesn't it? And it chills during the cold. Uh, no pun intended. Well, that's what you do. You study everything before exams and you don't have to worry during the Treacherous Times." Scorpius smiled at the mention of their given name to examinations.

Albus continued, "It's also very protective of its family and so are you. It handles bullies quite well, and man, you are a master in it," they both laughed.

"And the most important similarity….." Albus' face turned grave. "You. Both. Are. Cute. Balls. Of. Fluff."

At this, he started laughing like a maniac, and Scorpius hit him hard on the head.

"Ow!" Albus complained.

The squirrel on Scorpius' shoulder started cheering. And the squeaks were directly in the platinum-blond haired wizard's ears.

"Oof! Stop screaming in my ear, squirrel!"

At his friend's small speech, Scorpius felt better.

Perhaps the teasing would be worth it. Perhaps the squirrel was the 'patronusification' of him.

A burst of light and a glimpse of red hair at the back of the room caught his eye and he flinched as a loud screech hit his ears.

How was it?It was a bit different from the others.

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Little cliffhanger at the end.

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