SCORPIUS

After Lorcan left and Ariana and Al disappeared, Lily and me sat at a table and just talked. She told me about everything. She told me about Rohan, Frank and Lorcan. Honestly when she talked about him he didn't seem that terrible. He seemed like a smart if slightly insecure person. But then she told me what he'd said about me.

'Lil, I would never do that.' I said absolutely horrified.

'I know' she said.

Her dad walked over to the table. 'Hello baby girl, do you want to dance?'

'Yes daddy' she said smiling at him.

They walked away from the table and Lily's place was quickly taken by Teddy Lupin. His hair was a festive shade of purple. He seemed a little intoxicated, though honestly spending even half an hour with Victoire Weasley can do that to you, so I wasn't sure it was because of too much mead.

'Malfoy,' he said, slurring a bit. 'Lily's my baby sister so don't screw this up.'

Okay so it was definitely the mead. Victoire might make people lightheaded, but she never made them act this stupid. I was actually glad I had nice, normal Lily, I didn't always act completely rational around her but at least I didn't try to jump out of windows to impress her. Then I remembered I didn't actually have Lily. Yet.

By about 11:00 most of the guests had headed home, only the Longbottoms had stayed back. Everyone started heading back to the house. I thought everyone was going to bed so I started going to my room.

'No no not yet' Lily said pulling me back.

'Why?' I asked surprised.

'Well every year we have these family awards thing, it's tradition. Everyone votes and even though everyone gets prizes it's still a lot of fun.'

She handed me the sheet and told me I had to fill in people's names next to the options given. The first one was coolest hair. Ha this was going to be easy. I quickly looked through the rest of the paper. There were about forty questions, okay so maybe not that easy.

'Scorpius?' the Mrs. Potter called 'Do you mind getting Al and Ariana, they've been gone a while.'

Honestly Lily's mum scared me a bit sometimes. She always seemed to know what was going on. Like I'm pretty sure that she knew exactly what Al was doing to the delectable Miss Longbottom right now. That's why she sent me and not Lucy or Lily.

'Sure' I said. I got up and went to my room and opened the door. In hindsight I probably should have knocked.

'Jesus, Scorp!' Al yelled. Okay, scarred for life.

'Your mum wants you' I said after quickly closing the door. I had expected them to be snogging, not this.

Five minutes later they were both outside with almost guilty expressions on their faces. I just handed them their sheets of paper and trying not to laugh went to the main living room. It really wasn't that big and including the Longbottoms we were thirty-one people. Everyone else had already filled in their sheets and Mrs. Weasley (Hugo's mum) had cast a spell to calculate the totals. Lily and Hugo leapt up, apparently they were the comperes.

'Ladies and gentlemen' Hugo started theatrically 'we are here for the eighth annual Family Awards.' Everyone cheered. I found myself getting weirdly excited.

Lily read out the categories and the three people who got the most votes and Hugo read out the winners. My name was actually called out a couple of times. I even got into the top three for 'looks cutest in pink.'

Al, James and a now sober Teddy (the oldest Mrs. Weasley's sober up potions were the stuff of legend) smirked at me.

'It's 'cause you blush so much when we talk about you and Lily' Al whispered laughingly. 'You turn a lovely shade of pink.'

I was going to kill them.

Lily won the most awards. She got best baker, best music taste, and best at a completely useless subject and even best actress. Hugo came in close second with best guitarist, cutest dimples and prettiest eyeliner.

'It's fixed.' James said jokingly.

'Why do you want prettiest eyeliner James?' Hugo shot back.

Surprisingly Rose and Frank won best couple. Her dad just grunted looking extremely displeased. James and Fred won 'the people who look most alike'. They gave each other identical grins and high-fived. 'I don't know what they're so happy about they've won that category for eight years straight.' Al said laughing as they set off a celebratory firework, which Mr. Potter put out immediately with a quick flick of his wand.

'And after a unanimous decision the award for the best new member of the family goes to…'

I hadn't even seen that one on the sheet.

'... Scorpius Malfoy.'

Family? I had a family? Everyone cheered, including Harry Potter. I went up in front of everyone and Lily pressed a chocolate frog into my hand. She pulled me into a hug.

'Welcome to the family' she whispered in my ear.

I didn't let her go for the longest time and someone wolf-whistled (I think it was Longbottom). We broke apart and I saw her blushing. That was the last award and everyone started leaving the room.

'Thank you' I said to Lily as she was leaving.

'You are a part of the family, I've always known that, but the award wasn't my idea, it was his' she said gesturing to her father. 'I'm going to go to bed now. Goodnight Scorpius.'

'Thank you sir' I said quietly to Lily's dad when we were alone in the room.

'Don't mention it' he said 'I know what it's like not to have a real family. Until I was eleven I had no one.'

'But you're Harry Potter.' I said with disbelief.

He chuckled 'I wasn't always the Boy-Who-Lived. For a very long time I was the Boy-Who-Lived-Under-The-Stairs. But the Weasleys took me in. Mr. and Mrs. Weasley were the parents I never had and Ron and Hermione my brother and sister. Everyone needs a family Scorpius and we want you in ours.'

'I'm honoured' I said. The happy feeling in my stomach spread all over my body.

'Goodnight Scorpius.' Mr. Potter said with a smile.

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