Chapter 4 Mystery
"Malfoy, Malfoy up" Scorpius groaned as he was pushed out of bed and hit the floor hard the rest of the people in his dormitory laughed though and no one helped him he was used to it. Scorpius Malfoy was in his seventh and last year of Hogwarts he was a typical student never been a prefect, never won any awards and never got into major trouble the difference was that he was a Malfoy making it the main reason he couldn't wait to leave.
"Malfoy up" Zabini shouted kicking him Scorpius sighed and stood up the rest of the school hated him because of what his father and grandfather had done as Death Eaters and the Slytherins hated him for the betrayal of his grandmother at the end of the war.
"Thank you" Scorpius said dully as a house elf placed a plate of sausage toast and eggs in front of him after fourth year he gave up eating in the great hall it was bad enough in lessons with snide comments being sent his way but having to put up with it in his free time he couldn't stand.
"Does Mr Malfoy want anything else?" A house elf asked him kindly.
"No thank you" he couldn't believe the unfairness of it all how his life had turned out he planned to move to Australia once finishing Hogwarts and start somewhere where people didn't know his name but knowing his luck the infamous Malfoy name would have stretched to Australia as well.
"Okay why does Al need 5 gallons of pumpkin juice?"
"Something about an orange slide apparently it was it James's idea but he never got o do it before he left" Lily Potter had wandered into the kitchen with a friend following her they told one of the house elf's what they wanted they didn't see Scorpius.
"Olivia could you help me later with..." Lily had turned to talk with her friend but stopped on seeing Scorpius sitting in the corner Olivia turned as well and both girls were now glaring in Scorpius' direction.
"Come on Lily let's talk somewhere more quiet" Olivia said once the house elf handed them both huge bottles of pumpkin juice and that was that they left and Scorpius let out a sigh of relief the Potter's and Weasley's were the worst the girls just glared at him and made up stupid rumours the boys though shouted at him down the corridor and jinxed him when his back was turned.
"Mr Malfoy your late 5 points from Gryffindor" Professor Hemsley said and Scorpius slid into his seat in muggle studious it was a compulsory subject now to help them interact with muggles once leaving Hogwarts but Scorpius had learnt to love the subject and would love a job working with muggles.
"Now turn to page 146 please today we are looking at the internet muggles use this too..." Scorpius opened his book but let Professor Hemsleys voice wash over him he was top in all of his subjects because when your alone what better thing to do then study as well Scorpius had persuade his favourite during the summer holidays and internet cafes had become his favourite place to go.
"Mr Malfoy, Mr Malfoy are you listening?" Scorpius jumped Professor Hemsley was standing over him and the whole of the class had their eyes on Scorpius.
"Yes sir" Scorpius said not wanting to get into trouble.
"Well you can tell us then what internet sites give muggles the ability to view a range of videos" Scorpius knew this one easily it was advertised all the time in the cafes.
"YouTube" Professor Hemsley stared at him for a moment and then nodded before walking back to the front of the class.
"Hey Malfoy worked out how to be an elf yet" Matthew Wood said making everyone in hearing distant laugh the latest rumour was that Scorpius wanted to be like an house elf not very imaginative but people liked to laugh about it anyway.
"Learned to fly yet Wood" Scorpius said cruelly back it was a sore spot with Matthew who had not inherited his father's flying skills (Oliver Wood had went onto play for England and with him on the team England had seen through the year 3 wins of the Quidditch World Cup) he could barely sit on a broom without falling off.
"Why you...Stup..." Matthew had pulled his wand out prompting Scorpius to get his but before Wood finished the spell a hand had grabbed his wand arm.
"Matt he's not worth it" It was Potter Albus like the rest of his family hated Scorpius but unlike them Albus didn't openly show his dislike by bullying him.
"Yeah your right" Matt said putting his wand away that was another thing Scorpius had noticed about Albus Potter he was calm and mysterious had loads of friends but no one really close and for some reason this made everyone listen to him.
"Stop loitering in the hallway" Professor Hemsley had come out of his office at that point wondering why there was a large group of student still in the hallway.
Scorpius' day went the same for the rest of the day ignoring snide comments and putting a permanent charm protective shield up to combat the jinx's after grabbing some dinner in the kitchens quickly Scorpius did what he always did grabbed his broom and went flying he had started this in fifth year to stop him blowing up and cursing people.
"Stupid day, stupid people" Scorpius said he was on his broom and flying over the forest here was where he let his anger out on the world where no one could see him.
"What are you looking at" he shouted absurdly at an owl as it flew past it was just after Christmas and he had another few months before he could get out of the hell he was in.
"AHHH!" he screamed out of nowhere something wooden had come flying and hit him in the face the piece of wood dropped to the ground and he followed it intending to curse the person who has thrown it into oblivion.
The piece of wood turned out to be a small bracelet which looked like a child had painted it a small gasp made him turn a girl was standing behind him she was in dark green witches robes the kind that hadn't been worn since medieval times her hair was tied back haphazardly in a bun and it was a shocking shade of red.
"Did you throw this?" he asked his anger still evident and he strode towards her as he got closer though she turned and ran behind her what he thought was more trees clumped together was a small hut.
"Hey come back!" he called great he thought to himself I'm scaring people off by just looking at them now the girl had went into the hut though and by the sounds of it bolted the door. Scorpius walked on to get to the hut but was stopped by an invisible barrier.
"A protective shield oh well" he didn't care he left the bracelet there on the ground just outside the shield and flew away.
All Scorpius could think about the next day was that girl it was weird what was she doing living in the forbidden forest why was she so scared of him as far as he knew he'd never met her before. He was so distracted he didn't pay attention in class and lost in total about 20 points for Slytherin and a few jinxes were aimed his way because of this.
"Mr Malfoy how may I help you" Scorpius shook his head he'd been eating in the kitchen for 4 years now and every time he came in the house elf's asked him the same question after eating he did what he always did grabbed his broom but instead of flying aimlessly he found the spot again.
"Stupid wall, stupid boy, stupid..." the girl was there again next to the bracelet she saw him and stopped talking but didn't move he was confused why hadn't she got the bracelet yet and put down the protective shield.
"Hi" he said lamely she continued to just stare at him and blink though he wandered up to her and knelt down picking up the bracelet in the process Scorpius held it out the bracelet got closer to her but his hand stopped at that invisible barrier again. She made no move to reach forward for the bracelet in fact she edged a little away.
"If you take the barrier down I can give you the bracelet properly" he said giving her a friendly smile to try making her less scared.
"I can't" she said it was the first two words she said to him and they made her confused along with who she was.
"Why not?"Scorpius asked trying to get her to elaborate.
"The barrier is always there no one can get in and I can't get out" This made him drop the bracelet completely who knew people were still fearful even after so many years after the war but t go to the extreme of trapping a girl in what essentially was a bubble.
"So you're trapped" he said she rolled her eyes then as if say obviously. He wanted to ask her questions straight away but the pureblood manners that had been instilled in him since he was young took affect.
"My name is Scorpius Malfoy what's those" he waited he expected her to run again on recognising the name but she stayed.
"Rose" she smiled slightly at him.
"How long have you been here?" he asked finally Rose looked up then and frowned he could see she was thinking hard then she opened her mouth and told him her story.