Hogwarts Chapter 8

"Get up! Your mother and I will be in the basement cleaning up, okay? You need to wake up, James!" Something was shaking him. "Noo! I'm tired!" He yawned pulling his pillow over his head. "Go 'way, lemme sleep!"

He heard someone laughing. He meant to say what's so funny, but he just couldn't find the strength to, so he stayed silent. "Your hair looked just as messy as mine was when I was your age. Rumor has it; my dad even had the same messy hair." The person laughed again, and James groaned, irritated, plugging his ears. Suddenly James realized his dad was talking to him.

"Your mother and I will be in the basement, okay? We're sorting out all the junk." "Okay," James said. Harry ruffled James' hair and left.

James got up, took a shower, and changed his clothes. He attempted to brush hair, but it just wouldn't lie flat, so he gave up after a while. He went downstairs to make breakfast, thinking of Hogwarts, and how all kinds of food just appeared on the tables. It made him hungry.

He quickened his pace down the stairs and his heart ached. He missed Albus. He missed Rose and Hugo… even Lily. They were probably off having a great breakfast, not even thinking of him.

James sighed as he reached the bottom of the stairs. He went into the kitchen and stole a glance around the kitchen for what to make. But no sooner had his eyes traveled to the dinner table, and then did he see three pieces of toast, two scrambled eggs, one glass of pumpkin juice, and an apple. He grinned happily. So they did feel sorry for expelling him, didn't they? James sat down and started to eat.

(Back to Lily, Rose, Hugo, and Albus.)

"SCORPIUS!" Albus heard Lily gasp. "I knew there was something going on with you two!" Hugo said angrily.

They all backed up and Scorpius climbed out. His cold grey eyes narrowed when he saw Hugo. "I'm close to her, okay? Back off."

Hugo scowled at Lily. "What were you thinking? Cuddling up to a Slytherin? You're INSANE!"

"Stop yelling at her! I made the move!" Scorpius yelled. "I asked her to be friends. I threatened her with dark magic! Leave her alone! She didn't do anything wrong!" Lily turned to Scorpius, "I asked, you didn't! Stop blaming yourself!" Hugo gave a roar of rage. "Oh, now you're defending him? What is he your boyfriend, now? I'm so sorry I missed the ceremony." He said his voice full of sarcasm.

Lily slapped Hugo, her eyes full of angry tears. Hugo dived at Scorpius and knocked him off his feet, just as Lily dived at Hugo yelling, "LEAVE HIM ALONE!" Albus and Rose, who had been watching the scene fearfully, rushed up to drag Lily and Hugo away from each other and from farther harm. Hugo had a black eye and broken leg, Scorpius' nose was broken, and Lily, her arm broken.

"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?" Professor McGonagall, the headmistress had arrived. They didn't realize how much of a racket they were making. Everyone started complaining all at once. "Lily slapped me!" "Hugo beat up my boyfriend!" "They started fighting!" "He accused me of being her boyfriend!" "I'm scared!" Professor McGonagall held up her hand for quiet and all at once, everyone fell silent.

Her lips were very thin and very white, and she was trembling with rage. "Can you tell me what all of you are doing here?" She asked, fighting to keep her voice even. "We were going to see Hagrid, and we found out that Scorpius was in his hut and Hagrid wasn't." Rose said in a small voice, as Lily, Hugo, and Albus nodded.

"I called Hagrid into my office, because I needed to discuss time tables with him, and he is in the washroom at the moment. That's when I saw you five fighting, from my Office window."

McGonagall said. "Now, can you explain why YOU are here Scorpius?" Scorpius looked down, embarrassed. "I wanted to see what Lily was up to, and I wanted to hang out with her." Lily went to stand beside Scorpius, and took his hand, beaming.

McGonagall stared at the pair of them for a short second, astounded. She recovered quick and turned to the others.

Rose looked scared, Albus looked betrayed, and Hugo looked Furious.

She fixed her glasses and said, "Detention for all of you, and fifty points from Gryffindor, be glad it isn't a hundred. Follow me into the castle, Albus and Rose, you will go back to your dormitories immediately and Lily, Hugo, and Scorpius, you will need the hospital wing. You will each get a call home." They all gazed at each other miserably, seeming to regret it all, and followed Professor McGonagall up the steps and back inside the Castle.

Every once in a while she muttered things like, "What would your father say? He got into trouble all the time of course, but he had very good reason to, as he was saving everyone, playing the hero." Lily and Albus looked at each other, confused.

Scorpius saw this exchange. "But don't you know? Your father's famous." Lily laughed. "Good one." Scorpius was looking at her, shocked. He wasn't the only one; Professor McGonagall was looking at her the exact same way. "But, surely you know?" She asked Lily, puzzled. "What do you mean?" Lily asked.

'I guess he had a very good reason not to tell his kids, yes, that's probably it. Yes, yes, potter was always very intelligent." She seemed to be muttering to herself now. "Er, right." Albus said and hurried off to the portrait of the fat lady with Rose.

Professor McGonagall led Lily, Hugo, and Scorpius to the hospital wing, just as Madam Pomphrey came hurrying up, and directing each of the kids to a separate bed.

(Back to James)

James was drinking the last of his pumpkin juice when the phone rang. "I'll get it!" he yelled as he grabbed it and turned it on. "Hello?" James said into the receiver.

A stern voice answered him. "Good evening, is this the potter's household?" "Yes," said James cautiously. "James. This is the headmistress, professor McGonagall. Your sister is in the hospital wing and I'd like to speak to your parents."

Panic seized him, his mind was spinning. "What happened to Lily? Is she okay?" He demanded. "She's quite alright. She broke her arm, but she's okay now. Please let me talk to you parents." James opened the front door and handed Harry and Lily the phone. They looked at him puzzled.

"It's from Hogwarts! Lily's in the hospital wing!" James informed them. Harry hurriedly grabbed the phone and started talking to McGonagall. When their conversation was done, James asked, "What happened?" Harry looked at James seriously and said, "Lily, Hugo, Rose, and Albus got into a fistfight." James jaw fell open. "Albus? Is he okay? What's wrong with him? Tell me!" He demanded, panicking.

"He's alright, he was watching the fight. We're going to visit them tomorrow." Lily said. James seized his chance and looked at his mother with his big brown puppy dog eyes. "Now that we're in even trouble, can I go back to Hogwarts?" He asked.