"Ron, I just think….." Hermione started, but he cut her off.

"No. It's bad enough as it is without welcoming him into our house!"

"Ron, I'm not saying that I like this situation any more than you do, but we might as well see if maybe he's not such a bad person!"

"Hermione," Ron said looking her straight in the eye. "He's Malfoy's son. What do you expect him to be like?"

"Malfoy of course!" Hermione tried to keep her voice calm. "But, if he were like Malfoy, would we even be having this conversation?"

"What do you mean?" Ron asked too confused to remember to be angry.

"Would Rose really date any guy that was anything like Malfoy?" Hermione said just realizing it herself.

"Well…"Ron tried to think of a good argument, but couldn't think of one.

"I'm just saying that we should invite him over for dinner and see if maybe, well, we were wrong about him," Hermione said awkwardly. She, like her daughter and husband, hated admitting that she was wrong.

"No. Hermione, he's Malfoy's son. What's to say that he'll be any different from Malfoy?" Ron said defiantly even though he was pretty sure that he was going to lose this fight…..like almost everyone before.

"Look, Scorpius got disowned! Just for dating our daughter! Surely that has to count for something!" Hermione said before she could stop herself.

"I don't care….Wait!" his voice suddenly changed from irritated to suspicious. "How do you know that?"

"Scorpius came by last night," she admitted it guiltily.

"WHAT!" Ron shouted outraged.

"Ron, calm down!" Hermione shouted. She didn't want the kids (especially Rose) to hear what they were discussing. "I'm guessing that they'd both decided to tell their parents at the beginning of the summer because he said that he'd been disowned. He didn't even seem to care that he was disowned. Just because he was dating Rose! And Rose! The way she was talking about us, you would have thought that we'd gone easy on her!"

"So what? You're saying that we should have kicked her out?" Ron asked completely lost.

"No," Hermione snapped impatiently. "What I'm saying is that we should at least meet Scorpius. Ron, listen to me," she said almost desperately when he rolled his eyes. "Scorpius was disowned for dating our daughter. Surely that must mean something about him?"

"I'm not getting out of this am I?" Ron asked tiredly.

"Nope."