Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter characters, Rowling has all the credit. The artists have credit for their own songs as well, I just love music.

'Italic'-thoughts

Author Note: Ok, so I looked at my story today and found one chapter had gone missing in the upload…so I'm very sorry for the confusion and everything should be straightened out now. Again I'm sorry I don't know what happened.

Supermassive Black Hole: Muse

Chapter 6

The next few days pasted with nothing interesting taking place. The trip to Diagon Alley was, normal. People stopped and watched as; whether it was with scowls on their faces or watching in shock, because the rumors were true; the Malfoy's had returned to Hogwarts.

Dad insisted I get a black owl; since mom saw a black cat and just had to have it, and he said something about 'might as well keep the pet theme going'. So now we had a black cat named Nala, a black owl named Neo, and Bernard my black Hippogriff. Mom named the cat and Scorpio named the bird, and they think my pet names are bad… Aren't black cats supposed to be bad omens anyway, I wonder what black birds or Hippogriffs mean.

But anyway, today was the big day. The day Scorpio and I depart for Hogwarts.

Dad wore an all black suit, par usual. Scorpio wanted to copy dad but mom made him change shirts and go jacketless. So Scorpio donned a green silk shirt, black pants and black shoes. Mom wore a deep emerald strapless dress; Dad complained about all the men who would be eyeing her, but she insisted we all match and look good while doing it. Matching is kind of a pureblood thing, we want to be noticed and what better way than to match? In the muggle world we do look strange though…

That and we didn't want to bring Grandma Malfoy down on us; she always said 'no matter where we go people will know we are Malfoy's. So we had best present ourselves as so.' Scorpio and I were never brave enough to see that would happen if we didn't.

I wore a simple black dress; it had a tank-top sort top and went to my knees. Proper, alluring, and very Malfoy worthy. I tied a green ribbon around my waist, just above my hips; bow on the side. It matched the hair band in my hair that held my hair back but allowed my bangs to hang teasingly in front of my eyes.

Oh baby dont you know I suffer?
Oh baby can you hear me moan?
You caught me under false pretenses
How long before you let me go?

You set my soul alight
You set my soul alight

"I don't understand why we can't Floo in or apparate in." I said as we got out of the car and stood outside the train station.

"They can't explain all the chimes that would be needed for Floo and under-aged wizards can't apparate in public places. Draco said pulling our trunks from the charmed trunk of his car; which refused to go anything under 60.

We walked through the muggles; some casting curious glances but no one stopped. Some boy's gases did linger, this annoyed dad. I could tell because he draped his arm over my shoulders and kissed my temple while muttering something about 'gits.'

(You set my soul alight)
Glaciers melting in the dead of night
And the superstars sucked into the supermassive

We came to a stop at platform 9 ¾. I took a step forward and extended my arm to Scorpio, "Ready?" I asked and Scorpio gave me a thankful smirk and took my arm, and we walked forward.

Scorpio didn't like all eyes on him, but like dad it made it easier when someone took the step with him. I understood his none existent need to be appraised or scowled at by everyone. So when I am with him, when we are together, it is easier for him to take steps.

Warm air and loud chatter met us on the other side of the barrier. Mom and dad followed through the barrier seconds after we did, and in the same manner arm-in-arm. (Dad charmed our cart to follow him through the barrier, muggles are truly blind…)

Scorpio removed his arm from mine and tucked his hands in his pockets and put a scowl on his face. I turned my head and glanced at dad, he nodded and mom gave me a wink. That was all I needed; I did not lack the Malfoy attitude, so I walked forward into the crowd.

Supermassive black hole
Supermassive black hole
Supermassive black hole

Glaciers melting in the dead of night
And the superstars sucked into the supermassive

Scorpio kept a half pace behind me at my side and our parents walked behind us. Sure enough as we walked by people conversations became a hushed murmur. It began to spread; people were peaking over heads to catch a look.

A few guys wiggled their eyebrows at me and the girls played with their hair as Scorpio passed. 'God this is like a deleted scene from a really bad movie…AND THOSE GIRLS! Some are a year higher than me!! Hussies…And the boys just need to get a life.' I thought as we made our way to the train. Thank Merlin we finally reached it; I'm sorry but I can't stand girls being all cutesy with my little brother just yet…

"That was…memorable…" mom said as we stood waiting for the train to depart. "Was to be expected," I shrugged, "those girls were about to get a pretty hex in their pretty faces." I said and I noticed some girls near us scoff and turn their attention in a different direction. "The guys made me feel sick," Scorpio said making a disgusted face. "Please…you should have heard what was going through my head," dad said with his smirk in place; earning an elbow from mom.

Weasley's and Potter's Everyone was so excited that school was starting up again, but it didn't escape Rose's attention that the crowd was parting like the Red Sea for some reason. Then she saw the cause, Alexis and her family. 'Mom said she would me joining us at Hogwarts this year, and something about singing…' Rose thought to herself before bring the new attraction's presence to her family.

"Hey, isn't that Alexis Malfoy, from the match?" Rose said and the group went silent, all looking over at the group of blondes.

Glaciers melting in the dead of night
And the superstars sucked into the supermassive

Hermione, Rose, James, and Harry wore normal clam expressions. Hugo was bubbling with happiness when he saw Alexis. Ginny wore a cautious and resentful look on her face. Lily was confused because she couldn't gather from the group, how to react. Ron grumbled something about 'bloody ferret' and 'little blonde-haired ferret offspring's.' Hermione turned on her 'Hermione glare' and directed it to Ron. "What? It's Malfoy!" Ron stated in his defense.

"Draco has changed since school; I was impressed when I had lunch with him and his family the other day." Hermione said looking back over to the smaller group. "And Alexis is an incredible singer," James mumbled not taking his gaze off the Malfoy group.

Oh baby dont you know I suffer?
Oh baby can you hear me moan?
You caught me under false pretenses
How long before you let me go?

Harry regarded his son and smiled ever-so-slightly. Ginny looked toward her son and raised an eyebrow in confusion. She looked across to Hermione but didn't quite get what she was looking for, "Yes, she is very talented." Hermione said nodding.

"OH! PLEASE!!" Ron said rather loudly.

"Singer, hn?" Al said, tilting his head a bit. Albus is in the school band. He's very talented at many instruments and knows more people in the school then he'd care to. But most of them were from band or the chorus, which he worked closely with.

"Is she taking chorus this year?" Al asked turning expectantly to his Aunt. "I don't know… I hope so; she's a treasure when it comes to singing." Hermione said giving James a knowing look and they both smiled. They decided to keep it quite since Alexis wasn't big on advertising her 'talent'. Kames had told Rose though, those two were about as close as family could get.

"Well let's go ask," Al said starting over to the Malfoy's. "Wait! Al!" Ginny said taking a step, "Don't worry Mum I got it." James said taking off after his brother. Ginny gave an aggravated sigh, "I'll go Aunt Ginny, don't worry I won't let them be themselves." Rose said with a smile and began making off after the boys. "Sis! I want to go!" Hugo shouted running after her. Hermione started after him, not wanting a repeat of the Quidditch match, once was enough for that kind of experience. The rest of the group followed slowly, Ron slower than the rest.

Malfoy's "Hey Alexis!" A voice calls from behind me; I noticed a smile crawl on to my mom's face as she saw who was approaching. I turned and saw the boy who had annoyed me at the Quidditch match; his eyes matched James's but his hair was the right shade of bright yet faded orange. He was cute at most…

I saw James and Rose following behind, 'This will give people a heart attack.' "Hey do you remember me?" he asked once he got closer to me. "Yeah, you're the one who annoyed me at the match." I said, catching James chuckle out of the corner of my eye.

(You set my soul alight)
Glaciers melting in the dead of night
And the superstars sucked into the 'supermassive'

"Oh yeah, sorry about that. I'm Albus." He said shaking my hand like the day at the match, without hesitation. Then something crashed into my legs and squealed "ALEXIS!" I looked down and how the little boy, Hugo. I smiled and picked him up. He smiled big, "Hi Alexis! I missed you!" I laughed at his enthusiasm, "Hey little man, I missed you too. Not getting lost again are you?" I asked with a smile. "Nope!" he smiled again; little kids have the cutest smiles.

"I'd say you're lost…" I heard in a grumbled voice so I looked back over to the group. Mrs. Hermione, Mr. Harry, and two other adults joined the gathering. From the heated glare Hermione was giving the red-haired man I'd say he said the comment. 'They take the saying strength-in-numbers to literally,' I thought as a tense air descended on our group.

Supermassive black hole
Supermassive black hole
Supermassive black hole

Glaciers melting in the dead of night
And the superstars sucked into the supermassive

"So, I heard you're a good singer, and I was wondering if you were taking chorus this year." Albus asked with a smile; no doubt ignoring the tense air.

My eyes flickered wide for a split second, 'They wouldn't have told anyone…' I glanced over to James; he was standing casually with a small smile before he winked at me. 'Wha…Now he decides to be cute…' Then I flicked my eyes to Mrs. Hermione and she smiled gently and shook her head in a brief 'no' manner.

I looked back to Albus, "Yeah, I've been singing since my vocal cords worked. And yes, I'm taking chorus and vocal lessons."

"Brilliant! We'll be having classes together, well at least chorus and band ones." Albus said smiling. "Wonderful…" I turned and nodded to the group, "Good to see you again Mrs. Hermione and Mr. Potter." "That's my daddy!" Hugo said pointing to the red-haired man standing next to Mrs. Hermione. He turned his attention elsewhere and I made no move to shake his hand, I didn't forget his little comment. Albus turned around and said in the same childish voice pointing to the red-haired women standing next to Mr. Harry, "That's my mommy!" I chuckled until his 'mommy' clipped him on the back of his head with her hand. 'That must be a mother thing, although that one looked like it hurt…' Harry winced for his son, but Albus just continued to smile. Hugo laughed at his funny cousin; he adopted some traits from his Uncle George.

Once again I noticed the tense atmosphere around the group. I looked between the faces, surveying them. Hermione seemed fine, Harry neutral but a bit on edge, the two red-heads were stiff. I noticed dad and Scorpio had gone stiff too.

But before the comments could start flying the train whistle blew signaling the train departure. So I put Hugo down and gave him a kiss on his cheek, which made him glow; and his father but for a different reason. I turned to get my luggage, "Hey, why don't you sit with us?" Rose said coming to stand next to me as I lifted my suitcases. "Umm…sure," I said casting a glance to her mother, "It can't hurt."

So we loaded our things on the train and said our goodbyes, I promised to write mom every week. As we walked on to the train Hermione shouted, "Goodbye Alexis, Scorpio. Good-luck with the singing!" We turned and caught the red-haired man glaring at her and my mom laughing. I laughed when I saw Mrs. Hermione wink at me, "Bye Mrs. Hermione!" I shouted back, and waved at my parents one last time. Then we went off to find some seats.

(You set my soul alight)
Glaciers melting in the dead of night
And the superstars sucked into the supermassive

Supermassive black hole
Supermassive black hole
Supermassive black hole