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Now that I have this out of the way I am going onto another rant. I wouldn't do this and just message the said reviewer but since he was a damn coward and couldn't login I am calling out the guest reviewer (couldn't even leave a nick name could you.) I have told this in many of my authors notes MY FIRST LANGUAGE IS NOT ENGLISH. Plus I don't have a beta reader. I do my best with spellings and grammar, but honestly mistakes happen to those who speak a second language. I have 142 positive reviews! around 94 followers and 54 of them have favorited my story, and I am not even half way done.
Now that I have that out of my chest I would like to tell you lovely people that First year is over and we are moving onto the first summer break. Oh I am so excited!
SScorpius watched in fascination as the first few rays of sunlight peered over the edge of the distant horizon, waving their wispy orange tendrils in greeting to the stars. He crossed his legs underneath his thin frame, propping his chin up in between his hands as he watched the sunrise.
He was currently seated on the cold stone, floor of his bedroom's small balcony. It had been three and a half weeks since he left Hogwarts. Twenty five days since he had last seen his friends. Since he had last seen her.
Samantha was all Scorpius could think about at night. He dreamed about her, longed to see her with every fiber of his being. Over the course of their last few months of Hogwarts. She had become his closest companion. Of course Albus was one of his closest friends but it was nothing like Samantha's friendship. The worst part was not being able to write to any of his friends because of Lucius was watching him. In fact his grandfather had sent him a letter telling him he wanted details of Samantha's family life and if he didn't have it there would be consequences.
Scorpius was once again coming to the realization that this would be his life. He could never escape from this. If he hadn't already been sitting down, he would of collapsed to the cold-hard floor in defeat, knowing there was no hope of being free from him.
"Scorpius?" he nearly jumped out of his skin. Glancing over his shoulder, Scorpius saw his father behind him. Draco had his eyebrows raised, clearly wondering why he was on the floor when there was a perfectly good chair next to him.
"I-I couldn't sleep." Scorpius murmured, turning his gaze back to the sky awash in an astounding array of colors/
"Me neither," Draco replied in an equally soft tone, then joined him on the floor to the right of him. Scorpius relaxed a bit feeling the warmth of his father next to him.
"You miss Hogwarts?" Draco implored/ Scorpius bit his lip trying to be careful in choosing his words. He knew the statue of one of his ancestors was standing erectly near the door, watching and listening to every word he uttered.
Besides answering his father Scorpius whispered as low as he could "is there a way you can teach me how to protect my mind."
Draco looked curiously at his son and whispered "does this happens to do with your grandfather wanting to know about Samantha's family."
Scorpius looked a little frightened but just nodded. Draco let out a sigh "I could teach you how to shield your mind from intrusion but it is a difficult piece of magic to learn."
Scorpius looked at his father with hope in his eyes "Could I really learn.
Draco gave a sad smile "You can learn but it will take time."
Scorpius looked frustrated "I don't have time. He will be here any day and demand that I tell him about Samantha's family, and I don't want to. I have a very bad feeling about this."
Draco looked at his son with concern "I don't know why my farther wants to know about your friend's family, but I agree that the reason he wants to know isn't good."
Scorpius looked up at his dad with pleading eyes "Can we start tonight?"
Draco looked at his son and saw the determination that he had. Draco let out a big sigh "Its quite late Scorpius and this level of magic you need some rest."
Scorpius looked unsure "but farther I want to be ready before Lucius comes over."
Draco let out a small chuckle "Son this branch of magic isn't easy and it will take time to develop."
Scorpius looked defeated and Draco saw it "Son we will start tomorrow morning. Your grandfather is out of the country and it will take him a few weeks to get back, but now you must rest."
Scorpius brightened up and nodded. He then slowly made his way towards his bed and Draco tucked him in. Draco then turned to close the light and walked out the room.
The next day Scorpius awoke to the sun flooding into the room. He quickly got dressed and made his way down to the dinning room where his father was sitting reading the Daily Prophet. Scorpius quickly sat down and turned to his farther "Can we start after breakfast."
Draco put down the paper and put it to the side. He let out a small smile and was happy that his son was so enthusiastic to learn such complicated magic. The only thing that bothered him about this was that he was learning this magic for the same reason he had learnt it. When he was younger he had learned this magic to protect his mother and at the time his farther. He really didn't want the same thing for his one and only son, but he could see how valuable this branch of magic could be. In fact it had saved him and his family from several horrible faiths. Draco let out a sigh as Astoria brought in the breakfast "Scorpius we will start learning after breakfast."
Scorpius was about to protest but saw the stern face of his farther and knew that protesting wasn't going to solve anything so he just nodded.
After breakfast was over they made there way to the drawing room. Draco looked around the drawing room and he was happy to note that there was no painting or statues nearby to report back to his farther. Once inside Draco turned to his son "Now the branch of magic you are to learn today is to protect your mind. You see your mind can be intruded. There are several ways you can stop the intrusion. The first way is by simply stunning them, the second way would be forcing them out of your mind and finally the third way is by building defensive walls around certain memories."
Draco looked at his son to see if he was understanding this and when his son nodded in understanding what he had said Draco continued "Now it is quite easy to purposefully stun some one, and it might be easier to force them out, but there is a weakness to this. Can you tell me what the weakness is?"
Scorpius looked at his farther. At first he was unsure but then he caught on. Scorpius took a gulp "if I were to stun the intruder or forcefully take them out of my brain then they would know I am trying to hide something."
Draco let out a small smile "Yes exactly, but there is a third and more subtle way of protecting your mind and that is to make a protective barrier around the memory you are trying to protect. This protect barrier is basically a distorted memory. To do this you must first clear your mind and make sure that you are emotionless. The intruder will most likely try to make your emotion's fly but you have to not react to it."
Draco paused for a minute and looked at Scorpius to see if he understood. Scorpius looked at his farther "This branch of magic isn't going to be easy is it."
Draco put a hand on his son's shoulder "I won't lie to you son. It won't be easy and in fact I would be very surprised if you managed to learn it quickly."
Scorpius let out a sad smile but Draco continued "But I have uptmost faith in you. You are my son and if I could master such magic I am pretty sure you will also."
Scorpius gave a nodded and then Draco said "Well lets start on the first step. It's to clear your mind and the easiest way to do that is to meditate. Now I am going to turn off the light and when it is off I want you to close your eyes and concentrate on various memories you want to protect."
Scorpius gave a nod and Draco took out his wand to extinguish the lights in the room, but before he could a voice was heard "I see farther and son are spending quality time."
Draco spun around and there stood Lucius Malfoy.
