Chapter 5
The owl was back again, but this time clutching a new letter, which Scorpius speedily but carefully grabbed and read through before stopping on the answer given from question 2. His new friend, his pen pal was a girl. Scorpius was slightly shocked by this. He had never had a girlfriend before (as in a friend that was a girl rather than a girlfriend (although he had never had a girlfriend before either)) so he wasn't quite sure how to reply to her letter, but was also determined to reply and to reply quickly too. He wanted, no he needed this friend, he didn't have many you see. Being the son and the grandson of deatheaters and loyal Voldemort supporters on both sides of his pureblood family meant that not many wanted to be friends with him (at least not new people, family friends (and their children) were happy to be friends with him) or judged him before they met or knew him, the real him. That was one of the reasons why he wanted this friend so much, apart from the fact that he didn't have many, he wanted this friend who wanted to know him, not Scorpius greengrass-Malfoy with the dark and evil family. This friend that wasn't worried about who he was or at least what his name was and wanted to get to know him before they knew what his name was. It was this need that enabled him to write back to a girl .