Scorpius, New Marauders Ch.6 Re-uploaded
As it turned out Scorpius was terrible at potions. OK, not terrible, his cure for boils potion was the right colour (If you counted greeny-brown and acid green as the same) and it didn't smell like rotten eggs (Unlike Peppy Snowston, his neighbour's) but appart from that it didn't have many other good qualities. He accidentally dropped his whole bag of horned slugs in. He exploded his shrivelfig sending the juice all down his face, though he tried to get the drops to fall in. Instead of porcupine quills he added half a cup of lacewing flies, oh yeah and he then he went and spilled the whole mixture on top of Professor Slughorn. If he learnt one thing in that class it was that it was possible for Hufflepuffs to laugh at others mistakes. At least some of them. It was also possible to lose 20 house points in 10 minutes and another 10 in the following five.
That night he tried very hard to focus on his mashed potatoes and stake. Not on potions, not on his mountain of homework and oddly enough not on the weird silver haired girl.
After dinner they met up with Albus in the library, Scorpius drearily recounted his day and (with much stifled laughed) Albus informed him that the weird-girl's name was Emma and, much more interestingly that she was a Metamorphmagus.
The rest of the night seemed to fly by. The next day Scorpius blearily remembered restarting his Charms assignment 3 times and some fight between Rose and Albus. He was sure there was more but all that stood out was the complete lack of sleep he felt the next morning. It wasn't that he pulled an all-nighter, far from it. More that his first day of school had been so… so much.
The next morning he woke up early, from a quick glance at his timetable he gleaned that his missed period yesterday had been history (no complaints there) and for Tuesday he had double Herbology, transfiguration, history and Astronomy. He left to wait for Rose in the common room. Half an hour later he was (he felt rudely) awakened by rose
"You didn't sleep all night in that chair did you" It was at this point that he noticed just how much (from what he'd heard) she acted like Hermione.
"Nah" He yawned "I just fell asleep waiting for you, I 's'pose"
"Well come on" He noticed a curious gleam in her eye. Before getting up he also noticed that her bag was bursting at the seams.
"Oh and you might want a spare pair of robes" She said before closing the house door.