The Secrets of the Blue Sky
Originally by J. K. Rowling
Fanfic-ed by Masked Lover
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ZOMG Deathly Hallows SPOILERS! ENDING SPOILERS!!! ZOMG!
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Chapter One:
Harry Potter
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Harry Potter
His father was waving, and Albus too waved back watching as his father grew smaller and smaller and then seemed not so great amongst the stage of a bustling station full of wizards and trains and smoke.
Hogwarts, Albus wrapped his head around the familiar name.
James always seemed a bit down when he came back from school. Always had something Gryffindor to bring back too just so he could have something to plaster on his walls. Many photographs, framed pictures of his friends, overcrowded any flat surface along at home.
Home.
Albus had never really taken to traveling alone like James had, his brother always seemed to get lost in some place. Albus watched the fields and sighed, he was going to miss Kreacher's delicious pies and home made pumpkin juice.
His mom too... And even his annoying, but adorable sister Lily.
"Sooooo...
"What do we do now, Rosie..." Albus leaned into Rosie, but nearly fell on his back while doing so. She was gone... When did she leave, couldn't she had at least said something. Now Albus felt the heavy eyes of fourteen passengers, whispering low and hushing when his eyes met theirs. "What?"
It wasn't unusual when he was around his father, but as far as Albus knew dad was dad and very well liked by everyone. Someone always seemed to know him and everyone else just seemed to stare and point. But the magic word seemed to be "Harry Potter" at the moment and he cared very little since his name was Albus Severus Potter.
"It's another Potter," whispered one boy.
"I wonder if he's going to be like James, that would be a lot of fun."
"He looks a lot like a young Harry Potter."
The black haired boy gathered his belongings that were very few, busied himself along in order to catch up with his cousin who was probably down in another carriage. He meekly gathered up his wits, as if collecting broken eggs. "Excuse me."
Albus pushed past a mousy looking Asian girl, his belonging clacking and wheels spinning in a strange sound. Her chubby cheeks were already blushed with a colour of make-up that didn't suit her face.
The next cart was no different, there was a lingering glance by everyone but soon their attentions returned to the excitement of a new school year. Unlike the first carriage, they were more occupied with the latest fashions or who won the last Quiddich game. Probably due to the influence of James, otherwise known as the "James Effect" that had been an affliction not to different than the common cold.
It caused the afflicted to forget he was the son of Harry Potter.
He looked around and noticed the stolen glanced and gossiping students, Albus... Big expectations. He felt the heaviness of his two names and pressed on.
There were two brunettes, who leaned into each other's words. Both girls, both Slytherin. Their eyes went from each other to him to each other to the magazine in their hands and he could have sworn he saw the one of them wink as him as he passed them.
He took some time to pay some attention to three owls hissed and hooted at each other disapprovingly and clattered against their metal cages, angry at being imprisoned. Dad wouldn't let him get an owl, but he could always ask Uncle Neville.
To the right of him at the door there were two students who looked to be Gryffindor prefects examining a package that a grinning blonde student rested on his lap, the noise was too loud to hear the spell that was cast but as soon as it was the package exploded at letting rabbits loose in the cart. Needless to say, he wasn't about to stay in this apartment for too long.
When he saw the occupants of the next carriage he had only wished he had remained in the rabbit infested carriage. The firecracker would have hit him in eye if it had not been a magical firecracker, "get out of my way, I'm going to catch it!"
There were times that Albus wished he were an only child, James was leaping from seat to seat over students who were sitting of the floor. The owls were shrieking horribly in this compartment and there was a lone dog that was barking at the the firecracker that was taunting him. "Albus!"
Never had he wished so much to be invisible.
"C'mere Albus!" There wasn't really much choice in the matter as flailing young boy tried to at least save his precious belongings from the bodies that were crashing into one another in a sort of joust for attention.
James let out a sharp whistle.
"Guys! Meet my little brother," James beamed, scooping the smaller boy in his arms and presenting Albus like a new pet dog. His friends paused to give him the once over.
"Seems kinds small, doesn't have your fat ego for girth, eh James?"
"What you say? Say it again!" James roared, "I'll get you at dinner Will!"
"Oh! Oh! Try, Missus Pooter!"
"Hi, oh you're so cute. My name is Belinda," she seemed nice, unlike his brother's other friends who were jabbing at each other with the corners of their textbooks. In fact she seemed like the only saving grace of the entire lot. "I heard that James had a little brother, you're Albus, right."
"..." Albus looked away into the passing scenery, not quite sure what to say and looking remarkably razzled. He took a quick glance and spotted Rosie, but she seemed preoccupied in her reading to notice him.
"My brother is shy around girls, aren't ya Albus."
Albus tried to become invisible with silence, the noises and the burning smell of trouble and fire and smoke overwhelmed his nostrils.
The entire scene was an assault of his visual sense, it was a complete information overload.
"I---"
James released him seeing the whizzing firecracker spiralling towards his face, "MINE! Hey that's mine! See ya, Albus!"
Albus took this break to secure a grip on his belongings and through the rowdy bunch of Gryffindor's with speed and hawk-like precision.
The next three carriages seemed to be much of the same, Gryffindor's, with some Slytherin huddled in the corners shooting cold glances at Albus and any Gryffindor that passed by. 'The Slytherin aren't very likeable,' came a resounding voice, James speaking in the back of his heads. Somewhere James was looking very disapprovingly at his little brother, down his freckled nose.
His father quickly followed, 'and you don't want to believe everything your brother says about Hogwarts, he likes a laugh.'
'And,' came his own voice in thought, 'he likes to--"
"That James Potter!"
Albus noticed the hush and the temperature drop in the seventh carriage he had been in thus far, in his direction came four students that were marching quite mechanically. They kept moving forward as the Slytherin and Ravenclaw Prefects were making their way, muttering 'James' and 'Potter' under breath.
'Invisible,' came Albus's mantra, 'invisible.'
He pushed past the group, 'invisible, oh please let me be invisible.'
He was invisible, he felt invisible.
One prefect, two prefect, the third prefect passed by in sickeningly slow motion.
"Albus," came a stern voice from the forth.
His body filled with colour turning red, the boy very timidly nodded, "yes?"
"... Nothing."
Slytherin prefect shook his head, seeing no threat in the young boy and the door clack behind him.
The door before him opened to an empty section that the prefects had once occupied.
It didn't look like an official prefect's carriage, perhaps the thought of the Slytherin prefects had surely scared the other years off.
There was only one other person, so Albus called out to him, "is it all right in I stay here? Everywhere else is noisy."
There at the end of train carriage sat a lone boy with his legs pulled so tightly he looked like a posable action figure. He had platinum blonde hair and reminded Albus much of Alice from Wonderland for some reason, a book that his Uncle Dudley bought for him.
"Scorpius," came the voice of his father from the back of his mind, "Draco's boy."
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TBC
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Author's Commentary:
I was all like, Harry Potter the Final Book is out, I'm gonna get all over that fanfic and milk it for all of it's slash potential as much as possible. YEE HAWW!!!
Oh yeah, PLEASE REVIEW!!! I like a review count sometimes because sometimes I like looking at that and thinking someone took the time to log in and go, that was cool. So if you can, please do take time to review.
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Next Chapter:
"Aren't you scared of me," asked Scorpius.
"A little," Albus replied, "I'm new to Hogwarts... New to almost everything... But if it's anything like Gringotts, I'm not going to like it."
Scorpius Malfoy scooted closer to where the green eyed boy was sitting, "I don't like Gringotts either."
Chapter Two: Scorpius Malfoy