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Stars and Blood
A/N: WHOO HOO! Chapter Nine!
Chapter Nine: Stars and Blood
Friday afternoon finally came for the first years and it couldn’t have been fast enough. Many of the students had already found a patch of soft grass by the lake to relax in the September sun yet three boys, two Slytherins and a Gryffindor, found themselves knocking on the big hut door on the edge of the Hogwarts grounds.
Albus knocked on the door which set off a round of barks loud enough that it almost knocked him over. The boys laughed as they heard, “Back Junior, back! Just like her pa yeh ruddy beast.”
A great bearded face appeared in the doorway as the door was pulled back. The big man smiled through his graying hair, “Albus! And Leon too! Its great ter see yeh! Who’s yer friend?”
Albus smiled up at him and gestured to the blonde boy to his right, “This is my best friend, Scorpius Malfoy, Hagrid.”
“Hm.” Hagrid smiled again and let them in, “Would yeh like some tea?”
The boys nodded as they entered the house to get drooled on by a great black border hound pup.
“So Hagrid,” Albus said as he sat himself down, “My dad said you wanted me to come visit?”
Hagrid nodded and he started busying himself with making tea, “I ne’er though’ I’d see yer ol’ man leave Hogwarts.”
Albus smiled and scratched Junior behind the ears, “Bet it feels weird. James and I are here now.”
Leon walked over to Hagrid and started helping with the tea as Hagrid set the giant mugs on the table and filled them with hot water, “Yer righ’ it does feel kind o’ weird.” Hagrid agreed, “Yeh look so much like ‘im.”
Scorpius was looking around the hut in a sort of awe but was smart enough to keep his mouth closed and for that Albus was grateful. Albus turned his attention to the tea once it was completely finished and took a sip before glancing back up at Hagrid, “Did you hear about that big explosion the twins set off?”
Hagrid chuckles, “They be just like yer uncles were. So how are yer classes comin’?”
Albus immediately groaned, “Professor Estrella’s transfiguration class hurts. I can’t seem to turn anything into something its not.”
Scorpius chuckled and looked up at Hagrid, “You know how the first thing we always start on is turning a toothpick into a needle? Albus went to turn his toothpick and just succeeded in bending it and then catching it on fire.”
Albus glared as Leon snorted on his tea, “Really?!”
Hagrid chuckled and shook his head, “Every one has a strong point. Yer’s obviously ain’t Transfiguration.”
Albus sighed and shook his head, “I can’t wait until Monday actually. We have Potions and then Herbology. I hope one of them is my strong point.”
“Yeah and then after lunch the Gryffindors and Slytherins have flying class together.” Leon added in, “We already know you can fly amazingly well.”
“Well yeah.” Albus scoffed, “All Potters’ fly well.”
Scorpius smiled, “I’ll catch you if the mighty Albus Potter falls. I’ll magic up a nice big fluffy mattress for you.”
Albus punched Scorpius in the shoulder lightly, “Jerk.”
Hagrid sat down and tugged Junior over to his side to they boys could drink in peace, “Had Defense yet?”
Leon nodded while the two Slytherins shook their heads. Scorpius pulled out his schedule, “That’s first thing Tuesday morning. That’s the problem with starting the school year in the middle of the week.”
“So that’s potions, Herbology, and flying class on Monday, Defense, double Transfiguration,” Albus groaned, “and then astronomy late that night for Tuesday, We start Wednesday with history of magic, potions again, and end the day with double defense.”
“Thursday we have Transfiguration, history of magic, then astronomy. And finally Friday we have a free day except for the piles of homework they’ve given us.” Scorpius finished up with a groan.
Leon sighed, “At least you get three days in a row to do your homework. This year the Gryffindor free day is Wednesday.”
Hagrid chuckled at the first years, “Well, jus’ think o’ it this way: a’ leas’ yeh ain’t ignorant”
*********
That night the boys were exploring the lower bowls of the Hogwarts dungeons. Leon had once again gotten James’s invisibility cloak and they had owled him a letter to get him down to the dungeons for a little exploration almost immediately. They were now sorting through a room that obviously hadn’t been used for more than a storage space in years and probably even more uselessness before that.
Leon shook his head as they sorted through boxes and he held his lit wand aloft, “We’re never going to find anything sorting around down here.”
“I don’t know about you, I’ve found a lot of stuff,” Scorpius muttered as he tossed an old gas lamp to the floor where it exploded into tiny shards joining the pile of broken stuff he had already thrown out of the box, “I just haven’t found anything that would help us.”
Albus rolled his eyes as he cleared a path through the boxes to the other side of the room, “Hey guys come look at this!”
“Is it a mummy?” Scorpius teased as they sauntered over, “Dragon eggs? Oh, oh is it a dementor baby?!”
Leon ducked in time for Scorpius to get hit in the face with a quaffle, “Old Quidditch supplies?”
Albus shook his head, “There’s a bunch of stuff over here that looks like people were trying to hide it. Pictures, a diary, that kind of stuff.”
Leon raised his wand higher so they could all see what Albus was showing them. Scorpius ran over to inspect a few things as well. Albus tossed aside what seemed like an old yearbook.
“Hogwarts used to have yearbooks?” Leon asked as he picked it up, “year 1927….wow this thing is old.”
“Yeah,” Scorpius said as he picked up another one, “They stopped making them when they realized that putting people alphabetically usually caused fights amongst the pictures. Especially after the first war; death eaters were put next to future aurors and if they were known pictures were literally blowing other pictures apart.”
Albus shook his head, “Oh woe the magic world.” The other two snickered and flung the yearbooks to the side, “Hey check this out!”
Leon raised his wand again at the same time Albus lit up his so that they could see a rather large portrait of a man dressed in all black with shallow looking skin, greasy black hair, a rather large crooked nose, and almost black eyes whom was staring at them as though frozen.
“It has to of been done with muggle paint if it doesn’t move.” Leon observed, “That or someone stunned the portrait permanently for some reason.”
“Hey look there’s a name at the bottom.” Scorpius pointed out the little golden name plate, “Severus Snape.”
Albus blinked, “Wow this wasn’t where I expected him to be or what he would look like.”
“You know I read about him in ‘Hogwarts a History’” Leon muttered as they studied the portrait, “And when I got in trouble and sent to the headmaster’s office last week they didn’t even have a picture of him in the room but they had everyone else.”
“Maybe they ran out of room?” Scorpius suggested lamely, “Never mind they could probably magic space.”
“Well duh, captain obvious.” Leon said causing Albus to shoot them both a glare and Scorpius to make a rather rude gesture.
Scorpius now pulled out the ring they had found the other night and started twirling it nervously first in one direction and then the other as they studied the room. Leon and Albus returned to looking through boxes and it was quite awhile before anyone found anything of interest again. The Slytherin blonde was left to looking through the pictures and staring up at the picture of an ex headmaster.
“Severus Snape….Severus Snape…” Scorpius paused and looked over at Albus, “Hey isn’t part of your name Severus?”
Albus nodded as he continued to rummage through the old boxes. Scorpius got up and ran his fingers down the dried muggle paint of the black robes, “was it this Severus Snape guy?”
Albus nodded again then jumped up when Scorpius gave a harsh cry and fell back onto one of the boxes, crushing it beneath his weight. Leon jumped up as well and searched the room for danger with his wand light which glittered off the rusty red of Scorpius’s blood which was seeping over the floor from where he bashed it on the remains of the old gas lamp.
“What the heck is wrong with you?!” Leon yelled at the Slytherin, “You scared the living daylights out of me!”
“I-I-I s-s-seen…i-i-it was...” Scorpius stuttered frantically and then just gave up and pointed as a long, deep, drawing voice filled the room.
“It could not of scared the daylights out of you, you pathetic excuse for a ‘brave Gryffindor’, as you can see it is plainly not day time so therefore there was no ‘daylight’ to be scared out of you.”
Leon and Albus turned slowly to face the thing which had spoken and both stopped dead in their movements. Even their breath seemed to be caught in their lungs or refuse to come back in and rather just hung in the air.
A/N: Ok Cliffhanger. Wow this took forever to write. sorry about the hold up! please please please please review it would be amazing of you all!
Chapter Nine: Stars and Blood
Friday afternoon finally came for the first years and it couldn’t have been fast enough. Many of the students had already found a patch of soft grass by the lake to relax in the September sun yet three boys, two Slytherins and a Gryffindor, found themselves knocking on the big hut door on the edge of the Hogwarts grounds.
Albus knocked on the door which set off a round of barks loud enough that it almost knocked him over. The boys laughed as they heard, “Back Junior, back! Just like her pa yeh ruddy beast.”
A great bearded face appeared in the doorway as the door was pulled back. The big man smiled through his graying hair, “Albus! And Leon too! Its great ter see yeh! Who’s yer friend?”
Albus smiled up at him and gestured to the blonde boy to his right, “This is my best friend, Scorpius Malfoy, Hagrid.”
“Hm.” Hagrid smiled again and let them in, “Would yeh like some tea?”
The boys nodded as they entered the house to get drooled on by a great black border hound pup.
“So Hagrid,” Albus said as he sat himself down, “My dad said you wanted me to come visit?”
Hagrid nodded and he started busying himself with making tea, “I ne’er though’ I’d see yer ol’ man leave Hogwarts.”
Albus smiled and scratched Junior behind the ears, “Bet it feels weird. James and I are here now.”
Leon walked over to Hagrid and started helping with the tea as Hagrid set the giant mugs on the table and filled them with hot water, “Yer righ’ it does feel kind o’ weird.” Hagrid agreed, “Yeh look so much like ‘im.”
Scorpius was looking around the hut in a sort of awe but was smart enough to keep his mouth closed and for that Albus was grateful. Albus turned his attention to the tea once it was completely finished and took a sip before glancing back up at Hagrid, “Did you hear about that big explosion the twins set off?”
Hagrid chuckles, “They be just like yer uncles were. So how are yer classes comin’?”
Albus immediately groaned, “Professor Estrella’s transfiguration class hurts. I can’t seem to turn anything into something its not.”
Scorpius chuckled and looked up at Hagrid, “You know how the first thing we always start on is turning a toothpick into a needle? Albus went to turn his toothpick and just succeeded in bending it and then catching it on fire.”
Albus glared as Leon snorted on his tea, “Really?!”
Hagrid chuckled and shook his head, “Every one has a strong point. Yer’s obviously ain’t Transfiguration.”
Albus sighed and shook his head, “I can’t wait until Monday actually. We have Potions and then Herbology. I hope one of them is my strong point.”
“Yeah and then after lunch the Gryffindors and Slytherins have flying class together.” Leon added in, “We already know you can fly amazingly well.”
“Well yeah.” Albus scoffed, “All Potters’ fly well.”
Scorpius smiled, “I’ll catch you if the mighty Albus Potter falls. I’ll magic up a nice big fluffy mattress for you.”
Albus punched Scorpius in the shoulder lightly, “Jerk.”
Hagrid sat down and tugged Junior over to his side to they boys could drink in peace, “Had Defense yet?”
Leon nodded while the two Slytherins shook their heads. Scorpius pulled out his schedule, “That’s first thing Tuesday morning. That’s the problem with starting the school year in the middle of the week.”
“So that’s potions, Herbology, and flying class on Monday, Defense, double Transfiguration,” Albus groaned, “and then astronomy late that night for Tuesday, We start Wednesday with history of magic, potions again, and end the day with double defense.”
“Thursday we have Transfiguration, history of magic, then astronomy. And finally Friday we have a free day except for the piles of homework they’ve given us.” Scorpius finished up with a groan.
Leon sighed, “At least you get three days in a row to do your homework. This year the Gryffindor free day is Wednesday.”
Hagrid chuckled at the first years, “Well, jus’ think o’ it this way: a’ leas’ yeh ain’t ignorant”
*********
That night the boys were exploring the lower bowls of the Hogwarts dungeons. Leon had once again gotten James’s invisibility cloak and they had owled him a letter to get him down to the dungeons for a little exploration almost immediately. They were now sorting through a room that obviously hadn’t been used for more than a storage space in years and probably even more uselessness before that.
Leon shook his head as they sorted through boxes and he held his lit wand aloft, “We’re never going to find anything sorting around down here.”
“I don’t know about you, I’ve found a lot of stuff,” Scorpius muttered as he tossed an old gas lamp to the floor where it exploded into tiny shards joining the pile of broken stuff he had already thrown out of the box, “I just haven’t found anything that would help us.”
Albus rolled his eyes as he cleared a path through the boxes to the other side of the room, “Hey guys come look at this!”
“Is it a mummy?” Scorpius teased as they sauntered over, “Dragon eggs? Oh, oh is it a dementor baby?!”
Leon ducked in time for Scorpius to get hit in the face with a quaffle, “Old Quidditch supplies?”
Albus shook his head, “There’s a bunch of stuff over here that looks like people were trying to hide it. Pictures, a diary, that kind of stuff.”
Leon raised his wand higher so they could all see what Albus was showing them. Scorpius ran over to inspect a few things as well. Albus tossed aside what seemed like an old yearbook.
“Hogwarts used to have yearbooks?” Leon asked as he picked it up, “year 1927….wow this thing is old.”
“Yeah,” Scorpius said as he picked up another one, “They stopped making them when they realized that putting people alphabetically usually caused fights amongst the pictures. Especially after the first war; death eaters were put next to future aurors and if they were known pictures were literally blowing other pictures apart.”
Albus shook his head, “Oh woe the magic world.” The other two snickered and flung the yearbooks to the side, “Hey check this out!”
Leon raised his wand again at the same time Albus lit up his so that they could see a rather large portrait of a man dressed in all black with shallow looking skin, greasy black hair, a rather large crooked nose, and almost black eyes whom was staring at them as though frozen.
“It has to of been done with muggle paint if it doesn’t move.” Leon observed, “That or someone stunned the portrait permanently for some reason.”
“Hey look there’s a name at the bottom.” Scorpius pointed out the little golden name plate, “Severus Snape.”
Albus blinked, “Wow this wasn’t where I expected him to be or what he would look like.”
“You know I read about him in ‘Hogwarts a History’” Leon muttered as they studied the portrait, “And when I got in trouble and sent to the headmaster’s office last week they didn’t even have a picture of him in the room but they had everyone else.”
“Maybe they ran out of room?” Scorpius suggested lamely, “Never mind they could probably magic space.”
“Well duh, captain obvious.” Leon said causing Albus to shoot them both a glare and Scorpius to make a rather rude gesture.
Scorpius now pulled out the ring they had found the other night and started twirling it nervously first in one direction and then the other as they studied the room. Leon and Albus returned to looking through boxes and it was quite awhile before anyone found anything of interest again. The Slytherin blonde was left to looking through the pictures and staring up at the picture of an ex headmaster.
“Severus Snape….Severus Snape…” Scorpius paused and looked over at Albus, “Hey isn’t part of your name Severus?”
Albus nodded as he continued to rummage through the old boxes. Scorpius got up and ran his fingers down the dried muggle paint of the black robes, “was it this Severus Snape guy?”
Albus nodded again then jumped up when Scorpius gave a harsh cry and fell back onto one of the boxes, crushing it beneath his weight. Leon jumped up as well and searched the room for danger with his wand light which glittered off the rusty red of Scorpius’s blood which was seeping over the floor from where he bashed it on the remains of the old gas lamp.
“What the heck is wrong with you?!” Leon yelled at the Slytherin, “You scared the living daylights out of me!”
“I-I-I s-s-seen…i-i-it was...” Scorpius stuttered frantically and then just gave up and pointed as a long, deep, drawing voice filled the room.
“It could not of scared the daylights out of you, you pathetic excuse for a ‘brave Gryffindor’, as you can see it is plainly not day time so therefore there was no ‘daylight’ to be scared out of you.”
Leon and Albus turned slowly to face the thing which had spoken and both stopped dead in their movements. Even their breath seemed to be caught in their lungs or refuse to come back in and rather just hung in the air.
A/N: Ok Cliffhanger. Wow this took forever to write. sorry about the hold up! please please please please review it would be amazing of you all!