[HP] Noble

The next morning, as Scorpius expected, his "guide" Draco Malfoy did not wait for him in the common room as required.When he came down from the boys' dormitory, he noticed that the first-year girl named Astoria Greengrass was also coming down the stairs of the girls' dormitory. Their eyes met for a moment, and Scorpius looked nervously at the proud The little girl smiled slightly. Unexpectedly, the other party was not as stiff and cold as at the beginning. On the contrary, she had soft eyes and returned a small salute.

Scorpius relaxed, and the next moment he saw Blaise Zabini sitting on the sofa in the public hall.

Astoria's guide, he and Draco are the only third graders who have been appointed as "guides", the others are fifth and sixth graders.

"Good morning, Miss Greengrass, Mr. Gretel." Zabini stood up. From a certain point of view, this handsome boy with dark skin was really a qualified gentleman.He slightly bent his arm and asked Astoria to gently hold him, and the woman seemed to be used to this kind of contact, and the two of them could be said to be in perfect harmony.

Feeling a little embarrassed, Scorpius shifted his steps uneasily and whispered, "Good morning, Mr. Zabini."

Zabini smiled slightly: "Relax, little Gretel, your English is not that bad."

Scorpius returned a hasty smile, a slightly thankful one.

"—You have to go with us, little Gretel." Zabini took Astoria a few steps forward, and when he saw that Scorpius didn't keep up, he raised his eyebrows in surprise, "This is Draco asked, and he said he'd wait for you in the lobby - but I guess you'd better hurry, maybe all he meant by waiting was [until he finished his breakfast]."

Reminiscent of those silver-gray eyes that revealed impatience and boredom all the time, Scorpius immediately felt that what Zabini said was very reasonable.

……

At this moment, Draco, who was sitting in the hall reading the letter from his father, was very annoyed, and impatiently distributed the bag of candies sent by his mother to Goyle and Crabbe. He glanced at the attached letter for the third time. The short letter, which was his father Lucius' reply to his complaints last night, was written in the same gorgeous style as his, almost revealing the atmosphere of the Malfoy family from the punctuation marks, even though there were only two words on the letter: do so.

...That's right, "do it" - and this is the only word in the entire letter that belongs to his father's handwriting, and the short one is not even signed.Draco subconsciously looked up to look for his godfather on the classroom mat. The latter was slowly spreading butter on his bread without looking up. It was hard to say that Professor Snape didn't feel his godson's eyes, but he chose to absolutely ignored.

Frustrated, Draco finally turned his attention to the jam in his hand.

Only then did he notice that he was spreading marmalade on his bread—a flavor he hated the most.Cursing under his breath, he almost rudely tossed the bread back on the plate.And at this moment, the "little bastard who took the name of his future son" appeared from behind the hall door.Draco was sure that he didn't want to say a word to him now, including "good morning", so he put on a disgusted expression and looked away lazily.

When passing by the third grade, Scorpius noticed that a third-grade girl who looked very similar to Astoria gracefully put down the silver cup in her hand, turned slightly and greeted her: "Hi, Astoria. "

Astoria's expression changed momentarily, but she quickly returned to normal. Surprisingly, she called the girl "sister".

"Good morning, Mr. Malfoy." Scorpius whispered as he passed by Draco, who was holding pumpkin juice to his lips froze, before Draco could react and say something, Scorpius had already sat down on the edge of the first grade seat far away from them with a blank face.

"He called me Malfoy!" Draco said in disbelief, his pale face was like seeing a troll dancing with his panties off, he was surprised and disgusted at the same time, of course, there was embarrassment, but he concealed it So good that he didn't let his friends around him see it.

"Then what's the problem?" Pansy put down her knife and raised her finely sculpted eyebrows, "What else is it? Draco? Dragon?"

"Shut up, Pansy," Draco said harshly.

"Oh, I guess Master Malfoy - pass me the marmalade, thanks, Pansy." Zabini took a seat to Draco's left and took a slice of bread.Pansy handed over the marmalade and glanced at Draco, and was immediately shocked by the expression of approval on his face. She raised her voice slightly: "You can't be serious, are you? Draco, Scorpius is not you house-elf!"

"So, it's 'Scorpius', huh?"

"Why not? What a lovely name, you were going to use it too, weren't you?" Pansy shrugged.

"Yeah, thanks for the reminder," Draco said meanly, "I hate him even more now, that little bastard."

"He's cute when he's nervous. I don't often see Orientals, and he's obviously not bad," Zabini corrected impartially.

"Bracey's right, he's not. You're a complete little bastard, Draco," Pansy said cheerfully as she put the last morsel of bread in her mouth and wiped her mouth with a napkin Food scraps that don't exist, "I'm full, can you hurry up, we're going to be late."

……

Stuffing the ham into his mouth in a rather unrefined manner, Scorpius noticed a movement on the third grade side, and then, because he ate so fast, he choked.Before he choked himself to death, a soft white hand patted him on the back, and then handed him a glass of freshly arrived pumpkin juice. He blushed in embarrassment, and looked up, and it was really Ah who was sitting next to him. Storia.

"We should go." The little girl said softly. "The first class is at the hunting lodge on the edge of the Forbidden Forest. If we don't hurry up, we will be late after they send us there."

Scorpius nodded, grabbed the napkin and wiped his mouth and hands: "Thanks...can I call you Astoria?"

"It's an honor, Scorpius." The other party showed a shy smile.The other freshmen around them also stood up one after another. Scorpius looked up and found that the guide group headed by a certain sixth grader was already waiting at the end of the Slytherin table. Striding silently down the halls of Hogwarts, passing students from other houses, Scorpius noticed the unabashed distaste of Gryffindors, the indifference of Ravenclaws and the indifference of Hufflepuffs. timid.

Looking back, Astoria, who was walking side by side with him, regained her indifferent expression. Her chin was raised high all the time just like yesterday, and she followed behind Zabini without squinting. The figure consciously and well protected her whole body behind her.

"Damn it, turn around, where are you going!" His hand was roughly pulled, Scorpius regained his senses, and immediately met those silver-gray eyes shining impatiently, and Draco glanced at him Circle, critically, "Where's your wand?"

Scorpius silently took out the fiery red wand from the wand sleeve around his waist.

"Hold it, as a Slytherin, you have to learn to be vigilant at all times." Draco finished coldly and quickly, then turned and stepped out of the stairs of the castle.

Outside the castle is a piece of emerald green grass, which has not turned yellow in autumn.Turning another corner, you can see a large forest, which should be the forbidden forest that the old man with white beard said.There was a cabin on the edge of the Forbidden Forest, and around it was a pumpkin patch with huge golden pumpkins, already fruitful.

Maybe it's the problem of today's class. On the edge of the pumpkin field is a huge water tank with a length, width and height of about ten meters. There are dense aquatic plants in it, and a huge shadow passes over the edge of the water tank from time to time.Hagrid, their gamekeeper, was standing by the water tank rubbing his huge hands, looking both excited and nervous, with a kind of enthusiasm for every student who approached him and called him "Professor Hagrid" He said hello in an over-the-top voice, and stopped his high spirits when he saw Draco and the group of Slytherins approaching.

"Damn, what the hell is this?!"

When they entered the huge tank, something with its long tail swam past the edge of the tank, Draco frowned, and moved to keep Scorpius behind him.

Hagrid was immediately diverted, and introduced enthusiastically: "Sea snakes come from the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean and Mediterranean Sea."

"They are forbidden magical creatures, protected by the Department of Magical Creatures Protection." Draco narrowed his eyes and said dangerously.

Under the beard, Hagrid's face could still be seen blushing, and he waved his huge fan-like hands uneasily: "Although they look scary, people know that these poor little things have never hurt anyone. , but Muggles have always written whimsical accounts of their atrocities!—”

"——This is a first-year class, Mr. Malfoy." Hagrid said to Draco, who was walking in the front, stiffly, as if he just remembered.

Draco made a frightened expression on purpose, and after a burst of laughter, he returned to his indifferent and proud expression, and he sneered: "Do you think we can't wait to come to this stupid class?"

Hagrid seemed used to his rudeness: "Then what are you guys doing here? I'm about to start class!"

"Escort. Clearly, you don't know anything about Slytherin traditions." A fifth year standing nearby answered Draco lazily in his place.

"I don't see how this school is dangerous enough to need a third-year escort under Dumbledore's watch!" Hagrid retorted angrily, and his angry look even scared a group of young Gryffindors, who were like A crowd of frightened birds and beasts gathered to watch this unexpected conflict with disquiet.

"Like a tank of sea snakes?" Zabini asked.

"I! Said! They are! Harmless!"

"They'd better be. Otherwise you'll be waiting for a blizzard of complaints." Draco dragged his voice, he turned around gracefully, and led the way to the castle, followed by the rest of the senior Slytherins. He also turned around and followed behind him, only three fifth-grade students were left. After they whispered some spell, a disgusting thing like rolling eyes floated above their heads, and they turned their backs to other Si Leitlin, walk backwards in reverse.

The second rule of survival, a qualified Slytherin never leaves his back to strangers.

"—Next, we start class!" Hagrid said angrily, looking away, "Hey, stand over here, little furs, or you will miss these charming big guys - just like that brat of the Malfoy family said." Say, they're very rare—"

"The Malfoy brat..." Scorpius repeated wordlessly.

"I thought you thought so too." Astoria pursed her lips and chuckled.

This is indeed the case...but Scorpius still found it a little difficult to organize his own words: "Say it so naturally from a professor—"

"It feels a little weird, doesn't it, it's okay, get used to it." Astoria slowed down, she reached out and tugged at Scorpius' sleeve, "Can we take a closer look, I've never seen sea ​​snake."

The two walked in a little bit, during which time they had a short conversation with other Slytherins. Because of the language problem, Scorpius didn't talk much, but fortunately, he seemed kind enough to other people in the academy. When they squeezed to the front, the huge shadow slowly swam behind the water plants again, and this time, its tail appeared completely in front of everyone's eyes, causing a small group of people to exclaim ("Don't be afraid, it's gentle," Hagrid reminded. ), a dark blue tail covered with rough scales, and a row of sharp barbs at the tip of the tail-if it is really harmless, then the purpose of this thing becomes a bit unimaginable.

Hagrid had climbed the tall ladder and was trying to push the lid off the tank.Scorpius pursed his lips, always feeling a little uneasy, as if something was going to happen.