Rose and Scorpius: Please Listen

(4) Good or Bad?

Emily

I go to talk to Malfoy.

He might be a terrible person but I want to give him a chance. Everyone should get a chance.

When I'm walking to Malfoy, someone walks to me. Thankfully it was Alex. Maybe he could come to see Malfoy with me. We have talked about this before.

"Are you sure?" he asks. He knows what I'm a bout to do. "If James, Rose, and maybe Albus sees you you're dead."

"I quite aware of that, thank you," I reply. "And yes I'm sure, you can come with me if you want."

He doesn't answer but he keeps walking with me. He's going to talk to Malfoy with me.

Suddenly I'm nervous. In movies or in books there is sometimes a person who wants to give the villain a chance. Sometimes they are a genius. The part that bothers me is, sometimes they are utter fools. I just want to do what feels right. To do what I think is right can't be wrong, can it?

We stop in front of Malfoy.

"Meet us at the astronomy tower, 11 tonight," I whisper. Then I add, "if James, Rose, or Albus sees and asks what we said say we threatened you."

He looks a little scared.

"We just want to talk," says Alex. "We just want to figure out why they should hate you so much."

He gulped and gave a quick nod. He walked away in the direction he was going before pretty fast.

I couldn't believe we'd just done that. I'm scared and a bit relieved. I won't have to wonder for much longer. Malfoy looked like someone who would tell the truth but I'm not sure what we'll do after.

If he is a bad person we can join James, Rose, and Albus but if he isn't... how will we tell them? Will they be mad?

I just focused on tonight. I was going to go to the clock tower.

Alex

We were at the astronomy tower waiting for Malfoy. We got there at about 10:50. Malfoy walked in just as the hour changed to 11.

"Hey Malfoy," I say. Malfoy looked uncomfortable the moment I'd said it.

"Can you please call me Scorpius?" he asks. "I don't like being called that."

"Of course," says Emily. "So Scorpius, I'm sure you know why we want you to be here. We want to know if you're the person James, Rose, and Albus say you are."

"No I'm not," he says. "They judge me by my last name," he says looking down.

"So you want to be seen as different from your family?" asks Alex. "You don't want to follow their footsteps?"

"Of course not," he says, quickly. "My grandparents, great-grandparents, great-great-grandparents, and all of them were idiots. My father was a coward. He didn't want to act the way he did he just did because his dad told him to. He wanted to be friends with Harry, Ron and for heavens sake! he fell in love with Rose's mom but he didn't do any thing. He pretended to hate them because he was a coward. A big coward."

We were both speechless for a moment.

"I'm different," he whispers. "Why can't they see that?"

"Scorpius," says Alex. "We'll do whatever we can to get them to see it."

I smile at him. "I think you're a good person Scorpius," I say.

"Thank you," he says, quietly, before leaving he runs down the stairs and me and Alex just stand there petrified for a moment. Scorpius sounded so honest. There was no way he was lying. It just wasn't possible.

I was left with one question in my mind, the question was threatening for my brain to explode.

How can we get James, Rose, and Albus to see that Scorpius isn't the person they think he is.

Scorpius

I run into my dormitory and flop onto my bed.

Maybe James, Rose, and Albus will see me as a different person. I smile. Maybe I could smile at them and they'll smile back. Maybe I could talk to them and they'll say something back nicer than 'stay away from us.' Maybe we could even be friends. Them and their parents might realize that I'm Scorpius, not Draco. Maybe. Just maybe.

I start to fall asleep with a smile on my face but is immediately removed when I have my dream. It's not a dream though. It's his way of communication. He's dead and this is the only way he can talk to me.

"Hello son," says a terrible and familiar voice. The voice of Lucius Malfoy. "Please don't ignore me. There is no point. You will never escape me. I am your family."

Go away! I think. Leave me alone!

"You can't make me leave. Not until you've agreed to do the mission every Malfoy was born to do. You will assist He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, you will live in honor of him."

No! I don't want to. You can't make me! I will never do anything for you!

"You're so much like Draco. You'll learn to obey me but I don't need you to do anything for me. You need to do it from yourself. He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named used to say, 'there is only power and those to weak to seek it'."

I'm not like my father! I will never obey you! I'm not weak! I choose not to seek power! I choose to!

"I will do something about that but it's time for you to wake up now."

Then I woke up.