Chapter 8

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by i_heart_h_potter

by i_heart_h_potter

{Albus}

Rose and I file out if the DADA classroom, happily chatting about the lesson.

'Ooh! Double Herbology next with Uncle Neville, I mean Professor Longbottom.' Rosie says happily.

I smile, I know Rose really wants to impress Uncle Neville, after how disappointed he was with her last night.

'Bloody hell!' I say.

'What?' Rose asks quizzically.

'I left my text book in the classroom, I'll meet you in Herbology, ok?'

Rosie nods, and starts talking to some Gryffindor girls.

I dash back into the classroom, and grab my text book, as I walk out of the classroom, someone grabs my arm.

I look around and see Malfoy.

'What do you want?' I say rudely, shaking my arm free, and walking down the corridor.

Malfoy catches up to me, 'I want to say sorry.'

I snort, 'Sure,' I say sarcastically.

Malfoy glares at me, 'I am sorry though, I should never have called your aunt a, mud-mudblood.'

'Yeah, well, you didn't seem so sorry yesterday,' I say testily, quickening my pace.

Malfoy quickens his pace too, 'I am sorry though, I was supposed to say sorry before I even said that, I was supposed to say sorry for my dad.' Malfoy says quietly.

'For your dad?!' I say, stopping in my tracks.

'Yeah, Dad asked me to say sorry for him, for everything, that you know, happened,' Malfoy finishes awkwardly.

'Sorry doesn't really cover everything your dad did,' I say, starting to walk again, not wanting to be late for Herbology.

'I know! But, still. Dad says sorry for being a Deatheater,' Malfoy says, 'And I say sorry, for being such an idiot.'

I frown, and an awkward silence falls between us for a minute.

'I'm not asking to be friends, I'm just saying sorry,' Scorpius says, hastily.

'Yeah, there's no way we could be friends, not with our family history, and plus, I forgive you, but I still don't like what you said or did.' I say.

I look up, we're at the greenhouses.

'Thanks,' Scorpius says.

I enter the greenhouse, just as Scorpius runs back up to the castle.

I slip in between Rose, and a boy, whose name I think is Sam, and look up at Uncle Neville, who is talking passionately about Herbology.

But, even though the lesson is extremely interesting, and Uncle Neville shows us all sorts of different and dangerous plants, I can't get Scorpius Malfoy out of my mind, and how much he wanted to be forgiven.