The Children of Hogwarts

Forgotten Photo

"I can't believe your uncle still has these." Scorpius whispers, the end of an Extendable Ear close to his ear.

"They're available in his shop. I'm not sure why he actually sold them to us, but I'm not complaining." Albus explained.

Scorpius was beginning to feel more comfortable, although he still felt guilty for the way he had treated his friends.

"Both of you hush. I can't hear." Rose complained. Scorpius and Albus exchanged a look, before rolling their eyes simultaneously.

"We have to get word to Percy and the others." Harry could be heard saying.

"Who is this Percy fellow?" Scorpius wondered aloud. "They keep talking about him."

"I don't know, but be quiet!" Rose ordered.

"We can't use our telephones. We're going to have to use the owls. Where did they say that camp of theirs was?"

"Long Island Sound, if I remember correctly. This was about twenty years ago."

"It doesn't matter. Heddy will be able to find one of them, and then they can get a message to the others."

The trio made a hasty retreat as they realized that Harry was coming towards the door.

Scorpius dropped his extendable ear, and he lunged forward on his stomach to grab it.

"Let's go." Rose insisted as Albus grabbed his friend's ankles and pulled.

Scorpius slid back as the door opened. They scrambled around the corner and up the stairs as quickly as possible.

They shut the door to Scorpius's room and sighed simultaneously.

"That was too close." Scorpius said once his heart rate had calmed down.

Albus and Rose made identical sounds of agreement, before going to sit.

"Seriously though. Who on Earth is Percy?" Rose said, frustrated.

"You ask that as if one of us knows any more than you do." Albus replied, running his fingers through his hair and causing it to stick up.

"And isn't Long Island Sound in America? I didn't know your parents had ever left the country." Scorpius yawns.

"Me neither." Rose replied, turning to look at the clock. "It's getting late. Why don't we sleep on it and come back to it in the morning?"

Albus and Scorpius nodded in agreement.

"Night Scorpius." Albus said.

"Night Albus, Rose." Scorpius replied.

"Goodnight Scorpius." Rose said, before they both left.

Scorpius was asleep before his head hit the pillow.

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"Scorpius look what I got!" Albus rushed into his friends room followed by an excited Rose.

Scorpius sits up sleepily, thoughts still murky, and glances at his friends.

"What is it?" He say irritably, rubbing his eyes.

"I got a picture of their letter." Albus declares, holding out his camera.

Scorpius grabs it from his hands and he reads the screen eagerly.

Percy, Annabeth, or whichever one of you gets this letter,

We need help. Draco's son was recently kidnapped by someone who held him captive in a place where time moved at a different pace from ours. He claimed she had magic different from ours, and was capable of using a wand. We believe she is the daughter of your goddess Hecate, fathered by a wizard. Please contact us as soon as possible.

Sincerely,
Hermione
Ron
Harry

"I also found this." Albus holds out a photo of eight people around their parents.

There was a curly haired boy who had his arm around the shoulders of a girl with cinnamon colored hair. The strangest thing was the boy had smoke swirling up from his fingers.

The one who stood out the most was a tall Chinese looking guy who had a bow and arrow strapped across his back. He was standing next to a tiny African-American girl who had gold colored eyes and was smiling in a relieved way.

Scorpius' eyes was caught by a girl at the edge of the picture. She appeared to be trying to evade attention, but the bright blue feather and mixed with her brown hair didn't allow that. Neither did the guy next to her, a boy with staticky hair, bright blue eyes, and a golden sword with the point in the ground beside him.

The two that stood out the most were standing right behind the trio. The boy had inky black hair and bright green eyes, his tanned arms around an equally tanned girl with blonde hair and storm cloud gray eyes.

"Flip it over." Albus suggested. On the back it had the names of each person scrawled behind them.

The name 'Percy' was directly behind the black haired boy.

"So this is Percy?" Scorpius said.

"No Scorp, that Roberto. He my father's old wizard friend. He just wrote Percy on the back." Rose said, rolling her eyes.

Scorpius made a face and handed the picture back to Albus.

"A simple 'no' would have done nicely, Rose." Scorpius mutters.

"Can you to have your spat later? This still doesn't explain why our parents are relying on this Percy person to help us." Albus sighs tiredly.

"I've honestly no clue. I still don't see why we can't ask them." Rose rubs her eyes.

"Because then they would know we were snooping. I say we send a letter ourselves." Scorpius says, a wicked gleam in his eye.