Reading Iris Potter and the Scorcerers Stone.

chapter 8 JMR

The next morning Scorpius was woken up to the sight of Cordell Walker sitting on the edge of his bed trying to wake him up.

Scorpius almost could not beleive his eyes when he saw him and launched him self forward huggin the man tightly.

"Well good morning to you too," Walker says chuckling as he hugged him back.

"You came!" Scorpius exclaimed happily.

"I was a little surprised by the invite," Walker admitted. "But James said you were having a hard time coping." He added.

Scorpius looked down. "I...I hurt someone." He says sadly.

"I heard. Tom's friend. I haven't seen her, but Tom said that she was alright," Walker says sounding encouraging. "Come on, get dressed so we can go. Tom is complaining that he is going to starve to death." Walker snickered.

A growl sounded from Scorpius's stomach. Scorpius let go of Walker and got dressed in a hurry.

They walked out of his room and into the dinning room where everyone was waiting paitently. Scorpius sat down next to JMR. Walker sat on the opposite side of Scorpius after greeting everyone.

"What's wrong, Bella?" Tom asked seeing the Bella paled as soon as Walker came in the room. "That's Cordell, dad's brother." He explained.

"I...I know who he is." Bella choked out as she stared at Walker.

Walker looked over at her curiously. "Hello." he greeted.

Bella squeek and ducked down under the table.

Tom looked over at walker puzzled. "I think she is scared of you." He says shrugging.

"Why is she scared of me?" Walker asked with a puzzled look.

"I don't know." Tom shrugged. "Something about evil red barns." he explained. Tom suddenly yelped when Bella jumped up covering his mouth with her hand and pulled him down under the table with her chanting: Shut up shut up shut up!: in a very high piched squeal.

JMR and cordell looked at each other confused but also very amused.

"Ah...yes...the evil red barn. I'm almost positive it's haunted." Scorpius says nodding as though it made perfect sense.

They all ate quietly wanting to get back into the book as quick as possible. It took Tom a while to convince Bella to come back out, but she finally did.

Once they were finished they moved into the Throne room back to the table that they had been using yesterday, they had another chair brought in for Walker.

Jmr opened the book up and started reading aloud.

The last few weeks have been uneventful. Harry and Iris have grown even further apart and Ron and Hermione have been telling Harry all sorts of rumors and lies about his dear sister.

"That's aweful!" Walker says in alarm.

"They are very mean." Jasmine says sadly.

Scorpius growled angerily.

Harry didn't believe them at first but then they started coming up with more believable lies and he now can't look at his sister anymore.

Iris has been getting tips from Daphne and Daphne has been training her, so to speak. Iris now has a constant cold expression on her face and has been ignoring her brother and his friends. All of the houses look at her as if she is the most vile beast imaginable. She acts as if she doesn't care, but when it is in the middle of the night, and everyone is asleep, she cries.