Albus Severus Potter (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
honourbyname) wrote2011-04-13 09:40 pm
honourbyname) wrote2011-04-13 09:40 pm
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[OOM] Letters and Confrontations
Hogwarts is both a big and small enough place to be to suit one's needs.
Big enough to hide away when you want to, when you're trying to avoid someone and stay out of someone's way.
Small enough because no matter how much you hide or avoid someone, they're always within sight of you - during mealtimes, during night hours, during after-class study hours.
It's worse when you're in the same House.
Albus has been avoiding Scorpius for a little more than a week now, though the letter he'd received from the other boy in Milliways has been on his person at all times, usually tucked into the pockets of his robes, or hidden between the pages of whatever textbook he happened to be reading at the time.
He didn't have to worry about anyone coming over and nicking his book off him.
No one but Scorpius, himself, really did that. And, well ...
He's read the letter now more times than he can count, and he can practically recite it word for word if he wanted to.
It wasn't that Albus never wanted to speak to Scorpius again; far from it, in fact.
It's just ... it's waiting for the right moment to have a conversation.
And it's Albus giving Scorpius' letter a great deal of thought. And giving Scorpius a great deal of thought.
Albus still has no bloody clue what to think about him.
But there's one thing he has missed, and it's his friend.
So, gathering what little courage he has that allows him to remain a Potter at all, Albus decides to find Scorpius.
Big enough to hide away when you want to, when you're trying to avoid someone and stay out of someone's way.
Small enough because no matter how much you hide or avoid someone, they're always within sight of you - during mealtimes, during night hours, during after-class study hours.
It's worse when you're in the same House.
Albus has been avoiding Scorpius for a little more than a week now, though the letter he'd received from the other boy in Milliways has been on his person at all times, usually tucked into the pockets of his robes, or hidden between the pages of whatever textbook he happened to be reading at the time.
He didn't have to worry about anyone coming over and nicking his book off him.
No one but Scorpius, himself, really did that. And, well ...
He's read the letter now more times than he can count, and he can practically recite it word for word if he wanted to.
It wasn't that Albus never wanted to speak to Scorpius again; far from it, in fact.
It's just ... it's waiting for the right moment to have a conversation.
And it's Albus giving Scorpius' letter a great deal of thought. And giving Scorpius a great deal of thought.
Albus still has no bloody clue what to think about him.
But there's one thing he has missed, and it's his friend.
So, gathering what little courage he has that allows him to remain a Potter at all, Albus decides to find Scorpius.