[LOG] Flashback: Second Year Bullying

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Where: Hogsmeade Station, as the students disembark the Hogwarts Express
When: September 1, 2018 (second year)


"You go on ahead, I'll be right behind you!" Albus insisted, pulling one arm into his school robes - he and Scorpius had been talking so animatedly, catching up on their summers spent apart, that they'd failed to notice when the Hogwarts Express had begun to slow. Scorpius had noticed first, just as the train was slowing to a crawl, and both boys had begun pulling out their school robes and ties and hurried to get changed. The blonde had beaten Alby to it, snapping his trunk shut just as Alby had found his tie, buried at the bottom of his trunk. (He thought now that maybe he should've listened to his mother, when she'd told him to fold his things neatly when packing, and not just throw everything into the trunk in a jumble.)

Scorpius paused a moment, but nodded, stepping out of the compartment as Alby tried to find the other armhole - only to realize that was the hood, and rolled his eyes, finally pushing his arm through the correct opening and hurriedly looping his tie around his neck, frowning in concentration as he tried to do it up properly. He couldn't get it quite right, but it was getting later and by the time he'd gotten it into some semblance of the correct position, the car was mostly silent around him, and Alby hoped he hadn't kept Scorpius waiting too long. He pulled open the compartment door, bounding down the hallway and down the steps, not realizing that he was headed straight for the rather large, square back of Barnard Bloxam, one of the beaters on the Slytherin House Team, until he'd already crashed into the sixth year with an "Oof!"

The older boy turned around, looking for a moment above Alby's head, until he glanced down with a sneer at the second year, who was looking rather dazed from the meeting of nose and backbone. "Well, if it isn't Potter, the little Slytherin who couldn't," he said, as the two friends accompanying him turned around as well, glaring down at Alby. "Watch where you're going, worm," Barnard said, shoving at Alby's shoulder with a large hand. "You don't belong here, don't remind us that you are." Alby stumbled back a few steps, barely keeping his balance, frowning. He hadn't meant to bump into the older boy! Just because he was the sole Potter who'd ever been in Slytherin, that didn't mean he intentionally bumped into people!

[OOC: Aaand that was a bit long. ::dies:: I would say actually give me one more tag to have Alby (try to) fight back a bit; so maybe have your first tag where Scorpius notices that Alby's being bullied and approaches, but doesn't do anything just yet?]