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the_other_albus (the_other_albus) wrote in hogwarts_dawn,

"It's all been red instead of blue, um, lately," he mumbled, going with the metaphor. "But, I mean, I'm coping. It's not like there's, there's much I can do to, um, change it." He wasn't surprised when he was compared to Aunt Hermione. It wasn't the first time by any stretch. She was the one to teach him how to color code in the first place. "But, I think I'd like teaching. It's, you know, a plan. Lessons, being prepared. That stuff. But, um I don't have to teach either. I just, I couldn't think of anything else to do. I do experimental magic. Not much call for that now."

He hadn't even realized he'd called him Dad. There was Scorpius' answer, he supposed. But it felt right, and it clearly made Harry happy. That was all Al had ever really wanted.

"I don't know what happened either," he said softly. "Scorpius, um, thinks you just needed some Slytherins in your life to, uh, see that it's not so bad." But the Slytherin thing had only ever been the tip of the iceberg, really. "I think, though, that, um, the Slytherin thing, it was just kind of a, um, excuse. A reason to be, um, dissapointed. Distant. I've been thinking about it a lot, lately. Really. I don't know about Mum but, um, I think you were just unhappy. With us, with your life, with everything. You were unhappy, for whatever, whatever reason. So you drank. And you worked. And you dissapproved from a, uh, distance. But, that doesn't matter anymore. Cause, you're not him and, uh, I don't want to make it, um, weird but, you seem happy. Happier than I've ever, ever seen you. And it's good. Our lives before, our family, you and, and Mum... We were messy. It's different now. So, I want to call you Dad, and I want us to be, close. If we can. It's all I ever wanted. But, I don't expect you to be him, either. And I'll try my best not to, to put my feelings for him on you." Al took a deep breath. That was probably the longest thing he'd said to anyone, even Scorpius, in ages. "And yeah, I'll let someone know, about the village. Clues. Stuff."