[Despite his young age, Scorpius recognizes him immediately. Abraxas Malfoy being around always made Scorpius want to straighten his spine when he was only a portrait, and unsurprisingly, seeing him in person is no different.
He'd never seen his portrait seem so surprised by anything, though. Or anything even close to this amount of emotion. Of course, that's not the strangest thing about suddenly running into his great-grandfather as a young man with no warning, but it registers somewhere on the rapidly growing list of "things that are weird about today".]
Uh-- Scorpius! And I'm not--
[Wait that's a good out, isn't it? He should just go with that distant cousin thing.]
I mean-- Sorry, you wouldn't happen to have a copy of today's Prophet, would you?
[First rule of surprise time travel: find out when you are]
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He'd never seen his portrait seem so surprised by anything, though. Or anything even close to this amount of emotion. Of course, that's not the strangest thing about suddenly running into his great-grandfather as a young man with no warning, but it registers somewhere on the rapidly growing list of "things that are weird about today".]
Uh-- Scorpius! And I'm not--
[Wait that's a good out, isn't it? He should just go with that distant cousin thing.]
I mean-- Sorry, you wouldn't happen to have a copy of today's Prophet, would you?
[First rule of surprise time travel: find out when you are]