A sad laugh escapes Scorpius" mouth. "My theory is that it's all just to keep us from telling anyone about this bloody Curse," he says unhappily. "And that probably would have worked if it hadn't been for this war - you'd have stayed with Harry, wouldn't you? And if I hadn't known about our Curse, Albus wouldn't have suspected anything. We wouldn't have had any problems with it, we'd have happily continued to fail all our classes and eventually... worked in Mum's apothecary."