part i. the dreaming cynic / part ii. the cynical dreamer    Scorpius was a dreamer first

part i. the dreaming cynic / part ii. the cynical dreamer    Scorpius was a dreamer first and an entrepreneur second. Don’t tell his father.     Malfoy & Co. was the biggest British conglomerate of the new millennium, making its fortune absorbing businesses and homogenizing the market i.e. taking other people’s ideas and marketing it better. Wizards had been slow to adopt mass production of specialized wares, and Father had been the first to capitalize on manufacturing via duplication. Scorpius couldn’t reconcile that young pioneer with the rigid executive of today, but whenever he asked about the past, Mother would snap at him to be quiet. They didn’t talk about the war in this house.     “Innovation isn’t always profitable. Internally, rarely, and you have to find the right moment,” his father said when he was in good enough mood to humor his son. “Put the same time and money into doing what we already do best and we’d make ten times the amount easy. Don’t underestimate the fear of change; let some upstart test the waters. Imagine what a blunder would do to our reputation, to our investors. You can’t untarnish a name.”     Said the man who had done the very thing.     Scorpius had wised up to his father’s roundaboutness long ago: it would never be the right moment. But he couldn’t wait. He’d seen the Muggles. They’d gone to the moon and beyond. They had ways to talk to anyone, anywhere in the world—sometimes, even the whole world at once—while wizards were still communicating through methods that left a mess on the Great Hall table. Wizards needed to look at the Muggles, he wanted to say, but he wouldn’t dare bring up such a topic after the last time he tried.     Unfortunately, he didn’t know what Malfoy & Co. could actually do; he was shit at ideas. He liked the idea of ideas. One couldn’t fail at an idea when it hadn’t come to fruition yet. It was the wide-open possibility—the impossibility of them—of proving his father wrong. Impossible only meant it wasn’t yet possible.    Sixth year, it became possible.[ ficlets by hpedit - the next gen capersverse ] -- source link

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