In fandom, Scorbus, also known as Albus Potter/Scorpius Malfoy, is the pairing of the fictional characters Albus Severus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy, major characters in the 2016 play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child from the Harry Potter franchise. It is a form of shipping. The two characters were initially only friends canonically. A later revision to the play following accusations of queerbaiting made their relationship more explicitly romantic.

The play revolves around the relationship between the two characters, who are 11 when the play begins and 15 by the end. Albus is the son of Harry Potter while Scorpius is the son of Harry's enemy Draco Malfoy. The two first meet on the train to Hogwarts, where Albus and Rose Granger-Weasley find Scorpius sitting alone in a compartment. Albus offers to sit with him while Rose avoids Scorpius due to him being the son of Draco. They are later both sorted into Slytherin. As the years pass, Albus struggles with being unpopular and Scorpius, who suffers from rumours implicating him as the son of Lord Voldemort, is the only person in whom he can confide. When Albus hugs Scorpius, the latter states: "Hello. Um. Have we hugged before? Do we hug?" After Albus returns from his first time-travelling trip with Scorpius injured, Harry tells him to stay away from the latter. Albus refuses to do so, calling Scorpius his "best" and "only" friend. Harry then uses the Marauder's Map to track Albus, forcing him to avoid Scorpius. They eventually meet in the library, where Albus calls Scorpius kind to the "depths of [his] belly, to the tips of [his] fingers" and the "best" person he knows. The two hug again and smile at each other afterward.

Aja Romano of Vox writes: "In the play, the two boys are utterly devoted to each other. They exchange long, sensual hugs. They’re jealous of competing relationships and unwilling to be separated from one another." In one scene, Scorpius witnesses Albus engaged in conversation with a girl and the script notes that "part of him likes it and part of him doesn't." In another, Scorpius' love for Albus is compared by a character to that of the canonically romantic adoration character Severus Snape had for Lily Potter. However, Scorpius instead expresses romantic interest in Rose, who mildly reciprocates his advances by the end of the play.

Later in the play, Scorpius uses the time turner, accidentally altering the timeline such that Lord Voldemort kills Harry, thus causing Albus to cease to exist. In this timeline, Scorpius is "living atop a social hierarchy with considerable power and influence." However, Scorpius chooses to instead return to the original timeline. The Snape of this timeline observes that he is "giving up" his "kingdom" for Albus while Delphi Diggory tells him: "Albus needs you, Scorpius. That’s a wonderful thing…. You two — you belong together." Following Albus's return, Scorpius states that he loves the former being "all dry humour and Albus-y". In the two characters' final scene together, Scorpius tells Albus that he will ask Rose out, and that regardless of her response, it will be the "acorn that will grow into our eventual marriage". They hug again and Albus says, "What's this? I thought we decided we don’t hug?" Scorpius then says that he "wasn’t sure. Whether we should. In this new version of us I had in my head."

There are some pieces of fan fiction for the ship that predate the play by several years.

Jessica Seymour writes that the play "privileges adolescent friendship as the source and catalyst for power through a complex portrayal of the effects of friendship on a narrtive arc from beginning to end." She argues that the friendship between the two characters "pushes the narrative toward a more collaborative and supportive relationship between the demographics."

In a revision to the play's script, an expanded scene at the end depicted a conversation between Harry and Albus, in which the latter tells the former that Scorpius is the "most important" person in his life and that he might remain the most important. Harry responds by smiling and acknowledging this and expressing his support. The scene in which Albus and Scorpius talked about girlfriends was also removed.

On an argument between Albus and his father due to his inability to meet the latter's expectations, Brian Murray of the University of Pittsburgh writes that his "language is particularly reminiscent of gay, coming-out narratives, whose vernacular similarly stress an inability to change in response to parental rejection." Murray writes: "He has different experiences than those around him, particularly his family. This difference leads to Albus’ isolation from and conflict with his father, who futilely wishes his son to be different. This conflict operates the same way a queer child exists in a suffocating, heteronormative environment." He argues that the relationship between Albus and Scorpius is "deeply woven" and "builds upon and seems to correct some of the earlier, prejudicial elements", the latter point in reference to Draco having previously been depicted as a "racist, elitist bully". Gavia Baker-Whitelaw of The Daily Dot described the ship as a "next-generation twist" on Drarry, the ship between Harry and Draco. Marthe-Siobhán Hecke argues that Albus's struggles with society's and his father's expectations of him "might be interpreted as the struggle of persons trying to come to terms with their identity and specifically their sexuality.