"Charlie, you need to come home. Don't argue with me about it just do it and come home. Mum needs you, we need you, please Charlie. Love you!" Charlie and his wife watched as the letter burst into flames and his sister, Ginny's voice disappeared from the kitchen. He stared at her across the table, fork paused on the way to his mouth, juicy bacon and sausage dangling from it. Ravenna was feeding a bottle to their daughter, Julianne and their son Artair, cried as the flames flashed.
"Charlie. It sounds serious you should go. Be with your family. I can stay and care for the children." Ravenna said calmly as Charlie burst out of his reverie.
"No, if we go, we go together. We've kept our marriage quiet long enough." Charlie said finishing his breakfast and running a hand through his thick red hair. Ravenna smiled, they were such a contrasting family. Her with her black hair, like her father's and her mother's green eyes and then him, with his ginger-red hair and his hazel ones and then their 2 year old son with his hazel eyes and her black hair and then their daughter, a red head with sparkling emerald eyes that saw everything.
Ravenna had been lucky when she had found Charlie that first day on the Hogwarts Express when they had been 11. He had been accepting and had rescued her from bullies whose names she hadn't even known then. They had been being cruel about her beloved father, a man she had always known was innocent of the crime he had been accused of and sent to Azkaban for. She had been happy when her Uncle James' son, Harry had found him and found out the truth and rescued him. Although Harry hadn't known that, he still didn't know, nor did he know that she had been the one to raise the alarm to Severus Snape and Dumbledore as to the deaths of James and Lily Potter. She doubted he would ever know that 'The Raven' had saved his life.
She was tugged from her memories as her daughter, a babe of 6 months, pulled away from her bottle and yawned. Ravenna placed her over her shoulder and burped her as Charlie finished feeding Artair. It was odd how they had named their son 'Artair' the Scottish form of 'Arthur' when Ravenna didn't know her Scottish parentage, her mother had abandoned her on the steps of Grimmauld Place with a note to Sirius that she was his daughter and that she needed a home. She knew her mother had been a witch with green eyes as her father had told her as much when she had asked as she grew up. She had been given her mother's name as her middle name 'Alexina' but it still didn't explain her draw to Scottish names or to that side of her family. In truth the only family she had ever known was the Order of the Phoenix and her father. More so the Order as she had grown up. She didn't know how her mother could have given up her baby, she could never have given Artair or Julianne up she loved them too much and she loved Charlie too much too.
In fact she hadn't been afraid of becoming a mother at 24 unlike her own mother had she had relished in it, Charlie, her true love had even married her as soon as he found out but now 2 years later, she had a feeling that her happy equilibrium was soon to be scuppered. A war was coming, and no one knew how to stop it.