"Pega ele, si perdemos ele de novo o Doniha vai matar nos.*"
"Yeah, but, at least he can't do anything till we get back home or his family will find out."
Albus Potter turned around just in time to see two boys with straw blonde hair barreling towards him and barely managed to jump out of their way.
"Oi! Watch where you're going you gits!" he shouted at their retreating backs.
One turned on his heel while the other continued on without so much as a backward glance. The first boy was just opening his mouth when Albus felt a hand connect with the back of his head. The other boy's apology was drowned out by Ginny Potter's shriek of "Albus Severus!".
Albus turned to see his mother's face flaming that famous Weasley red with indignation at his behavior. "You apologize right now or your father will hear about this young man! I cannot believe that you would say something so rude to these nice young men. These are the boys who helped you catch that horrid weasel of yours earlier. Now apologize!"
"Sorry…" mumbled Albus.
"It's fine," The boy said. "I'm sorry that we almost flattened you."
"Oh it's alright dear." Ginny answered for her son. "Though, you really ought to watch where you're going."
"Yes ma'am I'm sorry. But my brother and I Iost our owl again and if we didn't catch him our dad would kill us." He said just as his brother walked up with said owl secured in a cage. Albus was struck by how similar the two boys were, so much so that he would have thought that he was seeing double from his mother's cuff if one had not been holding on to the cage.
"Oh I can certainly relate my son, James, is always letting his owl get away, though I'm not quite sure that he does it on accident." Ginny said conspiratorially. "Oh, where are my manners? I haven't introduced myself..."
"You're Ginny Potter, wife of Harry potter, and this is your middle child Albus." the boy cut in with a knowing grin "You are quite famous after all."
"Oh I suppose so." She sputtered back "And you are?"
"Excuse me, I am Seth Cruzeiro and this is my brother João."
"Well, then, where is this father of yours? I would like to meet him and compare notes on trying to keep pets like yours where they are supposed to be." Ginny said cheerfully.
"I'm sure he would love that but, he had to take our sisters home to get their new cats settled in before we have to leave for school." Joao answered.
"In that case, Messrs. Cruzeiro, would you like to come to lunch with us? We are meeting my husband and other children, and my brother Ron's family." Ginny said warmly.
"Thank you that will be lovely." Seth answered gratefully.
" Well then follow us."
The foursome walked into the Leaky Cauldron to find it in complete chaos with hexes, dungbombs and other WWW products being slung over the upended pub tables the combatants were using as shields. Several stools and extra tables had been pushed up against the walls to create barricades behind which the few people not participating in the battle had found refuge. Two girls with flaming Weasley hair leaped from behind one such barrier and pulled Ginny back with them as the three boys were forced to dive behind a table on the other side of the entrance in order to dodge a stray jinx.
"What on earth is happening here?" Ginny had to yell to be heard over the din coming from the row.
"Not sure mom." the younger girl yelled back. "Uncle George showed up and made some wise crack about not getting an invite and then something went bang and everything went wonky."
"Of course George started it!" Ginny said exasperatedly. "Oh and Rose where is your mother?"
"Um well, about three seconds in, either Dad or Uncle Harry missed somebody and hit her with a full body bind curse, so Aunt Hannah grabbed her and took her upstairs."
"Well then I suppose, we might as well wait for Hannah to sort her, then the three of us can get handle on our husbands. That ought to fix that." Ginny said reservedly. Just then a shout rang out
"Oi, Al!"
All three boys stuck their heads out from behind their table shield just in time to receive the full force of a dungbomb in their faces. That snapped Ginny's resolve to wait for the other women.
"James! Harry! Ronald! George! Can none of you be trusted to wait for five minute without adult supervision? I swear if you don't clean this place up in the next five seconds I'll...I'll hex you so badly you will all be coughing slugs for the next two weeks!"
The din died as the fighters shrunk from Ginny's rage, each and every one of them knew she would follow through on the threat. Especially since just as it had left her lips, a very unhappy Hermione Weasley and Hannah Longbottom had appeared on the stairs. Under the collective death stares of three of the most powerful witches in the world, the combatants crawled out from behind their shields. Harry and James came out from behind one table, Bill, Louis, and Ron from another, and George and Fred from another. As soon as they had cleared the floor, Hermione and Ginny set in on their husbands, brothers and nephews. While the rest of the men were getting yelled at Neville and Hugo emerged from behind the bar.
"See Hugo, I told you we wouldn't get balled out if we stayed back there."
"Check your facts Professor." Hannah said from behind her husband and started to scream on a level to rival the other two women.
Fleur and Angelina walked in on the scene and with knowing looks fell in on their husbands and sons while their daughters stood beside the giggling Lily and Rose to laugh at their brothers and fathers' misfortune.
After about an hour the women finally exhausted themselves and allowed the children to go clean up while the men put the room back in order. Once all the tables had been replaced, and all underage participants in the battle properly grounded, they were set with a spread worthy of any Weasley family gathering.
"Ok everyone," said Harry over the mounting noise of his overly large family. "guests first, then everyone who isn't in trouble."
"So business as usual huh dad?" James said cheekily, earning himself a sharp smack to the back of his head from Ginny.