"Would you two give it a rest?!" Their mother screeched over the tooting of Magenta's owl. "You have only come back for Christmas. Christmas! It will not kill you to try and get along." Magenta ran up the stairs shooting her father a sympathetic look. "Albus! Help me with the…" Her brother stood outside her bedroom door. He had brown hair, like hers except his was curly where hers was wavy. They both had aqua blue eyes, she filled out in the right places and was quite tall. He was also tall and was working on his four-pack.
"Maj?"
"What?!"
"N-nothing." He turned around and began to walk away. Brother and sister were quite alike in looks but so different in personality. Magenta was a sixth year Gryffindor and Reffernik a fifth year Slytherin. It was strange for Magenta and her father but Saffron had explained that her brothers were extremely 'fruitful' as she had put it. All five of Saffron's brothers had died in different preventable ways. Tony and Matthew Di Angelo both died in Azkaban, three guesses why. Fabrizio, the second eldest was murdered by his criminal brother Adelchi after he found out everything was to be given to Fabrizio in his fathers will. The youngest committed suicide after he was told that his sister had married without the consent of any of her family. Reffernik was all to happy to belong to such a family. He boasted about it to his best friend, Regulus Black on a regular basis.
Magenta lay on her bed. She reread the letter which she had written to Lily and then gave it to the family owl Horus. Reffernik popped his head around her door.
"Mum wants to know if you're ready."
"What for? If it's time for dinner tell her I have already eaten."
"No, it's a wedding, funeral or some other excuse to get drunk and badmouth the ministry."
"I don't want to go." She turned away from him and began reading her book.
"What is this 'I don't want to go' about? How many times have I told you, if you want money and a good place in society you need a husband? Not the younger siblings always go for the heir. The heir gets nearly all the wealth."
"Is that all you care about? What about knowledge?"
"Hmph. Knowledge she says. Will knowledge buy you shoes? I don't think so!"
"Dad! I-don't-want-to-go."
"No Albus! This is where you spoil her. The only reason we get invited anywhere is because of my brothers. No one wants to hear about muggle rights at a banquet."
"Yes. Uncle Matthew…" Reffernik trailed of.
"Actually mum, I think dad's work is important."
"What you think doesn't matter Magenta! Now get dressed, or you will never see hogsmead again."
"But…" Reffernik smirked at her as he exited through the double doors.
"It's not fair!" She shouted at her door. Knowing how stupid she sounded, she began wishing she could bite back the words. She knew she could never win with her mother. She got up and began getting dressed. She let her long hair hang loose down her back. She exited wearing aqua blue dress robes to match her eyes and a sequined purse which she planed to use as a wepon against anyone who pissed her of. Who could have been anyone from the next door neighbors' cat to Lucius Malfoy.
"No, no, no!" Her mother attacked her hair with a wand. She had put it in a high side pony tail curled, teasing the rest of her hair into little patterns around her head. She then cut a slit from the hem of her robes to halfway up her thigh.
"MUM! I look like-like."
"You look fine!"
"You look like a Christmas tree." Reffernik muttered in her ear with a smirk. She messed up his carefully gelled hair in response.
"Magenta!"
"But he-"
"Get into the carriage! Reffernik, fix your hair. Not so much gel!" Her mother ran up the stairs shouting threats at her brother. Waking up Reffernik's pet snake that lived in the bathroom. He popped his head round the door and hissed angrily.