Author's Note: I really enjoyed writing this.
Raise Witch or Wizard Challenge: Month 4 (second check-up): You pay another visit to the Healer. This is either a standard check-up, or to make sure nothing more has gone wrong. (If you chose in month 2…)
COMPLICATIONS: You're grateful to learn that the complication isn't as serious as the Healer had originally thought. Your child can continue living a fairly normal life. What is the complication? (Choose one)
. Deformed foot. They may struggle walking in their first few years, but there's nothing a bit of magic can't fix. Write about the Greengrasses, as many seem to think they were sitting on the fence.
Hogwarts Assignment: Charms: Write about someone who is closed off emotionally. (300) EP: Hermione Granger
Disclaimer: I don't own anything that you recognise!
Family Dinner
As Rose glanced around the room she felt her mood shift from the warmth of affection to the cold, closed off sick feeling caused by anxious worry that made Rose feel uncomfortable in her own skin. It was as if the battle lines had been drawn in the comfortable sitting room. Rose had never been ashamed at the size of her house, but as she glanced at the groups of females milling on either side of the room she was struck by just how small the room was.
On the left sat her dear mother, Hermione, with her both of her grandmothers: Elizabeth Granger and Molly Weasley. However, on the right was Scorpius's family. His mother Astoria as well as his paternal grandmother Narcissa Malfoy and his maternal grandmother Arianna Greengrass.
Hermione and Astoria seemed to be the most civil of the bunch, perching on either side of the coffee table they engaged in polite conversation. It was not, after all, the first time they had been forced to socialize because of their children. Both ladies had a far more liberal view of the wizarding world, they understood that nothing was as black and white as it seemed and they appeared to be determined to make the best of a somewhat awkward situation.
Rose glanced up at her poor muggle grandmother, Elizabeth, who was currently talking to Molly. She had a slightly guarded, slightly bemused look on her face as she talked to the witch and appeared to be a little lost in the whole situation. Rose couldn't say she blamed her, what with the daggers Molly occasionally shot in the direction of Narcissa.
It was a difficult situation for everyone involved really, especially due to the past between the Malfoy and Weasley families. It was true that Narcissa had betrayed Voldemort in the last, saving both her uncle Harry's and everyone else in this room's lives in the process but there was always going to be the small matter that Molly had killed Narcissa's sister Bellatrix.
Rose had obviously never met the woman, but she had heard many an awful story not the least from her own mother but it was a tension that never really left. Which meant that both of her paternal grandmothers were forever going to hate each other.
That only left one person in the room that Rose didn't really know what to make of. Arianna Greengrass listened, nodding, as Narcissa spoke quickly and quietly at her. The Greengrass family had not featured in many of the stories she had heard about the darker times in wizarding history. In fact, bar the mentions of Astoria's sister Daphne, she had heard nothing at all and really only knew that they were a pure blooded family. In all the time Rose had known this woman she had never seen the woman show more than a flicker of emotion. She did not smile broadly or look tenderly, she did not frown or raise her voice above that of a measured tone. There was no way of knowing what she was really thinking and that unnerved Rose slightly.
Rose worried her tea cup as she considered the various personalities at work in the room and all the ways in which everything could go horribly wrong. For a second she drew to mind her errant husband who had promised to be here to help her deal with both sides of the family but who had suddenly had a hundred things he needed to do instead.
She shook her head, and chuckled quietly to herself watching the tea swirl in her cup. One had stroked her pregnant stomach as she thought of the little family blossoming around her and for a second it seemed like nothing else would really matter.
It was then that she noticed the rest of the room had fallen silent and Rose looked up feeling more than a little self-conscious. Every eye in the room was on her and Rose was shocked by the affectionate smiles that played on the lips of every woman as they watched her.
Perhaps there were bonds that united even the most estranged of women.
Please leave a review!
Much Love, MaryandMerlin x