Layne Abeley

"Now children the plane is about to land in London. Please stay close. We don't want you getting lost in a sea of muggles," Layne and Chris Abeley's mother said to her two children. She wasn't really worried about someone hearing her use the term muggle. Muggles are typically to self-absorbed in their own lives to notice anyways.

Layne is pretty sure that she might be a part of the only wizarding family that chooses to take muggle transportation when traveling. Her dad is obsessed with all things muggle. He even works in the Misuse of Muggle Artefacts department in the American Ministry of Magic. He always tells them that even though a portkey or a floo network would be quicker, it is important for them to understand the muggle lifestyle. Layne doesn't mind humoring her father, but her brother on the other hand could not be any less thrilled about flying in a muggle airplane. He was currently sitting next to Layne with his arms crossed over his black shirt with a sulky look on his face.

"Are you excited to go back to Hogwarts?" Layne asked trying to have a conversation with her brother. He shrugged his shoulders.

He isn't always like this, but he is always in a bad mood when their father makes them participate in a muggle activity.

"What house do you think I'll be in? Dad was a Ravenclaw, but mom was a Hufflepuff and you're in Slytherin. Maybe I'll be in Gryffindor so that we will be able to represent every house in our home," Layne said.

"You aren't arrogant enough to be a Gryffindor," he muttered.

Layne shrugged. She could see herself being a Gryffindor because she was bold and brave, but she could also see herself in Ravenclaw because she was intelligent and witty. She figures that she will let the hat make the decision. The hat does know best. Layne never thought that her brother would be a Slytherin because she knows that any wizard that went dark was in Slytherin, but her brother explained that not every Slytherin goes dark and him being sorted there was because he was cunning and ambitious which Layne knows is very true.

Layne and Chris sat in silence until the plane landed and once the seatbelt light turned off Layne began to stand up, but as she was standing up Chris grabbed her arm and pulled her down.

"Look Layne when we go to Diagon Alley you are going to see a lot of my friends and I just want to make sure you don't tell them too much about our dad's obsession with muggles," he said quietly enough so only Layne would hear. Layne looked at her father and saw that he wasn't even paying attention to them. He was just looking around at all the muggles in fascination.

"What do you mean?" Layne asked. Chris glanced around.

"Look the American wizards at Hogwarts are polite enough to keep quiet about it, but everyone else...lets just say that everybody at Hogwarts wouldn't be able to understand dad's profession. In fact one of the employees in the British Ministry's Misuse of Muggle Artefact department has a couple kids at the school and their family is the butt of jokes constantly in the Slytherin common room and I don't want them talking about dad in that way," he explained quickly.

Layne looked at him with wide eyes. If these people were his friends, then why would they care about what their dad did?

"You're embarrassed of dad?" Layne asked. Chris put a finger up to his mouth to quiet Layne down.

"No of course not. I just don't want people bad talking him because of his weird obsession," Chris explained before standing up and getting ready to exit the plane. Layne followed, but was still in shock. She knew Chris was annoyed by dad's obsession, but she never thought he would actually be embarrassed by him.

Layne knew at that moment that she wanted to be in a house that wouldn't care about what her parents did for a living which means she knew that she definitely did not want to be in Slytherin.

I know it is short, but I just wanted you to get a small look at the Abeley family. The next couple chapters will be in Diagon Alley and should be longer so stay tuned!