Have I ever said how much I love typing something out, then accidentally deleting it all? That just happened, and I felt like sharing that with all of you. Anyways, you are not here to read about my personal life, but to read the story. My apologies for the delay in an update. College is crazy. From this point forward, I am not making any real promises on when updates will occur. However, from this point forward, the order that I post the chapters in really will not have much of a logical order, just so that I can post them quicker for you to read.

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or the characters from Harry Potter. I do own Michael, since he is an OC of mine, and I do own the ideas in this story. However, Harry Potter is not mine, no matter how much I may wish that it is.

Michael Edward Bryant

Father: Nate Bryant

Mother: Camille (Cobb) Bryant

Siblings: Emmett, Dale, Alexis, Tad

Birthday: June 9, 2003

House: Slytherin

Hogwarts Class of: 2021

Patronus: Owl

Hair Color: Black

Eye Color: Gray

Blood Status: Half-Blood

Career: Hit Wizard

Spouse: Dominique Weasley

Best Friend: Cole Roark

Other Friends: Ewan Bibi, Preston Thompson

Titles: Slytherin Chaser (2018-2021)

1. He thought he had the strangest family in the world, but he loved them.

He was the oldest of five siblings. His parents were very loving. But the way that his family acted around each other always made him cringe. They didn't do "normal" family things. They threw things at each other across the dinner table. They fought over who got the last cauldron cake. They locked each other in closets. They set the house on fire once. They flushed their father's wedding ring down the toilet. The climbed up on the roof and almost hung their sister by her hair off the top. They screamed insults at each other across the buried his youngest brother in the garden—twice.

And every time that he and his siblings did something his parents didn't approve of, his parents would hide their laughs and give a somewhat stern lecture on whatever they did, but then not discipline them further. Yet somehow, all the Bryant kids ended up being relatively normal kids.

2. Out of all of his siblings, he was the most shy.

Emmett would talk to anyone who could talk back, and sometimes people who couldn't. Dale made friends with anyone who met him. Alexis never shut up. And Tad was friendly enough to hug anyone who didn't smell bad.

Yet Michael was never very good at starting conversations, much less keeping conversations going. He didn't have many friends, but the ones he did have were talkative enough for him.

3. He never really thought that he would belong in Slytherin.

Before he started Hogwarts, he thought he would be in Hufflepuff. His father had been in Ravenclaw, and his mother Slytherin. Yet Michael was shy and hadn't really found a place for himself yet. When the Sorting Hat placed him in Slytherin, he gained confidence to become his own person with his own goals and dreams, where he could make friends and grow into his skin.

4. He wasn't very smart, but he was a hard worker.

He was so jealous of the people who could pass a class with flying colors without even studying outside of class. Michael worked for his grades. He would spend nights in the library studying until Madam Pince came and tapped his shoulder, telling him that the library closed ten minutes ago. Then he would retreat to the Slytherin Common Room and find a secluded table and sit and continue to study.

Professor McGonagall told him one day that she would have made him a Prefect if she hadn't been worried about interfering with his study habits.

5. He was in love with Dominique from the moment he first saw her.

Michael knew his little crush on the first-year Weasley girl was silly. But when she had tripped and fallen on her face while walking into the Great Hall to be sorted, something told him that the little red-head was the one for him.

Most people noticed Dominique's beautiful older sister, Victoire, but the only thing that Michael saw when he looked at Victoire was the same stubborn chin that she shared with her little sister. Michael only talked to Dominique a few times while they were at Hogwarts, but it was enough to keep his love for her burning until he worked up the courage to ask her out.

6. Martha Macmillan had a huge crush on him throughout their time at Hogwarts.

He decided to go on one date with Martha during their sixth year, to try to get his mind of Dominique for a day. It didn't work, and when Martha saw him staring absentmindedly at the Weasley girl, she had gotten up from their table in the Three Broomsticks and stormed out of the pub. As Michael stood up to follow Martha out, he and Dominique briefly made eye-contact, and she gave him a small smile.

After that date, Michael declared himself officially in love with Dominique Weasley.

7. He considers the night that he ran into Dominique at the Leaky Cauldron the luckiest night of his life.

Michael doesn't know how he ever mustered the courage to actually go sit by Dominique when he saw her sipping the butterbeer, but he is so glad that he somehow managed to get to know her.

8. He loved the Weasley's.

At first he was nervous when Dominique asked him to come with her to Sunday dinner at the Burrow. He knew that the Weasley's were a stereotypical Gryffindor family, and he was sure that they would all hate him because he was a Slytherin. The Weasley's, however, welcomed him with open arms. And they reminded him a little bit of his own crazy family. He loved it.

9. He only wanted one child, as did Dominique.

However, when Michael and Dominique found out that they were having twins, the couple couldn't have been happier. Eliza and Justin were born healthy and to parents who loved them very much. Eliza looked very much like her mother, with red hair, except she had her father's eyes. Justin was the opposite, with his father's dark black hair and mother's blue eyes. Dominique and Michael joked that their children were "a perfect combination."

10. He never planned on dying before he saw his children start Hogwarts.

It was a late night, and he was on a mission, once again. Dominique was home with the five-year-old twins, who by the current time were probably already asleep. Michael and his partner, Dillon, were staked out outside a bar waiting for a wizard who had been known for some uses of the Unforgivable Curses to come out so that they could arrest him quietly.

Eventually, Michael and Dillon heard a loud noise from inside the bar, and rushed in together to figure out what the noise was. A fight had broken out among several of the wizards in the bar, and they had begun a fist fight. As Michael and Dillon flashed their Hit-Wizard badges, the man they had been waiting to arrest began firing curses at them. Michael and Dillon were both hit by curses. Dillon, who had only been inured managed to kill the man, only to realize that his partner lay next to him, on the verge of dying. Michael's last words that he whispered to Dillon were, "Tell Dominiqe to keep her promise."

Michael had made his wife promise when their twins were born that if anything ever happened to him in his job as a Hit-Wizard, that she would still be a wonderful mother to Eliza and Justin, even if she didn't have her husband to help her. Dominique kept her promise.

Thank you so much for reading! Sorry for the somewhat sad ending of this chapter. No one has a life that's completely happy, and I felt like this ending really fit Dominique and Michael. Shout-out to Kyrians Mind, myhorserockyrocks, and jennyellen for their reviews for the last chapter! I love getting reviews, as does everyone else on the planet. Thanks again for reading! :)