Ok Disclaimer: Still don't own a thing either of Harry Potter or IHEF. I'm just playing and after I'm finished playing I will give them back (in a more happy and loving condition than they where) but I will give them back.

Since I'm sick I will post two chapters today so I don't have tomorrow. Tomorrow is all day long doctors appointment (bäh)

So keep in mind this is the first chapter today read it first then go to chapter 12.

Chapter 11

"Mina, are you there?" sounded a voice through the living room of Minerva's new house.

After the disaster with Albus and the not so nice comments from her mother's side she had enough, and moved to a medium sized cottage on the west coast of Scotland.

Her children loved it – it was near enough so they could visit their grandparents and far enough for Minerva to avoid them.

"MINERVA!" yelled the voice again.

Rolanda never was a patient woman, but since she had received exciting news she wanted to share with her best friend, she even had less patience than normal.

"YES!" yelled Minerva, who came out of the kitchen, drying her hands on a towel, "What can I do for you Rolanda? What do I owe this wonderful pleasure?" asked Minerva sarcastically.

"Minerva, take off the bloody charms on your fireplace, I have wonderful news I want to share with you!" Rolanda yelled.

Minerva muttered a few words and the charm was lifted. Rolanda came through, though Minerva didn't even looked at her as she vanished back into the kitchen, mumbling to herself.

All Rolanda could hear was that Minerva said something about her friend being the biggest nuisance since Gilderoy Lockhart.

"So, dear friend, what is it that you want to share with me?" asked Minerva as she levitated Rolanda and herself a cup of tea from the sideboard to the table.

Rolanda was too excited to notice the sarcasm that laced every word of her friend's sentence; she just bounced up and down on her chair.

"Oh Mina, I'm so happy, you know that I wanted to leave Alfons for good?!"

"Yes, you said something like that, but now what is the... oh, my God, you finally left that scum, oh how wonderful, I'm so happy for you, my dear!" said Minerva gushing.

Rolandas face fell, "No, Minerva, I haven't left him – we're together again. He promised that he wouldn't chase another skirt and so far he hasn't, but that is not what I wanted to tell you," said Rolanda, too happy to be long angry at her friend.

"Mina, you are going to be a aunt!" gushed Rolanda, jumping up from her chair and embracing Minerva happily without noticing that her friend was too petrified to embrace her back.

"I... I'm... you are... what?"

"Yes I'm pregnant, isn't that wonderful? Alfons and I are going to be parents in six months!" smiled Rolanda happily. "Say that you are happy for me, Mina, you are my best friend!" she begged.

"Yes, yes, of course. Oh, I'm really happy for you Landa, congratulations dear," smiled Minerva. But at the same time her heart dropped. At the moment she just couldn't be happy for her friend, as much as she tried, she just couldn't.

"Ok, I'm off to tell Poppy," she smiled and hugged her friend one last time before leaving through the Floo.

Minerva sank to her knees and began to sob into her hands. What had she done so wrong that the whole world wanted to punish her so much? First her husband left her for another woman, then she met another man and he left her because she didn't tell him on the first date that she is a mother of three children, and after said man left, her own mother told her that she is not better than a ordinary harlot, sleeping with a man she was not married to.

Minerva was heartbroken, yes she couldn't understand why her, she was always the dedicated friend, wife and mother. But somehow anything she did, turned out to be a kick to the guts. But not anymore if life wanted to be cruel, so be it, she would face it with her head held high.

With that she gathered the teacups with a spell and vanished them back into the kitchen.

Esther sat at the kitchen table with her books and calculator and doing paperwork for her three restaurants. Next to her sat Aberforth, trying to read the latest article in "Sheeps 'n' Goats, everything for the passionate breeder" – his favorite magazine.

At Esther's left side Ariana sat and tried to feed her latest pet demon, as Esther liked to call it.

The small kitten was now a full-grown fire Jaguar – and as you can tell from the name it was not an ordinary Jaguar. Everywhere it sat down it was possible that a burn mark was left on the floor.

"Ari, do you have to feed that beast at the table? I mean, what would you do if I tried to bring one of my goats into the kitchen or even tried to feed her from the table?" asked Aberforth, annoyed.

"I would like to see that, Mom would try to kill you. Don't you remember the last time you tried that stunt?" asked Ariana, sticking her tongue out to her brother.

But just as she went to pull it back into her mouth, Esther held the tip between her thumb and index finger.

"What have I told you time and time again, Ariana?"she said without looking up, "I told you to respect your older brothers and they should respect you. And I told you that if I ever catch your tongue outside your mouth without a good reason I cut it off. Do you want that?",asked her Mother and looked at her daughter over her small rimmed glasses.

"Uh-uh," was all Ariana could answer and shook her head.

"Good, now take your pet demon out of the house, and please, this time, lock its cage properly, thank you."

"Yes Mom," said Ariana and brought her Jaguar to the aviary where she held all her pets.

"ABERFORTH, A-B-E-R-F-O-R-T-H! You bloody bastard...come up here this instant.", yelled a annoyed voice through the house.

"Oh, what now, I even hadn't the time enough to annoy him! Ari, what have you done?" asked Aberforth as he tried to hide behind his mother.

At the same moment, Albus came down with Anna, Aberforth's favorite goat, which was happily munching on his most prized possession – a purple velvet candy bag, which was till this moment self refilling – a present from Esther as he got his Order of Merlin first class.

Albus was fuming, though he learned to tolerate his siblings pet choices and tried to accept them the way they where, enough was enough.

"Aberforth, take this filthy creature outside or we eat goat this evening," said Albus.

"No, not Anna, you know I love her the most! You wouldn't dare to hurt sweet little innocent Anna would you?"

"Momma, how can you be so calm, can't you reprimand him?" Aberforth turned desperately towards his mother.

"Sorry dear, but you three are old enough to deal with your problems yourselves. So leave me out of it. As long as you are here you have to accept my rules and that's it," answered Esther as she got up and walked towards her study to finish her paperwork.

Hey guys, I hope you like this chapter.

I have thing to say:

First Sorry to all of my german readers who know the show IHEF with Thekla Carola Wied.

Ich weiß es hat nicht mehr viel mit der Serie zutun aber ich habe gemerkt es ist nicht mehr möglich sich allzu sehr dran zu halten.

Es wird hier und da noch Ahnlichkeiten geben sowie Figuren aus der Serie aber ansonsten wird es nicht allzu ähnlich.

I still try to make it as close to the series as possible.

Danke für euer Verständnis.

Hugs

Lottie