Draco's eyes widened as he finished the written words and he couldn't truly believe it, His father became known to one of the most kindest person he's never met and in his mind, it seemed so impossible for a person like that to even exist, was it possible for such a kind person to exist?
He flipped to the next page as he was now curious for more about the unknown woman.
December 24th 1971
When everyone got to the platform 9 3/4, Sam met up with a surprise...her brother Lucian picked them up! Her brother was always away as he was always serving abroad.
"Lucian!" She squealed as she ran up to her tall and lean brother and hugged him tightly. He had his father's exact image, except his hair, blonde like his mother's. He smiled as he returned her hug, almost lifting her up.
"How have you been?" He asked her with a huge smile on his face, releasing her from the hug.
"Magnifiqué!" She replied happily as James, Remus, Sirius and Peter stood behind her, "Oh, Lucian! I forgot, these are my friends from the same house. Remus Lupin, James Potter, Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew!"
"Nice to meet you guys." Lucian smiled and shook their hands and then leveled with his sister's height and whispered, "They are pranksters too right?"
"Yes they are!"
"Well that is great!" Lucian clapped his hands toghter and grinned evily, "We now have a way to prank that ghastly guy from the other street who called me "assdung"!"
"I like him already!" James exclaimed, grinning as the others released a smirk. They are going to like this Christmas together.
"Come on now, Harold is waiting on us and you know he likes to keep schedule right." Lucian said as they nodded and left thw platform.
When they got out, it was a muggle car, a limo to be exact. Samantha smiled as Sirius and James stared at it in awe. "First time in a muggle car?" Both nodded and were escorted inside and every inch of the car, they looked in awe while the others just conversed.
They sat in and smiled as then their muggle driver, Harold, drove out slowly into the big English estate. All eyes (except Sam and her brother) widenes and looked at Sam.
"My famous grandfather is also a earl." Sam smiled, "This is my home."
"Well, technically it's mine." Lucian joked earning a light punch from his sister. The garden was still greenish despite the snow. It was a sort of winter summer land. Flowers filled with beautiful color
"You still don't seat as the Earl, dear brother!"
"Did you grow up here?" Peter asked as she shook her head.
"I usually was here only holiday, despite not speaking perfect English, because everyone spoke Latin." She admitted, "But some the fondest of memories I had were here."
"Do you miss France?" Remus asked her as she nodded, her brother going in.
"My home in France was near a lake, we always went there when we were younger." Samantha smiled, "I miss it but... This is my home now and so far, it's good."
They finally went inside and saw how normal here house was but sure, they had magical items and house elves but muggle, they did things like normal people because they were very close with muggles and since their family was prominent in muggle and magic terms, they had to balance both.
"My father and mother are out, they had to attend a party but they'll be home soon." Sam informed them as they walked through the portrait hall, "My mother went nuts with making your rooms but I stopped her before she let it be crazy."
They then stopped by a red door and she smiled, "Boys, welcome to your rooms."
It was a very very very huge room. Four separate big king sized beds decorated with their own tastes and of course, Gryffindor banners around the room. There were bookshelves on the wall in the shape of a lion as books and comic books filled them. There were paintings and a long table with their names carved in chairs. Their luggage was already in the closets and everything was strictly fixed and amazingly, clean. Hell, there was even a Qudditch set and brooms on the side for them to practice the sport.
"This is bloody amazing!" Sirius spoke excitedly as he ran to his beautifully made bed as James went to the Qudditch set and Peter went to the comic books. Remus smiled as he took out a book from lion shaped bookshelf.
"There's even a bathroom jacuzzi there." Sam grinned as the boys cheered.
"Your house is just brilliant!" Peter happily said.
"So, is Qudditch popular in France?" James asked the brunette who shook his head. He frowned, "Why not?"
"Qudditch is a growing sport...since we beat Italy for the World Cup last year!" She replied enthusiastically, "We fortunately are more loving of Liberté! It's like Qudditch only we don't have seven players, we have five. Two Chassê, A Gardien and two Attaquant!"
"How do you play that?" Sirius questioned her as she smiled.
"Well, there is one hoop at two ends for the two teams. Now, a Chassê chases the Attaquant and make sure they don't get the round ball called Fragelité into their base hoop and a Gardien keeps the balls out the hoop. It is quite brilliant."
"Maybe we should play it soon!" Remus smiled as he looked up from his book. Sirius nodded at him and grinned.
"Probably in the summer!" Sam smiled at them, "But right now, let us enjoy the Christmas break."
"Buutt I want to play it!" James sighed as he let out a pout.
"Then take them to the bunker, we can level it up." A familiar voice rang out and Sam looked up and smiled widely, there stood her father, Stefan Antonius Middleford. She ran up to him and hugged him widely as he hugged her back,"How was Hogwarts? Was it as fun as it use to be?"
"Yes! It has changed slightly in staff,"Samantha mentions as Dumbledore, who was her father's teacher in Transfiguration when he studied there, was now Hogwarts' Headmaster.
"I know and I am pleased with it." He admitted as he grinned, "So here are the boys! Tell me, do you enjoy pranking? I would like nothing more than to prank my butler Fletcher but it would angry the missus-"
"Do not be such a bad influence on them, Stefan!" A strong French accent erupted and there stood Frances Maximilliné Middleford (nee Aurélie) as she crossed her arms staring at her husband and looked at the boys and smiled, "Not that I blame you boys!" And she then saw her daughter and beamed happily and tackled her daughter into a hug, "Hebe! My daughter!"
The boys snorted as Stefan smirked with them at Samantha's nickname.
"My, I better go help in the kitchen!" Frances smiled as she left the room and the boys bursted in laughter.
"Awww! Looks like we have another nickname for our little girl!" Teased Sirius as Sam rolled her eyes, "Little Hebe!"
"Yeah!" James grinned with Remus as Sam glared at them now, "Hebe will be our calling for you from now on!"
"Ugh! It's bad enough my mother calls me by my secondary name which makes my name sound icky!" Sam sighed sadly, "I mean my brother has a better secondary name! It's Marcellus!"
"That would be because I'm hot, awesome and no one can resist this." Lucian smirked as he said this. Samantha's look could have earned a nice award. She looked at her brother in disgust and just shook her head in playful disappointment.
"I'm sorry but that was a very bad joke." Sam responded as her brother rolled his eyes. "So I heard from a little bird you planned to propose to Herthia Sommestöme?"
Lucian frowned and groaned, "Dad!"
"I couldn't help not telling anyone!" Stefan sighed, "If I told your mother, she would have not shut up about it."
"Don't worry, your secret is safe with me!" Sam assured eerily, "But show me the ring!"
"Fine.." Lucian took a small heartshape red velvet box and handed it to his little sister, who excitedly opened it and stared at it in awe. "Dad gave it to me as my first inheritance...It's Maman Gertrude's ring...She and Papa Richârd have been together for sixty-nine and a half years...she wanted me to have it to propose to Herthia."
Gertruds and Richârd Aurélie were both magic geniuses that respected the ideals of supporting muggles and half bloods despite being pure-bloods themselves and passed on the muggle ideas to his daughter who showed it to Stefan and opened his eyes. Sam loved them so much and missed them.
"Are they visiting us?" Sam asked hopefully as Lucian nodded.
"Just before the New Years." Lucian smiled, "Maman Gertrude is healing vastly."
"That is so good to here!" Sam smiled delighted.
"Sam! You have visitor!"
"Who is it, Maman?" Samantha exited the room, being followed by the four boys through the gigantic staircase made of pillars of marble. The sight of a boy with those eyes she had always known, "Oh my Merlin!"
"Bonjour, Sammie!" A familiar voice rang as Sam hurriedly ran down the stairs and saw him: Leurant.
"Mon ami!" She chuckled as she hugged him tight, "It's been so long!"
"Months away from a bear hug is quite crappy." Leurant chuckles as he reluctantly returned the hug as he saw her new found friends followed. "Three cancelled flights and well, could have walked here faster."
"Oh, uh..Leurant. These are my new friends! James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew. Guys, this is Leurant de Trossuê, my best friend!"
The boys admit, he was handsome. He has brown hair and these amazing brownish eyes that give you this amazing feel. Samantha smiled as Leurant put his hand out to shake their hands.
"Nice to meet you all!" He grinned at them as the reluctantly shook his hand. "Samantha's wrote a lot about you."
"I hope nice ones." Sirius glanced at the two fluent French speakers before him as they whispered to each other.
"She said you were nice guys." Leurant spoke with a smile. "Told me you also love pranking. You should know that this girl right here almost got expelled for blowing up the toilet in the headmaster's office and then blew up fireworks all over the schools."
She smiled widely as she nudged him, "I wasn't alone in that. You helped by sacrificing that good strawberry pie in that douche of a professor named Rowena Fratwat."
"Ugh, I hated her." Leurant frowned, making a face, "She gave me a T in the longest essay I made about the Fairy Revolution."
"Yeah and she also gave me a D in my essay about magical beasts." Sam sighed, "Have you gotten to do that elaborate prank that we planned so she would resign?"
"Well..." Leurant bit his lip excitedly, "She resign! I had to TP her whole house and then exploded dung bombs everywhere!"
"Yes! I am so proud of you!" Sam grinned as she rang a bell and called for the butler and Gregory came down as Sam said, "Lead Master Leurant to his rooms."
Leurant left and the boys looked at her and she raised a brow, "What?"
"You like him don't you?" Remus teased as Sam playfully rolled her eyes.
"He's my best friend, I've known him since I was five. Of course I like him...as a brother." Sirius stared at her as he tried to find reassurance on that. "I can't love him that way..he has to marry someone else soon as he graduates Saint Jeanne."
"He can't marry someone he doesn't loves!" James spat out, "That's life suicide!"
"Well, he accepted that." Samantha sighed, "He already agreed."
"M-mistress Samantha!" A house elf waled up to her and she went to him as he held three boxes. "These arrived for you!"
"Oh, thank you!" Samantha smiled and hugged him, surprising him as he probably never received hugs before. She then took it and placed it under the tall Christmas tree. The staff of the house just started to decorate the house with Christmas decorations. It was three days into Christmas and with all the business they had to do, they didn't have the time to even plan Christmas decorating.
"This two presents are from my cousins." Sirius recognized as he knelt down to the tree, "This is... Green. Who's it from?"
"There's a letter." Remus spoke as he handed it to Samantha.
"Oh...it's from Malfoy." Samantha smiled as she opened the envelope. "He sent me a present."
"You're on friendly terms with a guy who insulted you?" Peter frowned along with the boys, "Samantha that's not good!"
"Guys. He apologized to me." Sam spoke as she looked up from the letter. "And anyone capable of asking for my forgive is capable of a second chance. Now, before we create a fight about this small thing, let's go and do something nice."
That very night, the four along with the Elder Middleford child and Leurant started to use the muggle invention, called the Telephone, to prank other people around the house.
"Shh, it's ringing!"Lucian snapped to them ghostly, causing them to nod and handing it to Sirius Black, "Here, try it! Just speak clearly and it'll be good."
Sirius took the phone, placing it upon his ear, "Hello?" asked the person in the other line.
"Hey, uh, my name is Quilt Lobertsface, um, yeah I heard you sell vagina pictures?" He looked at the people around him cracking up already as he tried not to laugh as well.
"What the bloody hell-" And with that he hang up, Sirius started chuckling so hard, he fell upon the floor.
"That was good!" Samantha said, trying to stop her chuckling from ruining her words.
"That was so bloody embarassing!" He complained as Lucian patted his shoulders.
"Yeah, but you know what? I'm proud of you for saying that." Lucian shook his head proudly, wiping his fake tears, "You are my favorite now!"
"Hey, I thought I was your favorite!"Leurant and Samantha cried, looking at each other, "No, I'm his favorite!"
"Ha! I feel so popular now!" Lucian grinned, seeing the two fight over him and whispered to Sirius' ear. "Yeah, you're my favorite."