Title: Meet the McGonagalls
Summary: Elphinstone meets Minerva's parents
Rating: T+
WC: 504
Notes:
Written for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry (Challenges and Assignments) – Transfiguration
Task: Write about a person who unnecessarily worries too much about a certain situation that turns out fine in the end.
Extra Prompts: (scenario) meet the parents, (action) giggle
Slightly AU!
It was now time for Elphinstone Urquhart to meet his girlfriend's family. He's met the parents of his other girlfriends but those were just flings. Minerva McGonagall was his one true love. He's been in love with her for years.
"Elphinstone?"
He turned to his beloved Min.
"You nervous?" Minerva asked.
"I am. I can't remember the last time I was this nervous," Elphinstone said.
"I'm sure my parents will love you."
He hoped she was right. They apparated to her parents house in Scotland. They had to apparate to a dark alleyway.
"Hello dear," Isobel greeted her daughter.
"Hello mum, this is my boyfriend Elphinstone."
Isobel turned to man and immediately noticed how much older he looked than her daughter.
"It's nice to meet you, Mrs. McGonagall," Elphinstone greeted kissing Isobel's hand.
She couldn't help but giggle.
"There you are, my dear," Robert McGonagall Sr. greeted his daughter coming up behind his wife.
Minerva greeted her beloved father. There was more than a resemblance between the father and daughter. There was no trace of Ross blood in her she was all McGonagall. Though her younger brothers took more after their mother's side. Actually, she's had one younger brother for about two years now since Robert Jr. was killed in 1980.
The father and daughter separated. "Dad, this is my boyfriend Elphinstone."
He turned to the older man. "Nice to meet you."
"You too, sir."
Isobel invited them in and gave them some tea.
"So, you know each other from the Ministry?" Isobel asked.
Elphinstone nodded.
"I know my husband is dying to know how old you are."
Elphinstone gulped nervously as he fiddled with his collar.
Minerva took his free hand. "I'm a grown woman, dad."
"I know, my dear."
"I've been in love with your daughter since I first saw her," Elphinstone said under the slightly judgemental gaze of the McGonagall patriarch.
"How old are you?"
"I'll be sixty in December," Elphinstone admitted.
"60!"
"That's only a thirteen year age difference, dad."
"I know but it's still a lot."
Minerva glared at her father. "If I was a boy, you wouldn't care so much."
"You might be a grown woman but you'll always be my little girl, Min."
Minerva blushed.
"I really care about Minerva."
Isobel said. "I know you do. Robert is just protective."
"I can understand that."
"You promise not to hurt my daughter?"
Minerva said. "If Elphinstone hurts me, he knows he'll be hexed into oblivion."
That made the McGonagall patriarch feel a bit better. Though, it was rather hard to get a gun in the U.K.
The couples continued eating their dinner. Minerva and Elphinstone left and apparated back to Minerva's flat.
"It was rough at the first but I don't think I had a reason to be nervous. I can see who you take after."
Minerva smiled softly.
"Your mum seemed to like me."
"Yes, she did. Though she was the same way when Malcolm brought home his current wife Marjorie."
That made Elphinstone feel better.