Chapter 5: Did you really do that?
Mira sat down next to Lupin. "What needs to be sorted out?" he asked.
"I'll tell you after dinner," she mumbled.
"So, what have you been doing with yourself, young Mira?" growled Moody, taking a seat across from Mira and Lupin.
"Oh, a bit of this and a bit of that," she replied. "Learning how to defend myself properly against the Dark Arts and helping people all over the world."
"Sounds like something Gilderoy Lockhart has been claiming he did."
"Except I've really been doing what I say I've been doing, I didn't do it for the fame and I'm not stuck in St Mungo's without my memory."
Moody, Lupin and Mira laughed.
"But I will admit he did approach me once. This was a few years ago, now. He's just had his first book published. I was mildly interested in what he'd done, so I read his book. I'll admit I was impressed. If he'd really done most of the things in that book, I thought he'd be a powerful wizard, indeed. And then I met him. Soon after the book had been published, he wasn't that well-known, he approached me. I knew when I first lay eyes on him, he didn't do all that stuff he'd said he'd done. No way in the world. A muggle would have had an easier time trying to convince me.
"Anyway, he came up to me and tried to tell me he was a reporter, doing an article on something I'd done. Well, I refused to tell him anything and told him I was going to give him three seconds to leave before I cursed him into next week. He was gone before I got to two and I never saw him again."
Moody and Lupin laughed even more. Fred and George came over. "We've heard you've fought werewolves and Dark wizards and curses and everything," said Fred.
"Have you really done even a quarter of what people say you've done?" asked George.
"It's highly likely that all the stories that people have been saying, that are true, aren't even a quarter of what I've done," she said to a mesmerised Fred and George. "And there's also another quarter that I'm not allowed to tell anyone about."
"How can you do so much?"
"I never spend more than three months in any one place at any one time, and I've been travelling for 15 years. And I'm usually doing more than one case. So I've been around the world several times over the years."
The twins were awestruck. Moody looked impressed. Remus looked proud, but sad.
"Ginny! Ron! Set the table, please, dinner's almost ready," said Molly. "Fred, George, can you please put this pot on the table without using any magic!"
After Ron and Ginny had set the table, and the food had been put on the table, everyone tucked in.
Mira sat down next to Lupin. "What needs to be sorted out?" he asked.
"I'll tell you after dinner," she mumbled.
"So, what have you been doing with yourself, young Mira?" growled Moody, taking a seat across from Mira and Lupin.
"Oh, a bit of this and a bit of that," she replied. "Learning how to defend myself properly against the Dark Arts and helping people all over the world."
"Sounds like something Gilderoy Lockhart has been claiming he did."
"Except I've really been doing what I say I've been doing, I didn't do it for the fame and I'm not stuck in St Mungo's without my memory."
Moody, Lupin and Mira laughed.
"But I will admit he did approach me once. This was a few years ago, now. He's just had his first book published. I was mildly interested in what he'd done, so I read his book. I'll admit I was impressed. If he'd really done most of the things in that book, I thought he'd be a powerful wizard, indeed. And then I met him. Soon after the book had been published, he wasn't that well-known, he approached me. I knew when I first lay eyes on him, he didn't do all that stuff he'd said he'd done. No way in the world. A muggle would have had an easier time trying to convince me.
"Anyway, he came up to me and tried to tell me he was a reporter, doing an article on something I'd done. Well, I refused to tell him anything and told him I was going to give him three seconds to leave before I cursed him into next week. He was gone before I got to two and I never saw him again."
Moody and Lupin laughed even more. Fred and George came over. "We've heard you've fought werewolves and Dark wizards and curses and everything," said Fred.
"Have you really done even a quarter of what people say you've done?" asked George.
"It's highly likely that all the stories that people have been saying, that are true, aren't even a quarter of what I've done," she said to a mesmerised Fred and George. "And there's also another quarter that I'm not allowed to tell anyone about."
"How can you do so much?"
"I never spend more than three months in any one place at any one time, and I've been travelling for 15 years. And I'm usually doing more than one case. So I've been around the world several times over the years."
The twins were awestruck. Moody looked impressed. Remus looked proud, but sad.
"Ginny! Ron! Set the table, please, dinner's almost ready," said Molly. "Fred, George, can you please put this pot on the table without using any magic!"
After Ron and Ginny had set the table, and the food had been put on the table, everyone tucked in.