Chapter 6: Meeting the Parents
"Scourgify." Jersey said, pointing her wand at Harry.
"How is it you two keep doing magic and not once have you gotten in trouble." Harry asked, taking Jersey by the hand again.
"Gosh Potter, I don't even think Longbottoms that slow. Our father pays off the people at the ministry. Now, let's get you new robes, I've noticed yours are three sizes to small. Then we'll get you a birthday present." Draco started walking towards Madame Milkins Robes for All Occasions.
"Hey, I'll meet up with you two later. I'll get Harry's present since we have to meet dad and father in an hour." Jersey said, making her way down the street.
"You guys don't need to get me a birthday present, you've already bought me a whole bunch of new clothes." Harry felt very embarrassed, no one had ever done anything like this for him.
"Nonsense! You deserve it for putting up with J for three years." Draco opened the door and waited for Harry to walk through.
"Hey, I love her. I haven't had to deal with her. She's very kind." Harry retorted.
"I know Harry, I was just joking. Mrs. Milkin, Harry here needs new school and dress robes. Please put it on the Malfoy account." Draco said, sitting down behind the third stool Harry had stood on all day. After 20 minutes Harry was done and the robes were purchased.
"Here Harry, I hope you like it." Jersey said, holding out a wrapped box. Harry put down his bags and unwrapped his present.
"Oh Merlin, it's the new Firebolt 250! This must have cost a fortune!" Harry said, examining his broom.
"It's wasn't that much, now come on, if we're late my parents won't be in a good mood." Jersey took Harry's arm this time and they walked to the Leaky Cauldron. Before they entered Jersey stepped in front of Harry.
"What are you doing?" Harry asked, looking down at Jersey.
"Just giving you a once over. You're not nervous are you?" Jersey fixed Harry's hair and kissed him.
"I'm not nervous, but it seems like you are." Harry hugged Jersey and kissed her on her forehead.
"Well I-I am. I almost forgot the firsteight days of vacation I'll be working at St. Mungos. For the firstSeven, I'll be working 20 hours and the 8th day I'll be working ten. When I finish with this I'll be a certified Medi-witch." Jersey said shaking a little.
"Let me explain since Jers didn't do a very good job. No one has ever studied at St. Mungos before, and she'll be learning from the head nurse and doctor, because our father saved their children's lives, so they owed him a favor. So, if it goes well she could be opening a door for other students. Plus, when she gets certified she'll get both certifications so she could open her own practice or hospital." Draco went and patted Jersey on the back.
"Jers, that's great! Anything I can do to help don't hesitate to ask okay? Now, let's go meet Severus and Lucius." Harry took her hand and walked through the door. Over in a far corner they found Lucius and Severus drinking and talking convivially.
"Hello Children, Harry it's good to meet you outside of school. I am sorry about how I have treated you since your second year." Lucius and Severus stood up waiting for Jersey to sit down. Harry went to sit but Draco grabbed his elbow.
"It's rude to sit before a lady, that's why they stood up. However, when we get home it won't matter." Draco whispered, while Jersey sat down.
"You two must be very proud of Jersey's hard work. She told me about St. Mungos before we got here. Mr. Malfoy all is forgiven, I myself didn't act appropriately either."
"It sounds like you've been hanging out with Draco and Jersey for too long. I am also sorry for being an evil git in class. That we will have to work on, and of course progressively so no one catches on. By the way, you clean up well." Snape extended his hand and shook Harry's.
"Mr. Potter, how would you like to make some extra spending money? I have a few personal job openings at Gringotts that I only hire those I trust immensely for. Draco will be working as head manager of customer service and you would be head manager of incoming and outgoing grosses. It use to be Jersey's job and when she finishes training and if she wants to come back you'll split the job.You can start tomorrow ifyou'd like, while Jersey is at St. Mungosthat way you'd have time when she was done to enjoy your vacaton together, and you'll be paid 16 Galleons an hour, plus a 150 Galleon bonus for your time off for school. If you want it the job is yours and I won't be taking up your vacation, you can work whenever days you want, you just have to work two days a week, and you can leave whenever. Again it's up to you." Lucius said, picking up his drink again.
"I'd love to, but I have no training or clue what I'm suppose to do." Harry said shocked.
"I'll teach you before I have to go to St. Mungos tomorrow. It's fairly simple and you have a lot of managers that will be more than willing to help you." Jersey took Harry's hand then looked at Lucius. "That's not Fire Whiskey is it?"
"So what if it is?" Lucius asked, placing his cup down on the table and staring daggers at Jersey.
"You know you aren't suppose to drink that stuff because of your heart! Give me that!" Jersey went to lean across the table, but Harry held her back.
"Jers, it's just this once. He deserves an award for staying off of it this long." Harry said, placing her back in her seat.
"Fine, but just this once. Well, I'm going to stop by Gringotts to check up on everything, and show Harry around, and then we'll see from there. I guess we'll meet you three at home." Jersey got up, sent one more glaretowards Lucius, and left.
"You better hurry Harry. She's mad but I'm sure you'll be fine, she's only mad at Luc at the moment." Severus said, waving his hand towards the door.
"Thank you both for everything." Harry said, starting to leave.
"Welcome to the family Harry. In all variations of the phrase." Luciusresponded before turning back to the rest of his family. Harry smiled and placed a hand in his pants where a velvet box was placed. While Jersey was getting one of the many store representatives, Draco and Harry had discussed whatHarry had planned for his future. Harry had brought up marrying Jersey, but wasn't positive what they would say. While Draco was dropping off a list of items and measurements he had gone and picked up an engagement ring for Harry to give to Jersey, if and when he decided that this was what they both wanted.
"I'm sorry about that, it's just he knows he's not suppose to be drinking that stuff, and what does he do, he goes out and drinks it. Sometimes I think that man thinks with half of his brain instead of the whole thing!" Jerseywhispered kicking the ground.
"Hey, it's ok, the next time Draco or I catch him, we'll dump out his stash of it." Harry pulled Jersey close and hugged her, then picked her up over his shoulder and started walking towards Gringotts.
"Harry James Potter! I am fully capable of walking on my own!" Jersey started beating on Harry's back.
"You know that doesn't hurt, it sort of just feels like a message, which is just less of an incentive to put you down." Harry smiled even more, he couldn't think of a time when he didn't smile when he was around Jersey. Even when Tonks had died last year at the Ministry of Magic, and he had locked himself in his room at Grimmauld Place over it, his friends knew exactly whom to call to get him to cheer up again. Jersey came prancing into his room dressed up as Draco acting as if he was Crabbe or Goyle. At the time Harry didn't know she was Draco's sister, so when she explained how she got Draco's clothing Harry ended up being at a loss for words. "So now that we're in here where do we go?" Harry asked, opening the door to the bank.
"Make a left and go all the way down to the end. You'll meet Griphook, tell him your here on business." Jersey startedgiving up on hitting Harry's back and was now pinching his butt.
"Will you quit it?" Harry asked, taking on hand and hitting Jersey's butt for every pinch she gave him.
"When you put me down I will, but until then." Jersey said, pinching his butt again.
"May I help you sir?" Griphook asked, coming out from behind a door.
"I'm here on business." Harry said seriously.
"I'm sorry sir, but our assistant manager is out to lunch, and our head is off today. You might want to try back tomorrow or later this afternoon." Griphook said, going back to stamping papers. Jersey finally escaped Harry's grip and turned to Griphook.
"He's here with me, Mr. Potter here will be your new boss. If you'll excuse us." Jersey then stepped behind Griphook, and into her and Harry's office.
"Sorry miss, I didn't know that was you." Griphook then left.
"It's ok, now I believe you have work that you need to get back to." Jersey then shut the door and conjured a desk and a huge comfy chair for Harry. "Look you have an official name plaque." Jersey said excited.
"Thanks, so what do we do here exactly?" Harrypulled his chair towards Jersey's desk.
"Ok it's fairly simple, take this morning's grosses. I have mine color coded, you can organize yours whatever way you want. See the purple folder is this mornings, the green paper is our incoming gross, or the money people put into their accounts. What you do is go through their files on your computer and input the total they put in and add it to their account. For example this is Molly and Arthur Weasley's, so you go in your computer and type in Weasley, Arthur, or Weasley,Molly. Now, you see they added 150 sickles, so under the sickle column you put in 150. Then press enter, then save. Understand so far?" Jerseyasked, taking it as slow as she could.
"Yep, so far I do." Harry lookedthrough the hundreds of files on her desk.
"Ok, now you go into this program here, and type in Molly and Arthur Weasley. This is your list of people you need to mail their updated account information to. You do this with withdraws also. Ok for withdraws, which is the red paper, you do the same thing except you subtract it from their vaults. Again for example, dad withdrew 50 Galleons for this years possible school books so you'd go into Snape-Malfoy, Severus and put50 in under the Galleon column and hit subtract, that way it takes the money out instead of putting it in. At the end of the day you print up the people's new account information and send it with the outgoing mail that day. It's a simple as that, but obviously it takes a while, and when you have to do the payroll on top of that it's near impossible to finish some nights, but don't worry because if your not done by the end of the week father bails you out by having a couple of his secretaries finish it." Jersey turned to Harry who was still looking through some of the files. "Harry are you paying attention?"
"Yeah, red paper, name, subtract, save, program, print new info, and send. Got it." Harry's head was spinning, how was Jersey and Draco able to do this stuff day in and day out along with their school work. Harry hadn't known Jersey had climbed on his lap.
"I love having you here with me. I use to hate the summer because I was always worried your uncle and cousin would beat you so badly that you would end up dead." Jersey buried her head in Harry's shoulder.
"You don't have to worry about that. Why don't we go back to your house and we can go swimming." Harry said, putting Jersey in his arms and getting up.
"That sounds great. Harry what happened?" Jersey asked noticing a scar on his arm.
"It's nothing, really. So are we going to Floo to your house?" Harry asked, opening the door and walking out.
"Yeah, I mean our house is over by Hogsmeade. Harry please, what happened?" Harry had put Jersey down and she took out a bag of Floo powder from a vase by the main grate.
"Look there's stuff about me that you don't know about yet, but I promise when I feel like I can talk about it I will, until then please don't push." Jersey looked up at Harry's tear filled eyes and nodded her head.
"Ok, whenever your ready. Snape-Malfoy Manor." Jersey said, throwing Floo powder into the fire.
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A/N: Ok I am soooo sorry for not putting the reviews in here, but it's 11:05 at night, my brain is dead from doing the ACT and then reading a story on here I can't remember the name but I know the first word started with an A and the second with an L, it was really good and I suggest people go and read it..I have it saved under my favorite stories.Anyways, I'll probably post another chapter before the end of tonight, and hopefully get some more typed. Again sorry for not answering the reviews in this one. By the way Bekki...I ran out of stuff to read again...I'm becoming way to dependant on you :( I feel bad about that.