Chapter 2
A Family Matter
His father immediately took out the Daily Prophet and the Quibbler and sat down in his easy chair began reading. His mother sat down in her rocker with her basket of sewing supplies and began darning socks. Lily was lying on the left end of the couch reading an old copy of Hogwarts: A History the Aunt Mione had given her for her last birthday. Remy was lying on the rug in front of the fire reading a copy of Mad Max, the Muggle Lover. Usually Jamie played chess with Sir, but tonight he was alone so he decided to run upstairs and get his copy of Standard Book of Spells: Year One. He returned and sat down at the opposite end of the couch and began to read.
He was just about to reach section ten about bewitching inanimate objects, when his dad began to laugh. "Ginny! You've got to read this!" Harry stood and walked over to Ginny and leaned down so that Ginny could read the headline he had read. Jamie, Lily, and Remy all rushed to stand behind them so that could see what was so important that Harry had stopped their nightly ritual of peaceful silence.
Jamie stood peering over Ginny's head and heard her laugh as well. "Oh, Harry! Can you believe this? Oh! I have to go talk to Mother!" Ginny laughed and stood up and scurried into the kitchen. Harry just grinned and shock his head.
"Dad! What does it say?" Lily asked eagerly.
Harry stared down at his three curious children and had to laugh again. "Well, it seems that Brutus Scrigmouer has finally stepped down, and the Ministry is now taking candidates for the office and the two leading candidates are Percival Ignatius Weasley and Penelope Anne Clearwater."
Jamie immediately began to laugh as well. So, Uncle Percy and his ex-wife, Auntie Penny, were running against each other! That was going to be fun. His aunt and uncle had been married for 5 years and had two children when Penny had gotten fed up with Percy's neanderthalic belief that Penny should give up her flourishing political career in oder to promote Percy's career. She had gotten a divorce and moved to London. Now, she was running for Minister of Magic. Jamie secretly hoped she would win over Percy. He rather disliked the pompous git that was his uncle. He prefered his Uncle Fred who ran a joke shop and his Uncle Bill who had been to Egypt and worked with the goblins at Gringotts. However, his favorite uncle was Uncle Ron.