Autor's Note
English is not my mother tongue, so I appreciate your support for any corrections.
Robert was surprise, he never expected...
So this is the house of Severus Snape, it's incredible how small it looks or maybe are the bookshelves that make it look small? it felts, lonely, this was really my former classmate house? I never picture him has a sentimental guy, but for the content of the will he certainly was, I mean, keeping his old parents' house? and just put bookcases not changing the furniture just get rid of every decoration and keep the practical things like the kitchen table and the sofa, the set of un-matching chairs for guest he never had...
He really was a sentimental, keeping all the pictures of his mother and changing the master bedroom in a potion laboratory, he truly was devoted to his craft, I'm wandering from room to room marking and checking everything listed in the will and wondering was this his idea all along? did he never really wanted a family of his own, a son to leave all this knowledge? I guess I'll have to wait and see if the vial Mr. Krum has makes some sense to his will, in any case, he is pretty sentimental regarding his heirs, specially Ms. Granger...
I certainly can't wait so I prepared the space he chose, put the un-matching set of chairs and small table in his small garden. I mark the space for the arrival of the wizards, enchanted the space so the muggles can't see us and enchanted the lock to the street so Ms. Evans could enter, no, Mrs. Dursley, I find her name was Dursley now, but my old classmate refers to her as Evans, maybe all make sense in the memory vial and maybe I understand why he has so many demands and wishes, and why he accumulate so much and never even enjoy it, anyway, I'll find my answers in a few days, all the heirs already confirm, Mr. Krum will arrive an hour early and I already book him a room in the best hotel in London asking absolute discretion from the manager, hopefully it will be so.
Well, I already check the house, make the inventory and confirm all the properties here, know I have to take off the robes and put in that constricted thing that muggles call suit and tie, more like a rope for a hanging man, but anyway, I have to make the arrangements for the muggle belongings and the transfer to the heirs, I have to look as a lawyer, so thank god there is a squib department in the Ministry with all the professions that may be need it in order to be a liaison for magical and muggle affairs is not often use, but I check and there is a squib that in the muggle world work as a lawyer and he agreed to see me in his office to check all the documents and do the transfers as fast as possible and without any problems, so I have to be there in an hour and also have to check if he knows about a driver service I can use for the escort of Mrs. Dursley, since I have never drove a car.
As soon as I arrive to his office I noted that I choose the correct clothes for the office since is in a tall and clean building and to my surprise the name of the squib is on the door, kind of like he is the owner, but I don't know anything about muggle business so I just get to the reception desk and ask for Mr. Brandon, the lady in the desk look at my for two seconds and ask for an ID, I give her my muggle ID and she checks a list then give me a visitor ID of the building and point to an elevator, instructing me floor 15, I got to the elevators and select up then the security guard tell me that for the 15 floor there is a express whatever that means and help me hopping in, in a matter of seconds I'm in the 15 floor and a nice old lady greet me an personally escort me to Mr. Brandon office then I see his full name and know is the right place, Mr. Christopher Brandon, founder member, she knock and after a second I enter.
I complement the office and he says that he has a nice view even if he doesn't come to often anymore, I ask why and he just laugh, telling me he is wealthy and only comes in for board meetings and senior clients, he no longer work day by day cases which is why he register in the squib department, since there are so many muggle-born and half-blood that inevitably there will be legal issues or any other issues, so he wants to create a circle of squibs capable of help this sector and of course the inevitable squibs that may need a hand in the muggle world as opposite as to stay pariahs in the wizard world.
I agree with him and we start talking business, he tell me he has a driver who can take us to the location, I ask if is necessary for him to be there and he says that even when he no longer works as lawyer, he still is one of the most respected and his firm is one of the best so he can answers any questions and do all the procedures faster so the heirs don't have to worry about time frames or muggle dealings, then I inform him about a muggle heir and we check it, he look her up and recognizes the name, apparently a some time ago his firm did business with something call Grunnings and hear about the husband, apparently he is one of their best Directors in the sales department, whatever that means, but as a person he didn't like what he heard, so he was a little bit intrigued as to why a wizard like Severus Snape, a Teacher, a Headmaster, a Death Eater had to do with a less than boring housewife of a Salesman and why he refers to her as Evans?, must be had something to do with her when she was single...
