"So Victoire, how's school?" Grandma asked. I sighed.
"It's alright. We've got the N.E.W.T.s coming up. It's a bit stressful and I've been studying a whole lot but it's fine." I said. I had been studying a lot. I wasn't sure how well I would do though. I wasn't that motivated and I definitely was not interested. But I was a ravenclaw and I was not going to let my moods ruin my marks so I had been in the library all the time.
My Grandma smiled knowingly. "I remember when your father was in his last year. He had always just been good at school without studying. Then, when his N.E.W.T.s came around, he didn't get any good marks." She laughed.
"Really?" I asked, I had always felt like my dad had had his life together even as a teenager.
"Oh yes. I was not amused at all. I expected Ron or George or Fred not to do well, and none of them actually ended up taking their N.E.W.T.s so I might have been right, but Bill was always such a good student. But then he got the job at Gringotts and everything turned out fine. He finally started working hard and then he met your mother and the rest is history." She smiled and crossed her arms, leaning against the counter.
I smiled too. My Grandma seemed to understand that I didn't have shit figured out, but that that was alright. She didn't say it but I felt like she meant it.
Soon after that, it was almost time for dinner. My whole family had arrived over the course of the day, except for Charlie, of course, and Grandma and I had finished cooking. My mum had helped us sometimes and my uncle George came in to annoy his mum. My aunt Hermione and uncle Ron had offered to help, but my Grandma told them to relax. Then she told me that truthfully, they were both terrible cooks. Uncle Harry had offered to help multiple times, but he was Grandmas favourite, even though he wasn't even her son, so she had told him not to every time. Aunt Ginny was allowed to help, but after only talking to me about Quidditch, Grandma sent her away as well. I didn't play Quidditch at Hogwarts, but growing up with Teddy meant playing in the garden, watching every game and knowing every team.
When Teddy and I went to Harry and Ginny's for dinner, Quidditch was always the main topic. I liked talking about Quidditch, so I didn't mind.
Uncle Percy showed up shortly before dinner, came into the kitchen to greet his mum and then sat with his wife at the other end of the living room from his brothers. They still teased him a lot and he didn't handle it too well.
I was setting the table, when I heard a scream from the kitchen. I looked up and saw that everyone else was just as confused. I turned towards the kitchen and my dad went past me to check it out, calling out to his mother. I followed him, hand on my wand. Then I heard my Grandma yell "Charlie! I thought you couldn't come!"
Charlie was here. And if Charlie was here, that meant…
"Vic!" Teddy was here.