7: Scamanders Trouble

Thalia had slept for tweny hours in her first days of her summer break. She needed to recover from the all nighters she had to do for her assignments, and nobody was home either way to convince her other wise. She woke up from a ring on the door, her parents were out on some business trip to MACUSA in the United States of America, they would had used the key. It rang again, she quickly got up, pulling the first white and fluffy coat she could find and hurried downstairs to the door. "Coming" she yelled, making sure the person would not turn away. As she opened, her finger runned in her eyes, still half asleep. "Good Morning what can I do for you?" she asked.

It was until then she realized it was her uncle, and he seemed quite unhappy. He had short light brown hair and dark eyes, unlike her, he looked a lot like her mother, it was her brother after all. "Uncle, what are you doing here?" – "Did you just came out of bed?" – "I am in summer break" – "You are just as lazy as your father was" he said offending, entering the house. She knew that at the moment this would become such a lovely day, irony taking over.

"Uncle, what did you come here for exactly?" she asked unsure of his unwelcomed visit. "I came to see you of course, your parents are somewhere in the United States of America, is that correct?" – "That is correct uncle" she tried not to be rude, but she really wanted to kick him out of the house and sleep for another twenty hours. "And what do you plan to do this break?" – "I am still trying to recover from my lack of sleep, I did not think about it!" – "Are you planning to lay around the house for three months?!" – "It is my break after all" – "That is your father speaking young lady!" – "Will you stop calling my father lazy?!" she raised her voice.

This ofcourse was a bad idea, her uncle would have no disrespect, but that would count the same for her. "Do you have any idea, who you are speaking to?" – "I appologize for my disrespect uncle, but this is clearly my parent´s house and I do not admit speaking ill of my parents!" she made it clear. She was not afraid of him or his power, it was the only way she could defend herself from him, or else he would use her as an house elf. "That is enough, you are coming with me" –"No I will not, I am staying here." – "You really want to see how far I will go young lady?" she shook her head. "No I want you to leave and that is final!" – "You will-" but her uncle was interrupted by a loud knock on the door.

"What is that?" he asked suspicious. "A doorbell uncle?" – "No, I asked if you had plans" he said impacient. She shook her head, it was clearly to early for this. "Are you going to open it?" – "Yes of course if I opened for you, I should for whoever it may be" the uncle sighed impacient. "Go then, but we are not finished here!" she sighed as she walked back to the door. Someone kept banging on the door. "THENDIEL! ARE YOU HOME?!" that clearly sound like Diantha, what was she doing here.

The door opened and there they stood, Diantha. In a white dress with frills with a pink satin lace around her waist. Much unlike what she liked to weat and with her hair loose. While Newt stood next to her in a white blouse, brown vest and dark trousers. "What are you two doing here?!" she asked impacient. "What is it? Did we wake you up?" – "Sadly no, I wished, come in" she asked, hoping her uncle would leave if they enterred.

She lead them to the livingroom, Newt observed the pictures on the walls as he had never come here in the first place. "Oh wow, nothing have changed!" Diantha said suprised, she hadn´t been here since her mother died. "My parents do not have the time to redecorate Diantha. Uncle?" she asked, before enterring. "You remember Diantha and her cousin Newt Scamander" – "Was her name not Blakesley?" he asked curious. "We decided Scamander would do" she remembered. "I haven´t seen your in years young man, how is your brother?" he remembered him all too well. "He is good, he is working at the ministery of magic in London" – "I see, so many working for the ministery of magic"

"Thalia, do you have plans? I was going to write, but this was easier" – "You apparate here did you not?" she suspected. "Of course we did" the young wizard said proudly. "You do know that is against the rules of Hogwarts?" the older man mentioned. "Oh rules are to be broken is that not right Mister Greengrass?!" she said excited, but none of them would have it. "You rather go with this bad influence, than come with me?" her uncle said offended. "Bad influence?! Excuse me!" Diantha was ready to have a piece of him.

"This is what you befriended at Hogwarts?" – "Oh please Diantha was my friend way before Hogwarts" – "Bad decisions of your mother, surely!" he said, remembering her close friendship with this child´s mother. "If it was not for that woman, she would not have suffered the way she did when she died" – "Excuse me, are you talking about my mother?!" Diantha was clearly not dealing this as well Thalia was. "Diantha, do not do it" her cousin whispered in her ear. "But Newt" – "We should leave, none of this should involve us" – "I am not leaving without Thalia!"

"Thalia, we are leaving, I have enough of this, I will speak with your parents about your behavior when they returned but until then..." he went to grab her arm but it was slapped back by Newt´s. Even Diantha was suprised, it was unusual, especially after he told her to leave a few seconds ago. "Scamander, you should mind your own business" he warned the young wizard. "She wishes to stay" – "What her wish is, is none of your concern" – "I highly disagree on that, you see I consider her as my friend"

The older wizard was clearly losing it, these two of the Scamander family were out of control. No wonder why his sister was so fond of that family, she is just the same. "Enough-" but Diantha pointed her wand at this man. "You are going to leave are you not?" – "Diantha do not" Thalia warned, hidden behind Newt. "Oh how far will you go?" the man asked. But Thalia´s eyes begged, this man was dangerous and Diantha was just no prepared for it, besides it would get them in trouble with the rules of Hogwards. "So be it Thalia" he apparated out of the house. "Oh man, I really wanted to try a spell on him" Thalia was so glad she didn´t.

"Ehm, what are you doing here exactly?" Thalia quickly asked, trying to forget these events. "Oh did you not receive an invitiation?" – "Of what?" she asked concerned. Thalia frowned at Newt who seemed desperately trying to think of a plan to apparte himself out of this. "Orion´s engagement part" – "WHAT?" Thalia screamed out of her lungs. "WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN?" It was a rare ocasion to see Thalia out of her mind like this, she usually tried to remain calm and to see her options, but this shocked everyone. "Oh you did not know?" – "I have not the slightest idea, I do no check the our correspondence" she returned to her polite self.

She quickly prepared some tea for them, after all they came all this way to get her. There was a small time of silence, Newt knew it was none of her concern. Thalia did not know where to begin but Diantha on the other hands. "So, your uncle" – "You really want to go there?" – "He seems a scary type if you ask me" – "He is, it is considered that is like the dark wizard of the family, to be honest he teached me a lot of things when I was small" – "That explains why you are so good at it" Newt observed. Thalia nodded as she looked into her tea. "But lately he is so obsessive about me and my mother, he speaks a lot of the wizard Grindelwald" – "The mad wizard of what I have heard?" she nodded at the oldest. "I just do not know, he clearly is obsessed by something"

"Good thing we came then!" Diantha said optimistic. "So, about the engagement, go and search the invitation! Your family is a high class wizards I am sure they were invited" – "Just because they were doesn´t mean I have to go" Thalia mentioned, pulling the invitation out of the unread corresponence from her parents. "I beg you" Newt said desperately, it was unlike him to say something like that, but he needed someone with a clear mind. "Thalia, it will be fun! We will be wearing dresses!" Thalia knew these parties all too well, and nothing fun came from it, that is why she understood Newt´s pain al along. "I will come, but soon enough you will understand why we do not want to go" Thalia stood up to pack her clothes for this new adventure.

"That was a close call" Diantha told her cousin when Thalia left. "Hmm?" – "If it wasn´t for you, things might have ended badly" she thanked her cousin. "You are welcome, but in all honesty. I should not have bothered between her family business..." Newt recalled, he hated to bug in other people´s issues. "Whatever reason it took you to act, I am grateful!"she thanked him again. Diantha was speechless with her cousin´s actions, and suspected that much like her friend, he too had feelings.

"So who else of our wonerful comunity has been invited?" Thalia asked with a small bag on her back. "Vincent and Mirian, I spoke with them and they confirmed that they would come" – "Vincent? A gryffindor? Going to an engagement party of Slytherin? How?! Thalia asked suprised. "Oh he is going as Mirian´s date, or else he was not able to come. But do not tell him that, he really thinks Mirian invited him because she is interested" Thalia felt that it was a evil thing to do, but she was not complaining.

"My father however was the one suggesting it!" Newt shook his head, it was clearly that her father was just as Diantha was, clearly not thinking. "Let´s go then" she said optimistic as they apparated back to Diantha´s house. "Your house have changed" Thalia said, just looking at it. "Yeah, dad gets bored and decorates it" – "I am fascinated" Thalia whispered suprised. "Don´t be" Newt pushed her inside. "Daddy! I am back we got Thalia!" her father who seemed to have long dark blond hair until his shoulders and definitly Diantha´s eyes came out happy. "Oh Thalia, how long have it been!" he brought her into a hug. "An eternity, I bet" she tried to crawl out of the hug.

"It is good to see the house full with Diantha´s friends! And of her friends are mine too!" Diantha smiled brightly, the two of them were too identical for words. "Thalia!" she heard two people calling for her, it was Mirian from Ravenclaw and Vincent from Gryffindor, they were here too. "Oh good to see you two!" she said excited, it was rarely to hear her excited by something. "I must admit" Diantha´s father said to Newt. "I am suprised to see all houses together in such a friendship" – "What do you mean uncle?" Newt asked. "You re hufflepuff, loyal and hard working" – "Uncle, please I am not-" – "That boy is gryffindor, brave and courage, Diantha and Thalia are Slytherin, powerful and leaders, and then that small girl over there is Ravenclaw, smart, quick to actions, you got the whole group complete!" Newt akwardly smiled. "I do not belong with them though" – "Don´t be silly boy!" he hit him on his back.

It was true, they had all kind of houses mixed into one group, it meant they would withstand a lot of hardships and if he thought about it, they were getting into their third year, for him his fifth, and a lot of things had happened. "However it is a mystery for me that Diantha got in Slytherin, I expected her to be a Hufflepuff like you" – "I see" Newt said nervously. "There must be a great future in my daughter!" he said proudly.

"Why is your father laughing so much with Newt? I do not see Newt as the social type" Thalia told her friend. "He isn´t my dad just talks a lot, no matter if you answer or not, he will see the answer in your eyes" – "What is he? A psychic or something?"Mirian asked curious. "Might as well be! He knows always everything I do!" – "Maybe you are just predictable" Thalia said. "I am not predictable!" – "Sure not, you are special and unique" Thalia said ironically, however there was truth in what she said. Diantha was unique in her own specia way.