Chapter 16.
Charlie and I got to Flourish and Blotts as the book signing was beginning. There was a line already out the door to meet the famous naturalists and authors. The young man the door recognized Charlie and went right up to him, and brought us inside. "It's a pleasure to see you here, Mr and Mrs Scamander told us that we might expect you. My name is Stewart Ackerly, I'm the Scamander's assistant. Please come with me, I'm sorry Miss, I didn't get your name."
"She's with me," Charlie explained.
"I'm Glinda Goode," I stated to the young man.
"Wait a second, you're the Dragon Witch!" He looked entirely too excited to meet me. "I'd heard that you were in England, madame, you're famous in the magizoology field. Blimy," He was muttering to himself, and making me feel a bit uncomfortable as he led us to the back of the store.
Charlie noticed it because he quietly took the fellow aside, and whispered: "listen mate, she's not a specimen, she's a person, she also happens to be my girlfriend. So, lay off."
"Of course sir," he said looking quite intimidated. "Please follow me."
"CHARLIE WEASLEY!" A beautiful and very pregnant blond woman came from behind the signing table, she ran over to Charlie and gave him a hug. Charlie hugged her around the the beach ball
sized bulge in her stomach.
"Hello, Luna," he said "it's been a while hasn't it, or should I call you Mrs Scamander now?"
"I think the last time I saw you was eight years ago, and Harry and Ginny's wedding. You were my escort at the wedding, that was very sweet of you. It was a lovely reception. By the way, who's your lady friend?"
"Oh, bother, I'm an idiot. Luna Scamander, this is Professor Glinda Goode."
"Hello Glinda, it's a pleasure to meet you."
"Nice to meet you, Luna."
"Professor?" she asked me. "Are you the new teacher at Hogwarts?"
"Yes, I am."
" Harry mentioned that there was a new professor at Hogwarts. What house were you in, as a student, I mean?"
"We didn't have houses in Salem, like they have at Hogwarts."
"Really, how did they sort you?"
"They don't actually, they just put us two to a dorm room, our roommates are chosen at random the first year, after that, we work it out."
"Oh?" Luna led us over to the table, "Rolf, Charlie's here, with a friend. Glinda Goode, this is my husband Rolf." Luna and Rolf made a beautiful couple, with his jet black hair, dark blue eyes and deeply tanned skin, he was his wife's opposite, as tall as she was tiny. They looked perfect together.
After the book signing Luna and Rolf invited us to have dinner with them, we accepted and the four of us had a lovely time at a small cafe near the bookstore, then we hopped back on Charlie's bike and headed into muggle London to find a grocery store for supplies to make breakfast in the morning. I was going to try to teach Charlie how to cook. We found a market, and picked up the necessary supplies, I'll admit feeling a bit of feminine pride, and I'll admit, smug, watching the young muggle cashier try to flirt with Charlie. He was adorably clueless and didn't even notice. We left the market with groceries in hand, after stowing the sacks in the saddlebags on the bike we headed back to the apartment where we spent the rest of the night playing with Binks, listening to the wireless, and eventually ending up in the bedroom.
We woke up quite late on Sunday morning, or afternoon really, our first cooking lesson was quite a success, and we spend the rest of the after hanging around the apartment, until Charlie and I decided that it was tim to head back to Hogwarts. Charlie dropped me off at Hagrid's hut to pick up Pitch, and we had a lovely tea with him. Charlie headed back to London around seven, and I headed back to the castle, I had to catch up on grading some of my students homework.