November 2020
The Slytherin Common room was dark and quiet. The sound of the crackling fire could be heard filling the empty night. A hooded figure looked out from the girls dormitory, "come on," the voice hissed as she entered the room. A short girl with wild dark curls took her house robes hood down and looked around the room, "the coast is clear." She turned around and realized she was talking to herself. "Damn it, Minnie. Get your ass out here. This was all your idea," the girl rolled her eyes and pulled out a large beige rectangular piece of parchment.
"My idea?" A taller girl followed her out of the dorm also wearing her house robes. She had mousy brown curls and wore a scared look on her face. "Oh no. When we get in trouble for this, I will be throwing you under the knight bus, Cass." Minnie walked over to her sister and stood next to her, "seriously let's just go back to bed and forget this whole thing."
"Forget this whole thing," she said in a mocking tone. "I would be glad to go back to bed if I knew for a fact that I wouldn't have to hear you whining anymore about the cruelty of the magical creatures and how they shouldn't be kept in the reserve."
"Is it my fault that I have a conscience?"
"Is it my fault that you are an insufferable little shit?" Cass glared at her sister until a knowing look crept over Minnie's features. "Don't tell mum I swore."
"I'll think about it," Minnie shrugged. "Fine, let's do this. What's your plan?" Cass held up the plain bit of parchment and grinned. "An old scrap of parchment. Brilliant. We are definitely going to be expelled."
"Can't you for one minute trust your older and wiser sister?"
"That sentence gives me a headache," she rolled her eyes. "What is that?"
"Got it from James. I found his dad on a chocolate frog card and told him I'd let him have it if he let me use this," Cass looked proud of herself. Minnie shot her a look, still waiting for an explanation. "Oh right," she pulled out her wand and touched it to the parchment. "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." They huddled around as the parchment was filled with text and pictures. There were names and footprints of everyone in the castle. She pointed to his footprints that were in the Slytherin boys dorm next to Freddy. "Isn't it brilliant?"
"How long have you had this? Why didn't anyone tell me?" She watched the little footsteps of McGonagall pacing in her office. "This has to be some sort of contraband. We should really turn this over to the headmistress."
"I think you just answered your own question," Cass deadpanned. "Nobody is turning anything in. If this gets confiscated, James will try to fight me and I don't want to hurt the poor boy. He doesn't stand a chance."
"So your plan is this creepy stalker map?"
"Well," she pointed to a pair of footprints, "we have to get past Filch to get to the reserve right? And Mrs. Norris oh and Peeves but Peeves loves me so I don't think he'd turn us in if he saw us."
"I love how you brag about Peeves loving you," Minnie rolled her eyes. "Oh look!" She pointed to footprints outside by the Quidditch pitch, "there's Hagrid and Fang. It looks like he's nowhere near the reserve."
"Perfect," Cass smirked. "We should go this way," she traced a visibly clear pathway that led them through the greenhouse out towards the reserves. It appeared that Professor Longbottom was not in the greenhouse and everyone knew old Sluggy went to bed before the children. "We should be good as long as we make it past Filch."
"Look," Minnie pointed. "Lyra's footprints are moving and she is coming this way."
Cass looked concerned. "We need to go. She'll tell her dad and you know he can't keep anything from Aunt Cissy." Minnie nodded and they quickly but quietly made their way out of the common room.
"Lumos," Minnie whispered when they got into the dark hallway of the dungeons. "Okay. We got this," she whispered to her sister. "Mum would want the same for the animals."
"She would but remember that time you tried to set Twiggy and Winky free and mummy freaked out," Cass cackled, sounding just like her mother. Minnie shushed her and she grimaced, "her face was priceless when she saw you trying to give Twiggy that old sock."
"Well mum always said house elves deserve their freedom," Minnie shrugged. "Plus I was five. She got over it."
"Mummy was so mad," she stopped for a moment to look at the map and saw Mrs. Norris around the next turn. "Quick, this way." She grabbed Minnie's arm and pulled her down a different passageway leading directly to the greenhouse. Once they got outside she let out a breath she didn't know she was holding before standing up straighter, "see. I told you we'd make it."
Minnie rolled her eyes, "we aren't even there yet."
"Semantics. Mischief Managed," Cass put the parchment in her robes and she grabbed her sister's hand. "Lumos," the tip of her wand lit and the sisters took off running in the direction of the reserve. When they got to the big gate at the edge of the reserve, the girls slowed down and looked at the lock on the gate. She looked over at Minnie and shrugged, "up and over, Min. We don't have all night."
"Alohamora," Cass heard the lock open and turned to see her sister grinning.
"Show off," she rolled her eyes and pushed the gate wide open. "I'll start in the back. Just open all the gates and let the babies run free."
"Meet me back here in ten minutes," Minnie agreed and they got to work, freeing the animals and feeling like they were out there doing Merlin's work.
It took about 30 minutes to open all the gates and shoo the animals out of the reserve. Cass's favorite part was scaring the animals who refused to leave. A few zaps from her wand and the animals left without question. "We did good work tonight," Cass said while sitting on the main gate, watching Minnie carry a baby bowtruckle in her arms. "What are you doing with that?"
"I think I'm going to take her with me. She's too young to be on her own," Minnie handed the little creature to Cass.
She held up the little girl and looked at her. "I guess she's cute enough," she handed the bowtruckle back to her sister. "You are your mother's daughter, aren't you?"
Minnie burst out laughing, "oh that's rich coming from you, Bellatrix Junior."
"Highest of compliments, I assure you Min," she jumped down from the gate. "Come on. We better piss off before anyone can link us to the crime."
"Crime?" Minnie's face paled.
"We just set hundreds of animals free," Cass cackled. "Yes I'd say it's a crime for sure," she grabbed her arm, "now come on. Let's go."
Cass, Minerva and the bowtruckle, the youngest Black fondly named "Sprig" made their way up to the school, celebrating the fact that they weren't caught. They were stopped just outside Hagrid's house so they could pull out the map and get back inside their common room unnoticed.
"Hey!" A booming voice called out somewhere behind the girls.
Cass was startled and sparks flew out of her wand causing fire to erupt towards the hut, engulfing it in flames. Her eyes grew wide and Minnie gasped. "My hut," Hagrid and Fang came running the rest of the way over to where the girls were standing watching the flames. He looked down and saw the small smirk on Cass's face. "Yer just like yer mother, you are." He looked on for a second time as his house was overrun with flames caused by one of the Black women.
"It was an accident!"
"We are so expelled," Minnie started to panic, listing all the reasons why she did it and also all simultaneously the reasons she currently hated her sister.
"Well," Cass whispered, "they don't know everything yet."
Cass and Minnie were sitting across from the headmistress the next morning, "it's like you think I don't know everything that goes on inside and outside of my school."
"Headmistress?" Minnie tried to speak up.
"You broke over a dozen school rules that I can think of off the top of my head. You snuck out in the middle of the night, across campus to the magical creatures reserve. You two are aware that you freed dangerous animals last night?" She looked over her half moon shaped glasses at the two young women.
Minnie gave her sister an incredulous look, "we weren't supposed to release the dangerous ones."
Cass gave her a mischievous grin, "oops. I didn't know they were dangerous. I never was good at care of magical creatures." Minnie shot her sister a look that would've killed her if it was possible.
"Girls! Please!" McGonagall shouted over the fighting sisters. "Seeing as how this is going to take Hagrid and Mr. Filch quite some time to retrieve the animals, I'm going to be forced to…"
"Please don't expel me. It was all Cass's idea."
"…Suspend you."
"Thanks a lot," Cass crossed her arms and rolled her eyes.
"Knight bus remember," Minnie shrugged.
"You two will be in detention with your head of house until one of your mothers is able to come and escort you home. Go on. And do stay out of trouble."
"Let's just hope it's mummy," the headmistress heard Cass say as they were walking away. "She'll at least think it was funny."
Minerva rolled her eyes but she couldn't be too mad. The maternal love she felt for those girls was almost enough to let them off the hook but since all of the animals were set free and they had to rebuild Hagrid's hut, she just couldn't let this one slide. She sighed and sat behind her desk and pulled out her phone. Never in her life did she think she'd have a cell phone, let alone use it to call Bellatrix Black but here she was doing just that. She chose the number in her contacts list that belonged to Bella and pushed the call button.
Meanwhile at Black Manor, Hermione was getting ready to go into the Ministry for the day while Bella was getting ready to bother the piss out of Harry and Draco at work. They were enjoying a quiet breakfast when Bella's phone rang. "Aren't you going to answer that?" Hermione asked, putting her tea cup down and looking at her wife expectantly.
Bella peered over and looked at the phone. She saw the name pop up and shook her head, "nope," she simply said and took another bite of eggs.
"It might be important," Hermione bit her bottom lip.
"It never is," Bella shrugged and continued to eat. "I don't need to hear about what Cass did this time before I've finished my morning coffee." Her phone finally stopped ringing, "see. Not important."
Just as Hermione was going to relent and finish her breakfast, her own cell phone rang. "It's the headmistress. I should get this." Bella shrugged. "Hello?" Hermione cautiously answered the phone. "Is everything okay?" Hermione listened to Minerva recount everything that had happened the previous evening and her face became more and more grave as the story went on. "Here," Hermione tried to hand the phone out to Bella to take. "It's about your daughters."
"Oh?" Bella raised an eyebrow. "I thought they were our daughters."
"Cass set Hagrid's house on fire. Sounds like your daughter to me."
"Once!" She said a little louder than expected and she could hear Minerva chuckling over the speaker phone. "I did that once. You'd think I would've lived it down by now."
"Well," Hermione offered a half smile. "You did jump up and down and celebrate after doing so."
"Semantics," she waved Hermione off. "What's the issue, Minerva?" She spoke louder than she needed to at the phone that was currently on speaker.
"The girls have been suspended for a week. I need one of you to come pick them up."
Bella smirked, "see it's not just my daughter this time. Seems your little Angel is just as devilish. Did they do anything besides the fire?"
"Besides the fire?" Minerva scoffed, "yes, they let all of the creatures on the reserve loose."
"Oh," Bella grimaced. "That sounds like a Minnie thing."
"I can assure you that it was a joint effort," Minerva said with a tone Bella knew all too well. "The girls are with professor Slughorn right now but they are suspended for the week so they need to be picked up."
"A suspension?" Bella almost whined. "Can't you just stick them with Crazy Sybil for the week? A week with her and Cass will never wander from the path of righteousness again," she cackled.
"Sybil is not a bartering tool for the sisters' Black," Minerva sounded like she was starting to lose her patience.
Hermione shot Bella a look that told her to be nice and to come up with a solution. "Fine," Bella crossed her arms over her chest. "I'll come get the little heathens." She turned to look at Hermione, "tell Potter I won't be in because your daughter is a problem starter."
"Our daughters you mean?"
"I meant what I said. Your daughter is a problem starter and my daughter is a problem finisher," she chuckled when she saw the small smile play on her wife's lips. "I'll be there in like 30 minutes Minerva. I need about six more cups of coffee and some tea first."
"Do try to hurry. I worry about Slughorn when he's left alone with your daughters."
They said their goodbyes and hung up with the headmistress. "She got that from you, you know?"
"Pardon?" Hermione looked genuinely confused.
"Your passion for magical creatures. It's one of the many things I admire about you, pet. Selfless when it comes to those who can't advocate for their own rights. It's no wonder your daughter acquired that specific trait. I'm glad she did."
Hermione blushed at the compliment, even after all these years of marriage, her wife still knew exactly what to say to make her melt. "A lot of good it did her last night. So you think she orchestrated the whole thing?"
"When I saw Minnie's time table and saw she was taking Care of Magical Creatures, I wondered why," she took a sip of her coffee. "Now I know. I have no doubt that this was her brain child. That being said," she tried to stifle a laugh, "I'm sure my spawn jumped at the chance to coerce her into the chaotic route."
"Bella," Hermione sighed, "they need to be punished."
"I suggested Sybil."
Hermione set her wife with a look that told her she wasn't playing around anymore, "I'm serious."
"Alright." She threw her hands up. "I'll handle it. Just go do Minister things and leave the girls up to me."
"A real punishment, Bella. Don't let Twiggy and Winky have to handle things."
"I've got it, pet." Bella set her face so Hermione would believe her. "Now, off to work with you." She waited for Hemrione to relent, standing and walking over to kiss her wife goodbye. "We will see you at dinner." Bella watched Hermione as she left the dining room, "love you." She called after her wife. She waited until she heard her go through the floo. "Fucking children. I knew having kids was a mistake," she rolled her eyes and drained her cup of coffee, putting her glasses on and finishing the issue of the Quibbler before she made her way to the school.
Bella walked out of the floo followed by her two daughters. Cass had a little smile on her face while her sister looked absolutely petrified about what was to come. "Calm down, mummy came," Cass hissed her through clenched teeth.
"Girls," Bella stopped to look at them. "Go wait in the library. I'll be in soon."
"Yes mummy," they said in unison while turning to head off to the library.
"Fuck me," she groaned and headed down the hall towards a very familiar room. She didn't bother knocking and went right in, "Andy are you home?"
"Yes dearest sister of mine," she called from her en-suite bathroom. "You rang?"
"Get out here," she gulped and swallowed her pride. "I need some parenting advice."
Andy practically ran from the bathroom with a shit eating grin on her face. "I knew you'd be back. The last time when you came for advice and told me to fuck off seemed too hasty."
"I regret every decision that had led me to this point in my life," Bella rolled her eyes and went to sit on the chair in front of Andy's vanity. "The kids got suspended today."
"I see," Andy smirked. "Both of them?" Bella nodded and Andy cackled, "Min finally let Cass talk her into the bullshit?"
"I think it was the other way around," Bella chuckled and scratched behind her ear.
Andy gasped, "little Minnie finally earning her Black wings?" They both cackled, "So what do you need from me?"
"Hermione left me in charge of the discipline."
"And you don't think they deserve a punishment?"
Bella smirked, "it was funny as fuck, Andy. I would buy them gifts if I could get away with it. Honestly, this is some shit me and you would've gotten into during school and Albus would've just given us extra detention. I think Minerva overreacted a little."
"What did they do?"
"They released all of the magical creatures and set Hagrid's Hut on fire," Bella waved off the incident while Andy's jaw dropped. "Phoenix shit, Andy."
Andy closed her mouth and thought for a moment before speaking, "that does sound like us. Why didn't we ever think of that? Freeing the creatures is bloody brilliant."
"Isn't it?"
"And you already burned down his hut once."
"Once! I did it one time and it's the only thing that people can seem to recall about me. It's not like I go to Hogwarts yearly just to burn down his damn house. We need to all agree to let it go!" Bella shouted.
"It's a little hard to forget when Junior is out there lighting the hut on fire," a silence fell over the pair. "Do you think she smiled?"
"You know that little fucker smiled," Bella laughed.
"You could just pretend to punish them," Andy shrugged. "Tell the girls you won't punish them but tell Hermione you did."
"Hermione's a little too smart for that," Bella looked at her phone. She had a couple of missed texts from her wife asking for an update. "She'll be home soon. What should I do?"
"Channel your inner Druella. I have faith in you, sis."
Bella rolled her eyes, "don't and you are no help."
She got up and started to walk over towards the door when Andy shouted after her, "I never claimed to be."
Bella flicked her off as she left, closing the door behind her. "Waste of my time. I really need to kick her out," she sighed and made her way to the library. She walked in and saw her daughters sitting on the couch, reading. Bella wasn't mad. Kids get into bullshit all the time. Fuck, her and Andy were the absolute worst but the wife wanted them punished so she had to do it. "Girls," she addressed them, getting their attention. Both of her daughters sat up as she approached and went over to sit on the chair across from them. Cass looked satisfied with herself which caused Bella to roll her eyes. Then she turned to look at Minnie. It was obvious that she had been crying. Her eyes looked puffy and she saw tear stains on her cheeks. Clearly her daughters had polar opposite personalities but they complimented each other perfectly.
"I'm sorry, mummy," Minnie started to sniffle. "I know I shouldn't have done that. It was wrong and I regret setting the animals free," she wiped a tear away and thought about that apology. "Actually I'm not sorry I set them free. They deserve to have a happy life and I don't think that's going to happen being stuck on a reserve."
Bella nodded and then turned to Cass, "and you?"
"I only went along with Minnie's idea because I knew it would make her happy," she was playing with her fingers while looking at her little sister. She shrugged, "I don't like to see her upset and that class makes her miserable."
"Then why did you sign up for it?"
"I need to get all Outstandings on my Owls, mummy."
"Sweetheart," Bella's tone softened, "you owls are still two years away."
"I need to start preparing now," Minnie argued. She sounded just like her mother. There's no way Hermione would go through with a punishment.
"That's an awful lot of pressure for a 3rd year, my love."
"Cass takes as many classes as I do and she's doing fine."
"But I don't take Care of Magical Creatures. I think Hagrid would have whatever a wizard version of a heart attack is if I took the class," Cass tried to hide her smirk and she looked up and saw her mom doing the same.
"So let me get this straight," Bella said. "You snuck out in the middle of the night, broke into the reserve and set all of the animals free?" The girls nodded, "even the dangerous creatures?"
"I didn't know they were dangerous mummy," Cass tried to sound serious. "I never took the class."
"Bullshit," Bella laughed. "Then when you got away with it you headed back to the castle and just thought, fuck it let's set this hut on fire." Minnie's eyes grew wide and Bella rolled her eyes, "I know I swore. Here," she reached into her pockets and pulled out some coins, "a few galleons for each of you," she handed the coins to her girls. "Don't tell your mother."
Cass and Minnie took their coins and looked at each other and shrugged. "Okay," they both said, sliding their coins into their robes.
"So the hut…" Bella brought the conversation back around. "What happened there?"
"We stopped by his hut to get the map out and look to see if anyone was coming," Cass started playing with her fingers again.
"What map?"
Cass's eyebrows shot up when she realized her mistake, "umm… I can't say."
"Cassiopeia," Bella warned. "If the two of you want some sort of good grace from me, I'd suggest you tell me everything."
"This map," she sighed and reached into her robe pulling out the parchment.
"For the love of Merlin," she rolled her eyes and used her wand to cast the spell and bring the map to life. "I thought Minerva confiscated this after you, James and Teddy got in trouble for sneaking out to Hogsmeade. Don't tell me she gave it back to Potter expecting him to keep it at home."
Cass nodded, "please don't get James in trouble. He let me borrow it and I don't want him to get it taken away."
"I don't want the map," Bella handed it back over. "I have no intention of getting James in trouble. I'm sure he's quite able to do that all on his own."
"So," Cass bit her lip. "We were looking at the map and Hagrid snuck up on us and scared the bullocks out of me. I accidentally shot flames out of my wand and well… you know what happened after that."
Bella sighed and crossed her arms, "so the fire was an accident. The animals were on purpose." The girls nodded, "you mother wants the two of you to be punished for this."
"Mummy," Minnie looked terrified, "I'm so sorry."
"I know sweetheart."
Minnie nudged Cass, "erm… I'm sorry, too." Bella gave her a look, "well it was kind of cool. I've never shot flames before."
Bella suppressed a little laugh, "look, I don't want to punish the two of you."
"Perfect," Cass clapped her hands and started to stand.
"Sit down," Bella stopped her daughter from leaving. "But your mother will be home in the next couple of hours and I need to make it look like I really gave you girls a hard time or else your mother will give me a hard time and not the sexy kind of way."
"Ew mummy," Cass said while Minnie pretended to gag. "So what is our punishment?"
"Usually your grandfather would just crucio me when I got in trouble," she watched as their eyes widened. "I wouldn't do that. Your grandfather was an asshole." She tapped her finger on her chin, thinking. "I got it. The two of you will volunteer at the Ministry daycare this week. Help Luna out."
"With children?" Cass asked, appalled. "Can't you just beat me?"
"That seems fair I guess," Minnie didn't look happy either.
"Hey," Bella shrugged. "Your mother wanted this. She'll be happy, I'll be happy, Luna will be happy for the help and the two of you will be miserable. Sounds like everybody wins."
Both of the girls rolled their eyes, "can we go to our rooms now?" Cass asked.
"Yes," Bella stood up, following them out. "Oh wait," she held out her hand, "hello phones. You know your mother is going to want them."
"But mummy," Cass whined. "What if James wants to talk?"
"Then you can talk to him next week when you aren't suspended. Hand them over," she waited until both phones were in her hand. "I'll call you down when your mother gets here."
She waited and heard the two of them grumbling as they made their way upstairs. Bella laughed and walked back into the library, pulling out her phone letting Hermione know that everything was taken care of. Hermione messaged back immediately with love hearts. "She's going to be the death of me one of these days," Bella laughed and put all three hello phones down on the desk and pulled out a book to pass the time.
Hermione had texted Bella around noon and told her since she handled the girls' punishment that she was going to stay until five. There was something important she was working on and she would see them all at dinner. Bella took the girl out to Diagon for lunch after making them promise they wouldn't tell their mother.
Like clockwork since before the girls had been born, Hermione walked through the floo at 5pm. "Girls? I'm home."
"We're in the dining room, pet." She heard her wife call from the other room. She knew the girls were sent home for a serious reason but she'd be lying if she said she wasn't looking forward to seeing her girls.
As soon as Hermione walked into the dining room both girls ran over to her and enveloped her in a big hug, "I've missed you my babies." She kissed Cass and Minnie on their foreheads.
"We've missed you too, mum." Cass held onto her a second longer which made Hermione happy. She was usually a mummy's girl but loved when she got any sort of extra love from Cass.
When she finally pulled back Minnie got in another hug, "hi."
"Hi, sweetheart," Hermione couldn't help but smile at her children and looked over at Bella to see her smiling as well. She nodded towards the table and the girls went to sit down. Hermione walked over and gave Bella a soft kiss hello and sat as well. "While I love having the two of you home, I wish it were under better circumstances."
"Trust me mum, me too," Cass gave Bella a look. "Mummy took our hello phones."
Bella smiled internally. She knew Cass was playing it up though Bella let her have her phone when they went to Diagon. She knew her daughter didn't want any extra punishment from Hermione. She couldn't blame her, she would've done the same thing.
"Well," Hermione smiled at her eldest. "Do you think your actions last night warranted it?"
"Maybe but the fire was an accident and I was only
helping Minnie help the creatures. She is already making us volunteer at the daycare. Isn't the punishment enough?"
"She asked if I could just beat her," Bella chuckled. "She gets the dramatics from Andy."
"Where is Andy?"
"She's going to spend the week with Teddy. She's smart some of the time," Bella called Twiggy who brought out the dinner. She thanked her loyal elf and told her to take the week off. They could manage with the girls. Twiggy was grateful and left immediately. "I already dismissed Winky for the week earlier," she filled her wife in.
"Did you really ride the Abraxan out of the reserve?" Hermione asked Cass who just gave her a cheeky grin. "Never mind, I don't want to know."
"The creatures can be happy now, mum." Minnie interrupted. "They aren't meant to live in captivity."
"I know my love. And while I don't agree with how you did it, I do agree with why you did it."
"You do?" The girls asked in unison.
"I do," Hermione looked over at Bella and smiled. "I was working on this at work today." She handed copies of a document to everyone. "I was working hard with the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magic Creatures and we came up with this order to release, rehabilitate and rehome all magical creatures in captivity. Bearing in mind that all dangerous creatures are to remain in sanctuaries where they can have as much freedom as possible and still be under the watchful eye of the Ministry."
"Really?" Minnie's eyes scanned over the document. "This is amazing!"
"Like I said… I don't condone what you girls did last night but the two of you got a lot of people thinking about these creatures today at the Ministry and thanks to you, they will have the freedom they deserve."
"Wow," Bella handed the paper back to Hermione. "This is something, pet." She winked at her wife, "good work Minister."
"I'm sorry, mum," Minnie tried to hide her smile.
"No you aren't," Cass cackled. "You got exactly what you wanted. This is great mum, really. I'm glad all of that last night meant something." She saw Hermione give her a look she had earned a lot over the past 14 years. "Okay not the fire thing but it was truly an accident."
"I know, sweetheart. Your mother told me."
Cass smiled at Bella and walked over to where she was sitting at the head of the table. She threw her arms around her mother and gave her a big hug. Bella returned the sentiment. "All right, all right."
Cass kissed her on the cheek before returning to her seat she whispered in her ear, "thanks for believing me, mummy. Not too many people do."
Bella whispered back, "love you, kid," and then spoke up, "let's all just relax and enjoy this dinner. Shall we?"
The four sat in comfortable conversation talking about how school had been going so far since classes started back up after summer break and how they were getting on with everyone. Bella looked around the table at her little family and smiled a genuine smile. They were quite the band of misfits but she wouldn't trade it for a second. She intended to keep this family as long as they wanted her. As if Hermione knew what she was thinking she mouthed, "forever then," in her direction. Bella chuckled, got up and walked to the kitchen. She returned with a tub of Florean Fortescue's butterbeer ice cream, bowls and spoons. As everyone was helping themselves, Hermione and Bella noticed a devilish little smirk across Cass's face. "Mum? Mummy? Since the creatures are now free does that mean we still have to go work at the daycare?"
Hermione and Bella shared a look before both answering, "yes."
Cass handed Minnie a galleon, "well, shit."