Hogwarts Graduation... Was very strange. The gnomes that wer dressed up as brownies, delivered the magical equivelents of the diploma. The owls flew in with them and the gnomes were hanging onto the diplomas, as the owls swooped down with them.
"This is the kind of dedication I love to see," Dumbledore smiled. There were enough papparazi to fill the Hogwart's Quidditch Pitch when Lady Red By Proxy got her diploma. Regalus as Sterling, also got some attention by the papparazi as he got his diploma.
"Aight," Rupertin said, throwing a piece of paper down at a muggle sports pub they were in. "Where are we? Oh right, it's summer voldecore is scary-".
Regalus shushed her. "Don't say any part of his name it has a trace!"
"Whoops," Rupertin said, not wanting the guy to appear in a muggle pub. "Although akward muggle places to bring voldemort through the trace was a challenge. A little bit of shrinking potion and a house elf could make it a safe challenge. And maybe bringing him to like 20 places in on hour can wear him out."
"Yeah, we're not going to experiment with that," Regalus said, seriously.
"So anyways," Rupertin grumbled, "My aunt Molly is angry her twins are clones of Gid and Fab. She's hoping for the best for the next one, if it's antoher multiple, she will take a potion or do a ritual for triplets. Anything but twins again. Gid and Fab can't influence triplets with their mischief, they only know how to be twins."
She now interning as a special event coordinator for Madam Puddifoot's cousin. She sometimes on charms, divination, very light magical history, light transfiguration, and some runes. There were special event planners in all types of fields. Her role also entailed saving the company costs. It was an untraditional route, but she was Lady Red By Proxy. She hoped to work in Narcissa's company. Regalus was a cateror or chef de party and food critic, nearby. Cooking with Kreacher led Regalus to pursue a career as Chef de party, he got into food charms, food transfiguration, food potions, and food runes. He also learned about brownie and house elf techniques.
"Your aunt is the bravest Weasley, she's gonna have 2 quidditch teams of redheads before the war is over," Regalus noted.
"Why is Bellatrix afraid I'm going to usurp the Black throne?" Rupertin said. "Aunt Molly's family alone to take take over Black family genes in this generation because the Blacks still marry within like 500 years ago."
"That's because the Weasely curse isn't broken yet," Regalus reminded her. "Bellatrix is still disillusioned by Goldymort," Regalus said. "She hasn't fully processed the idea that the Black family might be all gingers in 3 decades. The Most Ancient and Noble House of Ginger sounds like a restuarant... That I could open one day..."
"She might kill everyone in her family over that, gingers are right up there with muggleborns and creatures in her eyes," Rupertin reminded him.
"Yeah, you have no idea," Regalus said. "Cissy had a deep shade of Venetian blonde hair when she was younger. Bellatrix kept telling her she was part house elf and made her sleep in the house elf bed."
2 years later
Rupertin had a lot of fun working under Madam Puddifoot's cousin for one year in magical tradeshows, it was surprising that that intolerant woman was a vendor to a love shack restuarant. As the war raged on Rupertin couldn't execute one event that didn't pander purebloods. It was even racist to gingers. So Rupertin always added muggle foods and themes when no one was looking, unless the client was a death eater. Earning a living among death eaters was a pain.
She was working in Narcissa's company, which wasn't much better. Narcissa forgot she was a shade away from ginger at one time. So Rupertin also went for weasel, muggle, or ginger themes when she could.
She was allowed to offer planning services for her Aunt Molly's babyshower, as Regalus was also catering for that event. Her Uncle Arthur's family was what they called a blood traitors or ginger traitors. Gideon and Fabian were on the wrong side of Bellatrix' army, and as a result vampires now. Vampires were the only thing that saved them that day.
Rupertin remembers the day. Sanguini joined the order, half out of hunger for the bloody members that needed healing, and half out of the goodness of his heart. The twins were on a mission, and Sanguini went with them. The twins were trying to follow Bellatrix as she went to Gringotts. Luckily Sanguini had the foresight to be hungry and bite the twins out of nowhere. After Bellatrix's partners brutally attacked the twins in a battle, and the only blood they needed was blood they could drink.
The only reason Aunt Molly would use Narcissa's company is because Bellatrix still hasn't realized the Weasley usurping the Black lordship theory is very plausible without a Weasley curse, and will result in a 3rd generation of ginger Blacks. Rupertin wanted to change her name to Lady Ginger by Proxy, but Sirius and Regalus warned her that Bellatrix might realize what they all knew. And then she would personl
Aunt Molly's baby shower went off well. Rupertin utililized the garden gnomes and dressed them up like leprechauns. She handled the decorations, catering arrival, guest list, and event. Her aunt's house was antique but it was filled with the most expensive and prettiest antique items. Along with bejewelled decorations. The walls were pueblo like, and the colors of the house were rich shades of gold, blue, peach, orchid, and yellowsih-green. The mahogony table was in good condition despite the many kids in the house, including two extra naughty toddlers. The marble fireplace wasn't expensive but it was decorated with crystals and had acutal sliver of pink ivory paneling. The house was a victorian masterpiece with the sunlight filling in. Rupertin's decorations of sparkling streamers, gaudy balloons, and a baby cake with a bejewelled centerpiece plate, added to great vibes of the home.
The windows were charmed to glitter when sunlight or rain hit them, and they shimmered at all other times. Sometimes they twinkled from moonlight or early sunlight. But the fulgurated effect was temporarily removed so they could tell if a death eater got through the wards, or if the sun was setting.
The pond in the burrow was the greatest showpiece. The water glistened and sparkled. The waterfall was scintilating and coruscated a bit. The fish and toads were fugent. All sorts of pretty stones lined the pond. The outside of the Burrow was a nice egg blue shade, that they would change in a few years. The burrow was cheerful and fun to be in, letting everyone forget about the tensions of the war for a little bit. If Bella got past th e wards atleast she would be outside a sparkly window charmed to always be bright, with junebugs flying.
Guests had to be asked security questions. Depending on the akwardness of the question, Rupertin arranged privacy for the questions, but not an opening to be attacked by the dark lord's side.
All of her uncle's ministry co-workers, the mauraders, and Lily were there. Alice, Frank, Xenophelius, Pandora, Albus, Augustus, the Tonks, Rupertin's family, the Diggorys, Moody, Kingsley, Hestia, Mundungus, Hestia, Muriel, and Grindenwald's aunt and a few others RSVPed. A few of them that werew privvy to the secret, were wondering if the Weasley curse would be broken anytime soon.
Rupertin made a baby mobile from fake red gold and spangold. She alloyed it with a few galleons so it wouldn't disappear. She shaped some of it into snitches. It was pure coincidence that Ron would grow into a Chudley Cannons fan, and the baby mobile looked like it belonged to one of the Chudley Canon teammembers.
Regalus as Sterling catered for the event with a wide array of food like spring rolls; olives and pickles; a cheese plate; crackers; deviled eggs; mini cornbread; Spinach-and-garlic palmiers; tea sandwiches; and 20 small personal pan pizzas. Rupertin taught him about muggle fast food so pizza had to be added to the menu. Aunt Muriel was besides herself. "What is this," Aunt Muriel held up a slice of pizza, never having seen it before.
Wizards were only familiar with the medieval version of pizza, because they didn't have access to the wide array of restuarant or fast food that muggles did. Especially many non British dishes. That was because last time they ate what the muggles did - starting with sugar, tomatos, spices, chalupas, and corn from the new world- was in the 1600s.
"It's goo-od," toddler Fred said, nibbling on a piece from the table.
"You should try it," Sirius said, eating his 3rd slice. Sirius begin eating different muggle food right after he ran away. "There is no way you-know-who is trying to rid the world of this for a better world. If he was allowed to try muggle fast food or restuarant food, maybe he would switch sides. There is no way wizards think their food is superior because that's like saying Cissa can cook toast, so it's suprrior to white castle cheesecake." Andromeda snorted.
"Man has no tastebuds," James agreed, taking a slice with a lot of toppings.
"Well yeah he has a snake 'nose'," Remus replied.
"And a snake tongue," Gideon added.
"I wonder if goblins expect the edible gold they made back," Mundungus wondered, getting strange looks.
"Aunt Muriel, it's not bad," Arthur coaxed her, grabbing 3 slices for himself. Having muggle food in his muggle collection was the icing on the cake. Speaking of cake, Sterling introduced a very delicious mostly modern mugglish cake.
Muriel coward at the sight of pizza, until Arthur gave her a gentle nudge forward. She picked up a slice and sniffed it. "It won't bite you," young Percy said.
"You bit it, weatherbee," George teased him as Percy's face was covered with pizza sauce and cheese.
Fabian bit a slice with his fangs. "The italian one had more of the stuff I need"
Young Tonks' hair turned red and yellow as she finished off slices she could get her tiny hands on. Crackers, tea sandwiches, olives, corn bread, and spring rolls were all on a plate for her, Bill, Charlie, Percy, and the toddlers.
Muriel tentantively brought it to her face and sniffed it. She wasn't completely repulsed because she took a tiny bit. She chewed for a few seconds then she couldn't frown. Muriel grabbed 4 slices and promptly walked away before anyone could comment on her stuffing her face.
It was the kind of food purebloods would never see at Hogwarts. Regalus was considering gettning hired at Hogwarts as chef de party or head cook, and lead the house eleves. And he would introduce pizza as well as tacos to the Great Hall meals, just to see the purebloods lose their sheeit. Rupertin thought that was a brilliant idea, she would even help Regalus with that.
The baby shower went good until Ron decided he was missing out on the pizza. Muriel was very close to not leaving any pizza left behind for the other 30 guests. The party games halted when Molly went into labor.
Luckily Andromeda was a healer. Ron was born healthy, 10 hours later in old Weasley parlor. The other guests except the Lovegoods, Sirius, the Potters, Longbottoms, Rupertin, Rupertin's parents, Linny, Kreacher-disguised, Dumbledore, and the twins. "I'm surprised the curse isn't broken yet," Kreacher muttered when Andromeda came out of the parlor to tell them a baby boy was born.
"Atleast Harry didn't crash the party," James joked to Lily. who was along in her pregnancy. Frank and Alice mumbled in agreement because Alice was due in a few months too.
Rupertin met her youngest cousin, a little worried the curse wasn't broken yet. She would like a female cousin too. "Couldn't wait could you? Heard Great Aunt Muriel was taking all the pizza, did you?" Ron wailed in response. Yeah he would have a good relationship with food in the future.
6 months later the Potters and Longbottoms had sons too, born on the same day. Their babyshower could've been a discount if anyone knew. The lack of daugthers already added to Rupertin's worry that the Weasley curse wasn't broken yet.
As fall approached, Rupertin got a little busy at work. Her aunt Molly thanked her for the baby mobile, that looked like Chudely Canon Baby Mobile by accident. Ron loved it. Charlie was disturbed when he saw his newest baby brother coo after hearing the Chudely Canons won the quidditch world cup.
Narcissa also had a son, Draco. Rupertin made a green gold baby mobile for her. Regalus and her couldn't be as lax for the detials of her baby shower, that meant not pizza. Apparently even muggles didn't have pizza during baby showers according to Peter and Petunia. Petunia also had a son, aroudn the same time Ron was born.
Peter was acting weird. Rupertin noticed how everyone was genuinely happy to be safe and celebrating something nice during Aunt Molly's babyshower. But Peter looked like he swallowed a lemon, like his tiny happiness was an act. He was looking at the Potters oddly. He even glanced oddly at the Longbottoms. There wasn't the concerned relief that was vibrating from Sirius. Rupertin was on guard, there was trouble in paradise.
As Hallows Eve approached, Rupertin got busier. Even the wizarding world liked Hallows Eve. She drew inspiration from trick or treat, that appealed to her leprechaun genes. She was proud of one event where the host could trick or give their guests treats. Her purple leprechaun gold was perfect for that, but she couldn't reveal her ancestry by taking credit for the fake gold. For the next year she built themes based off of that.
As Hallows Eve approached the next year, Rupertin made sales off of that theme alone. All was going well until it wasn't on October 31st, 1981. Rupertin and Regalus were done with work and decided to troll Grindenwald's great aunt. They were shrunken down with shrinking potion along with kreacher, and impersonating Grindenwald and Umbridge with voice changing potions. They sonoroused their voices as much as possible, and all the inhabitants of Godrics' Hallow felt harassed.
"Where are you, Gellart?" his aunt kept asking.
"How did you get out of Numengard? Does your bladder still leak? How do you deal with nighttime accidents without magic?"
It was at that time that He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named decided to take a stroll through Godric's Hallow, in between trick or treaters. It was Regalus who noticed his presence first. Umbridge was talking about her illegal collection but Grindenwald didn't respond. Rupertin looked at Regalus. Regalus was clutching his tiny arm.
"What is it?" Rupertin asked, growing concerned. She realized it was his arm with the mark. "Is he, is he calling you?"
Regalus kept focusing on the sting and clutching his arm. Finally he shook his head. "No..."
"What is going on then?" Rupertin was at loss at what the mark does. Kreacher was now very alert and grabbing both their hands, ready to appearate at a moment's notice.
"He's-he's... here," Regalus finally spoke. Ruperin looked up so fast, whiplash couldn't keep up.
"What?!" she exclaimed. Kreacher was in the process of appearating them away.
It was then Rupertin noticed a girl right near a house nearby Grindenwald's great aunt. The girl kind of looked like Regalus... and Bellatrix. She was kind of very pretty with very aristocratic features. Her silvery curly had a widow's peak. What was more startling was a guy who looked like James wasn't far behind her. Rupertin blinked twice.
But she was distracted in her crouching position as the air became very cold, even for October.