A Family Meeting PV Henry Knight Finished

Standing on the frost bitten street in front of the second hand bookstore is Henry dressed in jeans and a long sleeve blue shirt along with his greenish jacked that was zipped up in a attempted to keep himself warm and next to him was a girl who was around the same height as him, probably just a inch shorter, with dark brown hair that fell to the end of her shoulder blades that is slightly wavy matched with her light blue eyes and slightly tanned skin, she almost looked like the girl version of Henry, who was wearing jeans and a long sleeve light green sweater type shirt with a blueish jacket that was also zipped up in a attempt to keep the cold out.

Henry turned to the girl as he spoke "I don't understand why we couldn't join Arthur inside, it's freezing out here right Annabeth." The girl, named Annabeth turned to her twin while she spoke " probably because he doesn't want to be seen with us so we have to stay out here and freeze our-" Annabeth got cut off when a lean, young wizard stepped out of the bookstore who seemed to be around 6 feet and 4 inches with light to medium brownish hair that was a bit curly and light hazel eyes along with lightly tanned skin that gave him a attractive look, the boy dressed in black jeans and a long sleeve white shirt along with a black winter wizard robe approach the to tween twins as he spoke to his younger siblings " sorry it took a bit longer but I ran into someone from my auror training,"when Arthur finished Annabeth chuckled a bit as she spoke to her older sibling " and you had to make up some lie on why you were buying a second hand copy of the book that you guys need or did he offer to pay for a new book for you?" Arthur rolled his eyes a bit and smiled as he reply back " no and no, he just wanted to chat. We should be on our way back home anyway." Annabeth mouthed whatever as Henry quickly spoke up " Wait, I told a friend that I'll meet them at Florean's today." Arthur smiled as he reply to Henry " alright then let's go meet them," Annabeth sign then spoke " ugh, and this day gets worse."

Henry was about to reply but let it drop as the three siblings walked the winding streets to Florean's ice cream parlor. Arthur pulled up the door and let his two siblings entered as the little bell chimed above to announce their arrive. Henry saw Altair and what looked like her family and walked over to their table along with his two siblings, he saw Altair smile and point out each member of her family as she spoke "This is my mom, brother, and aunt. Unfortunately, my dad couldn't make it due to some business problems." Henry smiled at them all to acknowledge them then spoke while also pointing out his siblings " it's nice to meet you all, this is my older brother," Arthur then cut his younger brother off as he spoke "Hello, I'm Arthur and like my younger brother said it's nice to meet you all." Henry then continued to speak once Arthur was finished " and this is my twin sister Annabeth," Annabeth gave a short smiled then looked away like she was bothered by something but Henry knew better then to mention it so he made a mental note to ask her later.

Henry took a seat next to Altair, as Arthur sat next to him and Annabeth sat next to Arthur. The three siblings sat quietly for a moment then Henry remember they forgot to mention their father when he opened his mouth to mention him, Arthur beat him to it and spoke " Our father is a bit busy with ministry business so he couldn't come."

"er," Arthur begun to speak but then stopped as Altair aunt or Kathy spoke again followed by Altair's mom and little brother who announced proudly that he was going to be a wizard something Annabeth roll her eyes at. As Kathy started to speak again this time to Arthur it seemed, Henry saw Altair give him a apologetic smile as Henry whispered to her out of ear shot from the others " your family seems nice especially your aunt." Henry smiled back at Altair to let her know that they didn't mind her Aunt talking much, as Henry thought; Arthur is probably enjoying this since he's a very social person and enjoys talking to new people.

When Kathy finished speaking, Arthur cleared his throat and smiled as he started to speak " I graduated from Hogwarts last year, and actually just turned 18 over the last summer holiday. Unlike my father through, while I am intrested in creatures, I am currently in my first year of school to become a auror. Which is the main reason were here today," Arthur paused as he took the second hand book out from a pocket from his robes to show them then placed it back inside the pocket in his robes as he continued " And I'm sure we'll get your book, since our father enjoys books about them also but about what he's doing at the ministry, were not sure. Since he's almost always away at the ministry or somewhere else for his job and rarely tells us where or what he's doing."

Arthur finished and smiled at them as Annabeth gave her two brothers a bit of a sly smile, as to say nice job admitting that were poor. Arthur side eyes her and gritted his teeth for a moment before continuing his friendly smile at them again as he spoke again " uh what about you, Kathy right? What division do you work in, in the creature department and what does your job include?" Arthur smiled at her, he was the siblings most likely to be polite and create small talk as Henry smiled at Altair then stayed quiet, Henry didn't seem to speak much when he was with his siblings as Annabeth crossed her arm and spoke in a bit of a matter of factly to Altair's little brother, Rigel " so your wizard uh, did you do any magic yet?"

Henry and Arthur both side eyes Annabeth and thought the same thing, both if her brother's recognized her sarcastic or tempered speech which made both of them nervous as they didn't want to upset or come off as rude to the family. Arthur gritted his teeth as he smiled again at Kathy and the others as Henry smiled, apologetically at Altair for what might happen.

Arthur took the book that Kathy has handed him and placed it inside his robe in a pocket that he has enchanted to hold more than meets the eye, when Kathy was finished speaking Arthur then spoke" thank you for the copy, I'll make sure to give it to our father once he returns and I'm sure then he will thank you himself at the ministry. That's really interesting, also conisdental since our father works for the beast division as well. But he also works in the other division as well, except any registry's or capture units. He believes that no one should be registered or captured, even if someone's not full human. And speaking of wolfbane potions-"

Henry cleared his throat and looked toward his brother while smiling, his brother ended his sentence and smiled back at his younger brother, they seem to have a good communication while not speaking. Henry then looked at them all and continued speaking where Arthur left off " Altair might have mention it but I'm also a werewolf, before Hogwarts through our father use to bring me wolfbane potions from the ministry that they took out from his pay. He would say that the ministry gave him a discount but your right their still expensive. However now that I'm at Hogwarts and they provide them for students, out father doesn't need to have then taken out of his pay anymore even through, they still don't pay him much." Henry finished with a smile toward Altair as Arthur continued speaking " Anyway, that's actually interesting that a auror was your first choice. Funny thing was it's my third choice, my first was curse breaker and my second was dragon keeper. Uh, anyway since your work at the ministry," Arthur seemed to have lowered his voice a lot before he continued " is Altair registered with the ministry?"

Once Arthur spoke, both boys noticed that Regal replied to Annabeth and somehow hit her on the nose with the stick that he was holding. Both of her brothers also knew that she had the shortest temper if the three siblings and easily got angry fast as Annabeth yanked the stick from the small boys hand and snapped it in half, as she begun to say " why you insufferable child, you may have magic but you obviously don't-" Arthur cut in as he grabbed his sister's arm and pulled her up from her chair as he to got up from his own chair " excuse us for a minute, we uh." Henry then got up as he quickly spoke " as we get drinks, we'll be back soon."

The two brothers pulled their sister away from the table and too a corner where the family as well as anyone else couldn't hear them. Arthur then looked at his sister in the eyes as he whisper, quite sternly "really Annabeth, first off he's a child and second why would you even start your normal jealous self?" Annabeth seemed to roll her eyes and cross her arms in front of her chest as she spoke " because I rather not be here, there's nothing for me, unlike you two, to enjoy here." Arthur bit his lip as he felt his anger rising as his sister's obviously disrespect, he calm himself down before saying " at least apologize to him, he's only a child Anna." Annabeth still seemed uninterested in the conversation as she spoke " If I go back there then I'll give that boy a shiner." Henry the smiled as he got a idea and spoke up " Arthur what about you give Anna some coins and she can go somewhere else while we continue talking to them." Arthur thought about this for a while before pulling out their coins from his pocket as he saw they only had 3 sickles and two knuts, Arthur handed Annabeth 1 knuts and 2 sickle as he put the other two back in his pocket before he said " try not to get into trouble, Anna." Annabeth rolled her eyes at her brother and walked out while sending a sink eye to regal before resting her face in a way that threaten others as she walked out of the parlour.

Arthur and Henry retook their seats at the table and while Henry gave Altair a apologetic look, Arthur spoke " sorry about our sister, she already has a short temper and also get a bit jealous when others talk of magic since she's a squib, but she meant no harm. Uh where were we, so is Altair registered with the ministry. "

Hearing this question got both of the boys nervous as they both look each other in the eyes almost asking the other to speak, Henry looked at his legs as he started to trace a stitch line in his jeans. Arthur bit his lower lip and sort of looked like his younger brother now, as he became nervous with just question, as Arthur shook his left leg a bit under the table then cleared his throat before he opened his mouth and spoke " that's sort of a complicated story, you see for a while our father refused to get Henry registered for his own reasons that he never told us," Arthur paused as he looked over at his younger brother before turning his attention back to the family and continuing" as we got older, specifically me, I learn about the dangers of not being registered so around last year after I turned of age or 17. I went to the ministry and registered Henry myself since I didn't want to see him get thrown in azkaban and also I was use to doing a lot of these things for my siblings since our father was and still is almost always away on ministry business, we think since he doesn't tell us anything specific."

Arthur paused again as Henry looked up at Altair and smiled, before Arthur took a breath and then continued to speak " after our father found out what I did, he was beyond angry at me for it and uh... let's just say punished me extremely for it. But he did never tell us why he didn't want Henry registered or any of our names anywhere where others can have access to them, so I still think I did at least a slight good thing with registering him." Henry nodded to his brothers response as Arthur spoke one last time " what about you, Mrs. Cometnova what do you and your husband do."

Arthur looked at her and smiled while she spoke, when she finished Arthur spoke up " so your family is intrested in both magical and non-magical creatures. That's kind of cool you guys have something like that to bond over and your work also sounds like you do a lot of good, " Arthur then looked over at his younger brother before giving a playful laugh, while he spoke again " it sounds to me more like the muggle version of a magizoologist which is the career that my brother is looking at for his own future. " Henry quickly looked up with embarrassment filling his face as he spoke quickly " what, no it's not..I...I mean maybe, uh I don't know yet." Henry the eyed his brother as they both remained quite for a few minutes before hearing Altair's younger brother say something about being bored then her mum mentioning that they have to leave soon. Arthur then smiled and spoke to Regal this time "to apologize for my sister, what about I give you a coin or two and a recommendation. There's a shop at the end called; Weasley's wizard wheezes which sells amazing and cool products that I think you might like." Arthur then looked back to Altair's mum and aunt as he continued to speak " we better get going to, our father doesn't know were here and we better get back before they does. Well it doesn't really matter since he won't be back till next week and won't know either way, I hope we can meet again soon through. I enjoyed chatting with all of you."