The Subtleties of Mischief PV Henry Knight

So long as they did harmless pranks, Henry’s mum wasn’t too angry about them. She believed in the punishment fitting the crime. They get glitter everywhere? They have to clean the glitter up. They break dishes? They save up some money to buy new ones. There were a few times where the punishment got pretty bad, but it was uncommon that their punishment be unrelated to their crime. Their dad just did what their mum said when it came to consequences.

Henry was glad K seemed to be enjoying their conversation, though he thought something looked off for a moment. It vanished almost as quickly as it had appeared, and Henry didn’t mention it. “Oh yeah, Daniel and Diana have been making trouble since they could grab things. They roped me in when I understood what they were saying.” Henry laughed, thinking back to when they started their troublesome trio work. “Yeah, though I bet mum is glad to have another weight lifted off.” Henry responded, taking a moment before realizing what that might have sounded like. “Not that she doesn’t love me, but she’s got her hands full with the lot of us. I dunno if I’ve mentioned, but I have six older siblings.” Sometimes his big family scared people, other times it was just a surprise. There were the rare people who were not surprised, based on the way Henry was.

The sound of the prank with the starts was sounding awesome. They were harmless, barely a small tap when thrown, so they couldn’t make anyone too angry. “Yeah. I mean, once you know how to make them, they don’t take much thought to make, so it’s kind of just something I do when I’m bored.” Which was why he had as many as he did. He was bored frequently, usually in the middle of doing homework. He’d absently tear a strip of paper and start folding a star.

Henry was a little confused as to why K’s parents would punish him strictly. He was used to the way his parents did things, so it was odd when he learned that other parents did things differently. “Really? My parents would only punish us harshly if we hurt ourselves or others or could have hurt someone.” There had been the occasional moment when that had happened, which meant they learned their lesson pretty quickly. There were still times when they slipped up, but it took a lot of thinking to come up with all possible ways a prank could go. Sometimes they missed a few of the more harmful ones out of a strong desire to do the prank. “That’s a good question,” Henry replied, knowing he wouldn’t be able to come up with any way to get the slime.

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Even if Henry enjoyed mischief that doesn't mean he always did it. For the majority of his childhood the boy stayed away from mischief especially after his mum died since his father seemed to get pretty angry whenever him or his twin pulled a prank or something however now at Hogwarts the boy wanted to cause all the mischief that he could and doing them with Henry Llewellyn sounded even better. Especially if they got in trouble,
imagine a professor just shouting Henry then them going 'which one' or if they had a rather cool nickname like Henry Squared or something like that.

Henry couldn't help but crack a laugh at mention of Henry Llewellyn's siblings roping him into pranks but his smile sort of diminished when he heard his next comment and a wave of sadness hit the twelve year old as he opened his mouth but zero words came out so he quickly closed it.

However at his next comment, Henry's smile would return as he spoke" 6 older siblings? That's a lot, do you have any younger siblings?" a short pause before he continued, " how is it having a large family? Mine is sort of small with my older brother, twin, father, and me so," a smile on the boy's face as he wondered what it was like to have a large family like Henry Llewellyn.

However as the conversation went on and Henry started to regret saying anything about his father acting strict on mischief making as he heard his friends comment.

A smile still on the boy's lips as he turned a bit to stare at his orange feline; Loki in his leather jacket as he spoke" my father was raised differently so he can be a bit strict at times," feeling awkward but glad when the topic changed as Henry looked over at Henry Llewellyn with a smile before speaking"maybe we could offer to help clean up his classroom or the creatures then we can swipe some?"

Mischief making had been a huge part of Henry’s life. Sure, he still played regular games with friends and did schoolwork, but making mischief was one of his hobbies. There were times when he didn’t really feel like making mischief, but those weren’t very often. When his mind got distracted, he needed something to do. Often, making mischief was the solution. There were times when his attempts to distract himself unintentionally resulted in mischief.

Even after the seeing the expression on K’s face after his comment about his mum, Henry still didn’t pick up that something was off. He did wonder if K wanted to say something, but that curiosity vanished as K asked about younger siblings. It would be super interesting to have a younger sibling, but his parents were done when he was born.

“Nope, I’m the youngest. Crazy, huh? Six older siblings and I’m the only wizard.” Henry chuckled, thinking about the likelihood of that happening. Sure, it was unlikely that there be more than one wizard in his family, with the way muggle-born magic worked, but it was still crazy. “It’s pretty chaotic. Recently it’s been a lot calmer, since both my oldest siblings started university, but it’s always been kind of messy.” Henry recalled past Christmases, the floor hidden in a thick layer of wrapping paper. “Wow, that’s small. There are nine people in my family if you count me, so four is so little. What’s that like?” He figured he’d ask, since K had first.

“I guess that’s true, people are raised differently,” Henry muttered, thinking about his grandparents, who did things weirdly compared to his parents. Sometimes they got into arguments over how things should run, but it was never long. The conversation changed to the flobberworm slime again and Henry grinned at K’s suggestion. “That’s a great idea!”

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Henry laughed a little at K’s words. “Yeah, mum’s got her hands full a lot of the time. With my oldest siblings out and me here, though, it’s probably much easier on her.” Henry loved his family, but he did feel a little better, giving his mum the time off of dealing with three trouble makers. Now, she only really had to deal with four of his siblings, which was much less than she usually had to deal with. “Yeah, I suppose it’s probably just luck. I don’t really know how muggles being born with magic works, really.” He wondered if anyone knew how muggles, seemingly randomly, acquired magic.

Since Liam and Jessica were out of the house, that meant the rest of his siblings were still in school. “They just go to school back home, really. Daniel and Diana are only a year older than me and Mary’s two years older than them. Leena’s getting close to graduating, I guess.” Other than going to school, he really didn’t know what all his siblings did. Well, he knew a bit about Mary and Leena, but Daniel and Diana were the ones he really got on with best, since they were much closer to him in age.

“Yeah, it can be nice sometimes, never any privacy, but always someone there if you want to talk,” he admitted. Sometimes he did want privacy, which might have seemed odd to anyone else who knew him. Even the most social people enjoyed their quiet time. Henry listened as K told him about life in his own family. It sounded a bit lonely, to be honest, but he let his friend finish before saying anything. “I guess it’s nice me being here because it’s less chaotic and you have people to talk to.” Henry commented, thinking about how completely opposite their lives were like. “What’s an ‘auror’?” He asked after a second of thinking. He’d not heard that word before.

Henry nodded, thinking about ways they could go about getting the slime. It wasn’t going to be easy. The Care of Magical Creatures teacher wasn’t the only one they could get the slime from, though he wasn’t sure how they’d go about getting it from the Potions teacher. “Maybe he’ll just think we’re eager to help or learn?” Henry suggested, realizing that sounded a little silly.

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Henry listened to K’s explanation with wide eyes. He had magical ancestors? A million thoughts raced through his head with this concept, the first being that he wanted to look back on his family tree and see if he could figure out where it happened. They had been decent about documenting family history, but perhaps he could pinpoint exactly where it happened. “That’s pretty cool. It’s interesting that the magic was kind of like ‘oh, haven’t manifested myself in several generations’ and just…chose me.” He thought about the odds of his entire family line since that happened that he would be the wizard. Maybe there were other muggle-born wizards before him who were great aunts or uncles. The thought was intriguing. “Yeah, kinda want to read it, now,” Henry replied eagerly.

Sometimes Henry forgot the way pure blooded children were brought up. Just the concept of never attending primary school was foreign to him. That made all pure blooded wizards homeschooled until Hogwarts. Maybe there were some that went to primary school after all? Henry nodded along to what K said. “17 seems so far away,” He mused, thinking about how much was going to happen between then and now. The number seven didn’t seem like a lot until it was used on reference to years. Henry had barely scratched the surface at Hogwarts. “I just realized you’ll have graduated when I’m in my last year.” Henry thought out loud, thinking about what life at Hogwarts would be like without K. Then again, who knew what would happen in the next seven years.

At K’s next words, Henry felt that stupid fluttering in his chest. He managed a smile and hoped he was passing as not having a small panic attack. K didn’t generalize to just being at Hogwarts with friends, but with him specifically. He needed to not read into that. They were both just friends. “Yeah,” was all he managed to say in response. What else was he supposed to say?

“Oh, that’s cool. They’re kind of magical police officers,” he thought aloud. It made sense that the wizarding world have its own magical law enforcement, since regular police would be unable to handle magical criminals. It was super cool that K’s brother was training to become one of them, too. It seemed like it would be a cool job, though dangerous.

“Hopefully that’s enough to convince him,” Henry muttered, aware that it might not be. Still, slime could be useful in so many situations.

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Knowing that his magic had come from some random wizard generations ago was fascinating. This knowledge was chased from his mind, though, as K complimented him and expressed how glad he was they had met. The blush that rose from the base of his neck to the tips of his ears rivaled no other and he hoped K wouldn’t mention it. Of course, as a red head, it would be difficult to go unnoticed. Henry was glad K looked away for a moment as he tried very hard to compose words in response. “Er, thanks. I’m, erm, glad I met you too.” Well, that was lame.

Taking breaths he hoped would reduce the blush and his heart, Henry almost missed when K turned back to look at him again. “That’s awesome, thank you,” he said, giving a warm smile back. Thankfully words had started to flow more naturally through his brain, so he was able to compose a comprehensible sentence.

The subject change to graduation was kind of stressful, in a way. Sure, it was over six years away for Henry and five for K, but it was still a crazy thought. Henry hadn’t considered much what he would do after graduation, even before he knew he was a wizard. At least after muggle secondary school he would be able to attend a university and have a good idea of his options. As a wizard, though? Could he still hold a muggle job? He supposed there was nothing wrong with that. Now, though, there were magical options open to him. “Yeah. Good thing it’s so far away.” Henry laughed awkwardly, realizing his mind had run away from him.

Why was K doing this to him? Henry gave a shaky smile, hoping his nerves weren’t present on his face after yet another blush inducing admission from K. He had only recently discovered his crush on the older boy, why was his heart doing this to him? “That-that’ll be great. We need to make as much trouble as we can while we’re here, after all,” Henry beamed, laughing lightly at the trouble they would make.

K’s question left Henry shrugging. “I dunno. I’ve only just learned about them. I don’t even know what kinds of wizarding position exist, anyway. Up until recently, my only options were muggle careers and I had barely thought of those.” He refrained from adding ‘I’m only a first year!’ Thinking of a career was so far out there, he really didn’t want to think much about it.

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