As Hedda pulled away from a now slightly blushing Hermione, Harry said, "Lady Ogden, Hermione is of the House of Granger and magical ward of Lord Sirius Black of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black."
Having only acknowledged Harry's introduction with a slight cocked eyebrow Lady Hedda turned back to Hermione and said, "That scoundrel has taken you on as magical guardian? Well, there's a turn for the grimoires."
Hermione grinned back and said, "He just needed a flea bath and a good brushing."
That had Hedda look back in surprise for a moment before she gave a short high pitch tinkling laugh. "How apt!" she exclaimed.
While the Ogdens gave a public façade of being slightly snooty, Harry could see that it was just that... a façade. He could see that Hermione had also determined that.
After chatting for a while, he floo-called Headmistress Lady Marchbanks and asked to stop by.
She was happy to receive visitors for a few moments. And, once they were there, happy to confirm the two teens would return to Hogwarts on the Tuesday morning after the third of January.
The two, still with their auror detail, were back at the Grangers' less than two hours after they left. Harry had expected it would take much longer. However, as it was Christmas Day, everyone had visitors coming and going, as well as paying short visits to others.
It was the norm for the day. Harry would learn later that Christmas Day was a day in the FNA when all staff were required to put in at least three hours work monitoring the network for problems. All new staff, that is, since all but one of the previous had been fired. However, they were also paid at triple the normal hourly rate for their time; so, there were few complaints. Those who used the floo network were also charged at triple the rate. Even later Harry couldn't figure out how, since the only real charges they were paying were for the floo powder; the use of which required a fee per 'bag' paid directly to the FNA.
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The rest of the day was planned to be spent quietly at the Granger residence. Sirius was also spending most of the day there, but also let the two teens know Remus would be over after lunch to pay a visit.
With a frown of puzzlement, Hermione asked, "What's he doing with the rest of the day? He has family?"
"Errr... no," replied Sirius.
Hermione quickly glanced to her parents before Monica said, "If you can contact him right now, tell him to come over now. That way he can have lunch with us and spend the afternoon here."
Before Sirius or the two teens could say anything, Wendell looked to Hermione and explained, "Your Uncle Robert rang me on my cell phone to wish us a Merry Christmas, found out we're not spending it at your Grandma's place and practically demanded we come and pay him and his family a visit."
Smoothly, Monica took up the explanation, "It'll just be your father and I. We told him you had plans to visit your own friends this afternoon and it would be rude to cancel them, especially today."
Sirius did just that and Moony enjoyed lunch with them. After that, the Granger parents left by car, leaving the two marauders to 'babysit'.
Of course, that was all the excuse Sirius needed to tell the two stories about their times at Hogwarts and later. At first, Moony was reticent to share and spent some of the first hour trying to get Sirius to slow down, or even not release details he thought the two teens, especially Harry, shouldn't know. However, within two hours even he was enthusiastically telling the two teens stories or supplying more information to Sirius's stories from his perspective.
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Boxing Day was starting off as planned, a day to wind down from the excitement of the previous day, Christmas Day. However, it did not remain that way for very long.
About an hour before lunch Dobby popped in beside Harry and popped a letter on to the table alongside his left hand.
"A letter from the twin Weazies, Master Harry," he said before popping away again.
Frowning, Harry quickly scanned the note but didn't detect anything on the parchment. 'Well,' he thought, 'It seems those two can learn from their mistakes.'
Opening the letter he used the charm Marchbanks had taught him and Hermione a few days ago that smoothed it all out.
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