Elio or people in his office write back promptly every time!

And eventually he goes home, not really less ignorant than he started out but with some useful new contacts.

NEWTs roll around.

They're so fucking long. Oh god. So long.

Nastily exhausting, even!

Karen staggers out of the exam room muttering "oh hell somebody carry me to a soft surface".

Minor sleeps for two days.

Miranda sleeps a normal amount but staggers around like a zombie until she's done it twice. Cricket meows before she crashes into any walls.

Karen is actually fine after thirteen hours of soft surface and a lot of scrambled eggs and pain au chocolat.

And then they're done and can spend all their time soaking up sun by the lake and complaining!

"At this point we could also do something productive with our impatience like plan a wedding."

"I am in favor."

"Should I just plan on moving in to your family's place or would we have an interim one or -"

"There's space, if you wanted to, or we could get a flat while we save up and design a house and so on. Probably could not talk the house-elves into doing our cleaning for a place in Muggle London, though."

"I'm not the one who's used to elves, how much of a problem is that..."

"Seems more like, being used to elves, I wouldn't know how much trouble it is to go without them. How do you do laundry? And food?"

"An enchanted basket and we know how to cook."

"Then that's a perfectly good option if you'd want to live in London or not live with soon to be three small children or so on."

"I get on all right with five and six year olds like Mum teaches but I have no idea about toddlers and babies for long periods of time, to be honest -"

"It's a big estate. But I don't mind London."

"Split the difference, live at your family's place until and unless we find a flat we really like and no rush about that?"

"Sounds good! Does your father want to attend the wedding and how do you want to manage that if so -"

"I was thinking turn him invisible."

"That works. Okay. Do you have a date in mind -"

"...autumn...? Maybe after my birthday. Weekend, so Stoller and Fawley can come."

"That's months and months!! Weekend sounds good, James and Samuel'll want to make it too."