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With all the hubbub, a seventh-year Gryffindor - Hermione Granger, which is rather exciting - takes Miranda aside for a brief chat about how she has some experience with famous eleven-year-olds and also with prodigies, and says that she is willing to be a tutor/supervisor for Miranda's wand experiments. This is much appreciated, and Miranda accepts, but doesn't have time to take her up on that before Easter's on the horizon.
Miranda meets her mum at the train station at the end of Easter hols and is promptly Apparated directly to Charlie's house in Fordwich. She is successfully not-found by reporters there.
But partway through the vacation her Daily Prophet mentions that there is a sort of town hall meeting, open to any British-residing wix, about - the agenda's about forty items long, but it boils down to "there are not enough of us" (and also, "oh no, wild Dementor").
Miranda owls her mum.
Her mum dithers but agrees to take her on the condition that they will Apparate away if anyone shows too much interest in Miranda. (The paper seems, in its small flurry of articles about her after the one she was tricked into giving "quotes" for, to have decided to call her "Silverlight", almost like it's her last name: "Belgian Theoretical Magic Expert Weighs In On Possible Mechanisms for Miranda Swan's "Silverlight" Feat". "Miranda Silverlight: Evidence of New Family Trait Magic?" "The Prophet Investigates The Source of E. Miranda "Silverlight" Swan's Unusual Wand.")
Miranda brings a copy of her agenda, crosses both wands in her hair even though she isn't allowed to do magic over hols, and walks in at her mum's elbow into the Ministry hall being used for the meeting.
chanuphis
parental_guidance
"Me too!" Emma says fervently.
"Do you know anything about the plans the Aurors mentioned?" Emma's father asked.
"Do you know anything about the plans the Aurors mentioned?" Emma's father asked.
chanuphis
"I think Professor McGonagall has been giving them trouble because I'm, you know, eleven. I really, really want to kill more Dementors but I don't know a way to talk to Aurors about it without reporters being all over me."
Miranda's mum pats her shoulder.
Miranda's mum pats her shoulder.
parental_guidance
"Reporters," Emma's father scowls. "Bane of the wizarding world and no mistake. Some of the drivel the Prophet is writing nowadays, it might as well be the Quibbler!"
chanuphis
"The Quibbler sometimes runs legitimate articles, you just have to tell the difference," says Miranda's mum.
parental_guidance
Emma's mother looks like she is about to say something about that. Emma not very subtly steps on her foot.
"Ah. Well. Let us know if there's anything we can do?" she says instead. "Bill, perhaps you could find an Auror for Miranda to talk to?"
Emma's father looks at Miranda doubtfully. "Don't know how it would help with the reporters and all, but I'll try if you want," he agrees.
"Ah. Well. Let us know if there's anything we can do?" she says instead. "Bill, perhaps you could find an Auror for Miranda to talk to?"
Emma's father looks at Miranda doubtfully. "Don't know how it would help with the reporters and all, but I'll try if you want," he agrees.
chanuphis
"Well, if the Auror doesn't talk to reporters, then as long as I get a chance to talk to the Auror, we can find ways to meet that don't involve being places reporters might find us," Miranda says.
parental_guidance
"Aurors do not typically sign up for their job expecting fame and glamour," Emma's father says with a cynical smile. "I'll see who I can find."
parental_guidance
"Welcome. Least I could do," he says. "Coming, Emma?"
Emma starts to drift after her parents. "See you at school, Miranda?"
Emma starts to drift after her parents. "See you at school, Miranda?"
chanuphis
"See you."
And then hols are over. Back on the train with them. Miranda's mum cuts the timing close so she doesn't have to linger on the platform as a media target.
And then hols are over. Back on the train with them. Miranda's mum cuts the timing close so she doesn't have to linger on the platform as a media target.
witch_please
Alli also cuts the timing close, out of a combination of laziness on her part and scatterbrained-ness on her mother's. She's hurrying onto the platform when she sees Miranda. "Heyyyy Silverlight! How were hols?"
chanuphis
"Are you just going to call me that now?" asks Miranda, stepping onto the train and waving Alli on after her.
witch_please
"It amuses me! I'll stop if it really bothers you, though." She thinks about that for a second. "Pretend-bothers or mild exasperation may be fair game."
witch_please
"I did pretty much nothing. Except for eating chocolate Easter bunnies. So, pretty awesome."
witch_please
"Probably on the train already? We are kinda late."
After some awkward squirming to see around and over people, Alli points. "I think I see Jenny through that window. Let's go check."
After some awkward squirming to see around and over people, Alli points. "I think I see Jenny through that window. Let's go check."
parental_guidance
Emma squirms. "We were here early anyway," she mumbles. "Hey. Glad you made the train."
metamorphmaga
"Madrid! That's so cool! I just had piles of family to hug," Jenny says. She does not look particularly upset by this. In fact, she's noticeably cheerier than when she left school.
parental_guidance
"I was... mostly just reading. Some studying. That meeting was probably the most interesting part of hols," Emma sighs.
witch_please
"Right. Meeting. That happened. How was it?" Alli feigns sadness. "I never got a report!"