Albus Potter, Classmates and Elves

Ch 32 The Hogwarts Board of Directors

Again thanks to Deb and Diane for their help with this chapter.

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Harry Potter was in his office with Mary Lou Creevy and one of her assistants, trying to finish some paperwork one Tuesday mid-July when TT Cheng from China and Bill Edington from North America appeared. Mary Lou popped her head outside the door and let the two wizards know, "We will be through with Harry shortly. I know he has dinner and a Hogwarts Board meeting tonight.

Mary Lou passed a small notebook back to Dobedo, Harry's Elf shadow and guard. "I've duplicated your latest notes," she informed the Elf.

"We are having dinner at my house on Grimmauld Place," Harry told the two wizards as they entered the room. "Ginny will meet us there. The children are all at Potter's New Burrow with their cousins. I am not sure who is cooking or where they are eating, but between Molly Weasley and Victoire Weasley they will make sure no one starves." TT and Harry smiled remembering the feast that the women could prepare.

The three wizards and Dobedo took Harry's private Floo to twelve Grimmauld Place. Mabel met them at the Floo, telling them, "Mistress is in the dining room, working." Mabel turned up her nose when she said "working," like Ginny did not need to work all that hard.

Harry could hear Ginny on the phone as they entered the hallway that lead to the Potter's dining room, but she was finishing her conversation. As everybody walked in Ginny was turning off her laptop.

"The Chudley Cannons have made another stupid trade," Ginny informed Harry with a sigh. "Nothing new there.

"I'm glad there are other people watching the children, because I am going to be interviewing people the next two days." She turned and smiled at their visitors, "Hello, TT, Bill. I see Harry has recruited you to be on the Hogwarts board."

Both of the men greeted Ginny, and they exchanged some pleasantries about everyone's family. The table was sized for eight, about as small as it could comfortably shrink. Harry sat at the head of the table, with Dobedo on one side and Ginny on the other. Mitzi sat next to Ginny, and TT and Bill sat across from Ginny.

Dinner magically appeared on the table, first for the Magi, then for Mitzi and Dobedo. Ginny explained, "Mabel is still upset that Harry and I eat with Elves. She finds serving food to Elves eating with Magi extraordinarily distasteful. I told her that she could magic the food to us using the same magic the Hogwarts Elves use."

"I've been here before, working with Hermione Granger-Weasley," TT let Bill know. "The Granger-Weasley family lives right next door to the Potters, and Mabel guards both house Floos and the shared Closet. She has made it very clear that she is a house elf, not an Elf."

The six beings spent a little time talking about Elves and house elves, before Harry brought out a list of all the Hogwarts board members. He tried to give TT and Bill a little insight to who the board members were.

At the end of dinner, they took the Floo to Hogwarts, entering Professor McGonagall's office. "I will meet you at the Board Room when the last board members arrive, Harry." the old professor announced.

Harry took his two long time acquaintances down the spiral stairs and over a few doors, and they entered a moderate sized inside room. There was a large table and enough chairs, but there were no windows in the room. The lighting seemed to be magical, although much of the lighting that shone on the tapestries that lined the room were actually LED lights. Harry was grateful that they were not trying to light the room with candles. It took work to hide the two big windmills that furnished electricity to Hogwarts, but with Muggle and a little magical technology they were able to modernize the castle.