Raising Albus

CH 13 The Evolution of the Magical World

The Swiss Elfish names are all taken from the Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien. The elves bear no or only a superficial resemble to their namesakes, but using them was quite intentional.

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Harry was almost sure Albus was practicing in the basement with Draco's wand, but Albus was never caught. Harry thought he knew why; Albus was very good making the mapping papers, and Harry thought Albus probably had a map that told him if anyone was coming. Harry had no idea how sophisticated the maps Albus was making were becoming.

One day when they were in the Potions Room Harry asked Albus, "Have you made any of your own maps?"

Albus nodded yes.

"May I see them?" Harry wondered.

Albus took out a couple of maps of Twelve Grimmauld Place. One map was of Twelve to Fifteen Grimmauld Place and Twelve to Fifteen Newbright Street. The map of just Twelve and Thirteen Grimmauld Place was reasonably small, and it looked like Albus could carry it in his pocket.

"What is special about this map?" Harry continued.

"It vibrates when someone is coming down to the lower levels," Albus admitted.

"So no one catches you practicing?" Harry persisted.

Albus didn't say anything; he didn't have to.

Harry put the maps back in the drawer with Draco's wand, and Albus locked it.

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Al and Rose, along with Martin their house elf friend, started to scheduled time at DPW LTD. Every other week they spend a good part of the day at DPW with the house elves and Goblins. Sometimes they went over with Uncle Dudley. Dudley had a delivery truck with two rows of seats that he drove often, although he also had a car, and Albus and Rose really liked riding in the truck.

Harry asked Albus after one visit, "What are you doing at Dursley Potter and Weasley?"

"Talking to the Goblin children, and elf children," Albus replied.

"Are you speaking in English?" Harry asked.

"Some in Gobbledygook," Albus explained. "But also in Goblin Elfish."

"The Goblins speak Elfish?" Harry asked.

Albus responded, "They have their own version of Elfish, but please, do not tell anyone. They want to keep it secret. The Goblins are not all that happy that Magi know they have children. They never talk about their families to others."

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Molly, Rosemary Appleleaf, and Hermione held meetings with parents and grandparents who were home schooling their students every September, November, February and May. There were quite a few grandmothers home schooling and several grandfathers as well. Sometimes Ginny was at these meetings, sometimes Audrey was, and often both of them were.

Ginny was at the November meeting. As usual Hermione started by passing out a list of all the approved learning materials. Every meeting the number of books with lesson plans grew. Hermione tried not to run the meetings, but to let Molly run them. Molly tried to have at least one and usually two of the other witches or wizards talk about their experience home schooling.

Molly and Rosemary then took public questions, and afterwards there was quite a bit of time to talk and share privately.

Narcissa Malfoy was at most of these meetings, although she seldom spoke. Rosemary took Ginny over to Narcissa, saying, "Narcissa, you have met Ginny Potter. Ginny, Narcissa Malfoy is teaching her grandson. Scorpius is going to be in Albus's class."