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Chapter XXIV -Courtship Gifts-

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Chapter XXIV

–Courtship Gifts–

Monday, 16 October 1972

CEP's POV

Mother looked through the list of shopping Harry had written down as the two boys filled in their test about the Pureblood way.

"What is all of this for?" Mother eventually asked when the two finished.

"The protection clothes was because I promised my Courter that I would buy protections to when I played Quidditch."

"That's not what I meant." The blonde woman argued and signalled the other things. "What do you want with these?"

"From where I came from I was taught that it wasn't just the boys who court the girls," [Mère.] Harry argued.

Mother frowned, looked down at the list and then up at Harry, wide-eyed.

"This is...?"

"Courtship gift." Harry agreed with a smirk as Ron snorted. "He was never loved at his orphanage nor at Hogwarts," [Mère.] "For all the issues that my Muggles did, I knew what love was."

Mother nodded.

"I'll ask Abraxas to gather you intel for possible gift choices." She agreed. "What about you, Ronnie? Will you also court Lucius?"

"With what money?" Ron argued with a shrug. "The Prewetts have their hands tied with Bill and the incoming Charley." Harry grabbed his friend's knee under the table, who shared a look back. "And gifting a Malfoy with using Malfoy money doesn't seem fair."

Mother hummed.

"Besides chess what can you do?"

Ron looked at Harry and then at the blonde woman.

"I'm a Keeper. I can duel but I'm not as good as Kari and Hera. I cannot dance to save myself, Mrs Genevieve already said she would give me intensive classes on it." He explained. "Then again as the one born within Wizards and Witches' parents I am the one who understands more about the Wizardry World out of the three of us. Sometimes Kari or Hera will say something that I have to translate. My parents had a large number of Gnomes on their back garden that I had to de-gnome every summer by throwing them over the hedge. And there was the Family Ghoul on the attic." Ron passed a hand through his shoulder-length hair, it was so unfair that Ron could let it be free and it didn't turn into a mess like Harry's. "I guess I'm good at cleaning? The magic cleaning stuff, because the Muggle-way Kari still beats me."

"Ron has massive self-esteem issues." Harry agreed.

Mother nodded at Harry as she took in Ron.

"And I can eat." Ron added, making Harry laugh as Mother frowned. "As much as I eat I don't get fat." He translated.