REINCARNATED IN Harry Potter

Family's Dinner

"We're eating out in the garden,"said Mrs Weasley." There's just not room for twelve people here. Could you take the plates outside, girls?"asked Mrs Weasley as she handed out the plate to Hermione, Ginny and Renevia then continued to seek help from Ron and Harry to carry the rest of the utensils.

Soon, they arrived at the yard,a very loud crashing noise was coming from the other side of the house. The source of commotion was revealed, as they entered the garden, and saw Bill and Charlie both had their wands out, and were making two battered old tables fly high above the lawn, smashing into each other, each attempting to knock the other's out of the air. Fred and George were cheering, while Ginny and Renevia were laughing and Hermione was hovering near the hedge, apparently torn between amusement and anxiety.

Bill's table caught Charlie's with a huge bang and knocked one of its legs off. There was a clatter from overhead, and they all looked up to see Percy's head poking out of a window on the second floor.

"Will you keep it down?!"he bellowed.

"Sorry, Perce," said Bill, grinning. "How're the cauldron bottoms coming on?"

"Very badly"said Percy peevishly, and he slammed the window shut.

Chuckling,Bill and Charlie directed the tables safely onto the grass, end to end , and then with a flick of his wand, Bill reattached the table's broken leg and conjured a large table cloth.

"Ginny, can I be your sister in law?" Asked Renevia as she watched Bill with admiration and adoring eyes while nudging Ginny with her elbows. "Well, welcome to the family," said Ginny, wiggling her eyebrows in a playful manner.

"Thank you, sister in law," Renevia added, jokingly bowing down to the youngest redhead.

Then they both burst into laughter while Hermione looked at them helplessly.

By seven o'clock, the two tables were groaning under dishes and dishes of Mrs Weasley's excellent cooking, and the nine Weasleys, Harry, Hermione and Renevia were setting themselves down to eat beneath a clear, deep blue sky.

At the far end of the table, Percy was telling his father all about his report on cauldron bottoms.

"I've told Mr. Crouch that I'll have it ready by Tuesday," Percy was saying pompously. "That's a bit sooner than he expected it, but I like to keep on top of things. I think he'll be grateful I've done it in good time, I mean, it's extremely busy in our department just now, what with all the arrangements for the World Cup. We're just not getting the support we need from the Department of Magical Games and Sports. Ludo Bagman —"

"I like Ludo," said Mr. Weasley mildly. "He was the one who got us such good tickets for the Cup. I did him a bit of a favor: His brother, Otto, got into a spot of trouble — a lawnmower with unnatural powers — I smoothed the whole thing over."

"Oh Bagman's likable enough, of course," said Percy dismissively, "but how he ever got to be Head of Department . . . when I compare him to Mr. Crouch! I can't see Mr. Crouch lost a member of our department and was not trying to find out what happened to them. You realize Bertha Jorkins has been missing for over a month now? Went on holiday to Albania and never come back?"

"Yes, I was asking Ludo about that," said Mr. Weasley, frowning. "He says Bertha's gotten lost plenty of times before now — though I must say, if it was someone in my department, I'd be worried. . . ."

"Oh Bertha's hopeless, all right," said Percy. "I hear she's been shunted from department to department for years, much more trouble than she's worth . . . but all the same, Bagman ought to be trying to find her. Mr. Crouch has been taking a personal interest, she worked in our department at one time, you know, and I think Mr. Crouch was quite fond of her — but Bagman just keeps laughing and saying she probably misread the map and ended up in Australia instead of Albania. However" — Percy heaved an impressive sigh and took a deep swig of elderflower wine — "we've got quite enough on our plates at the Department of International Magical Cooperation without trying to find members of other departments too. As you know, we've got another big event to organize right after the World Cup."