Together [HP]

"So," James took a sip of the white wine after the turkey was cut open, "I figured maybe they were expecting me to be the villain. Both Una and I heard about the little scene this morning." Farce, Miss Granger, may I ask when you arrived at the castle?"

"Midnight last night." Hermione pinned her hair behind her ears a little embarrassedly. "I just received the Portkey from Jacqueline last night. I... I didn't realize the time at the moment."

"At that time, the access to the annex building was closed." William nodded pretending to understand, "So are you satisfied with our little niece's bed? Do you think there is any room for improvement? For example, Hard?"

Hermione's face was flushed, and she poked her head down at the turkey on the plate, unable to utter a word.

"We didn't have sex!" bellowed Jacqueline, blushing, with veins throbbing in her forehead, "if that's what you're trying to imply! And we didn't kiss! We just... I just... She's going to A place to sleep!"

"I'm not suggesting anything." William shrugged.

"Actually," Gina cleared her throat, "we think you're doing the right thing, very gentlemanly," she laughed.

Jacqueline and Hermione blushed even more.

"But I think Miss Granger can live in the annexe tonight, right? If you'd like to stay today," Arthur said.

Jacqueline blushed and puffed her mouth, unable to speak a word.

On the one hand, she doesn't know if Hermione will stay, on the other hand, she doesn't want Hermione to move into the annexe, she really misses the feeling of Hermione waking up from her arms today, but she knows that Neither was a reason for Hermione to stay in her room.

"I need to tell my parents," said Hermione. "I told my parents I was at school this Christmas."

"I can fix this." Yuna nodded, "We can send an owl there."

"Thank you very much."

"So, Jacqueline." Ray shook his head, "Since you invited Granger here, is there any special place you want to take her?"

"The location of the first date is very important." James held Yuna's hand, "I apologized to your mother for a whole year before she forgave me for choosing a very inappropriate place for a date."

"The Department for the Regulation and Control of Fantastic Creatures is definitely not a good place for a date," said Yuna, wrinkling her nose. "Especially when they were still using owls to send messages. Every corner was terrible. I don't know how they did it." Put up with it. Not to mention their restaurant, there's no worse place in London."

"I just thought you'd like to see all kinds of magical creatures of all shapes and sizes," James argued.

"But I don't like to see the excrement of various creatures." Yuna said angrily.

"Ray is a good player in this area." Elizabeth looked at Lei with a smile, "but he had several girlfriends before he asked me out. He took me to a small workshop for making wizard chess pieces, and we spent some time there. Had a good afternoon."

"That was my idea!" William yelled. "I suggested him to do this. Otherwise, do you think that with my brother's rigid personality, he can do such a thing?"

"You suggested him to make a cake by hand, Serena." Arthur smiled at the top, "I'm glad he didn't listen to you, our family is not good at cooking."

"Maybe you can take Miss Granger to the forest to have a look," Emily said with a dreamy look. "Although it is not as beautiful as autumn now, there are still many colorful plants."

It had to be the happiest Christmas lunch Jacqueline had ever had.There was no quarrel, no confrontation, and no plate breaking.Not to mention, with Hermione sitting next to her, Jacqueline couldn't imagine a better Christmas lunch.

"Take her for a walk in the village." After dinner, most of the people made excuses and went out. While Lucas and Hermione were exchanging Muggle musical instruments and paintings, William floated to Jay Guilin's side whispered to her.

"Huh?" Jacqueline looked through William, staring at Hermione with her back turned, "but the village is a long way from here, and I won't Apparate. Even if we go there now, before curfew at night Definitely not coming back."

"You little idiot!" William stared at her bitterly, looking like he wanted to beat her up. "You think your mother and grandpa will pay attention to when you come back tonight? Your mother and that James boy Stayed out all night on our first date!"

Jacqueline grinned, "So, just now, Grandpa and the others said they want Hermione to live in the annexe, so that's it?"

"This is not a joke." William said seriously, "This is a family rule that has been passed down since ancient times. Although it is a bit outdated, we still have to abide by it." William turned his head and glanced at Lucas who was chatting with Hermione. Nodding to him, "I'll give you a last piece of advice, dating, giving gifts, you have to understand what your girlfriend likes instead of what you like."

Jacqueline frowned, apparently still not understanding what William meant.But at this time, Lucas and Hermione had already walked towards her.

"Then I won't continue to bully you, Miss Granger." Lucas bowed slightly to Jacquiline, "otherwise the future Marquis, my little niece, will be unhappy." He said He said and looked at William, "Come on, Serena, come and fight with me on the chessboard a few more times."

The originally noisy restaurant suddenly became quiet due to the departure of people and ghosts.Jacqueline looked at Hermione in front of her, and she suddenly smiled.Hermione frowned slightly uneasily, she looked down at the white carpet under her feet, "Did your uncle tell you something funny?"

"No." Jacqueline shook her head, she stretched out her hand to hold Hermione's bare arm, and Hermione's arm immediately flushed a little, "I just found out that Malfoy's words are true, I I must say you have very beautiful eyes."

Hermione's face flushed immediately, she raised her head and gave Jacqueline a shy look, then looked at the wall behind Jacqueline. "What's that?" she asked curiously

"That's our family tree." Jacqueline held Hermione's hand tightly, and walked with her to the fireplace.She looked up at the top, and then looked at the bottom row.The three characters of Jacqueline are written crookedly, but the four characters of Graham are neatly written.

"Look," she took Hermione's hand and let her touch the wall, and Hermione immediately noticed the unevenness on the wall, "Our names were all carved by ourselves when we were five years old, and the surname It was engraved by the head of the family at that time. And Jethro..." Jacqueline pointed to a line extending from Yuna next to her, and there was nothing underneath it.

Hermione squeezed Jacqueline's palm tightly, "I saw the genealogy of the Black family in the Order of the Phoenix, but theirs seems to be drawn on a tapestry."

"Maybe it's because they prefer to destroy names." Jacqueline mumbled, "But maybe our ancestors thought that if we carved our names by ourselves, it would enhance our sense of belonging. It caused a lot of trouble, so very few people in this family were expelled. But, no, you see."

Jacqueline pointed to the flat piece next to Arthur on the top of the wall, "That's the only person who has been expelled in the past 100 years. His name is Kay, and he is my grandfather's younger brother."

"Because of what?" Hermione asked, she thought of the reason why Sirius explained that he and his family were expelled, "Is it because he married a Muggle?"

"Married a Muggle?" Jacqueline looked amused. "Oh no, Hermione, it's not what you think. We're not going to kick someone out for marrying a Muggle," she said. Pointing to the side of the flat place, a man named Gawain said, "He is the one who married a Muggle, but he is living well with his wife in Germany now. I heard that there are three more child."

"And Kay," Jacqueline gave a bitter laugh, "he was expelled from us. I heard it was because he used magic to cheat food and drink in the Muggle world and was ignorant. He was expelled from the castle because When I was very young, on December 12 every year, he would send me a lot of shouting letters, accusing me of killing his grandparents, parents, brothers, nephews..."

Jacqueline sneered, "But himself, he hasn't been back for decades."

Hermione frowned, she didn't know how to comfort Jacqueline.

Jacqueline snorted, "I've never been very fond of watching this." She said, brushing her fingers lightly over the names, which were followed by their dates of birth and death, and a dozen people , their date of death is the same day. January 1980, 1. "It just keeps reminding me how many people died that day."

"They paid for you willingly." Hermione whispered in Jacqueline's ear, "You should face it."

Jacqueline raised her eyebrows and looked ahead of her.

Hermione stood there, looking intently along the notches in the wall, and she saw several names next to a name called Hungarth, a notch linking Mavis Graham and Darien ? Crouch together.

"Are you related to the Crouch family?" She said in shock, "Darien? That's the name you mentioned to Winky that day."

"Our family has been married to almost all pure-blood families." Jacqueline shook her head regretfully, "Darien is not welcome in our family, because he wants to chop off the head of the last house elf .It's just a pity that the relationship between him and me is not enough to make Shiny bow to me."

Hermione continued to look up, and she saw a surname above the names of Marvis and Hongas, a surname she couldn't believe at all: Oaked Graham (Malfoy).Her name is attached to Coughlin.And beside them, there was a person named Scarha Graham, her name was linked with Phineas Black.

"You have something to do with the Malfoys too?" she exclaimed in shock.

"Yeah," Jacqueline snorted, "about this matter, we don't know whether the Malfoy family is more depressed or we are more depressed. For a long time, the Malfoy family would rather declare that Oakard was dead .”

"And Phineas? Black, where did I see this name." Hermione frowned, trying to remember.

"I know who you're thinking of, Phineas Black, the former headmaster of Hogwarts. But this one is his son, and it seems that he was expelled from the family." Jacqueline shook her head, she Smiling at Hermione. "Well, there's not much need to study my family tree like the history of magic, unless you can't wait to get up there."

Hermione's face turned red, and she retorted a little bit unwillingly to show weakness, "Then maybe you entered my family's genealogy!"

Jacqueline laughed with a 'poof', "I have no objection at all."

Hermione pursed her lips, "I just, I thought you were the same as the Black family, only pure-blood wizards would be on it."

"No family is exactly the same." Jacqueline said with a smile, "You see, our family only cares about whether you are a Muggle. As for whether you are from Slytherin, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, or Greg Lanffindor, you are a man, a woman, an old man, a child, a centaur, a murloc, a goblin, that is my business."

"Not all of the Graham family are good people, we also have people like Kay. And the Malfoy family is not all bad people, Oakard, on that day, she also fought like a hero. And my Amy Sister-in-law Li," Jacqueline pointed to the side of Lucas, there was no Emily's name there, "She was just Uncle Lucas's girlfriend at the time, and it was only the first time to visit the castle, and she hadn't even gone to the castle yet. The genealogy of our family."

"And we care about whether you are a Muggle because we don't know whether you can accept the existence of wizards in this world. So, Hermione, instead of researching whether you can enter our family tree here, let's go out let's go."