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[infourbooks]

[Action: in front of 1486 Kramden]

[Neville is checking the post, not quite sure what will show up this time.

He opens the package and just stares.

Candy wrappers. Droobles gum.

The ones he saved from his mum.

All he can do is stare.]

[Action: Park]

[Neville is bound and determined to be as useful as he can. Things are getting worse. So he's practicing as many charms as he can think of.]

There has to be something else.

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Re: In front of 1486 Kramden

[infourbooks]

I never even got to know them, really. I probably shouldn't ask the people here as much as I do but... they knew them. When they were... then.

Re: In front of 1486 Kramden

[ooeeooahah]

It's all right to be curious, but remember that your parents still care for you, even in their current condition.

Re: In front of 1486 Kramden

[infourbooks]

I... I hope so. I was just a baby, when it all happened.

Re: In front of 1486 Kramden

[ooeeooahah]

It's hard to think of them as the people others knew... but at their core, there is the spark that it them is still there.

[ She gives him a slight hug. ]

She's showing you, as best she can, that you are special to her.

Re: In front of 1486 Kramden

[infourbooks]

I think... I think that's why I've never been able to throw them out, even when Gran told me to.

Re: In front of 1486 Kramden

[ooeeooahah]

Your Gran may think it's something that upsets you, or it may be disturbing to her. After all, it's likely she knew your mother to be a different person.

I can't really say for sure without meeting her, but your grandmother, is she strict?

Re: In front of 1486 Kramden

[infourbooks]

That's... one way of putting it. Dad.. Dad was a lot to live up to.

Re: In front of 1486 Kramden

[ooeeooahah]

Oh, hon. I've had something like that from my Grandmere. High expectations, and they don't know what to do with you when you grow away from the trellis they set up for you?

[ Ilsa gives him a gentle smile. ] In nearly every case, it's not out of spite, but that they really do believe you can do just about everything.

Took me going through med school to figure it out, myself.

Re: In front of 1486 Kramden

[infourbooks]

We're an old Pureblood family. Not like some of them but there are still... certain expectations.

[At least he didn't turn out to be a Squib]

And Mum and Dad were these amazing Aurors before Bellatrix Lestrange got her hands on them.

Re: In front of 1486 Kramden

[ooeeooahah]

[ Ilsa nods. ] It might do you good to talk to someone who knew them when they were younger. Not everyone comes into existence in full battle readiness like Athena.