The Great Hall of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was something to behold on an average day. Even more so on a feast day. Candles burned brightly from where they levitated under the enchanted ceiling which, on this night, provided a perfect starlit sky. Banners in the various house colors hung over the tables they represented ( Read more... )

Mum had wanted to go to Diagon Alley and Uncle Andre, just to show him around…prove somehow that they weren’t less than the French because they were in England. It meant, really, that Leon had wanted to go too…just to see what Uncle Andre thought, to just be near him in a way that was probably a bit too puppish in the eyes of many. There were days ( Read more... )