Chương 41: The Greengrass Family
The Greengrass arrived after a few minutes to the room followed by one of the goblins, who judging by the face of Mr. Greengrass was their house teller. I could make out the two little girls behind the couple, one more than eager to rush to my side by the looks in her eyes. I silently praised on how well Mr. Greengrass had brought up the girls that Daphne was able to hold in her desires and follow appropriate behaviour when in public.
The goblin left us to our devices and we finally sat opposite each other, with the exception being Daphne, who after being given permission by her father sat beside me happily. I greeted the guests and the youngest of the Greengrass before slightly holding the hand of Daphne who became quite pink in the face and just nodded her head.
Mr. Greengrass was first to thank me on the wonderful personalised JOKER that I had sent to their daughters and that he appreciated him remembering not just Daphne. The little girl sitting by her mother also looked shyly towards me and again looked down. They yet did not know that I had been behind the whole endeavour so they must have thought that I had spent a fortune on the personalised JOKERS.
Unlike most, Mr. Greengrass had regular interactions with high level ministry workers and hence knew that even the minister or other department heads had not received as extravagant JOKERS as his daughters. I had no plan to hide anything from them in the first place as I already considered them to be on my side in the whole fight, it was just that I had no chance to meet them personally and I could not correspond with one of the most prominent house head without Dumble's discovering, so I waited for a right opportunity.
I informed him of how I had discovered the brilliant minds of the Weasley twins during my first year and had gotten into a partnership with them. The very first product that the twins developed, believe it or not, had been the JOKER and that was the reason for the advanced JOKER that their daughters received. Mr. Greengrass was shocked that apart from the alarming adventure that harry had supposedly had at the end of the year he had also managed to get a successful business running while being only in the first year.
Daphne had only told them what Harry had allowed her to speak and the normal students also knew the same version so it was not difficult to hide the truth from the lie. Mr. and Mrs. Greengrass appreciated the honesty that Harry had shown their family. If Harry had wished to hide this they would surely not have found out on their own. As per the ministry and prominent houses were concerned this had to be a prominent family from abroad that had developed the product because of the way the goblins had acted.
Harry informed them that just before they arrived, he had indirectly revealed that the heir to the house black has come to the magical community and at least his persona is sure to be exposed in a short amount of time. Mr. Greengrass was surprised because he thought back to their last private talk into a similar room inside Gringotts, where Harry had informed them that he will talk to them next when he is ready to expose that he is the new heir black.
He had mostly forgotten and only took it as a moment when the young Harry had tried to appear mature and resolute so as to leave a steady impression on the future in-laws. When harry had asked them to meet today he thought that harry had already forgotten and moved on. He came today with no expectations and was going to treat it just as an outing with his daughters after briefly meeting Harry.
The announcement of the emergence of heir Black was sure to cause a turmoil in the magical community, with many trying to forge connections to the new guy and solidify their new positions. For Mr. Greengrass especially it was going to be troublesome to deal with the rest of them, this was due to the fact that Mr. Malfoy had always considered that Draco would be the heir Black since no other living male from the black family line had a stronger claim than Draco due to the fact that both Sirius and Bella had no kids of their own, Regulus was dead before he could marry and Andromeda was disowned for marrying a muggle.
Narcissa was always brought up by her mother to fully comprehend on how the family works and hence naturally new that there had been marriage contracts already set for most of the important direct family members with other sacred houses to ensure their strength. She also knew that the next in line after their generation had a marriage contract with the Greengrass and this was the reason that both Mr. Malfoy and Draco always just assumed that they will be relatives and thus Draco had always tried taking liberty with Daphne.
Mr. Greengrass informed Harry that he had gotten a lot of letters and even confrontations within the ministry by Lucius regarding the bad attitude of his daughter. He had spoken in no uncertain terms on how they had a marriage contract with the black heir and that was Draco, and her daughter had been fooling around while at Hogwarts. He also informed him that after Draco had tried to talk to Daphne that she was his betrothed, she dissed him in the common room and proclaimed that she only cared for Harry and never to disturb her again. He informed Mr. Greengrass that such behaviour will not be acceptable in his family and to better control Daphne or when the Betrothal becomes magically binding Daphne would suffer the consequences.
Mr. Greengrass assured Harry that he had dismissed him and now that harry has revealed the presence of an official heir black, the Malfoys will certainly know that he will have information because, the betrothal would have come into play and there was no way to escape a magically binding oath. He asked about how much should he divulge and what he should hide. Mr. Greengrass understood that even if Harry had allowed the persona to be known he was not yet ready to fully expose himself.
Harry informed him that he should confirm both meeting and completing the betrothal with the mysterious heir Black. Harry looked towards Daphne and told her that they would have to stop being so open about their relationship while at Hogwarts. He could already see the small tears forming in her eyes that were looking at him accusingly. He explained that this will also protect her because no will dare to harm her till his identity was secret and as a bonus she would not be harassed by any pursuers because even Harry Potter had to back off.
She knew that Harry was always good to her and won't harm her so she agreed. He assured her that he will find ways to meet her secretly and not leave her alone. She was happy once again.
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