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"Ah," Jane said with a smile as Sapphire shook her hand. "I do ask you to beg my pardon. It would be embarrassing to be mistaken for a Gryffindor now wouldn't it? Especially if you were placed into the noble house of Salzar Slytherin. Unfortunately, my grandson, prefers not to mention much about his extracurricular activities. After all, this generation has seen its fair share of poor sorting." Smiling she stepped back and looked over to Sapphire's aunt Denise and her two cousins Ryan and Carter. One being on a leash of all things. It was absolutely ridiculous looking, but perhaps the child was a bad egg for now and would eventually grow out of it.

David glanced at the exchange, surprised that his grandmother didn't comment on how ridiculous of a name Sata was or even raise a brow at the name Sapphire. Then again, she was probably just happy to know that David actually did associate with Slytherins on occasion. His attention was stolen by Sata who asked about his sister. He smiled and nodded at Sata, "Yeah, Leah Ruby League. Apparently my parents borrowed a similar baby name book as yours. Or maybe they just got tired of giving family names to their children?"

He was still smiling when Sapphire came over and said that he didn't know her enough to assume he didn't like children and stated she adored kids. "Perhaps, but I suppose the same could be said about me. And, my sister surprisingly does not like kids, or at least until they can talk. I think somewhere in her brain she just assumes everyone should be at least half as fluent in their communication as she is-even babies."

He paused as he thought for a moment as he looked to Leah and then to Sapphire and said, "I'll assume then you wouldn't drop a child then, right? You can hold her for a moment but mind you, if you stop giving her attention she'll scream to high heaven." He smiled at his sister and asked the baby, "Aren't you a spoiled little one after all, hmm?"

Leah chuckled at the face her brother made at her and David glanced back at Sapphire, wrapped up in his sister more so than worrying about arguing with Sapphire. His sister was adorable and it wasn't like she was born a month ago so she didn't have to be especially sheltered from germs or what not-actually if she did they sure wouldn't have been visiting the museum in the first place. All the while Jane Avery decided it was a good opportunity to pull out a small camera from her bag, after all, her grandson had been scowling most of the day at her so while he was distracted it would be a good opportunity to take some decent family pictures.

"Oh, David and Wendy have come to some sort of agreement about his affairs," Jane replied with a smile. "One less muggle related course in exchange for Wendy only reporting or verifying the most necessary information, I believe. After all my youngest daughter went through a dating Gryffindor stage too. She didn't marry any so there is that to note. It was obviously a phase. Though, I guess she has made her fair share of bad decisions in the end, though. I'd have said Mr-sorry Dr. League- poisoned her fairly young considering, but he's not capable of doing that considering his unfortunate disability."

David narrowed his eyes briefly at his grandmother as she rambled on, obviously irritated to some degree, but also it looked as if he more or less heard the words enough times it was expected. When Sata asked about the houses David offered, "Well that was true in my case. I wanted Ravenclaw mostly because it is one additional quiet place to study-an advantage many house common rooms lack."

He shrugged and smiled when Sapphire asked about the it being a different idea of him liking children and the fact it was odd it was his sister who doesn't like children and then gave him permission to hex her if she harmed a hair on Leah's head. "I've always liked children. Have I ever said or indicated I didn't? As for my sister, the difference I have a lot more patience than my sister does. Children require patience. My sister has none if you ever bothered to pay attention."

"And, regardless of the permission I actually am incapable of hexing someone," David added. "Performing any of the spells are simple, but actually on someone I can't. If you are going to be worried about harm done to you for hurting my sister, I would worry more about my Mum or even my father."

Smiling David raised Leah up in the air and said, "Hmm, you want to meet someone new, kid? Just don't go catching her Slytherin traits-God knows the family has enough of those around for you to bring extra in." Chuckling he stepped forward and said to Sapphire, "Anyways, here you go, be careful with her, alright?"

"Sounds vaguely like my youngest, though technically her eyes are more a green-brown than a dark blue-brown," Jane Avery mused and David raised a brow briefly at his grandmother but decided it wasn't worth getting involved. However, David could easily picture his grandmother recruiting Sapphire into the ranks of keeping tabs on him.

David then glanced at Sata who asked about the hat giving into his whim. "I'm fairly sure the hat as principle considers your personal choice at the time if you are adamant enough. Who knows though? It is a hat. Anyways, at this point I'm mostly indifferent to houses."

He didn't seem all that concerned as his attention turned back to Sapphire and his sister as Sapphire pointed out that he didn't seem the type to like children and then pointed out she would just let his mother or his 'lovely grandmother' hex her. "My mum would be more likely to wipe your mind so that you had no idea who you were, where you were from, and could probably only speak about three words," David said with a shrug as he handed over Leah and leaned over as Sapphire giggled quietly at Leah who was happily chuckling back at Sapphire. "Since when do you think you know me well enough to assume what I do or do not like anyways?" David added with a snort before he adjusted the collar of the dress Leah was wearing.

Meanwhile Jane Avery took a few pictures of David and Leah while she was being passed over to Sapphire and David continued to hover nearby, before glancing down at Sata who was asking what happened to Sapphire and Jane said, "It's only normal to love all children after all: they are our future to mold for the better." She shrugged and glanced back at Denise Snow and the two twins with the gray hair. Either metamorphagi or children who just happened to come into contact with a stray spell of some sort-sometimes of their own doing. At least in the case of Leah all she apparently did was mess with the light's in the house or move the occasional toy in her room-which still made Jane Avery's son-in-law annoyed, but of course Jane Avery and her husband thought it was brilliant.

Jane didn't say anything as Sapphire continued to gush over Leah and David was joined in with his sister. And when Sapphire said to her aunt about being rude and the woman apologized about the rambunctious nature of one of the twins and not wanting to pose any sort of threat to her grandchild, though Sata, Jane thought the older boy's name was, was busy bombarding David with questions about sorting and the less active of the twins was talking about how Leah was cute for a baby.

Jane decided to intercept Sata as she took a couple more pictures and put the camera back in her purse. "Oh, I don't know how much that is necessarily true. My grandson is very obviously a Slytherin. He has all the traits for it: and his reasons for wanting in Ravenclaw were remarkably selfish and Slytherin, so you can never be too sure. That hat for generations hasn't given all that much thought in the sorting of the Avery family-or the Chaisty's. No matter how distant a drop of blood of those families have been, and no matter how much it has been worked to be erased only my grandson and his sister have managed to get sorted into anything but Slytherin. Oh, even my infamous great niece's halfblood son end up in Slytherin and I hear he's inherited quite a few obnoxious Gryffindor traits from that father of his," She said with a large smile as she leaned down to Sata's level and said her words fairly quiet though plenty loud enough that the gist of her words could be caught-not that Jane Avery cared, it was all true.

David frowned as his grandmother spoke to Sata and then when Ryan came up and said that his sister was kinda cute for a baby David's glare synced up with Sapphire, not that he entirely noticed. With a roll of his eyes, David turned his gaze back to his sister and listened to Sapphire's reply about saying he merely seemed the type not to like them. "What is that supposed to mean? I seem the type not to like them? I generally like those my sister's age or younger. The only reason I have any problems with Cathy's class is the obvious reasons-exactly your problem with Celeana."

He shrugged and said, "And, I don't really know if you want Sata to be repeating whatever nonsense my grandmother is trying to hook him on. You say you aren't fond of Wendy, right? Who do you think was responsible for her last couple years of education and training before attending Hogwarts? Honestly, my mother made my sister do similar etiquette training but my sister thought she was a muggle so she didn't even know the word 'squib' was insulting. She honestly thought when people were talking about blood in the wizarding world it was about blood types. Maybe, I did brainwash my own sister into being a Hufflepuff since I was supposed to have prepared her properly for attending Hogwarts." David snorted. "Anyways, if you want I can take Leah off your hands and you can go on your merry way with your family. Don't want to ruin that 'I hate everyone and everyone should hate me' thing you work so hard for."

"Perhaps," Jane said with a smile. "Genetics influence a great deal of things from your eye color to your nose shape after all. Though, that sort of technicalities never mattered. Maybe people who come from a family of one house tend to want to be placed in the same house as their forefathers?"

David raised a brow as Sapphire back-tracked on what she had said and tried to explain it only to give the answer that she merely assumed that with how he was he wouldn't like children. "Yeah, you still haven't flat out said what exactly I am supposed to be that indicates why I'd not like children. Children and people your own age or seniors are completely different type of people," He added with a tsk. "And, actually, Cathy isn't the complete opposite of me. If you ever pay attention we do have the same expressions and can take the same approach to a problem-generally we do-she just has the tact I don't really care to waste my time on. And, no, I wasn't referring to the personal differences. I was referring to the fact that Cathy had guys her first year at Hogwarts asking about her way more than a mere friend should-and you obviously noticed that blue haired kid chatting up your sister. Like that, more so. But if I wanted to have a sister that is more similar to me I could always adopt Mira. She gets along better with me than Leo anyways."

He raised a brow as Sapphire answered that Sata hardly listens to a word that is said to him, "But it is the few words that he does listen to that are dangerous." He shrugged and as he took back Leah he glanced at Sapphire who said he had no idea why she wanted to be hated and then said she didn't want people to think she had a sweet side. "Is that the Slytherin way? Never show you actually have emotions. Maybe, I am less of a Slytherin than I thought. I don't care if people know I actually like my little sister or not. Actually, it shouldn't be all that surprising considering my ambitions."

"And as for you wanting to be hated, you act like I should give a damn. I don't care about human psychology-I care about something definitively measured like one's physical health," David answered, looking down at Leah as she reached out for Sapphire about to burst into tears and David let out a sigh and muttered the spell 'Quietus' under his breath hoping the spell would muffle his sister's potential coming cry for the time being. "Besides you don't have the foggiest on my personality traits and the why behind them either. And, I can't imagine you could have a reason to figure that one out. So, we're even on that front."

David raised a brow when Sapphire said she would see Leah again and David said a bit perplexed, “We met here by chance… I don’t see why you’d run into her again.” He glanced down at Leah who since she was still getting attention from Sapphire was more than content. The sheer amount of how much attention Leah wanted made David wonder just how the girl would be when she was older-probably an absolute terror by many people’s definitions.

Meanwhile, Jane Avery shrugged, straightening as Sata mulled over her words about genetics and then she glanced to Denise who spoke up to Sapphire in French and then apologized for using her native language. “Il est très bien. Je comprends assez bien le français,” The elder woman replied with a shrug and David glanced over at his grandmother in absolute shock. It was the first time he actually heard of her ever speaking anything but English-it was the first time David had even seen any mention his grandmother knew anything but English. She glanced over at David and answered with a shrug, “One of your aunts is French after all. Where do you think your sister picked up an ease with language?”

“Dad?” David said. Jane chuckled shaking her head and looked back at Denise and merely nodded as Sata ran off following his aunt. She stepped down the exhibit hall some, obviously not planning to leave but not lingering to obviously overhear the rest o the conversation Sapphire and David had. It amused the woman that David obviously got along with Sapphire because, though he was argumentative with the blonde Slytherin, if he actually hated her he wouldn’t have let the girl near Leah, let alone hold the child, and he especially wouldn’t have so obviously admitted his greatest fallacy-David Sinclair League was actually quite decent in magic, though like his mother charms tended to be more his forte, and he could do almost any spell asked of him to learn, but actually performing some spells-like hexes-in their intended realm, such as against someone or dueling he couldn’t. It was amusing to Jane that despite everything David was a horrific pacifist and couldn’t actually harm anything. It was just like his father but worse because at least Dr. Sinclair League had the excuse of being incapable of doing magic. David could do the spells he was just what Jane would define as weak. It was probably good for the image of the Averys though: what better way to further eliminate negative rumors about family leanings than to name the son of a squib and a woman who ran an office that dealt in many ways with muggle affairs, who quite obviously didn’t have a huge preference for family wealth, wanted to do some humanistic mundane task like healing, and despite all his argumentative traits-was as Sapphire pointed out soon enough-her grandson was very much an open book. Whether it was that he didn’t have the sense to care about the fact, didn’t have the decent ability to hide what he thought or felt well, or just didn’t care was hard to say, but it was obvious enough he was an open book, just like his squib of a father. Brilliant but careless when it came to dealing with people and remaining properly on guard. Then again, didn’t that put people more at ease in the end? Even if you were horrifically rude or obnoxious to someone there was no mystery and people were more likely to show their true feelings. Which, Sapphire no doubt did but David was too oblivious to see if you asked Jane. There was always time, of course. Who knew with him? Maybe the boy was a better Ravenclaw than he thought. He wasn’t particularly good at being truly cunning in a manipulative fashion.

David glanced at his grandmother who was looking at a painting now halfway down the hall, still thrown off by the woman’s admission to actually being decent at languages and apparently knowing French and couldn’t help but wonder if his uncle Peter or his wife Noémie ever figured that one out. David figured no. The two didn’t seem to care if they annoyed the rest of the family but considering the raised brow Cathy had when the French aunt of theirs had said something in French and the lively discussion in French that followed he was pretty sure Peter and Noémie Avery didn’t know that about Jane Avery. Listening to Sapphire go off on him David raised a brow at her and said, “I never said I thought I was always right or claimed to be. It would be stupid to do so. I’m only always right about the concrete things I chose to care about and do a very, very good job of putting in the work to make sure I’m always right about things such as school work, memorization, spell work, that sort of thing. And, you say all that about how I have to be, but you’re right I do: I care too much about making up for my shortcomings, which I am sure if you asked my lovely grandmother or anyone else in my extended family about they would be more than happy to tell you.”

He took a deep breath as he glanced back at Leah who’s big eyes were glancing between the two and with a long breath he ruffled the few pale, pale blonde strands on the child’s head as Sapphire went on about her siblings. “Yeah, well, my sister went to Queen's College Prep School –which is all girls-imagine how I felt when I had during her first day at Hogwarts get to be told how cute my sister is according to some idiot in my house. Partially why I snapped and one girl end up crying. Not my problem.” He glanced back at Sapphire and considered her trialing off, “So, you started what being attracted to people in general in third year. That’s normal enough. I think it is only Ravenclaws in our year really who started dating or considering dating during our second year.” David thought back to the fact that rumors started about him and Leo at all during their second year and somewhere in their third year Echo and Kas end up hooking up and snogging everywhere in Ravenclaw-and now his sister was doing the same with some Slytherin that David was sure would get Salazar to roll in his grave. Though, now that David considered it he was fairly sure Echo and Kas was fairly a brief thing-they just got a lot of snogging done in the common room when they were hooking up.

His thoughts were interrupted when he noticed Sapphire actually look hurt at his words about Slytherins and the fact about her wanting to be hated. She had acted odd when he pointed that out the year before but now he was fairly sure she actually had tears in her eyes and David’s sighed more annoyed at himself than anyone as Sapphire said he was an open book and knew more about his ticks than he even knew. “Good you can be a detective,” David snapped. “And since you know so much about me I can only assume you do just try to piss me off with the nonsense you spout half the time. Don’t…” He paused and then said, adjusting Leah in his arms, “Look, whatever I’m sorry, I guess. I don’t really care what you feel-or pretty much anyone else does-or at least I don’t care enough to poke around in something that is not my concern. Then again, I’m fairly sure my sister is right on this one: actively seeking out being hated is just counterproductive to anything. Of course for years she’s been lecturing me on how to treat people and you see how far that’s gone for her. And, Cathy is fairly hypocritical. Maybe she inherited that besides just apparently language skills from my grandmother.”


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Location: Mitchell House -> British Museum

Leonette went straight to the museum after splitting up with Mira. She needed to find Grace that was all that mattered. If something happened to her little sister she wouldn't know what to do with herself. Nothing could replace her and nothing would remove the guilt she'd feel if Grace got hurt or worse. Shaking her head at the thought Leonette reminded herself she needed to stay calm.

Arriving at the museum after a short while, Leonette ran up the steps. Entering fifth year searched frantically for her little sister. Chances were she probably passed Sapphire along the way hadn't notice because of how focused she was on finding Grace. Speed walking through the museum Leonette tried to look like she wasn't having a panic attack although that certainly seemed like the case.

'Where is she...?' Leonette thought as she scouring the building looking for Grace. If she wasn't there she just prayed that she was at the library and that Mira found her. 'I do hope Mira doesn't start something with her if she does happen to find her...' she continued to think. That was the last thing she needed. If her cousin Chloe were there right now Leonette may not have been worried as much as she was. Then again her sister going off on her own was a stretch for her and one she wasn't used to one bit.

Status: Worried, Panicking! Apparently overly oblivious...
With: No one

Wearing: Red and Black

OOC: Just so you both no I wasn't intending to interrupt you guys so I hope it doesn't feel that way.