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Hogwarts RPG Name:
TBD
Gryffindor

Hogwarts RPG Name:
Zara H. Bunbury-Foster
Slytherin
Fourth Year

Ministry RPG Name:
Bernadette O. Grantham
Law Enforcement

Ministry RPG Name:
David O. Truebridge
Mysteries
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And then the Fletcher Family was unfolding before his eyes and despite the formality that the situation, mostly, demanded...Charles found the whole scene heartwarming and brought a rather pleasant twinkle to his eye. "Not at all, Mr. Fletcher," he grinned as he unraveled his arm from around Victoria's to place both of his hands firmly on the younger man's shoulders with a gentle squeeze. "Always have been the family man...and you have a very lovely one I can see." His eyes drifted to the young man and then to his charming wife. "A pleasure to make your acquaintance, Mrs. Fletcher," he greeted the woman with a polite hand shake. "Charles Hollingberry, Minister for Magic. Very much looking forward to working alongside your husband in the Minister's Office." And then it was as though the Glitter Puff were baiting the man. Though, to be fair, it was quite easy to get the man to ramble on and on about his own family.

"You absolutely did!" his voice boomed, CLEARLY pleased that he had remembered his beautiful daughter. "She spoke quite highly of you, a first year during the whole Triwizard Tournament at Hogwarts. Though you were not her favorite champion to start, I lament to recall. She was quite close with a Miss Cameron Caddock...were you close with her? My precious ray of perfect sunshine always spoke fondly of the older Gryffindor. One of her first mentors at Hogwarts. She also spoke highly of a Raiden Kururugi...whom you needed to work together with to defeat a rather savage cockatrice. Oooooooh...she wrote PAGES and pages about that final task. A rather bit of brilliant thinking on your part to mimic the call of a rooster to confuse the beast. My daughter, she is a renowned dragonologist now...by the way. Works as a fertility specialist specifically trying to increase the dragon number of endangered species. I have pictures I can show you sometime..and of my five grandchildren her and her husband, Lewis...who was a Hufflepuff as well, blessed me with. Truly terrible what wizardingkind can do to creatures, don't you think? Hunting them nearly to the point of extinction. Getting those great creatures to mate under pressure and incubate their eggs according is quite remarkable...not to mention the conditioning required to get them acclimated back to their natural environment away from the reservation. It's quite delicate work but very important work. But anyway...back to this cockatrice," he chuckled a bit and smoothed his tie down. "Impressive quick thinking on your part under pressure! A valuable skill and quite the remarkable Hogwarts career!"

Forgive him, Victoria, they would be getting to those bubblies in a moment. Though a quick glance at the large pendulum clock on the wall reminded him of an announcement he needed to make as well.

"Oh, pardon me for just a moment..." Clearing his throat, the Minister pressed his wand to his throat and spoke once again. "FINAL CALL FOR ALL BIDDING IN THE SILENT AUCTION! I will be announcing the winning bids in 15 minutes!"
The Minister liked Fletcher's family? He liked them! He really did! That was great, just great, only........

Fletcher glanced at Jessa, momentarily horrified as the Minister called her Mrs. Fletcher... no.... no no no nooooooo! Ha, he was NOT her husband. Ha. "Good one," the junior undersecretary fake chuckled under his breath as the Minister suddenly became as friendly as the father he had never had. He couldn't even say anything; he could only smile and wince as the man moved on to shaking hands with Jessa. But was it getting hot in here, or was it just him? He could really, really use a drink just now.

Fletcher glanced heavenward, almost forgetting his son was attached to his hand as he asked the heavens for help for a moment. Why? Why him? Why THE Minister? And why now? Why? What was his long-time girlfriend and partner going to say about this? Because he knew she would have something to say; it was just a matter of when was she going to say it? Now? When they got home? Tomorrow? Next week? Maybe he could just go hide in his office and pretend to start work early....

He blinked but began to beam as the Minister suddenly remembered one of Fletcher's better decisions in life: entering the Triwizard Tournament! "Of course," the Glitterpuff grinned, just oozing charm as the Minister started a rather long but lovely to listen-to recap of his Tournament victory. He didn't even need to interject anything here; he could just stand here, squeezing his son's hand, and nodding and smiling all night, mhmming and chuckling every now and then. But hang on, Kurumi hadn't liked him best? Ugh, Gryffindors. Naturally, she had favored Raiden and Cameron... didn't everyone at Hogwarts love Raiden back then? They'd all placed their bets on him until FLETCHER had won. Fools. Never bet against a Hufflepuff in a Triwizard Tournament. Didn't they know about Cedric Diggory? "Yes, you'll have to show me pictures," he did mutter in-between bits of the Minister's erm, speech.

Fletcher needed to zone back in as the Minister was coming to a conclusion about how awesome he was. Uh huh! Totally agree! He nodded big time to show he agreed about the dragon something breeding program something and also about his splendid school career. "Thank you, sir!" Fletcher piped up at last. "I am still proud of the cockatrice victory. I never forget where I came from and how much my time at Hogwarts has helped me." And, in addition, he had a tattoo to help him remember this all. Should he show it to the Minister? Eh, maybe another time. It was a highly identifiable remark, after all, and the fewer people who knew about it, just in case something happened, the better.

Speaking of Hogwarts, "I'm going to go place my bid now, sir, to help our alma mater." He patted the Minister on the shoulder as a sort of thank-you for the time and the good talk, and then slowly started for the bidding table, tugging Lil Dunk with him all the while. "C'mon, kid. Let's go help your future school."
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