Flint Manor Christmas Party
The Flint Manor Christmas party was not Theo’s favorite event at Flint Manor. I mean, he enjoyed a good party as much as anyone but prepping for the party always stressed him out so much. He just couldn’t enjoy it as much as he’d like
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"Heard anything good yet?" Alfie always has higher expectations for these parties but he just got told off for flirting with a waiter. So...He'll see if Bolly is doing anything interesting.
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"Purple feathers over there is having an affair with the bored beige dude's wife . And that guy, pretending he isn't too fat for his suit? Doing some shady potions supplies trading; I already told Grampa Fred about that one. But it's been mostly boring business stuff," Bolly admits, pulling a face. "Rich old dudes really don't know how to party. I guess the Falcons are looking to trade a chaser, maybe?"
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"Hmm. Boring. I knew about purple feathers. Mum was talking to Pop about it. " He huffs. "I kind of can't wait to get back to school."
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"I wanted to spend Christmas at Hogwarts," Bolly admits, "but mum said we had to come home." Also he's pretty sure his brother was homesick, or he would have protested more. Maybe they'll stay for Easter; that gives them two whole weeks of castle exploring.
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"I've never even asked. Mum would never allow it," Alfie said.
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"They make us stay at boarding school for seven years and then get mad when we want to stay at boarding school," Bolly tutted.
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"Right? Mental!" He takes a sip of his own champagne. "At least you don't have to leave once a month." The whole werewolf thing can be a drag occasionally.
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"Yeah, that sucks. I don't know why they don't just build you guys a proper run in the Forest instead of shipping you all out and back in again. It'd be way easier," Bolly huffs.
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"I don't know. I reckon some people still think we're dangerous," Alfie said. Which makes him mad and sad at the same time.
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"People are dumb. You're all given wolfsbane. They could leave you in the dorms and it'd be fine. Well, no," he corrected himself, "you'd probably get bored. But still. I mean, it is kind of rude that they don't trust you to take your meds on time, but adults think that of every kid, so at least that's not just a you thing."
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Alfie shrugs, "Dad says most people get it now. But there will always be people who don't understand. He says its way better than it used to be. "
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"Mum says people were total shits when Uncle Oliver was at school," Bolly says with the cheer that comes from being able to quote a parent swearing. Which they honestly try not to do around the kids, but his mum is much worse at it than his dad. "But if people are being shits at school, you should tell us who, so we can gang up and bully them into being better people."
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"If anyone was awful I'd handle it," Alfie says, and he would. "Sometimes they talk about the bad times, the werewolf hunters. But I don't remember all that. But I know Blue does. So does Nadya." Alfie doesn't even remember his biological mum. "They tried to kill Aunt Roxy and dad and Pop? Maybe Aunt Pasha and Nadya I don't know? It sounds complicated and I don't really want to know, I guess."
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"Yeah. Grampa Fred said we could ask him anything but it makes him sad, so we don't, and nobody else really talks about it." Especially Roxanne, who they barely ever see. Bolly kind of thought she hated them for a while. "Like mum will talk about Gus, who Auggie was named after, but she only talks about his music or how he did the Triwizard Tournament."
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"Yeah, they tell us the same thing that we can ask anything. Because you know, my biological mum was killed by that crazy hunter lady but I can see it makes them all sad and I don't want to do that. Plus, does it really help us to know all of that." Just like the stuff with Pop, he's head stories. He might've been a bad guy at one point, does it help to know?
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"Yes," says Bolly, who has never met a piece of information he hasn't felt entitled to know. "Better to know a bad truth than to worry about a worse lie." After a second, he adds, "I mean, it's okay to not want to know the grisly bits." He does kind of wish he didn't learn exactly how Gus died, because his mum hadn't been clear and Bolly had been too curious for his own good. He'd worried about everyone's wolfsbane for months after that.
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