[Hogwarts Between] At the Ministry of Magic (Cyrus, Eugene, Heath&Family)

[Karen Klutzke]

On Dec 5, 2007 3:22 PM, William Dean <wsdean at operamail.com> wrote:
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> > From: "Margaret Dean" <margdean at erols.com>
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> > Subject: Re: [Hogwarts Between] At the Ministry of Magic (Cyrus, Eugene, Heath&Family)
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> > Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:22:33 -0500
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> > Karen Klutzke wrote:
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> > > > > After a few minutes had passed and no sign of Heath nor Samantha
> > > > > returning, Collin turned back to Cyrus and Eugene. "I can't imagine
> > > > > where Heath's gotten himself to," he said worriedly.
> > > >
> > > > "I don't imagine he's gone far," Eugene said in an encouraging
> > > > tone, but then added "...without a visitor's pass," and started
> > > > to look a bit worried himself.  The queue had moved up so that it
> > > > was almost the Johnsons' turn at the reception desk.
> > >
> > > "This is all rather new to me," Collin smiled weakly. "I only found
> > > out a little over a month ago that Samantha was a...a witch. I didn't
> > > know any of this existed."
> >
> > Eugene returned Collin's smile a little sheepishly.  "I didn't
> > tell Daphne, either -- my wife, that is -- till just before
> > Gideon was born.  That's my oldest boy.  I thought there might be
> > ... incidents..."  He looks at Collin meaningfully, then goes on,
> > "But as it turned out, there wasn't anything of =that= sort till
> > Cyrus, here, turned up."  He beamed at his youngest son in
> > obvious pride.

Collin looked at Cyrus and Eugene with renewed interest. "Oh? You mean
your other children aren't..." He paused, searching for an appropriate
adjective. "...umm, _gifted_ in that way?"

> > > "Heath just found out as well." [Collin's] gaze fell
> > > to Cyrus. "I bet it was a lot different for you, knowing all your life
> > > who and what you were."
> >
> "Yeah," mumbled Cyrus. "But it causes problems too." When Gideon and Gerald found out that Cyrus could do something that they couldn't, they had gotten really mad, and had disliked him since.

"I can imagine," Heath's father replied as he repositioned the glasses
on his nose. "I have an older brother too, and he was always annoyed
at me for getting better marks in school." Collin shrugged and smiled.
"But he was the better athlete, so I suppose it evened out.

"How many siblings do you have?" he asked Cyrus.