The Love Of A Wizard

CHAPTER 6
The Other Wizards

An entire week went by before Claudia heard anything about the other wizards coming to the house to perform their spells. Remus had not left the house at all since Sirius left. She thought he was a wonderful friend for doing so. They enjoyed each others company and Claudia was able to discuss books and ideas much easier with Remus than with Sirius. Emma was happy once again playing with her many cats and still feeding the visiting owls. The owls were getting used to her and many were regulars to Claudia’s house. Once they delivered their post, they waited patiently for Emma to come and give them bits of fruit and nuts. Once, an owl whom Emma named ‘Birdy Pants’, came to deliver a letter to Remus and wanted to see Emma. But since Emma was already in bed, the owl named ‘Birdy Pants’ swooped into her room and began softly nibbling on her ear in order to wake her. She came into the kitchen with the owl perched on her little shoulder and she gave him his treat. Afterwards, she put him gently on the perch and walked right back to bed. Remus and Claudia laughed for ages over this event saying ‘like mother like daughter‘.
On one of the many evenings after Emma had gone to bed, Remus sat in one chair and Claudia in another reading books. In the blink of an eye, the fireplace burst into green flame once again and spinning in it was a young woman, not much older than Claudia. She was slightly taller than Claudia and had very short, bright pink hair. Remus stood and welcomed the woman and turned to introduce her to Claudia.
“Tonks, this is Claudia Moore. Claudia, Tonks.” The women shook hands and after a few moments of small talk Tonks began questioning Claudia about her house.
“So this is your house then? Lovely. And big too! Well, what I’m doing is a charm to the front of the house. It will alert this,” she pulled out a small glass sphere, “by turning it red when someone apparrates into your yard. The charm is only good for a generally small area, so I can only do the front. Pretty cool, huh?” She seemed overly excited about this mission, so Claudia nodded and gave her thanks. Tonks and Remus set out to the front of the house to do the spell. Meanwhile, Claudia placed the glass ball on the fireplace mantel. All this magic stuff had her a bit confused. Dumbledore didn’t even tell her what magic he performed on her door the night he came. Remus decided to go with magically locking the doors so that when they were sleeping or out of the house, no one could enter without knowing the counter spell.
Claudia spent the fall months picking up her running routine that she gave up over the summer due to the heat. Running three miles a day in that heat was not a good idea. But the mellow fall weather was perfect for her to start her workouts once again. In fact, Claudia was very much in shape. Not only did she run everyday, but she also practiced Yoga. She found it relaxed her like nothing else in the world.
As time went by, different people began showing up at Claudia’s home. Her favorite of all thus far was Molly Weasley. Molly was the mother of seven children and the wife of one Arthur Weasley, whom Claudia learned, worked for the ministry of magic. The day Molly came was a cool fall afternoon in October and she burst from the fireplace and preceded to hug and shake hands with Remus and then she turned her attention on Claudia.
“Oh dear, you are a love! To open your home to everyone like this…it’s just wonderful of you.” She gushed over Emma when she met her. “What a doll! Oh I do wish we had more girls. Ginny is the only one. You are so lucky.” She hurried around and showed Claudia what she brought for her.
“I didn’t come to do any spells. Arthur will be here to do that. Mind you, he is infatuated with muggles, I came to bring some things that I think you will like.” From a large bag Molly pulled a tea kettle. “This is a tea kettle, of course you knew that already. I have charmed it to always provide hot tea. It doesn’t matter where you put it, or how long you put it away. If you pour it, it will give you fresh, hot tea. Since you have so many people coming and going, I thought you could use this.” Claudia was enjoying Molly’s upbeat ways and before they knew it, they were talking and laughing like old friends. Molly also brought a few books, much to Claudia’s delight, about the Wizarding World. Books about their history, dark wizards, a funny one about a man and a banshee and also a book about muggles.
“I know dear, you are a muggle. But I thought you might get a kick out of reading what we think about muggles. It will also help you when my husband comes around.” In all, Molly Weasley was a plump, red headed woman with whom Claudia didn’t want to ever part with. She stayed for hours talking and insisting to Claudia that when she comes back, she will bring pictures of all of her children. Claudia begged her to return soon and saw her off at the fireplace with a wave and a huge smile.
When Arthur Weasley came to call, it was chaos from the start. He was supposed to be putting an anti-apparition jinx on the house but he kept looking at all of the “gadgets and gizmos” around Claudia’s house. She knew he would never finish until she gave him a tour, so they started in the kitchen and worked their way through the living room (spending loads of time on the television and DVD player), and then to all four bedrooms. Stopping last to Claudia’s office. Here she kept the computer and all her books. She positively could not pull him away from the computer once she showed him what it could do. He sat there for almost thirty minutes clicking on all of the icons on the desk top and then closing them. Amazed at the ‘magic’ of muggles. Finally, three hours later, Arthur finished the anti-apparition jinx on the house and left, reluctantly, through the fireplace. Claudia assured him he was welcome back at any time to learn more about her things. Claudia now understood what Molly meant when she said, “Arthur will be in Heaven here!”.
Claudia found herself chuckling almost every night before she climbed into bed. These wizards weren’t so bad. They were actually quite fun. She had had only one letter from Sirius since he left, telling her he was safe and not to worry. It arrived by owl and it was written in sloppy writing, but at least he thought enough of her to keep her appraised of his
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A/N: I bet you\'re wondering, where the hell are the lemons??? Well, they come later. Sorry. But this story was written for a PG !# audience. I am rewriting parts of it for all of you to make a nice and even R/NC-17 rating. But we just got to get there. Thsi story is finished already, so It s just a matter of posting chapters!