Chapter 90:

Chapter 90:

"It's the minister of magic."

"What the- !"

"Language, honey!"

"...Um.... why is the minister of magic coming to our home?"

"He was friend of your grandfather. So, he said he had ministry related work with your father and he's also coming over to congratulate us on successfully finding you. He helped us a lot when we were trying to find you."

"Are you sure he wasn't the one who actually had me kidnapped?" I asked her.

This guy seems quite sus.

"....."

Camille didn't answer for a while.

As I came out of my room, she said, "It's complicated and it's unlikely to him."

"Ok... how?"

Camille sighed. Then she looked around.

"You have good occlumency shields?"

I smirked. Good? I lowered the quality of my outer occlumency shields so that they'll appear 'good'. Not indestructible.

"Have a look." I looked into her eyes electric blue eyes, similar to mine.

Camille looked into my eyes and used her legilimency. To gently probe around my shields to test them.

And she gasped.

And I was quite surprised myself.

'She's even better than Durant.'

I don't know about anything else, but at least her legilimency was more outstanding than even Durant. That much I could tell only by the probe which she sent just now. It was quite gentle with me, but I could sense it's power.

My mom is quite amazing, huh?

Camille retrieved her probe and looked at me in pleasant surprise.

"You're so talented!" She kissed my cheek.

So, I still didn't decrease it enough. Well, it only means that my real shields are more powerful than I thought, if it's still considered more than good after weakening it so much.

"Uh... Thanks. I'm your son afterall. Anyway, tell me now." I demanded.

I need to first learn about this minister and ignore the little blush spreading on my cheeks. Mom's kissing is quite embarrassing for a grown up person.

Camille sighed, as she explained the matter, "His name is Gustave Firmin. He was a good friend of your grandfather and like an Uncle to your father and me. He, your grandfather, and grandmother attended the Beauxbatons together. When you were kidnapped and your grandmother was murdered by the killing curse, he was also quite anguished. He swore vengeance on the death-eaters who were responsible along with your father and grandfather. He doesn't at all support pureblood supremacy. Even as the minister of magic, he's still always against the conservative faction."

Conservative faction is a civil way for calling Pureblood bigots like the death Eaters.

"He was also the one who taught dueling to your father. He doesn't have any family of his own. So, when your grand parents asked him to teach Durant, he taught him everything he knew. He used to be a professional duelist himself, though not a world champion, he was the best in France at that time."

"So, he doesn't have any reason to kidnap you, neither harm your grandmother." She concluded.

"Well, he did become the minister of magic, didn't he?" I asked.

"...."

I narrowed my eyes as I looked at Camille. "And you also suspect him. Even if you can't figure out why exactly would he do such a thing." I observed.

Entering the room, I walked up to Esme's bed. Lightly poking her chubby cheek, I tried waking her up. "Esme, wake up. It's morning."

Esme frowned a little in her sleep as her lips curved down. Haha, what might she be dreaming? I was a bit curious. I've never read a sleeping person's mind. And I want to know how exactly the dreams come and go and how long are they. I think the muggles of time had researched it, but at that time, I simply couldn't be bothered to even search about it.

But alas, it is not meant to be as you'll need a person who can sleep with his eyes open for that.

I got onto the bed and hugged both esme and Nyxie. "Come on, wake up Esme. You're getting late already."

This time, Esme was a bit conscious. "Big brother... sleep." She mumbled something before sleeping again.

What were they playing last night that they're not waking up today?

Well, my mom used to do something like this to wake me in my previous life. I noisily opened the door using my wand. Then I raised my voice a bit, as I said/yelled.

"Oh, hi Gabrielle! How are you! See? Esme isn't even waking up!"

Instantly, Esme's eyes opened groggily as she sat up on the bed. Looking at the door she blinked.

The she rubbed her eyes and looked again.

"Good morning, Esme~ Are you this eager to meet Gabrielle?" I said teasingly.

"She's... not here?" Esme frowned as her lips naturally settled themselves into a pouted.

"... It's a good way to wake you up, isn't it?"

....

After Esme got ready, I lifted her in my arms as I got into the fireplace. Nyxie was sitting on my shoulder.

"La Decalour de residence." I said as I threw the Floo powder into the fireplace.

Disappearing into the green fire, I kept a firm grip on Esme as we squeeze through at high speeds.

We came into the Delacour residence as I smooth stepped out of the Delacour fireplace.

"Hi again, Gabrielle, hey Fleur." I greeted them as I put Esme down.

"Hi Chris!" said Gabrielle as she hugged me. When she got closer, she whispered in my ear after hiding her mouth behind her hand, "Fleur was waiting for you yesterday and got disappointed after your mom came in instead."

Well, mom had already told me that, but it's understandable. From what I've gathered from here and there in these days, she doesn't have many friends now. The males are affected by the allure while females are jealous creatures. Me being not affected and treating her like I would any other girl seems have made us friends, or at least one sided rivals.

"Oh, hello Monsieur Delacour," I also greet the man sitting on the chair reading a newspaper.

"Hello Chris. Haven't I already told you? Just call me Sebastian. said Sebastian Delacour.

The man was quite plump and had a receding hairline. But he had a jolly look to him that, along with his enthusiastic nature and cheerfulness, made him quite a delightful person to meet.

Well, this was a man who was living the life, isn't he?

This guy should be the idol of all the non-goodlooking guys with not much money out there.

The Canon description of Sebastian Delacour was true, and he wasn't some Keanu Reeves that many fanfics describe him as. But, the guy has his talents in his abnormal amount of magic power and his amazing talent in enchanting. He's not just a good for nothing.

"Chris, stay for breakfast. It's ready. Then play with Fleur for a while. She was quite disappointed yesterday when your mother came to drop Esme instead of you." said Monsieur Delacour.

"DAD!!!" A warning fireball was thrown near Sebastian.

Well, that's Sebastian Delacour.

"Alright, then I shan't disappoint Mademoiselle Delacour this time." I said, planning to tease her for a long time for this one. She does the same actually, calling me Esme tail, french word for sis-con, and what not. And I'm gonna also learn some enchanting from Sebastian as well.

***

A.N.: I'll need POWER STONES for some motivation. The college is not even letting me sleep these days. End terms are in a few days and now I'm doing the assignments and projects.