Chapter 411 - Easter Sunday Ⅱ (2/2)
”Excellent,” Isobel said as she rose to her feet. ”I shall go and see if everything is finished in the kitchens. And Mr. Urquart-?”
”Yes?” Elphinstone instantly said.
”Please call me, Isobel,” Isobel firmly requested. ”Madam makes me feel rather old.”
”Yes, Ma-, er, I mean, Isobel,” Elphinstone hastily said.
Isobel left with the bouquet in her hand, no doubt to find a vase. The three men are silent until Isobel McGonagall disappeared into the cottage. The instant in which she disappeared; the two McGonagall brothers turned their equally piercing gazes towards Elphinstone.
”She's our only sister,” Malcolm firmly said.
”Our elder sister in fact,” Robert Jr. chimed in.
”And if you hurt her-.”
”We'll kill you.”
”Understood,” Elphinstone answered in acute understanding.
”Good,” both brothers' said, before grinning widely at him.
”So, Elphinstone,” Robert Jr slowly said. ”Do you fancy helping out a brother-in-law in seeking a position within the A.P.D. department?”
Malcolm rolls his eyes at his brother and says, ”My apologies, Elphinstone. My younger brother has no tact. It must be the Gryffindor in him.”
”None taken,” Elphinstone said with a grin. ”In fact, I'm a Gryffindor myself.”
”I knew it!” Robert Jr. exclaimed with a smug grin. ”I told you so, Mal.”
Malcolm purses his lips and mutters, ”Bloody Gryffindor's.”
”You're just annoyed, because I was right, and you were wrong,” Robert Jr. said with relish. ”Poor Mal here for sure thought that you were a Ravenclaw like him.”
”Aha,” Elphinstone exclaimed. ”Am I to take it that Malcolm here is the only Ravenclaw in the family?”
”No!” Malcolm grumbled. ”My mother is one too.”
”Well, good to note,” Elphinstone wisely said.
Robert Jr. brazenly turns towards his older brother and says, ”It would seem that the McGonagall's are still a strong Gryffindor family.”
Malcolm rolls his eyes and says, ”My wife is a Hufflepuff, but so is your wife, Robby. Ignoring Elphinstone here, at the moment it is a tie between Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, and Hufflepuff. Until Elphinstone formally joins the family, I won't have it said otherwise.”
However, before the three men can continue to argue the merits of their house, the bouncy eight-year-old, Morag skips out of the house. Coming to a stop before them, she says, ”Aunt Minnie's here. Mum says for the three of you to come inside and help carry out the food.”