Chapter 558 - Fernburgh Ⅲ (2/2)

”Dora,” Ted lovingly said as he knelt onto his toes as the little girl glanced up and let out a cry of delight.

”Daddee!” Dora screamed as she abandoned her toy on the ground and rushed towards her father who engulfed her in his arms and placed kisses on her rosy, round cheeks. The little girl is delighted by her father's antics and returns the gesture by trying to kiss him back.

Chuckling, Ted takes a seat on the couch and only then notices Lucius Malfoy staring at him with a rather perturbed expression on his face. Smiling at his brother-in-law, Ted cheerfully says, ”Why hello, Lucius, I didn't see you there.”

”Hello Edward,” Lucius sniffed, before removing imaginary lint from his robes in avid response at his initial dismissal by his muggleborn brother-in-law.

Putting his daughter back on the ground, Ted fondly watches his little girl run off to play with her cousin and changing her hair again to red, and eyes to blue to match the little boy. The two happily chatter to each other the only way little children can as they play with their toys.

Leaning back against the couch seat, Ted is about to speak, but Arthur first asks, ”Are you ready for the start of classes yet, Ted?”

Ted chuckles and says, ”Well school is starting tomorrow, and I must admit I am excited and feel quite privileged to be teaching at the Quattor Academy.”

Lucius's blue-gray eyes sharply return to his brother-in-law with avid interest. He was rather curious about the so-called universal education for all wizarding children. No doubt it would falter much lower than the private tutoring for pureblood children.

”So, what is it going to be like?” Arthur asked in fascination as he took a seat next to his son, Bill, much to the obvious comfort of Malfoy, who shifted a tad away with a fierce scowl.

”I am actually envious to be perfectly honest,” Ted admitted. ”One of the language professors is a former language interpreter, who speaks over twenty languages fluently, and can get by in ten others! And though she is a muquib now, I find that most of the muquibs teaching are all former professors or some of the brightest minds in their fields. Any wizarding child would be so lucky as to have them as their professors.”

Curious, Lucius interrupts and asks, ”Oh, are they better than private tutors?”

”Oh yes,” Ted firmly replied. ”I showed Dromeda some of the initial homework for the five-year old's, and even she was impressed by the teaching style of the teacher. Dromeda even said that it was far better than the tutors that she and her sisters had as children. As such, Dromeda and I are in complete agreement to send Dora to Quattor Academy upon her coming of age. We feel that the Academy offers two unique advantages that private tutors do not offer.”

”Which is what exactly, Edward?” Lucius sharply asked.

”A variety of subjects to learn from, and more importantly other children to socially interact with,” Ted explained. ”I'm sure that all of you experienced this as children and from what Dromeda told me, wizarding children often have solitary childhoods if they are devoid of siblings.

Seeing as I went to a muggle primary as a child the thought of going to Hogwarts was not quite so terrifying as I knew I could still easily make friends. But not all wizarding children are quite that social at the start of their first year at Hogwarts, and as such from what I have seen it is rather difficult for some children to make friends and especially between inter-houses.”

Ted paused, before carefully adding his own personal opinion. ”I would even go as far as to say and suggest that the parents of pureblood children should in fact send their children to the nearest academy. Their children would not lose anything in the exchange, but rather gain more out of the experience. Also, it is not as though a wizarding family of such magnitude cannot still hire private tutors to use during the summer to ensure and verify that their child is in fact receiving the education that they wish they receive. And if said parents should find a fault in their children's education, it is not as though they cannot remove their child and return them to the usual private education within the home. Either way, there is not a loss inquired.”

Lucius's inclines his head slowly at his brother-in-law. ”Your idea has merit, Edward. I shall ponder your answer for the future.” That and it possibly might be an excellent political move that would certainly come with its own advantages.

That was the best possible response that Ted could have gotten out of his younger brother-in-law. Because if Lucius thought the idea was beneficial to his child without a doubt it would be easy for Dromeda to sway her younger sister, Narcissa. In which case, Malfoy's children were as good as to be enrolled for the future at Quattor Academy and thereby ensuring that the pureblood families would follow with the trend. It was a win-win situation for all in his opinion, because he genuinely believed that the purebloods children needed to make friends with other children, and thereby influencing the wizarding world a little more for the better.