Glass Houses

50🔴Family affairs

4oclock the next day rolled around quicker than Emerald would have liked. She was pacing up and down the corridor in front of the headmaster's tower. They were going to use the floo network in Snape's office, knowing that he was at an important meeting with the ministry.

Footsteps sounded and Marcellus came stomping around the corridor, his mood still not having lightened from yesterday.

"Let's go" was all he said and the pair made their way up the staircase in silence, swinging open the door to the headmaster's office and striding over to the fireplace.

They disappeared in a cloud of green smoke

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"Hello Son" Magnus greeted Marcel, "hello Emerald" they both nodded to him grumpily and made their way to his study.

"Ahh how's my favourite little traitor doing?" Morfin was sat in one of the leather armchairs, a glass of firewhiskey in his hand "come to send us all to Azkaban again have you?" He joked at his son who rolled his eyes and looked at Emerald

"You told him?" He seethed and she threw up her usual cold persona

"If you're having doubts we need to know" she shrugged playing it off as if it was nothing

He huffed angrily "I'm not having bloody doubts I just don't want to be the one doing the killing what's so bad about that?" And Magnus eyed him suspiciously

"And why is that dear boy?" He questioned "still have a sliver of alliance to your mother?"

"No" he spat "I'm just know our family and as far as you're all concerned I'm the outsider, if you think for one second that I don't believe that dear old grandad won't shift the blame onto me the second we get questioned you're sorely mistaken"

"Oh come now son I would never do that" Morfin grinned " you'd never have the bottle to do it anyway" Marcel's eyes flared up angrily and Magnus held a hand in the air

"Alright alright!" He silenced the pair "enough bickering, would you like to hear how to kill your mother or not" and the room nodded slowly

"Now as far as we can tell, you two are the only horcruxes to her besides one she made out of the Dubois family ring" he told them "she wears it 24/7 so getting it off her will be tricky"

"I'll just tell Titan to bite her arm off that should do it" Emerald seethed and Morfin beamed at his granddaughter

"That's my girl" he high fives her and both Marcel and Magnus rolled their eyes

"Emerald you will do nothing of the sort, Dad stop encouraging her!" He ordered and then went back to explaining

"Horcruxes shouldn't be made out of people, the magical link isn't stable enough seeing as people's bodies are regenerating all the time" he announced "which means there is a ritual in which the spell can be broken" the twins looked triumphant

"What do we have to do?" Emerald asked

"You have to gather some ingredients for a potion, a bone from her family....that shouldn't be too hard, your grandmother who was a practitioner, died 10 years ago" he carried on "a feather of a Phoenix, tears of a thestral and.." he paused "the blood of your moral connection to this earth" he told them, looking primarily at Emerald "can you get all of that?"

His daughter nodded slowly "I think so father" she agreed "where is Grandma buried?" And Magnus shook his head

"I shall deal with that, I trust I can leave the rest up to you" and they both agreed "I know this might be tough for you but she won't be stopped by simply imprisoning her" he warned