The crisp tap of high-heeled leather shoes struck the floor of Harris Lake Island Manor's sitting room, and Josephine Harris walked into the nearly full room with a large leather suitcase in hand.
"I'm a little late. It took some time to drive all those cows into the suitcase." Josephine lifted the suitcase in her hand. "Neither Sirius Black nor Amos knew how to herd them. In the end, we had to use magic to control them by force... Perhaps I should ask Hagrid to come help temporarily..."
"Thank you for the hard work, Aunt... If we called Hagrid, Madame Maxime would come after us over the smell clinging to him..." Allen teased, rising and going forward to take the suitcase from her.
Maggie expertly poured Josephine a Bloody Mary specially made for her at home, with some blood plasma added in place of tomato juice.
"Almost three hundred head. We bought out an entire cattle farm's cows..." Josephine took the drink, moistened her throat, and sighed. "There really are quite a few benefits to working with Muggles... Muggle hospitals can actually provide us with this many packaged bags of plasma... That's far more convenient than going to Knockturn Alley or going out hunting ourselves..."
"Allen, you said you had a surprise for us?" Fleur frowned. Thinking of some cows she had once seen on a farm casually dropping dung on the ground, her waist-length, solid-colored hair swayed with the motion. "What sort of surprise needs this many cows?"
"A cattle farm in the Dutch Magical World? I don't remember them being this large..." Lenn looked at Josephine in surprise. He had joined the Magical Creatures Control Division as soon as he entered the Ministry of Magic, and as someone diligent and ambitious, he had not only read through the