"Sure. Honestly, we haven't met your family yet. We'll come find you in London this summer. Grandpa Henry-that's his name, right? We heard you mention him all the time last summer." Fred picked up the last chicken drumstick in front of him and took a big bite.
"I'm coming too. I want to see what kind of family could raise a monster like you, boss," Lee Jordan chimed in from beside him.
"All right." Gerald nodded.
At that moment, Gerald thought of the Vanishing Cabinet again.
He had asked Winslet to buy the Vanishing Cabinet from Borgin and Burkes, and it now stood quietly in the Office of the company in London.
But its matching Vanishing Cabinet in the Room of Requirement was broken. He had tested it several times. Inanimate objects such as books and Galleons could be transported normally, but living creatures like mice would most likely die after being sent through.
He had once put a little mouse inside. By the time it arrived in London, it was already a corpse. There were no external injuries anywhere on its body, but it had stopped breathing entirely.
This was within Gerald's expectations. After all, the one in the Room of Requirement had been broken in the original story too, and Malfoy had spent more than half a term repairing it with help from other Death Eaters.
But Gerald had never figured out how to repair it. The runes inside the Vanishing Cabinet were extremely complex, and he could not make much sense of them yet.
Later, he had been eager to get down into the Chamber of Secrets, so he had put it aside for the time being.
Otherwise, he could have gone straight to Diagon Alley in London to buy gifts now.
That afternoon, he and his