An important news

The lunch was over soon enough, and all the men who had arrived left using floo powder. This left Arthur alone with Raphael. Arthur looked at him once and said, "Follow me. I have something very important to tell you."

Raphael nodded, and he followed Arthur, They left the dining area and went to the second floor. The second floor was entirely different from what the first. I had much fewer rooms, and each door was decorated much more gracefully.

"You would have been in one of these rooms if you hadn't left.", Arthur commented.

"Yet why do I not regret my actions one bit? I saved your life. You would have lost every thing if you hadn't listened to me. You are still holding onto your stupid ego.", Raphael countered.

"Just shut up and listen to me. You should get your priorities straight. You left the family that clothed and fed you, for that tramp.", he said, raising his voice.

"Don't you dare say a word about her. Because of me, she was willing to stay in this hell hole, where she suffered more and more, because you encouraged it."

"I encouraged it? I couldn't care less about her! You want some one to blame? Blame your sisters. They were the ones who broke her wand and unleashed their pets on her."

"Sisters? Don't you dare call them that. They aren't my sisters. They are your daughters, that's all. And what did you do to them as punishment for what they did? Nothing. So then, why should I even trust a thing you say?"

"Wait. Let us talk about this some where private. I don't trust anyone here."

"And who is to blame for that?", Raphael retorted.

"Ohh please! That wasn't my fault at all. I had to rule this place with an iron fist. God knows who would have gone to the dark side else wise."

"Oh I don't know, You? How is it that you say this, when all of his ideals clearly match yours. World domination, muggle genocide... Where do you think I heard all these from, other than you?"

"Me? How dare you accuse me of something like that? Do you think that I would even assosciate with that Slytherin scum? I am a pure Gryffindor. I have Qilin's blood in me. I am a true descendant of the Gryffindor line, and so are you. Why do you think I wanted you to be the next heir, and not your brothers? Your mother was the only other purest Gryffindor that I could ever find. And you, the offspring, are the most purest among us all."

"Again with the pure blood. Just what is wrong with you? Why do you have to be so adamant about those stupid traditions?"

"Stupid traditions?", Arthur stopped in front of a room. He opened the door, and went in. Raphael followed, and closed the door behind him.

"This blood is what keeps the wizarding world alive! Stupid blood? The sliver of Qilin blood in you is what makes you a much better wizard than your muggle wife. And as for your child, he is lucky. He is a newborn, and the concentration of Qilin's blood in his body is fine enough for him to withstand the baptism.", the old man said, lowering his voice at the end.

"Baptism? You are going to give him that stupid experiment that will do god knows what to him?"

"God knows what? Do you know how much I put into this? I had to give Flamel my prized dragon egg collection in exchange for a goddamn way to increase concentration of blood in the body and then I find out that it only works on newborns! You wouldn't work either. Why do you think I put that specific condition of your return."

"So even all of this was for your own goddamned preparation. Why do you think that I would even allow you to do this to him?", Raphael shouted.

Arthur's voice fell low. "The dark lord is still alive, Raphael. He will go after those that went against him, and we are on that list, and quite high on it. I cannot protect you forever. That boy of yours will be Monroe's last defense. My only wish was for the family to go forward, and live to see another day."

"Father, do you know what you are saying? We must bring this to the council."

"And then what? They will laugh at us as if we are cowards. Better make our own preparations. And you owe me. All of this is because of you."

"Me? I stopped you from destroying the family."

"Do you think that something happened to the Malfoys because they sided with the dark lord? Nothing! But what happened to the potters and the blacks, huh? Entire families destroyed, leaving one or two survivors, that's all. What you did was no favor. Now, you must sacrifice for redemption. Tomorrow, your child will be the luckiest person in the world, or maybe the opposite, and you won't do anything about it."