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When they got back to the Black Mansion, they had to go out again; this time to the Black Mansion. When they got there, they couldn't help but tell everyone where they went. However, most of the attention was on Charlus. This was because he was going to get his wand.

"How wonderful, Charlus. I hope to see you in Gryffindor this fall."

Molly Weasley hadn't bothered to know that Charlus wasn't even going to Hogwarts.

"But... I'm not going to Hogwarts."

"Not Hogwarts?!! Sirius! How could you have the heart to not send the boy to school?"

Sirius looked at her as if he was looking at an alien.

"Who said he wasn't going to school?"

"He said he wasn't going to-" She turned towards Charlus. "So you were just joking. You shouldn't do that with adults you know?"

CHarlus was confused.

"But I didn't lie. I'm not going to Hogwarts."

"Then where are you going? Don't tell me you are going to go to some muggle school."

"Beauxbatons."

Molly had heard that name for the first time in her life. Due to the non-existent relationship between different magical schools, along with the ignorance of wizards and witches, a lot of people didn't know that there were multiple magical schools to attend.

"It's in France." Charlus clarified to Molly.

"I know where that is. Obviously, you are going to go to a school in France. You live there!" Molly tried to cover up so that she wouldn't look bad in front of the children.

Charlus felt that he would have more of the awkward conversations like the one he just had if he stayed near Molly, so he fled the scene. He ran from the living room up the stairs to one of the rooms on the second floor.

The room he had selected was the one with all the Weasleys. He faltered when 7 heads turned to see him. He was slightly intimidated and started to back out. One of the Weasleys stood up and went towards Charlus. Charlus started to go back faster.

The Weasley took CHarlus' hand and stopped him from going back any further.

"I didn't think I looked that scary." He joked lightly.

"Must be all the freckles!" A Weasley from the back of the room shouted.

Charlus was unsure as to what he had to do. He was afraid of the Weasley in front of him because he was almost a feet taller than him. Charlus tried to introduce himself.

"Hi... I'm Charlus Potter."

The Weasley smiled and said, "Charlie Weasley."

He held out his hand and Charlus took it.

"Why don't you come on to the back. We're playing Gobstones - the snake pit version."

Charlus went there to see what was happening. he just watched from the side and didn't play. Time passed and one of the Weasleys started conversing with Charlus.

"So, when are you going to Hogwarts?"

Charlus looked at the older person with confusion. The Weasley thought that it was because he couldn't recognize him.

"Oh. Bill Weasley. Call me Bill."

Charlus corrected Bill.

"I'm not going to Hogwarts. I'm going to Beauxbatons."

Everyone was confused.

"Beauxbatons?"

"Yeah. Beauxbatons. I've been going for 3 years till now."

"3 Years!"

"That means."

"You already."

"Have your."

"Wand!"

The twins were surprised when Charlus said that his school started 3 years before Hogwarts. They assumed that since his school started, he already had his wand.

"No. I don't have my wand yet. I'm going to turn eleven this summer, so I'm going to get a wand sometime after that."

"Why,"

"Do you."

"Need to."

"Turn eleven?"

Bill explained this to the younger kids.

"It's the law. You have to always follow the rules made by the Ministry. All the Ministries of Europe decided to make eleven the minimum age to get a wand. That's why Hogwarts starts when you turn eleven. What I don't understand is what they teach at Beauxbatons if you don't have a wand."

Charlus blushed because everyone was looking at him.

"Well, they only taught theory. And then almost half of our classes are etiquette. We learnt horseriding though - that turned out to be fun."

"What about flying? Don't they teach that?"

The only girl in the room spoke up.

"We don't have flying. They said that it was uncivilised and also that there were many casualties when people used brooms."

"No flying? That means no quidditch?!!"

Charlie was aghast at the revelation. He was an avid quidditch fan as well as a player for his house team.

"Yeah. But we compensate with Polo."

"Polo?"

"It's this sport that we play with our horses. We only have four people per team though, so we have to make our own teams and don't have just 4 teams like you do."

"You don't have houses?"

"We don't. We have clubs though. I don't think you have those."

Bill and Charlus turned the discussion into a debate on which school was better.

"We do. We just don't show them off as you do."

"We get funds from Houses by 'showing off'."

The debate went on for a while and Charlus looked out and saw that it was very sunny outside. It was near noon judging by the sunlight.

"Harry!"

Charlus realised that he had left Harry in the living room and had run off by himself. He apologized to the Weasleys and rushed to the living room. When he reached the living room, he saw Harry.

Harry was sitting on the couch with his head back. He was probably forced to sit through the discussion of the adults, but by looking at his closed eyes and the drool from his mouth, it was clear that he had dozed off.

Charlus looked at him and saw that he was sleeping. So he did the obvious thing to do when someone was sleeping. He overturned the couch that Harry was sleeping in.