65 Dinner With In-Laws

"Laura, here, have some more," said Harry, while filling his mother-in-law's bowl again with soup.

Laura smiled and accepted it. She received a phone call from her daughter, Sara, that her husband, Harry, is coming to visit her. Laura was shocked to hear that, but she knew her daughter very well, so she wasn't worried about her, but she was curious as to who could win her daughter's mischievous and lofty heart, as for the husband part she thought it was a joke. Harry arrived in the evening. She was pleasantly surprised by what she saw. It was a young man with the devil handsome face, bright green eyes the same as a gem and innocent smile. "No wonder Sara fell for him. Just by his look, all the women would go crazy. If I was younger, I might pursue him too…forget it. I started thinking about nonsense again. Still, I have to check if he is just good looking or more than that," thought Laura.

Laura was pleasantly surprised again when she went to prepare dinner for the family, as she was free most of the time, so she would do most of the housework even her husband protested many times. Harry came to help her, and to an even more surprising thing was that he could make better food than her. Just by the smell, her appetite increased, and suddenly she felt hungry. Harry didn't let her do many things, so all the dishes were mostly prepared by him.

Both of them prepared for it as other members have arrived yet. Sara's father, Thomas Wilson, was head of the department in the American ministry, and the second wife of Thomas, Kristine Jauncy, who later changed to Kristine Wilson by order of both of their ancestors, was also head of the department. Both of them were working late, and the sister of her second mother, Jasmin Wilson, was last year student at Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, but due to her special status as a lady of nine noble families, and great love from her father allowed her to visit home every weekend. She was already home today as it was Saturday, but she went out to play with older children.

Harry talked with his mother-in-law merrily. The first one to come back was Jasmine. She also welcomed Harry warmly as she heard the news from Laura. Jasmine was opposite of Sara and had more similarities with her first mother. She was cute looking very enthusiastic girl, and couldn't sit for a second without doing something. She brought cards to play with Harry while they were waiting for the other two to come back.

When the clock showed eight o'clock, Thomas came out of the fireplace through the Floo Network. Jasmine cheered loudly to welcome her father, which he returned to too, but when it turned out to Harry, he humped, showing his unhappiness at him. Harry wasn't kind as he totally ignored his father-in-law. But not before he checked his magic power which showed 10578. Harry was shocked by the five digit power, but he didn't let it show on his face.

Laura suddenly remembered Sara's word 'Don't let them both in the same room as Harry has a childish personality like dad. There will be utter chaos.' She hurriedly walked toward him to receive him before the supposedly-chaos breakthrough.

Harry was surprised when they started dinner without Sara's second mother, Kristine, and when he asked, they said she would usually be late and also she preferred to eat alone. Harry nodded inwardly as he knew some of the things from Sara, as the second mother was always cold with everyone. He agreed and started dinner without her, and that is how they ended up here, where Harry was trying to get on the good side of mother and sister, and ignoring the fuming father-in-law.

They just enjoyed the starters, and both of them full of praise of Harry for his otherworldly skill in cooking, and Thomas was also impressed by this young man's skill but he maintained his serious face as saying he wasn't impressed by Harry. But to, even more, Harry totally ignored him which brought his previous anger back.

Harry talked with mother and daughter pair merrily for a while and started the main course when little Jasmin couldn't hold her hunger anymore.

All four of them started eating, while the duo was full of praise for Harry, and Thomas was busy eating as he had no time to show his anger anymore. Then suddenly the fireplace lit up, and a lady came out of it. Harry was shocked by her beauty. Although Laura and Jasmin, both were rare beauty, the lady, with her cold look and personality, brought another kind of charm. Sara was more like this cold lady, which made Harry think the daughter's of the mother has the personality of each other. Sara was more like Kristine, and Jasmine was more like Laura than her mother. It was kind of nature's wonder.

Jasmin, who saw her mother coming out, instantly went to welcome her with a hug and Kristine, patted her head with affection. Laura also welcomed her with a smile, and Kristine nodded her head, while Thomas didn't say anything after only looking at her. Until now Kristine hasn't said anything, which reminded Harry of Sara, who would talk to people other than Harry. 'Maybe she would open to them when they are alone,' thought Harry.

Kristine glanced at Harry for a moment, which was more than what she did for her husband, as she too ignored him as he ignored her. Harry thought there was a story behind it, which reminded him that Kristine and Thomas had a huge fight after marriage, which might be the reason for it. He shook his head as it wasn't his business to interfere with it.

Harry also greeted Kristine as Sara told him to leave a good impression on her too. She returned with a cold searching gaze, and then returned to her daughter, and talked to her so softly. The most shocking thing he noticed was the magic power. It was 12753, and way above Thomas, but the thing was it was blinking as Rita had previously, which meant it was unstable due to the excessive lust she was suffering from, and what he knew from Sara he was sure she had no more relationship with her husband as their magic wasn't compatible. He raised his eyebrow but didn't say anything.

Beside Harry was sitting Laura said in a soft voice, "I think she approves of you, or you would have received jinx from her. You know she was very found of Sara," Harry was happy to hear that, but gulp down nervously with the last line as he just passes through the unknown dangerous test.

Harry was thinking about it while he saw Kristine prepared to leave the kitchen when Harry spoke out after clearing his throat, "Kristine, how about joining everyone for dinner as it is still fresh and tasty."

Everyone in the room was shocked by Harry's invitation. She stopped in her tracks to look at Harry. Her old personality was hard to face as he tried to keep a smiling face. Only now did Harry understand what it would be like to be in receiving an end of cold gaze, as everyone was talking about Sara earlier in his company? He was also nervous after he had asked. Little Jasmine standing near her mother came out from her shock and started praising Harry's ability, which made Harry less pressured. Before Kristine said anything, Jasmine had dragged her to the dining table. When she smelled it this year, she could remain indifferent, and sit and eat with everyone.

Laura was happy as she didn't remember when her whole family had dinner together as she took out a plate for Kristine and Harry helped her to server.

Kristine took a small bit of it and tasted, and indeed it was as delicious as it was claimed. Her eyes lit up and a small smile appeared on her face. Everyone including everyone was dazed from such a beautiful sense, and more than that, it was the first time in many years everyone saw her smiling. Kristine felt stare on her and realized where she was, as her previous appearance returned, and started eating as nothing happened. The latter three of them has now shifted their gaze at Harry, as it was only possible due to his cooking.

Harry couldn't take it, so he cleared his throat and started to eat like her as nothing had happened.

Later at the dining table, Harry talked with Laura and little Jasmin, while Thomas wasn't involved in talking so he chose to focus on eating, and after the first smile from Kristine, she chose to remain silent but from the food, she was woolfing down so it was clear she liked it very much.

After overeating, everyone still enjoyed dessert prepared by Harry, and little Jasmine was the happiest among them, as she asked him about her sister Sara and him.

"…Say brother-in-law what kind of company do you have?" asked Jasmin. She was 17 years old as she was last year in her school and the most talkative among the people at the table. Harry smiled broadly from the way she called him, showing his happiness on the face. Thomas, who was silent until now humped showing his unhappiness too, who Harry ignored again.

Everyone was focusing on Harry, even Kristine was looking at Harry now. Harry was going to reply humbly, but he changed his mind as he remembered when Laura said he might receive jinx any moment from Kristine, but from her look, she looked pleased with Harry. But Harry didn't want to take a chance so he decided to tell the truth.

"Well, we had more than five thousand people at the company, but a friend of Sara and mine betrayed us, so we had to split the company, which wasn't possible but with Sara's idea we did it forcefully, and then, we had war with them. Ultimately I beat him in the competition, and won both of our company," said Harry, in an unhurried voice.

"Now, I am proud to say our company becomes top 5 in the world even with less than a thousand people," declared Harry, in a prideful tone.

Laura, who was sitting next to him, exclaimed in surprise," I thought you only had the same name as that famous company, but I didn't expect you were the owner of that company too." She saw Harry with new found light as she had lots of time so she knew about affairs of muggles, and Harry's company was in limelight for some time, as it split up and merged again and was sold again.

Thomas was bewildered by his wife's exclaim and asked her to explain it.

When Laura finished the story of Harry, everyone looked at him with a new light. He was famous and rich, yet he prepared dinner for them!

Such a humble person!

Everyone's impression of Harry increased yet again. Even Thomas who was angry with Harry was looking at him with a new light.

"You are overpraising me. It wouldn't have been all possible due to Sara as I was busy with other things," declined Harry humbly. Others nodded their heads inwardly as Harry didn't forget to mention Sara, so his impression increased again.

"Aha, that reminds me of something Sara said. Well, that was, you are going to give me the best gift in the world for me," exclaimed Laura suddenly.

"Yes, that surprise! I forgot about our happy talk," replied Harry, but got cut by Jasmine.

"What surprises? Then where is my gift? You didn't forget about me did you?" asked Jasmine.

Harry laughed and replied, "of course I didn't forget about lovely Jasmine, but you don't need that thing. As for your gift, I only created half of it in a hurry, but it will be completed soon." Harry was talking about Magic awaking potion for a muggle Laura, and Spatial ring fro Jasmine and Kristine, who he was going to create in mass.

"What!? I have a different gift than my mother! Fine, I will wait, but it has to be something good or I won't forgive you, humph, and what about mother?" said Jasmine. She was referring to Kristine as she calls both of them' mothers'.

"You are going to create it? Are you an alchemist? Wasn't you potion-master looking for an ingredient?" asked Thomas abruptly, which was the first time he spoke with Harry directly.

"Why I can't be both?" replied Harry, while raising his eyebrow. Then he ignored Thomas who was going to ask something.

"The thing I am going to create is one of kind, and only I am capable of creating it, as for its rarity: It has never been created in the history of the wizard. So be prepared to shock from it," said Harry boastfully.

Jasmine cheered up immediately from the bold world of Harry, and Kristine raised her eyebrow a little, but it was only noticed by Harry. While Laura didn't know much about magic, she was happy for Harry nonetheless, and Thomas humphed loudly in dissatisfaction as he was ignored again.

Suddenly Jasmine exclaimed, "Look at the clock! It is already midnight! I felt like time flew as fast as broomstick in the sky," And soon enough the clock rang twelve times, which means it was a new day.

"It is indeed late. Let's keep this so-called great gift for tomorrow morning," suggested Thomas, and Laura agreed with him.

"Dear, you should sleep in Sara's room which is empty now. Jasmin, why don't you show him the room," suggested Laura and Harry followed the lead.

For Harry, meeting with his in-laws was considered a great success. He hadn't prepared anything for Jasmine, so at that moment he just lied to not lose face. He decided to make the ring at night, that is why agreed with Thomas, otherwise, he was bent on opposing him if he is not going to kind to him then he will do the same as well. As for magic awakening potion, he had already created lots of them in his free time earlier.

Harry made his way to Sara's previous room, as he felt a little excited to sleep in her childhood room.

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