Chapter 2
“Welcome back to the Interview! On the show today is the family of the late and great auror, Alastor Moody. “
Anderson looked down at his papers and then back up at his guests.
“Mrs. Moody, have you ever been afraid of your husband?”
“Afraid of him hurting me? No…I knew he’d never lay a hand on me. But he did scare me a couple of times. Once was after death eaters crashed Bill and Flur Weasly’s wedding. Jr was a little over two weeks old and Katie was four.”
Katie nodded remembering some of it.
“He put Jr in my arms and I gabbed Katie and he told me to go to the headquarters.”
“12 Grimmauld place?”
Questioned Anderson. Elizabeth nodded.
“Yes. I made it there with Jr and Katie, Molly, Bill and Flur followed close behind with the twins, later Aurther and Alastor. He was shaking so bad that the tea cup I gave him was rattling on the table.”
The audience and Host listened closely as did the Moody children.
“Would you mind reading that from his book?”
Asked Anderson politely. Elizabeth nodded , picked up the book and turned to the page.
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My heart was pounding and my head, bloody hell my head, it felt like it was being crushed. It didnae help that Mrs. Weasly decided to ask where her youngest lad had run off to, she didnae ask once, she asked over and over. Ah couldnae handle it, it felt like everyone and everything was closing in on me. A feeling ah hadnae felt in a long time.
“Ah dinnae ken! Ah dinnae bloody ken!”
Ah yelled at the top of my lungs, my head in my hands, shaking. Ah heard her let out a gasping sob and ah felt Elizabeths arms wrap themselves around me, calming me softly.
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Elizabeth nodded agreeing with what was written.
“Yah that’s pretty much what happened. Poor Molly was so shocked, I don’t think she’s ever been yelled at like that before.”
Anderson nodded.
“What was the second?”
“Oh the second was while we had gone into hiding again, it was on the beach at a house owned by a relative of the Weasly’s. Jr was maybe two months old by then. Hermione had been given my birth certificate. I sat at the table and read them out loud, my husband was sitting next to me when I read the name out loud.”
Jr looked at his mother.
“What was going through your head?”
“That I’m the daughter of a well known death eater and that my husband is the most powerful auror of our age and that he’d leave me over it.”
She rolled her eyes.
“He would have never done that. He could have left at anytime and found someone his age, honestly, early in our relationship I expected him to.”
“Da wash a stubborn old Scott.”
This made the audience, Anderson, Elizabeth, Katie and Rosa chuckle. They knew their father well.
“He defiantly seamed so. It seams we have some questions from the audience. “
He looked at the handful of cards that sat in his lap.
“Katie this one is for you. Ewan MacLeod asks, how did you feel about the ferret accident?”
Jr busted out laughing hearing the question, Katie just groaned shaking her head.
“Oh not this…”
She groaned in protest.
“Oh yes this.”
Stated Elizabeth chuckling. Katie sighed.
“Oh Fine…I was 11, it was the summer after my first year at Hogwarts and we had been given homework to do. So I decided to work on transfiguration.”
A few of the audience members, who already know what happened, began laughing. Katie shook her finger at them.
“Don’t beat me to it.”
Anderson laughed, Jr laughed and Elizabeth was just about in tears laughing from the memory.
“I wasn’t here for it but I heard it was an absolute belter.”
Katie rolls her eyes at her sister.
“Anyway, I was trying to change a cup into a ferret, and I had my ferret Oreo. I think we have a picture of him.”
A photo of a black and white ferret pops up on the screen behind them. The audience oo’s and awes.
“Awe! What a cutie!”
Exclaimed Anderson about the little creature.
“He was a right pig.”
Stated Elizabeth.
“Any time you opened the fridge he’d be right there at your feet squeaking away.”
She said giggling. Katie shook her head.
“As I was casting the charm daddy walked in asking if I was hungry, I misfired, the spell hit Oreo and went towards dad, hitting him right in the face.”
Anderson grimaced at that.
“And there, in the spot where daddy was standing was a light brown colored ferret with three paws and one eye…”
Jr, along with Anderson, the audience, some of the crew, Elizabeth and Rosa busted out laughing.
“I felt awful…I gently scooped him up and right to the kitchen table, stat him down and sat in a chair and just stared at him waiting for death to just take me.”
“Where was your mum?”
Asked Anderson chuckling.
“She was away with grandma for four days.”
Elizabeth chuckled.
“I didn’t even get a call about it, I just came home and there’s this….Ferret that I’ve never seen before sitting on the dogs bed. Oh and he was able to change himself back.”
Anderson laughed along with the audience. He handed Katie the book.
“Would you mind reading aloud for us?”
Katie sighed and took the book.
“Anything for you Geofrey.”
She opened the book and began to read.
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Ah figured it was aboot lunch time. Katie was closest so Ah went to her room first and made it to the door way.
“Hey darling, are ye hun-“
She jumped, startled, missed her mark and hit me in the face with a white spark, ah wasn’t even able to finish my sentence. Next thing ah knew ah was on the ground, ah had a pink little nose, light brown fur, a missing paw and one eye. How Ironic…
Ah watched as Katie rushed over and picked me up, the look on her face said it all.
“I’m in so much trouble.”
Well, aye and no. Aye she should have been remaining vigilant, no she wasnae in trouble. Aye, ah could have changed back but ah thought it best tae use this as a teaching moment.
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“So all that time he was able to change himself back?”
Questioned Rosa as she laughed. Katie nodded. Anderson laughed.
“We will be right back after these quick messages!”
The camera panned out cutting to commercial.