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Honestly it had been worth the summer charade of keeping up the secret to Lumos. The entire family had known that Geo would be returning to Hogwarts albeit it for the short term, all except their Slytherin offspring. The woman knew it would surprise him, although for all his whining in the holidays about being able to get away from her, she knew that her son had a somewhat of soft spot. It was probably why he got on so well with Eden.

It had been surreal to be back in the castle, working alongside with those she either called family, school friends, or her old professors, but she was excited to be able to get a front row seat when it came to her children and how they were getting on. With Bailey's final year, it was the only time she had to witness all five of her step children under one roof and she'd been delighted to transfer even if it was temporary.

Geo had excused herself from the professors table once the feast was underway, heading first toward her son and his group of friends. Or at least, she assumed as such. She'd only met one of his friends so far, when the Ravenclaw had come to theirs during the holiday, but she figured he was probably close with some in his own house too. "Is it already Christmas?" Geo asked, reaching over beside the third year to pick up a chocolate covered raisin before popping it into her mouth.​

Lumos shot Amory the kind of look that withered crops and curdled milk at the lollipop comment, rolling his eyes. “Yeah, someone did, and then they set it on fire and danced on the ashes,” he sighed and then shook his head, stabbing a piece of the egg he had been starting to eat when he first noticed her at the table. He was being a bit more vicious with his food than he strictly needed to be he supposed, but it was a lot of feelings right now. Look, he liked a good prank but not when he was the butt of it. he barely had time to explain to Amory what was going on when she appeared, his mother, at their table, cool as you like, and she stole food from him too, because she couldn’t just steal his life. He frowned and looked over at her, slumping dramatically in his seat. Seeing her face did make his chest tighten though, because he always missed her when she wasn’t around and he’d been gearing up to miss her this semester - her and Eden, really, well all the younger siblings, but Eden was not so secretly his favourite. “No, it’s not Christmas, it’s betrayal season.”

He gestured between his mum and Amory, “Mum, this is Amory, Amory this is the Megatron,” which he wasn’t sure his mother would get, but he could always explain it later. He turned to glare half-heartedly at his mum, pouting. “You could have told me, you know, especially after you let me embarrass myself in front of every at dinner that I wouldn’t have to see you until December,” he complained, waving his fork dramatically before dropping it on the table. Despite the dramatics though, and the sulking, there was a very obvious smile twitching at the corner of his mouth he was finding hard to smother. And so, instead of continuing to play it up, he stood up and wrapped his arms around his mum’s waist, pressing himself against her because he missed her. Even though he only just saw her, he’d thought he would not see her for months, and he’d let himself work up to the missing part early to get it out of the way. “Love you mum.”​