"Okay," Harry said, "If you don't want to talk about spells, why not talk about family? From what Percy and the twins have said, you've got at least a couple more brothers, don't you Ron?"
"Yeah, Bill and Charlie. Bill's the oldest and works as a Curse Breaker for Gringotts Egyptian branch." Ron smiled at the memories of his older brothers.
"Curse Breaker?" Harry asked, curious.
"Yeah, he goes out to tombs and places, then breaks the curses so the goblins can go in and get the gold and stuff. I think he gets a small percentage of what he finds, but it's usually not that much."
"He must learn all kinds of interesting things about history and ancient cultures." Hermione said excitedly.
"That sounds a bit like what I want to do." Harry said. "Except I'll be looking for lost magical items, and spells and such. What qualifications did he have to get before they would hire someone as a curse breaker?"
"I think you need decent NEWTs, but I can't remember in what besides DADA. I can owl Bill and have him send me back the info if you want." Ron offered.
"That'd be great." Harry accepted with a smile. "What about Charlie? I remember Oliver mentioned him being on the Quidditch team, and being Seeker a few years back."
"Captain too. Charlie's out in Romania studying dragons, so I wouldn't tell him about the Dragonslave, I sometimes think he's in love with those beasts." Ron said with a chuckle.
"I'll remember that." Harry laughed. "Maybe he'd like to hear some of the stories about the Greater Dragons from back home."
"Greater Dragons? I've never heard of that kind." Hermione said.
"It's not so much a kind of dragon, as a group of them." Harry explained. "You see, there are basically two groups of dragons. Lesser dragons are big animals, some live in lakes, some fly, some breath fire, and all are very tough.
"Greater Dragons, on the other hand, are the servants of the Dragon God Ceipheed, and the Shinzuko. They're very powerful, and have stronger magical abilities than almost any human alive. The Gold Dragons can even take human form it's said."
"Wizard." Ron whispered reverently. "I bet Charlie would go mad trying to find those Gold Dragons."
"What about your parents, Ron?" Hermione asked.
"Well, Mum stays home, taking care of us kids, though nowadays it's just my sister Ginny. She's coming to Hogwarts next year. Dad works for the Ministry. He's Head of the Department of Misuse of Muggle Artifacts."
"My parents are both dentists. That's a doctor who takes care of teeth." Hermione sighed. "When I found out that they could shrink teeth with magic, I begged Mom and Dad to let me have it done, but they insist that I've got to have it done the Muggle way."
"That's too bad." Harry consoled his friend. "I never got to know my birth parents, so I don't know what they really did, or even why Voldemort was after us." He ignored Ron and Hermione's wince. "But my parent's back home, the Inverses, own a store in Zephilia. They used to be adventurers before they settled down. Mom was a sorceress, and that's one of the reasons Lina and I were able to get training at the College, even though money's a bit tight.
"Luna, our oldest sister, works part-time as a waitress."
"Didn't you said your sister Luna was a swordswoman?" Hermione interupted.
"Yeah, but she prefers to stay at home she says. Though she made sure that when Lina left home on her journey she had a short sword for protection. She also got me one. It's in my trunk."
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