Gloves, Toaster and Toilets

Arthur walked down the hall and to the elevator. He waited until the grilles slid open and walked into the lift. It was crowded as now many people were ending their shifts. As he reached the 9^th level he got off and walked down the corridor to the door that he had to guard today.

He put on Moody's spare invisibility cloak and settled down in a comfortable position as his shift would end at midnight. He placed a piece of blank parchment on the floor, using the ink bottle as a paperweight. He took out the gloves and placed them on the parchment. The gloves knew what this meant and, they stood on their index and middle fingers waiting for a subject of "conversation" to come up.

Arthur decided to start the conversation. He also decided to find out just how much the gloves knew.

"How much do you know of what is going on?" Arthur asked the mysterious gloves.

Nearly nothing - it's not as if anyone is going to sit there and tell a pair of gloves what's going on in the world. The gloves wrote this, as before, working together to use a quill.

"Okay, that's what I thought. Well, there's an evil guy named Voldermort but, nobody says his name, they just say 'You-Know-Who' or 'He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.' He is bent on ridding the magical world of all, muggle-borns and making sure that the pureblood wizarding families only marry other pure-bloods keeping family lines noble. There are some people who are against him and his ideals but, Voldermort is very powerful and hard to defeat. A boy named Harry Potter is the only hope against him because he was able to deflect a killing curse and slow Voldermort down for thirteen years. Harry was able to defeat followers and servants of Voldermort several times during his school years. He also watched Voldermort rise again last year. Although he has risen again, most of the wizarding world does not yet believe this." The gloves have been paying attention to Arthur's account of what was going on and seemed non-pulsed by the news.

That's not so bad - at least you have someone who can defeat him .It isn't as if there is no hope for the wizarding world. Now that we know what is going on in the world tell me us a little bit about your family. The gloves seemed interested in Arthur's life as well as the world.

"First of all my name is Arthur, because I have a feeling you don't know that -"

Well how were we supposed to know that, its not as if you introduced yourself.

"Cranky, aren't you?" The left glove made a gesture very much like a person putting their hands on their hips, as the right glove was holding the quill.

"Okay, okay. I have a son, Bill working in Gringotts, a bank, he's staying in Egypt. Another son, Charlie, works in Romania, with dragons. My third son, Percy, I would rather not talk about. I have twin boys, Fred and George, who are in their last year of Hogwarts, the school. I also have another son, Ron, in his fifth year of Hogwarts and, a daughter, Ginny, in her fourth year of Hogwarts. My wife, Molly, stays at home and takes care of things there." Arthur found it easy to talk to the gloves and ended up doing so until the end of his shift.