Ana couldn’t bring herself to answer the girl when she entered, though she lifted an eyebrow in slight surprise. This girl was a Hufflepuff? Then again, Ana had heard stranger things and seen angrier students, so she couldn’t say she was honestly that surprised. Even through the faked smile on Amelia’s face, it wasn’t hard to notice the disdain that lived there. Ana offered a slight smile, though it didn’t reach her eyes.
Instead, she turned to her paperwork and left the girl to wait for the professor to arrive. This would certainly be an interesting meeting, she mused. As if on cue, as Ana’s thoughts turned to the man in question, the door opened again and he entered, greeting them far more politely than the student had.
“Hello, Professor.” She greeted lightly. “Safe to say you know each other,” Ana added, glancing down at her files again as she spoke. She wasn’t quite sure she wanted to face their wrath immediately. “If you’ll take a seat we can begin.”
Pushing back a heavy sigh, Ana straightened up in her chair and twined her fingers together in front of her on the desk. It was time to push out that obnoxious and over-stated speech of hers regarding the timeline for the next few weeks. While she wasn’t expecting them to take the information well, Ana simply hoped that the meeting would be brief, if nothing else.
“So,” she began, hiding her boredom with the sharpness of the first word. “The next two weeks are designated as time for you two to get to know each other. By the end of those fourteen days, we’ll need you to set a date for the ceremony. Whether or not you do the big wedding is up to you, but it must be officiated and filed with the Ministry by the end of thirty days. Then of course, you’ll have filled the first requirement of the law. After that, as is stated in the law, you have three years in which the Ministry expects you to have a child. Because of that, we’ll need to do a fertility test before you leave, for each of you. If you choose, during Aedan’s test, I can tell you the gender of your first child.”
Glancing between the two, Ana felt better for just having gotten all of the words out without rolling her eyes or sighing over having to say them. Again. “Any questions?” If they didn’t have any – which she seriously doubted – Ana could give the tests and be done with the meeting. That would be kind of lovely, actually, she mused.