"No," Jamie said with smile. "Because then I'd have to skip it to because there's no way I'm leaving you to celebrate your birthday on your own. And then Lily would have to write a new entry all about how her worthless older brothers left her alone with her family for an evening. And you wouldn't want that, would you?" Not that he thought Lily would do that to Al, of course. "See? It's so much easier to just come along now and we can go out you, me, and Lily after. Is Scorpius in town? We can make it four of us."
While most family gatherings had become something akin to the club nights with his friends from school. He could enjoy them, but never quite relax until the parents all went inside to do their thing and left the kids alone. "Besides, Rose will be there and you know she'll have been waiting all day to do something special for you."
As he spoke, Jamie hustled his brother toward the door, only to come to a dead stop once he was on the other side. Instead of waiting outside his brother's place to let Al lock up, he was facing what looked like the groundskeeper's hut at Hogwa- Looking around, that was definitely the castle in the distance.