For Maggie for GGE, Happy Birthday Darling :)
Hogwarts Winter Games I: Biathlon
Best Birthday Ever
"Is it here yet?" Eleven year old Maggie Malfoy asked in glee running into the kitchen where her mother was baking her a cake.
Sabrina Malfoy smiled at her youngest daughter and shook her head. "Not yet."
The young girl frowned and took a seat across from where her mother was mixing up the cake. "Why is it taking so long?"
"The mail takes a long time to send things, Maggie," Sabrina said. "How about you go get a shower while you're waiting? Your friends will be here soon for your party."
Maggie nodded and climbed up the stairs to the second floor of her house. It was her eleventh birthday today and all of her friends from around town were coming over for her birthday party. More importantly, her father, who worked out of town, had sent her a birthday present that she was just dying to get.
Maggie only seen her father every three months for a month at a time and all summer long, but he always gave her the best gifts for her birthday, whether he was home or he had to send it through post.
Maggie was excited to find out what her father's gift was this year, for her tenth birthday her father had gotten her a huge Barbie house with some new dolls that he got in America.
"Maggie, come down here a minute," Sabrina called from the bottom of the steps. Maggie ran out of her room with her new dress her mother had bought her on
"What?" Maggie asked peering down the bottom of the steps at her mother and a weird looking women. "Who's that?"
"I'm Professor McGonagall," the weird women explained with a generous smile. "I'm the deputy headmistress at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry."
"Witchcraft?" Maggie questioned with a frown. "Is this some kind of joke?"
"No," the women said kindly. "I am a witch and I can do magic. Would you like me to show you?"
Maggie eyed her mother who nodded encouragingly. "Okay..."
Professor McGonagall smiled. "Cape."
Out of nowhere her father's handwriting had come out of Professor McGonagall's wand, letting Maggie see the message he had wrote.
Maggie,
I'm sorry for not telling you that you're a witch but I figured that this would be a much better way to tell you then you to be born with the knowledge. My father had abandoned me as a child for befriending a Muggle (that means non-magical folk) so that's the reason your mother had no idea of our heritage (until I told her a few weeks ago). Anyway, happy 11th birthday my beautiful daughter and I will see you soon.
Professor Gyro Malfoy
Potions professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
PS. Your mother had just as much to do with this as I did, it was a joined effort with myself, your mother, and Minerva.. Erm… I mean Professor McGonagall.
Maggie's eyes lit up and she did the most unexpected thing she could do, she hugged Professor McGonagall around the middle. The professor, albeit taken back, hugged the young girl back with a smile.
"I'll get to see my dad more," she whispered with teary eyes. "This is the best birthday ever."
Written for;
Hogwarts Winter Games; Biathalon - The Biathalon is a 5-event competition. - Event Two: Relay – A relay is about a team effort, so this drabble will be about two or more people working together to make something happen.