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Lily sighed as James slid the newspaper across the table to her. The Daily Prophet was telling of more deaths every day, and the deatheaters showed no signs of stopping. This time it was a group of healers working at St Mungo's, that had been attacked on their way to work.
"You know what?" said Lily standing up. James looked at her in confusion. "It's Christmas! Everything should be happy! I'm going to introduce you to an old family tradition that Petunia and I did every Christmas!"
James smiled slightly. "And what might this annual tradition be?"
"Gingerbread houses!" Lily exclaimed.
"What?"
Lily rolled her eyes. "Come on. I'll show you."
About half an hour later, Lily was laying smarties gently across the pathway up to her gingerbread house. James came up behind her.
"Why don't you just use magic?"
"That's cheating!" Lily exclaimed. "You can't use magic. Anyway, it's too fiddly to use magic. It's probably easier not to!"
James mumbled something.
"What?"
"If you'd told me that before..." He grumbled.
Lily grinned. "Let's see yours then."
The walls were falling down. The chocolate chips were falling off. Hundreds and Thousands were randomly dropped everywhere. It looked 100% inedible.
Lily could not stop laughing.