The Golden Snitch
12: (dialogue) "That gingerbread man looks an awful lot like someone…"
AJ, Kasai; Mahoutokoro.
Advent Calendar Event
Word count: 479
The Weasley family stood around the kitchen counters, spread out evenly around the entire cooking space. They were making gingerbread men, a tradition they didn't plan on abandoning just because the war was over. The matriarch of the family - Molly - was happy to say they'd continued their traditions throughout the war and they didn't plan on stopping that now. Thus they all stood in the crowded space, each working on making a bunch of gingerbread men. Molly's hands were shaky, and so she began walking around the kitchen instead, looking over everyone's cookies.
There was Ginny and Hermione's cookies, who looked like little quidditch players. They had the beaters, on brooms holding up bats, the seeker who was reaching for a snitch just out of his grasp, a keeper who was blocking the goals, and chasers who tossed the balls back and forth. Hermione was enchanting them to fly around the little gingerbread pitch the two had made, and Ginny was in charge of decorating them properly, as she knew more about the uniforms than Hermione did.
Then there was Harry and Ron, who had gone with a simpler approach and had just made a gingerbread house with two people inside. It was decorated traditionally, with gumdrops and white icing, candy canes, and little peppermints. The two gingerbread men were dressed in little suits that resembled the ones aurors wore, and seeing that they were doing quite well, she moved on.
Bill and Charlie worked collaboratively on a massive Gringotts bank out of gingerbread, Bill focusing on the structure of the building, Charlie focusing on the dragon statue that perched atop the roof. They were bickering slightly on where exactly the dragon went, Charlie insisting that he was right, Bill bringing up the fact that he had actually worked there for a significant period of time. She moved on with a smile, her hands less shaky than before.
George was last, stationed all alone since Percy was out on official Ministry business. She looked over his structure with a sad smile, looking at the burrow he'd made spectacularly. It had every little detail perfectly done, colored properly and everything. And then there were his gingerbread men, who looked all too familiar.
"That gingerbread man looks an awful lot like someone…" came her quite voice, causing him to jump. He turned around, following her gaze to the cookie currently in his hand.
"It's Fred," He mumbled, eyes never leaving the treat. And it was then that she looked closer at all the other gingerbread men he'd created. It had what seemed to be their whole family, Fleur, Harry, little Teddy Lupin, and Hermione were all there too. She smiled, wrapping him in a hug before moving back to Arthur. She talked with him quietly, both of them agreeing on one thing.
There was nothing better than spending time with family.