Thank you to Teva Faye For your review, it made me get on and write another chapter. Not much happens in this one, and its not one of my best but please everyone, let me know what you think. I'm not sure whether the paragraphs are in the right place so if you can let me know if and where I should change them I would appreciate it. Sorry I haven't updated in so long. Also, I wasn't sure about what to call the family owl, if you have a better idea I'd love to hear it. Thank you xxx
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A Culinary Interlude
'Lily!'
'Coming Mum,' Lily called down the loft hatch. Her eyes quickly darted around the attic and spotted a ribbon lying discarded across a floorboard. She picked it up and slipped it in the album to mark her page. Then taking the book in her hand, she clambered down the ladder.
Before coming downstairs she quickly slipped into her bedroom and laid the book carefully on her bed; she would finish looking at it later. Then Lily skipped downstairs and into the kitchen. Ginny smiled at her daughter as she capered into the room.
'You look a bit chirpier now,' she remarked. 'Did you find something to amuse you?' Lily nodded and slipped on the apron her mother handed to her.
'Can we make fairy cakes?' she asked. 'Then can we send one to all my cousins at Hogwarts and have some for tea too?'
'That's a good idea,' agreed Ginny. 'And we can send one to Hugo and one to Teddy as well. I hope Aristotle doesn't mind though, he'll have a lot of work this evening.' (Aristotle was the family owl. He was a Barn owl and had been given to Ginny and Harry as a wedding gift from Neville and Hannah Longbottom.)
Ginny and her daughter got all the ingredients out of the cupboard and helped one another to make the mixture and pour it into the cases. Both mother and daughter shared a love for baking the muggle way, they thought it was so much more fun than being able to make it with just a flick of the wand. However, they thought using an oven was a bit of a waste of time so the cakes were cooked very quickly. Lily decorated each fairy cake with icing and wrote the initials of her cousins' names on them in hundreds-and-thousands.
Ginny packaged up the cakes and placed charms on them so they wouldn't get squashed. Lilly took them over to Aristotle.
'This one's for Albus, this one's for James, here's Vee's, take this one to Roxy, this one for Dom, this one is for Lucy, this is Louis', here's Teddy's, this one's for Hugo, this one's for Rose, this one's for Freddie and this one's for Molly.' She told him. Aristotle flew off wishing he belonged to a family that wasn't quite so big
'I'll just tidy up in here and get dinner ready,' Ginny said. 'Then when your Dad gets home we can all play a exploding snap or gobstones if you like.'
'Thanks Mummy,' Lily replied and ran back up the stairs. She went into her room and slumped on the bed. She found the page she'd marked and turned to the next one…