AN: Just a small holiday standalone! Not really connected to a specific point in the story.
Disclaimer: The usual, I don't own Harry Potter et all. That belongs to J.K. Rowling. I own the plot and relations between characters.
A Holiday Tableaux
The scene opens on a large room filled with holiday cheer. In one corner is the Christmas tree, tastefully decorated. Under the tree sit a huge number of presents in an array of sizes. On the coffee table in the middle of the room, sit a tray of various Christmas goodies such as taffy, cookies, and sugar plums. Next to the tray stood a pitcher of pumpkin juice, with several empty goblets nearby.
Near the tray, at the other end of the room, Arabella is decorating sugar cookies with icing, sprinkles, and other various cookie decorations. She is wearing a deep red dress that brushes her thighs. On her feet is a pair of red knee-high boots, carefully laced and tied underneath her skirt. She wears a cute Santa hat that tips to one side, the end brushing against her left cheek. Her hair is pulled into a loose and low ponytail with a matching red ribbon. On either end of the ribbon, a tiny golden bell is attached, jingling each time she moves her hair. Thrown over her dress is a matching robe. Arabella is concentrating intensely on decorating the cookies, especially a special set of six.
The cookie shaped vaguely like a fox is covered with brown icing and white icing is applied with a toothpick to create the end of the tail and highlights. It is also given gray eyes. A dog-shaped cookie is covered with icing that Iris Lupin had charmed black, with bright blue eyes. A stag is liberally covered with white icing and little silver balls for a neckline and also as antler accents. The butterfly uses blue and yellow icing with a silver ball pressed into the bottom part of each wing. Another dog-shaped cookie is proclaimed a wolf and given brown icing, with heavy white accents to represent silver fur. Its eyes are detailed swirls of orange and brown icing. Lastly, the one Arabella is working on now is in the shape of a fairy. Each wing is painstakingly being covered with pink icing. White icing would later be applied in an intricate pattern. The face bore green icing eyes and red hair. The dress of the fairy would also be covered in white icing.
The next scene is of another corner of the room where James is putting ribbons and tags on several presents that will be added to the stack already under the tree. He is wearing an emerald green silk dress shirt and matching slacks. He also has on green dress shoes and a white vest. Over this all is thrown a lighter green robe. As time continues, he puts aside the present he just finished wrapping and picks up another. He turns the present over and looks at the letter written on tape on the bottom and addresses the label appropriately. He then attaches both bow and ribbon, and continues.
The camera pans to Sirius, who is enthusiastically cutting up square pieces of paper and turning them into snowflakes. For him, this is STILL a novelty since he never did anything of the sort as a child. He is wearing a red dress shirt and both matching dress shoes and dress pants. He has a lighter red robe thrown over that. Many schnitzels litter the floor in a two meter radius around him, which no one will come near. This is because Sirius truly creates the snowflakes in about half a minute, going so quickly with the scissors that the others were STILL afraid he'd cut himself before they realized anything was wrong. Yet every snowflake Sirius created were beautiful, thus the reason he was always delegated to snowflake cutter despite the danger.
Next, the camera pans to the kitchen where Natalia is baking wonderful foods. She has an apron on over her white dress to prevent it from getting dirty. On the back of the kitchen door on the hangar where the apron would usually be is her white robe. Her white slippers peek out from beneath her skirt and her hair is braided tightly and tied with a white crushed velvet ribbon. Presently, she is stirring cake batter in order to prepare it for the oven. The pan it will go into is already greased. There is flour on Natalia's face, spread across her forehead from when she wiped away sweat with the back of her hand.
Finally, the camera fades to a view of Remus and Lily outside the house. Lily is standing on Remus' shoulder and attaching a sprig of holly onto the top of the entry door. Lily herself is wearing emerald green overalls over a forest green long-sleeved silk dress shirt. She has on green sneakers and socks, visible as she strains to pin the holly up. Her hair is loose, with several ribbons thread loosely through her hair. Around her neck is a ribbon of green crushed velvet with a silver snowflake charm hanging from it. She also has emerald green wool gloves, forest green scarf, and a thick green robe thrown over all of that to keep her warm as she works outside. Remus is wearing a white turtleneck and white slacks. His white shoes disappear in the white snow. He has on a white robe buttoned tightly against the cold as he holds Lily up.
It isn't long before the holly sprig is securely attached to the door and Lily is put back on the ground. Both turn towards the camera.
"Happy Holidays 2004," Remus says quietly.
"From our family to yours," Lily finishes. Both smile at the camera as it fades to black.
THE END
AN: Just a little scene that wouldn't leave my head. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. For those of you who are Jewish, Happy Belated Chanukkah. For those of African ancestry, Happy Kwanzaa. To the Chinese readers, Kung Hee Fa Choi (did I spell that right?)/ Happy Chinese New Year! You don't really need to review this, but it would be nice, as this is the first time I've written in present tense… it's harder than it looks!
Leviar: Thanks for the review…. So far, you're my only one for chapter 6…. So sad, everyone's lost interest.