"So, what shall we do while we wait?" Ginny asked.
They thought for a moment. Lily's eyes brightened.
"Let's bake Christmas cookies!"
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"So, what exactly are we making?" Sirius1 asked once they were all in the kitchen.
"Cinnamon cookies," Lily answered. She took out four, sugar, eggs, butter, cinnamon, measuring spoons, a cookie platter, and cookie cutters.
"We're going to need two beaten eggs. Harry, you can do that." Lily said, giving him a small bowl, the carton of eggs, and a whisk.
Lily ordered everyone to do something and it was 11:40 when chaos arose.
"Okay, put the flour into the bowl, Sirius," Lily said.
Sirius nodded. He tried to pick up the heavy flour sack, but it was too heavy for him.
"James, help him," Lily ordered.
James nodded. Together, they upended the sack of flour. Once it had tilted, the whole sack of flour poured out. There was so much flour dusting up the area that no one could see each other. There were coughs and shrieks. In the minutes, the room cleared up a bit. Everyone was covered in flour, head to toe.
Harry saw flour atop of Ginny's hair, a bunch on her clothes, and some settled on her eyelashes and nose. Harry thought she looked rather cute like that and chuckled to himself. He knew that he looked ridiculous. For a moment, there was complete silence. Then—
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James didn't know what had happened. He saw Lily was covered in flour. He gulped. James knew Lily would blow up at them. But surprisingly, they all burst out laughing hysterically. It took about fifteen minutes for them to all calm down.
"Guys…" Remus said slowly.
They looked at him questioningly.
"We have ten minutes until the Weasleys get here!" Remus yelped.
"We should clean up, then?" Sirius1 said lightly.
There was flour everywhere and the ingredients needed to be put away.
After many Scourgify's, they were done. They forgot one thing, though- themselves. They were still caked with flour. They went up to their rooms and cleaned up.
Harry brushed flour out of his hair. He washed his face and changed into a dark grey tee shirt and baggy dark blue jeans. Over that, he wore an expensive midnight blue designer robe. He attempted to flatten his hair out, but as usual, it sprang back up messily.
Harry made his way to the stairs and smoothly slid down the banister as someone knocked on the door. He opened the door and saw a bunch of red hair. He was immediately embraced by someone who was about a foot and a fourth shorter than him.
"Oh, James, it's so nice to see you! You've grown so much! How are you?" the person hugging him cried.
Then they abruptly let go of him and back away.
"You're not James!" she accused.
"Er, hello, Mrs. Weasley," Harry said nervously.
Mrs. Weasley in this time was a lot skinnier and looked much younger.
"I'm Harry, Harry Donovan," Harry said politely, "I'm James' Defense Against the Dark Arts professor."
"Mummy! Whozzat?" a voice piped up.
Mrs. Weasley stepped aside and Harry saw a baby in a stroller and a toddler who looked about four years old.
"Bill? Charlie?" Harry gasped. It was, indeed, them.
"You know them?" Mrs. Weasley asked.
"Er, James told me about them." Harry said quickly. He was still shocked to see them. They were so small!
Before either of them could say anything else, someone walked over.
"Molly, Molly, Molly, what a pleasant surprise!"
Harry turned around and saw Sirius walking over, beaming at them.
"Hello, Sirius," Mrs. Weasley said with a fond smile.
"Mrs. Weasley?" another voice inquired.
James came oer.
"James!" Mrs. Weasley squealed. She attacked him into an embrace.
James patted Mrs. Weasley's head with a goofy grin on his face.
"Let's go to the living room. The rest of them are waiting there." James said. He took Bill's hand.
Mrs. Weasley propped the baby's carriage by the door and picked up baby Charlie.
"Oh, are they your friends, James, dear?" Mrs. Weasley asked once they were in the living room.
"This is Hermione Granger, one of my Defense professors, and Sean Courtley, another one of my Defense professors. You've met Harry already. This is Lily Evans, one of my classmates," James said.
"And this is Ginny Wheeler, a friend of mine from school," James said with a big smile.
Ginny was looking at her mother with a brilliant gleam in her eyes.
"Well, hello to you all!"
"What about me, Molly?" Remus said with a pout.
"Oh, Remus, of course, I haven't forgotten about you!" Mrs. Weasley said with a fond smile. She gave him a big hug.
"Me Bill!" Bill piped up.
Ginny giggled at her older brother.
"How old are you now, Bill?" James asked.
"Fowe!" Bill exclaimed, putting up three fingers. (he meant four, by the way)
"That's old enough for me to teach you Quidditch—" James said brightly.
"Absolutely not!" Hermione, Lily, and Mrs. Weasley said sternly.
Harry burst out laughing. Along with him were everyone but the three that protested against it.
Lily, Mrs. Weasley, and Hermione glared at them.
"I'll go tell Mum that you're here." James said, slipping out of the room.
"So, tell me about yourselves, dears. You must be quite close to James since you're here for the holidays," Mrs. Weasley said. She directed the question at Ginny, Harry, Lily, Sirius1, and Hermione.
"Er, Lily and I go to school with him," Ginny said a bit nervously.
"Oh, yes! Lily, I've heard him talk about so much, but I've never heard him speak about you, dear," Mrs. Weasley said to Ginny.
"Oh, I'm new. I was er, home-schooled before," Ginny said quickly. She looked at others for support.
"Molly?" a voice said from the door.
"Maria, hello!" Mrs. Weasley said brightly, giving James' mum a hug.
"You've brought Bill and Charlie, too." Maria said, smiling broadly.
"Auntie Mawia!" Bill said happily. He waddled over to Maria and she picked him up.
"Auntie?" Harry asked, raising an eyebrow.
Maria answered him with a smile. "Oh, I'm Bill's godmother."
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Okay, so, I've decided this was boring so I cut it short. This is the shortest chapter I'll ever write, I swear. It's just 2 pages. But this was just too boring. I sort of messed up on my writing when I wrote it on notebook paper before. So I have to redo it. I have to think of better events after this chapter. So yeah. It's hard. But please, stay with me!
