Hey everyone. This is another chapter of Little Moments. It was written for both Halloween Bingo Funfair Event, and October Writing Club's Count Your Buttons on Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. For Halloween Bingo I used the prompt 50 Cauldron Cakes. For Count Your Buttons I used the Pairing prompt 1. Bellatrix/Rodolphus. I hope you all enjoyed Cauldron Cake Christmas.
Bellatrix remembers the first time she meets Rodolphus Lestrange. It was a forced meeting by their parents when they were about thirteen years old and it happened over the Christmas break from Hogwarts. Her mother had invited the Lestranges over for Christmas dinner and it seemed to Bellatrix that she and the Lestrange boy were being pushed together.
"Mother," her voice sounds tiny in her own ears and she doesn't mean to sound so small but can't help it, "why did you invite the Lestranges to dinner? I thought it was going to be family only."
"They are distantly related to us," her mother reminded her which should have set off tiny alarm bells in Bellatrix's head at that moment. "So they are part of the family. And you young lady should know better than to question your elders. Go be friendly with their boy Rodolphus."
She sighs in annoyance at her mother's insistence that she associate this with this boy. She's seen the sort of person he is and she doesn't want to even be in the same room with him. But something tells her that her mother is pushing her towards him for some reason. She hopes it not the reason she thinks it is though.
"This is for you," Rodolphus says as she walks over to him. He's holding out something wrapped in cloth and she takes it gingerly not knowing what could be inside. "I hope you like them."
She's shocked to hear the genuine hope in the boy's voice. Opening the cloth gently she's confronted with one of her favorite sweets in the whole world. She didn't think that anyone was paying that much attention to what she liked. She smiled down on the package of Cauldron Cakes as she held one out to Rodolphus.
"Thank you, Rodolphus," she replied clearly confused why he was giving her Cauldron Cakes for Christmas but she was also happy too. "Please have one."
Rodolphus took one of the sweet cakes and bit into it happily. He could see both their mothers watching from the doorway as the two of them sat in silence and ate away at the Cauldron Cakes.
I hope you all enjoyed Cauldron Cake Christmas.