Tea Time

Albus- 6 Lily- 4

"Daddy!" Lily came running into Harry's study, dressed her big, pink, puffy dress.

"What is it, Lily-bug?" Harry asked as he looked up from the paper he was currently writing.

"Come to my tea party!" Lily exclaimed excitedly, as she bounced on the balls of her feet.

"I'm busy, honey." Harry told her sadly.

"But Daddy," Lily wined. "James said he didn't want to and neither does Albus, and Mummy's busy!"

"I'd love to have a tea party with you sweetie, but I'm really busy right now." Harry explained. "I've got a lot of papers to fill out and give to Kingsley."

"Kingsley loves me!" Lily exclaimed. "He won't mind!" Harry had to chuckle at his daughters persistence.

"Honey-" Harry started but Lily cut him off.

"Daddy!" Lily exclaimed, and she gave him the look that melted his resolve every time. It wasn't much different than the look that Ginny sometimes gave.

Harry went to say no again, but the longer he looked at her face, he couldn't refuse.

"A tea party?" Harry asked and Lily's whole face lit up.

"Yes!" She exclaimed happily. "You need to dress up though." Lily told him.

"Dress up?" Harry asked.

"Yes, in your dress robes." Lily told him. "And then come to my room."

"Okay," Harry nodded his head. "I'll be right there."

They both left the study, and to their separate bedrooms.

Soon enough, Harry, dressed in his fancy robes, walked into Lily's bedroom.

"I'm here, honey." Harry said.

"Good!" Lily exclaimed. "Come and sit!" Lily directed her father to the small table and chairs placed in the middle of the room.

"Sit there," Lily pointed to one chair and she sat in the other. Harry squeezed into the small and muttered a charm to insure he didn't crush it.

"So what do we do at a tea party?" Harry asked his daughter.

"We drink tea, silly!" Lily told him, and she lifted her cup, pink up and seemed to take a drink. Harry looked into his cup and saw that it was empty and Harry smiled at his daughter's imagination.

Harry picked up his cup and went to take a pretend drink when he heard Lily exclaim.

"Pinky up, Daddy!" Lily exclaimed, and Harry almost dropped the cup in alarm.

"Oh sorry, Lils." Harry smiled, and lifted his pinky as Lily had instructed. "Was that better?" Harry asked when he put the cup back down.

"Much." Lily said as she nodded her head. Harry just smiled.

"What else do we do at a tea party?" Harry asked after a few minutes of dainty tea drinking.

"Mummy made me biscuits!" Lily said excitedly, and she opened up a pink heart tin box. Inside were a dozen chocolate biscuits.

"How nice of Mummy." Harry smiled at his daughter as she passed him a biscuit. The two munched on a few biscuits for a little while, before the door slowly opened.

"Dad?" The voice asked, and Harry saw the bright green eyes of his youngest son, Albus.

"Hey, Al." Harry greeted his son.

"What're you doing, Dad?" Albus asked skeptically, as he fully came into the room.

"I'm having a tea party with Miss Lily." Harry told him and Lily beamed. "Would you like to join us?"

"Yeah, Al!" Lily said excitedly. "We have tea and Mummy made chocolate biscuits!" Albus looked thoughtful for a moment, before nodding his head.

"Okay." Albus came over to the table and sat on a chair. "I don't see any tea." Albus said.

"Use your imagination." Harry told Al. "It's more fun that way!"

"Oh, okay." Albus nodded his head, and when he picked up a cup to take a fake drink,

"Pink up!" Both Lily and Harry exclaimed.

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