"Hey Lily-Love, how was school today?" Harry asked his daughter. He had just picked her up from the muggle primary school he and Ginny send the kids to. "Why is school so boring?" Lily whined. "School isn't boring….. You want to go to Hogwarts, right? That's a school." Harry replied. "But at Hogwarts, I can make things fly, and today I learnt about Gravity." She declared. "You have a good point." Harry admitted, chuckling. "C'mon, let's go home." He said. "Ok." Lily reluctantly took his hand and followed him to the apparition point.
They apparated home and were greeted by the sight of James covered by flour all over his body. Giggling, Lily asked, "What happened?" "We were trying to make cookies, but someone spilled all the flour." Ginny answered, glaring at James. With a sigh, Harry pulled out his wand and vanished all the flour over James. "Scourgify." "Thanks, Dad!" "How you're so messy is beyond me." Shaking his head, Harry goes into the sitting room, while Lily stays to help her mother clean up the rest of the mess.
"Out, James!" Ginny condescends him. "Sorry, mum…" He mumbles, head bowed and eyes not meeting his mother's. Ginny's face softens. "It's alright, Jamie. How about you go play chess with Al? Merlin knows he needs to come out his room sooner or later." She suggests. Sighing, she decides that cleaning the kitchen by hand will be much more satisfactory than doing it by magic. She hands Lily a cleaning rag and gets to work. "Here, why don't you clean the counters?" "Ok!" Ginny smiles at her daughter's cheeriness. While there would be trouble in their house at times, she knew these little moments were special, and she cherished them all the same, even when she was mad.