Ginny Weasley Potter (gunpwdr_treason) wrote in whatprice, @ 2009-05-28 20:07:00 |
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Entry tags: | augustus pye, charlie weasley, cho chang, dean thomas, fleur delacour, ginny weasley, hermione granger, marcus belby, penelope clearwater, romilda vane |
Birthday Wishes
Who: Ginny Weasley Potter, Teddy Lupin, and a garden-full of guests
When: Saturday afternoon, 30 May
Where: Potter farm, Snowdonia
What: Birthday party!
After several days of preparations, the grounds around the Potter farmhouse were beginning to resemble a carnival crossed with a campground. Several picnic tables held enough food for a small army, and an array of home-made child-friendly and adult beverages (the latter charmed inaccessible to both the underaged and the overindulged). Not one but two birthday cakes held pride of place at either end of the spread: for Margaux (who also had a recent birthday) there was a multi-tiered fluffy pink-and-iridescent-purple cake stuffed with strawberries and whipped cream and covered with fluttering icing-sugar butterflies perched atop icing roses; Teddy's cake was a simpler affair, chocolate cake on a chocolate-chip-biscuit crust with smooth chocolate frosting into which he'd carefully traced outlines of nearly every animal he could think of, with the dragon and the wolf especially prominent.
Comfortable chairs -- both the standard sort and the squashy beanbag sort -- dotted the area near the tables; and the yard beyond had been cleared for all manner of child-friendly activities of varying levels of rambunctiousness: tag, gnome tossing, inflatable-sheep racing....
Closer to the edge of the woods behind the farmhouse, logs and branches had been piled into what would at dusk become an impressive bonfire. Beyond, in a broad semicircle marking a boundary between the bonfire and the woods, stood eleven pillar candles on brass candlesticks, shoulder-height to a grown man.
As the time ticked toward three, Ginny -- in her sundress and biker-boots -- checked and re-checked that everything was ready, while Teddy sneaked off to the barn to say a few soothing words to the animals whose home might soon be invaded by small children desperate to pet things.