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Title: Baby's First Non-Religious Multiethnic All-Inclusive Winter Holiday Festival, X
Challenges: Snape's best/worst gift snape100, Yule lupin100
Word Count: 100
Note: this is the long-awaited Motherless Child holiday fic. It will continue through Twelfth Night unless it gets completely out of hand, in which case, all bets are off.

Those not familiar with Motherless Child and its sequels/prequels need to know that Severus and Remus are married and have adopted a baby werewolf. It is now the holiday season, and an unexpected controversy has arisen as their families descend for Christmas/Hanukkah/Solstice/Yule/Hogmanay/Festivus….



"Happy Yule, darling!" Maggie Lupin beamed as she laid Johnny down for a nap. "Do you everything ready? I saw the menorah downstairs, and the tree, and the presents."

"As ready we're going to be," said Remus. He'd heard Julie/Judith make a waspish remark about the sexism of First Footing, followed immediately by Severus being dismissive. "We should have had the Gruners come in January. This - "

"I'm sure it will be lovely," said his mother. "Having family near is such a gift."

Now was not the time to remind her that gifts could be both good and bad.