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Like Bunny shaped Marshmallows

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Like Bunny shaped Marshmallows

Breakfast was a cup of hot chocolate with delightfully cute pastel bunny rabbit shaped marshmallows.
James had never been good at cooking and was lost with out his Lily.  Lily Potter had been feeling ill lately but had insisted that James stay home when she went to the appointment she had set up at St. Mungo’s.
She had blushed and muttered ‘girl stuff’ which was enough for James to take a hint.  
James finished his ‘breakfast’ and dropped the mug in the sink with a metallic thud as someone knocked on the front door.

Sirius had gotten wind of his best bud sitting at home alone and decided to do something about it.  He knocked on the door to the small newlywed home and waited.
“Sirius! What are you doing here you old dog?” James asked, grinning.
“I heard Lily will be out the whole day, are my sources true?”  Sirius asked.
“What are you sources?  Come in.”
“A little rodent told me.”  Sirius said as he tracked mud into the house.
“Ah Peter, you don’t have to ask me if he’s right then, he could never lie to us.  Unlike some.”  James raised an eyebrow at Sirius.
“Are you implying that lil’ Peter is more trustworthy than I?” Sirius put his hand to his chest.  “I’m hurt.”
“So, what brings you by?”
“Well things have been quiet and I thought we’d have a guys day out while your ball and chain is preoccupied.”  James looked skeptically at Sirius.  “I told the gang to meet us at the pub.  We haven’t gone stag1 in a while.” Sirius winked.
“I’m not sure I trust you, but if Remus or Peter are in on it, I suppose it can’t be too bad.  I’ll get my cloak.”

The Marauders were together again.   They met at the Hogs Head for old time’s sake.  Hogsmead was frosted in pure December snow and made them feel like kids again.
Sirius had been out of his family ‘home’ for years by now but had bumped into his parents the previous day at Flourish and Blotts.  The encounter had been interesting to say the least.
Mr. Black had no problem being vocal about how ‘not pleased’ he was in Sirius, while Mrs. Black told him not to make a scene and mark the family’s reputation.
There was something of Cedric the Saxon2 in Mr. Black-both shared a grudge against their own offspring.  However, only one would reconcile with his son before death.  
The encounter hadn’t really shaken Sirius, he couldn’t have cared less, but it had made him want to go out and do something fun, something with the boys.  He was thrilled to learn that all four of them were free that Saturday.
Peter had always been the quiet and shy one of the bunch, more so than Remus, but Sirius noticed he looked nervous.
“You alright there, Wormtail?” Sirius asked.
“I’m alright.” He said forcing a buck toothed smile.  
Sirius watched as Peter went back to pushing his steak and kidney pudding around the plate.
Sirius nudged James.  “Looks like our Wormtail has girl problems.”
“Who is she?” Remus asked, looking up from his Chocolate Frog Cards.
Peter looked up and stammered.  “No-no girl!”
“Aww come on, Petey, you can tell us.” James said brushing plastic candy wrappers from the table.
“Really!  There is no girl!” Peter said, his face turning deep red.
“Sure there isn’t.” Sirius winked roguishly.

The four spent the rest of the day poking around shops and laughing about their school years.  Sirius found a Bludger bat in one shop and laughed when James told him about baseball.
James tried holding it with both hands and swinging it like a muggle baseball bat but forgot how cluttered the store was and swept everything off a shelf in one smooth motion.
“Lily will murder you when she finds out how much you had to pay that storekeeper for the damages.” Remus joked.
“That spells disaster for you, mate.” Sirius threw an arm around James.

They stopped at the edge of the village to each go their separat ways. Remus appariated home and Peter used the public floo network fireplace to get home while Sirius and James appariated together back to the Potter residence.
“Wormtail seemed kinda sad today.  I wonder why?”  James said as they walked home.
“I think he was hiding something, but I don’t think it had anything to do with a girl”  Sirius said.
“Wormtail? Hide something, yeah right.”  James laughed.  “We’d never have to worry about Wormtail, Padfoot, he’s as harmless as…bunny rabbit shaped marshmallows.”
Sirius stopped in his tracks.
“Don’t joke like that Prongs, those things scare me!”
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Illustration: [link]
Word count: 780
Words: Metallic, baseball bat, Spells, thrilled, Cedric, Plastic, Steak, Chocolate Frog Cards, pleased, Lily Potter!
Date assigned: 3.16.2007
Date Due: 3.23.2007


1: Stag: to ‘go stag’ is to attend a social event without a woman date.
2: Cedric the Saxon is a character in Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott. Besides the loveable charictor of Robin Hood, we get from this book the name Cedric itself.

Taken from aboutnames.com [link]

“invented by Sir Walter Scott for a character in his novel 'Ivanhoe' maybe he altered the name 'Cerdic' whose meaning is not known for sure one possible origin for 'Cerdic' (also 'Ceredig') is from Celtic/Welsh 'carad' (loved, beloved)

Words: carad=loved, beloved; caru=to love”

And since the word we got was ‘Cedric’ and not ‘Cedric Diggory’ I felt O.K. using a different Cedric than the one in the Potterverse. ;P

Oh, and the ‘one (who) would reconcile with his (son) before death’? Not Mr. Black. ;P

My dad bought these pastel bunny shaped marshmallows and…I couldn’t resist that thought of James sitting there eating them! :XD:

Dudley was born June 23 1980 and Harry was born July 31 1980 so, they are a grand total of 39 days apart.

Since Harry was born at the end of July he was most likely conceived in late November or early December (Depending on if he was born early, on time or late. ;P) So I imagine Lily would have known by Christmas that she was pregnant, although it might have been early January but that would depend on various girl issues that I don’t think I want to get into here! :XD:

My original plot for this story had it ending with Lily announcing she's pregnant...:paranoid:
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Hogwarts5Ker's avatar
this is one the best Marauders fan fics i've read in some time.