Mother
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Sirius’s POV but more third person POV
Moonmush? It sounds delicious but sounds like it has mushrooms. Yuck, gross mushroom. Sirius thought and internally gagged at the thought of mushrooms and very distrust of mushrooms because he ate one causing crazy-shit hallucination during Moony’s transformation then he never ate these again.
His heart hurt for Nasrin’s tragic love with this guy but was a little pissed off at how filthy man touched his future sweet goddaughter. His grim form in his mind rabid snarling at the thought of his future pup was pawed by a filthy male, they must prove how they are worth for their future pup’s mate.
Realizing, the movie starts another scene, all pay attention on the screen. How interesting that muggles invented ‘movies’ and ‘television’. Sirius recalled Lily and muggle-raised talked about muggles stuff.
Young Fei Fei runs over the bridge, a paper lantern in tow, making rocket sounds. She hops up to tap the nose of a stone lion.
“Bunny rocket comin’ through! Look at my rocket ship!” Fei Fei cried then making rocket sounds for effect while she flagged a paper lantern as she passed in front of the bakery while her parents opened the window to readied for the customers. Fei Fei enters the bakery while playing with her lantern and hops.
Purebloods' watch scene of Fei Fei is childish, they think their parents will punish them for ‘out of behavior’ to practice pureblood etiquette, they watch with jealousy.
“Slow down little astronaut! You have space breaks, you can use them!” Father warns her while Fei Fei who runs around the bakery then mother slows her down while Mother laughs.
Sirius recalls how his father who is cold and distant from him and his brother to suffer with banshee mother at Sirius for does not like should be the heir of Black.
“Cool your jets!” Mother laughs, pat Fei Fei to calm her down then puts on Fei Fei’s apron while Fei Fei drops her lantern.
“Watch out, momma! Baba!” Fei Fei giggled as Mother stared at her and tuck Fei Fei’s hair strand behind her ear.
“How about you help us make mooncakes today?” Mother asked while she tied Fei Fei’s apron securely. Fei fei gasped. “I can?” Fei Fei astonished and stared at mother with her widened eyes. Mother pretends to be thoughtful.
Mooncakes? It sounds so delicious. Moony will like it. Sirius looks at Remus who watches the scene. His heart flushing at Remus’s soft smile made his scars curling, his pale green with golden streaks shone in emotion at the scene. Sirius snapped his head at the screen with a little blush on his face.
Unknown to Sirius, Remus notices it and little blush at his stare at him. He internally scolds himself, Sirius won't date him since he is a werewolf and guy. He denied himself but his wolf inner, Moony stubbornly whined and snarled at Remus who denied himself from making a move on their mate.
“I think it’s about time you learn how we make our special family mooncakes.” Mother smiled at her as Fei Fei started hops in excitement as Mother got up to walk to the kitchen.
“Yay!” Fei Fei skipped over to the kitchen to reveal the bakers busy making mooncakes then she dodged the coming cart.
Purebloods and wixen-raised watch disbelief because muggles have to do house tasks, since they don't have house-elves. Their noses stuck up at the idea they have to cook.
“Sorry! Excuse me!” Fei Fei watched the bakers make mooncakes as they slammed the dough to shape the mooncake and place the tray. Then parents and two bakers work side by side in perfect synchronicity. They start singing except Fei Fei who watches them work on mooncakes.
“STUFF! ROLL! PRESS! SMACK! STUFF! ROLL! PRESS! SMACK!
SIFT THE FLOUR,
LET THE EGGS CRACK KNEAD THE DOUGH ON EVERY HOUR THEN WE START IT ALL AGAIN
STUFF! ROLL! PRESS! SMACK! STUFF! ROLL! PRESS! SMACK!
FORM THE DOUGH AROUND THE FILLING BRUSH WITH EGG AND PLEASE NO SPILLING.
WHAT A LOVELY GIFT THEY ARE.”
Young children and the Marauders start lip syncing with this song.
While bakers and Mother sings. Fei Fei props herself up to the counter as Mother places a ball of dough in front of her and places a rolling pin to Fei Fei. She rolls too hard and thrilly, then Mother notices and slows her down and shows the right way to roll the dough with a rolling pin. Mother let it go to see Fei Fei. Fei Fei became natural.
“AND THERE’S TRADITION IN THESE
MOONCAKES
AND WE MAKE EVERY ONE WITH CARE THEN WE BAKE THEM FULL OF FONDNESS- SWEETNESS
LOFTING THROUGH THE AIR
AND THERE IS MAGIC IN THESE MOONCAKES
YOU CAN FEEL IT ALL AROUND MOONCAKES WHERE THE MAGIC IS FOUND.” Mother sings as she packs the mooncakes in the box and brings them to the bakery to show the older couple while Fei Fei follows her.
“STUFF! ROLL! PRESS! SMACK!
STUFF! ROLL! PRESS! SMACK! SIFT THE FLOUR, LET THE EGGS CRACK
KNEED THE DOUGH ON EVERY HOUR THEN WE START IT ALL AGAIN.” In the background, the bakers sing as they make mooncakes, bake and pack in the boxes to bring to the front of the bakery.
Mother tilted her head toward the old couple who started singing as the elder man tried to eat the sample and Mother gave a smirk to Fei Fei.
“WE NEED FIVE MORE
OR MAYBE TWELVE
BECAUSE I’VE GOT THE COUSINS COMING AND YOU KNOW
JUST HOW THEY ARE
THEY LOVE THESE CAKES
SO I THINK YOU BETTER GIVE ME TWENTY MORE.” The couple sings while Fei Fei gets a message and enters back to the kitchen to get more mooncakes then show time has passed as Fei Fei looked nine years old who re-entered the front of the bakery as she carried more boxes of mooncakes.
“EACH ONE HOLDS A MESSAGE FROM THE
MOON ABOVE
“CHERISH LIFE AND EVERYTHING YOU LOVE” Mother sings and she lovingly pushes Fei Fei’s hair behind her ear as Fei Fei places the boxes and shares a smile.
“MAGIC IN THESE MOONCAKES-- Oh…”
While she sings, Mother gets up and enters the kitchen area with a bunch of take-out boxes, she suddenly feels faint then collapses. Father goes to her to make sure she is sure.
People gasped and mumbles to each other except some feel not to be empathic when mother collapses. Madam Pomfrey straightens up worriedly for the mother, her healer inner screaming at herself to help the patient since healing training deeply implanted her instinct.
“Oh… MAGIC IN THESE MOONCAKES. Hey…” Father sings while giving a hand to mother to help her up, they share a tender look. In the background Fei Fei worriedly looked at mother.
“HIDDEN IN THESE MOONCAKES FOR YOU” Mother finished singing.
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It looks like little time is passing to show the spring. Fei Fei pushes a cart, selling Mooncakes in the busy streets of her town. Mother, who looks sickly, walks ahead of her with a cane, smelling the cherry blossoms hanging from the trees. Fei Fei chatted with older androgynous person who look at her asmusement.
Sirius blink at the mother looking sickly, hoping it won't happen to her.
One of the third years from Hufflepuff concernedly asked, “She looks sick? Will she be okay?” But nobody answered.
“Flaky, sweet and delicious. Homemade mooncakes!” Fei Fei chirped to a new customer who looked at the cart of mooncake boxes and pulled their wallet.
“Ten please!” Older androgynous customer said and look at the cart while Fei Fei tapped the Ipad.
“Did you know if you put forty billion mooncakes side-by-side you could reach the moon?” Fei Fei told them excitedly and stared at the customer who acted like they were surprised at the fact.
“‘Course if the moon is at its furthest point from the Earth, you’d need four hundred twenty-six million two hundred thirty-two more!” Fei Fei proudly revealed what she made to the slides to show the science stuff with the moon and mooncakes. They got a close look and gave her an amusement.
Purebloods and wixen-raised bemused and stared at the Ipad while muggle-raised cooed and awed at new technology and got excited for future technology.
They chuckled, “You better get baking.”
“MAGIC IN THESE MOONCAKES FOR YOU.” Mother sings and taps the flower on Fei Fei’s nose to get a giggle from her. They walk down as the blossom flowers flow by the winds to cover the screen and pass to show the time has passed again of the autumn to show the mother in the wheelchair.
Everyone watches silently and some are concerned for Fei Fei’s mother who looks more weak and sickly and feels dread for the next.
Father helped her up to sit down on the picnic blanket.
“NOW THE LEAVES ARE CHANGING
SOON THE FESTIVAL BEGINS SUCH A SPECIAL FEELING” Mother sings as Fei Fei who looks somber on her knee then Fei Fei looks up when Mother sings with Father.
“MAGIC IN THESE MOONCAKES
HIDDEN IN THESE MOONCAKES FOR YOU.” Mother and Father sing together as they present Fei Fei with a small white bunny rabbit, BUNGEE. Fei Fei who gasped and nearly cried and took the bunny and snuggled it and the family hugged each other. Mother looks worriedly while she hugs them.
Students cooed at the bunny, and creature lovers have the urge to get bunny then cuddle with the bunny. While some mature students and adults understand that mother who look worried and sicker, it is heartbreaking for the family to lose one.
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The town looks like the time has passed again to show the winter but cloudy and misty cover the roofs. Then show Fei Fei’s room but something happened. She is wearing a black dress.
Fei Fei lies on her bed in a fetal position, and her door slowly opens. Father who looks sad enters her room, sitting on her bed. They shared a mournful look and they hugged, sharing a quiet moment.
The Great Hall realized and their heads downward to a moment for the mother while cold-hearted people internally rolled eyes and stuck their noses up.
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They are at a special spot. Where the last place of the family spent time was a picnic.
Fei Fei and Father are dressed in all black and with Fei Fei’s bunny who looks at her. They release a lotus flower over the water as a tribute to Mother. Fei Fei who looks at it all hits on her that her mother is really gone as she watches a lotus flower gently floating the river.
Potter and Evans families expect Lily’s sister who gives sneer at wixen but follow her parents to start to hug James and Lily then Potter welcomes Sirius.
Unknown to Sirius, his former family who stare at him who hugged with Potters, Walburga Black who glared at them, but internally angsty heartbroken and bone-relieved.
Some students hug their friends who lost their family members in the past.