Little of a wet fish slap
DEATH- DEATH SPEAKING
Normal- Normal speaking
Movie-movie
5
Everyone went back to sit their spots and watching the movie was paused for their silent moment.
Fei Fei walks out from behind a curtain with cherry blossoms on it. She looks a little older, near teenager, with her once long hair to choppy short hair. She looks somber but her movements give an air of spunky individuality.
Few girly students and pureblood ladies gaped at muggle girl’s hair.
Fei Fei takes a glistening, freshly baked mooncake to place on the household altar. It reveals the photo of her mother who eternally and unmoved smiled, then Fei Fei’s reflection bounces off of the glass framing, showing the close similarities between mother and daughter. Her eyes are glistening with tears, but she summons a teary brave smile at the photo.
“AND THERE ARE MEMORIES IN THESE
MOONCAKES
ALL THE MOMENTS SHARED WITH YOU ALL THE STORIES THAT YOU TOLD ME- MAMA
MAKE ME THINK OF YOU
MAGIC IN THESE MEMORIES
FOREVER I HOLD TRUE
MOONCAKES AND THE MEMORIES OF YOU.” Fei Fei sings as Bungee hops and snuggles into her thigh, then she picks Bungee to snuggle then she places cherry blossom flower below the plate of mooncake like her mother once did tickled Fei Fei’s nose before.
Some students smiled weakly.
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Fei Fei entered the bakery and put Bungee near them and smiled at father who rolled the mooncakes. Then Fei Fei picked a rolling pin to roll the mooncake dough in the same way Mother taught her. She leans her head against Father’s shoulder.
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The morning is now bright as the sun rises more over the town.
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The streets of Wuzhen town are bustling with people.
At the family's mooncake bakery- Fei Fei and Father open their windows for business.
“Here you go.” Father said as he handed the charge to the customer while Fei Fei handed a customer a box of mooncakes.
“Happy Moon Festival!” Fei Fei chirped with a smile.
“Thank you!” The mother customer smiled at her while she watched her children.
Fei Fei takes out her camera as the family smiles wide and hugs each other.
“Qie Zi!” Fei Fei said as the camera flashes.
“Qie zi!” The family said and smiled at the camera.
Fei Fei pins the photo to a board behind her in the shop, filled with many smiling customers all holding their mooncake boxes.
Raised-wixen and pureblood who never saw muggle photos before, baffled at the picture dont moving like their magical photos.
“Why don't their pictures move like ours?” Young hufflepuff pureblood asked confusedly.
“In 1685, muggle man name was Johann Zahn, who designed the first camera that was smaller and more portable than the original camera obscuras but his ideas didn't come to life until the 1800s.” Fifth year Ravenclaw muggleborn decided to answer that question.
“French muggleborn inventor Joseph Niépce was now widely accepted as the creator of photography. He built his homemade camera; he produced the first partially successful photograph in 1816 on paper coated with silver chloride. Later, a jealous pureblood decided to steal his invention and adjust to magical photos and told everyone that was his idea.” Another Ravenclaw student who was born in France and knows history from his grandfather who was a historian, said this after his friend.
Raised-wixen and pureblood students, even Blacks, were stunned by that.
The movie seemed to have decided to play again to get attention.
“Now you’re sure you don’t want me to go with you?” Father asked as he walked past carrying more boxes to block the screen of a board.
“Yeah. I got this, baba.”
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At the side of the family mooncake shop, where Fei Fei seems to fix something on her bicycle and stand up.
Father carries the boxes to Fei Fei’s bicycle in the driveway outside. Loading up her bike and making sure of this so the mooncakes won’t fall while riding.
“Mooncakes?” Fei Fei asked as she put her helmet on her head.
“Check. We got bungee cords?”
“Check-” Fei Fei said but was cut off by Father.
“We have Bungee?” Father asked as Bungee appeared when father called her name and hops to Fei Fei.
“Check.” Fei Fei chuckled as her heel to help Bungee jump in the front basket, reclining into a comfy spot.
They tighten the gears on her bike together.
“Alright... Hey, we’ve got company tonight, so don’t be late. Okay?” He gets up, smiling at Fei Fei.
“I’ll be back in time,” Fei Fei noticed oil on his face, “Um baba…” Fei Fei giggled, she pointed to her own face, prompting him to realize the smudge. He wipes it off with a chuckle.
After recovering from the shock by the information, everyone chuckled.
Fei Fei speeds off and Bungee holds on. She nearly knocks down a pedestrian.
“Careful now!” Father warned.
Pedestrian yelped and gripped his bag.
“Oh, sorry.” Fei Fei rides over a bridge, where two stone lions adjoin the steps. She pats the nose of one for luck, riding into
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Fei Fei rides past a group of people doing Tai Chi square dance in a beautiful scene.
“What do muggles do?” Bellatrix Black asked disdainfully, scrunching up her nose at the dance.
“That style of dancing, that is asian dance but more healthful for Asia. Muggles have various dances like ballet, folk dance, irish dance, and jazz dance however today very popular dance is jazz and disco dance in muggle world because music bands are growing.” Seventh halfblood Hufflepuff student who has a muggle dance researcher mother, answered.
Bellatrix Black about give shriek for stupid halfblood decided answer her, but closed her mouth when her sister, Narcissa reach and hold her arm, Bellatrix sneered.
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Fei Fei stops in the canola field, selling mooncakes to a couple. She continues riding through the field.
“See you next week, Fei Fei!” Town person said and waved and Fei Fei waved back.
“Okay, bye!”
A truck backs up to reveal railway workers' car supplies off a futuristic track. It’s a brand new magnetic rail. Fei Fei rides up on her bike.
Seeing rail workers on a lunch break so she went there.
“Scrumptious mooncakes, fresh for tonight!” Fei Fei exclaimed as she stopped and parked her bicycle then got mooncakes.
“We’ll take four!” The first rail worker said as he walked to her.
“Four?!” Fei Fei scoffed, “Why not sixteen?” She hands him four boxes which the rail worker stumbled and grabbed them so they wont fall out of his arms.
“Whoa!”
Fei Fei went to get more mooncakes as she talked to workers who surround and got mooncakes from the one rail worker.
“Well, you fellas must get pretty hungry building the fastest train in the world!”
“The fastest train in the world?” Someone called from the back of the room.
“My distant ancestor, Richard Trevithick, was a muggle British inventor and mining engineer from Cornwall, in around 1804 when he invented his machine, the very first locomotive, which was a newer and faster way to travel or transport goods over very long distances, which created today's trains. That is why we have the Hogwart Express and this train was a very old train, of course we have magic for that. However, muggles always improve and advance it to make it better and faster than before, like airplanes, cars, bikes, etc.” Fifth year Hufflepuff student, who has a genealogist mother researching her families, explained.
All of the wixen who weren't muggle-raised all looked at her in shock.
A billboard behind them shows imagery of the epic rail as Fei Fei points out, the rail workers look at each other in surprise while other workers get mooncakes.
“You know about the MagLev?” The one rail worker was surprised at kid knowledge about that new train.
“Mag-Leev?” Pureblood student stuttered.
“I heard about it in school. It doesn’t even bother with wheels, floats on electromagnetic fields like a cushion of air,” Fei Fei jumping forward like if she was levite on wheels, “Whoosh! Magnetic levitation is the coolest!” She exclaimed in excitement.
The workers are impressed by that.
All wixen who grew up in the muggle world were also impressed and excited for that.
“Huh... Did you know that’s how it works?” The second rail worker who was confused looked and asked another rail worker unsure of the kid’s explanation about the new train way.
Third rail worker who mouth full of mooncakes with closed eyes, “Mmhmm…” But he paused and opened his eyes and shook his head, “Nuh uhn.”