Happy Birthday, Harry!

[alt_padma]

I guess we surprised you after all.

It was really hard not to say anything about it beforehand. I hope you enjoyed your party. It's still a little odd to go to a grown-up party like that, isn't it?

I didn't see where you'd gone but it was time to go home. I just want to say cheers while it's still your birthday - and thanks to Mr Broome for inviting me and Parvati. It was utterly amazing.

I feel very lucky and privileged to have been included. I hope everyone else appreciated it too.

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[alt_draco]

Yeah, it was nice to be included but I'm not sure I'm ready for every party to be like that. Not just yet, anyway.

If you mean my Uncle Rabastan, yeah, he's got loads of mates. He met a lot of them when he was a quidditch player, I think, but I don't know where he met the rest. Maybe at parties like last night's.

Nanella's serving one of her giant teas, so I didn't eat any lunch, because if everyone doesn't tuck in she'll be hurt. I don't know what else will happen, though. Does a one-year-old even know what's going on at his birthday party?

[alt_padma]

When they're that young it's more about the rest of the family, I think.

When Sanji was one we had everyone over and they all gave him presents that made noise or lit up or were supposed to help him learn magic more quickly. And we had cake and he smeared it all over his face. Haruman says we smeared the icing all over our faces too when we were little - and one year we picked all the iced flower petals off our cake and tried to put them in each other's hair.

If nothing else, it's probably a lovely excuse to have cake.