OMG.

A word to the wise:

Never, ever, ever - even if accidentally - meet up in a group with some eight kids, most of whom are within 18 months of each other.

Especially not when some of them are recovering from or coming down with whatever is currently going around.

Just trust me on this one. I think we were all glad of the moral support, but the kids were... gah.

And happy birthday to Evangeline!

(And whoever else has a birthday today, of course)

She doesn't know it's her birthday yet, because her party isn't until next week, to make it close to Halloween. She got two presents from people who won't be at the party, but since she's too little to really understand, that's not a concern.

This is where she is right now.
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What I have been considering for The Party

(If anybody else has any other simple recipes, by all means, post them here for me!)

There will be 9 children (counting Evangeline and Angelique) and probably about 6 adults, not counting me, my mom, or Elise.

Purple Thumbs

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Edible eyeballs

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Goblin Tongues

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Apple Mouths

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Crescent Mummy Dogs

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Spider deviled eggs

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Breadsticks

So, everybody is talking about Dumbledore, and how they knew he was gay the whole time

And some of them are mentioning that the one outed gay character having exactly one unrequited love (who was evil) in his past and, presumably, being celibate the rest of his life is OMG homophobic.

Which it might be, I don't know. But I don't really think that this is a sign of JKR's views about gay people. It's more a sign of how she views relationships in general - you seem to have your one true love, and you're stuck with them. FOREVER. Even if they become evil. Even if you throw a nasty slur at them and they never speak to you again. Even if the fact that he's adopted your mom as a quasi-foster mom gives your entire relationship creepy incest vibes, or your family disowns you, or you just aren't right for each other, pregnancy notwithstanding, or whatever - everybody seems to ultimately end up with just one person.

And this is a very sweet and touching way to look at the world. It is. Imagine - you fall in love, you marry your high school sweetheart, awwwww.

It's not very realistic, but we're talking about a world with magic in it. How realistic do we expect it to be, exactly?

(And why hasn't somebody asked the all-important question yet? Why did she decide to stop calling Hermione waspish?)