I need cake ideas

[davewitley]

Sam wrote:

> Hermione is due to be baptised during the morning service in our 
> local church later this month. I'd like to work a Potteresque 
> Christian symbol into her cake decoration I think. I'm just a bit 
> stuck for ideas that suit Hermione. I quite like the idea of an 
> immature silver unicorn but somehow they seem better associated 
with 
> Lily or Luna and the idea of sacrifice, faith and innocence.

How about the lightning-bolt scar?  The incident in which Harry gets 
it happens about the age children are usually baptised, and it is the 
time he is 'marked' - in accordance with prophecy, no less - as 
special.  Babies get signed on the forehead in the ceremony, after 
all.

Of course, the *closest* parallel to the drowning of the old self and 
coming up new in HP is Voldemort's rebirthing, but a red-eyed snake-
faced design might take quite a bit of explaining...  (though Jesus 
was not above comparing himself with a snake)

Of course baptism is all about sacrifice and faith, if not innocence.

David