Christmas Dinner (cheap)

[Ebony]

No: HPFGUIDX 7219

Still at work...

I looked over Neil's suggestions for magical creatures dishes.  
Cool.  Only one problem...

In the canon, there seem to be magical drinks (i.e., butterbeer, 
pumpkin juice, firewhisky (is that magical?  I'm not a teetotaler, 
but don't drink often enough to know)) and magical candy, but no 
indication of characters eating anything but regular food.  At 
least, nothing comes to mind.

I assume that at least SOME of the food must be prepared.  
Otherwise, why employ legions of house-elves in the Hogwarts 
kitchens?  Why not just point your wand and ::poof:: food 
appears?

We've had the discussion in the past, and I think the consensus 
was in this particular milieu, there is no such thing as 
spontaneous generation of matter.  In other words, you can't 
create something out of nothing.  If you could, we wouldn't be 
having a discussion about the Weasley's poverty... they could 
just magic up a houseful of Galleons.

Also, while some charms may aid with the housework, I think 
some must be manually done as well.  Again, I'm thinking about 
house-elves.

Finally, I didn't get to add this bit in the fic, but the reason why 
Arthur and Molly live in the Burrow (even after becoming more 
financially secure) is because they like it there.  There was a line 
about the inside having been remodeled about five years before 
the fic begins, but the outside looking just the same as it always 
had... but that didn't survive the first draft.

Ebony