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“T’was a student who gave me Francis… One spring afternoon I discovered a bowl on my desk, just a few inches of clear water in it. Floating on the surface was a flower petal… as I watched, it sank… just before it reached the bottom, it was transformed, into a wee fish. It was beautiful magic, wondrous to behold. The flower petal had come from a lily… your mother. The day I came downstairs, the day the bowl was empty, was the day your mother…”
—Horace Slughorn regarding his pet fish Francis.

Francis was made again using Gravity Defying structure. The whole design is suspended from the top of the bowl with a wire built into the flower, running through the lily pad and into Francis himself. He is made of Cake Craft Gumpaste in orange then hand painted and glazed with Confectioners Glaze. It was VERY challenging photographing him through the glass bowl especially with my terrible photography skills but I really wanted to do justice to Mitchie’s love of this particular storyline so it was worth the angst! smile emoticon
Francis now sits beside my laptop on my desk and looks to be very happy with his new home, even if he is surrounded by Muggles! ;)
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/west/harry-potter-immortalised-in-cake-for-jk-rowling-birthday/story-fngr8i5s-1227468187817
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