Disclaimer – in the time between this and the last chapter of the L.D. I didn't acquire Potter or the Princess Diaries, sorry to disappoint.

A/N: Make sure you've read the Lioness Diaries (also by me) or this won't be cool/funny/make any sense to you!!

December 3rd

4:00 am

Heads' Common Room

The lazy bum is asleep! I give him one task, and what does he do? He sleeps on the job.

"Okay Draco, I'll tell you what, I'll do the Trophy Room if you'll do our common room, deal?"

"Deal, Granger," and we shook on it. I've been working for six hours on that blasted trophy room! Six hours! I polished like I was in detention (-shudder-) and I strung garland in all house colors and I hung Christmas baubles from the ceiling and then Peeves came and wrecked it all so I did it again. What did he do? Abso-bloody-lutely nothing! Git.

Though I understand why he's tired, we've both been working round the clock for three days trying to get the castle around for Christmas. We assigned the prefects different parts of the castle but they're not as helpful as you'd think. As a matter of facts they're a bunch of responsibility shirkers. The hall outside Gryffindor was worst (though you're off your nut if you think I'll ever admit it aloud). The little hooligans got in a sticking-tinsel fight outside the portrait hole. They're both still covered from head to foot in the stuff and, as part of their discipline, I'm making them wear it too (no taking it off with charms or having Madame Pomfry help them get it off, it stays until it falls off. Should be gone by Spring Break, if they're lucky) you may think this was a bit harsh but it wasn't. We've (I've) been planning since Guy Fawkes Day, and I went over the whole thing with them a thousand and eleven times! There are six prefects from each house (2 fifth years, 2 sixth years, and 2 seventh years) times four houses, that's twenty-four people. We mapped out what each hall way was going to look like and assigned each person 1/24th of the work (which is even less than it sounds since the teacher's are doing the Great Hall and their own classroom and Draco and I are doing the Entrance Hall and I'm doing the Library and Trophy Room and, through Draco's amazing power of persuasion, we got the Quidditch teams to do the Common Rooms). Sounds like they could've handled it right? Wrong.

I had to redo everything, and how much help was Draco? None what-so freaking ever. He's refused to touch anything red or gold at all this entire season! Except my school tie, ever since I broke my arm and couldn't tie it myself he's tied it for me every morning and then he runs it between his finger and thumb "just for luck". He claims the luck of the tie would be cancelled out if he "betrayed the beloved thing" by touching another red-and-gold item. If that happened, he says, I'd have to quit wearing it (because it's be bad luck, and a klutz like me needs no more bad luck than she has) and start wearing one of his Slytherin ties to balance things out and "we all know how jumpy those friends of ours get when we seem to be getting along a little too well, if you catch my drift". And now I sit here, exhausted to the point of snapping, after working my butt off for almost a month and not sleeping for almost a week, and consider what to do to him. I think he needs a little Christmas spirit.

I think I know just what will do the trick.

Arbred'étoiledelumières

It literally means, lights star tree. Oh won't he be so surprised? Serves him right too. Lazy bum.

In other news, everything's pretty slow here really. Well not slow at all, really busy actually, but not the kind of busy that you can talk about. I've been doing homework and extra credit and my mom sent some pleasure reading (a little time off the old fashioned muggle way) and keeping the boys in line and Heads' duties (much more bearable now that Draco and I are on good terms). Speaking of Draco, kind of, he's the oddest thing. On Halloween, what with our shared kiss and all, I thought there was going to be something there but since them he hasn't mentioned it. At first we (I) were awkward and tense but we've settled in to a sort of easy friendship/may-someday-possibly-someday-soon-be-something-more it's really bugsome but also kind of fun. It's like we're sitting in that moment right before a guy asks you out, or kisses you or does something really sweet, all the time. Every time he brushes my arm on the way to a meal or grabs my books after classes my stomach goes all floppy and my brain goes all foggy. And when we fight now, which we do as much as ever, it's more fun playful banter, with a healthy dose of habit thrown in, than before. He's so witty it's totally remarkable.

Oh and Ginny and I've started having weekly G.N.I.s (Girls' Nights In) in the Gryffindor Common Room because we were starting to drift apart so much and it was awful. She and Harry are so cute though! They're obviously together but not all PDA-ish, it's sweet.

Speaking of "obviously together", I'm more convinced now than ever that Ronald has a secret girlfriend. I know I said I was sure he wasn't getting tutored but I just wasn't fully convinced (and the only way to get to their records is to tutor for them so I'm tutoring now, more on that later though) and now that I've gotten a peek at the records I've been reassured, no tutor. He really is dating someone and "hiding" it.

++List of Possible Secret Girlfriends for Ronald++

-Luna Lovegood – fruity but super-sweet

-Jen Barry – thing for redheads

- Parvati Patil – single and seems to be working her way through all the boys in our year

- Pansy Parkinson – single and he certainly would have to keep that one secret (kidding! Like that would ever happen)

- Daphne Greengrass - ditto Parkinson's reason (more likely than Parkinson though, if only slightly)

- Lav Lav – puke puke

Now onto me tutoring. He's a Ravenclaw fourth year, his name is Charles (he "detests" being called Charlie, "or worse Chuck") I'm helping in Arithmacy (I know, joy…). He's so dang cute (he also hates being called cute if you'll believe it)! He doesn't actually need my help in Arithmacy most the time, I just check his work for that class and most of his other ones too, I see him twice a week and I'm really starting to look forward to our meetings in the little stained-glass-window alcove in the far left of the library. Oddly though I think Draco maybe getting a bit jealous. We've only been meeting a month but since our third meeting every Tuesday and Thursday he 1)needs my help with homework or something 2) wants me to look at something/go somewhere with him 3) needs me to watch over the kids in detention for him 4) is sick or 5) wants to come! Honestly! It's not as if we usually hang out those nights and I'm taking something from him, on Tuesday he usually used to have Quidditch (though he moved them to Wednesdays, G.N.I., shortly after I started tutoring, coincidence?) and Thursday was Slytherin's in-house, contraband poker night (boys only) but he still acts all funny. Really, like I'd ever fall for Charles, he's like two foot shorter than me! And four years younger! Boys are so dorky.

A/N: This is so exciting! The first author's note of the sequel to the Lioness Diaries! This is my first sequel so please give me lots of feedback. I need reviews like an addict! Also this has been run through spell check but I haven't edited yet so please feel free to let me know about any errors and know that I'll get to them soon (how many of you noticed I edited the L.D.? not many I'd bet) but I wanted to get this out to you all A.S.A.P. Also what do you think of Charles? Who/What do you think Ron's sneaking around with? Love for the first time on a new adventure! – Quik

PS – spell translation courtesy of Babel Fish from Yahoo!