Last Wednesday, the eighth, I decided to take upon myself the mighty task of a Christmas fic, more specifically a Twelve Days of Christmas fic. Starting on the thirteenth, this should end on Christmas Eve, if I manage to put up each chapter on time.
Disclaimer – In no way do I own Harry Potter, that right belongs to JK Rowling.
The students who were going home for the Christmas holidays had just left to meet the Hogwarts Express at Hogsmeade Station. Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore sat at the head table at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and surveyed the remaining students. There seemed to be a number at the Gryffindor table, a couple at the Ravenclaw table and one each at the Hufflepuff and Slytherin tables. Along the head table sat all of the teachers remaining for the holidays. Hitting upon an idea, which everyone else would call insane, Dumbledore stood and clapped his hands, gaining the attention of the students.
"As there are so few of you remaining this Christmas, I have decided that instead of spread around the castle, you should all share one set of dorms and a common room. As there are more people in Gryffindor than all of the other houses put together, the most appropriate area to use would be Gryffindor Tower.
"If a Gryffindor student would go with Mr Malfoy, one with Miss Bones and one with Miss Chang and Miss Lovegood, these four students can then collect their belongings and then be directed to the Gryffindor Common Room. For the purpose of this, the password will be changed to 'unity' but will then be changed back for the start of the new term.
"I may suggest Mr Potter, Mr Ron Weasley and Miss Granger for this task. Yes I know there are three Mr Weasleys in this room at the moment and I know that two of them are pranksters."
The trio stood up and headed towards the other students. Hermione veered off at the Ravenclaw table and met up with Cho and Luna, heading towards the Ravenclaw Common Room. Ron immediately hurried towards Susan, alone at the Hufflepuff table, just so that he wouldn't have to be stuck with Draco Malfoy.
Dumbledore sighed. The feud between those two was famous around the school and he hoped that this Christmas that would change. Ron heading towards the Hufflepuff table left Harry with Malfoy. Harry sighed, shook his head at Ron and then headed over to the Slytherin table and raised his eyebrow at the blonde boy lounging there.
Draco looked up at the black haired boy and smiled lazily. "It seems you now have the pleasure of knowing where the Slytherin Common Room is Potter."
"I already know where it is. I also know where the Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw Common Rooms are."
"How do you know where they are Potter? I thought only people in those houses knew where the Common Rooms are. I know that Gryffindor is in a tower somewhere but nowhere else."
"I'll tell you this Malfoy, if you're nice over the holidays, you may end up finding out this secret. Ron, Hermione, Fred and George know about it, mainly because the twins gave it to me and we use it quite often."
"How about we just give up with the surname thing, at least for the holidays. It seems quite stupid as there are only a few of us."
"Okay, but the twins will try and confuse you."
"Here we are. I'll go and grab my belongings and then you can show me the way to the Gryffindor Common Room, if that's alright with you Pot – Harry."
An hour later all of the students were sat in a circle in the Gryffindor Common Room, the four not in that house staring around.
"This is quite a nice Common Room. It's bright, airy and with a good view. It also feels warm and cozy, like any good room should." Luna stated blandly while looking around.
"For once, I'm going to agree with Luna." Cho, the second Ravenclaw, stated.
"Why did Dumbledore put us all together anyway? It's obvious that some of us hate each other and it is inevitable that fights will break out." One of the twins asked.
"Obviously he wants House relationships to improve. There is one of the main members of Slytherin, the Golden Trio from Gryffindor, the niece of Amelia Bones in Hufflepuff and Loony and Cho from Ravenclaw." Draco drawled.
"I think that old Dumbles thought of this when he saw that there was only a few of us left here for the holidays. Personally I think that this will go totally wrong and that Dumbles had an insane idea." Harry added from where he was sat upside down in a chair.
"Does Dumbledore let you call him Dumbles, or doesn't he know?" Susan asked, sincerely hoping that this didn't mean that the rumors of the Boy-Who-Lived being insane were true.
"He lets me. I called him Dumbles to his face in his office and he just chuckled."
"Gred, I think our dear…"
"Harry is going…"
"A little insane…"
"I totally agree with you Forge."
Harry, Ron and Hermione all laughed at the perplexed looks coming from the people not used to this.
"I warned Draco that the twins would try to confuse people. All of the Gryffindor's have grown used to their tricks and they were happy to get new victims of this." Harry explained.
"When you said they would try to confuse us, I don't think you meant talking like that. It's unnatural." Draco stammered
"They're twins, it's to be expected that they would do that."
That's the first chapter. A cyber hug and cookie for anyone who guesses how many students there are in Hogwarts this Christmas. I forgot to mention at the start but this is the trios fifth year so the twins are in their seventh.
Hopefully the next chapter should be tomorrow, or I'll smack myself.