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Snow softly fell into the Hogwarts grounds. Christmas time was here. Hagrid could be seen pulling several large trees up the hill from the forest and the house elves were busy in the kitchens preparing for the Christmas feast.

Hermione was sitting in the common room. It was a Saturday afternoon and there were no more lessons until the New Year. Most of the lower school (5th years and under) had gone home for the holidays and few of the higher years had stayed. In Gryffindor alone there was her, Harry, Ron and Ginny and Seamus. This was their last Christmas altogether and they were making the most of it. Anyway she was all alone in the common room as the rest were outside having a snowball fights, but she was finishing her potions essay. She always done her homework on the first day of holidays so she could have a care free holiday sadly none of the others took her advice.

Suddenly the portrait opened and in came Hagrid pulling a tree behind him.

"What an oaf. Stupid tree bristles….gah!"

"O I'm sorry Fat Lady I didn't realise how tiny these portraits are. My apologises." Hagrid mumbled as the Fat Lady screeched at him.

"HAGRID!" Hermione jumped up and ran over and hugged Hagrid.

"Ello there Mione. What are you doing in ere on a beautiful day like this?"

"Well I thought I'd get all my homework out of the way before Christmas. It's only 8 days away."

"Ooo er so it is. Well dya mind if I leave you ere to decorate this tree. Decorations should be up any moment soon. "

"Sure. I suppose you're quite busy at Christmas time."

"Right you are Mione. Well I gotta go, got another 6 of these beauties to put up. Later Mione."

"Bye Hagrid."

She watched the giant squeeze out of the portrait. She packed her books and things up and took the to her dorm. When she got back a box of decorations were in the middle of the common room. Armed with her wand she set to work.


"Where's Mione?" Harry asked as he joined his friends out into the snowy fields that surrounded the glittering castle. It looked as if it were a castle from a fairy tale.

"Well you know what she's like. She does all her homework on the first day of the holidays." Ron said falling back into the snow creating a snow angel.

"Ello there Harry, Ginny, Ron, Luna." Hagrid was dragging up a load of trees up towards the castle.

"Hullo Hagrid." Ginny waved. Hagrid nodded and carried on walking. A snowball out of nowhere hit Ron on the back of the head. He looked around. Harry stood there staring at the lake, Ginny was laughing and Luna smiled at Ron. Ron gathered a ball of snow and chucked it at Ginny but she ducked so it hit Luna. Luna threw a snowball and it hit Harry. Soon a massive war between the guys and the gals broke out.

Harry fell back into the snow panting heavily.

"Truce!" he called out.

"Aha we win." Ginny yelled and jumped up and down with Luna.

"Well I'm cold. Hey it must be dinner time soon. I'm starved!" Ron said feeling his belly rumble.

The four teens walked back to castle. They entered the common room and their jaws dropped.

They were greeted by a magnificent tree filled with glittering red and gold tinsel, baubles and a bright shining charmed star. Wreaths of holly hung over the fire place and along the paintings. It looked wonderful.

"Woah," was all Luna mustered. She had transferred to Gryffindor after she got fed up of being picked on and also preferred to stay close to her only family. Her father had died in the war and now lived at the Burrow along with Hermione who's parents also sadly perished and Harry, who had defeated the Dark Lord for the last time that summer.

"Wow Mione dya do all this while we were out there?" Ron had spotted Hermione buried in a pile of tinsle she was untangling.

"Yeah. Do you guys reckon you can help me untangle this tinsel?"

"Sure. We're just going to get changed and we'll be right down." with that Ginny and Luna ran up to their dorm.

"Yeah me too. Ya coming mate?" Ron said already half way up the spiralling case.

Harry walked over to the couch were Hermione sat. The fire warming every part of his body. He looked at her. Her hair was half up and half down with two small strands framing her face. The fire light glowed and lit her soft skin delicately. Her hazel eyes reflected the gold of the tinsel and her lips parted softly as she struggled to untie the tinsel and he suddenly found it very hard to speak.

"This is amazing." was all Harry could say.

"Thank you. Well after I done all my homework, which I reckon you should have done today as well, I had nothing to do and Hagrid looked really busy so I offered to help." She said a bit quicker that normal. He looked so handsome. Yes he had grown taller over the last year and since the defeat of Voldermort he began eating and sleeping again. He was well toned and quite muscular. He still had his untameable hair and those brilliant green eyes. His hand brushed hers as he reached across to take the tinsel from her.She gasped at howcold they were.

"Mione we're going to dinner now. You put that down and join us. Ok!"

"ok" was all she murmured before he disappeared up the spiral staircase leaving her alone again in the common room.