Her favorite holiday had always been Thanksgiving. But she didn't think of that at all when she said she was going to Hogwarts. But mid-November had come, and homesickness was starting to set in at last. Peter, sweet kid that he was, had asked what was going on in Potions that day. He had obviously never heard of it, but he listened as she blurted it out, even though he had no clue what she was talking about. Then he had promptly run off and forgotten about it, without asking her to explain the latest American thing she was bummed about in her sea of culture shock. It was nice of him to ask, though.
That Thursday night, she curled herself up on a sofa in the common room, determined to enjoy the latest adventure of Martin the Mad Muggle and not think about the fact that back in the states, she would be curled up with her niece in the Taylor Estate's grand foyer, gazing up at the domed ceiling and trying to fight off the effects of too much turkey.
The portrait hole opened, and the reason she was in this mess stood in front of her: James Potter, her sister-in-law's god-brother, and her oldest friend until he had recently met Sirius Black. Since the first week of school, he had pretty much ignored her and spent every waking moment with Sirius. He ran across the room, flung open the door to the boy's dormitory, and turned to her and said, "Mikah, come on up. There's something I want you to see."
"I'm not in the mood, James. Besides, don't you and Sirius have something planned?"
"Yeah. That's what I want you to see." James waited for several seconds, and then stepped forward and dragged her to her feet. She didn't really bother to struggle.
When she got up the stairs, she saw it. Cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, and various other foods were being levitated in the air, while Sirius and Peter struggled to hold up an enormous Turkey. Remus was setting a blanket for a picnic.
Six years later, when she was learning to perform a patronus charm, the memory she would use was of Peter dropping the turkey on Sirius's food, and squealing "Merry Thanksgiving!"