Disclaimer: I, SuperNerdMDizzle, own nothing in this story. NOTHING. Well, except for the idea of this story in particular, but DEFINITELY not Harry Potter. Harry Potter rights go to the almighty J.K. Rowling. Thanks for reading.
"Hey!" shouted a tall red-headed boy, who was wearing an even redder sweater that clashed with his hair. He was pointing at something out the window. "Harry, Hermione! Come look at this!"
"What is it, Ron?" said a ginger-haired girl as she rushed over to the window. Hermione tucked a lock of her bushy hair behind her ear and brushed off some lint fuzz on her dusty blue scarf.
A green-eyed youth with joined them at the window. "Yeah, I don't see anything. It's just a bunch of SNOW."
Ron grinned. "Is it, Harry?"
The normally know-it-all attitude of Hermione was weakened. "What ARE you talking about? I mean, I can understand if maybe you saw---OH!!!" Hermione didn't finish what she was saying because she was too busy pointing out the window. She turned to Harry in an excited manner. "Harry, look! LOOK! Over there, see it?!"
Harry looked at where she was pointing. It was just an oddly shaped lump of snow...and then it moved. Harry rolled his eyes, but didn't take them off of the moving snow. "REALLY, guys," said Harry in an exasperated tone. "No need to get excited over moving snow. We've graduated from Hogwarts already and we're just here VISITING Luna and Ginny and we should be over getting excited about---WHOA!" It was Harry's turn to be excited. The lump of moving snow was no longer snow, but instead was what appeared to be......an elf?
"Hey, did someone call our names?" asked a red-headed girl wearing a deep green sweater. Ginny was accompanied by a wistful looking blonde with radishes hanging from her ears. Today, Luna's earrings were red and green....nobody was sure if she'd MADE the radish on her left ear green, or if it was just REALLY moldy.
That's when Luna noticed the "elf" outside in the snow. "Oh, look, Ginny!" she said happily. "It's a gloopleflargin!"
"It's a what now?" said Harry and Ginny in disbelief. Ron looked slightly interested and actually seemed to part-way believe what Luna had to say.
"A gloopleflargin! They disguise themselves as snow near places where they think a bunch of wizards are, and then they wait until one comes out, and BAM! They jump on the wizard and run off laughing." Luna seemed pleased with her explanation.
"Wow," said Harry. "Sounds kinda like 'ding dong ditch' to me." Ginny and Ron nodded in agreement.
"No, no, NO!" said Hermione irritably. "It's not a gloofle-whatsit--"
"Gloopleflargin," corrected Luna.
"Whatever. It's a snow-dwarf!" Hermione went on to explain when Harry and Ron seemed confused. "Snow-dwarf---beings that disguise themselves as snow in the winter months. Like Luna's globidywhatsit, they DO like to prank people, but if a person can either outprank them first or catch them, they do that person a favor! Um....or, rather, grant a wish. You have to be careful with what you say, though, because they don't like to give out wishes too often and might twist your words. For instance...let's say you wish you could win a spelling bee. Well, then the snow-dwarf will have a contest with you, let you win, and give you a bee that knows how to spell!"
Ron snorted. Ignoring it, Hermione added on, "They're very faithful, though. If your wish somehow gets delayed in the granting process, then the dwarf will search for you until the wish is granted."
"Oh," Ginny said. "I've heard of these! But..." She looked sad. "Hermione, you know what happens when they grant a wish, right?"
"Y-yes...after the wish is granted, the snow-dwarf--"
It was too late for the others to hear what Hermione and Ginny were talking about, though. Ron, being the dork that he was, already had pulled on his snow boots, gloves, jacket, and ear-muffs and had dragged Harry and Luna out the door with him.
"C'mon, let's go get that wish!"
Author's note:...PLEASE!!!! READ...and...REVIEW! OR RATE, or SOMETHING!!!! I'm BEGGING YOU! Thanks. Also, I hope everyone enjoyed Part 1 of my Harry Potter Christmas special.
