A/N: Written for the 25 Days of Christmas Competition at Harry Potter Fanfiction Challenges. This is going to be a ten chapter story with all the prompts from this competition.
Chapter 1: Sledding
It was the fifteenth of December, and a beautiful snowy morning when Lily woke up. Fluffy snowflakes drifted lazily down, till they were swallowed up by the vast white expanse. A signal trail of deer prints meandered its way through the fresh snow. Lily stood there, a smile on her face and her nose pressed against the glass, following the deer trail with her eyes. She jump when she felt a tap on her shoulder, and spun around to see her best friend Mary standing behind her.
"Mary! You scared me!" she exclaimed.
Mary grinned then bounded over to her four poster bed. "Guess what my folks sent me?" she asked excitedly."
"What?"
"No, no, no," She wiggled her finger, "You have to guess."
Lily rolled her eyes, "Hmm, let me see-" she began, then launched herself at her friend, knocking her over. Lily pinned Mary down and pulled two, brand new, shiny wooden sleds from under Mary's bed.
"Sleds!" she squealed.
"Yes! Now get off my you big oaf."
Lily let Mary up and scrambled across the room to retrieve her coat and scarf from the peg beside the window. She took one last glance out the window, grabbed one of the sleds, and her mitts and toque. Then she linked arms with Mary and they skipped out of their dorm to find a hill.
It had only been a few minutes when the doors to the castle were flung open and out stepped four seventh year boys. Mary and Lily were currently engaged in a race, to see who could slide past a lone tree a few yards from the bottom of the hill first. The four boys noticed them and headed their way.
Mary slid to a stop, her sled jerking slightly as it hit a deep bank of snow, inches from the tree trunk. "Ugh!" she cried, just as Lily flew past on her left, barely missing her sled and instead bowling over one dark, messy haired boy who was leaning against the tree.
"Evans!" The boy smirked after their crash had settled and they were laying on their backs, next to each other in the snow. "If you were really that desperate, you could have just told me."
Lily groaned and pulled herself up, "Shut up Potter, I was enjoying myself until you came along."
"Testy today, aren't we?"
She glared at him and reached for her sled. "Come on Mary. I don't much feel like sledding on a hill contaminated by the likes of them."
"Contaminated? We were gracing you with our presence."
"Go grace the Giant Squid with it." Then she turned on her heel and the two girls stalked off toward the castle.
A/N: Hope you enjoyed the first chapter, I'll have the next one up in two days. Also, please review!