Authors Note: Sorry about the lateness :/ Am so busy with exams at the moment, and I'm running away for a week tomorrow, so next chapter will be a while. Hope this'll keep you satisfied for now. Filled with Christmas fun, pranks, and a party (with peas)

Dear Scorpius
Although I stand by my words, I apologise for embarrassing you in front of the whole school. You should have tried harder to be in Slytherin- your father, Draco.

Scorpius ripped the letter up. Albus and James tried to read his face, but Scorpius had become brilliant at showing no emotion whatsoever. He simply ripped the letter up, before chucking it in the fire. He didn't really want to think of his father at the moment. "Albus, why don't you open the gift from me?" he asked. Albus nodded, half excited about the fact he had a present, and half worried about Scorpius.

"YUM!" Albus grinned. "Every flavour beans!" He placed the pack next to his Rainbow Ink from James, the handmade card from Lily, turquoise owl leg warmers from Ginny, a pair of Extendable Ears, some Skiving Snackboxes, a Shield Hat and Canary Creams from George, a small bottle of Felix Felicis from Bill, a Dragonfurlia (a necklace that causes the wearer to be able to tame a dragon without fear of being burnt) from Charlie, an orange jumped from Molly and Arthur, a letter writing set from Percy, and, from Harry, a note that says "I've got you a Nimbus 5000 for when you get home". Scorpius laughed at his friend.

Scorpius mother had left him a ring of healing (to solve minor ailments), four boxes of sweets, a new dress robe and two packets of Hooting Owl Crackers. Hedwig chirped in triumph, as he pulled out a rainbow coloured Weasley Jumper and a box of Crazy Cookies (with a note that said "Eat them quickly dear, before they run away), and another pair of turquoise Owl Legwarmers and a Looking Glass (you tell it someones name and it shows you what they're doing) from the Potters. Smiling, Scorpius grabbed one of the cookies that was already running and stuffed it in his mouth, before locking the tin by magic. James grinned. "I've got heaps of Butterbeer! Tonight we can have a party, just the Gryffindors.

Albus, Scorpius, and James headed down to the common room. Sapphire and three others were down there, showing off their gifts. They looked up as they saw all three boys wandering down with the jumpers on, and tried not to laugh, before giving them a Christmas Hug. "Hey Scorpius" a second year called Melissa said. "Like the Green Widye I got?" Her normal blonde hair was bright green. Scorpius grinned. "I love it!" Another second year, Jules, was chatting to Albus about the necklace he got "Thats pretty cool, man" he grinned. Sapphire was chatting to a first year girl, Tanja. Sapphire stood, a silly grin on her face. Suddenly the grin faded a little, then returned. "Tell me later" Scorpius heard in his mind.

Eventually Albus stood up. "Tonight we're going to have a Gryffindor Party in the common room at 7.30pm!" he yelled. The others cracked up, as they nodded, indicating to Scorpius and James that they'd be there. For the rest of the morning, James played Wizard Chess with Melissa, a girl it seemed he had a soft spot for. Scorpius and Albus chased the Crazy Cookies around the room, as they had escaped and were looking for a way out. Eventually it was time for Christmas Lunch in the Grand Hall.

Only a few Ravenclaws, Hufflepuffs and Slytherins were around, so the parties shared a table, pulling Wizards Firecrackers with each other which ended up being a large plague of toads jumping around the Grand Hall. The Slytherins decided to be bearable, for once. A third year names Linda even came over to talk to Sapphire about Divination, and suggested she should talk with a centaur named Jupiter to see if she could get special lessons. Tess, from Hufflepuff, drank Butterbeer with James, and they decided to charm Percys hat to make it fly away. This caused bursts of laughs from the other professors, in particular Longbottom, who spat butterbeer over the room because he was laughing so hard. Ravenclaw student Vinnie had found a toad down his robe, which caused a series of giggles from Albus. The tree twinkled and sparkled, as Percy charmed the Grand Hall to snow warm snow. A huge snowball fight, and it was time for bed. Well, not for the Gryffindors.

James, being James, managed to place a charm on a Christmas pudding to make it invisible, before levitating it up the stairs carefully to the Common Room. Stuffing Christmas Crackers, chocolates and, for some reason, a large amount of peas up his jersey, Albus waddled out after him. This was possible because Linda accidentally managed to cause the toads to clone constantly, causing a slight distraction for all the professors, who spent a lot of time herding toads out of the grand hall. Locky, the caretaker, screamed when he saw the hundreds of toads hopping down the corridor as quickly as possible, chased by the Professors. Percy seemed to be enjoying it.

With the professors toad-herding, Melissa, Jules, and Tanja grabbed some sweets, and butterbeer for that matter, before dashing upstairs. Hagrid wandered in to the great hall, laughing. "I've got to grab em toads!" he chuckled at Scorpius, before clumsily dashing out, holding an extremely large net. Scorpius was the last Gryffindor out, as he pocketed mint humbugs and some kind of biscuit, before heading out. Percy grinned at him, holding a toad in each hand. One slipped out of his hand and hopped away. "Crud." he said, chuckling, before dashing after it. Scorpius wandered up to the Gryffindor tower, before muttering the password "Snowflake."

The common room looked extremely different when Scorpius walked in. Someone had placed red and gold ribbons EVERYWHERE, making it extremely hard to walk. Giant balloons popped every couple of seconds, and loud music from the famous Seamus Finnigan, an extraordinary Wizard singer, who had all the women swooning over him. All his songs were dedicated to a certain Lavender. His latest album "Witchs dance" was possible the most popular album. Well, among the girls anyway. The boys stood around, drinking the butterbeer while the girls danced. Sapphire floated past Scorpius, stopped, and dragged him to the corner, before entering his mind.

"I know what happened" she murmured softly. The world he was in was very quiet. The sun was setting in front of a beach somewhere, very cliche in fact. Scorpius took a deep breath, before a tear ran down his face. Walking over to him, Sapphire gave him a hug, before sitting on the beach. He sat beside her. "I thought... he might have..." he began to say. Reading his mind, Sapphire nodded in understanding. "I think he misses you still, it's just buried under everything else."
Scorpius tried to stand up. He couldn't believe what crap she was saying. But because he was in her mind, in her dreams in some ways, she had all power over him, and held him down. Eventually he stopped struggling against unthinkable magic and sat down. Sapphire looked at him. "I entered his mind again..." she began to say, but Scorpius cut her off.
"Just... let me out." he whispered. Sapphire mindlessly nodded, her eyes drifting into the unknown.

It was utter chaos when they re entered their world. The girls were screaming because one of Linda's magic cloning toads had got into the common room when Jules walked in, and the room was almost full of toads. Albus was in the corner, whimpering. For some reason in the last ten minutes he had developed an utter fear for toads. Shaking his head, Scorpius looked at Albus strangely. It was Albus. He was the one who brought peas to the party.

Sapphire disappeared into her dormitory. Scorpius was worried about her, and wanted to apologise, but the girls don't take kindly for boys to be in their space. Still, she should stop going through his mind. It was getting pretty annoying, the whole knowing what he thought. Scorpius thought he should study Occlumency, but sadly he didn't know of any good enough teachers to do so.

The entire common room was filled with toads by then. Melissa, Jules, Tanja, Albus and James attempted to heard them out, but because they kept doubling it didn't help much. Albus discovered the toads liked peas, which annoyed him. Greatly. He began to run down the corridor, holding the peas. The toads chased him down, and the ones already in the corridor too.

"DROP THEM, ALBUS!" James roared with laughter. The others could barely talk, and Jules was lying on the floor in laughter and exhaustion. Eventually Albus dropped the peas, and raced back up into the common room, before sitting down, sulking and saying "THEY TOOK ME PEAS!"

A crafty looking smile came onto Jame's face. He pulled a packet of Portable Swamps out of his pocket. The others looked at him, waiting for him to say something. "You know, the Great Hogwarts Toad Invasion has given me an idea. The toads probably want a home, you know?" he spoke, as the others goggled their eyes at him. "What if anyone finds out?" Scorpius asked.
"They won't" James said back. "You're with me."

Albus, Scorpius and Jules headed up the stairs, to just outside the Grand Hall where the toads had regrouped and were scheming how to get the peas that were sitting in dishes inside. "One, two three" Jules whispered, before he dropped a swamp and they ran. The other two boys dropped them outside the Slytherin Dungeons.

Melissa and James had the job of swamping a particular staircase everyone hated, because it liked to buck people through the ceiling. They stood at the bottom of it, looking warily at it, before James threw the swamp onto it. The staircase began to move. It shuddered, squeaked, then began thrashing violently from side to side, trying the rid itself of the muck.
"Quick, lets get out of here" James said to Melissa, as he shoved her under the invisibility cloak, before they ran back to the common rooms. Toads and swamps go together like peas in a pod, as James knew, and he guessed that by morning the evil bucking staircase would be covered by some brave ones.

As soon as the Bucking Staircase began it's rampage Locky was there, hunting for the perpetrators. "Crud." James muttered, as they ran faster. Eventually they got to the tower, where they spoke to the Fat Lady out-of-breath, who gave them a good telling off about being late and about good manners. Then she burst into laughter after running through the portraits to see the staircase, before coming back and giving them a cheery merry christmas before letting them through. Melissa looked at the handsome boy as they pulled off the cloak. The clock struck midnight as their lips briefly touched.

Sapphire was lying in bed, silently crying as the others slept. She could see why Scorpius was angry and upset, but he was so RUDE! She wondered if he ever thought about others feelings. She also remembered her mother talking about how horrible his father was. Maybe he was just like his father. He was just a jerk. She wouldn't help him anymore. She wouldn't look at him. Well she would try not to look at him. She loved him. At the age of twelve.