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Day 2

"Double Potions with Ravenclaw is so much better than double Potions with Slytherin." James collapsed into a spot near the fireplace along with his three best friends.

"Yeah, except they make you feel dumb."

"That's because you suck at Potions Wormtail."

"Well we all can't be good at everything Padfoot. As I recall you aren't so great at Herbology."

"It's plants, who cares?" Remus raised an eyebrow at the pair.

"How is it that you can do so well in Potions, where you have to use plant ingredients properly and know which ones do which but you fail at being able to cultivate them?"

"I have a Black thumb, not a green one. You want a Green thumb then go find Jackie in Hufflepuff."

"Jackie Green is worse at Herbology than you Padfoot."

"He was making a joke Wormtail. How about we forget Potions, Herbology, and Padfoot's poorly executed joke and open up the second day on our calendar?" James asked as he stood up. Sirius' eyes lit up.

"The calendar!" Remus smiled fondly at him as the dark haired teen all but ran up the stairs.

"It's nice to see him get into the Christmas spirit."

"Well he didn't have Christmas growing up. It took forever to get him to understand that people give each other gifts on Christmas as a way of showing they care." Sirius was already holding the calendar with his hand on the door marked with a 2 when they made it to the dorm room.

"Alright Padfoot, open it." Remus sat down on his bed. Sirius looked torn for a moment before handing the calendar to the werewolf.

"Here, I got to open it yesterday, you do it today." The smile he received made it worth giving up the honor to Moony. His smiles always made it worth it to Sirius. He watched as the paper was pulled out and unrolled.

"'Write down a Christmas wish and put it in an ornament to hang on the tree.' What ornaments?" Remus and Sirius turned to find James pulling out a box from his trunk. He opened it to show four Marauder shaped ornaments; a stag, a rat, a dog, and a wolf.

"These ornaments. You put the wish in them and we hang them on the tree downstairs in the Common Room. If the wish comes true the animals will call out. Like Wormtail's will squeak and Moony's will howl." Remus stared at them in amazement.

"That's actually pretty genius Prongs. How did you come up with it?"

"I, uh, didn't actually. My mom got them for me every year in the shape of a griffin. I just asked her to get me these this year for us. So, let's write down a wish and see if it comes true." It took James a total of 30 seconds to finish his wish and put it in the stag, watching the seam close up as the magic took hold. Peter finished after a few minutes, adding the rat to James' stag. Sirius kept erasing his wish and rewriting it, only to erase it again and Remus kept tapping his quill, not writing anything.

"Any day now, you two." Amber eyes found grey and suddenly they were both writing out their wishes and putting them in their ornaments.

"Don't know if it'll come true but that's what a wish is for, right?" Sirius looked at his black dog ornament as if it held all his prayers, hopes, and dreams. James nodded and picked up his dark colored stag.

"Yep, and you can't say what the wish was or the ornament will burst into flames. I had that happen a couple years. Come on, let's go put it on the tree." After a few minutes the Gryffindor Common Room tree had a circle of animal ornaments hanging on it with their human counterparts grinning at them.

"Day 2 done. I like this idea of yours Jamsie-boy. It's not mischief worthy, but it is fun." James copied Sirius as he slung his arm over his shoulder.

"I know Padfoot. But sometimes it's more about the fun than the fame. This, is for fun. Christmas time is meant for fun."

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