Chapter Three: Oh Christmas Tree
"James stop running so fast! I can't keep up!" Lily called after her brother
"I want to get that tree so I can get back there." James commented not slowing down his pace
Lily ran so she could look at his face. She finally managed to catch pace with him. "Why do you want to get back so fast? Mya's going to turn into a Christmas Nazi."
"I don't want her in there with Eli." James mumbled
Lily still managed to catch what he was saying though and turned to him with a wide smile. "I knew you liked her."
James looked down at his little sister and stopped walking. "Wow Lily way to catch on."
"Hey, you never admitted you liked her. I knew all along though." She replied putting her hands on her hips "This must mean your jealous of Eli. What would you have done if we went home? I mean it's not like you would have told her that you like her or anything."
"Has anyone ever told you that you talk way too much." James said rolling his eyes
"Yeah; you, everyday." Lily responded annoyed
"Can we just go get a stupid tree?" James grumbled "I want to get Mya the biggest one that I can get. I want her to be happy."
"Did you even think about how you were going to get a tree?" Lily asked "We're kind of snowed in incase you haven't noticed."
"Well I'll ask Hagrid where he got the one in the Great Hall." James shrugged starting to walk again
"He got that a few days ago." Lily spoke up chasing after her brother
"I can never win can I?" James groaned "Maybe Professor Longbottom has one in his greenhouse."
"James the greenhouse is outside. We can't get outside." Lily said slowly "Did you forget that?"
"You have got to be kidding me!" James shouted "How does she expect me to find a Christmas tree?"
"Magic." Lily said sarcastically. Her eyes then lit up and she smacked her forehead. "I don't know why we didn't think about that before. Magic you idiot!"
"You want to make a tree?" James asked looking over at his sister. "That sounds a little dumb don't you think?"
"First of all; you didn't even have a plan, so mine is already better than yours. Second of all, I meant make a copy of the one in the Great Hall. That thing is huge and Mya will be so thankful so might even kiss you. Plus we don't have to go out into the snow. So over all, everyone wins." Lily shrugged thrilled with her plan
James thought about it. "How are you planning on getting a copy of that tree up to the common room?"
"Would you rather get a twig and call that a tree?" Lily laughed "I would like to see you get a kiss out of Mya with a twig."
"Mistletoe!" James eyes lit up "I'll just get some of that."
"You're missing the point James! Grow some muscles! Be a man!" Lily insisted pushing her brother towards the Great Hall. "Or you could always make up a spell and send the tree to the Great Room if you want to do it the wimpy way."
"How are you so strong?" James asked as Lily continued to push him
"Be one of the youngest of the Weasley and Potter clan. You'd be this strong too." Lily smirked
The two of them got to the Great Hall and looked in. There were a few people sitting around, but no one was paying any attention to the two Potters.
"Just point your wand at it and mutter the spell." Lily insisted
James looked at her. "You don't have to be so pushy." He pulled his wand out and looked at Lily. "Make a spell up?"
"Yes," Lily said rolling her eyes "just make it up James."
James thought for a few seconds and then pointed his wand at the tree. "Make it happen, make her proud, give me a duplicate in the common room now."
"That was stupid." Lily commented as the tree glowed and then the glow disappeared "It didn't even rhyme."
"Well it didn't have to rhyme-" His eyes suddenly became wide
"What's wrong?" Lily asked noticing her brother's change
"There's a giant tree in the common room now." He commented
"You're point? Isn't that what you wanted?" Lily asked
"Lily looked at that thing! It's huge. It's got to take up the whole common room. I forgot to shrink it." James shouted over his shoulder as he sprinted up to the common room
It took Lily a second to process what James was talking about, but once she did, her eyes got just as big as James' and she took off after James. James beat her to the common room, but she could noticed the portrait was open and she could hear yells from within.
"Are you an idiot?"
"She said she wanted a tree! I got a tree!"
"You're lucky I can't see you because I would be punching you right now!"
"Can someone just shrink this tree? I want to decorate it sometime today."
Lily prepared herself to have to push against the branches to get inside the common room, but she ended up stumbling in, pushing on nothing. She opened her eyes and saw a decent sized tree in the middle of the common room and Eli had his wand out. Mya tilted her head and looked at the tree.
"This looks like the tree Hagrid got for the Great Hall, only smaller."
"That's because it is. James duplicated it." Lily announced
Fred looked over at his cousin. "And transported it here without thinking?" He punched James on the arm "Great thinking cuz."
"Hey I made the spell up in a hurry I didn't even think about how it would come out." James protested
Mya turned to him and smiled. "Well now that it's a decent size, I love it. Since you got the tree do you want to put the star on top?"
James looked over at Eli and noticed he had his arms crossed. He leaned closer to Mya so the others could hear him. "What's up with Eli?"
Mya looked over at him and smiled. "Eli usually puts the star on top of the tree. You got the tree though, so you can put it on top."
"Lily usually does it at our house, so this should be fun." James said smiling a little
Mya handed him the star and James went over to the tree. She watched along with the others as James put the star on top of the tree. "So is this starting to look any better?"
"What about presents?" Lily asked "Mum and dad were going to get me a new broom."
"Well I told the others that we could do a secret Santa and make the gifts. I know it's not the best, but I mean we are witches and wizards, so we should be able to make something good." Mya suggested "Your cousins already said they would."
"Really?" Lily asked looking at her cousins "I would think Fred would rather not give a gift. He likes to receive instead of give."
"Hey, I'm starting to feel a little of the Christmas spirit Mya's talking about." Fred protested smiling
"Come on you guys," Mya laughed "let's do the tree and then we'll get the rest of the House and pull names for a secret Santa."
The others shrugged and got up walking over to the tree. Lucy stared at the tree and then eventually shrugged. "It's not that bad of a tree. It actually looks better than the fake one mum puts up every year."
Mya went over to James and looked at him smiling. "I really do like the tree James thank you for helping."
James beamed. "Anything to help."
So I obviously wont get this done by Christmas. There's a few more parts left that I was planning. I'll try and put one up tomorrow but if I don't I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas early and a Happy Holidays.