Chapter Six
Christmas
We stayed at Hogwarts for Christmas again this year. Yes, Mona and I miss our family and would love to see them over the break, but we know how much of a hassle Christmas time is at our house. By staying away, we're honestly doing our parents a favor. Besides, we'd have more fun here anyway.
With the twins and magic, the possibilities are almost endless.
The twins spent much of the break working on ideas for their business. We've improved on the sick sticks, and come up with a few more ideas. We can't really test them, though, they're still in the making. Granted, when we decided to hex snowballs, entirely the boys' idea, we got into trouble for hitting Professor Quirrell on the back of the head. He's odd though. I mean, he's a fine Defense against the Dark Arts teacher, and he did warn us about the troll on Halloween, right before he collapsed from fear, of course.
Sometimes I wonder how such a coward could ever be our Dark Arts teacher. I guess there must be a part of him that we don't see that makes him stronger than we know. Whatever. He's just a strange, scared man who doesn't seem like the type to teach. Oh well.
"Merry Christmas!" Mona and I cry to the twins on Christmas morning. The four of us exchanged gifts, as well as opened the ones from our parents. Mona and I had got a joint present from our family this year. It was an owl, a Great Horned Owl that we named Atin. We really appreciated it because now we didn't have to rely on Errol. Atin is much younger, and, from what we could tell, didn't seem to be, well, stupid.
Fred and George got matching sweaters from Mrs. Weasley. They, as a joke, started calling themselves "Gred and Forge." They thought it was absolutely hilarious. It was funny, but I'm pretty sure Percy was ready to burn them and their sweaters in the fireplace next to the tree. As a result, the twins stole Percy's prefect badge. Now, I have never seen that boy, or any boy actually, yell and whine until he was blue in the face. The twins eventually returned it, after making Percy suffer. They really love torturing that boy. I'd feel sorry if I actually liked him.
Mona and I both wrote to our family and wished them a Merry Christmas. We promised to give them a weekly update because of Atin. Christmas at Hogwarts had pretty much went as expected: Mischief and trouble, but overall, fun.