Christmas

After the Quidditch game (and Lucy's detention) the weather became even colder and the Hogwarts halls were icy cold and the class rooms were always chilly no matter what you put on, the cold wind would still rattle windows making the room very frigid.

And everybody always felt sorry for those who had to be in the dungeon in their potion classes since the dungeon, which were underground, were even colder than the hallways. It always felt after few minutes in there like your fingers would fall off. As so everybody tried to stay as close to their cauldrons as possible to stay warm.

The Weasley triplets tried to keep themselves warm by doing many pranks and laughing to them, but one of those many pranks (bewitching multiple snowballs to follow Professor Quirrell and bouncing from his turban) landed them into a another detention. You can be certain that Mrs. Weasley was not happy, at all. She threatened not to send them any Christmas presents if they wouldn't start behaving better. To nobody's surprise her threats had no effect what so ever.

So by the end of the day you could be sure that every student (even the triplets) was in their common rooms warming up beside the blazing fire after the excruciatingly cold day. But the good thing that came with the cold weather was that Christmas was approaching and everybody was making some sort of Christmas plans, whether it was to go home to your family or stay in Hogwarts (which very few did).

The triplets, Ron, Percy and Harry all were going to stay in Hogwarts over the Christmas. The Weasleys stayed because Mr. and Mrs. Weasley along with Ginny were going to Romania to visit Charlie who they had not seen in a very long time due to his work and Harry for not wanting (or being wanted) to go back to Private Drive, not that he would tell it to anybody except to Ron and Hermione.

Sometimes it saddens Lucy to know that her brother doesn't trust her enough to tell her about his problems or other mind bothering things. But she knows that Harry doesn't know her well enough to be able to fully open up to her and she's determined to get to know Harry better so that he can finally tell her more about him without fear of rejection or something else he is so afraid of. She trusts her brother full heartedly so she want him to be able to trust her. Especially now that she knows that Harry did not have an easy childhood since he's not comfortable to speak about it.

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Once the holidays started the common room was much quieter than usual and almost empty and Harry and Ron were always occupying the good armchairs next to the fire. And as Ron started to teach Wizard chess to Harry, Lucy along with the twins were trying to help him. Or at least Lucy was trying the twins were just messing around as usual and Lucy had to tell them off quite a few times until she finally exploded and after that the twins were even quieter than a mouse. And after the game (Harry losing spectacularly to Ron due to Ron's longer familiarity to the game) they all went to bed waiting for the morning to come.

In the morning when Lucy woke up she noticed the familiar pile of present at the foot of her bed. She had gotten a new notebook that was enchanted so that only she could open it from Ginny, to her Lucy had gotten a new hairband that would change color by the wearer's mood. Then she got a thick book about 'How to grow into a responsible adult' from Percy (that one she just chucked under her bed and was ready to forget it there), to Percy Lucy had just gotten few new quills and pitch black ink, just the way he liked it (pretty boring according to Lucy). Then she got a huge bag full of pranking stuff from Fred and George, to them Lucy had gotten the biggest and newest pranking set available and it was huge. And finally from Mr. and Mrs. Weasley she had gotten box full of home-made fudge, a Christmas cake to share with the twins, Ron, Percy and Harry and traditional blue Weasley jumper with a big yellow letter L on it. She immediately put it on.

She then walked into the twins' dormitory and saw that they also had their blue jumpers on. Fred and had a big yellow letter F on it and George obviously had a letter G on his jumper.

''Thanks a ton for the new prank set Luc. It's awesome,'' Fred said as he stuffed some of his gift fudge into his mouth.

''Your welcome and thanks to you too. I had just ran out of those stink pellets. I used the last one on those four annoying slytherins last week,'' Lucy said, ''come on let's go see what Harry and Ron have gotten.''

And so they went to the first year's boys dormitory and saw Harry and Ron both awake and unwrapping their presents.

''Merry Christmas,'' the triplets chorused.

''Hey look Harry's got a Weasley jumper too,'' George said happily noticing the jumper on Harry's bed.

''Harry's better than ours though,'' Fed said as he holds the emerald green jumper so that they could see it.

''Mrs. Weasley obviously makes more of an effort if you're not family,'' Lucy said as she tosses the jumper back to Harry.

''Why aren't you wearing yours Ron?'' George asks, ''Come on get it on. They're lovely and warm.''

''I hate maroon,'' Ron moaned as he reluctantly put it on.

''You haven't got a letter on yours,'' George said pointing at Ron's jumpers bare front, ''I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid, we know we're called Gred, Lorge and Fucy.''

''What's all this noise?'' Just arrived Percy asks. When the triplets noticed that Percy was carrying his jumper Fred immediately snatched it away.

''P for prefect. Get it on, Percy come on, we're all wearing ours, even Harry got one,'' Fred said.

''I…don't…want…'' Percy tried to say as the triplets were forcing the red jumper on him.

''And you're not sitting with the prefects today either, Christmas is a time for family,'' Lucy said as the twins frog-marched Percy from the room. Lucy waved a quick goodbye to Harry and Ron as she then followed the twins and Percy who was trapped inside his jumper.

The Christmas dinner in Hogwarts was incredible even though only a few students and the teachers were there to enjoy it. The Weasleys, save Percy, were over joyed by the amount of food there was on the table and were immediately stuffing their face full of it.

Harry had never seen such Christmas dinner, not even on Dursleys and they tried their best to be the…well best. Not that Harry ever got to enjoy the feast there. He was always forced to go away into his small cupboard during the dinner and then aunt Petunia would call him after the dinner had ended and given him a small plate of the left overs, which wasn't much since Dudley usually ate so much he usually had a huge stomach ache after words.

But now all this food was in front of him and he was allowed to eat it. And eat it he did. By the amount of speed he ate he could almost match up the Weasleys. Lucy and Percy were eating a little humanly speed and Percy even had (and showed to everyone) table manners. This always, where ever they were, brought huge laughs at the triplets since he was always in the dinner table acting like a 'lady' according to triplets.

After the feast the Weasleys (minus Percy who had gone to library to read in peace) and Harry had a huge snowball fight at the grounds and after that the triplets were insisting that they had won the match. At the evening they were alone in the common room telling jokes, eating and just having fun.

Harry had gotten a new Wizard chess set from the wizard crackers during the dinner and he and Ron were now playing the chess again. Lucy tried to help Harry out but since the ever unbeatable Percy was helping Ron, the match was pretty much lost before it even started, but it gave them all a good laugh.

After they had eaten their sandwiches and turkey and the Christmas cake Mrs. Weasley send them they all were so full that Harry and Ron didn't have the energy to do anything else except watch as Percy chased the triplets all over the common room since they had nicked his Prefect badge once again and were tossing to each other so that Percy wouldn't catch it.

After that (Percy finally got his badge back) they all went to bed full and happy. Lucy was out of it as soon as her head hit the pillow. The last thought she had been that this was the best Christmas ever since she got to finally spent it with her little brother.

Hey guys!

So I was thinking if you could tell me some pranks that the triplets would pull off after this. I really suck at inventing those. *sweat drop*

So if you have any ideas please tell me I'd really appreciate it.

Love you all,

Snow