However fond Adeline was of late sleeping, this morning of December, the 25th to be exact, she found herself awake and not in the least upset about it. She strolled down to the common room expecting the twins to be waiting for her. She only found one red headed boy there. Ron was not the Weasley she anticipated. Well of course the twins were not up. It was close to 9 in the morning, they had probably would be asleep for another 2 hours at least. Adeline contemplated leaving to explore the grounds on her own when Ron spoke.

"Uh Happy Christmas, you're probably looking for my brothers; they left about 10 minutes ago."

Adeline and Ron were not close friends, in fact yes this was indeed the first time Ron had spoken a full sentence to Addie. "Well thank you Ron! A very merry….or happy Christmas to you as well!"

Adeline left the common room to hunt down the troublesome twins. Where could they be? They just woke up about 20 minutes ago; of course the boys did not love anything as much as pranks but a close second to their hearts' desire would be food. Addie rounded the corner confident in her deductive skills. Addie's front foot slide in front of her as her back slowly slide behind her. Adeline was one of the fortunate few to actually have grace bestowed on her since birth. As she rebalanced on the clearly tricked floor a smirk emerged on her face. The twins had used the floundering frozen floor pour. Addie was not one to lose. Addie proceeded down the hall gracefully, arms behind her back, legs moving forward and wide one after the other as if she was ice skating. Honestly she enjoyed it more than expected. Almost half way down Addie saw the twins walk out from around the corner. They were confused by the lack of screaming and found Addie now making a figure eight, well as best as she could. Addie may be graceful but don't expect any Olympic gold medals any time soon.

"Merry Christmas my foolish friends." Addie beamed as George made is way on the "ice" hallway.

"Happy Christmas Addie! Seeing as how you enjoyed this little act you can consider it our Christmas gift to you." George slowly took one step at a time.

"Hey that's not true we got her something else!" Fred yelled. He hesitated behind his twin but started on the ice and then did a full on sprint towards George and Addie. Some how this sprint turned more into Fred speedily gliding, arms flailing, uncontrollably in all directions. George and Addie tried predicting where Fred would skid to next and move but in the end Fred successfully took both of them down with him. All three were in a heap against the wall. Fred was actually embarrassed, an emotion Addie did not think Fred knew let alone showed. "Balance is not always my strong suit."

And with that Addie busted into laughter, quickly joined by George and lastly Fred. After all three had calmed down, Addie wiped the water forming under her eyes. "Honestly I don't think your strong suit has been discovered Fred but when we find it, you'll be the first to know. Merry Christmas."

The three were making their way back to the common room after satisfying the twin's bottomless pits of stomachs. Addie was noticing the floor slowing returning to normal as her shoes gripped easier with each step. Fred's face lit up as if he discovered a cure to the after effect of one of the boys' troublesome pranks. "Hey have you realized our initials. Fred, Addie, George? It spells fag, you know like a cigarette. That's wicked it makes our group sound superior and cool."

Addie stared at Fred and couldn't contain her laughter as she realized he was serious in his observation. "You're an idiot Fred, honestly it's so funny for me to watch."

"Really I'm the idiot? You're the one hanging out with identical so called idiots when you could be off having normal friends doing normal things."

George interrupted his brother, "she called you an idiot not me mate." They arrived at the common room around this time entering as Harry Potter and Ron exited.

"Yes I know it's not the smartest chose of friends but I fit where I fit and I can't help that."

Fred and George looked at each other before turned simultaneously towards Addie and speaking together. "Funny you should say that."

George pointed to a small heap on the floor. Addie realized it was an attempt at wrapping an object, as in a gift. Shock, confusion, and guilt filled Addie's mind. The twins hadn't talked about Christmas gifts. Addie didn't think anything of it. She assumed there would be no materialistic exchanges; in fact she was looking forward to skipping this tradition and going straight to the hot chocolate and snowman building. "It's ok Addie just open it."

Addie knew some how she would have to make up for this mishap. She felt awful about not getting the boys something. They meant so much, well everything really, to her. She went to the package on autopilot as her brain tried to invent ways in which she could make it up to them. Addie's eyes grew three sizes their normal size, the Grinch would be proud, there in the heap of paper which looked oddly like chapters from the book for potions was the twin's spiral. Fred smirked, "we figured if you were going to be around all the time as you often find yourself, honestly who could blame you look at us, anyway if you're going to be around you should officially be in on our imaginative talents."

"Man! I don't even know what to say! I would have said you guys don't know how amazing you are but your egos are alarming huge already, Fred's is probably already spotted on most air traffic radars." Addie smiled while George laughed and Fred huffed in fake anger. She flipped through some of the pages. The twins were beyond brilliant, so imaginative and resourceful. "Drenching Dye" caught Addie's eye on one of the first few pages. "I've never seen this one in the works."

George told Addie it was one of Fred's first ideas. The concept was colored water. The color took to the water very intensely. The boys never found a good enough plan for it. Addie thought it was amazing. It wasn't a simple food coloring mixed with water. The color took on all aspects of the water. No matter where the water went it would never return to the clear color. Just one drop of the water held the coloring almost glowing. Red could easily be confused with blood from a distance. Addie had a brilliant idea for the day's first activity. The three used the prank on the massive amounts of snow outside, Addie made hers purple, Fred made green, and George made orange. The snowball fight that followed the creations can only be described as epically entertaining. Three hours later George was last place covered in purple and green splotches, Addis came second with soaked orange but mostly purple clothing. Fred the winner had no orange marking but several purple spots dripping down. Addie looked out the window after drying herself off. The scene was hilarious from above. Foot prints mixed with the spread of colors. Until spring when all the snow melted that scene would remain there.