On the Eleventh day of Christmas Young Potter gave to me eleven Golden Snitches flying, ten chocolate frogs a leaping, nine hugs, eight stink bombs in my bed, seven kisses underneath the Mistletoe, six invites to a Christmas Eve bash, five appointments to a Muggle dentist, four boiled eggs, three single lilies, two detentions and a bottle of shampoo:

Laughter was heard from my classroom. I stood there for a second debating about going in and getting rid of the students or walking away to leave Peeves to it. Whether it was a student or Peeves, I could not decide.

"Severus Snape has slimy hair and needs to wash it!" I looked up and saw Peeves floating about looking like he usually did; smug. Stupid poltergeist, wait until I put into the vile. But it answered something. Students were indeed inside my classroom.

I opened the door to see Potter and Weasley there with a box. A box that had been elegantly wrapped in red and green; Christmassy colour. Potter, looking alarmed, looked up at me and smiled sheepishly.

"It was meant to be a surprise, Professor." He indicated towards the box. "I spent a lot of my money getting this."

"I helped to pick it!" Weasley jumped in obviously feeling left out. I looked down to the box with rising suspicion.

"What's in it?" I finally asked looking back up at the pair.

"Open it and find out," Potter smiled at me with reassurance. I did as he asked and, to my utter surprise, a few things floated out of the box. I followed them and spotted gold; a Golden Snitch? No, eleven of them; eleven Golden Snitches! I stared at them in awe as they floated around the room.

"What do you think, Professor?" Weasley asked after a while of me just watching. I looked at them and smiled.

"Impression but there is just one thing," they both looked at me expentantly, "Five points of Gryffindor for sneaking into my classroom without requiring my permission." They both groaned in unison.

SS

Fleurdelice laughed as she heard what I told her. She then hugged me with her skinny arms.

"What am I going to do with you, Severus?"

Author Notes:

Sorry it's late, I've been distracted.