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Chapter Thirteen: Chudley Canons.
Albus POV
All I could think about for the next few months was the fact that there was a giant killer streeler wandering the castle, but it was Christmas now and I was going home with Rose and James to visit the family. Mother had planned a big Christmas dinner for us all and had invited basically the entire family and loads of our friends. Also, after mother had heard that my new best friend in school was Scorpius, she had even invited the Malfoys, much to my father's and Uncle Ron's dismay.
After my mother and granddad had picked me, Rose and James up from Kings Cross Station we left for Godrics Hollow in the flying car.
"So mum, who's actually coming to Christmas dinner then? Our house can only hold so many people..." James started.
"Hmm, well there's you, me, Albus, your dad, Lily, Uncle Ron, Aunt Hermione, Rose, Hugo, Draco, Scorpius-" Mum started to list them all but was cut off by James.
"Hold on, the Malfoys are coming?" James said in a tone of shock. "I thought you had all been like, rivals in school. Uncle Ron told me that Aunt Hermione punched Draco Malfoy in the nose..." He said. Wow, I didn't know that. "AND, isn't that scar on Aunt Hermione's arm still there? The one that like, Draco's aunt did or something when they tortured her and like, Draco sat there and watched didn't he?"
"Well, yes, we've had our differences, but they may have changed and matured a bit. But anyway, there's me, you, Albus, your father, Lily, Uncle Ron, Aunt Hermione, Rose, Hugo, Draco, Scorpius, Astoria, Granddad, Grandma, Teddy, Uncle Bill, Aunt Fleur, Victorie, Dominique, Louis, Luna, Rolf, Lorcan, Lysander, Neville, Hannah, also Rose's friends Robyn and Luke and their paren-"
"Ok we get it mum, there's a lot of people coming..." I butted in since I was getting very bored of this conversation.
"No matter nosw anyway guys, we're here." Granddad said, pulling up outside our house in Godric's Hollow. There was a blanket of white snow covering the pavement and road, slightly melting away near us because of the heat of the car's engine. The graveyard just down the road was beautiful and the stars were glistening in the sky. It wasn't too late but if you didn't know the time you'd think it was about 11pm. James opened the car door and climbed out and started to shuffle over to the door too. As I was leaning out of it, ready to climb out, James pushed me back in and closed the door on me.
"James! Open that door for your brother." I heard mum demand from outside the car. James sighed and reluctantly opened the door for me. I stepped out slowly and cautiously making sure that I didn't slip on the icy pavement and strolled inside the house.
As I entered I saw my dad, Aunt Hermione and Uncle Ron sitting down in the lounge, listening to the Quidditch World Cup results on the radio. Well, Aunt Hermione was reading the Daily Prophet, dad and Uncle Ron were listening. They obviously didn't realise that we had come in until mum said "RON! HERMIONE!" in a really cheerful voice and Aunt Hermione's head shot up from the newspaper. Dad's and Ron's heads didn't move an inch from the radio, since they were listening so intently.
"Ginny!" Aunt Hermione said, running up to mum and hugging her. "So great to see you!" She said, so enthusiastically.
"Great to see you got here safely." Mum said. I then heard granddad calling my name from outside, asking me to come and help them with our luggage so I left the house and saw Rose struggling with my suitcase and hers and Crookshanks wriggling around in her arms. I took my suitcase from her and she let Crookshanks down onto the floor and he ran into the house and pounced on Aunt Hermione's lap. She was shocked by this and then she saw Rose enter the house.
"ROSE!" She said, shouting with excitement and running over too her, pulling her into a hug. "How was Hogwarts? Are you enjoying it so far? Do you want to come home? You can you know, you can come home! I know I wanted to go home at this stage of my first year, well, only slightly because I missed my mum and dad but I loved it really. Do you love it? Is it good? You have friends don't you? Please tell me you have friends!" Aunt Hermione seemed to be going slightly crazy so I left them too it and placed my suitcase down next to the stairs in the house.
I walked over to dad and Uncle Ron, still slouched towards the radio and dad looked up at me. "Albus! Great to see you!" He said, pulling me into a hug.
"You too Dad." I said and turned to Uncle Ron. "Hi, Uncle Ron." I said and he looked up at me.
"Oh, hi Albus" He said in a very casual, non-caring tone and turned back to the radio.
"It's the Qudditch World Cup results. Ron's been waiting for them all week since we couldn't get tickets for it this year. Obviously, he's hoping for the Chudley Cannons to win." Dad said, letting me out of the hug. "Anyway, forgetting that how was-" He started but looked up when he heard Aunt Hermione shout.
"RON! GET OVER HERE AND SAY HELLO TO YOUR DAUGHTER AND LEAVE THAT STUPID RADIO!" She yelled across the room. When he heard this, Uncle Ron's head shot up and he ran towards Rose and hugged her quickly, said hi and went back to the radio. Aunt Hermione looked at my mum and they both rolled their eyes.
"What can you do?" Mum said to her. "HUGO! LILY! MUM! COME AND SAY HELLO TO EVERYONE!" Mum called up the stairs and then I turned back to dad.
"So anyway, Albus, how's your first few months been? Anything happen?" Dad asked.
"Well..." I started and he looked very interested when I said that. "On my first day, Scorpius dragged me down a corridor and I wasn't sure where we were, so I got out the map you gave me and I found us and we went to our class but while Scorpius was looking at the map, spying on everyone, I saw something..." I told him.
"What did you see?" He asked me and tapped the arm of his armchair, signalling me to sit down and I did.
"Well, it was some sort of glowing slime. It was going into a dark like...passage thing and then it just disappeared." I said.
"Do you know what it was?" Dad asked me, curiously.
"Well, me, Scorpius and Rose went to the library and we did some research. Then we looked in your old Fantastic Beasts book and we-" I said but was interrupted when mum called me, dad and Uncle Ron over to help with the bags. I went to grab my bag and take it up the stairs towards my room, which, unfortunately, was on the 5th floor. This house was like The Burrow, only in a little village, not the middle of nowhere, it was much bigger and it looked so out of place it was ridiculous. As I went to pick up my bag I was pulled into a hug with Rose and James by my grandma and she kissed each of us on the forehead.
"Hi grandma." James said. She let go of us and I took my bag up to my room and Rose followed me with hers. She was going to be staying in my room with me for the next few days, Hugo and Lily shared a room and James had to sleep on the sofa while Grandma and Granddad took his room. Aunt Hermione and Uncle Ron had one of the spare rooms and Teddy, when he got here, would have the other.
Time for Christmas...