Disclaimer: see chapter 28
Christmas
The Halloween dance was one of the main topics of everyone's conversation during the beginning of March. However the pranks continued, so the topics changed. During the time leading up to Christmas, there was a day that whenever Snape tried deducting points from any house besides his own, if any Slytherins were present they would start singing Mmmbop by Hansen and if Snape continued to try to take points away from the other houses, his house would just sing louder. There was also the time that every time Draco opened his mouth to talk he would start singing "The Song That Never Ends" from Lambchop. Then there was also the day that Hogwart's walls and floors were sparkly, just to name a few of the pranks that Hogwart's United did.
Before everyone left Hogwart's for the Holidays they all decided to meet at the Burrow (with Mrs. Weasley's permission of course) Christmas evening so they could all exchange gifts and plan some more pranks, like how to turn Hagrid's beard sparkly.
Hermione and Hope stayed at the Burrow the night before Christmas along with Harry, Katie and the whole Weasley family. Hermione woke up bright and early and grabbed a book and snuck out of Ginny's room, where she, Hope and Katie were staying because the rest of the house was full.
As Hermione made her way into the kitchen she saw Fred sitting at the table waiting for the tea to be ready and picking at a biscuit.
"Morning Love" Hermione said startling Fred as he looked up and smiled.
"Good morning, gorgeous" Fred said standing up and giving Hermione a kiss.
"What are you doing up so early?" Hermione asked.
"Well I knew you would be up early and wanted to spend a little bit of time alone with you on Christmas, and the house is too full for that to happen when everyone was awake." Fred told her earning a kiss and a huge smile. The two talked for a little while and drank some tea before they started to hear feet coming down the stairs.
"Would you like to go for a walk before everyone gets up?" Fred asked Hermione.
"I would love to." Hermione said leaving her book on the table and grabbing her cloak before heading outside where there was a fresh blanket of snow.
"I love white Christmases." Hermione said as the snow fell down around her.
"Me too" Fred said leading her over to the bench near the pond. He cleared off the snow and dried the bench off with a drying spell, and the two sat down and looked over the frozen pond where they saw some fairies flying in the snow.
"This is so pretty" Hermione said leaning against Fred and snuggling close.
"Hermione, I know we haven't been together for long, but I couldn't imagine my life without you." Fred whispered in her ear before getting down on one knee in the snow, "Will you marry me?"
Shocked Hermione sat there for a second before jumping on him with a kiss and knocking him over so they were both lying in the snow. "Of course I will marry you Fred Weasley."
After a few seconds of lying in the snow they heard there names coming from the Burrow. Fred slipped the ring onto Hermione's finger and with one more kiss helped her up and headed back inside.
As they got inside they quickly did some drying spells on there wet clothes and holding hands headed into the living room to open up presents. Ginny was handing out presents and after everyone opened up a couple, Hermione went to go give Ginny a hug as a Thank you for getting the gift when Katie noticed a ring on her finger.
"Hermione, what is that on your finger?" Katie asked accusingly.
"Oh, just my Christmas present from Fred." Hermione said with a smile.
"That's your left hand" Katie said.
"I know" Hermione said innocently. As the news kicked in, all the women jumped up to give Hermione a hug, while some of the guys still seemed a bit confused.
"Oh my baby is getting married" Mrs. Weasley said giving both Hermione and Fred a hug.
"Hey mum, I'm engaged too!" George joked making everyone start laughing and Mrs. Weasley and Katie swat him across the back of the head making everyone else laugh even harder.
After everyone congratulated the couple, they continued opening presents before eating breakfast and just enjoying the day and Christmas dinner, while waiting for their friends to get there.
Before they knew it all of there friends came tumbling out of the fire place. Once they got there they all sprawled out over the living room and started handing out gifts and talking about what they had gotten earlier.
"Hermione, what did you get?" Susan asked catching sight of a ring on a certain finger.
"Oh some books, the Weasley sweater, a bunch of this and that." Hermione said feigning innocence, "Oh and Fred gave me this" she added holding out her hands and getting squeals out of the other girls. Hermione told them how it happened and they all planned to talk wedding and stuff later because for now they wanted to finish handing out presents.
After all the presents were exchanged and opened, the group talked about pranks for awhile before the girls and guys split up, the girls talking about weddings, as there were going to be two coming up, and the guys talked about well, a lot of things that did not include weddings.
After everyone left, and everyone staying at the Burrow went to bed, Hermione cuddled with Fred in front of the fire.
"This has been the best Christmas I have ever had" Hermione said giving Fred a kiss and snuggling close.
"Me too love, me too." Fred replied back.
A/N- I hope you enjoyed the chapter. I would like to thank itsme for some of the prank ideas. One more chapter left! I hope to have it out before Feb. 1st. Thanks you for reading and Please Review!
