It's Christmas time at Hogwarts! Hope you enjoy~
- Aloof Avenger #2
I chose to stay this at hogwarts this year for Christmas, though I still wouldn't be seeing my father, and Emma and the Twins were thrilled as now we could continue our reign of pranking terror through the holidays. I had mail ordered for everyones presents weeks ago and they had all arrived and were ready to be sent out the day before Christmas to all my friends and family so I didn't have much to do in the days leading up to Christmas except read and bundle up so I could go and say hello to my forest family at the edge of the woods before it became too snowy for me to trudge out there.
The castle itself was beautiful in the winter and despite my worries about the thing in the forest and general sadness at being away from any blood relatives for the holidays for the first time in my life I still couldn't help getting into the spirit. Emma and my other friends went a long way in cheering me up, and more than one snowball fight broke out during the days which I always managed to lose, and the twins were being great sources of humor as they had enchanted several snowballs to float around behind that git Quirrel and bounce off of his Turban.
Christmas morning dawned bright and early for me as the other girls in my year were early risers and more than happy to shake me awake before even the sun was up, they would be getting pranked in revenge but that thought was tossed aside at seeing the pile of presents stacked neatly by my bed and I soon joined the others in decorating our bedroom with torn wrapping paper and ribbon.
Mrs. Weasley had sent me a tin of fudge and a 'Weasley sweater" in Ravenclaw blue with a book with an 'S' on the cover in bronze. Along with that was a letter telling me that she appreciated Emma and I being such good friends to her boys, a thank you for tutoring Ron which apparently he had told her, and a closing statement that had me laughing for a good ten minutes. She had apparently not forgotten Emma and I's prank at the train station and she had firmly told me that if her boys tried to pull anything 'unseemly or inappropriate' to us nice girls, that I should just send her a letter and she would be sure to put them in their place. Nonetheless I would be sure to send her a thank you card since the sweater, which when I put it on I very nearly melted into the very warm and soft material, was wonderful and the fudge tasty.
The rest of my presents were opened in a hurricane of wrapping paper and left me feeling very loved by the end of the pile. From Emma I had been given a gift card for Flourish and Blotts, a bundle of blood pops (which I squealed over), and a package of incense. The golden trio had apparently gotten me a group present of a big bag of candy, and several books that I had wanted and figured Hermione had picked them out. Neville gave me a book on herbology, his favorite subject, and a aloe vera plant that I set on my bedside table with one of the incense Emma had given me lit, making the room seem a bit more like home to me. The twins had gotten me a book titled "One Hundred and One Ways To Torture Your Evil Teacher" apparently not forgetting my dislike of Quirrel, and a doodled drawing of a stick figure in a turban being floated above a pit of lava. My family had sent me a big pile of gifts ranging from a new video game to clothes and a new Ipod that despite not working at Hogwarts I was super excited to try once I got home. I even got a gift from my dad who gave me a new and beautifully carved new trunk for my things with enchanted and extended pockets which would actually be able to fit all of my books, which was a rather big feat let me tell you.
The day ended rather perfectly with a huge feast where I sat with the Gryffindors and laughed at Fred and Georges disgruntled faces when they realized both Emma and I had gotten a letter along with our sweaters from their mother that ended with her warning us to contact her so she could yell at the boys if they were inappropriate to us.
