Chapter 10: Christmas
Diana couldn't believe how fast two months had gone by. It was two days until Christmas, and she still didn't know what to get Harry.
"So Hermione, what should I get Harry?" Diana asked. She was sitting on her bed polishing her broom.
"A box of condoms." Hermione gave her an evil grin.
"What?! No seriously Hermione." Diana's eyes had gotten very big.
"Seriously, a box of condoms." Hermione now had a serious look on her face.
"WHAT?!" Diana stood up on her bed.
"I'm kidding, Diana. Calm down," Hermione laughed.
"This is a serious problem!" Diana threw down her broom.
"I know. Get him... something quidditch-ish." Hermione sat down on her bed and began to read.
"Like...?" Diana rolled her eyes.
"I don't know." Hermione said, looking up from her book.
Diana fell back onto her bed. She began to twirl her hair, which was down for the first time ever, since she'd come to Hogwarts. (Well, except at night and when she took a shower.) Diana sat up and looked around. "That's it!" Diana yelled.
"What's it?" Hermione looked strangely at Diana.
"I know what I'll get him!" Diana jumped out of bed and ran out of the room.
"Crazy girl." Hermione shook her head, then continued on reading.
Suddenly Harry came running in, Ron following close behind.
"Hermione, I need your help!" Harry said.
"You need a gift for Diana," Hermione said.
"How did you know?" Ron said, raising his eyebrows.
"Lucky guess." Hermione looked at Harry. "Get her... a thong. It will go perfect with the box of condoms she's getting you."
Harry's eyes got big. "What?!"
"Way to go, Harry!" Ron smiled.
"Oh come on Ron, you don't believe Diana would get him condoms? She's so not like that, she wants to be a virgin til she's married," Hermione said, and she shook her head again
Harry gave a sigh of relief. Then he looked around.
"What's wrong?" Ron asked.
"There's no changing her mind about the virgin thing is there?" Harry looked at Hermione.
"Oh I don't want to talk about this stuff with you two!" Hermione looked disgusted.
"Sucks to be you Harry," Ron said with a grin.
"Please let's get off the subject of sex," Hermione said.
"That's it!" Harry yelled.
"What?" Ron asked.
"I know what I'll get her." Harry looked at the two of them.
"Sex?" Ron asked.
"No!" Harry yelled running out of the room. Hermione looked at Ron, then hit him in the head.
"Hey, what was that for?!" Ron asked.
"If you can't figure it out, you're an idiot." Hermione glared at him.
***
That night Diana was sitting on her bed wrapping Harry's gift.
"This is going to be the best gift," Diana said to herself. When she had finished she looked at the gift with pride. "I have to say this is the best wrapping I have ever done." Her gift was wrapped in gold paper and had a green ribbon.
"I wonder what Harry's going to get me?" She picked up her gift and began to put it in her bedside drawer. But just as she was shutting the drawer something small over by the window moved. "What was that?"
Diana got up and walked over. To Diana's surprise, there in the corner was a rat. "Ew! I knew this place wasn't clean." She leaned down to get a closer look at it. "Cute little thing." Even as she got closer it didn't seem to get scared or run away. "Do you have a name? I'm going to pick you up, now. Don't be afraid." Diana reached her hand in and picked up the rat. She then took the rat over to her bed and sat down.
"I think I should feed you to my snake. Oh, but you're so cute!" Then she began to pet it.
Then the door opened and Hermione walked in. "Diana, I need your help."
"With what?" Diana asked
"Well, you know Harry's brilliant idea for a Christmas tree in the common room?" Hermione rolled her eyes.
"Yeah." She was still petting the rat.
"Well, no one can decide on what color the Christmas tree skirt should be. What color, red or green?"
"Red."
"That's what I said! God! No one listens to me. What's that you're holding?" Hermione asked.
"A rat. Do you want to pet him?" Diana smiled.
Hermione took one look at the rat and knew who it was. "Drop him! No! Wait, he'll get away! Don't drop him! HARRY!" She screamed.
Harry came in the door panting. "What?"
"Look!" Hermione pointed.
"It's a rat, big deal." Diana looked around.
"Diana, drop the rat! Wait! No! Don't drop the rat! He'll get away!" Harry yelled.
"Ron! Come quick!" Hermione screamed.
Ron came running into the room. "What?!" He said angrily. "I was just about to put the star up."
"Look who Diana found." Harry said.
Ron looked at the rat in Diana's hands, then his mouth dropped open. "Diana, drop the rat! Wait! Don't drop! Wait, drop it! No, don't drop it, he'll get away!" Ron went on.
"Okay...now that we have established you don't want me to drop the rat, can someone tell me what's going on?" Diana rolled her eyes.
"This means we can finally clear his name," Harry gave a weak smile.
"He'd be happy we did," Hermione smiled.
"What?!" Diana said, looking at the three as if they were nuts.
" Ron, will you go get Dumbledore," Hermione commanded.
"Right," Ron said, running out of the room.
"Can someone explain to me what's going on?" Diana said.
"Do you think you should tell her or should I?" Hermione asked Harry.
They sat down and explained the whole story about Sirius to Diana.
"And there was no body?" Diana looked almost perplexed.
"Well yeah, " Hermione said.
"So," Diana began, "clearing his name would bring closure to his death."
"Not so much closure, but it would help," Harry said.
" I somehow think that there's more to this story than meets the eye," Diana said, looking at the floor.
"Like what?" Hermione asked angrily.
"Like a lack of body," Diana said. "You see, the archway . . ."
Dumbledore interupted her by walking into the room, he was followed shortly by
Professor Snape and Ron. "Where is he?" Dumbledore asked.
"Professor," Diana said, handing him the rat. "Soemthing was definitely over looked."
"Like?" Hermione asked.
"The archway," Diana began, "it's in a book about the living and the dead. It said that, the archway was created to study what happened after death. However, it didn't work, so the person had to come out another archway leading into our world.
"No one understood why they couldn't get into the world that is beyond ours. Leter, after further study, they realized it was because the soul going through was still attached to the body. The body was not meant to stay in that worls."
"Alright," Ron said, totally missing whatever point Diana was trying to make.
Diana sighed with frustration.
"The body would have come out the other side," Hermione said.
"Exactly,' Diana smiled. "If Sirius fell in after death, his body would have been sent out the other way. Which brings me to the point, where's to the body?"
Everyone looked almost dumb struck, even Dumbledore.
"But what if the other archway is a place where no one would ever find it?" Ron asked.
"It's not," Diana said. "The two archways are in two completely different rooms in the Department of Mysteries. And they can't be moved from their spots."
Everyone looked at each other, almost asking each other to answer.
"Um . . ." Snape said. "There's this potion I've been trying to create for close to sixteen years . . ."
"You didn't?!" Dumbledore said.
"We did," Snape said.
"What?!" Diana and Hermione asked together.
"Well, the potion if used properly, can prevent death; however, it can only be used for the Avada curse," Snape said, looking nervously at the floor.
Diana suddenly let out a shriek, " It's my puppy!"
A very familiar black dog jumped up onto her bed. she smiled, scratching behind his ears. Diana seemed to notice that they were staring at her and the dog as if they'd seen a ghost
"Oh dear," a voice sighed. At that moment Fudge came running into the room, and pointed over at the dog.
Dian sighed and looked at her dog, but it wasn't a dog anymore. Instead, it was a man sitting next to her. Diana's eyes got really hugh, she screamed and fell to the floor.
"Sirius?" Harry said softly.
"Guten Tag!" Sirius smiled.
Ther was an awkward silence that Diana finally broke, " You answer with, 'Guten Tag. Wie geht es dir?' "
"You're alive!" Hermione yelled, saying what was on everyone's mind at that moment.
"Well, I was the last time I checked," Sirius laughed, still staring at the shock on Diana's face.
"I told you some of my darkest secrets thinking you were a dog," Diana yelled. Harry could tell that she was restraining herself from lugging at him.
"Yep," Sirius grinned evilly.
"I walked you, feed you, and I even let you sleep on the end of the bed," Diana whined.
"Yes, and I'm forever in your debt," Sirius smiled. He looked over at Harry, " And by the way you have nice choices in woman. She's sweet, pretty, and if you got rid of the name she'd be perfect for you."
Diana looked at the floor blushing.
"Now Fudge," Dumbledore began, "I'm sure you'll see that Sirius's name gets cleared."
Fudge didn't say anything at all, but instead nodded in response.
"Right," Dumbledore smiled. "Here's Peter." He handed him the rat and smiled. Fudge walked out still in shock. Dumbledore looked at Snape and Sirius with a glare, "I want to see you in my office, now."
They left, leaving the four sitting still staring in shock.
***
"Harry! It's so beautiful!" Diana screeched, holding up the charm bracelet Harry had given her.
"You really like it?" He smiled.
"I love it!" Diana said putting it on. "Thank you so much."
"I'm glad you like it." Harry went red.
"Now it's time for you to open mine," Diana said, digging into her bedside drawer. It was a snowy Christmas Eve night and Harry couldn't imagine it being any better. "Here it is!" Diana laughed. "I knew I put it in here." Diana handed Harry the gift, then he began to open it.
"What is it?" He said, pulling out a old looking, tattered book.
"What does it look like? It's a yearbook. It was my mom's. I thought you might want it, it's got a lot of pictures of your parents in it," Diana said shyly. Harry began to look though it. "It's kinda funny, because in every picture that your parents are in, my uncle's in the background. There's one, where he's like, flicking them off. It's hilarious." Diana turned it to a page that had Harry's parents in it, and low and behold there was a very angry Severus flicking them off. They both began to laugh. "I wasn't sure if you would like it..." Diana began, but she was stopped when Harry kissed her.
"I love it." Harry smiled, Diana went a shade of deep red.
"Really?" Diana had a very unsure look on her face. Then Harry kissed her again.
"Yeah, I'm sure." He smiled and kissed her again.
Just then Sirius ran into the room. "Guess what?" he yelled.
"I don't know, what?" Harry smiled.
"Oh, I know."Diana laughed.
"You do? Well tell me." Sirius grinned at Diana.
"Dumbledore offered you a job at Hogwarts!" Diana yelled.
Sirius's face went straight and pale. "How did you know?"
"He did? Oh, I am sooo good!" Diana looked very smug.
"He offered you a job? Well, what was it?" Harry smiled.
"Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor!" Sirius smiled. Diana didn't look the least bit happy.
"What did my uncle say?" Diana stared.
"Not much." Sirius grinned.
"Oh, that's not good. He's upset. Oh man, he's going to take this out on me. He's going to give me another two hour spiel on how he should get the job. Man, why can't Dumbledore just give him it? I mean he goes on and on and on and on about how he's so qualified for it. This is going to suck. I need to go talk to him." Diana began to get up.
"Not so fast, missy. I didn't take it." Sirius smiled some more.
"What!?" Harry and Diana said together in shock. "But you'll be right here with Harry. Why did you do it?" Diana asked.
"Diana, will you please keep your shirt on. Although, I don't think Harry would mind if you took it off." Sirius smiled at Harry. Harry turned red. Diana covered up her chest. "I told Dumbledore that I didn't want the job, because Snape was more qualified for it. So he gave the job to Severus, then offered me the Potions position."
"Did you take it?" Harry asked.
"Well, yeah!" Sirius said.
"Did my uncle take the job?" Diana asked.
"No, he's out of a job." Sirius said very seriously. Diana's eyes got very wide. "Of course he took the job!" Diana then began to breathe.
Suddenly Snape came running in. "Sirius, we have your first duty as a Professor." Snape was out of breath.
"What would that be? Do I get to give out a detention? Did someone hex someone else? What? You're killing me here!" Sirius groaned.
Diana looked into her uncle's eyes and seemed to read him like a book. "Who was it? Someone was put under the Alptraum Curse again. Who was it?" Diana moaned.
"Owen Cauldwell." Severus sighed.
"I missed something, didn't I?" Sirius looked at the three of them. All their Christmas cheer was drained out of them.
***
"Diana, a gift came for you!" Hermione yelled, jumping on Diana's bed.
"Who is it from?" She groaned. It was Christmas morning, and Diana didn't want to get up at all.
"It's from some girl named Sara." Hermione jumped.
"I'll open it later." Diana rolled over in her bed.
"This is the third time I have tried to get you up! Harry and Ron have been up for two hours. We're all waiting for you." Hermione sighed.
"Good for them." Diana rolled over again.
"Please get up!" Hermione yelled.
"Fine!" Diana yelled back. She sat up and stared at a huge box that was on the end of her bed. "It's from Sara?" Diana looked at the gift.
"Yeah. Who's Sara? Harry, Ron she's up!" Hermione yelled. The two boys ran in.
"Sara is my best friend who lives in America." Diana began to open her box.
"I thought I was your best friend." Hermione said, crossing her arms.
"My best British friend. Sara is my best American friend." Diana rolled her eyes.
"Man Hermione, you just got dissed." Ron laughed.
"Is it wrong to have two best friends?" Diana continued to open her gift.
"Of course not!" Hermione said, she glared at Ron.
"Oh my God!" Diana screeched. "I so totally love these shoes! I so love Sara! Oh, I hope she got my gift!" Diana smiled.
Hermione stared at Diana as she tried on her new mint green sneakers. "Cute," Hermione sighed.
"Oh, I totally forgot about you and Ron!" Diana yelled. Then, she dug under her bed. She pulled out two nicely wrapped gifts. "Ron, Hermione." Diana handed the gifts to them. "Crap! I need to give Uncle Severus his gift." Diana got up, dug into her closet, pulled out a gift, and ran out of the room.
"You're jealous, Hermione," Ron teased.
"I am not," Hermione protested.
"Yes you are!" Ron yelled. Harry began to laugh.
"Stop you two," Harry snickered.
"Fine." Ron and Hermione said at the same time.
"So jealous," Ron whispered.
"So not," Hermione whispered back.
Diana couldn't believe how fast two months had gone by. It was two days until Christmas, and she still didn't know what to get Harry.
"So Hermione, what should I get Harry?" Diana asked. She was sitting on her bed polishing her broom.
"A box of condoms." Hermione gave her an evil grin.
"What?! No seriously Hermione." Diana's eyes had gotten very big.
"Seriously, a box of condoms." Hermione now had a serious look on her face.
"WHAT?!" Diana stood up on her bed.
"I'm kidding, Diana. Calm down," Hermione laughed.
"This is a serious problem!" Diana threw down her broom.
"I know. Get him... something quidditch-ish." Hermione sat down on her bed and began to read.
"Like...?" Diana rolled her eyes.
"I don't know." Hermione said, looking up from her book.
Diana fell back onto her bed. She began to twirl her hair, which was down for the first time ever, since she'd come to Hogwarts. (Well, except at night and when she took a shower.) Diana sat up and looked around. "That's it!" Diana yelled.
"What's it?" Hermione looked strangely at Diana.
"I know what I'll get him!" Diana jumped out of bed and ran out of the room.
"Crazy girl." Hermione shook her head, then continued on reading.
Suddenly Harry came running in, Ron following close behind.
"Hermione, I need your help!" Harry said.
"You need a gift for Diana," Hermione said.
"How did you know?" Ron said, raising his eyebrows.
"Lucky guess." Hermione looked at Harry. "Get her... a thong. It will go perfect with the box of condoms she's getting you."
Harry's eyes got big. "What?!"
"Way to go, Harry!" Ron smiled.
"Oh come on Ron, you don't believe Diana would get him condoms? She's so not like that, she wants to be a virgin til she's married," Hermione said, and she shook her head again
Harry gave a sigh of relief. Then he looked around.
"What's wrong?" Ron asked.
"There's no changing her mind about the virgin thing is there?" Harry looked at Hermione.
"Oh I don't want to talk about this stuff with you two!" Hermione looked disgusted.
"Sucks to be you Harry," Ron said with a grin.
"Please let's get off the subject of sex," Hermione said.
"That's it!" Harry yelled.
"What?" Ron asked.
"I know what I'll get her." Harry looked at the two of them.
"Sex?" Ron asked.
"No!" Harry yelled running out of the room. Hermione looked at Ron, then hit him in the head.
"Hey, what was that for?!" Ron asked.
"If you can't figure it out, you're an idiot." Hermione glared at him.
***
That night Diana was sitting on her bed wrapping Harry's gift.
"This is going to be the best gift," Diana said to herself. When she had finished she looked at the gift with pride. "I have to say this is the best wrapping I have ever done." Her gift was wrapped in gold paper and had a green ribbon.
"I wonder what Harry's going to get me?" She picked up her gift and began to put it in her bedside drawer. But just as she was shutting the drawer something small over by the window moved. "What was that?"
Diana got up and walked over. To Diana's surprise, there in the corner was a rat. "Ew! I knew this place wasn't clean." She leaned down to get a closer look at it. "Cute little thing." Even as she got closer it didn't seem to get scared or run away. "Do you have a name? I'm going to pick you up, now. Don't be afraid." Diana reached her hand in and picked up the rat. She then took the rat over to her bed and sat down.
"I think I should feed you to my snake. Oh, but you're so cute!" Then she began to pet it.
Then the door opened and Hermione walked in. "Diana, I need your help."
"With what?" Diana asked
"Well, you know Harry's brilliant idea for a Christmas tree in the common room?" Hermione rolled her eyes.
"Yeah." She was still petting the rat.
"Well, no one can decide on what color the Christmas tree skirt should be. What color, red or green?"
"Red."
"That's what I said! God! No one listens to me. What's that you're holding?" Hermione asked.
"A rat. Do you want to pet him?" Diana smiled.
Hermione took one look at the rat and knew who it was. "Drop him! No! Wait, he'll get away! Don't drop him! HARRY!" She screamed.
Harry came in the door panting. "What?"
"Look!" Hermione pointed.
"It's a rat, big deal." Diana looked around.
"Diana, drop the rat! Wait! No! Don't drop the rat! He'll get away!" Harry yelled.
"Ron! Come quick!" Hermione screamed.
Ron came running into the room. "What?!" He said angrily. "I was just about to put the star up."
"Look who Diana found." Harry said.
Ron looked at the rat in Diana's hands, then his mouth dropped open. "Diana, drop the rat! Wait! Don't drop! Wait, drop it! No, don't drop it, he'll get away!" Ron went on.
"Okay...now that we have established you don't want me to drop the rat, can someone tell me what's going on?" Diana rolled her eyes.
"This means we can finally clear his name," Harry gave a weak smile.
"He'd be happy we did," Hermione smiled.
"What?!" Diana said, looking at the three as if they were nuts.
" Ron, will you go get Dumbledore," Hermione commanded.
"Right," Ron said, running out of the room.
"Can someone explain to me what's going on?" Diana said.
"Do you think you should tell her or should I?" Hermione asked Harry.
They sat down and explained the whole story about Sirius to Diana.
"And there was no body?" Diana looked almost perplexed.
"Well yeah, " Hermione said.
"So," Diana began, "clearing his name would bring closure to his death."
"Not so much closure, but it would help," Harry said.
" I somehow think that there's more to this story than meets the eye," Diana said, looking at the floor.
"Like what?" Hermione asked angrily.
"Like a lack of body," Diana said. "You see, the archway . . ."
Dumbledore interupted her by walking into the room, he was followed shortly by
Professor Snape and Ron. "Where is he?" Dumbledore asked.
"Professor," Diana said, handing him the rat. "Soemthing was definitely over looked."
"Like?" Hermione asked.
"The archway," Diana began, "it's in a book about the living and the dead. It said that, the archway was created to study what happened after death. However, it didn't work, so the person had to come out another archway leading into our world.
"No one understood why they couldn't get into the world that is beyond ours. Leter, after further study, they realized it was because the soul going through was still attached to the body. The body was not meant to stay in that worls."
"Alright," Ron said, totally missing whatever point Diana was trying to make.
Diana sighed with frustration.
"The body would have come out the other side," Hermione said.
"Exactly,' Diana smiled. "If Sirius fell in after death, his body would have been sent out the other way. Which brings me to the point, where's to the body?"
Everyone looked almost dumb struck, even Dumbledore.
"But what if the other archway is a place where no one would ever find it?" Ron asked.
"It's not," Diana said. "The two archways are in two completely different rooms in the Department of Mysteries. And they can't be moved from their spots."
Everyone looked at each other, almost asking each other to answer.
"Um . . ." Snape said. "There's this potion I've been trying to create for close to sixteen years . . ."
"You didn't?!" Dumbledore said.
"We did," Snape said.
"What?!" Diana and Hermione asked together.
"Well, the potion if used properly, can prevent death; however, it can only be used for the Avada curse," Snape said, looking nervously at the floor.
Diana suddenly let out a shriek, " It's my puppy!"
A very familiar black dog jumped up onto her bed. she smiled, scratching behind his ears. Diana seemed to notice that they were staring at her and the dog as if they'd seen a ghost
"Oh dear," a voice sighed. At that moment Fudge came running into the room, and pointed over at the dog.
Dian sighed and looked at her dog, but it wasn't a dog anymore. Instead, it was a man sitting next to her. Diana's eyes got really hugh, she screamed and fell to the floor.
"Sirius?" Harry said softly.
"Guten Tag!" Sirius smiled.
Ther was an awkward silence that Diana finally broke, " You answer with, 'Guten Tag. Wie geht es dir?' "
"You're alive!" Hermione yelled, saying what was on everyone's mind at that moment.
"Well, I was the last time I checked," Sirius laughed, still staring at the shock on Diana's face.
"I told you some of my darkest secrets thinking you were a dog," Diana yelled. Harry could tell that she was restraining herself from lugging at him.
"Yep," Sirius grinned evilly.
"I walked you, feed you, and I even let you sleep on the end of the bed," Diana whined.
"Yes, and I'm forever in your debt," Sirius smiled. He looked over at Harry, " And by the way you have nice choices in woman. She's sweet, pretty, and if you got rid of the name she'd be perfect for you."
Diana looked at the floor blushing.
"Now Fudge," Dumbledore began, "I'm sure you'll see that Sirius's name gets cleared."
Fudge didn't say anything at all, but instead nodded in response.
"Right," Dumbledore smiled. "Here's Peter." He handed him the rat and smiled. Fudge walked out still in shock. Dumbledore looked at Snape and Sirius with a glare, "I want to see you in my office, now."
They left, leaving the four sitting still staring in shock.
***
"Harry! It's so beautiful!" Diana screeched, holding up the charm bracelet Harry had given her.
"You really like it?" He smiled.
"I love it!" Diana said putting it on. "Thank you so much."
"I'm glad you like it." Harry went red.
"Now it's time for you to open mine," Diana said, digging into her bedside drawer. It was a snowy Christmas Eve night and Harry couldn't imagine it being any better. "Here it is!" Diana laughed. "I knew I put it in here." Diana handed Harry the gift, then he began to open it.
"What is it?" He said, pulling out a old looking, tattered book.
"What does it look like? It's a yearbook. It was my mom's. I thought you might want it, it's got a lot of pictures of your parents in it," Diana said shyly. Harry began to look though it. "It's kinda funny, because in every picture that your parents are in, my uncle's in the background. There's one, where he's like, flicking them off. It's hilarious." Diana turned it to a page that had Harry's parents in it, and low and behold there was a very angry Severus flicking them off. They both began to laugh. "I wasn't sure if you would like it..." Diana began, but she was stopped when Harry kissed her.
"I love it." Harry smiled, Diana went a shade of deep red.
"Really?" Diana had a very unsure look on her face. Then Harry kissed her again.
"Yeah, I'm sure." He smiled and kissed her again.
Just then Sirius ran into the room. "Guess what?" he yelled.
"I don't know, what?" Harry smiled.
"Oh, I know."Diana laughed.
"You do? Well tell me." Sirius grinned at Diana.
"Dumbledore offered you a job at Hogwarts!" Diana yelled.
Sirius's face went straight and pale. "How did you know?"
"He did? Oh, I am sooo good!" Diana looked very smug.
"He offered you a job? Well, what was it?" Harry smiled.
"Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor!" Sirius smiled. Diana didn't look the least bit happy.
"What did my uncle say?" Diana stared.
"Not much." Sirius grinned.
"Oh, that's not good. He's upset. Oh man, he's going to take this out on me. He's going to give me another two hour spiel on how he should get the job. Man, why can't Dumbledore just give him it? I mean he goes on and on and on and on about how he's so qualified for it. This is going to suck. I need to go talk to him." Diana began to get up.
"Not so fast, missy. I didn't take it." Sirius smiled some more.
"What!?" Harry and Diana said together in shock. "But you'll be right here with Harry. Why did you do it?" Diana asked.
"Diana, will you please keep your shirt on. Although, I don't think Harry would mind if you took it off." Sirius smiled at Harry. Harry turned red. Diana covered up her chest. "I told Dumbledore that I didn't want the job, because Snape was more qualified for it. So he gave the job to Severus, then offered me the Potions position."
"Did you take it?" Harry asked.
"Well, yeah!" Sirius said.
"Did my uncle take the job?" Diana asked.
"No, he's out of a job." Sirius said very seriously. Diana's eyes got very wide. "Of course he took the job!" Diana then began to breathe.
Suddenly Snape came running in. "Sirius, we have your first duty as a Professor." Snape was out of breath.
"What would that be? Do I get to give out a detention? Did someone hex someone else? What? You're killing me here!" Sirius groaned.
Diana looked into her uncle's eyes and seemed to read him like a book. "Who was it? Someone was put under the Alptraum Curse again. Who was it?" Diana moaned.
"Owen Cauldwell." Severus sighed.
"I missed something, didn't I?" Sirius looked at the three of them. All their Christmas cheer was drained out of them.
***
"Diana, a gift came for you!" Hermione yelled, jumping on Diana's bed.
"Who is it from?" She groaned. It was Christmas morning, and Diana didn't want to get up at all.
"It's from some girl named Sara." Hermione jumped.
"I'll open it later." Diana rolled over in her bed.
"This is the third time I have tried to get you up! Harry and Ron have been up for two hours. We're all waiting for you." Hermione sighed.
"Good for them." Diana rolled over again.
"Please get up!" Hermione yelled.
"Fine!" Diana yelled back. She sat up and stared at a huge box that was on the end of her bed. "It's from Sara?" Diana looked at the gift.
"Yeah. Who's Sara? Harry, Ron she's up!" Hermione yelled. The two boys ran in.
"Sara is my best friend who lives in America." Diana began to open her box.
"I thought I was your best friend." Hermione said, crossing her arms.
"My best British friend. Sara is my best American friend." Diana rolled her eyes.
"Man Hermione, you just got dissed." Ron laughed.
"Is it wrong to have two best friends?" Diana continued to open her gift.
"Of course not!" Hermione said, she glared at Ron.
"Oh my God!" Diana screeched. "I so totally love these shoes! I so love Sara! Oh, I hope she got my gift!" Diana smiled.
Hermione stared at Diana as she tried on her new mint green sneakers. "Cute," Hermione sighed.
"Oh, I totally forgot about you and Ron!" Diana yelled. Then, she dug under her bed. She pulled out two nicely wrapped gifts. "Ron, Hermione." Diana handed the gifts to them. "Crap! I need to give Uncle Severus his gift." Diana got up, dug into her closet, pulled out a gift, and ran out of the room.
"You're jealous, Hermione," Ron teased.
"I am not," Hermione protested.
"Yes you are!" Ron yelled. Harry began to laugh.
"Stop you two," Harry snickered.
"Fine." Ron and Hermione said at the same time.
"So jealous," Ron whispered.
"So not," Hermione whispered back.