A/N: Okay... Thank you Snow_bliz! I love you! I would post my address for you, but unfortunately, I'm paranoid. I've got an idea... if you can scan the picture... save it onto a disk and then upload when yer online on your own computer. That would be something I would do. Of course, I am one of those computer geek type people that keeps several disks available for my use. Oh and... you will die for that insult to me... actually... nevermind... I know I have a tendency to have her flirt with Harry... I can't help it, damn it! It just happens! I just prefer Draco... and to those who are wondering... my Draco obsession came AFTER I started putting Draco and Astra together.
It's almost Halloween, one of my favorite days! Unfortunately, I have a violin lesson that night, so I decided to wear my costume to the lesson. In case yer curious what my costume is, I just wear my normal clothes with my glasses and messy blonde hair, wear a wizard hat and carry a wand... I wish I had a cape.... T.T there aren't any descent ones....
Haha... my way of dressing up as Harry Potter... I would draw on the lightning bolt, but it would come off when I wear the hat. I went online to HP.com and there were some of the worst costumes for Harry and crew that I have ever seen! ACK! Who comes up with this stuff!
Chapter Twelve
The Christmas Holidays came and Harry was glad to leave Hogwarts for a time. Sirius had talked to him at the end of a lesson the week before asking what he was planning on doing for the holidays. "I would like to go home, Sirius..." Harry said with a sigh.
"What's wrong, Harry?" Sirius said as they sat down and drank some hot butterbeer at the Three Broomsticks.
"It's the Slytherins, Sirius... they're driving me berzerk...." Harry said gruffly. He indicated toward a small table of a few Slytherins. Harry recognized the small black haired fifth year with cold eyes as Thomas. "Thomas, especially... he's being a major pain..."
"I had my share of problems when I was your age... especially with Snape..." Sirius said sullenly into his drink. Professor Lupin came into the Three Broomsticks and looked around. "Oy! Remus! Over here!"
Professor Lupin walked over to their table and sat down. Madame Rosmerta walked over with a mug of hot butterbeer. "Thank you, Rosmerta..." He smiled up at her and she walked off.
"So what do you want to do for the Holidays, Harry?" Lupin smiled warmly at Harry.
"I want to go home for a while...." Harry said gruffly into his mug. Thomas was staring at Harry with a sort of loathing and a cruel smile. It gave Harry a cold shiver up his spine to look into those eyes.
"That can be arranged... I was planning to go home myself... after I play with that map again..." Sirius said with a grin.
"You're growing nostalgic, Sirius...." Professor Lupin said with a wry smile.
Sirius thumped his head on the table and whimpered. "Do I have to....?"
"Yes...."
"I mean... come on! I've been away from everyone for fourteen years! Can't you let it slide?!" Sirius whimpered.
"No...."
Sirius sighed heavily and stood up. He searched through his robes and came out with a coin purse. He got out three galleons and shoved them at Professor Lupin. "Here, you Highwayman!"
"Achem.... that isn't all...." Lupin said. "The other thing as well...." That thoughtful smile was on his face. It hid everything that he thought, as Harry had come to recognize.
"Damn you and that stupid bet...." Sirius growled and walked over to where Professor Snape sat with Professor McGonagall.
Sanpe looked rather uncomfortable with McGonagall snuggled up to him in the booth that they sat in. Her hair was in a long braid that came over her shoulder. Snape looked up as Sirius walked over to him. "What do you want, Black..."
"Stand up, Snape... I need to do something...." Sirius said through gritted teeth.
Snape stood up and stared at Sirius. "What are you going on about...?" Sirius grabbed Snape and hugged him. "What the hell?! Gerroff me!"
Sirius let go of Snape and stalked back to Harry's table. "There now... happy, Moony?"
"immensely..." Lupin grinned as he drank some butterbeer. Harry was still confused.
"What was all of that about?" Harry asked.
"A bet that was made way back in the stone age, Harry. I never thought that Remus here would remember it..." Sirius growled into his drink.
"He bet me that if he got nostalgic over being away from Hogwarts, that he would not only pay me three galleons, but give Snape a hug and a kiss..." Professor Lupin said. "Which reminds me... that wasn't all--"
"Don't press your luck..." Sirius growled. Lupin dropped it.
Ron and Hermione walked in with Ginny behind them. Harry had forgotten that Ginny was coming. He stood up and got onto the floor, bowing to her like she was a goddess. "I'm not worthy! I'm not worthy!"
"Get up, my precious slave! Oh ho ho ho ho!" Ginny cackled. Harry stood up and she hugged him. "You forgot about me, didn't you... you're going to pay for that, you know..."
"I know... unfortunately." Harry gave her a wry smile. Astra walked in with Draco. She was hugging him much in the way he had witnessed Pansy clinging onto Draco in the past. "Hello you two..."
"Hi, Hi, Harry! I'm just snuggling up to my warm furnace here!" Astra gave him a smiled and snuggled closer to Draco. Draco looked a bit like he was enjoying it, but also like he was uncomfortable. He wrapped his cloak around her.
Harry walked with Ginny back to the table with Sirius and Lupin. "What is it with Potter men and Hotheaded red heads...." Sirius said with a grin.
"You haven't seen the full extent of her temper...." Harry said mildly.
"Never underestimate the sweet nature of a Weasley girl.... they turn mean in under two seconds flat!" Astra said, her southern accent coming out a little fuller than normal. "Ain't that right, Gin..." Ginny blushed and smiled.
"Or the nasty nature of a Knight..." Draco drawled with a grin. "She can be awfully forth coming when she doesn't think anyone is watching."
Astra blushed and hid herself into his cloak and under his arm. "Shut up, Draco..." Harry heard her growl from underneath the cloak.
"For instance... just the other day, we were in the Astronomy tower andYEOWCH!" Draco jumped away from Astra, whose face was the color rose. She didn't look incredibly happy.
"Say one more word and you will wind up in the hospital wing..." she growled at him.
Draco stared at her and grinned. "You have to catch me first...." Then, he took off out of the Three Broomsticks with Astra running after him.
Sirius shook his head and smiled. "Those two are quite the pair.... Though... if you think about it... you and she are quite a pair as well, Harry..." Harry blushed.
"Of course, I think Harry prefers red hair to that of disorienting silvery white." said Professor Lupin with a smile. "Otherwise, he would have gone for Draco...."
Harry was about to say something, but Sirius spoke again. "If he did that, James would come back from the dead and smack him around a while. Honestly... he isn't.." Sirius made a motion with his hand that was flat and moved from side to side on an axis. "That vway..."
"Very funny, you two... I don't need you to start talking about me like this..." Harry said through gritted teeth.
"So... do you want to invite a few people over? I mean... it is your home too..." Sirius said with a smile.
"Yeah... invite me and Ron and Hermione.... Astra.... and Draco..." Ginny said next to Harry. "Nevaeh will be with Fred and George at home in St. Catchpole. Avalon with Kennedy back in Texas.... it just leaves my dear Ronniekins and 'Mione, Astra and Draco and you and Me..."
"I like the way she thinks.... keep her, Harry.." Sirius said with a wide grin. "Or I might take her..." Ginny started slapping him on the shoulder. "ACK! STOP IT! THAT HURTS! I WAS ONLY KIDDING!"
"You should really watch that mouth of your's, Sirius... this always happens somewhere along the way..." Lupin said mildly.
"At least I don't have YOUR problem..." Sirius grinned at Lupin. Professor Lupin went slightly pale, but kept that smile on his face.
"I don't know what you are talking about, Sirius..."
"Once a month right before the full moon, if he doesn't take his potion, he draws on a crowd of girls so large that he has to beat them away...." Sirius said.
"I do not... besides... that wouldn't happen here..." Professor Lupin said. "I take my potion regularly..."
"Not always... I dare you to skip it on that one day so that Harry can watch... it should happen when there actual human beings here though..." Sirius said. "Of course you would have to take it at the end of the day so you can keep your wits about you...."
Lupin sighed in defeat. "Alright... I'll do it.. You would find a way to get me to agree anyway..."
"Do it next semester.. People will be here then." Ginny said with a grin. Harry was starting to get worried. He remembered what had happened when he went back in time and saw his parents. The battalion of girls that roamed around Lupin was horrendous. He gripped Ginny around her waist tightly. "Harry... you're holding me a little too tightly..."
"Sorry, Ginny.. I didn't mean to do that..." Harry kissed her on her nose and smiled.
She reached up and kissed him on his lips. He responded and kissed her back with equal passion. "That was nice.... Happy soon to be Christmas Holidays, Harry..." she smiled at him.
"Can we have a kissy too, Harry?" came Ron's cackling. Harry glared at Ron. Ron batted his eyes at Harry in a playful manner. "Aw... I do hope she's not too much for you..."
"Is there something you wish to tell Hermione, Ron? Because you are acting a bit queer lately..." Harry said with a grin at Ron. Ron's ears went pink and he grabbed Hermione around her waist gruffly and kissed her as she made muffled protests under his lips.
Astra had been running after Draco for nearly ten minutes now. She never admitted it to anyone, but she enjoyed the games Draco would bait her with. He may have sounded mean, but she figured it was his way of being nice to her.
She turned a corner and leaned against a wall. She huffed and brought her cloak around her. She was getting very cold in the white snow around her. Her breath came out in puffs in front of her. "Ya can take the girl outta Texas, but ya can't take the Texas weather out of the girl.... I wish it wasn't as cold as this... I wish I had warmer clothes...!"
She straightened herself up and started to walk down the alley when a pair of arms wrapped themselves around her shoulders and brought her close to a hard, warm body. She felt Draco nuzzle his face in her neck, in her hair. "You smell nice..." He purred at her as he kissed the joint where her jaw connected. She shivered.
He drew his cloak around her and turned her around, kissing her neck. He kissed her chin as another shiver went up her spine. "Soft skin... flowing hair.... a passionate streak..." He said in between kisses.
He brought his hands underneath her sweater, his cold hands meeting her warm back. She made a small squeak as he brought her closer. He grinned impishly down at her. His gray eyes were half closed as they smiled at her.
"If only everyone knew just how girlish you can be..." he said as he brought his nose out of her hair. "How plaint.... how feminine..." He kissed her nose. "You are so much a tomboy that you forget what it's like to be an actual girl...." He smiled at her. "I guess that's what I'm here for..."
"I guess so..." she said in a dream like state. She was barely receiving the information. Her mind was in a haze. His now warm hands were resting on her waist.
"And just how pudgy you've gotten...." He gave her a small squeeze on her waist. She writhed against him.
"ACK! Stop that! That tickles! Ahahahaha!" She laughed as she writhed in his arms. "I'm not pudgy!"
"Are too... you're all soft and somewhat squishy all around...." He brought his hands up to her shoulder blades and brought her chest against his ribs. "See? Not that I mind..." He poked her in her stomach. "And here as well..."
"Oh hush up!" Astra tried to break away, but he kept a grip on her.
"Not so fast, oh mighty pudgy one..." Draco said with a smirk. "You look good like this..." He brought her arms around his neck. He brushed a hand down one of her arms gently. "Squishy is good on you... you look like that girl on the front of that Japanese book you have that has that sword..."
Astra stared blankly at him for a second. "Oh, you mean Real Bout High...."
"Yeah... you remind me of her.... well... your body at least... then again..." He brought her away from him and started lifting up her sweater, revealing her skin to the cold. "I have yet to actually get a good look..."
"Stop that!" she hissed at him. She pulled her sweater down and growled indignantly at him. He grinned devilishly at her.
"Why don't you two find a less public area to do that around..." Harry said to Astra. She turned around and stared blankly at him with pink coming into her cheeks.
"We were... until you and the Weasel came around here..." Draco said with a flat tone. He was staring straight at Ginny who was glaring up at him.
"Don't bother with him..." Astra said with a smile. "What did you two want?"
"I wanted to invite you and Malfoy to my house for the holidays...." Harry smiled back at her.
"That would be lovely! I have wanted to see where you live now..." Astra said in her usually cheerful tone.
"Then, it's settled... you and Malformed are coming over then?" Ginny said with a smile.
"Great... just what I need... more quality time with you two...." Draco grimaced.
Astra smirked. "He'll come... if only because he wouldn't want to end up being sent home in peices." She punched him playfully in the stomach and he fell to the ground.
"You didn't need to do it that hard!" He choked out.
"Oh... I'm sorry, Draco... I didn't intend it to be that hard... are you alright?" Astra asked. She patted him on the back sympathetically. "I'm sorry... I'm really sorry..."
"You know... I could take a lesson from her, Harry..." Ginny said as she circled her arms around his neck.
"What do you mean?" Harry asked with a smile. He watched as a playful smile crossed her lips.
"When I want you to pay attention to me, I just hit you and pretend that it was an accident..." Ginny poked Harry in his stomach hard. "A bit ticklish are you?"
"Stop it! That tickles!" He gasped as she worked her fingers on his sides.
"It's payback for all those times you tickled me to tears, Harry..." she laughed.
They fell into the snow together. He rolled her underneath him and kissed her lips gently. Draco and Astra weren't there. Ron and Hermione were back at the Three Broomsticks. No one around to interrupt him now.
"I l--"
A cat screamed and ran off. Harry sighed into the crook of Ginny's neck. "Damned animal... what were you going to say, Harry?"
"I lo--"
A loud sound shot out like a gun. His heart started beating again and he breathed hard. "Sorry..." he sighed.
"Nothing to worry about... what were you going to say again?" Ginny said with a smile.
"I lo--"
"Isn't this cute...." Ron's voice broke out.
Harry growled impatiently. "Oh for the love of God!" Harry shot up to his feet and glared angrily at Ron. Ron smiled at him mildly. Hermione came out from behind him.
"Sorry Harry.. this must be a popular spot...." Hermione said weakly, her cheeks flushed pink.
Ginny brushed the snow off of her as she stood up. "Well... we had better go back to the castle."
"You're right, Ginny..." Hermione smiled at her. "Come on Ron... play time is over..."
"But-But... I haven't even started yet!" Ron whined as Hermione dragged him to the caoches. Harry was happy no less. He was with Ginny and when he went home, he would be with his friends.
It's almost Halloween, one of my favorite days! Unfortunately, I have a violin lesson that night, so I decided to wear my costume to the lesson. In case yer curious what my costume is, I just wear my normal clothes with my glasses and messy blonde hair, wear a wizard hat and carry a wand... I wish I had a cape.... T.T there aren't any descent ones....
Haha... my way of dressing up as Harry Potter... I would draw on the lightning bolt, but it would come off when I wear the hat. I went online to HP.com and there were some of the worst costumes for Harry and crew that I have ever seen! ACK! Who comes up with this stuff!
Chapter Twelve
The Christmas Holidays came and Harry was glad to leave Hogwarts for a time. Sirius had talked to him at the end of a lesson the week before asking what he was planning on doing for the holidays. "I would like to go home, Sirius..." Harry said with a sigh.
"What's wrong, Harry?" Sirius said as they sat down and drank some hot butterbeer at the Three Broomsticks.
"It's the Slytherins, Sirius... they're driving me berzerk...." Harry said gruffly. He indicated toward a small table of a few Slytherins. Harry recognized the small black haired fifth year with cold eyes as Thomas. "Thomas, especially... he's being a major pain..."
"I had my share of problems when I was your age... especially with Snape..." Sirius said sullenly into his drink. Professor Lupin came into the Three Broomsticks and looked around. "Oy! Remus! Over here!"
Professor Lupin walked over to their table and sat down. Madame Rosmerta walked over with a mug of hot butterbeer. "Thank you, Rosmerta..." He smiled up at her and she walked off.
"So what do you want to do for the Holidays, Harry?" Lupin smiled warmly at Harry.
"I want to go home for a while...." Harry said gruffly into his mug. Thomas was staring at Harry with a sort of loathing and a cruel smile. It gave Harry a cold shiver up his spine to look into those eyes.
"That can be arranged... I was planning to go home myself... after I play with that map again..." Sirius said with a grin.
"You're growing nostalgic, Sirius...." Professor Lupin said with a wry smile.
Sirius thumped his head on the table and whimpered. "Do I have to....?"
"Yes...."
"I mean... come on! I've been away from everyone for fourteen years! Can't you let it slide?!" Sirius whimpered.
"No...."
Sirius sighed heavily and stood up. He searched through his robes and came out with a coin purse. He got out three galleons and shoved them at Professor Lupin. "Here, you Highwayman!"
"Achem.... that isn't all...." Lupin said. "The other thing as well...." That thoughtful smile was on his face. It hid everything that he thought, as Harry had come to recognize.
"Damn you and that stupid bet...." Sirius growled and walked over to where Professor Snape sat with Professor McGonagall.
Sanpe looked rather uncomfortable with McGonagall snuggled up to him in the booth that they sat in. Her hair was in a long braid that came over her shoulder. Snape looked up as Sirius walked over to him. "What do you want, Black..."
"Stand up, Snape... I need to do something...." Sirius said through gritted teeth.
Snape stood up and stared at Sirius. "What are you going on about...?" Sirius grabbed Snape and hugged him. "What the hell?! Gerroff me!"
Sirius let go of Snape and stalked back to Harry's table. "There now... happy, Moony?"
"immensely..." Lupin grinned as he drank some butterbeer. Harry was still confused.
"What was all of that about?" Harry asked.
"A bet that was made way back in the stone age, Harry. I never thought that Remus here would remember it..." Sirius growled into his drink.
"He bet me that if he got nostalgic over being away from Hogwarts, that he would not only pay me three galleons, but give Snape a hug and a kiss..." Professor Lupin said. "Which reminds me... that wasn't all--"
"Don't press your luck..." Sirius growled. Lupin dropped it.
Ron and Hermione walked in with Ginny behind them. Harry had forgotten that Ginny was coming. He stood up and got onto the floor, bowing to her like she was a goddess. "I'm not worthy! I'm not worthy!"
"Get up, my precious slave! Oh ho ho ho ho!" Ginny cackled. Harry stood up and she hugged him. "You forgot about me, didn't you... you're going to pay for that, you know..."
"I know... unfortunately." Harry gave her a wry smile. Astra walked in with Draco. She was hugging him much in the way he had witnessed Pansy clinging onto Draco in the past. "Hello you two..."
"Hi, Hi, Harry! I'm just snuggling up to my warm furnace here!" Astra gave him a smiled and snuggled closer to Draco. Draco looked a bit like he was enjoying it, but also like he was uncomfortable. He wrapped his cloak around her.
Harry walked with Ginny back to the table with Sirius and Lupin. "What is it with Potter men and Hotheaded red heads...." Sirius said with a grin.
"You haven't seen the full extent of her temper...." Harry said mildly.
"Never underestimate the sweet nature of a Weasley girl.... they turn mean in under two seconds flat!" Astra said, her southern accent coming out a little fuller than normal. "Ain't that right, Gin..." Ginny blushed and smiled.
"Or the nasty nature of a Knight..." Draco drawled with a grin. "She can be awfully forth coming when she doesn't think anyone is watching."
Astra blushed and hid herself into his cloak and under his arm. "Shut up, Draco..." Harry heard her growl from underneath the cloak.
"For instance... just the other day, we were in the Astronomy tower andYEOWCH!" Draco jumped away from Astra, whose face was the color rose. She didn't look incredibly happy.
"Say one more word and you will wind up in the hospital wing..." she growled at him.
Draco stared at her and grinned. "You have to catch me first...." Then, he took off out of the Three Broomsticks with Astra running after him.
Sirius shook his head and smiled. "Those two are quite the pair.... Though... if you think about it... you and she are quite a pair as well, Harry..." Harry blushed.
"Of course, I think Harry prefers red hair to that of disorienting silvery white." said Professor Lupin with a smile. "Otherwise, he would have gone for Draco...."
Harry was about to say something, but Sirius spoke again. "If he did that, James would come back from the dead and smack him around a while. Honestly... he isn't.." Sirius made a motion with his hand that was flat and moved from side to side on an axis. "That vway..."
"Very funny, you two... I don't need you to start talking about me like this..." Harry said through gritted teeth.
"So... do you want to invite a few people over? I mean... it is your home too..." Sirius said with a smile.
"Yeah... invite me and Ron and Hermione.... Astra.... and Draco..." Ginny said next to Harry. "Nevaeh will be with Fred and George at home in St. Catchpole. Avalon with Kennedy back in Texas.... it just leaves my dear Ronniekins and 'Mione, Astra and Draco and you and Me..."
"I like the way she thinks.... keep her, Harry.." Sirius said with a wide grin. "Or I might take her..." Ginny started slapping him on the shoulder. "ACK! STOP IT! THAT HURTS! I WAS ONLY KIDDING!"
"You should really watch that mouth of your's, Sirius... this always happens somewhere along the way..." Lupin said mildly.
"At least I don't have YOUR problem..." Sirius grinned at Lupin. Professor Lupin went slightly pale, but kept that smile on his face.
"I don't know what you are talking about, Sirius..."
"Once a month right before the full moon, if he doesn't take his potion, he draws on a crowd of girls so large that he has to beat them away...." Sirius said.
"I do not... besides... that wouldn't happen here..." Professor Lupin said. "I take my potion regularly..."
"Not always... I dare you to skip it on that one day so that Harry can watch... it should happen when there actual human beings here though..." Sirius said. "Of course you would have to take it at the end of the day so you can keep your wits about you...."
Lupin sighed in defeat. "Alright... I'll do it.. You would find a way to get me to agree anyway..."
"Do it next semester.. People will be here then." Ginny said with a grin. Harry was starting to get worried. He remembered what had happened when he went back in time and saw his parents. The battalion of girls that roamed around Lupin was horrendous. He gripped Ginny around her waist tightly. "Harry... you're holding me a little too tightly..."
"Sorry, Ginny.. I didn't mean to do that..." Harry kissed her on her nose and smiled.
She reached up and kissed him on his lips. He responded and kissed her back with equal passion. "That was nice.... Happy soon to be Christmas Holidays, Harry..." she smiled at him.
"Can we have a kissy too, Harry?" came Ron's cackling. Harry glared at Ron. Ron batted his eyes at Harry in a playful manner. "Aw... I do hope she's not too much for you..."
"Is there something you wish to tell Hermione, Ron? Because you are acting a bit queer lately..." Harry said with a grin at Ron. Ron's ears went pink and he grabbed Hermione around her waist gruffly and kissed her as she made muffled protests under his lips.
Astra had been running after Draco for nearly ten minutes now. She never admitted it to anyone, but she enjoyed the games Draco would bait her with. He may have sounded mean, but she figured it was his way of being nice to her.
She turned a corner and leaned against a wall. She huffed and brought her cloak around her. She was getting very cold in the white snow around her. Her breath came out in puffs in front of her. "Ya can take the girl outta Texas, but ya can't take the Texas weather out of the girl.... I wish it wasn't as cold as this... I wish I had warmer clothes...!"
She straightened herself up and started to walk down the alley when a pair of arms wrapped themselves around her shoulders and brought her close to a hard, warm body. She felt Draco nuzzle his face in her neck, in her hair. "You smell nice..." He purred at her as he kissed the joint where her jaw connected. She shivered.
He drew his cloak around her and turned her around, kissing her neck. He kissed her chin as another shiver went up her spine. "Soft skin... flowing hair.... a passionate streak..." He said in between kisses.
He brought his hands underneath her sweater, his cold hands meeting her warm back. She made a small squeak as he brought her closer. He grinned impishly down at her. His gray eyes were half closed as they smiled at her.
"If only everyone knew just how girlish you can be..." he said as he brought his nose out of her hair. "How plaint.... how feminine..." He kissed her nose. "You are so much a tomboy that you forget what it's like to be an actual girl...." He smiled at her. "I guess that's what I'm here for..."
"I guess so..." she said in a dream like state. She was barely receiving the information. Her mind was in a haze. His now warm hands were resting on her waist.
"And just how pudgy you've gotten...." He gave her a small squeeze on her waist. She writhed against him.
"ACK! Stop that! That tickles! Ahahahaha!" She laughed as she writhed in his arms. "I'm not pudgy!"
"Are too... you're all soft and somewhat squishy all around...." He brought his hands up to her shoulder blades and brought her chest against his ribs. "See? Not that I mind..." He poked her in her stomach. "And here as well..."
"Oh hush up!" Astra tried to break away, but he kept a grip on her.
"Not so fast, oh mighty pudgy one..." Draco said with a smirk. "You look good like this..." He brought her arms around his neck. He brushed a hand down one of her arms gently. "Squishy is good on you... you look like that girl on the front of that Japanese book you have that has that sword..."
Astra stared blankly at him for a second. "Oh, you mean Real Bout High...."
"Yeah... you remind me of her.... well... your body at least... then again..." He brought her away from him and started lifting up her sweater, revealing her skin to the cold. "I have yet to actually get a good look..."
"Stop that!" she hissed at him. She pulled her sweater down and growled indignantly at him. He grinned devilishly at her.
"Why don't you two find a less public area to do that around..." Harry said to Astra. She turned around and stared blankly at him with pink coming into her cheeks.
"We were... until you and the Weasel came around here..." Draco said with a flat tone. He was staring straight at Ginny who was glaring up at him.
"Don't bother with him..." Astra said with a smile. "What did you two want?"
"I wanted to invite you and Malfoy to my house for the holidays...." Harry smiled back at her.
"That would be lovely! I have wanted to see where you live now..." Astra said in her usually cheerful tone.
"Then, it's settled... you and Malformed are coming over then?" Ginny said with a smile.
"Great... just what I need... more quality time with you two...." Draco grimaced.
Astra smirked. "He'll come... if only because he wouldn't want to end up being sent home in peices." She punched him playfully in the stomach and he fell to the ground.
"You didn't need to do it that hard!" He choked out.
"Oh... I'm sorry, Draco... I didn't intend it to be that hard... are you alright?" Astra asked. She patted him on the back sympathetically. "I'm sorry... I'm really sorry..."
"You know... I could take a lesson from her, Harry..." Ginny said as she circled her arms around his neck.
"What do you mean?" Harry asked with a smile. He watched as a playful smile crossed her lips.
"When I want you to pay attention to me, I just hit you and pretend that it was an accident..." Ginny poked Harry in his stomach hard. "A bit ticklish are you?"
"Stop it! That tickles!" He gasped as she worked her fingers on his sides.
"It's payback for all those times you tickled me to tears, Harry..." she laughed.
They fell into the snow together. He rolled her underneath him and kissed her lips gently. Draco and Astra weren't there. Ron and Hermione were back at the Three Broomsticks. No one around to interrupt him now.
"I l--"
A cat screamed and ran off. Harry sighed into the crook of Ginny's neck. "Damned animal... what were you going to say, Harry?"
"I lo--"
A loud sound shot out like a gun. His heart started beating again and he breathed hard. "Sorry..." he sighed.
"Nothing to worry about... what were you going to say again?" Ginny said with a smile.
"I lo--"
"Isn't this cute...." Ron's voice broke out.
Harry growled impatiently. "Oh for the love of God!" Harry shot up to his feet and glared angrily at Ron. Ron smiled at him mildly. Hermione came out from behind him.
"Sorry Harry.. this must be a popular spot...." Hermione said weakly, her cheeks flushed pink.
Ginny brushed the snow off of her as she stood up. "Well... we had better go back to the castle."
"You're right, Ginny..." Hermione smiled at her. "Come on Ron... play time is over..."
"But-But... I haven't even started yet!" Ron whined as Hermione dragged him to the caoches. Harry was happy no less. He was with Ginny and when he went home, he would be with his friends.