The weeks continued to fly past. Harry and Ginny spent the day together at Hogsmeade and Harry realized that he liked Ginny as more than just a friend. They visited Fred and George's shop Weasley's Wizarding Weasels which was packed full of Hogwarts students. Fred gave them a quick tour round when they had a quiet moment.
Sirius' health continued to improve and soon he was getting bored with sitting in bed in the hospital wing. However, he had no choice but to continue to do so as he was still too weak to do much else. Also, Talitha had threatened, only half joking, to do a full body bind curse on him if he so much as stepped out of the hospital wing.
Christmas was looming and Harry was wondering where he would be spending it. He asked Talitha one night after they had been to see Sirius.
"I think Sirius will be ok to leave the hospital wing by then" she replied "and Remus has invited us to stay with him for the holidays. That's if you want to of course"
Harry grinned. He could think of nowhere better to spend Christmas than with Sirius, Talitha and Remus.
Talitha, Sirius and Harry arrived at Remus' house two days before Christmas. Remus had gone a bit over board on the decorations as he didn't very often have guests for the holidays.
"What did you do, break into Santa's grotto and nick them all?" Sirius laughed.
"I didn't but I'm not so sure about Dung" Remus grinned back "He got me most of them. Did me a really good deal as well"
"What buy one get fifty-six free"
Christmas Eve morning, Talitha woke Harry up and told him to get dressed
"Come on" she said excitedly "We've got shopping to do"
Harry stumbled down the stairs half asleep to find Remus and Sirius trying to fit the biggest Christmas tree he'd ever seen through the back door.
"Padfoot, stop pushing, it's stuck" Remus was yelling "It won't go any further" Remus started pushing it back outside. Harry looked out of the window and saw that Sirius was still pushing the tree as well. He started laughing. Talitha smirked and shook her head in disbelief.
"I thought you were supposed to be the intelligent one Moony" she laughed as she pulled out her wand.
"Reducio" The tree shrank to the size of an average Christmas tree. Sirius picked it up and carried it in.
"Engorgio" Remus said pointing his wand at the tree once Sirius had put it in the living room.
"Right, me and Harry are going to Diagon Alley, do you think you'll manage to decorate the tree on your own?" Talitha grinned.
"As long as you buy us lots of nice presents" Sirius said as his kissed Talitha.
"We'll see you two later, we may be some time" Talitha said as she passed Harry some floo powder.
"That's the one reason why I'm glad I have to stay in the house" Sirius laughed "Going shopping with Tali is a nightmare. I'll be surprised if there's anything left in the shops after you've done". Harry laughed as Talitha stuck her tongue out at Sirius and then disappeared into the fireplace.
Harry and Talitha arrived home from Diagon Alley late that day, their arms full of presents. Harry didn't think he had ever seen so many, not even Dudley got this many Christmas presents.
Harry thoroughly enjoyed Christmas day and he received more presents than all of his other Christmas' put together. Talitha had even brought him some new muggle clothes so he didn't have to wear Dudley's old ones. It was the first time he could remember having new clothes, and ones that actually fitted him.
"You shouldn't have got me all this stuff" he told Talitha.
"I've got sixteen years to make up for, anyway I like buying you stuff".
Harry had brought Sirius and Remus a large box of chocolate frogs each, after Talitha told him how much they used to like them.
He realized his mistake on Christmas day afternoon when they spent 2 hours arguing about which cards they wanted to swap with each other. Sirius sulked for a full ten minutes because Remus wouldn't swap his Ludo Bagman for Sirius' Dumbledore.
"But I've already got Dumbledore" Sirius insisted.
"So have I" Remus replied "I've got three of him look" On saying this he rummaged in the back of a cupboard and pulled out the biggest collection of chocolate frog cards Harry had ever seen. He shuffled through them and produced three Dumbledore cards. This made Sirius laugh.
"You're pathetic Moony" he grinned at Remus "Still having your chocolate frog cards at your age"
"I don't know what you're laughing at" Talitha said with a smile "Yours are still back at the flat. And you must have put some sort of charm on them because every time I tried to move them they started screaming"
Now it was Remus' turn to laugh. Harry was laughing as well mainly over the fact that Remus knew exactly how many of each card he had and which ones he didn't have.
The next day the Weasley's came to visit them. Mrs. Weasley gave Harry his usual jumper. Harry noticed that all of the Weasley brothers were wearing one of Mrs. Weasley's jumpers, even Charlie and Bill. They were all in a variety of colours, all with the first letter of their name on. Harry and Ron had to force themselves not to laugh when Mrs. Weasley gave Sirius and Remus their own jumpers. Talitha made them put them on and Harry took a photo of them grinning madly, wearing a big R and a big S.
Sirius' health continued to improve and soon he was getting bored with sitting in bed in the hospital wing. However, he had no choice but to continue to do so as he was still too weak to do much else. Also, Talitha had threatened, only half joking, to do a full body bind curse on him if he so much as stepped out of the hospital wing.
Christmas was looming and Harry was wondering where he would be spending it. He asked Talitha one night after they had been to see Sirius.
"I think Sirius will be ok to leave the hospital wing by then" she replied "and Remus has invited us to stay with him for the holidays. That's if you want to of course"
Harry grinned. He could think of nowhere better to spend Christmas than with Sirius, Talitha and Remus.
Talitha, Sirius and Harry arrived at Remus' house two days before Christmas. Remus had gone a bit over board on the decorations as he didn't very often have guests for the holidays.
"What did you do, break into Santa's grotto and nick them all?" Sirius laughed.
"I didn't but I'm not so sure about Dung" Remus grinned back "He got me most of them. Did me a really good deal as well"
"What buy one get fifty-six free"
Christmas Eve morning, Talitha woke Harry up and told him to get dressed
"Come on" she said excitedly "We've got shopping to do"
Harry stumbled down the stairs half asleep to find Remus and Sirius trying to fit the biggest Christmas tree he'd ever seen through the back door.
"Padfoot, stop pushing, it's stuck" Remus was yelling "It won't go any further" Remus started pushing it back outside. Harry looked out of the window and saw that Sirius was still pushing the tree as well. He started laughing. Talitha smirked and shook her head in disbelief.
"I thought you were supposed to be the intelligent one Moony" she laughed as she pulled out her wand.
"Reducio" The tree shrank to the size of an average Christmas tree. Sirius picked it up and carried it in.
"Engorgio" Remus said pointing his wand at the tree once Sirius had put it in the living room.
"Right, me and Harry are going to Diagon Alley, do you think you'll manage to decorate the tree on your own?" Talitha grinned.
"As long as you buy us lots of nice presents" Sirius said as his kissed Talitha.
"We'll see you two later, we may be some time" Talitha said as she passed Harry some floo powder.
"That's the one reason why I'm glad I have to stay in the house" Sirius laughed "Going shopping with Tali is a nightmare. I'll be surprised if there's anything left in the shops after you've done". Harry laughed as Talitha stuck her tongue out at Sirius and then disappeared into the fireplace.
Harry and Talitha arrived home from Diagon Alley late that day, their arms full of presents. Harry didn't think he had ever seen so many, not even Dudley got this many Christmas presents.
Harry thoroughly enjoyed Christmas day and he received more presents than all of his other Christmas' put together. Talitha had even brought him some new muggle clothes so he didn't have to wear Dudley's old ones. It was the first time he could remember having new clothes, and ones that actually fitted him.
"You shouldn't have got me all this stuff" he told Talitha.
"I've got sixteen years to make up for, anyway I like buying you stuff".
Harry had brought Sirius and Remus a large box of chocolate frogs each, after Talitha told him how much they used to like them.
He realized his mistake on Christmas day afternoon when they spent 2 hours arguing about which cards they wanted to swap with each other. Sirius sulked for a full ten minutes because Remus wouldn't swap his Ludo Bagman for Sirius' Dumbledore.
"But I've already got Dumbledore" Sirius insisted.
"So have I" Remus replied "I've got three of him look" On saying this he rummaged in the back of a cupboard and pulled out the biggest collection of chocolate frog cards Harry had ever seen. He shuffled through them and produced three Dumbledore cards. This made Sirius laugh.
"You're pathetic Moony" he grinned at Remus "Still having your chocolate frog cards at your age"
"I don't know what you're laughing at" Talitha said with a smile "Yours are still back at the flat. And you must have put some sort of charm on them because every time I tried to move them they started screaming"
Now it was Remus' turn to laugh. Harry was laughing as well mainly over the fact that Remus knew exactly how many of each card he had and which ones he didn't have.
The next day the Weasley's came to visit them. Mrs. Weasley gave Harry his usual jumper. Harry noticed that all of the Weasley brothers were wearing one of Mrs. Weasley's jumpers, even Charlie and Bill. They were all in a variety of colours, all with the first letter of their name on. Harry and Ron had to force themselves not to laugh when Mrs. Weasley gave Sirius and Remus their own jumpers. Talitha made them put them on and Harry took a photo of them grinning madly, wearing a big R and a big S.