Harry awoke Christmas morning with a big pile of gifts on the foot of his bed. He looked over at his Best friends bed, Ron was still asleep. Harry smiled evilly, and shouted

"RON! PRESENTS!" Then Harry threw a pillow at him.

"Not now mommy. I don't want to go to school today." Ron mumbled sleepily, rolling over.

Harry laughed, wishing he had a video camera. Then he got out of bed, put his pillow back on his bed. Then he ran over to Ron's bed, and shouted "CANNONBALL!" and jumped up, and landed on Ron.

When Harry landed, Ron made a Big OPHH!! Sound. Once Ron recovered himself, he yelled at Harry.

"What was that for?!" Ron shouted.

Harry jumped off of him and replied, "I needed to wake you up. Yelling didn't work."
"Your not my mommy!" Ron said jokingly. But he said the next part seriously, "You don't need to wake me up! It's break! Why did you wake me up?"

"It's 9:00 am. And…" Harry motioned to the presents. (A/N: Any time before 10:20 am is early, ok Harry?)

"Well, that changes everything." Ron said, ripping open a package.
It was A Weasley sweater. "Maroon! I hate maroon!"

Harry laughed. Ron had said that every year.
Harry opened his sweater, it was red with a golden Gryffindor lion on it.
Harry grinned, it was really nice. He also got a trecacle tart from Mrs. Weasley.
 when Harry moved on to the next present, A golden practice snitch and A Quidditch book, from Emily.

Ron, was comletly ignoring Harry, with his mind only set on opening presents when Ron shouted sarcastically "VERY FUNNY, HARRY!"
Ron threw the package, and landed on Harry's stomach with a big "OPF!" coming from Harry. Harry lifted the package. I t was a five pound bag of sugar. Except the word SUGAR was crossed out, and hand written was the wording: PIG'S FOOD. A tag on it said,

Ron,
Merry Christmas! Thought Pig might be running low, he is extra hyper lately.
From,
Fred, George, and Harry.

Harry started laughing. Then he saw Ron scowling at him. Harry did his best to stop laughing and keep a straight face. Then Harry stood up, threw the bag to Ron, and said "But we were serious."

Ron scowled, then couldn't contain him self and burst out laughing. After five minutes of laughing, they went back to opening presents. The next Present Harry opened was from Fred and George. It was a box of their creations, old and new. Their lastest creations were shapmpoo that turns you hair neon, Parrot Pastries, Cat Cookies, Bear Brownies, and more. Harry grinned at the pranks then he got an idea. An evil grin slithered across his face. He opened the box of Cat Cookies.

"Here, Ron." Harry said, handing him one.

"Thanks." Ron relied, grabbing it from Harry. Ron gobbled it up. Ron suddenly turned into a orange tabby cat.
Harry laughed so hard that he fell on the floor laughing. Silent tears streamed down his face from laughing so hard. He laughed so hard he couldn't breathe!

After a minute, Ron turned back into his human self.
"What was that for?!" Ron shouted. "Where did you get those?"

Harry held up the box of Cat Cookies, still laughing.

"Stop laughing, Harry!" Ron screamed.
But Harry couldn't.
So Ron jumped up and ran after Harry. Harry ran out of his dorm, and jumped down the flight of stairs.  Harry ran in circles around the common room, with Ron screaming, "I'm gonna get you!"

The few people who stayed for Christmas, came out of the dorm to see what the commotion was. When the other students saw what Ron and Harry were doing, they burst out laughing. After Lavender held Ron back, she asked what happened. Ron explained, what he knew, about what Harry gave him.

"So I see our present has come to good use already, Harry." Said Fred and George, patting him on the back.

"What?" shouted Ron. "YOU gave Harry these?"

"Yes." Replied Fred.

"They are our latest invention." Added George

Emily, who didn't hear the explanation, saw Harry holding one of the cookies Emily snuck up behind Harry, and grabbed the cookie. Emily snuck up behind Harry, and grabbed the cookie.

"HEY!" Said Harry, turning around, just in time to see Emily take a bite.
"NO!" Harry shouted, trying to get the cookie out of her hands. I was too late, she turned into a cat. A pretty gray one. Every one burst out laughing, including Ron. When Ron realized what happened, and what he could do to other people with the trick, he burst out laughing even harder.

The cute kitty(Emily) jumped at Harry and attacked him. Harry started running around "Get her off me!"
That only made Ron even laugh harder.

The scene was hilarious, an adorable kitten, attacking the famous Harry Potter.
After a minute, when Emily turned back into her normal self. At first she started chasing Harry around the room, then realized that it was her fault. And it was interesting being a cat, she started laughing to.

Of course, Fred and George stood up, and told every one the trick was their creation.

"Where are you going, Emily?" Harry asked, she was heading out of the door.

"Cat Nip." Replied Emily. Then she went red. "Umm…I mean real cookies. Over whelmed by embarrassment, she ran to her dorm.

The rest of the students went to their dorm to finish opening presents.
Harry, Ron, Hermione, Emily, Martha, The Weasley twins, and Ginny had a great time for the rest of break. They had snowball fights constantly:
The eight of them headed out side one cold day. The grounds were covered in a fresh blanket of snow. It was beautiful. "Snowball fight!" yelled the twins, running around like maniacs.

"Lets pick teams." The teams were Harry, Hermione, Fred, and Emily. And Martha, Ginny, George, And Ron.

They had a blast pounding and dodging snowballs at each other all afternoon. Ron wasn't to happy when one of the times He was bending over to make a snowball, Harry threw one at him, and the snow went down Ron's pants.

They came in cold and wet from all the snow. They changed into fresh cloths and went to the kitchen's to get hot coca, butterbeer. And cakes. But everyone was careful with the cakes, just in case Fred and George slipped a trick into them. That night, everyone was comfortably in the common room or their dorms. Emily and Martha were playing a game of wizard chess, and Ron and Ginny were watching.
Fred and George were in a corner of the room, whispering. They were obviously ploting something.

But Harry and Hermione were cuddled up on a couch in front of the fire, enjoying being together. It was finally the day when everyone who went home for Christams returned to Hogwarts. Classes were to start the following day. There was a Welcoming Feast for the students who add been away during the winter holidays. Of course. The whole school, came, and Fred and George had a little trick up their sleeves.

~*~Just Before Dinner, That Day~*~

The day that the students returned from holiday, the House-elves were hard at work preparing for the feast. The Weasley twins decided to pay a little visit to them.
The twins arrived, each carrying two boxes amist the house-elves scurrying about. When they entered, a dozen came up to them.

"Is they anything we can get you sirs?" The first house-elf asked.

"Umm…Yes, actually. How about some delicious cakes, cookies, pastries, and butterbeer?" said Fred

"Yes, sirs." Replied the elf, and scurried off with the others to fetch the food. But the first one, eyed the boxes they were holding suspiciously, but didn't say anything. The kitchen was divided into three sections, the kitchen area, the area with the four long tables directly underneath the House tables, and a hall that lead to the servants quarters, where they slept.

Now that all the elves were in the kitchen area, Fred and George took that moment to sneak over to the tables, as they suspected, some food was already on it, ready to be magically sent upstairs.
The twins snuck over, and set the boxes down. Then they started taking sweets out of the boxes. George took the sweets out of the boxes, and Fred took some off of the table, and put them into the boxes. They were careful to replace the sweets with the type of their own sweets that looked alike. But they did leave much of the candy made by the elves.

They ran back over to where they elves had left them, when scurrying off to get the food. They made it back just in time.

The dozen house elves, plus two more who didn't have the same uniforms as the others scurried over to them.

The twelve presented the treats to the twins.
The first house elf, who was wearing real cloths, a tea cozy, a vest, and shorts that reached his feet, and was wearing horribly mis-matched socks.  One was maroon and the other was green and red plaid.  That odd house elf, spoke up. "Tis' a great honor to meet Masters Weezy and Weezy. I am Dobby, the house elf. Masters Potter and Weezy and Miss 'anger have spoke mooch o' you. "Tis an honor to meet you at last. You are a most often visitors, I am told. And 'dis, here, is my girlfriend, Winky."
Dobby pointed to an elf in a pink top and skirt with pretty little shoes on her little feet.

"Tis an honor to meet you." Winky said, curtsying.

George then said, "It has been a pleasure to meet you. We must leave now."

"Wait, good kind noble sirs, will you, noble sirs tell Master Potter that Dobby said hello?"

"Yes, we will." Said Fred.

And the two left the Kitchens. The twins had to conceal their laughter.

That night at dinner, Harry looked at the Weasley twins oddly, as they carefully examined each pastry before eating one.

"Fred, George, there is nothing wrong with these." Harry said. "Why are you examining them?"

"Ummm…." Fred mumbled.

"To- uh- get the biggest one." George said quickly.

"Oh, really? Then how come you didn't eat that one?" Harry pointed to a rather large pastry.

"Umm…" Fred started, but he was saved by commotion.

Malfoy, had suddenly turned into a bear. Which sent laughter across the room.
When Malfoy finally turned back into himself, he was red in the face. Everyone,

even Crabbe and Goyle, laughed. Then Malfoy ran from the room, covering his face. Harry just couldn't stop laughing. Then everyone turned back to their food, whispering about what happened.

More people started eating Fred and George's pastries, not knowing it was made by them. There were bears, cats, parrots, canaries and other animals all over the place. The Great Hall was in utter commotion. No one knew how this happened. Except for the Gryffindors. They glared at Harry, who was momentarilaly a toad (accidentally ate a Toad Toffee) They knew Harry won't turn himself into a toad on purpose, so they looked over at Fred and George, glaring at them, who grinned sheepishly.

During all the commotion, Snape slipped away unseen.
He came back a moment later, and the confusion was still going on. Snape stood up, with a fierce look on his face "QUIET!" he bellowed, the confusion stopped, and everyone looked up at him.

Snape continued fiercely "I have just been to the Kitchens,"
Fred and George gulped.  Snape rambled on "I asked the house-elves, who thought up the clever idea of those pranks. They pleaded, and told me they had nothing to do with it. After questioning, I discovered the only ones beside them who had been in the kitchen all day was the Weasley twins. So I presume, that this was their fault. Therefore, I will deduct 20 points from Gryffindor, each of them! Be grateful that it isn't more. And they both will be serving detention with me Saturday night. Now, the feast is over, go back to your dorms!"

Every one got up and ran for the door, they didn't like being around Snape when he was angry. Fred and George complained that they were just trying to get into the Holiday spirit and have some fun. But they did manage to swipe some mistletoe.
Then two then ran off to their dorms. On the way, they bumped in to Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle.

"So, you think that was funny, do you?" Malfoy sneered. "Turning me into a bear."

"I didn't do it," said Fred. "The pastries did."

"Very Funny." Malfoy said snobbily. "I'll have you know, my father is very important, and he will see that you will be punished for this..."

"And I'm the queen of Spain." Cut in George.

"Not funny," said Malfoy.

"Well I wasn't joking!" George argued.

"WOW! Look at that!" Said Fred, pointing to the mistletoe that he had levitated into the air while the Slytherins weren't watching. "Mistletoe."

Malfoy and his sidekicks looked up, sure enough, hanging above Malfoy and Crabbe, was a piece of mistletoe.
Fred and George started to laugh hysterically. "Now you have to kiss." They said in unisession. 

George muttered a spell under his breath, and a magic force pulled Malfoy and Crabbe towards each other, their lips being forced together. Malfoy went bright red, and  ran off without saying a word. Goyle was laughing, and Crabbe had a confused look on his face, or was it a big goofy grin? (A/N: Sorry, I just HAD to say that)
The twins gave each other a high five, and ran off to their common room.

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That night, all the Gryffindors were chatting in the common room in front of the fire place.
The talk eventually broke out into Quidditch. Emily said "I have a book about the first Quidditch game played at Hogwarts."
"I want to see it!" many people cried excitedly.
"Just a minute," Emily said, "I have to go get it, it's in my dorm"
She was only gone a minute when a high piercing scream echoed through the Gryffindor Tower.

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