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Sorry this is the tiniest chapter ever but I was feeling uninspired and I don't like this chapter so I wanna keep it short as possible. Please review any way to let me know what you think. The next will be longer, as action will be hotting up as the new year begins, don't worry!
Chapter 21 - Christmas
A crisp, chilly morning broke over Hogwarts on Christmas eve, and silence hung over the Scooby quarters. Harry opened his eyes slowly, then jumping slightly when he didn't recognise his surroundings. He settled back down again when he realised he was in the Scooby common Room, since all of them had sleep in there. He couldn't feel his left arm and so looked at it distractedly. Dawn lay asleep on it, hands tucked up by her face. He smiled slightly and settled back down to sleep.
By ten that morning, everyone had awoken, and had gone down to breakfast. All the boys were nursing hangovers, and so the sight of bacon on the table turned more than one stomach. They had the day to themselves, since Hogwarts was empty except for two Hufflepuff second years and three Ravenclaw third years.
"How are you felling sweetie?" Buffy asked Sirius loudly. He groaned and clutched hi head. She giggled.
"Go to Madam Pomfrey, she'll fix you right up," she said, and after breakfast everyone with a hangover went to the hospital wing.
Buffy was sitting in the common room when all the guys turned up again, buoyed up on hangover cure and ready to go.
"So what do you want to do," Sirius asked, coming to sit with Buffy. She considered for a while.
"Lets play some Quidditch!" she suggested, and they all set off for the pitch.
They divided up into two teams, Harry, Dawn, Buffy, Sirius, Angel, Cordelia and Xander against Ron, Hermione, Faith, Gunn, Wesley, Kennedy and Willow. Fred, Giles, Andrew and Lorne decided to sit out and referee not being big fans of heights. They all took school brooms, even Harry and Ron and rose into the air on the Quidditch pitch. Harry was seeker, as was Faith, Dawn, Buffy and Cordelia were chasers on Harry's team, and Hermione, Kennedy and Willow were chasers on Faith's. Sirius and Angel, and Gunn and Wesley took the beater position, and Ron and Xander were keepers for the opposing teams.
Giles released the ball, and the game began. Buffy took the quaffle and flew towards the goal, passing to dawn on the way. Dawn threw the ball as hard as she could at the goal, but Ron caught it and threw it to Kennedy, who sped down the pitch with it. Kennedy flew towards Xander and shot, and just missing Xander's fingertips, scored. Cordelia took the quaffle and passed to Buffy, who managed to score past Ron. They game continued for a while, the teams fairly evenly matched. Wesley proved to be a good beater, managing to stop Buffy, Dawn and Cordelia scoring a few times. The game stopped however when Faith and Harry went into a dive. They raced along the pitch, until Harry caught the snitch, winning the game for his team.
"Good game!" he congratulated Faith, shaking her hand. "It was my experience that meant I won, your flying was great!"
"It's the slayer thing," said Faith, cracking her knuckles, "Super strength and all that jazz."
Dinner that night was loud and raucous, and they went to bed, content in knowing that Christmas was the next day.
Harry awoke early the next morning and got up quickly.
"Ron!" he called, "Presents!" Ron also got up and they ripped open their piles. Harry got a tiny foe glass from Lupin, in which there were many dark shadows, from Sirius he got a leather bound photo album of wizards photos from Sirius Hogwarts year, up to the present time and including pictures of the Order of the Phoenix. His father pictured in almost all the photos, except for the present day ones of Harry and Sirius. The Scoobies all banded together and got him and Ron sweet selections from Honeydukes and a book of demon lore each. From Ron, Harry received a velvet covered case for his wand, and Hermione had given him a book on magical defence. He also received the same Christmas package from Mrs. Weasley, the Weasley jumper and mince pies.
Christmas Dinner was a noisy affair, as usual, as everyone squashed around one giant table, with mountains of wizard crackers to spare. The scoobies, excluding Giles and Wesley, had never had proper English Christmas lunch before so it was extra special for them. But even Wesley and Giles had never seen a Christmas quite like this one, mountains of food was made by the house elves, turkey, stuffing, vegetables, potatoes and they all had second and third helpings. After lunch they all collapsed in the common room, to digest, as they were so full that motion was out of the question. They all settled around the fire to play charades.