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Christmas was fast approaching. One morning in mid December the entire grounds was covered in several feet of snow. The lake was frozen solid and Cameron desperately wanted to go skating. The Weasley twins had been punished for bewitching some snowballs so they followed Quirrell and bounced off his turban, which everyone found very funny well everyone except maybe Quirrell and possibly Serena. It was also extremely cold. While the Common Room and the Great Hall had warm fires burning, the corridors where icy cold and Snape's dungeon was the worse. It kept them very close to their cauldrons to keep warm. Malfoy had turned even more rotten towards Harry since the Quidditch Match and Harry's catching of the Snitch. When teasing Harry about how a wide mouth frog would replace Harry, as the Seeker didn't work he began teasing Harry about not having a family. McGonagall had come around and got a list of students who would be staying for Christmas. Harry had signed up right away. The Weasley's where staying too, same with Dan whose parents where heading back to the US to spend Christmas in Florida as what Dan called a 2nd Honeymoon with the in-laws. Cameron however was going home for the holidays, same with Hermione. As they left potions an enormous tree blocked the hall. The enormous feet at the base of it told them it was Hagrid.
They offered to help Hagrid when Malfoy came out and began insulting Ron and his family. Before Harry and Cameron could stop him he lunged at Malfoy. Snape came out and took 5 points from Gryffindor for fighting.
"I hate them both, Malfoy and Snape" Harry said
"Ditto" Dan and Cameron said at the same time
"JINXS!" Dan shouted. Cameron shot him an odd look. Dan just stood there grinning.
"You can't say anything by the laws of saying stuff at the same time, I have too say your name 5 times."
Cameron groaned. Sometimes Dan could be very immature, he didn't mean to but it ended up happening a lot of times. Cameron could understand it though, Dan was the youngest out of all 5 of them he had a right to act a little younger sometimes just not all the time.
"OK, ok sorry I did it again, er Cameron, Cameron, Cameron, Cameron, Cameron."
They all grinned and began laughing.
"I still hate them both." Harry said
"Come on cheer up, its nearly Christmas I mean look at these two goofs" Hagrid said nodding towards Dan and Cameron who looked at each other and grinned widely "tell ye what, come with me an' see the Great Hall, looks a treat."
So the 5 of them followed Hagrid and his tree too the Great Hall. When they got there Cameron had to put his glasses on. The place looked great, but just very bright.
"Ah, Hagrid, the last tree… put it in the far corner, would you."
There was holly hung around the walls and no less then 12 Christmas trees sparkled with icicles and hundreds of candles. Maybe he'd take off his glasses for just a moment, just too see everything normally. Cameron started to slip his glasses off when he felt something rub up against his leg. He looked down and there was Felicity. She gave him an accusing look.
"What I wasn't doing anything I swear. I'm gonna put them back on. Please don't sic Serena and her humongazoid fan on me!" Cameron said too her. She looked at him like she didn't believe him but didn't say anything.
"I FOUND IT!!!!" came a voice suddenly, seconds later they saw Serena wriggle out from underneath a table holding a struggling ball of light triumphantly.
"Uhhh…you think she heard my fan remark?" Cameron asked. Serena practically bounced over to them.
"I did but in the spirit of X-mas I'll let it slide."
"Caffeine Serena?" Hagrid wanted to know. The young teacher shook her head.
"Nope," she said cheerfully, "Christmas spirit! Well that and the fact that I actually got all my shopping done on time!" she graced them all with a very mad, and luckily very rare, giggle, before flouncing off again.
"How many days you got left until yer holiday?"
"Just one," Hermione said "and that reminds me….. Harry, Ron, Dan, Cameron, we've got half an hour before lunch, we should be in the library."
"Oh yeah, you're right," Ron said. He had to tear his eyes off the golden bubbles blossoming out of Flitwick's wand. Dan too wasn't budging; it took Cameron dragging him by the collar of his robes too get him out of there.
"The library? Right before the holidays? Bit keen, aren't yeh?"
"Oh we're not working, ever since you mentioned Nicolas Flamel we've been trying to find out who he is."
"You what? Listen here….. I told yeh…..drop it. Its nothin' to you what that dog's guardin'"
"We just want to know who Nicolas Flamel is, that's all." Hermione said
"Yeah we're just curious on who he is" Cameron said grinning.
"Unless you'd like to tell us and save us the trouble?" Harry added "We must've been through hundreds of books already and cant find him anywhere…. just give us a hint…. I know I've read his name somewhere."
"Please Hagrid?" Dan said giving Hagrid a puppy eyed look that he was known for. When Dan used that look on somebody it was almost impossible to stay mad at him.
"I'm sayin' nothin'," Hagrid said
"Just have to find out for ourselves, then." Ron said and they hurried off to the library.
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They had been searching through every book they could find, trying to find Flamel's name somewhere. But he wasn't in any of the books they looked through.
"Sheesh this is worse then trying to find somebody in an old yearbook" Dan said as he closed the book he'd been flipping through.
Hermione took out a list of books she wanted to search through. Dan was flipping through any books Cameron and Ron brought back, which they where just pulling randomly off the shelves. Harry was wandering near the restricted section. Those book you needed a special note from a teacher. They contained powerful dark magic and only older students studying advanced Defense Against the Dark Arts read them.
Cameron dumped a pile of books in front of Dan,
"Ron I'm going to search through them for now ok?" Cameron asked sitting next to Dan.
"Ok" Ron called.
Cameron opened the book on the top of pile.
"'Greatest Magic inventors of the 21st centaury'" Cameron read aloud "why does it feel like I've already heard that title. More then a few times."
Dan shrugged
"Beats me Maybe you have."
He closed the book he was looking at a loud grumbling erupted from his stomach. Dan went bright red
"Er guess my stomach is talking" Dan said grinning.
A few minutes passed. They still hadn't found anything and Dan's stomach was still grumbling it sounded like he had a train driving through his stomach. Cameron was surprised Madam Pince the librarian hadn't come over to find out what all the noise was.
"So you're really not staying over Christmas?" Dan asked
Cameron nodded.
"I really want too. Really Dan I swear. But my uncle wants me to spend Christmas home. It's our first Christmas without my dad and he feels, and I agree with him that we should celebrate it just the 2 of us." Cameron said.
Dan nodded
"I understand. My mom wanted to spend Christmas at home this year, since it's our first Christmas I guess in York. We used to live in England when I was a baby then we moved to Massachusetts when I was er about a year. So mom wanted a old fashion English Christmas." Dan rolled his eyes and Cameron laughed "but Grandma insisted that mom and dad take a vacation just the two of them because Dad's been working too hard apparently. And dad said that Christmas's at Hogwarts are great and I should stay and enjoy it."
As soon as lunchtime came they headed out into the corridor. Where Harry was waiting.
"You'll keep looking for me while I'm away, wont you?" Said Hermione on their way down to lunch. "And send me an owl if you find anything."
"And you could ask your parents if they know who Flamel is. It be safe to ask them." Ron said
"Very safe, as they're both dentists."
"Cameron how about you your uncles a wizard right?" Ron asked
Cameron nodded
"I'll ask him but I really doubt he'll know about Flamel, but I'll try." He said.
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