Three months came and left; the Halloween feast and the floating pumpkins,
Quidditch matches, Hogsmead visits, classes, and, of course, homework.
Karrot seemed to be adoring her role as Head Girl. But it seemed that there
was something troubling her. Whenever they asked her she would just shrug
it off. But she didn't seem to be sad today as she ran through Hogsmead;
her arms covered by bags form various shops in Hogsmead. Harry, Hermione,
and Ron grew tired of trying to catch up with her and decided to meet her
in Three Broomsticks when she was finished. They sat there for an hour
sipping on Butterbeer when she came in, face red from the violently cold
wind of December. She sat down by them exhausted.
"What took you so long?" Ron asked peering over at her.
"Christmas shopping, I had to get some thing for you three, Ginny, my friends back in Japan, my mom, dad, Cyan, Akira, my grandparents, and Snuffles. And there was something that I had to get and I was having trouble finding the right store." She told him.
"Who's Cyan?" Hermione asked her.
"My brother. He was gone during the summer and I barely get to see him but when I do, it's really special."
"Want a Butterbeer?" Harry asked them since his was once again gone.
"I'd love one but there's a few more things that I have to pick up. See you back at school." She said with a wave of her hand as she went back into the cold.
~*~
Karrot spent an hour wrapping presents in her dorm. The common room was near deserted because it was the Christmas break. Harry, Hermonie, and Ron were the only ones there. Karrot had left them again to go to the Owlery to send the presents. Hermonie watched as Ron bet Harry at wizard's for the fourth time that day. The door to the common room swung open and Karrot walked in with the glum look on her face that she had for a few weeks now.
"Karrot, what's wrong?"
"Nothing Hermonie." She said while looking at the floor.
"Tell us."
"I just miss Janey, Minina, and Thérese."
"Who are they?"
"My friends from school. I didn't see them in a few years."
"Oh. Well it's almost time for lunch, let's go." Ron said trying to change the subject to please his stomach.
The four walked down the corridor to the Great Hall. They were having trouble getting used to the silence, they were the only students left, everyone else was at home living in the fear of Voldemort.
"I wonder whose turn it is today." Ron said as the reached the doors. At the beginning of the vacation, Dumbledore said that everyone was to tell the house elves what their favorite food was and the house elves would make it for everyone who was left for the holiday. A different person every day.
They pushed open the door and looked at the circular table and saw Prof. Dumbledore, Prof. McGonagall, Prof. Flitwick, Prof. Sprout, Prof. Lupin, and Prof. Toyamatto sitting around leaving four vacant chairs. Karrot sat by her sister who was wearing a huge grin. Harry saw her mouth the words 'It's my day' to Karrot. Karrot shook her head with a sigh and looked at the ground.
The empty plates were no longer empty when the food appeared from below. Mountains of chocolates, chewy caramels, nougat, sugar quills, bubble gum, and whipped cream materialized on the golden plates followed by heaps of chips, salsa, ice cream, hot fudge topping, sugar, candy canes, suckers, brownies and cookies. The sweet smell of sugar was so strong it wade Harry feel like melting. Chocolate milk and milkshakes replaced the pumpkin juice. Cakes popped up completing the scene. It was nothing but junk food.
"Good Lord Akira," Prof. Lupin said, his eyes bulging out, "do you want us to get sick to our stomachs?" Akira grinned as she, Karrot, and Ron began filling their plates. Ron looked like he had just died and gone to heaven. Hermonie was a little wary of eating so many sweets considering the fact that both her parents were dentist. Harry couldn't eat more than one plate full of sweets while Prof. Snape refused to eat any of the 'horrid food' at all.
"Oh lighten up Severus a little candy never did hurt anyone." Prof. Toyamatto said while helping herself to some more ice cream.
"Hear, hear." Prof. Flitwick squeaked from behind a lollipop the size of his head.
"In case you have failed to notice Miss. Toyamatto," Professor Snape hissed through his teeth. Harry recognized it as the same tone that he saved for Neville during Potions. He assumed that getting a girl to be the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher instead of him must still hurt. "This is more that a little candy."
Prof. Dumbledore chuckled as he helped himself to some chocolate. Less than half an hour later, the junk food vanished and Harry grew worried about what other kind of food the Prof. Toyamatto was about to wish for. Surely it wasn't going to be more junk food. But sure enough it was. It wasn't any kind of food that Harry has every seen. It was a ball of rice that seemed to be dipped in chocolate. He was a little wary trying them but even more wary of going near them because Karrot and Akira seemed to have gone ravenous. They were shoving rice ball after rice ball in their mouths, and holding two more in their hands while having three more on their plate.
"Want one?" she asked while handing one to Harry.
"No thanks."
"Suit yourself." While grabbing more before they vanished.
Everyone in the Great Hall exited (Karrot and Akira carrying chocolate covered rice balls) and went their separate directions.
~*~
The next day it was Karrot's turn at lunch and the had a pleasant Chinese meal, Karrot told them that he dad was Chinese and she rarely got to have the food from there so it was always a treat after the meal, with more chocolate rice balls for desert. It was also Christmas Eve so the whole castle, despite the number of people there, was fully decorated. Prof. Dumbledore had ordered a special type of mistletoe that turns into two candy canes when you kiss under it. Karrot ended up kiss Sirius and Hermonie kissed Crookshanks just so they could have candy. Since all the people in the common room knew about the Animagi living in the girl's dorm, Sirius was human for a day. It was great to see him on two legs again. He enjoyed eating food with his hands again but had a bit of trouble with knives and forks, so he ended up eating mostly finger food. He helped Harry cheat on his essay for potions and talked to Hermonie about the education from when he was in school and how disappointed he was that Harry was Head Boy.
"Your parents must be turning over in their graves Harry. Destroying the prank filled spirit of the Potters by becoming what you are, a good little boy."
"Wasn't my dad a Head Boy?"
"Yes but he didn't know any better."
Harry gave up and watched Ron challenge Sirius to a game of chess. Sirius failed miserably and threw the game out the window.
"Wow." Ron said in astonishment looking out the window. "There must be ten feet of snow on the ground."
"I don't know Ron, I say more like fifteen. It's almost burring Hagrid's cabin."
"I'll go find out." Karrot said while looking out the window. She went to the ledge and jumped out the window. The three screamed as the saw her fall. Five minutes of looking for a sign of her, the portrait hole swung open. In came Karrot, hair white with snow, soaked to the bone.
"Twelve feet," She said while taking off her cloak.
"How did you survive that fall?" Hermonie squealed.
"Turned in to my cat form. They always land on their feet." She said.
Sirius grabbed her by the shoulders and shook her. "Never do that again. Hear me!"
She weakly nodded, appearing to be scared by Sirius. He let go of her and three owls carrying a rather large box landed by her. She gasped and fell to the ground rather excited.
"It's about time."
"For what?" Sirius asked looking at the strange writing on the box.
"Janey finally wrote back to me." She said as she opened the box.
"All that is writing?" Hermonie asked in amazement.
"No. Christmas presents too." She said while picking up several rolls of parchment. "Let's see Janey wrote to me, so did Therése, Minina, Helios, Tino.and Brent. I don't like Brent."
"What's wrong with Brent?"
"Long story. Let's see what he wrote. 'Dear Karrot. Hope you have an awful year because if you do, you'd have deserved it. I hate you a lot - Brent.' Typical. 'Hi Karrot, sorry about what Brent wrote but its better then what he had earlier, trust me. I guess we know who the evil twin is, eh? - Minina' 'Dear Karrot, I miss you a lot. Especially the outfit you wore in your first year... I think I miss that more than you. Ha, ha, ha I'm funny. - Tino' 'I'm with Tino. I miss that out fit A LOT...oh and I miss you too. - Helios' 'Men are such pigs eh Karrot? I can't believe we survived here without you. It won't be long until we did. - Therése' 'Konishiwa Karrot, great news, I'm a Sakura Blossom now too. I own everyone. I can't believe that you got Head Girl. That's like double Sakura Blossom. I hate you. Well not really, say hi to everyone up there for me ok Usagi? - Janey. P.S Harry sounds cute.'"
Harry blushed at the last few words. He knew that Sirius was giving him an odd look from behind him.
"They sent a picture. Look that's Tino," She pointed to a boy with long black hair that was and slightly spiked then fell on either sides of his face, "Helios," a boy with short black hair that was tucked behind his ears, "Minina," a girl with shoulder length blonde hair and vivid green eyes, "Therése," another girl with long straight red hair, "Janey, the one who thinks Harry's cute," a girl with curly black hair in two pigtails was grinning to the camera, "and that jerk in the back is Brent," she said while pointing to a boy with short blonde hair.
"What are those things around their necks?" Ron asked pointing to a pink dot on Janey.
"Their ranks, She has a Sakura Blossom, and it looks like Tino has a Honeysuckle. I can't tell what everyone else has, they're all hiding it."
"Honeysuckle?"
"It's a type of flower."
"Oh. Ok then."
"What else did they send you Karrot?" Hermonie asked while peering inside the tiny crate.
"Photo's from our first years, some rice balls, and my player and CD."
"Your what?"
"Back in the first year there we charmed all our muggle things so they'd work near a high amount of magic and our walkmans are the only things that survived the explosion from when we tried to charm our clocks. It has all my favorite songs on it." She said while slipping it over her ears. Harry sighed as he went to talk to Sirius again.
~*~
Ok.........It took forever, I'm sorry but it's here.
"What took you so long?" Ron asked peering over at her.
"Christmas shopping, I had to get some thing for you three, Ginny, my friends back in Japan, my mom, dad, Cyan, Akira, my grandparents, and Snuffles. And there was something that I had to get and I was having trouble finding the right store." She told him.
"Who's Cyan?" Hermione asked her.
"My brother. He was gone during the summer and I barely get to see him but when I do, it's really special."
"Want a Butterbeer?" Harry asked them since his was once again gone.
"I'd love one but there's a few more things that I have to pick up. See you back at school." She said with a wave of her hand as she went back into the cold.
~*~
Karrot spent an hour wrapping presents in her dorm. The common room was near deserted because it was the Christmas break. Harry, Hermonie, and Ron were the only ones there. Karrot had left them again to go to the Owlery to send the presents. Hermonie watched as Ron bet Harry at wizard's for the fourth time that day. The door to the common room swung open and Karrot walked in with the glum look on her face that she had for a few weeks now.
"Karrot, what's wrong?"
"Nothing Hermonie." She said while looking at the floor.
"Tell us."
"I just miss Janey, Minina, and Thérese."
"Who are they?"
"My friends from school. I didn't see them in a few years."
"Oh. Well it's almost time for lunch, let's go." Ron said trying to change the subject to please his stomach.
The four walked down the corridor to the Great Hall. They were having trouble getting used to the silence, they were the only students left, everyone else was at home living in the fear of Voldemort.
"I wonder whose turn it is today." Ron said as the reached the doors. At the beginning of the vacation, Dumbledore said that everyone was to tell the house elves what their favorite food was and the house elves would make it for everyone who was left for the holiday. A different person every day.
They pushed open the door and looked at the circular table and saw Prof. Dumbledore, Prof. McGonagall, Prof. Flitwick, Prof. Sprout, Prof. Lupin, and Prof. Toyamatto sitting around leaving four vacant chairs. Karrot sat by her sister who was wearing a huge grin. Harry saw her mouth the words 'It's my day' to Karrot. Karrot shook her head with a sigh and looked at the ground.
The empty plates were no longer empty when the food appeared from below. Mountains of chocolates, chewy caramels, nougat, sugar quills, bubble gum, and whipped cream materialized on the golden plates followed by heaps of chips, salsa, ice cream, hot fudge topping, sugar, candy canes, suckers, brownies and cookies. The sweet smell of sugar was so strong it wade Harry feel like melting. Chocolate milk and milkshakes replaced the pumpkin juice. Cakes popped up completing the scene. It was nothing but junk food.
"Good Lord Akira," Prof. Lupin said, his eyes bulging out, "do you want us to get sick to our stomachs?" Akira grinned as she, Karrot, and Ron began filling their plates. Ron looked like he had just died and gone to heaven. Hermonie was a little wary of eating so many sweets considering the fact that both her parents were dentist. Harry couldn't eat more than one plate full of sweets while Prof. Snape refused to eat any of the 'horrid food' at all.
"Oh lighten up Severus a little candy never did hurt anyone." Prof. Toyamatto said while helping herself to some more ice cream.
"Hear, hear." Prof. Flitwick squeaked from behind a lollipop the size of his head.
"In case you have failed to notice Miss. Toyamatto," Professor Snape hissed through his teeth. Harry recognized it as the same tone that he saved for Neville during Potions. He assumed that getting a girl to be the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher instead of him must still hurt. "This is more that a little candy."
Prof. Dumbledore chuckled as he helped himself to some chocolate. Less than half an hour later, the junk food vanished and Harry grew worried about what other kind of food the Prof. Toyamatto was about to wish for. Surely it wasn't going to be more junk food. But sure enough it was. It wasn't any kind of food that Harry has every seen. It was a ball of rice that seemed to be dipped in chocolate. He was a little wary trying them but even more wary of going near them because Karrot and Akira seemed to have gone ravenous. They were shoving rice ball after rice ball in their mouths, and holding two more in their hands while having three more on their plate.
"Want one?" she asked while handing one to Harry.
"No thanks."
"Suit yourself." While grabbing more before they vanished.
Everyone in the Great Hall exited (Karrot and Akira carrying chocolate covered rice balls) and went their separate directions.
~*~
The next day it was Karrot's turn at lunch and the had a pleasant Chinese meal, Karrot told them that he dad was Chinese and she rarely got to have the food from there so it was always a treat after the meal, with more chocolate rice balls for desert. It was also Christmas Eve so the whole castle, despite the number of people there, was fully decorated. Prof. Dumbledore had ordered a special type of mistletoe that turns into two candy canes when you kiss under it. Karrot ended up kiss Sirius and Hermonie kissed Crookshanks just so they could have candy. Since all the people in the common room knew about the Animagi living in the girl's dorm, Sirius was human for a day. It was great to see him on two legs again. He enjoyed eating food with his hands again but had a bit of trouble with knives and forks, so he ended up eating mostly finger food. He helped Harry cheat on his essay for potions and talked to Hermonie about the education from when he was in school and how disappointed he was that Harry was Head Boy.
"Your parents must be turning over in their graves Harry. Destroying the prank filled spirit of the Potters by becoming what you are, a good little boy."
"Wasn't my dad a Head Boy?"
"Yes but he didn't know any better."
Harry gave up and watched Ron challenge Sirius to a game of chess. Sirius failed miserably and threw the game out the window.
"Wow." Ron said in astonishment looking out the window. "There must be ten feet of snow on the ground."
"I don't know Ron, I say more like fifteen. It's almost burring Hagrid's cabin."
"I'll go find out." Karrot said while looking out the window. She went to the ledge and jumped out the window. The three screamed as the saw her fall. Five minutes of looking for a sign of her, the portrait hole swung open. In came Karrot, hair white with snow, soaked to the bone.
"Twelve feet," She said while taking off her cloak.
"How did you survive that fall?" Hermonie squealed.
"Turned in to my cat form. They always land on their feet." She said.
Sirius grabbed her by the shoulders and shook her. "Never do that again. Hear me!"
She weakly nodded, appearing to be scared by Sirius. He let go of her and three owls carrying a rather large box landed by her. She gasped and fell to the ground rather excited.
"It's about time."
"For what?" Sirius asked looking at the strange writing on the box.
"Janey finally wrote back to me." She said as she opened the box.
"All that is writing?" Hermonie asked in amazement.
"No. Christmas presents too." She said while picking up several rolls of parchment. "Let's see Janey wrote to me, so did Therése, Minina, Helios, Tino.and Brent. I don't like Brent."
"What's wrong with Brent?"
"Long story. Let's see what he wrote. 'Dear Karrot. Hope you have an awful year because if you do, you'd have deserved it. I hate you a lot - Brent.' Typical. 'Hi Karrot, sorry about what Brent wrote but its better then what he had earlier, trust me. I guess we know who the evil twin is, eh? - Minina' 'Dear Karrot, I miss you a lot. Especially the outfit you wore in your first year... I think I miss that more than you. Ha, ha, ha I'm funny. - Tino' 'I'm with Tino. I miss that out fit A LOT...oh and I miss you too. - Helios' 'Men are such pigs eh Karrot? I can't believe we survived here without you. It won't be long until we did. - Therése' 'Konishiwa Karrot, great news, I'm a Sakura Blossom now too. I own everyone. I can't believe that you got Head Girl. That's like double Sakura Blossom. I hate you. Well not really, say hi to everyone up there for me ok Usagi? - Janey. P.S Harry sounds cute.'"
Harry blushed at the last few words. He knew that Sirius was giving him an odd look from behind him.
"They sent a picture. Look that's Tino," She pointed to a boy with long black hair that was and slightly spiked then fell on either sides of his face, "Helios," a boy with short black hair that was tucked behind his ears, "Minina," a girl with shoulder length blonde hair and vivid green eyes, "Therése," another girl with long straight red hair, "Janey, the one who thinks Harry's cute," a girl with curly black hair in two pigtails was grinning to the camera, "and that jerk in the back is Brent," she said while pointing to a boy with short blonde hair.
"What are those things around their necks?" Ron asked pointing to a pink dot on Janey.
"Their ranks, She has a Sakura Blossom, and it looks like Tino has a Honeysuckle. I can't tell what everyone else has, they're all hiding it."
"Honeysuckle?"
"It's a type of flower."
"Oh. Ok then."
"What else did they send you Karrot?" Hermonie asked while peering inside the tiny crate.
"Photo's from our first years, some rice balls, and my player and CD."
"Your what?"
"Back in the first year there we charmed all our muggle things so they'd work near a high amount of magic and our walkmans are the only things that survived the explosion from when we tried to charm our clocks. It has all my favorite songs on it." She said while slipping it over her ears. Harry sighed as he went to talk to Sirius again.
~*~
Ok.........It took forever, I'm sorry but it's here.