Ppp6130: Thanks for emailing me. Sorry about that. I'll see if I can get it to accept anonymous reviews. As for your question (I'll also include who had which child for all with the last name Weasley):
Fred is married to Angelina Johnson. Their child is Heather. They have a younger son.
George is married to Alicia Spinnet. Their child is Zach.
Ginny is married to Neville.
Ron is married to Luna Lovegood. Their child is Kathy, and they have a younger son and daughter.
Bill is married to Fleur. Their child is Venitia, and they have a son who graduated from Hogwarts the year before.
Percy is not married yet.
Charlie is married to an OC, and has one child at Hogwarts already that we haven't met yet.
Lupin is married to an OC. She's also a werewolf. Her name is Kanisssa.
If you have any other questions put them in your review.
Chapter 7: Holiday Cheer
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter.
The common room seems so empty. Sarah thought to herself. It was the first day of the Christmas break. She had immediately raised her hand when McGonagall asked who would be staying for the holidays. She soon found that, of all the Gryffindor first years, only she, Lily, and the Potter twins were staying. It could be worse. She thought.
There was nothing to do. Lily had detention for setting off fireworks in the hall, and Sarah certainly wasn't going to go looking for the Potter boys. There wasn't any open hostility, but they still didn't seem to trust her. She didn't mind. She had taken Lily's view on things, and decided that they were idiots. She had to admit though, that the singing Howler they had sent to the Slytherins to get rid of the polka dots had been funny.
She needed something to amuse her, without getting her into trouble. She had decided that she was going to take a little break from detention. The only problem was, everything interesting led to detention. She would explore the castle, but she didn't want to get caught somewhere she wasn't supposed to be.
She mentally hit herself for stupidity. She had an invisibility cloak. She could explore all she liked and not get caught.
Sarah soon discovered that Hogwarts was bigger, and had more secret passages, then she would be able to remember. She sighed. What she needed was a good map of Hogwarts. But there wasn't one.
I'll just have to make one then. She thought. I wanted something to do, and now I have it.
Christmas morning dawned bright and early. Sarah was awakened by a pillow hitting her on the head. "Wake up." Lily said, giggling. "Are you going to sleep through Christmas?"
"Is there a good reason why I shouldn't?" Sarah said yawning.
"Well, if you're going to, then I'll steal your presents." Lily said.
"Go ahead. I should warn you, I'm not going to be getting any." Sarah said sleepily.
"Oh really?" Lily asked. "Then the pile at the foot of your bed must be addressed to you by mistake."
"What?" Sarah said, jumping out of bed. "I have presents?" Sure enough, a small pile of brightly wrapped packages lay at the foot of her bed. "Who in their right mind would send me presents?" She asked.
"Well…" Lily mused. "Would you consider me, Heather, and Zena in our right minds?"
"No. That's why I'm wondering why I have more than three." Sarah answered.
"Oh, I think one of them is from my parents." Lily said. "I wrote to them, and told them all about you. They said you sounded like a nice person. Mum says that we'll definitely take you in if your family disowns you."
"Okay, that accounts for four of these…" Sarah said. "But who sent the rest."
"Open them and find out." Lily suggested.
Lily had given Sarah a set of books called The Song of the Lioness Quartet. "I think you might like those." Lily said. "They're about a girl who dresses as a boy so that she can become a knight. They're by an American author who I enjoy."
"Thanks." Sarah said. "I needed a good book."
"Well, now you have four." Lily answered. "Thanks for the fireworks, by the way."
"Well, you seem so attached to them." Sarah said. Lily was known for her love of setting off fireworks in the halls, so Sarah had gotten her an entire WWW boxed set to replenish her stocks. Zena's present to Sarah was a book of complex charms. Heather had gotten everyone WWW joke kits.
"Oh…" Lily said as Sarah held up the odd contraption that Lily's parents had sent her. "That's a CD player. I don't think Mum and Dad know that electric things don't work in Hogwarts, but I think there's a spell we can use…" She trailed off. "Is there anything else in the package?"
"Just these round shiny things." Sarah answered.
"CDs. Lets see what she got you." Lily peeked at the "Ceedees" that were in the package. "Great. She got you some Beatles stuff. They're pretty good."
"What are 'Ceedees'?" Sarah asked. "And what do you mean, beetles stuff?"
"I'll tell you later." Lily said. "Right now, I want to finish opening my presents."
"Good idea." Sarah said.
"My ideas are always good." Sarah rolled her eyes. Lily grinned.
One of the presents was from Remus Lupin, Zena's father. He sent Sarah a book on Animagi and becoming Animagi. "I wonder why he thought we might be interested in this?" Lily said as she read the card. Sarah shrugged.
Another present was from Heather's father and uncle. They gave her a coupon for a discount to their store.
There was a present from her family, a pair of very holey socks. Sarah decided that they would be used in some prank or another.
The last present was anonymous. As she opened it, a sort of explosion took place, and the room suddenly began to fill up with water.
"Oh no." Sarah whispered as she recognized what it was. A swamp now covered the dormitory floor, and was threatening to flood the hallway.
"I'll give you three guesses on who sent that one." Lily said. "The first two don't count."
"Lets see…" Sarah made a show of thinking about it. "How about, Potter, Potter, and… both Potters."
"Right all three times." Lily said.
"Wow. That was a lucky guess." Sarah said sarcastically. "How are we supposed to get out of here?"
"How am I supposed to know?" Lily asked. "Did the joke kits Heather sent us include some of these?"
"I think so." Sarah said. "I'll check."
"See if there's directions for getting rid of it." Lily said.
"Right." Sarah muttered as she looked. "Okay, getting rid of the swamp. Aha, here it is." She flourished her wand. "Finite." She muttered, twirling it three times, then making a star in the swamp.
The swamp shrank back to nothing, leaving everything clean and dry.
"Thank you Heather." Lily said to the ceiling.
"Well, that's all my presents." Sarah said. "Now, tell me about Ceedees and the beetles."
Sirius and James sat giggling in their dormitory at the thought of how the girls were reacting to their "present".
"They'll be stuck there forever." Sirius said. "You know how girls are about getting dirty."
"Yeah. They'll have to wait until McGonagall comes up to check on them." James agreed.
"You know, we should finish opening our presents." Sirius said. "We haven't opened dad's yet."
"Why did he only send one for the two of us?" James asked as they picked up the oddly light present.
"Dunno." Sirius answered. "Maybe there's something really cool in here."
"Yeah." James said.
The two boys tore open the letter attached to the package. It read:
Dear Sirius and James,
I know that I sent only one present for the two of you, but it has two things in it, and they should make up for any anger you might have towards me. For the smaller one, tap it with your wand and say "I solemnly swear I am up to no good" when you want it to show you something. To wipe it clean, say, "Mischief managed." It can do more than that, but you'll have to discover it's other secrets for yourself. Even I don't know all it can do. You're grandfather, my godfather (Your namesakes) and their friends made it.
The larger present has been passed through the family for a while. You ought to find it useful since you seem to be getting yourself into all sorts of trouble. You two take after your namesakes a lot.
Hope you have fun. Use these well.
Dad"Wonder what it is." James said as he finished reading.
"Well, we aren't going to find out by staring at the letter." Sirius said. He began to rip open the package.
As soon as Sirius saw what was in the package, he groaned and flopped to the floor. "And Dad had me all worked up to. A cloak and an old piece of paper? What a joke."
James couldn't see what was so great about them either, but he went over to the piece of paper, tapped it, and muttered, "I solemnly swear I am up to no good."
"Whoa." James whispered as he saw what happened. "Siri, come look at this."
"I hate it when you call me Siri." Sirius replied. "And what's so special about it?"
"Why don't you look?" James said, thrusting it into Sirius's hands.
Sirius was about to make a scathing reply when his eyes fell on the piece of paper, now the Marauder's Map. "Damn." He muttered. "Dad never told me he had something like this."
"And we're named after two of the people who made it." James said.
"Yeah." Sirius tore his eyes from the map. "But what's with the cloak?"
"Why don't you try putting it on?" James suggested.
Sirius looked at him. "Why don't you try it?" He asked.
"I did the map." James said.
"Alright." Sirius muttered. He got up and put the cloak on. "What?" He asked when James stared.
"Look down." James answered. Sirius jumped when he discovered that his body was gone.
"What the…"
"It's and invisibility cloak." James said. "I didn't know Dad had one of these."
"Me neither." Sirius said. Suddenly he began to smile. "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" He asked James.
"Does it have something to do with a girls dormitory and blackmail?" James replied.
"Yep." Sirius said, grinning wickedly.
Lily and Sarah were halfway down the stairs from the girls' dormitory when the steps suddenly turned into a slippery ramp. Smiling knowingly, they slid down, but when they reached the bottom, nobody was in sight.
"That's odd." Sarah said. "I was sure that we were going to find the Potter twins here trying to sneak up to find out how well their prank worked."
"So was I." Lily said. "I was hoping to admonish them for being so stupid as to believe that we didn't know how to get rid of a WWW swamp."
"Maybe they ran off as soon as the stairs transformed." Sarah said.
"Maybe." Lily agreed. "Well, they now know they can't get up there." She said cheerfully.
"Yeah." The two friends exited the common room, chatting about CD's and Muggle bands.
Underneath the invisibility cloak, the Potter twins swore.
The looks on the Potter twins' faces as they came down to breakfast made the day even better for Sarah and Lily. They giggled all through the meal, making the boys squirm with their talk of how the founders enchanted the stairs to the girls' dormitory. Finally getting fed up as they played outside, Sirius threw as snowball at Sarah. This started a long snowball fight of the girls versus the boys, which ended in everyone being thoroughly soaked, and nobody was sure of the victor.
All in all… Sarah thought as she sat by the fire, drying off, toasting anything edible she could get her hands on, and insulting Sirius and James whenever she got a chance. It was a beautiful Christmas.
AN: All I have to say is remember to review.
