AN: If you don't want the new movie to be spoiled, LOOK AWAY NOW! It's crap! The director has COMPLETELY ruined the books! If I took my best friend, who has never read or seen anything HP, than she would not understand a bloody thing! It went too fast, you don't find out who Moony, Padfoot, Prongs and Wormtail are, you don't find out who sent the firebolt, Draco is NEVER that scared, and the dementors! Don't get me STARTED on them! There are a few laughs, like Hermione commenting on her hair from the back when they go back in time, and when she punches Malfoy, but that's about it! The new director has ruined the whole experience of the books, which pureblooded freak like Malfoy will wear muggle clothes? And Sirius and Remus are meant to be HANDSOME! They are butt ugly!
Anyways, onto the chapter…
Chapter 16 – Christmas
Virginia opened her eyes slowly, she knew something was important today, just couldn't remember what. She smiled as she felt Harry's firm arms wrapped around her and she looked up to his face. Leaning up slightly, she kissed him lightly on the lips, causing the sleeping man to smile and stir.
"Morning." She said softly, Harry looked down at her with a sleepy smile.
"Hey." He replied, Virginia frowned as he removed his warm arms from around her to stretch, before replacing them again. "Merry Christmas." He added. It clicked, Christmas Day. That was what was so important.
Virginia heard a door bang down the hall and seconds later, their bedroom door crashed open and Paisley came flying in, jumping on the bed next to her parents.
"Merry Christmas!" She said breathlessly. Harry entangled himself from Virginia and sat up fully, Virginia following suite. Paisley had a gift bag in one hand, and two in the other.
"What'd Santa get you then P?" Virginia asked, Paisley rolled her eyes.
"I'm not three Mum, I know you always leave a bag in my room." She stated indignantly, Harry laughed. "Thanks for the watch." She added, indicating one of the many tiny gifts that was in her 'Santa Sack', which was like a tradition for Virginia to leave one by her daughters bed every year.
"Ahh, we didn't get you the watch, Santa did." Virginia stated with a smirk, Paisley once again rolled her eyes.
"Yeah yeah, I know." She muttered, then brightened up. "These are for you! I made them!" She exclaimed, handing a blue gift bag to Harry and a red one to Virginia. Harry opened his and found a band made of dark threads of black, blue and green. It was quite thin and slipped onto his wrist easily. Virginia's bracelet was nearly identical, but was made with red, light blue and white threads.
"Wow, very nice Paisley." Harry complimented, putting it on and pulling his daughter to him. "Thank you." He added, Paisley beamed and hugged him and Virginia.
"Thanks P." Virginia said to the girl, who was hugged back by both parents. "Now, what else did you get in your Santa sack?" She asked.
"Oh, I got a white Baby-G watch," Paisley held up her wrist to show the small white watch and thin fabric band. She emptied her large gift bag on the bed. "Some lip gloss, a pink teddy bear, cute stickers, pink nail polish…" Paisley carried on listing the small things she had gotten, showing her parents who knew exactly what was in there.
Half an hour later, they were sitting in the living room with their already opened bags around them in their pyjamas and nightgowns. Paisley sat eating her extremely-buttered crumpet, which was dripping from the mount of butter that had been put into it.
"Wanna open one first Paisley?" Harry asked, Paisley stuffed the rest of her crumpet into her mouth and nodded, reaching for the present Harry passed her. Opening it, she found something she hadn't been expecting.
"A broom." She stated, looking up at her parents, who nodded.
"We could either give it to you at Christmas or for your birthday. Otherwise you wouldn't have one for the summer." Virginia explained.
"Cool." Paisley muttered, hugging them both. "Thanks!"
"Ginny, your next." Harry stated, Virginia froze. "Gin?"
"Huh? Oh sorry, I haven't been called that for ages." She said quietly.
"I won't call you that if you don't want me too." Harry suggested, Virginia shook her head and smiled reassuringly at him.
"I'm cool." She stated, taking the small present from him. Unwrapping it, she saw a jewellery box. She hesitantly opened the box and gasped. "Harry…. It's beautiful." She said in awe. Harry slid across the floor to her and took the necklace, slipping it around her neck.
"Not as beautiful as you." He whispered into her ear, causing her to blush.
"Lets see." Paisley asked unnecessarily, crawling across the floor to her parents, she took the charm of the necklace into her fingers.
"Wow." She whispered. It was a beautiful, it had a thin gold chain and a small golden heart charm on it, the heart had tiny diamonds embedded into it.
"Look on the back." Harry suggested, Paisley turned it and read the inscription out.
"Virginia, I love you so much love Harry." Virginia turned to Harry and leaned over to kiss him.
"Thank you." She whispered and hugged him, happy tears in her eyes.
"I love you." Harry replied softly.
"I love you too." Virginia stated, staring into his eyes. They were shocked when a pillow hit them both. Then turned to see a grinning Paisley.
"Whoops." The girl said sarcastically. Harry looked back at Virginia.
"That's it." He said playfully, getting up and started chasing Paisley, who shrieked and ran off, leaving Virginia laughing happily in the living room.
Virginia was walking through hers and Harry's walk-in-wardrobe looking for something to wear to the Christmas Dinner at the Burrow.
"What're you looking for?" Someone asked, scaring the life out of Virginia.
"Julie! Don't scare me like that!" She exclaimed, Julie shrugged. "I'm looking for something nice to wear to a Christmas Party." She added, answering the ghost's question.
"Oh." Julie muttered, albeit a bit sadly, and started looking through Virginia's clothes.
That's how Harry found them.
"What's going on?" He asked.
"She can't find anything to wear." Julie replied absentmindedly. Harry shook his head and came up behind Virginia, slipping his arms around her waist.
"They'll love you no matter what you wear." He stated confidently, Virginia sighed and leaned back into him.
"I know." She muttered.
"How about this?" Came yet another voice, Paisley was standing just inside of the wardrobe in a casual pair of dark jeans, black boots and a baby pink jumper. She held in her hands an ankle length demin skirt and a black, off-the-shoulder top with three-quarter length sleeves.
"See, that's nice." Harry stated.
"Thanks Paisley." Virginia said with a nod before taking the clothes off of her daughter and leaving to change into them.
"Why does your mother spend hours looking for the right thing to wear?" Harry asked rhetorically.
"One: she's a fashion designer, and two: she's a woman, what do you think?" Paisley retorted, Harry turned back to her and saw the impish grin on her face.
"You better not turn out like that." He stated, walking past her and out of the wardrobe.
"Don't worry! I will!" Paisley called after him before leaving with Julie, talking about clothes.
Virginia tumbled out of the fireplace and was caught by Harry as she tripped.
"Don't trip." He said cheekily, Virginia glared at him.
"Oh hey, you're the last ones here." Came a voice from the door, Kaci was standing there along with Jesse, Lory, Mazie and Mirabelle, Charlie and Jade's nine year old daughter.
"Hiya." Paisley greeted.
"Where are they all then?" Harry asked, Virginia looked slightly nervous, she hadn't been with the whole family together since the failed meeting in August.
"In the living room." Mirabelle stated, she had her long, strait, reddish-black hair in a ponytail and was wearing blue trousers and a black jumper which had a VS logo on the middle of it, the Virginia Summer's logo. Virginia noticed this and flushed slightly, she knew that Jade liked to remain as muggle as possible and was hoping that the gesture wasn't to suck up.
They entered the living room after the excited kids.
"Hi everyone!" Harry exclaimed as he entered. Every Weasley, Remus and Sirius were sitting around. A round of "Hi."'s and "Finally! You're here!"'s came to them.
"Virginia! You made it. Wonderful." Molly exclaimed, hugging each of them.
"Yeah, I made it." Virginia said uncomfortably. Harry pulled her over to the sofa and sat down, wrapping an arm around her shoulders.
"How was New York then George?" Harry asked the twin with his arm around Angelina. That was one of the ways to tell them apart, who had Angelina or Alicia with them, another way was to see if they had on their 'G' and 'F' jumpers, but they would normally confuse everyone like that with the whole 'Gred and Forge' thing.
"It was good, though I was stuck in business meetings most of the time." George stated, "You could've gone, you are our business partner after all."
"I went to France last year!" Harry exclaimed. "And it was bloody boring."
"Harry!" Molly exclaimed.
"Sorry Molly." Harry apologised immediately, causing the others to stifle their laughter. He looked around at all of the women and laughed to himself.
"What have you been taking Harry?" Sirius asked accusingly, Harry shook his head.
"Just thinking, it's a miracle that none of the women are pregnant for a change." He stated with another laugh, everyone else laughed also.
"We are a big family." Molly stated with a glance around the room at each of the children.
"By the time Josie's out of Hogwarts, there'll be another generation." Charlie said, referring to George and Angelina's daughter, who was just one.
"Actually, I doubt Ron and Hermione are finished just yet." Molly said thoughtfully, causing the two in question to blush bright red. "Or Harry and Virginia." She added, Harry laughed.
"I think getting to know Paisley is enough for Harry at the moment." Virginia said with a smirk, Harry shook his head with a laugh.
"Every Wealsey has at least two children." Harry told her.
"But I'm a Summers'." Virginia retorted.
"These two are enough for me." Hermione added, Kaci glared at her and Heather giggled again, like she had been doing all morning.
"Is she high or something?" Fred asked Hermione, staring at the two year old, who giggled again.
"Fred!" Hermione and Molly both exclaimed.
"What?" The man asked innocently.
"How about we open presents already?" Arthur suggested, the kids all squealed and cheered with anticipation.
They handed out un-shrunken presents they had brought with them and took it in turns opening each gift. Everyone had a jumper from Molly, like usual and Paisley was thrilled that hers was her favourite colour, baby pink with a light purple 'P' on it. Ron had his normal maroon one, Harry his emerald one with a 'H' instead of a lion like in his school days and Virginia had gotten a dark pink one with a 'V' on it.
Each wearing their own jumpers (without Fred and George complicating things), they moved onto other gifts. Paisley got an assortment of things from her family, mostly sweets. Two of her cousins, Leah and Lisa, George and Angelina's ten year old twins, had pranked some of the presents with hair colourant charms. Each person had gotten a prank and a video camera, which belonged to Hermione, was zooming around the room filming, Jade had her normal camera doing the same thing, but it was flashing every ten seconds.
As Virginia opened her last present, she thought that she had been lucky and hadn't been pranked. How wrong was she. Harry laughed when he saw her hair and Virginia grabbed a lock of her straight and now dark pink hair in front of her face.
"Hmm, I like this colour actually." She stated.
At leassst I didn't get coloured. Naiad said from Paisley's lap.
"We can arrange that for you." Virginia retorted, glaring at the snake who she knew was smirking. Everyone except for Harry, Paisley and Virginia looked confused.
"Who are you talking to Gin?" Hermione asked. Paisley held up Naiad who had gone a bluish colour today.
"She was talking to Naiad." Paisley sated, shrieks of shock were heard from everyone.
"Is that a snake?" Angelina asked hesitantly, Paisley nodded and stroked Naiad's head.
"She's called Naiad, we brought her in Diagon Alley the other day." Harry explained.
"It was green then." Ron stated.
"She's a colourmorphus." Virginia explained.
"What's that?" Paisley asked.
"A person or animal that can change colour at will." Hermione explained briefly, eying the snake apprenshively.
"Like a metamorphangus?" Paisley asked, Hermione shook her head.
"A metamorphangus can change anything about themselves." She replied.
"Oh." Paisley muttered.
"I'm metamorphangi." Mirabelle told her.
"Really?" Paisley asked, Mirabelle nodded and screwed her eyes up in concentration and wiggled her nose. Opening her eyes again, they had changed to a pink colour and her hair was now longer, down the bottom of her back.
"Cool." Paisley muttered.
"Didn't you show potential for it when you were younger Harry?" Virginia asked, turning to him, Harry shrugged.
"Probably normal magic. My hair only grew a couple of inches." Harry replied with a shrug.
"Right." Paisley muttered.
"Mira, change back to how you normally look please." Charlie asked his daughter, who rolled her eyes and concentrated on morphing back to her original, shoulder-length red straight hair and blue eyes.
"I had better check on dinner." Molly stated before getting up and leaving the room.
"So hows Hogwarts going for you Paisley?" Bill asked his niece, who smiled.
"It's really, really wicked." She replied. "Me and Kaci have made lotsa friends too."
"Unfortunately I have to teach all eight of you." Remus put in, Kaci and Paisley smiled innocently.
"We cant be that bad Uncle Remus." Kaci stated innocently.
"Yes, and that tail mysteriously appeared for the day, huh?" He asked, Paisley, Kaci, Lory, Jesse and Mazie all grinned impishly.
"Dinner's ready!" Molly called from the kitchen, they all trooped inside and Virginia noted that it was bigger than last time when she had been there.
They all sat down and started to help themselves in silence.
"Hey Harry? What's that?" Ron inquired, nodding at Harry's wrist, Harry pulled down his sleeve a little and showed them.
"Friendship band, Paisley made it for me." He told them, Paisley looked up.
"Oh yeah! I got one for you too Kaci." She stated, fishing in her trouser pocket. She took out a black, red and bright pink bracelet and handed it to her best friend.
"Wow, it's really cool." Kaci told her friend before slipping it over her wrist. She held out her arm and examined it. "Thanks P." The two girls hugged briefly.
In Paisley's opinion, the dinner was perfect. She laughed along with her family and talked to them. It wasn't that she didn't like the Christmases with her Mum, she loved them, but it was that it was on a bigger scale, she felt like she belonged here. Paisley also noted that her Mother had taken down the barriers against these people, acting like she would with Elsa. Paisley had a slight feeling that Elsa knew about all this, but if she didn't than she would soon, Paisley didn't think she could keep the witch thing a secret from her own God-Mother.
"Paisley?" Someone called, snapping the girl from her day dream.
"Sorry, just zoned out a little." Paisley apologised to her Dad, who was sitting a seat down, next to Virginia.
"What were you thinking about?" Virginia asked quietly, looking around at everyone talking.
"This. How we're with our family for Christmas." Paisley told her, Virginia smiled and pulled Paisley into a brief hug.
"It's perfect." Virginia said to her. "Now, time for crackers!" She exclaimed, Paisley laughed and grabbed her cracker. She handed one end to Virginia.
"On the count of three, one, two, three!" They pulled it and both shrieked when little mice started running around the table, then the mice disappeared in a poof of smoke.
Paisley turned back to Kaci, who wanted her to pull her cracker with her. Virginia put on the purple hat and pulled a cracker with Harry. Kaci and Paisley pulled theirs and Kaci got a light blue cap, which she stuck on immediately with a grin.
Harry ended up getting a hat too, but he leaned over Virginia and placed it on his daughters head. Paisley turned around in confusement and took the hat off, grinning before sticking it back on properly. It was a powder pink floppy type hat with a cap bit stuck on, Paisley loved it.
They stayed at the party until late into the night before leaving with all of their gifts.
"That was fun." Virginia stated as she collapsed onto the three-seater, cream leather seatee. Harry laughed and collapsed beside her.
"I agree." He said with a chuckle, placing his arm around her shoulders.
"I'm going to bed now, I'm tired." Paisley told them, walking out of the room with a yawn. She left all of her presents downstairs.
About half an hour later, Harry and Virginia headed up, they were levitating all of the gifts up, Virginia stayed in their room whilst Harry went ahead and put away Paisley's things. He softly put the presents down and then moved back to the door and stood watching Paisley. The light from the corridor filtered into the room and swept over her as she was sleeping.
Soft arms came around his waist from behind and Virginia slipped under his arm.
"She's like you." Virginia told him softly.
"I realised." Harry whispered back. "C'mon, I'm tired, and I know you are too." He stated, he turned and they walked down the corridor to their own room.
AN: Thanx for the reviews! Sorry i haven't updated yesterday, i was banned from my computer and this one :(