A/N: I am really getting a lot of encouraging reviews from my readers. I love you all. You're really a great audience. This may be the best story I've ever written. And so far the best one that I have written is Invisible! I had fifty-four reviews on that at the most. I would also like to say a few words to those readers.

Amychris- you are such a doll. I'm so glad you think that I'm off to a great start. I will post as soon as I can. But I wasn't able to yesterday because my mom wouldn't let me on the Internet until I had all of my chores done. And then I had to go Christmas shopping, and then I went to a church dance. By the time I got home it was already eleven o'clock at night so I just went to bed because the dance wore me out. And because I was also in a bad mood.

Insanity-of-the-owl- thanks for another awesome review. You're probably an angel in disguise. But who knows. I love seeing your reviews. It's the high light of my day.

Esrb99- I'm sorry that this last chapter was too long. But other people have told me that it was too short. So I decided to pick it up a little bit. You know to make it longer. But the thing was that it is just as long as the other chapters of my stories. It's just that it looks longer because of me writing to my reviewers. And I will be more than happy to read your story that's in the link. If I review then you know that I've read it. If I don't that's because I haven't quite gotten there yet.

Orli-enthusiastic- I love how you called my story "absolutely spiffing" that's really cute. You must be Italian. Am I right? I just think Italian's have the cutest accents. And you must be a new reader. That's great that you decided to read my story. I'm glad. It's just more encouragement, which I really do thank you.

ThinkingOfaName- of course I won't take too long to update. I try to do it every day. But you'll know why if you read what I wrote to Amychris. Thanks for reviewing.

Lady Pyrefly- how can you actually think that I'll give Ron and Hermione a sad ending? I only gave them a sad ending once in my story. And I wrote that because I had had a bad day. But trust me they'll have a great ending. A Christmas Carol always has a good ending.

And now let's move onto the wonderful-heart-thrilling-enchanting story.

Chapter 3: The first spirit

Somewhere in the castle another clock chimed one. Ron however woke once again to the annoying sound of the clock that he so willingly would love to break. When he noticed a pale ghost standing in the middle of the room. But this ghost was all too familiar. It was the ghost of Cedric Diggory.

Ron hadn't really liked him at school, but he found it somewhat odd that Cedric would find himself here. Why couldn't this happen to Harry? Why was he the one getting tortured because he didn't have any feelings for Hermione? This seemed so unfair.

"Ron!" The ghost of Cedric started to speak, "we most go. There is much to show you."

Cedric lifted Ron off the bed and into a swirling mist of bright colors. He was just about to throw up dinner when it finally stopped.

"Where are we?" Ron asked feeling to nauseous to even speak.

"This is your Christmas past."

Ron gaped at him in awe. Cedric had brought him to his very own home. He recognized the lean house that he knew was held up by magic. Walking over to the window he could see all of his relatives and especially his own family.

Cedric brought Ron inside of the house where they could see everyone unwrapping their gifts. The present Ron looked around and spotted his past self-looking rather glum. That's right! I was never truly happy at Christmas because all I got were hand me downs. And we were to poor to buy anything expensive and meaningful, Thought Ron looking at his tiny self.

He had forgotten this particular memory. Why did he have to come back to it now? It was only filled with pain and misery. And he hated that. Which is one of the reasons he had to erase it from his brain.

"Tell me Cedric! Why are you doing this to me? Why did you have to being me back to this place of embarrassment? We had no money. And we still don't. Don't you see this memory is one of the worst? I didn't even get what I wanted for Christmas." Ron said in a hoarse voice that was starting to fill with tears.

"I brought you to this place because you never really knew what the true meaning of Christmas really was about." Cedric replied in a far off voice. He was so faint that it was almost impossible to hear him.

"But I thought you brought me here to get me to fall in love with Hermione!"

Cedric smiled, "that's part of the reason why I brought you here. The other reason why I took the liberty to come back was because you believed that Christmas was about getting instead of giving.

Ron thought for a moment. That's right! I did think Christmas was about getting instead of giving. How could I have been so stupid?

All Ron really wanted for Christmas was a muggle bike so that he could learn how to ride. It looked like it was so much fun. He could remember as if it were yesterday, just wandering off to the muggle village where he had watched these kids riding bicycles and looking like they were having fun. But he never received anything so valuable and expensive.

Ron continued to look at the family that was right before his eyes. And remembering how happy they were. Especially little Ron who looked so joyful and gay and how naïve he was.

Finally finding his voice Ron said, "please spirit! I don't want to see anymore of these wretched memories."

"I have more I must show you!" Once again Cedric took him by the arm and they transported him through the swirling colorful mist.

A/N: I'd better not get carried away with this chapter. I'll try not to make it too long. The next chapter will be about Ron going to Hermione's house and sees how her Christmas is. I hope you'll like this chapter and the next. I have a lot of great ideas. I love you all. So please review.