DISCLAIMER : I don't own any of these characters now...sniff...sniff... But I will do so the day there are twelve red moons in the sky.


Chapter Seven : Gifts and Green Hair

The first thing they did after stepping on Hogsmeade soil was to head to the Hogshead pub. After downing a few drinks they headed off on their quest for gifts.

Long back in fifth year they had had an argument over which gift was whose, since they always bought them together. Ever since, they just gave her two gifts in one big box with 'From --- Harry and Ron' on it. It was up to her to decide who gave what.

They walked into a gift shop called 'Passionate Collection –Special Gifts for every witch and wizard'

"Oh yeah!... Ron this is just the place for you …. very passionate huh?", snickered Harry, who then earned a smack on the back of his head for that.

"Hey! Ron what do you think of this one?" , asked Harry, pointing to a little table lamp which dimmed or brightened up as the day progressed. It also had a feature where one could load some pics and it would pick one at random as picture of the day and display it on the lampshade. "We could put those pictures from last summer and give it to her".

"Naah! Not really …. She hates pictures right! She's always hiding under the frames or trying to get away." said Ron dismissively. "Coz she thinks she can never manage to look good in 'em", he thought, rolling his eyes.

They kept wandering around trying to find something to suit their budget and liking. The shop assistant was getting sick of them coz they just couldn't make up their minds. He finally suggested perfume.

"Ya that's a good idea", said Ron, sounding relieved.

Harry countered, saying "We don't even know what she likes …", but was cut off by Ron, "You don't know what she likes. I do."

"Even then … these seem to be way outta our range", sighed Harry.

"I guess we just have to keep looking. Let's try the bag shop over there", said Ron pointing across the street.

They went there and after much searching they found a cute little magical purse which warned you when you were running low on cash and make up!

"Girls can never have too many of these", reasoned Harry.

After looking around in a few more shops, they found this cool poster which showed what the seer's current obsession was. So if she got tired of one band or person or thing it would automatically change and ….oh you get the point!

They finally had two gifts and were ready to go back to the castle. On the way, Ron kept wondering if he was Herm's obsession...aaww… the little fool.

In front of the castle gates, there was a little hold up, coz Mr. Draco Malfoy was enjoying the company of one of his 'special' friends….aah yes … Pansy Parkinson. They were kissing … though it looked more like two people who hadn't eaten in days devouring each others' mouths.

"Get a room!", yelled Ron at which Harry actually conjured a huge brown cardboard box kinda thing to fall on them out of the sky. This did bring a few curses from Malfoy and soon they were making their way to the portrait hole with Ron sprouting green quills out of his ears and Harry's hair turning the most violent shades of pink and green. Of course Malfoy had no less agony. He was being tickled to death and his 'friend' pansy was helpless.

When entered the common room, they were greeted with an irritated scream from Hermione. "Where the hell were you guys? I looked all over the castle….", she stopped mid-sentence.

"Wh--What happened? Is it a prank or is that your new fashion statement?", she asked stunned.

After giving her a hasty explanation, they went up to their dorm to keep the gifts. They ran out of it pretty fast coz Seamus offered to do the counter spell. From experience they knew that it was a very bad idea coz when they had previously tried it he had just doubled the duration of the spell. That was when they realized that going to Madam Pomfrey was the best. No questions asked. No mistakes made.

On the way, Hermione just couldn't stop complaining: "They just put up a notice saying that the Runes section of the library's gonna be closed for a few days for some stupid renovation there .And that too just when I wanted to look up some references for Runes…. I won't be able to get it done ….aaagh…. this upsets my whole schedule", she ranted on and on….

By now they were used to Hermione's grumbling outbursts. When something upset her schedule she got veryy cranky and just had to scream at one of them.

Later that night, Harry was very busy doing his, cough, homework, cough with Ginny. Ron came up to them and stopped suddenly….. he was clearly more embarrassed than them who seemed to be too busy to notice.

"Ugh…have to protect eyes…", he thought and walked away with one hand over his eyes and when he was at a safe distance he said: "Uh …Harry if you could spare a moment…. I have to talk to you".

"I hope you do realize that we have potions homework to do. We had better not get detention otherwise our party plans will be ruined". Ron said all this in a very McGonagall kind of tone. Harry thought he was just a little upset about what he had seen just now but still he had a point.

"Oh well! You're right. I'm coming but just wait a sec", said Harry. He then turned to Ginny.

"Farewell Ginny. Goodnight! I wonder when I shall see thy beautiful face again... this evil, evil, Knight is taking me away to do the work of the dungeons.", said Harry very melodramatically, as he was being dragged away by Ron.

The next day dawned. The sky was bright and clear. The birds were chirping away to glory….. uh.. basically it was a great day! Hermione took in the sights and smells of early morning Hogwarts.

"Happy Birthday to me!" she thought as she moved over to the window. "I wonder what they got me. I hope it's not some booring spell-book coz okay I love studying n all but on my b'day it should be something different."

After making herself presentable, she went down to the common room, fully expecting it to be empty. As a rule no one was up at five in the morning.

But today it wasn't empty. Harry, Ron, Ginny and Lav ; her favourite people in the world were waiting for her with their presents. From the linen on the floor she could see that they had spent the night in the common room to be the first people to wish her. That was nice.

"Happy Birthday", they chorused.


Author Notes : Hello people! I'm back

Passionate Collections is a real shop and it sucks!

I couldn't think of any nasty curses so I just turned them weird colours.

Okay so Ron doesn't see anything extra intimate going on between Harry and Ginny...jus an innocent lil kiss... But he gets so freaked out coz its his little sister we are talking about here.

Draco and Pansy weren't really planned to make an appearance, but since chocl8sunshine suggested it… they're here.

aurorawhisperwind : thanks for the suggestion to make the gifts a little more magical. Keep R & R !

Invader Hog : Thanks for reviewing! Ive tried to make the scene changes gradual n all... Please do let me know if it is improving. Keep R & R !

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KHdreamer : Thanks for reviewing again n again! I hope this chap makes you happy. Keep R & R.