Hogwarts Castle lay under thick layer of snow. Snow covered its roofs and towers. Silver snowflakes slowly drifted down on the ground. After long celebration of on Christmas eave, professors and students slept in this morning. Ginny dazed in half sleep, just stalling for time before she had to get up. She looked at the empty room. White light penetrated the curtains. The room felt fresh, and Ginny pulled her blanket over even harder, trying to get the peace, while she could. The sleep slowly drifted over her. And she was back to her world. Sliding down of a top of ice hill. The rush of cold air overtook her. She shivered, but the speed was too great for her to pay attention to such a small thing. "Ginny" she heard voice from far away. She looked over her shoulder, John was sliding behind her, and someone else was there too. Dean smiled at her, and she smiled back. Three of them speeded down.
"Ginny! The presents are here!" Hermione yelled.
"Ah, what?" Ginny rubbed her eyes, still half asleep. Ginny shivered and tried to find her blanket with one hand, but Hermione got it a firm hold on it.
"Ginny! Wake up!" Hermione shouted excitedly.
"Give me five more minutes, and my blankie." Ginny mumbled.
"The presents are here!" Hermione said again. Ginny could feel like a fog scattered out of her mind. She heard the buzz of silence, and inpatients of Hermione. Then the words rang through her mind. She almost fell off her bed, as she quickly rolled out, right on her feet. She pulled her robe over her, without even bothering to brush her hair, she ran downstairs. Happy Hermione followed her.
Ginny's memory was brought back to the day when students were leaving Hogwarts. Dean and John promised her a special gift. A Christmas tree stood by the fire place. Harry and Ron were already there.
"Good Morning, sis." Ron greeted here.
"Your pile's over there," Harry said with his mouth full of chocolate.
"We sorted your gifts for you." Ron smiled.
Hermione rolled her eyes. "Honestly, you just wanted to make sure you didn't got more sweets."
Ginny looked at Ron then at Harry. But she could careless what those two do, as long as they didn't dig in her stuff. She sat in empty place on armchair, and started looking through gifts. Her mom has sent the regular Weasley sweater. This year Seamus sent her chocolate frogs. She got more chocolate from Harry and Ron, and a book from Hermione "Why's it Quiditch". She got few more chocolate frogs from her classmates. It seemed everyone knew she was obsessed about chocolate. But what would happen to her teeth? She got French white chocolate from John, and a blue rose. The rose was as if it was frozen. Blue petals sparkled, like as if snowflakes were spilled all over it. It was so beautiful. Ginny picked up a letter from John.
Good Morning Ginny.
Merry Christmas! The rose I send you is magical. It's a mood flower. It changes colors depending on your mood. I thought it was really pretty, when I bought the rose; it was color of flaming orange, like your hair. Hope you like it.
With love
John Walker
The letter gave peace on her mind. Ginny looked at the rose now, it was changing its color to light blue, almost white.
Thank you John," Ginny whispered, still looking at the wander of the rose. The she returned to unwrapping her other gifts. Ginny picked up and examined a card. A picture on the front was the ground around Hogwarts. The lake with thin crust of ice was painted on there, and a forest behind. The trees were heavily covered with snow, and sun was peaking out from behind of icy mountains. She recognized the place. That's the view, she has seen so many times. Sometimes when she was sad, she would look out of the window, and that's what she would see. It looked like the card was painted, but who could draw so good? She looked inside. Merry Christmas! A Bright green sign flashed across back pages. The edges were painted red. And at the bottom it was signed Dean. He send her also a bracelet. The beads were various flowers, and every flower was white. Her favorite was the white lily. She didn't know why, but it was. A note was tied to the bracelet.
"When you're in danger, the bracelet will glow red." That's all it said. A smiley face was drawn as a signature.
"Man Ginny, you've got the most chocolate frogs!" Ron exclaimed as he saw her presents. Ginny quickly ran up with her gifts into girls dormitories, just in case, Ron will get wrong ideas and "accidentally" will start eating her chocolate.
The rest of the day, Ginny played snow wars, with the trio and some Gryffindor second years that were still left at Hogwarts. She ate plenty of good Christmas food, but there was something missing. She missed Dean, John, and Seamus. She missed laughing with and at them. It seemed like it happened yesterday, when she kissed Dean, and they watched the rising moon. She was now a bit embarrassed about it. But she finally realized that she liked Dean back. But would he still love her, when Dean will discover what she was really on the inside. He didn't treat her any different, when she told him about Chamber of Secrets, and about Tom. He didn't stop liking her. How can it be? The day sped past her, growing into a night. And she was back in her bed. Happy that it's Christmas, but yet missing the regular days. The sleep over took her, drifting her into worriless land.
