Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or the songs that may be sung.
A/n: 2chapters in one day!
Chapter Ten: Christmas at the Manor
It was a week after Hermione got that note from Ginny. Hermione got another note from Draco asking her to come stay at Malfoy Manor with him over Christmas. Ron and Harry got the note too. They were all excited. But Hermione was wondering why they would go there because of his mom. So Hermione asked him.
"Mione, she always goes away for winter holidays. She goes to America. I even asked her if she was going to be at home and she said that she wasn't going to be there." Draco told her.
"ok." Hermione replied
"Well its time to leave." Said Ron as he walked right behind them.
"Wait. Draco what about your dad?" Hermione asked
"Oh. He's not going to be there. Mum cast a spell on the house so no one with the dark mark on them can enter."
"ok." Hermione said again
"This is the first time that we will see your house." Harry said
"Yep." Ron agreed
"Let's go!" Draco said
"After we are done unpacking our things at your house do you think that maybe we could go to Hogsmead or Diagon alley?" Hermione asked
"Let's go to Diagon alley. I want to see Fred and George." Ron said
"Ok. After we unpack we will floo to Diagon Alley." Draco said
"Good I want to get you all Christmas presents!" Hermione said then they all went on the train and when they got to Kings Cross they took a cab (a/n: stupid I know) to the Malfoy Manor. Draco paid the cabby with muggle money. Which caused Hermione to ask "Draco you know how to use muggle money?"
"yes." Was all he said?
Hermione saw the house and gasped along with Harry and Ron. "Wow. You live here?" Hermione asked
"Yeah. Come on I'll show you to your rooms then I'll give you a tour of the house." Draco said
"Ron. This is your room." Draco said "it has Quidditch furniture magazines in it. So you can choose Chudley Cannons if you like."
"Thanks man!" Ron said and left
"Oh Ron!" Draco yelled to him "I'll meet you down in the living room in forty-five minuets!"
"Ok!" Ron yelled back
"Harry this is your room." Draco said opening the door to Harry's room. "It has Hogwarts houses furniture magazines so you can choose Gryffindor stuff if you'd like."
"Hey Draco?" Harry asked "do you think that your mum wouldn't like any of it?"
"Well before we leave to go back to Hogwarts we change it back. There is a thing that says back to normal and it will put things the way they were." Draco said. "Also I will meet you down stairs with Ron in the same amount of time."
"Aright then." Said Harry and shut his door.
"And Hermione your room is right across from mine. You can change your room to any tropical theme." Draco said "I get to decorate my room tropical too. Oh joy!"
Hermione went into her room and touched some buttons for her room. Her room turned out cool, but different. Her walls were pale orange with a sand colored carpet. She had a beanbag chair that was shaped like a shell. Her bead spread was light pink with blue hibiscuses on it. Her pillows matched too. Her dresser was made with bamboo. She liked her room so she unpacked. Then she knocked on Draco's door.
"Draco?" Hermione asked
"Hm?" Draco answered
"Can I come in? I want to see your room." Hermione said
"ok." Draco replied
He opened the door and to Hermione surprise he had a total surfing room. His bed spread had surfboards all over it. He had a surfboard shaped dresser. His walls were painted with waves on it. The carpet was sandy also.
"This is cool." Hermione said "do you surf?"
"thanks." Draco said "and surprisingly yes. I've surfed when I went with my mum to America during the summer."
"I've always wanted to learn how to surf. We should meet them downstairs now." Hermione said
"Yeah your right." Draco said smiling at her. "We will come back upstairs to get our things so you can leave your scarf here for now."
"Let's check out their rooms. They should be downstairs." Hermione said
"ok." Draco said
"Wow! Look at Harry's room!" Hermione said it had a lion bed spread with red and gold pillows. The walls were light gold. The carpet was white. His dresser had a big 'G' on the dark wood painted in gold.
"Yeah it's cool." Draco replied
"Oh. I forgot you're a Slytherin!" Hermione teased
"That's right. I would have snakes all over my room. And green and silver." Draco joked back
"HOLY CRAP!" Hermione said as she saw Ron's room. Everything was chudley cannons. Hermione thought that it would clash horribly with his hair. Like his own room at the burrow.
"I second that!" Draco said
After they got downstairs they saw the guys waiting for them. "What took you so long?" Ron asked "I'm hungry!"
"We were checking out your rooms." Hermione said simply
"oh." Harry said
"Well are you guys dressed for the weather?" Hermione asked
"No." Ron said
"Well then hurry up!" Hermione said "we need to leave early so we can get their before the crowds get there."
"Alright!" Harry said getting up.
"How about we meet in front of flourish and blotts." Draco said
"Ok." Said Harry
Hermione rushed upstairs and got a coat her scarf and her purse. She couldn't wait to go Christmas shopping for the guys and her family. What am I going to get Draco? She wondered I know just what to get Ron though. Sweets. Then Draco knocking on her door brought her back to reality.
"We are going to aparate aren't we?" Draco asked
"yeah." Hermione said
"See you there." Draco said then CRACK!
"Bye" Hermione said then CRACK!
"Wow! Didn't expect you to be here!" Hermione said jokingly
"I haven't seen you for like 5 seconds!" Draco said back.
"Ok. I'll meet you back here around three ok?" Hermione asked
"Ok. So where is Harry and Ron?" Draco asked
"I have no clue." Hermione said
"I'll aparate back to the house and see if their still there. Then I'll come back and then we will go our separate ways." Draco said
"Fine by me." Hermione said
CRACK! Hermione was all alone. She was looking at the books on sale through the window and saw a huge book on magical cats. She was looking at it when CRACK! Draco was back.
"Hermione. They were waiting downstairs! But now there here." Draco said
"Nice of you two to join us!" Hermione said
"Hey! I told Ron that we were supposed to meet here but he said no. and so we stayed at the Manor." Harry said defensively
"Ok!" Hermione said
Hermione went into the Quidditch shop to look for Draco and Harry. She saw a lot of things that they would like but nothing that caught her eye. Until she saw brand new Quidditch Robes. Just for playing in at home. She got Harry the silver one and got Draco the white one. Then she looked around some more only to find an awesome broom. It was the Nimbus 2005. It had a light blue handle and gold strips on it. Little did she know someone was watching her. She walked around the store some more only to find a Quidditch robe that looked almost exactly like the one the Chudley Cannons wore.
"Is that all for you today miss?" said the cashier.
"Oh, yes." Hermione said
"That will be 6 Galleons and 2 sickles." The cashier said Hermione handed him the money and took her bag. "Have a nice day!" then Hermione left the shop. Hermione made sure that the bag was solid white so no one would see were she bought the gifts. She didn't want the guys to know what she bought.
"Hi Tonks." Hermione said as she passed a bright pink haired witch.
"Hello Hermione!" Tonks said "out doing Christmas shopping I see."
"Yup!" Hermione said
"Molly said if I were to see any of you to tell you that you guys are invited to the Burrow for Christmas dinner."
"I'll tell the guys! I'm sure that they would love to come!" Hermione said to Tonks.
"See you around Hermione!" Tonks said
"Bye Tonks!" Hermione said
Hermione went into Fred and Georges shop. Only to be greeted by George. Or was it Fred? "Hermione! Good to see you!"
"Nice to see you too." Hermione said
"Oy! George! Hermione is here!" Fred yelled
"Fred, what new things to you have in here?" Hermione asked
"Just a shrinking perfume that shrinks what ever it's sprayed on. Oh and you'll like this one, animagus dolls. Turns into what ever the person holding it would be." Fred said
"Cool! Anything that Harry Draco or Ron might like?" Hermione asked
"Well there is a mini Harry Potter Doll we made. If he doesn't like you then he will send a curse your way and it will actually work. But not long term." George said when he came up beside Fred.
"We also have Quidditch players that fly. If you get the seeker it will go after the snitch that it has with it." Fred said
"And the keeper watches the goals." George said
"If you get a whole set you can watch them practice. And if you get two then they will play against each other." Fred said
"We have a Voldemort doll that goes with the Harry doll. And they will shoot curses at each other." George said
"But Harry always" Fred said
"Wins." They both said in unison.
"How much do the Quidditch players cost?" Hermione asked
"Only two galleons each." Fred said
"Ok. I'll take two sets of Quidditch players, how much does the Harry and Voldemort cost?" Hermione said
" Two galleons. For both." George said
"That comes to 30 galleons. But since it's a full set we take 4 galleons off each and since your Harry and Ron's Friend another four galleons off. So the total is 22 galleons." Fred said
"Here you are." Hermione said as she handed them the 22 galleons. "I hope they like it."
"Have a nice day!" Fred said
Hermione left their joke shop and went down the street to the animal shop to look at the owls. She wanted one for herself. She was going to take a look at them and see which one she wanted to she could buy one once she was out of school. She saw a black and white owl that she loved and then she left. Then she aparated back to Hogsmead so she could buy the guys snacks. Only to see Draco looking around at the sweets.
"Hey." Hermione said
"Hi Mione." Draco said.
"I'm going to look around now. So see you later." Hermione said
"See you in about an hour." Draco said
Hermione nodded and looked around the shop. She got 15 chocolate frogs. 3 jumbo boxes of Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans. She got 6 packages of fizzing Whizbees.
"That comes to 6 sickles and 4 knuts." Said Bob the cashier. Hermione gave Bob the money and took her things. She waited until she was out of the store and she aparated. The next shop she went into was the stationary shop. She bought ink that changed with their mistakes. Spelling was red. Punctuation was blue. And capitalization was purple. She bought it for Harry and Ron. She bought Draco a new quill that was in Slytherin colors. Then she went to flourish and blotts to wait for her friends. To her surprise Harry was already there.
"Hi Harry. What did you get Ron?" Hermione asked
"Well did you see those Chudley Cannon quaffles?" Harry asked
"No." Hermione said
"I forgot you don't like Quidditch." Harry teased.
"What did you get Draco?" Hermione asked
"I got him a snitch. That is signed by the one and only me!" Harry said
"funny." Hermione said
"What did you get me?" Harry asked
"Well I got," Hermione started "NO! I'm not falling for that one!" Harry laughed
Ten min. later Draco shows up but no Ron.
"What did you get Ron?" Hermione asked
"I got him a Chudley Cannon Quidditch cap." Draco said (a/n: kind of like a baseball cap. Except for it has pictures on it that move.) "And a signed photo of the Chudley Cannons Keeper. Very hard to come by. What did you get him?" Draco asked both Harry and Hermione.
Hour later no Ron.
"We should go look for him." Hermione suggested.
"Hermione you look with Harry and I'll go to Hogsmead." Draco said
"Ok. If we can't find him we will meet back at the house. So we'll meet at the house in a half hour?" Hermione asked
"Yeah. Meet you then." Draco said then aparated with a CRACK to Hogsmead.
Half hour later. No Ron. They aparate to the house.
CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! They all aparated.
"RON!" the three yelled in unison.
"Took you long enough to get back!" Ron said
"You aparated here didn't you? Thinking that we were supposed to meet here." Hermione asked
"Yeah." Ron said
"We were searching for you! We waited an hour for you!" Draco said
"Oops." Ron said and they all laughed at him.
They had a Christmas Eve dinner that night. Hermione told them that tomorrow night they would go to the Burrow. They all fell asleep. Then the next morning they opened their gifts. Hermione got: The book on magical cats from Ron. Candy from all three boys. Harry got her that owl that she had been looking at. She decided to name it Speckle. And from Draco she got the Nimbus 2005. And a promise to teach her how to ride it. Harry got: the robe from Hermione. Candy from the three of them. A snitch from Draco. A pair of socks from Dobby. A painting of his parents from Hagrid. The Harry Voldemort thing from Hermione. The ink from Hermione. And a box of Fred and Georges Products from Ron. Draco got: the robe from Hermione the quill from Hermione. The Quidditch team from Hermione. The snitch from Harry. And a box for his broom from Ron. And candy from the three. Ron Got: the robes from Hermione. The ink from Hermione. Candy from Hermione Harry and Draco. The quaffle from Harry. The signed photo from Draco. And the Quidditch cap from Draco. They all got sweaters from Mrs. Weasley. Hermione's was light blue with a gold H on it. Harry's was Green with a gold H on it. Ron's was maroon with a gold R on it. And Draco's was Green with a sliver D on it.
Later that day they went over to the Burrow. They visited for hours. And then when it was around 10pm they all started singing Muggle Christmas Carols.
Oh the weather outside is frightful
But the fire is so delightful
And since we've no place to go
Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!
It doesn't show signs of stopping
And I've bought some corn for popping
The lights are turned way down low
Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!
When we finally kiss goodnight
How I'll hate going out in the storm!
But if you'll really hold me tight
All the way home I'll be warm
The fire is slowly dying
And, my dear, we're still goodbying
But as long as you love me so
Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!
When we finally kiss goodnight
How I'll hate going out in the storm!
But if you'll really hold me tight
All the way home I'll be warm.
The fire is slowly dying
And, my dear, we're still goodbying
But as long as you love me so
Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow...!
Hermione and Draco were the only ones singing it. They sang it for all of the Order. Except for Snape. He couldn't make it. Dumbledore could even make it. Everyone clapped after they got done. But after all they both did have great voices.
"Mr. Malfoy, Miss. Granger, I was wondering if you could sing at the graduation ceremony." Dumbledore asked
Hermione looked at Draco as if asking 'should we do it?' his reply was a nod. "Yeah. We'll do it." Hermione said
"Good, Good. Now as soon as you pick a song come to me and tell me which song you are planning to sing. And I will say if it's appropriate or not." Dumbledore said
"Ok." Hermione said
"Whose owl is that?" Tonks asked
"Its mine!" Hermione exclaimed
"You have an owl?" Tonks asked
"Yeah Harry got it for me for Christmas." Hermione informed Tonks "I just sent it to parents this morning. With their Christmas Presents."
"Mione it has a package too." Harry said
"It's a camera! I am going to take awesome pictures with it!" Hermione exclaimed.
"Mione! Sing another song!" Ron said
"What one?" Hermione asked
"I saw mommy kissing Santa clause!" Harry said
"You remember that?" Ron asked
"Ron it's a song!" Harry said
"I knew that." Ron said Hermione Giggled then started the song.
I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus
Underneath the mistletoe last night
She didn't see me creap down the stairs to have a peek
She thought that I was tucked up in my Bedroom fast asleep
Then I saw mommy tickle Santa Claus
Underneath his beard so snowy white
What a laugh it would have been
If daddy had only seen
Mommy kissing Santa Claus last night.
I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus
Underneath the mistletoe last night
She didn't see me creap down the stairs to have peak
She thought that I was tucked up in my Bedroom fast asleep.
Then I saw mommy tickle Santa Claus
Underneath his beard so snowy white
What a laugh it would have been
If daddy had only seen
Mommy kissing Santa Claus last night.
Mommy kissing Santa Claus last night.
"Bravo Hermione!" Draco said
"thanks." Hermione said then Draco pulled her in for a kiss.
"Look!" Harry said they all looked out the window and it was snowing like a blizzard.
"Well at least we're not driving home." Hermione said
"yeah." Said Harry
"This just in! The blizzard has enabled wizards from apparating! Stay tuned and we'll keep you updated!" said the wizarding wireless.
"We got rid of our floo powder!" Mrs. Weasley said "since all of you were of age and could aparate."
"Well, Molly we can just conjure up some beds." Tonks said.
"The kids can stay together in the rooms upstairs." Molly said "Harry, Ron, Draco stay in Ron's room. Hermione and Tonks you can stay in Ginny's old room."
"Molly I can sleep down here with the rest of the order." Tonks said
"Nonsense! You're not much older than them. You go upstairs." Molly said
"Ok." Tonks said
"Up to bed all of you!" Molly said
Hermione went with Tonks and walked up the stairs slowly. "Do you want to join the order when you're out of school?" Tonks asked Hermione
"Yeah. Along with Harry and Ron. Harry wants to be an auror like. You." Hermione replied
"He'll be a good one. What do you want to do?"
"I want to be an auror too." Hermione told Tonks
After they fell asleep the snow started falling harder. So when they woke up in the morning there was at least 5 feet on the ground. Since they were able to apparate again they all said goodbye to the order and apparated back to the Malfoy Manor. They all went upstairs to change into warmer clothes. Hermione changed into a long-sleeved white turtleneck. She put dark blue jeans on. And warm fuzzy boots. Along with a light blue hat. (A/n I think it's called a beanie hat.) Then she put on her coat to keep her warm. To top off her look she put white gloves on. Draco had on his Weasley sweater that he got from Mrs. Weasley. He also had on black jeans. Harry and Ron both had on their Weasley sweaters and regular colored jeans. They all went outside and Hermione threw a snowball at Draco. Then they had a huge snowball fight. After they got all tired from having a snowball fight they made a snowman. But before they did that Hermione dropped down in the snow and made a snow angel.
After there new years celebration they got ready to go back to school. Draco let Ron, Harry, and Hermione keep something from in their room. Ron kept the broom shaped body pillow (a/n: you know what they are right?). Harry kept the lion bedspread. And Hermione kept the beanbag chair that was shaped like a shell they all took a cab to Kings Cross. They got on the train and visited all the way back to Hogwarts.
A/n: WOW! Longest chapter yet! For this whole chapter I was listening to Christmas music to get in the spirit of writing Christmassy things! Lol! My fave. Christmas song is Let it snow it was in this chapter. Read and Review! No Flames!