Chapter 12 A Different Kind of Christmas
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Harry Potter characters. They are all owned by J. K. Rowling.
A/N: sorry guys! I forgot about Percy.. once I remembered him it was too late to add him in and to tell you the truth I couldn't really remember what happened to him, so I did the best I could, hope you enjoy!
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The girls finished making their decorations on the patio when the boys arrived back with the fire wood and tree shortly before dinner. When they all walked into the kitchen of the Burrow Mrs. Weasley already had food on the table and Fred, George, Bill, Charlie, Fleur, Tonks and Lupin were chatting in the living room.
"Come on everyone, time for dinner!" yelled Mrs. Weasley, "We'll decorate when we are done eating."
"Wow Mrs. Weasley, this looks amazing!" exclaimed Hermione as they all sat down to the dinner table.
When they were finished with dinner Mrs. Weasley brought out the dessert, "Home made chocolate mousse!"
"I'd like to make an announcement," said Remus as he stood up next to Tonks and clanked his knife on his wine glass.
"Ohh kids would you please be quiet, Remus has something to tell us!" said Molly excitedly because she wanted to know what the announcement was.
"Ok well actually Tonks and I Have an announcement to make," Remus continued when everyone quieted down, "well as you know, Tonks and I have been seeing each other for a while now and we have decided that we are getting married."
"We're engaged!" added Tonks excitedly holding up her left hand and showing everyone the ring that Remus had given her.
"Oh my gosh! That's great!" exclaimed Molly as she and the girls jumped up to see the ring. It was gorgeous, a simple white gold band with a large square diamond in the middle and 3 smaller diamonds on each side. It looked antique, but very glamorous.
"Congratulations," said Bill as he got up to shake Remus' hand. All of the other men followed suit.
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After they finished eating their dessert and talking about the wedding plans; the wedding will be held in the summertime, they started to decorate.
"Alright, first of all Ronald, I need you to put this extra mousse in the refrigerator. I think Bill, Charlie, Fred, George, and Harry should help Arthur put up the tree and Ron can help when he is done with the mousse. Remus, Tonks tells me that you are good with fires, so I was hoping that you could get a nice big fire burning for us," started Molly.
"Sure Molly, I'd love to," responded Lupin as he got up to start getting some of the firewood that the boys had gotten earlier.
"Then," Mrs. Weasley continued, "the girls could get the decorations for the tree ready, we could start making the garland and painting the gnome. That way once the tree is up we can all decorate it together and then we can all do the garland for the banister and the wreath together. After we are done we can have a little celebration for Remus and Tonks."
"Sounds good Molly," replied Tonks.
"Yea," agreed all the others as they got to work.
In no time at all the tree was up and they were all decorating it with the ornaments and the homemade garland, gnome angel, and faeries. They added some pinecones and the tree was complete.
"Hey, mum, we forgot the mistletoe!" said Ginny as she ran outside to get it.
When she came back in she hung it on the doorway to the kitchen and then pulled Harry under it and kissed him.
Next they moved on to making the garland for the banister and then putting it up. That was a difficult task.
"Would you two cut it out!" yelled Mrs. Weasley over all the racket, "It's Christmas time, you are supposed to be caring and loving, not doing all this pish posh."
"Sorry mum," said George.
"Yea, sorry mum, it won't happen again," added Fred.
Fred and George had bewitched the branches that they were using for the garland to fly up in the air and hit Ron over the head. While Ron and Mrs. Weasley didn't find it amusing at all the rest of them were howling with laughter.
After a few more hours of decorating the house and drinking butterbeer Tonks and Remus announced that they had to leave because they were going to Tonks house to spend Christmas day with her family.
"Have fun."
"We'll miss you."
"Merry Christmas!"
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Once they left Mrs. Weasley sent the kids up to bed so that they would be well rested for Christmas morning.
It was quite interesting trying to get ready for bed. There were 9 people all trying to use the same bathroom. The sleeping arrangements were all a mess too. Harry was sleeping in Ron's room, Hermione and Fleur were with Ginny, Fred and George were in their old room and Bill and Charlie slept in Percy's old room. Percy still wasn't talking to the family after the incident that they had a few years ago, so he was not going to be joining the family for Christmas this year.
After the kids went to bed Mr. and Mrs. Weasley stayed up late into the night getting all the presents put out around the tree and setting the table for the next morning's breakfast.
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"Get up! Get up! It's Christmas morning!" you could hear Ron yelling all through the house at 7:30 a.m.
All the kids got up and went down to the living room where Molly and Arthur were waiting on the couch with Ron who was as ecstatic as a 6-year-old would normally be on Christmas morning. There were several piles of presents on the floor around the trees. Everyone had presents from the Weasleys and Hermione, Fleur and Harry's families had sent them gifts. Harry only received a pair of Duddley's old socks from the Dursleys this year.
"Hey at least they got me something," Harry said with a sort of disgusted look on his face.
All the children received handmade sweaters from Mrs. Weasley as well as candy, books, candles and clothes for the girls, and products from Zonko's joke shop for the boys.
Hermione's parents sent her a new outfit with a plain silver necklace and matching earrings from Tiffany's. Hermione had to explain to them what Tiffany's is as it is a muggle store that they had never heard of until that point in time.
Harry got Ginny a golden bracelet and she got him a broom kit that he had been wanting.
"I didn't know what to get you," Ron began as Hermione opened the small box he handed her, "so instead of buying you a lot of things, I got you that anklet that I thought you would like; actually Ginny helped me pick it out. And I wrote you this," he finished as he handed Hermione a piece of parchment that was neatly folded up.
She opened the parchment and there was a poem on it that read itself to her:
Hermione,
Your name is like a song
Just listening to your heartbeat
I could dance all night long
You are so wonderful
You mean the world to me
Without you I would be nothing
That is what I want you to see
You've been here for me all along
And for that I am thankful
You are so generous
And I am so grateful
To have a girl like you
Is the best thing I could wish for
Thank you for everything
I could not ask for more
You are my dream come true
With you everything falls into place
I just wanna be with you
You're the only one for me
I love you Hermione Granger
"Ohh thank you Ron! I love it!" squealed Hermione as she jumped on top of Ron and hugged him so tightly he thought he would burst.
Hermione then handed Ron her gift, "It's not much, but I made it for you, I hope you like it."
When Ron opened the package that Hermione gave him it took his breath away at the fact that she could make something so perfect that would mean so much to him. It was a scrapbook full of pictures of the two of them, just the two of them, since the time they first met, until this very day. It hummed a song if you left it open long enough. 'Back at One' by Brian McKnight. Their song.
A/N: For some reason I hated this chapter, like a lot. It took so long to write and I found it really boring, i'm really excited about the next chapter though, it should be a fun one and I should be done with it sooner than the last few b/c I've got a lot of good ideas for it and I've already started writing it. hope you enjoy, R&R.