CHAPTER 16: How was Your Christmas?
Events followed when Harry was talking to people on MSN. He found out that his godfather, Sirius had not died when during his fifth yeah, but had only pretended to fall through the veil and ran around the edge of it and out through the door. He had, since then, been on a year-long vacation to Hawaii and returned with a "glorious tan" and gotten a job in Woolworths.
'I got my Tamagotchi in Woolworths,' stated Ron, 'before that muggle dwarf guy stole it. Damn his oily hide.'
'Do you not know what this means?' said Harry. 'I've been upset for over a year now because I thought the one man left to have something to do with my family was dead. Now I find out he's alive and well and livin' it up in Hawaii and Woolworths when I've been distraught –'
'Oh, come off it, Potter,' said Malfoy. 'No one cares. He doesn't even know what you're talking about,' he said, gesturing to Ron.
'What? What's happening?' said Ron, suddenly alert.
Harry slumped down into his chair and stared at the side of his laptop from where he was sitting.
'Where did you come from anyway?' he asked Malfoy. 'And why are you in the Gryffindor common room?'
'I'm in here because Ginny's in here and it's funny you ask where I come from, I actually come from Wales,' he said, with a 'would you look at that' expression on his face.
'You don't have an accent,' said Ron.
'Ooo… who's a smart boy!' said Harry, with a slight hint of sarcasm in his voice.
'Yes, well, I've lived in England since I was two and both of my parents didn't like being Welsh so they've always spoken with an English accent. It's one of the reasons why they connected.' Draco had a reminiscent look on his face.
'You know, nearly all of my family's Scottish,' said Ron.
'Really, Weaselbee? I'd never have guessed. Not with that flaming red hair and the leg shape of a kilt-wearer.'
'Shut up!' retorted Ron.
'Don't tell me to shut up! I'll get my Welsh Clang on you!'
'Well, I'll get my Scotty-Posse on you!' said Ron, defiantly.
'Ron get up. I want to talk to Ser- to… someone… on MSN,' interrupted Harry.
Ron got up and switched places with Harry, who signed onto his MSN account. He saw that Sirius was online (his email was and Harry started a conversation with him.
'Did you have a good Christmas?' Harry asked. He had asked Sirius this about twenty times since Christmas and it was only two days after Boxing Day. Sirius was blatantly getting very annoyed with Harry saying this as he blocked him. Harry's Motorola Razor rang the Spongebob Square Pants theme tune and Harry answered it.
'Why, hello!'
From the other end of the line, came Sirius' voice.
'SHUT UP!'
The dial tone echoed loudly in Harry's ear before he hung up. Draco and Ron looked at Harry wondering what the hell that had been about.
'I think I annoyed him with the 'how was your Christmas?' thing.'
'Well, it would have annoyed me, Potter,' Draco said reassuringly. And with that, he left the common room.