Sirius, Harry and I finally arrived back at Sirius' flat at 3:30 after leaving King's Cross Station we walked a few blocks through 'Muggle London.' We finally came to the 'Muggle Underground.' Sirius pulled out some 'Muggle Money' and put the coins in the machine and out popped 3 tickets. We boarded the next train. The train ride took about 10 minutes. Finally we got off the train and walked up to the streets of Central London. We walked a few more blocks and finally we were standing outside Sirius' flat.
"Cool," said Harry
"Yeah, it's nice, but I'm thinking of moving to a house out in the country, so you guys can have room to play Quidditch. I'm thinking maybe somewhere in Wales. What do you think?" asked Sirius
"Cool," I cried
"Oh, Harry, let me make myself a bit more clear, I've talked to Dumbledore and he said that it would be okay for you to come and live with me. That is only if you would like to. I'm sorry you couldn't have come live with us sooner, but Dumbledore thought it was best for you to stay with your Aunt and Uncle, and with me and Gina being in hiding well it just didn't work, but now you can come and live with us. So would you like to? You don't have to answer just now-."
"Of course I want to live you with. When can I move in? I get to leave the Dursley's YES," screamed Harry
"Okay, quiet down. Don't want to scare the neighbors. So I was thinking Gina you can put your stuff that your aren't taking to Hogwarts in boxes and once you go back to school, I'll start looking for a house. So at the end of the year your stuff will all be there and we go straight there from King's Cross. How's that sound?" asked Sirius
"Sounds good to me. I'm sorta getting sick of living with everyone so close, and you have to be careful because you don't want the muggles to ring the door bell right when your cleaning up the house with your wand, etc." I said
"I take it you like the idea. So let's go and get this house decorated for Christmas, which is incidentally only 5 days away. Let's get moving," cried Sirius
I gave Harry a tour of the flat and showed him his room for the holidays. It was supposed to be his room if he wanted to move in, but now that Sirius says we are going to live in the country and get out of London it will just be his holiday room.
After Harry dropped his trunk off and I dropped mine off we walked back down the stairs and into the living room. Sirius was already hauling out the boxes of Christmas decorations.
I walked over and started to grab some ornaments out of the boxes. Sirius came up behind me and said, "You know, that was one of your mothers favorite Christmas ornaments. Her favorite time of the year was Christmas. She would be so happy to see that you and Harry are finally spending your first Christmas together."
Just then we heard a pop. We all spun around and saw Remus standing in the middle of the living room.
"Hi everyone," said Remus, "Doing a bit of decorating I see. Do you need any help?"
"If you want to," Sirius answered
"So how's it going with Tonks?" I asked
"Oh, pretty good, but she is only 19, and I'm 32," said Remus
"Ah Moony my man, you still worrying about that age thing?" said Sirius
"Yeah, because I'm 13 years older than her. Her Mom is your cousin Sirius, if you had kids they would be Tonks' 2nd cousins," cried Remus
"Hey Remus, just remember that if you love her, age doesn't matter," I said
"Thanks Gina," said Remus
"So are we going to get this decorating done or not?" cried Sirius
"Sure," we all replied
"Harry and Gina, can you stay with Remus and start decorating the mantle and everything else, and I'll go and get the tree," said Sirius
With that Sirius was gone.
"Didn't leave us much of a choice did he?" said Remus
"Nope, but that's Sirius," I said
"So let's get decorating," said Harry
"Come on then," I said
Harry, Remus and I spent the next 10 minutes working on decorating the hand railing for the stairs with a greenery. Remus grabbed some of the red Christmas balls and tapped his wand on them and the started to shimmer.
"Cool," said Harry
"You have never seen a Christmas in the Wizarding World have you Harry?" asked Remus
"Well I spent last Christmas at Hogwarts, so that was my first Wizarding Christmas," said Harry
"No, I mean at home," said Remus
"No, I've never spent a Christmas at home. See I've never really classified the Dursley's as home if you get what I mean. I was always the one that got an old pair of Uncle Vernon's socks, or Dudley's old sweatshirt that was 4 sizes to big and was stained and full of holes. No last year was my first Christmas where I actually had money to by presents and I actually go presents. Same with my birthday. I always dreaded Christmas and my Birthday," said Harry
"Well you are going to love them now," I said
With a pop Sirius appeared with a very large tree.
"I love magic," I said, "You know if any muggle had to do that, they would have had to-,"
"Get in their car, drive half way across London-," said Remus
"Find the Tree farm, go and hike and cut down the best tree-," I said
"Haul it back to their car and tie it to the roof-," said Remus
"And then drive back home and get it off the roof without squishing their kids or their dog," I finished
"Wow, you guys are good," said Harry
"Yeah, we listen to Sirius say that every year, so by now it's better to say it quick and get it over with because Sirius seems to make it drag on and on," I said
Remus and Harry laughed by Sirius just said, "I resent that."
"Sure you do," I said
We finished decorating and then Remus went and made some dinner.
After dinner Sirius stood up and said, "I think some Maraudering is in order now, don't you?"
"Oh come on Sirius, don't. Not now. Your not going to turn the neighbors dog blue now are you, because once was enough," said Remus
"Do I ever do the same thing twice?" asked Sirius
"Well no," replied Remus
"Well there you go," said Sirius
Sirius walked upstairs and came down with his cloak on, "You guys coming or not?"
"I'm in," I said
"Sure," said Harry
"Come on Remus. It'll be fun," I said
"Fine," said Remus
We all went and got our cloaks and then we stood in front of the fire.
"Okay well everyone grab some floo powder," said Remus
We all grabbed some. Harry grabbed his and started to look nervous.
"Don't worry," I said, "You get used to it and you know what it's like now, so it won't shock you."
Harry nodded.
"Okay well everyone what you have to say is Figg. Everyone got that?" asked Sirius
We all nodded but Remus said, "No Sirius, not again."
But it was to late, Sirius had thrown the powder in and said Figg, and he was gone.
Harry went next and then myself and finally Remus.
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