AHHH! IM SORRY! I shouldn't have taken this long to update. For those of you who have not read my profile recently, I just couldn't sit down and write. It sucked, cause I wanted to continue my stories, but i would just sit and stare at the computer for awhile. I guess it was a mix of immense writers block and plain restlessness.

Previously

"I don't think so. Voldemort will get more supporters. He will go to the vampires, giants, werewolves. Anything that can help him." Harry said sadly. "We will have to do our best to stop him!"

Chapter 15 – Christmas

Later that day Harry was lost in thought, walking through the battlefield. He wanted to find Lucius Malfoy, or at least part of him.

During his wanderings, Harry saw obvious marks of the Mages. He stared into a puddle, once water from Zach, now crimson red from blood. A few yards to his left a large hole opened the Earth for unlucky Death Eaters to fall into. The ones who had been standing on the spot when it had opened up were impaled on a massive rock monolith, which now held the limp bodies of those Death Eaters. Scattered all around were arrows, some still smoking from Ginny's flame. On the ground were many long gashes from the dragon's sharp claws. The Mages had already cleaned themselves, their weapons and helped their respective dragon in cleaning itself.

After wandering for a long time, Harry finally found the body of Lucius, his head lying a few feet to the side. Not far from that was an arm that Harry knew belonged to Voldemort.

"He is crippled. Better than getting away unharmed." Harry muttered to himself. Harry just shifted the body back to the small area the professors had set up to care for wounded. Harry looked up into the windows of the castle to see faces in every window. Almost every student had seen the battle and they now knew just what they were up against.

Harry walked to the hill the Death Eaters had retreated over, looking off into the distance. He didn't know how long he stood there, but after awhile Harry felt a gust of wind behind him. He turned to see Chazor silently watching him.

'What is wrong? We won! You should be happy, celebrating with everyone!' Chazor scolded.

"I'm not sure if we won Chazor. We may have killed about one-hundred Death Eaters, but Tom still got away." Harry said, turning to watch the village once more.

'He will not be as strong. He is missing an arm and his wand arm even. He will not be as powerful.' Chazor tried. Harry was upset about something.

"That doesn't matter to him. He will create an arm for himself, just like Peter's hand. He will still be strong." Harry said, turning sharply on his heel. "I need to sleep. Thank you for saving my life back there." Chazor just watched Harry retreat back to the castle. Chazor reached for Harry's mind and felt it was jumbled, confused and very tired. Harry had tried too much in the battle.

For the next few weeks, everything around Hogwarts was normal. Classes had been cancelled for a few days after the battle to allow the professor's time to recover. But as soon as the teachers had regained their strength, they were back to business. The Mages were training harder than ever; making themselves more powerful for the battle they knew would come.

A month later, the Hogwarts grounds were covered in smooth white snow. It was a week until Christmas and everyone was excited for the day to be over. Then they could go out and have fun for the Christmas break. Most students were returning home, their parents afraid Voldemort would attack again. Other students were staying, saying that even if Voldemort did attack, they would stand their ground and fight back.

For a few professors, their break was not to be spent at home. Harry had decided to stay, incase Voldemort did attack. Ginny stood by his side without a word, as did Hermione. Zach stayed to be with Hermione, but Mary and John took a little persuading. They wanted to go home, have some fun with the break, and relax away from the castle. But after a few minutes of talking, they decided that staying was best.

The days before Christmas were spent with a little training, and a lot of fun. The Mages, Ron, and Luna had some fierce snowball fights. One of which the dragons joined in on, making the fight... interesting. When Ortinbras saw Ginny being bombarded, she got a little angry and melted the entire area of snow, leaving the combatants a little bit charred. That caused a few good laughs from anyone watching.

Late that night, on Christmas eve, Ginny woke to find Harry missing. She thought he might just be wandering the castle, but after checking the Marauders Map, she learned he wasn't even on Hogwarts grounds. She quickly grew worried and tried to contact him. She was relieved to find his mind, but her worry increased when he blocked her. Ginny tried to push through his mental barrier only to be pushed away. She had no idea what Harry was up to, but she decided that he was in trouble, or was going to be when he got back. Ginny waited an hour or so before falling back to sleep.

The next morning Ginny awoke to find Harry, sleeping peacefully next to her. But the peaceful look on his face was quickly erased when Ginny pushed him off their bed and pinned Harry to the floor.

"What were you doing last night Harry?" Ginny asked as calmly as she could. Harry sensed the anger in her voice and quickly explained himself.

"I was getting Ron's present! I promised to get him something to help him fit in with us! But I didn't want to tell anyone, I wanted to keep it a secret." Harry said sincerely to Ginny. She glared at him for a moment, watching for any deception in his eyes. She had given up hope on probing his mind that was thoroughly blocked.

"I hope that's the truth Harry, or you will sorely regret it." She whispered quietly into his ear. Harry saw the small dagger she had bought just inches from her hand, which was close to a certain area Harry would like to keep intack.

"No! That's really what I was doing! I swear it Ginny!" Harry shouted, struggling against Ginny.

"Well then, what did you get Ron?" Ginny questioned sweetly.

"You'll have to wait until he opens it." Harry answered. Ginny pouted to try and get it out of him, but he quickly shifted so he was behind her.

"Harry! Come on, you can tell me!" Ginny pleaded.

"Nope, now I'm going to shower. Don't try looking for it. I've put it into a place you would never get it from." Harry smirked before closing and locking the bathroom door.

'Well, if that won't get him to tell maybe this will.' Ginny thought to herself. She turned herself into fire and flowed under the door. The last thing anyone outside the door would have heard was Harry gasping and a giggle from Ginny. Then a soundproof charm on the room would have ended any other noise.

Later in the morning, we find the Mages in the Gryffindor common room, with the other Gryffindors or course, enjoying their new presents. Suddenly, Harry got up and left the room, causing everyone else to look confused for a moment before returning to their previous activities. A minute or two passed and Harry walked into the common room, grinning and holding something behind his back.

Harry walked straight to Ron. "Ron, I help my promise to get you something extra special for Christmas. Chazor and I spent a lot of energy acquiring this gift, so take good care of it." When Harry stopped speaking, he pulled to object, which Harry had hidden with a small shadow, from behind his back and presented it to Ron. Harry dropped the shadow and everyone in the room gasped or gaped. In Harry's hand was a plain red egg. Most people in the room immediately recognized it as a dragon egg and the word spread through the room quickly.

Ron took the red egg with shaky hands, but he still held the egg firmly. He looked at Harry, but was too amazed to thank him. Harry didn't mind really, he checked Ron's mind quickly and saw how Ron was basically yelling at himself to say 'Thank You'.

After a few moments of admiring the egg, Ron moved up the stairs to the boy's dormitories and put the egg in a safe place. Ron was amazed by the egg. He couldn't tell what breed of dragon it was or anything. Harry really must have gone to great lengths to get a dragon egg so rare Ron, who knew quite a bit about dragons, couldn't tell what breed it was. Ron retuned to the Gryffindor common room a few minutes later to be stunned again.

Sitting on a couch, Luna sat, happily chatting to Ginny about something. Ginny seemed to see Ron and flicked her head in his direction, indicating to Luna that her boyfriend had entered the room. She looked and smiled as he approached. After a quick hug and hello, Ginny dragged Ron to a corner of the room.

"What have you done to her?" Ginny hissed. "She's... normal!"

"Yeah. She was a little like that at the beginning of the year. I haven't really noticed though. Is she really normal now?"

Ginny just looked slightly confused before nodding and wandering off to chat with Harry.

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