At around four o'clock the next morning a small girl with long, flowing, wavy red hair and startling emerald eyes awoke with the intention of rousing everyone. She wanted everyone awake so that they could open all the presents, that lay under the large Christmas tree in the living room downstairs. She stood up quickly and leapt across the small gap between her bed and the one next to it, landing firmly on top of her best friend and favourite cousin Hugo, who sat bolt upright in shock causing an unfortunate Lily Luna Potter to tumble off the side of the bed, emitting a large shriek and creating a large bang that awoke the rest of the inhabitants within the room.
Teddy the oldest of the children and honorary older brother to Lily dashed across the room to where Lily could barely be seen under a humongous pile of blankets. Once she was untangled from the blankets, she bounced up shouting "Merry Christmas" for all to hear. The rest of the children followed Lily's lead and were all shouting different seasonal sayings and chatting about what presents they believed Santa had left for them that year.
They were all so engrossed in their Christmas cheer, that not one of them paid attention to the tiny platinum blonde that was crawling with determination, to the shiny gold object that lay on the floor by the door.
Aquila Malfoy had spotted the shiny golden object on the floor and had decided that she wanted to play with it, so whilst everyone headed over to her friend Lily, she crawled the opposite direction to get to it.
When Aquila finally reached the object, she sat down and started twisting the small twisty bit filled with sand, transfixed with how as one end emptied the other end filled. As she twisted it, she didn't notice the sharp crack in the glass that had formed the night before when it had fallen out of Hermione's pocket.
Meanwhile, Scorpius had realised that his sister wasn't with them, so looking around the room he spotted her by the door and went to see what she was doing. As he approached her, he noticed she was playing with a necklace, like the one his father had told him never to touch, back at the manor. Seeing the resemblance between the necklace his sister was holding and the one he was forbidden to touch due to it been dangerous, Scorpius called out to his sister to put it down whilst he increased his speed across the room.
Hearing her brothers voice, Aquila jumped and clenched her fist around the glass hourglass, instantly letting go when she felt a sharp, stabbing as glass imbedded into her small palm.
On the far side of the room the other children heard the panic in Scorpius's voice as he told Aquila to put the necklace down. They then watched in slow motion as what appeared to be a golden necklace, fell to the floor, shattering into millions of pieces, blood poured out of Aquila's hand, as golden sand whirled around the room, driven by some unknown force. As the room span before them, one by one the children fell to the floor in dead faints. The last thing any of them heard, was an earth clattering bang, before they drifted off into nothingness.