A/N: Happy Halloween! Enjoy your candy and your bonus chapter! (I realize this is the wrong chapter to be posting on halloween, but I don't have any halloweeney chapters for year 2 so you get a very early christmas chapter instead!) I don't own Harry Potter.

Fire Away

Early-December, 1990

Second Year

"You said you accidently charmed your snowball to hit your sister, right?" Jo asked, it was her first winter in the snow at Hogwarts, she'd been too sick last year. This was their last week before they headed home for the winter holidays.

"In the face, yeah," Leili replied as she rolled a snowball across the ground to make it big enough for a snowman torso while Jo patted the head ball for a good even roundness. As such, Leili was unprepared for a snowball to be launched at the back of her head.

"You mean like that?" Jo grinned wickedly, her wand still out.

"Oooh!" Leili seethed, "I'll get you for that, Jo!" There was a fire in her eyes now and Jo grinned, rolling up another snowball.

"Hit me with your best shot! Put up your dukes, let's get down to it~!" Jo half sang. She and Leili both loved music and this song was just so fitting, she couldn't help but give her a line, that is, before she launched another snowball at Leili's face.

"Ok, you wanna fight dirty? Fine, we'll fight dirty," Leili grinned. She scooped up a snowball and just as she prepared to throw it, she whispered a charm and another snowball thwacked into the back of Jo's head with a wet smack. Jo turned to see who was joining their little game when Leili's first snowball whacked her in the side of the face and she heard Leili laugh.

That laugh ended in "Ack!" as Jo launched another snowball at her. Both girls scooped up handfuls of snow, compressed them into balls and threw. Leili ducked and Jo dodged to the side, Leilani was hit, Jo was spared.

"Curse you and your aim!" Leili laughed as Jo held her arms out in the universal sign for 'come and get me' and grinned, just a touch mockingly.

So, Leili scooped up handfuls of soft snow and formed a ball, watching as Jo sighed and looked at an imaginary watch and the minute she took her eyes off of her, Leili dropped the snowball and ran at Jo, tackling her with an enthusiastic "Rah!"

Jo shrieked in surprise as she fell back into the snow. She soon got her revenge though, as she and Leili wrestled. As they rolled around in the snow, she grabbed a handful of snow and stuffed it down the back of Leili's shirt. Now it was Leilani's turn to shriek, "Cold!" Jo promptly laughed her butt off.

When a 3rd year Slytherin came over to make a disparaging comment about their frolicking in the fresh snow both girls took out their wands and charmed the bottom of their abandoned snowman to hurtle itself at his face, knocking him over. The snow that didn't hit him re-formed into separate, smaller snowballs and began to pelt him as he sat there with snow in his mouth. The girls laughed as he left and went back to attacking each other.

Jo scrambled to her feet and sought shelter behind a tree, "Cheater!" Leili cried, her glee shining clear through her voice. Jo peeked out from behind her tree and ducked back just quick enough to avoid a face full of snow. In retaliation she grabbed a quick snowball and ran out from behind her tree. She aimed for Leili and got her shoulder.

Leili threw another snowball but with Jo safely behind the tree it was ineffective. So Jo came out grinning and held her arms out in her best 'look at me I'm a target!' impression,and was immediately pelted with snowballs that would follow her when she tried to escape them. They made quite a sight, Jo running and Leili chasing, each bewitching snowballs to follow and hit the other. Finally, Jo stopped running and Leili followed suit, both panting and cold but thoroughly thrilled.

"Truce?" Leili asked.

"Truce." Jo affirmed and they cancelled the enchantments on their snowballs, which then fell to the ground with soft thumps. And then, a snowball each flew into the sides of their faces. They turned to see another 'Puff grinning impishly at them. The impish grin transformed into an 'uh-oh' face very quickly when he saw the evil grins Jo and Leilani shared. He took off running when he heard their battle cry.

"Fire away!"