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A/N: Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for the reviews and also for the favs and follows. I'm feeling hopeful now that I'm not just rambling to myself and people are interested in the story. Keep them coming though, I like the encouragement. I will say more below, for now read the chapter, hope you like it!

A/N: Edited 21/01/2018: Again some minor changes done with the chapter.

Grim Old Christmas

School Days and Winter Holidays, 1987, Little Whinging, Surrey

The following weeks were busy for Harry.

The Dursleys had tried to ambush him but he had been alerted by a nifty little ward of Anna's on the house which kept him one step ahead of them. He had showed his power once when Uncle Vernon didn't seem to be backing down. Otherwise all was quiet in the Dursley household. He cooks food in the evening but get to eat a good portion so he doesn't mind. And it was the only daily chore for him, along with the weekly maintenance of the gardens. The others, Petunia did herself. Though she had started giving Dudley some as well. He started to do it sullen but silently when Petunia didn't budge on it.

His schedule was busy though. His time from morning to evening was spent mostly out of the house, even on weekends.

They had gone to see the mail box three times, and only letters asking after there well being by Cato were there. He had suggested the names of people as Anna had asked but they were both hoping for Sirius's acquittal. He had kept them up to date on his efforts for their cases. They had debated on getting Daily Prophet delivered to them but it would be hard to explain the owl to others so they didn't go through it. Deciding to start the paper when they started living in wizarding world. Either during Hogwarts or when they live with Sirius. Bloodaxe had written a missive last time that it is taking long time because they had to gain permission to check the vault or else they could be sued for trespassing.

Even if the vaults are theirs, they loan it to the customers when they open an account with Gringotts, so they couldn't breach the privacy of the clients. They were negotiating with the Black Lord to give them permission. As the Lestranges by marriage are lesser in the rank because of the contract, so he could give them permission to enter their vault. They were also asking his help in Sirius's case but he couldn't do much about it.

Anna only hoped she wasn't wrong with her information. Things change, when you play with time.

Harry's training in martial arts was going great. He had came along much far from the beginners level. Their Sensei was great, and he loved his time in the dojo. School continued as usual but he was concentrating more on his studies now as the Dursleys didn't berate him for scoring higher than Dudley. Instead Petunia had found a tutor for Dudley. She seems to have changed seeing Harry's change maybe.

While he had also come a long way with his magic. Anna had promised to teach him to become an Animagus after the Winter holidays. They had covered, according to Anna, the syllabus until the third year in Hogwarts in basic spells and charms, without wand. They were going to expand his room a little to create a small lab in the corner of his room, where they could practice making potions. But they were going to do it in the winter holidays.

Anna had been given a scare when a couple had come to adopt a girl in their orphanage. But they adopted a three year old, who had arrived there recently. So she was relieved. She had donated some money anonymously to the orphanage so that they wouldn't resent her being there. Though the matron doesn't seem like she would resent her for her being an extra mouth to feed. She was strict but cared about the children there.

The winter holidays arrived and with it the end of term. They had been able to gain profits from the publications for using Harry's name and the books all saying they were a work of fiction. Sirius's case was moving slowly though. But they had expected that, since they want to remain discreet, it couldn't be rushed.

Bloodaxe though had good news for them. They were going to enter the vault soon and would be able to figure out where the horcruxes were from the horcrux they would find inside. It would be occurring in the winter holidays so they would be able to go to the bank whenever they were ready. The school had been closed for winter but there were still a few days of the dojo left. It was going to close few days before Christmas.

-x-

Winter Holidays, 1987, Gringotts

The day after they finally got days off from the dojo they went to London and Diagon Alley to shop for gifts for each other. It was packed with people shopping late for Christmas. They had stayed with each other but outside the stores while the other bought their gift, so as not of get lost in the crowd. When they had checked the mail while leaving it had one from Bloodaxe inviting them the took day to find the location of other horcruxes. They were excited after reading that. Harry who didn't want to have anything to do about it was still excited to see how they would find the others.

-x-

They left for Gringotts early in the morning, Anna had finally perfected her apparition. And so she was able to just do it with just a step forward and no sound at all.

They reached Gringotts earlier than they were told to, but were led to the ritual chamber on entering the hall. Bloodaxe was waiting for them, along with a few other goblins. He indicated for them to remain at his side while the others performed the ritual.

They were ready to start soon and so they watched as the horcrux, Helga's cup, was brought in and then put in the middle of the ritual circle. The places were going to be located on a map formed during the ritual, which they would mark on the map they had on the chamber wall. It took an hour to locate all the horcruxes.

One was in Grimmauld Place, London; the next was in Malfoy Manor, Wiltshire; another one was in Little Hangleton, Yorkshire; and the last was in Hogwarts. After the ritual was done with they followed Bloodaxe to his office. He remained silent as Anna contemplated the results. Finally she gave a nod to herself then glanced at Bloodaxe then Harry.

"I guess we will see you after we had collected the items then. Unless you had something else to tell us? What happened with the invisibility cloak?" Anna asked.

Bloodaxe raised an eyebrow but produced the cloak from a compartment in his desk, kept folded inside a small box. He handed it to Harry saying, "All tracking charms and monitoring charms are removed from it. And was checked for any other spells. Its safe to wear."

Then he turned towards Anna and said, "Our deal was you would tell me about your reason for trying to find 'Avalon or Atlantis' after we helped you find the horcruxes."

"Yes. You told me their locations, but I will have to confirm they are there and take it from there to actually find them, you know. So you would have to wait until I get the horcruxes. It won't take long, no worries. And you could keep Helga's cup safe until then, yes?" Anna asked.

"Alright. We will keep the cup safe and you will tell us your reason after you have all the horcruxes with you." Bloodaxe said with a blank face.

"Though it would be better if you keep your words clear the next time we made a deal." He added wryly.

"Hey, people make use of fine print all the time." Anna said with a smirk.

Then asked, "You would be able to perform the ritual to bring together the soul pieces and to make him a new body, right?"

"Yes. We could. -"

"For a price." Anna completed, "You should try some other words for it sometimes, like ...in exchange for money, crude is it? Or ...hmm I can't think much else. Alright so I had wasted your time enough. If you would make the arrangements for the ritual, it would be great. We will discuss the price later. Or you can discuss it with him when he comes back. Or I could. I'm not going to pay for it from my pocket." She finished in a mutter.

"If you need any help in getting the items Gringotts could lend you a curse breaker for the wards on the horcruxes." Bloodaxe offered.

"Na, we will be alright. I think we could get the items this holidays or maybe in the summer holidays. Though it may take longer. You will know when we collect everything."

They bid him goodbye then and left Gringotts to have lunch in Leaky Cauldron.

As they were eating the meal Harry asked, "Why didn't you told him about it now? You had made the deal, you should have completed it."

"I didn't cheat or anything. Just not ready to tell yet. But it was my right to fulfill my part only after I had all the items with me. The didn't gave us a guarantee that the items will be there by the time we reach it. They were going to help us find it, their part would be complete when we do find it. The words are important in a deal. So you had to be careful. And they do that with the wizards all the time. I'm not denying them or anything, just bought us some time." Anna said.

"Time for what?" Harry asked frustrated.

"Time to get ourselves settled first. We need to see what happens with Sirius, so we could have a stable base. Then get ourselves out of Bumblebees influence. If I had a choice I wouldn't even go to Hogwarts. Its education is sub standard. They are lowering there difficulty level for the children who can't even use their magic with a wand properly. You are at the level of third years, thirteen years old, now at the age of seven. Granted you are powerful, but you could have reached it even without your power, as you were using your magic even with it bounded. They are limiting themselves and the next generations with their sub par teaching. A Professor there bullies the students, he doesn't like. It wouldn't have been allowed any where else in Britain but they doesn't do anything about it there." She said cutting the meat on her plate viciously.

She put the cutlery on the table and took a deep breath. "Sorry for the rant again. You should stop me when I start it, you know. So as I was saying I want some time to see if we could get a stable base then start telling others about my plan. And I want to tell you about it first. I think the summer would be a good time. You wouldn't be much older but now we had been together for a while, and so you should have come to trust me a little, right?" She asked dubious.

"Yes. I trust you. You had looked after me. And had never lied to me as far as I know. Even told me you wouldn't answer rather than lying. So yes I trust you. No need to be so insecure, 'Onēchan'" Harry said with a smile.

"Ah, Harry-kun I'm so happy that you trust me. And I trust you, and promise to tell you about the task in summer." Anna replied back with a smile.

Harry just shook his head at her words with a smile.

-x-

Christmas Eve, 1987, Grimmauld Place and Gringotts, London

They had bought the items required to make a lab in his room. They had made it in the side of the window so the fumes could get out through the window instead of spreading in the room. They organized the table, the magical spirit lamp, cauldrons, the ingredients on the shelf. They had also bought books to study through them and practice with the ingredients and the other paraphernalia required for making potions. It had taken them two days to set everything up. Then they had followed the instructions in the book, learning the various methods of preparing the ingredients, learning the reactions of the ingredients with each other. Learning to identify them. It had kept them busy till Christmas eve.

They had decided to spend the eve and 25th together. So Harry had left the Dursleys house early on Christmas Eve, leaving them to spend the eve by themselves. And they had gone to London. Anna had taken the aging potion and so they didn't looked odd wandering around London, though few people were out. They had brunch in a nice little cafe on Charing Cross road, Anna had said they could go somewhere posh and treat themselves but Harry had turned the idea down. They then searched for Grimmauld Place in London. They had a map with them and Anna knew various places there as she had lived there in many of her lives. They found it around noon. They had used Harry's cloak to cover themselves so that the neighbors don't take interest in them as Anna had turned back to her child's body, and they would have been conspicuous if it wasn't the case anyway. They had been told by Bloodaxe that it was one of the homes of Blacks. Sirius had lived there actually.

12, Grimmauld Place looked dilapidated from the outside. Anna tentatively checked its wards. Nobody lived inside they knew as Sirius's mother had died two years before and so the house seems to have fallen in despair. The wards had locked down the house and only someone of Black blood could enter. Or allow anyone in with them.

Anna told this to Harry, then thought out loud if they should ask the goblins to contact Lord Black or "-maybe his daughter, Sirius' aunt, Lucretia Black, though she is Prewett now."

As she said this Harry interrupted her, "We have Black blood, don't we?"

She looked at him contemplative, and he looked back with a brow raised.

"You think we could get in ourselves? I forgot about us having them in the family trees. But maybe you could get in and take me with you, I guess, cause I'm too distantly related to get in without invited."

She checked the wards again and saw there were others but they wouldn't activate if they proved they are of Black blood and invited in. So she nodded at him and they walked to the door, she asked him to place his hand on the door, it got stuck on the door and he looked at her scared but she indicated him to wait. They were holding hands so she squeezed his hand in assurance. His hand was finally released as he felt a jolt in his body, it wasn't quite a shock but similar enough. The door opened then and he entered, leading her inside by the hand. The lights in the halls flared to life. They were old fashioned and didn't seem to be working on electricity but magic. Anna closed the door behind them and they moved towards the stairs.

"How are we going to find anything in this dump?" Harry asked as they reached the stairs, seeing the house was as bad inside as it was looking from outside.

As he said this some curtains parted from a form on the wall near stairs, which started shrieking at them. It was a painting of a woman who seems to be shrieking because she thought them thieves. A house-elf popped in front of them then, shaking his fist at them.

Anna had hid Harry behind her when the woman had started screaming, he peeked around her at the two apparitions in front of them. Anna let out a bang which shocked them both in silence.

"That's better. Pardon me, but there seems to be some misunderstanding. 'Bonjour'. I'm Annabelle Summers. This is Harrison Potter. You must be Mrs. Black, are you? Its a pleasure to meet you, Madame." She said pleasantly.

The woman, who Anna guessed was a portrait of Sirius's mother remained silent but then said, "Yes. I'm Mrs. Black. What are you both doing in my ancestors home? How did you get in?"

"We were allowed to get inside I guess. And we had just been trying to find Lord Black. This house was said to be the Lord Black's home. But I guess he doesn't live here. The house looked abandoned so we thought we could explore it." Anna said innocently.

"The boy had said something about finding something? And how could you be allowed inside? Only Black blood is allowed in." Mrs. Black muttered.

"He was talking about finding something which could help us contact Lord Black." Anna replied, ignoring her muttering.

"And why do you want to contact Lord Black?" Mrs. Black asked with a brow raised.

"We were going to ask his help in getting Harry's godfather a trial." Anna said carefully.

"And who's his godfather?"

"Sirius Black."

"My traitorous son. The blood traitor got himself landed in- wait a minute, why would you want to get him a trial? He was already sentenced years before."

"No, he wasn't. He didn't get a trial to prove his guilt or innocence."

Mrs. Black remained silent, then she looked at Harry, "Harrison Potter, huh or Harry Potter? You are the Half-blood son of the mud blood and the blood traitor. Oh my son had ran away to them when he was young I remember."

"Technically we are both Pure-bloods, having both magical parents. You could call us First generation Pure-bloods. And yes he goes by the name Harry Potter mostly. Though I would like to request, if you would be cordial enough not to insult his parents memories. He had a hard life living with muggles until now, when we learned he had a godfather, we thought he could take him in and raise him like a Pure-blood, in the magical world where he belongs."

"You have a nerve demanding me to be cordial, when you are trespassing in my house." Mrs. Black said angrily.

"Pardon me, Madame. I didn't want to offend you. Maybe we should leave as it seems our presence is causing you discomfort. We were only curious to see the house. We wouldn't disturb you anymore." She started to turn back, tugging Harry along when Mrs. Black stopped them, "Well you seem well mannered at least. Summers, you said huh? It was an old, minor Pure-blood line. Where are your parents?"

"Well as you know about his parents," Mrs. Black nodded. "Mine too died in the last war. I live in an orphanage near where Harry lives. We met when I came to live there." Anna said.

"And how did you found this house?"

"I used to live in London and knew some places. So we were able to search for it with only a little difficulty. The house didn't looked like it was noticed by muggles. So we were curious."

"So you want to get my son a trial so he could gain his custody?" Mrs. Black asked indicating Harry, who was feeling irritated by being talked about like he wasn't even there.

"Yes." Anna kept the answer succinct.

"And why do you think he's innocent?"

"I don't know that. But we want to give it a chance. If he is innocent then he was imprisoned wrongly and would get out. If he isn't then it would be justified to keep him there."

Mrs. Black remained silent hearing that. Then she said, "Since you were allowed inside you could take a tour of the place, though Kreacher didn't seem to have kept it maintained. He hasn't been the same since I lost Regulus." She muttered to herself then asked Kreacher to give them a tour.

"He would show you around. I can't help you with your task but you can come here if you need a place to stay. " With that the curtains closed and they were left with Kreacher.

He had left them when his mistress had started talking with them, but popped back after he was called.

"Hello. I'm Anna and this is Harry. Its nice to meet you. How many years have you been working here?" Anna asked as they moved up the stairs.

Harry knew about the house-elves from Anna so was intrigued to see him but not surprised.

Kreacher remained silent and didn't answer her.

"Guess I talk to much, eh Harry?" Anna asked on seeing his silence.

"And you realize it but won't change. But I don't mind, its irritating but oddly nice to hear."

"Nice?"

"Yeah. You seem to be your age when you jabber on. Most of the time you are too serious."

"Me serious?! You are joking. Sirius is your godfather."

"Those jokes are gonna get old before we even meet him." He said with an eye roll.

They were shown the various rooms but they didn't went inside any of them. Anna had been trying to feel the magic of the horcrux like her pendant felt. But the house was saturated with dark magic so it was hard to distinguish it. Harry also could feel the magic around and had been able to locate the horcrux in the drawing room on the first floor as they came back down. He signaled towards it and they entered it on pretense of studying the Black Family tapestry which could be seen from the door. As they stood watching the tapestry Anna thought of the ways they could use to steal the horcrux. She looked at Harry from the corner of eye as he acted getting bored watching the tapestry and wandered around the room.

"Hey, Anna look at this locket. It feels different." Harry said from other side of the room, she turned towards him with an eyebrow raised, but Kreacher beat her there, popping next to Harry and starting to berate him for touching Master Regulus' locket. He tried to take it back but Harry said, "How could this be your Master's locket, it has Slytherin's sign on it. Where did your master find it?"

Kreacher was getting in hysterics as he started to berate himself, "Kreacher couldn't destroy the locket. Kreacher is a bad elf." He continued to mutter more but was banging his head on the floor so they couldn't understand much.

They looked at each other with challenge and Harry finally conceded.

"What do you mean Kreacher? How did your master get this locket? Will you tell us what happened? Maybe we could help you destroy it? But why do you want it destroyed?" Harry tried asking Kreacher in a gentle voice.

"You would help Kreacher destroy it?" He asked, finally stopping to bang his head and sitting up, but still weeping.

Harry nodded but Kreacher continued, "But you are children, how could you help Kreacher? Kreacher couldn't destroy the locket. Kreacher knows it needs to be opened to be destroyed. But Kreacher can't open it."

"Tell us how your master found it Kreacher."

So he told them about his and Regulus' story, how he was taken to a cave by the Dark Lord and Regulus has asked him to take him back there, exchanging the locket in the cave. And how Regulus was taken inside the lake.

"My poor mistress. Kreacher couldn't tell the family. Master Regulus had ordered Kreacher not to tell the family." He wept.

"We would help you Kreacher. You can trust us. We would help you destroy the locket." Kreacher looked astonished.

"You would help Kreacher? But it cannot be destroyed. Kreacher tried. The locket is dark, very dark. Kreacher could feel it."

"We will need to take it with us. The goblins would help us destroy it. You could trust us Kreacher. Will you let us take it?" Harry asked cautiously.

"You promise to destroy it?"

"The goblins will remove the dark magic from it." Harry replied decisively.

Kreacher nodded his head then. Harry told Kreacher they would be back to tell him what happened.

"You should probably start cleaning the house, if Sirius gets out we could come and live here."

Kreacher had nodded his head again then popped away muttering about helpful half-bloods, as they were leaving the house. They had covered themselves with the cloak again as they left the house and wandered under it towards a park they had seen nearby.

After they sat on a bench together Anna turned towards Harry, "Playing with words, Harry-chan. Tsk, tsk."

But then she said seriously, "You didn't have to do that. But thanks for your help."

"I was sincere about wanting to help him. He looked pitiful when he told the story. What are inferi, Anna?" Harry asked.

"Inferi are the corpses animated by necromancers, though powerful wizards could do it too, to do their bidding. Similar to zombies, you could say." Anna said.

"So we got the first horcrux. It feels very...unusual. Unlike your pendant." Harry asked.

"Its because we had the pendant layered with spells to stop it from influencing us. Its still early maybe we could go to Gringotts to get the locket protected as well." She said looking at him.

He shrugged back, so she stood up pulling him along as well then apparated away with a step. "This is cool. You don't have to hold the arm tight or feel any discomfort at all. You are going to teach me how to do that soon." Harry said sternly.

"Your wish, my command." Anna replied with a smile. "I will teach you many more cool things than this Harry, don't worry."

They traversed through Diagon Alley, which only had a few last minute stragglers buying gifts, then entered Gringotts. It wasn't crowded much but it was business as usual. They were led to Bloodaxe's office. He informed them about Sirius' case. Cato had gotten Amelia Bones looking into the matter in the ministry, she's going to check his records and then decide what to do next. Anna gave him the locket and told him to keep it safe with them.

"We were going to get it spelled but its better to keep it with you. Not much chance of losing it."

"Tell me Anna. How are you going to convince the disembodied spirit of the Dark Lord to absorb back all his soul fragments?" Bloodaxe asked.

"Ah. It would be quite a difficult and tedious task to argue with him and try to make him understand it is for the best. So we could forgo all that and just do it. You don't need his assent for the ritual, do you?" She asked raising her brows.

"No, we don't." Bloodaxe said with a shark like smile.

Harry just shook his head at their antics, then said confused, "But you had said only genuine remorse could make him take his soul back. Wouldn't he be required to know about it and give his assent for it?"

"He would feel the pain, he would feel as if he had the remorse, in the ritual. It wouldn't be by his own assent but its what happens in the ritual." Bloodaxe said.

"Then maybe you shouldn't use all the horcruxes, rather the biggest piece so he could get his sanity back and then let him decide about the others. Its his choice too." Harry suggested.

"We couldn't afford to do that Harry. What if he decided to keep the other horcruxes as they are, he would eventually get insane again. The body can't remain sound without the whole soul. Its the price for tearing your soul." Anna said.

"I just thought, you are placing your trust in him by bringing him back so you should trust him enough to let him decide what's best for him." Harry said.

Anna smiled and said, "Your sentiments are good Harry. But as I said the body and mind isn't sound without your whole soul. I'm placing my trust, in a way, in him by bringing him back but I am also not fool enough to trust him completely. His seen too much, done too much, to just trust him without conditions. Maybe later we could trust him more, but not now."

"You will trust him more later?" Bloodaxe asked.

"Hey, no need to so sound so stern. Everyone deserves a chance, right?" Anna said sheepishly.

They moved on to the topic of investments then. Bloodaxe gave them the rundown about their portfolios. Then they took their leave, after everything was discussed.

They had a delicious meal in a quaint restaurant in a alley branching off from the Diagon, Reg alley and then left for Little Whinging, Anna promised Harry she would arrive early at the Dursleys tomorrow so they could open presents in his room together.

-x-

Christmas Day, 1987, Little Whinging, Surrey

The next day Harry got ready early and waited for Anna to arrive.

She did soon and hugged him when she entered his room, "Merry Christmas, Harry-chan."

"Merry Christmas, Onēchan." Harry replied with a smile.

They exchanged presents and ate the chocolate fudge they had bought yesterday. Harry opened his first and thanked Anna with a smile and a shake of his head. She had given him a custom made set of 3 throwing knives, which could be concealed easily, which she had ordered in a shop in Mystic alley, another alley branching of Diagon alley.

"You are paranoid Anna." He said.

She had been teaching him various weapons for use, since they started in the dojo.

She just smiled back and gave him another gift which she had concealed until then. When he protested she said, "I wanted to you give you something practical, but its our first Christmas together so you should have something sentimental as well." She said with an eye roll.

"So take it."

He opened the box, inside was a locket, it had design of a lion on the outside and was rectangular in shape. When he opened it, it had the photos of his parents and Sirius on the inside.

"I had to bargain hard with Bloodaxe for giving me permission to search for the photos in your vault. I found some in the things stored from Godric's Hollow. And we could enter it again so you could have a look around, though you wouldn't be able to take anything until you are 11. I just asked him to make a copy of those. So do you like it? I guessed you hadn't seen your parents pictures and must not remember them, so..." He hugged her and thanked her with a teary smile.

"So you like the locket or we could change it if you want, I bought it in a shop in Mystic alley. I wasn't sure about it and was going to give you a frame instead but then I had the brilliant idea of getting it spelled and warded. So now you are protected from most spells, though mostly mind spells like confundus or Legilimency, it couldn't be taken off from anyone else but you, and you wouldn't be strangled by using it either. I was going to add a portkey, but didn't knew any safe places. Maybe we could search for your Family home or manor, then I could make it into a portkey. Maybe Bloodaxe knows a way, your parents wouldn't leave you without a way to get there." She rambled.

"Anna, breathe." Harry said, then continued, "Its awesome and you could have taken me with you when you did go into the vault. But I'm not going to complain about it now. Thank you so much for the gift. Now come on, open mine."

"I didn't took you then because I had gone in the night, I couldn't possibly take you in the middle of the night...wow, its wonderful. Thank you Harry-kun." He had given her a photo frame of their photos together. And had made the frame himself with magic and some handy things. It was a collage of photos which had been taken when they had gone to a photo studio, near the school to get their passport photos needed to be given for the ids for a school trip in January.

"They were taken by the photographer when we weren't watching and he had asked me if I wanted them so I told him to make the collage instead."

"Sneaky." Anna teased. "But its really great, thanks. Now that the exchange is done... You bought another gift."

"You gave me two." Harry said.

"But you were still protesting it. Gifts aren't ever enough. The more the merrier." Anna said.

"It isn't applied for that." Harry said exasperated.

"Hush...wow you are trying to one up me, I know. We have the same brains I guess." He had too given her a set of throwing knives. Exactly like she gave him, black coated, double edged, 8" long.

"I guess they were custom made. And you asked for this type."

"Yes. We have same minds." Harry said with a smile.

"Now who's paranoid." Anna asked twirling a knife.

"It isn't paranoia if they are really after you."

"Well I don't have anyone after me unlike you-" Anna was saying but Harry countered, "You will be in danger, when you would be with me. Even if Vol- Tom doesn't come after me, if he didn't come, there are still his death eaters to consider. And the wizarding world, even the muggle world is dangerous place. The knives you had were good but this are brilliant so we could both practice with this new knives now." Harry said.

They then went down to kitchen, Anna had asked the matron in the orphanage if she could spend the Christmas with Harry. They were going to have the Christmas dinner with the Dursleys and Harry and Anna were going to make the feast, along with Petunia. The worked silently, and it was peaceful. Petunia had come a far way from her behavior before. After the meal was ready they ate it peacefully, it was a little tense atmosphere, but Harry was happy at the silence and his meal. They helped Petunia clear the kitchen, then went to Harry's room again to watch some Christmas movies. They had bought an old VCR from a car boot sale in London and also some videotapes. So they spent the day watching the movies and lazing around, eating more fudge. They had cookies and hot chocolate in the evening and then Anna left Harry with greetings again.

-x-

A/N: A/N is shortened cause the previous one felt just too large. But do know that I appreciated the reviews. I'm just going to answer the questions here. So here goes. You will see the ancestral home soon. About the creature inheritance no, there will be no creature inheritance cause he already got so many abilities, affinity and what not. There will be more chapters before they go to Hogwarts but I hope it doesn't make the story drag. Thanks for the advice and encouragements.

And finally thanks for the reviews and the advice again. Please keep them up and do fav and follow as well. Excited to hear more from y'all, Novarkek.