February
Valentine's Day. The dreaded Gift Exchange. We'd been organizing it for about a month now. But it's actually here, and I'm nervous out of my mind.
The rules are as follows:
1. On February 5th you will each draw a name from a hat. This person is the person you will be sending gifts to.
2. Beginning on February 7th you will be expected to send three different gifts to the person whose name you drew. These gifts should be meaningful and thoughtful. If anyone fails to send a gift, or sends an inappropriate gift, they will be punished.
3. Each time you leave a gift, you will leave a note as well, giving one clue about who you are.
4. On the 14th of February you will exchange your final gifts, making it four total, and we will have a party after that.
5. This event is being held to promote the fact that you don't have to have a boyfriend or girlfriend to have fun on Valentine's Day, and platonic relationships are important as well.
We drew names two days ago, and I got Albus. You'd think this would be easy right? Wrong.
For the last 48 hours I have been obsessing over what to get my cousin that's Valentine's Day related. My first thought was chocolate, but that's not creative at all. My second Idea was to get him something Quidditch related, but he's already got everything that has the word "Quidditch" on it anyways.
I finally decided on something, but it was basically crap. I walked around Hogsmeade for three hours until I found this stupid thing.
It's a Hebridian Black, walking, fire-breathing dragon figurine. The black dragon had purple eyes, and the fact that it looked so mysterious was the reason it's was Albus' favorite when we were younger.
Alright, so maybe it wasn't as crap as I had implied, but I was sure I could have done better, which made me a bit disappointed.
I wrote the clue next: "Albus. I am in Slytherin. Cheers, enjoy the dragon. Sincerely, Your Valentine's Day gift giver."
I received my gift that afternoon, and let me tell you, I was shocked beyond belief. This was obviously a person who knew me incredibly well, and yet I couldn't for the life of me figure out who they were.
At around 4:00 an owl started tapping on my window. I recognized it, as I had used its services before. It had a small brown sack tied to its leg, so I undid the string and opened it.
I reached my hand in, and pulled out a small bracelet, with a ruby bull on the chain. I had always wanted one just like this; it had been on my Christmas list every year when I was younger. My zodiac sign was Taurus, the bull (April 19th) and I had always wanted something to attribute to that, but I had never told anyone at school, so it must have been one of my cousins.
Obviously, they knew me far before we came to school, and when everyone in your family knows each other, you could quite easily write to their parents and ask what they most desired. Yes. That was the most logical explanation. A cousin.
The hint said: "I'm a Gryffindor."
Seeing as that was extremely similar to the vague note that I had sent, I didn't even attempt to figure out who it was anymore, since I couldn't possibly sort through all of my cousins in Gryffindor in one night.
Valentine's Day. The dreaded Gift Exchange. We'd been organizing it for about a month now. But it's actually here, and I'm nervous out of my mind.
The rules are as follows:
1. On February 5th you will each draw a name from a hat. This person is the person you will be sending gifts to.
2. Beginning on February 7th you will be expected to send three different gifts to the person whose name you drew. These gifts should be meaningful and thoughtful. If anyone fails to send a gift, or sends an inappropriate gift, they will be punished.
3. Each time you leave a gift, you will leave a note as well, giving one clue about who you are.
4. On the 14th of February you will exchange your final gifts, making it four total, and we will have a party after that.
5. This event is being held to promote the fact that you don't have to have a boyfriend or girlfriend to have fun on Valentine's Day, and platonic relationships are important as well.
We drew names two days ago, and I got Albus. You'd think this would be easy right? Wrong.
For the last 48 hours I have been obsessing over what to get my cousin that's Valentine's Day related. My first thought was chocolate, but that's not creative at all. My second Idea was to get him something Quidditch related, but he's already got everything that has the word "Quidditch" on it anyways.
I finally decided on something, but it was basically crap. I walked around Hogsmeade for three hours until I found this stupid thing.
It's a Hebridian Black, walking, fire-breathing dragon figurine. The black dragon had purple eyes, and the fact that it looked so mysterious was the reason it's was Albus' favorite when we were younger.
Alright, so maybe it wasn't as crap as I had implied, but I was sure I could have done better, which made me a bit disappointed.
I wrote the clue next: "Albus. I am in Slytherin. Cheers, enjoy the dragon. Sincerely, Your Valentine's Day gift giver."
I received my gift that afternoon, and let me tell you, I was shocked beyond belief. This was obviously a person who knew me incredibly well, and yet I couldn't for the life of me figure out who they were.
At around 4:00 an owl started tapping on my window. I recognized it, as I had used its services before. It had a small brown sack tied to its leg, so I undid the string and opened it.
I reached my hand in, and pulled out a small bracelet, with a ruby bull on the chain. I had always wanted one just like this; it had been on my Christmas list every year when I was younger. My zodiac sign was Taurus, the bull (April 19th) and I had always wanted something to attribute to that, but I had never told anyone at school, so it must have been one of my cousins.
Obviously, they knew me far before we came to school, and when everyone in your family knows each other, you could quite easily write to their parents and ask what they most desired. Yes. That was the most logical explanation. A cousin.
The hint said: "I'm a Gryffindor."
Seeing as that was extremely similar to the vague note that I had sent, I didn't even attempt to figure out who it was anymore, since I couldn't possibly sort through all of my cousins in Gryffindor in one night.