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Ron sighed. "I wish...for... the snow-dwarf to have Christmas dinner with us."

Everyone was silent. Finally, Hermione quietly said,"I don't think that'll kill the snow-dwarf." She turned to Ron and kissed him on the cheek. "That was sweet of you, Ron. Thank you."

Ron's ears were three shades of scarlet. "Y-yeah, well," he muttered, looking at his toes. "At least no one has to die because of anyone else's bloody selfishness."

The others all gave Ron a pat on the back.

"If I tell Mum about THIS, she'll be so PROUD!"

"So, does this mean I can have my sage?"

"No, I'll take it...I've been NEEDING a new earring..."

"Nicely done, Ron."

The only one who didn't congratulate Ron on his wise decision was Alice. She was quiet and turned away from the group. Harry saw her trembling back and pardoned himself from his friends. He crouched down so that at least part of his head would be level with her. He put and on her back and said, with evident concern,"What's the matter?"

The dwarf was wiping furiously away at crystalline tears, but it was in vain. They came faster and heavier than she could get rid of them, and left streaks of brown on her porcelain white skin. They dripped off of her snowy eyelashes and clouded her squinted electric eyes.

Luna heard and walked over to the two. She crouched down in front of the dwarf and hugged her. She looked at Harry. "Her name is Alice," she said. "She thought for sure that she was going to be caught this winter and some twit would ask for a ridiculously hard wish to grant....she thought she was going to die. And the worst part's that she's only started to live." Luna said the last phrase with such empathy that Harry found himself confused.

"What does that mean?"

Luna answered him. "Gloopleflargins are born in a form that they will always have--they develop in an egg and come out fully matured. They end up not knowing who their parents are, never meeting them; all they know when they're born is what they need to do to survive. Pranking others is their only connection to other living creatures." Luna saw Harry's look of disbelief and read his thoughts. "I didn't KNOW any of this until Alice told me."

Harry looked at Alice, who nodded in agreement with what Luna was saying. "A-aye," she choked out. "I was hatched out of me egg just last week, and thought I was goin' to die when that child caught me." She sniffed up a tear even though they kept falling and put on a brave face. She turned to the others and shouted,"I s'pose it to be best if the lot of us got that grub, eh? 'Tis Christmas, after all!"

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When the six wizards arrived in the dining area of the castle, they recieved strange glances from the few students who weren't at their homes for the holidays. It wasn't every day that a she-dwarf came into Hogwarts to eat with the students.

The group sat down at the Gryffindor table, since that was what house the majority of the group came from. A meal of turkey, mashed potatoes, pudding, truffles, and some kind of hearty stew magically appeared on the plates in front of them. There was more, but the only ones to eat that were Ron, Ginny, Neville, and Luna since Harry and Hermione weren't so sure of what they were, so they stuck to the muggle food. Alice cautiously took food off of the serving plates and placed it onto her own, flinching back everytime it was safely on her plate. When she was sure nothing was going to attack her, she viciously attacked her meal in a flurry of teeth, mashed potatoes, and meat.

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When everyone was good and stuffed, Alice got up to leave.

"G'bye, ev'ryun," she said, smiling sadly. "It was fun granting your wish, Ron." She turned away and started to walk out the door. "Dun' wanna be a BURDEN...I'll just leave ye all alone and go back to the snow."

"Alone," she added in a whisper too quiet for anyone else to hear. She was glad she had her back to the people she had just dined with. She didn't want to see how happy they were that she was gone, and she didn't want them to see how twistingly lonely she was.

"WAIT, ALICE!"

Alice turned to the group. Thankfully, they were too far away to see the single tear roll down her cheek.

It had been the red-headed boy to call out to her. He was grinning. "Come open presents with us in the dormitory. That's part two of my wish."

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