Yay! I'm updating! Sorry it took so long, but writters block, work, funerals, and other stuff just got in the way. Sorry, I'll try better.
LAST TIME ON The Feel Of Feeling
Javen laughed, "It must be a good song then."
Hermione glared at him but Harry was already out of the room and she knew, just knew, he was getting the CD. She felt like banging her head against a wall.
--Chapter 10—
Harry burst back into the living room waving a dark blue CD case around while humming loudly. He stopped however when a fire ball flew towards him and incinerated the case. Harry blinked.
"Well," he said cheerily, "good thing I already took the CD out!"
He skipped over the boom box, ignoring the growl coming for Hermione's general vicinity, and put it in.
"Santa Claus us comin' in a boogie woogie choo choo train," came out of the speakers along with the rest of the intro before the lyrics started. "Santa's been checkin', checkin' all around the world; Wants to know what's goin' on with every single boy and girl."
The Mane family blinked, whether from Harry's terrible attempt to dance or the song, Hermione didn't know; but since they weren't favourable to it, she assumed she could stop it, and put real Christmas music in. Of course Harry would stop her if he saw, but with his dancing, or what he considered dancing, he wouldn't notice until it was to late.
After Hermione succeeded in her self appointed mission there was much screaming, sobbing, self harm, and sulking from Harry but the rest in the house got the decorations hung, which in turn caused Harry to sulk some more. But all was well, he snapped out of his sulking when Tina mentioned Christmas shopping; he ran for cover instead. He didn't know how someone like Hermione could go all sparkly and girly at the mention of shopping, but she did. And it scared him. Immensely.
"That's a great idea!" Hermione clapped her hands together. Harry's imagination saw her rubbing them together and laughing manically while giving him a look of doom. "What do you think Zain?"
Harry blinked confused, not sure what he missed. "What?"
Hermione gave an exasperated sigh. "While you were apparently off in lala land," she gave him the look but he wasn't planning to tell her he was imagining her surrounded by sparkles and then as the perfect bad guy…girl. "Tina mentioned that it would be good to go in groups on different days. That way we wont have to worry about running into anyone we're buying for."
"What about the people who are in the group with you; how do you buy their present?"
"The group will split after supper and meet up again when it's time to return here." Tina supplied, haven't thought of that earlier.
"Sounds great, who goes with who and when?"
"Can I go with Zain? Please?" Emily hugged Harry's legs and looked at her parents pleadingly.
"That's fine," Javen walked over and ruffled his daughters hair then looked at his Harry. "I assume so anyway."
Harry gave him a lopsided smile. "Yup. So, me and Em, anyone else?"
"Me," Hermione walked over but stood on Harry's side instead of Emily's like Javen and tugged on Harry's hair. "Someone has to keep an eye on the children and I've had years of practice doing that."
Harry looked down at Emily. "She just called us children."
Emily gave a mock gasp. "How could she?"
"I know, terrible isn't it?" He gave Hermione a sad look. "How could you?"
Hermione rolled her eyes at him and walked out the room in annoyance grumbling about children. Ra pranced in, dodging around Hermione as she left and stopped in front of Harry.
'Emily play now?'
Harry rolled his eyes upwards and sighed. "Em, Ra wants to know if you want to play with him."
With an energetic 'Yeah!' both little girl and dog ran from the room, one laughing one barking.
Harry sighed dramatically and looked over at Javen only to blink when he wasn't there. He looked around to see said werewolf watching him amused, standing beside his wife. Harry huffed at him. "Well, since everyone is so set on leaving me today, the Mane team can go today and the Evans team can go tomorrow."
With that said Harry stalked from the room arrogantly. Or tried, he only made it half way before a couple giggles escaped him.
Half an hour later found Harry laying on a couch bored. After he had left the eldest Mane's they flooed away to Conor Mall, the equivalent of the magical alleys. In an effort to find something to do he had searched out the others left in the house. He found Hermione in her room doing homework and escaped before she could rope him into doing his. Emily had somehow gotten Ra to play tea party with her and once again Harry ran before he was made to join.
Which lead him to staring at the living room ceiling. It was something he did a lot at the Dursley's so he knew just how to entertain himself by doing so - find shapes, make up stories for the shapes and any chip - he'd learned to do so for hours.
But he was still bored. And had Hermione known he was bored, she would have tied him to a chair. Last time he was bored, he made the Bender potion. And so with decidedly insane thoughts, he skipped off to his room to experiment.