Note: As requested, Sirius is back! (You need to have at least one marauder right;))
Lovesreading2: Thanks so much for those ideas! They really helped a lot and you'll be seeing some off those during Christmas dinner and this chapter.
SharkiesGirl: I'm glad you enjoyed it! I'm sorry I couldn't email you privately but something was wrong with the site.
Three hours later, the lights were up and shimmering along the bushes and trees thanks to Ron and Harry. (Actually, Hermione spelled them, but she let them take the credit) The girls were in the kitchen cooking dinner and the unlucky twosome were stuck taking care off the spells that Fred, George, and Sirius had cooked up. They had, in advance, made some special, Christmas themed pranks.
Little Lily was staring in awe at the beautiful tree that had been so lovingly put up by Ron and Harry after Fred and George had crashed it. (Sirius hadn't arrived yet) Suddenly, at the corner off her eye, she saw something. Thinking that she was going mental, she ran screaming down the hall going "MUMMMMMMMMMMMMYYYY!" She crashed right into her mum who asked her quite angrily, "ARE YOU MENTAL LILLY POTTER?" That produced yet another fit of hysteria. She dragged her mum to the tree where she pointed to the Dumbledore ornament and the string of popcorn.
The popcorn was half gone. Dumbledore was gnawing at a piece of popcorn. This was all too much for Lily. She ran out of the room crying. Ginny decided to inspect the
ornament more closely. Dumbledore was currently remarking, "Well, not as good as lemon drops but they don't seem to put those on trees. Curious. Oh well, I suppose it will do." Ginny was less than amused. In fact she was furious and she knew exactly who to treat to her anger. "FRED, GEORGE AND SIRIUS GET YOUR BOTTEMS DOWN HERE RIGHT NOW OR I WILL COME UP THERE AND HEX YOU IN TO OBLIVION!!!" The ever wise Fred was said to state before he was hexed with every imaginable hex, "Blimey George, I reckon she's angry!"
