I woke up on Christmas morning to Hugo jumping on my bed. This made me smile; even though my little brother was now a teenager, he still woke me up on Christmas the same way since he could walk.
"Happy Christmas Rosie!"
I sat up in bed. "Happy Christmas Hu, are mum and dad up?"
"Not yet, but look at the haul we have this year!" I looked at the foot of my bed to see the floor covered with presents. I swung my legs over the side and inspected the parcels.
"It is a good lot this year, let's go wake mum and dad so we can open them!" Hugo and raced to our parents room to wake them up. We then dragged our gifts from our respected rooms into the living room so we could open them together.
I got a jumper from Nana Weasley of course, and a muggle book series from Grandma and Grandpa Granger. Uncle Bill and Aunt Fleur got me a new dress, a dragon scale necklace form Uncle Charlie, some new quills from Uncle Percy and Aunt Audrey, an assortment of Weasley Wizard Wheezes from Uncle Fred and Aunt Angelina, and a new jumper from Uncle Harry and Aunt Ginny. Uncle Dudley and Aunt Katherine got her me some candy. Sarah had sent me a t-shirt of our favorite muggle show, Sherlock (Sarah's parents are muggles, and when I visited last summer we all binge watched it). Hugo got me socks that changed patterns. I immediately put them on, and they turned red and green stripes.
I saw that I had received a gift from Nicola, which I shoved under me. There was a 75% chance that it was something that I wouldn't want to open in front of my parents. Mum handed me the present from her and dad. I opened it to see the a beautiful dark green silk ball gown.
"Wow. Mum this is beautiful!"
"Hey!" my dad said, "I helped pick it out too!"
"We thought you would like something new to wear to the Remembrance Ball this year. I thought green would look good on you."
"It's perfect!"
I had two more presents to open. I looked at the tag of the first one, and read that it was from Al. Every year, the cousins drew names for a Secret Santa, and this year Al must of gotten me. I ripped it open to see a silver dragon necklace. He knew me so well. I fastened it around my neck, along with my dragon scale. They complemented each other perfectly.
I reached for the last present, which was wrapped in green. And that was the color of my face when I saw who it was from. The tag read in thick-scrawled handwriting: To Weasley; I hope you aren't missing me too much ;) -Scorpius Malfoy. I snatched the parcel, and hid it under my sweater from Nana. "I'm going to change into my sweater!" I said as I ran to my room with Scorpius's and Nicola's gifts in hand.
In my room, I opened Nicola's gift first. She had gotten me a book called How to Seduce a Wizard: A Witch's Guide to Getting a Guy. With it was a note from Nicola saying, Happy Christmas Rose, I thought you and Sarah might need this ;) Love ya! Good thing I didn't open that downstairs, Dad would of thrown a fit. I debated whether or not I should even open the gift from Malfoy. What if it was a dead mouse or something gross? But curiosity got the best of me, and I ripped off the wrappings. Inside was a small golden box. I slowly pulled open the lid, when a loud boom erupted from the box, and green and silver dust was spread all over my room, covering the floor and myself.
"Rosie! What was that?" my dad called up the stairs.
"Nothing!" I responded quickly. I picked up the golden box I dropped in the explosion, and looked inside. On the bottom was a picture of Malfoy himself winking at me. I heard a knock on my door, so I quickly tossed it under my bed.
"Rosie, is everything alrigh-what. happened." My mom looked at my room in shock.
"I think I stepped on an old Weasley Wheezes that I forgot under my bed."
"Rose! I told you that you can't shove those places, it's dangerous!" and Mum pulled out her wand and with one flick, cleaned up the dust. Oh how I wish I could do that, but Mom took our wands during break. "We are going to leave for the Potters in an hour, so we can help Nana with the cooking. "
When mom left, I grabbed the photo of Malfoy and tried ripping it to shreds. But as hard as I tried, the picture would not tear. Frustrated I threw it in the trash and stormed out of the room.
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"Did I ever tell you how much I loathe Scorpius Malfoy?" I said as I walked into Albus's room. Al looked up from his broom which he was polishing with the kit he got for Christmas.
"Happy Christmas to you too, Rosie," Al grunted.
"I'm sorry. Happy Christmas Al! I love the necklace!"
Al put his broom down, " I thought you would. Now what did he do this time? You haven't even seen him since school got out."
I grimaced. "Your friend was nice enough to send me the pleasant gift of a green and silver mess of dust all over room."
"That's not too bad, he could of sent you a box full of spiders or something."
I shuttered, unfortunately I had inherited my dad's fear of spiders. "It's still awful. Malfoy is a conceited, awful, arrogant...arrogant-"
"Prat?" offered James as he walked into the room.
"Yes. An arrogant prat."
"You're lucky Scorp couldn't make it to Christmas Dinner," said James.
Couldn't argue with that.
"Children, come help me in the kitchen!" shouted Nana Weasley. We all groaned and headed downstairs, where I promptly ran into Teddy and Victoire. Victoire was wearing her new burgundy sweater with a V on it, and Teddy was wearing his new green one.
"Happy Christmas guys, thanks Rosie for the movies!" Teddy said. I ran and hugged them both. Victoire looked at me strangely.
"Is Roxy here yet?" she asked.
"Not yet," I replied.
"That's ok, Lily will do. LILY COME IN HERE FOR A MINUTE." Lily walked in from the kitchen. She ran to Teddy to give him a hug. Teddy was like an older brother to her, and she rarely got to see him anymore. She didn't even get a word out before Victoire grabbed her by the arm and started pulling her upstairs.
"We'll be down in a minute boys, Rose come on!" I had no choice to run up the stairs after her.
She pulled us into Lily's room and shut the door.
"Alright, Dom's new boyfriend. Spill."
Lily and I exchanged glances. "I thought she already told you..."
"She told me who it was. But if I remember correctly, Blaine Solderini wasn't a very good person when I was head girl."
"Let's just say I saw him jinx some second years because they were in his path last Monday..." Lily said.
"And he has a reputation for fooling around with a different girl each week." I added.
"I told her to stay away from boys like that!"
I snorted. "Coming from you."
Victoire looked appalled. "Teddy is a perfect gentlemen mind you!"
"Not Teddy. I seem to remember you once dated a certain seventh year Ravenclaw boy in your fifth year who had quite the reputation."
Victoire's face turned red. "He was a mistake. And that's why I'm worried. I don't want Dom to get hurt."
Lily piped up, "We are planning to stay on guard with him."
"Yeah," I continued, "As soon as he makes one wrong move against her or any of our family, he'll have to deal with the 10 angry cousins."
"Alright," Vic sighed, "Keep an eye on her, ok? And Louis too. I know he is only twelve, but I worry about him." We promised we'd keep watch over both of her siblings.
Christmastime is always my favorite. My entire family gatheres for dinner in Uncle Harry's house. All of my aunts, uncles, cousins, and my extended family like Uncle Neville, Hagrid, Aunt Luna, and all of their families come. Old friend's of the family come too. This year Lee Jordan and his wife and kids attended which made dinner a blast. Uncle George and him cracked jokes all evening. They called James and Fred their legacy.
When the family got together, it was always chaos. But I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.
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