LILY

I love Christmas. It's my favourite holiday. I love the snow, the decorations the food and the fact that my whole family no matter where they are or what they're doing drop everything and come and stay at the Burrow. It's grown over the years; the original house had eight rooms and a living room/kitchen. Now there are fifteen rooms and the kids have their own living room. The Burrow is one of my favourite places in the world. Just walking into it makes me feel happier. I love the smell of Gran's cooking, the sounds of Granddad tinkering with some muggle device in his shed, the violent noises that always come from the room Fred and James share and the general feeling of togetherness I always get in that house.

'Oh Scorpius,' I practically sang a week before the holidays, 'Christmas is here.'

He looked faintly amused 'I can see you're excited,' he said with his customary smirk, but I was so happy I didn't even feel a little annoyed.

'So what are you doing for Christmas?' I asked excitedly.

'Just staying at the castle' he said.

'What? ' I exclaimed. 'Why? Christmas is family time.'

'Well I haven't got much of a family now, have I?' he said.

'You have one now' I said firmly, 'you're coming to the Burrow for Christmas.'

'I don't think that's a good idea Lil.' He said looking a little uncomfortable, 'How are you going to tell your family that you're bringing home a Malfoy for Christmas?'

'My family is so large I doubt they'd even notice an extra person. Besides Al likes you too and we always bring friends home for Christmas. I usually take Nick home, 'cept her grandparents are over so she has to go back to London.'

'Are you sure?' he said. I could already see the smile starting to form at the corners of his mouth.

'Yes, yes I am' I said. And I was. Scorpius was actually one of my best friends. I sometimes felt like he understood me better than anyone, even Nick and Ria.

I told Albus about inviting Scorpius over for Christmas. He was actually more excited than I was. He, being far more practical than me, quickly sent an owl to Gran telling her he was bringing a friend over. I was actually glad he was friends with Scorpius, despite what I said, bringing home a Malfoy might have been a little tricky if I was the only one who could stand him. Gran replied in a few days and said she would love to have another person in the house she also asked us to send her a list of what we wanted to eat. I loved deciding what to have for Christmas, for the last couple of years me, Al and James had decided what we wanted, but this year we had Malfoy instead. He didn't really help much though he just nodded a lot. Malfoy just drifted through the entire week with a huge smile on his face. I had never realized how bad things were at home for him. I mean he had told me about some of it, but I always thought he was okay, nothing really seemed to upset him. I never realized how lucky I was.

Gran also sent us room allocations. It was actually a little funny but since there were so many of us, I guess it made sense. I got to room with Vic, Rose and James' girlfriend Violet, Fred and James got a room together as usual, Dom, Molly, Lucy and Roxy were put together and Al was put in a room with Scorpius and Teddy had to share with Hugo. Louis was too small so he had to sleep with his parents. Al was ridiculously happy because he usually had to share with Hugo and Teddy and he said that though Hugo played the guitar very well it got a little annoying when he was still playing at 1.00 a.m.

A day before we were due to leave I ran into Lorcan in the corridor. 'So,' he said, 'I heard Malfoy's going to the Burrow this Christmas.'

'Yeah, he wasn't going home anyway so I figured it would be cool to have him over.' I explained.

'I don't trust him Lil' he said seriously, 'he's not a nice person.'

'Well how would you know?' I said, laughing at the grimness in his tone. 'You barely take to him every time I start a conversation in History Of Magic you just glare at him.'

'I've seen how he looks at you Lil, guys like Scorpius; they aren't really interested in relationships or anything like that. I know him Lil he just wants to get in your pants,' he finished harshly.

I could feel the tears beginning to well up in the corner of my eyes. I never knew Lorcan could sound this mean.

'Lorcan, you are neither my boyfriend nor my brother so I really don't know how me being friends with Malfoy is any of your business. And really do not lecture me about relationships since you're so insecure you only date girls who are so stupid they can barely understand what you say.' I yelled at him and stormed off.

The arsehole. He effectively ruined my evening. I went to an empty bathroom and just screamed really loudly.

'Can you keep your voice down?' I heard someone whine. I looked back and there was this ghost who looked liked she was about my age.

'Hello' I said cautiously.

'I usually don't get much company' she said 'people don't like talking to me much. I'm Myrtle.'

'Oh I know you' I said recognizing her from the stories my dad had told me. 'You're Moaning Myrtle.'

She let out a squeal of anger at that. 'I hate that name!' she screamed and promptly dived in to a toilet. Feeling a little happier after meeting the strange ghost I had heard so much about, I made my way back to the Gryffindor common room.

I was all packed and the next day we went to professor Fawcett's office to floo to the Burrow. It was going to be a good Christmas; I just had to figure out how to introduce my family to my new friend.

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