A/N: I do not own Harry Potter (although I wish that I did (money!! $_$)) all rights go to J.K Rowling, though I'm just borrowing her ideas and adding some of mine.

Christmas holiday

November passed into December. The lake remained to be a block of cold gray steel but the snowfall increased. Halfway into December, the students of Hogwarts found the landscape around them covered in half a meter of pure white snow. Snowstorms and cold winds delayed the owl deliveries, that appeared every morning, and the owls themselves had to rest at Hagrids before they could make the flight back.

Everyone waited with impatience for the Christmas holiday to come, and although green fires roared in the Slytherin common room, the hallways in he castle were freezing cold and the classroom windows were frozen shut.

The worst of all, even though Harry hated to admit it, were the potion classes.

Snape had absolutely refused to lit any fires except for under their cauldrons, therefore turning the breaths of the students into cloudy vapour.

'Normally I would go home, but of course some Slytherins must remain at Hogwarts to show the other students that their superiors still wander the halls' Draco said arrogantly. His feeling of superiority had only increased after the successful Quidditch match.

'Even though I could go home, I'm really pitying the people who have to stay at Hogwarts because their parents don't want them.' Draco continued, looking at Weasley who was sitting a few tables away, accompanied by Longbottom.

Weasley turned a little bit red but did as if he had not heard that last comment.

When Harry left the dungeons with Draco, Nott, Crabbe and Goyle, he was in a particularly foul mood. He was cold, and Snape had marked his potion as merely 'passable', no wonder if he was trying to make a potion with a scarf and gloves covering his body.

Removing the scarf and gloves in the freezing dungeon would have made his hands fall off, he was sure of that.

When the corridor was blocked by what appeared to be a giant horizontal Christmas tree, his foul mood turned even worse. Behind the tree, a panting Hagrid was trying his best to move the tree to the great hall.

'Can you please remove that thing please, you're blocking the corridor' Harry said icily.

'Need any help Hagrid?' Weasley had just shown up.

'No Weasley he doesn't have any money so he cant pay you' Draco said nastily, heavily affected with his friends mood.

'Why you-' Weasley turned red once again and seized Draco's robes.

'WEASLEY'

Weasley released Draco.

Snape had just left the dungeons.

'He was provoked professor,' Hagrid said.

'That can be, however, as I have not seen that, I cant reprimand them on your word alone' Snape said drily. 'However I HAVE seen Weasley assaulting one of my house, which gives me a perfect right to withdraw five points from Gryffindor.' Weasley turned into an even deeper shade of red. 'Now move along Weasley.' Snape said, drawing his wand and pointing it at the Christmas tree, which rocketed into the great hall.

Fuming, Weasley stormed past him, with surprisingly Longbottom at his heels. Harry had not even noticed the black haired boy who had been standing behind Weasley. That wouldn't do. He promised himself to better watch his surroundings next time and followed Weasley into the great hall, accompanied by Draco, Nott, Crabbe and Goyle, the last two looking slightly disappointed for they had missed the chance of beating a Gryffindor to pulp.

The great hall was a marvellous sight to behold. Everywhere hung mistletoes and twelve giant

Christmas trees decorated the corners and centre of the hall. Some trees held hundreds of small candles, while others were decorated with golden balls or enlarged ice crystals. As they neared his usual seat at the green coloured Slytherin table, Harry felt a small nudge in his leg.

Rowan, who had been sitting there without Harry noticing had nudged him.

He whispered, pointing at Granger, Weasley and Hagrid, who were talking at the Gryffindor table. Harry sat and did his best to eavesdrop on their conversation. The great hall however was crowded and it was surprising that Rowan could have heard enough to have labelled their conversation as 'interesting'.

'I cant hear a thing' Harry said irritated. 'Keep me occupied,' he said to Rowan, Nott and Draco. Harry took out his wand, and muttered 'Demonstro'.

Harry left his body, and glanced backwards to see Draco, Nott and Rowan seizing his numb body before it could fall headfirst into their lunch.

Harry floated to the Gryffindors until he was literally standing next to Hagrid.

'..What?!' he heard Hagrid say to Granger. 'hear now, I told you that it is none of your business what that dog is guarding.'

'We only want to know who Flamel is' Granger said almost pleading.

'Or you should tell us now, it would save us a lot of trouble' Weasley had hopefully.

'We already had hundreds of library books but we still cant find him.'

'I'm not saying anything' Hagrid said shortly.

'That we will have to figure it out by ourselves' Granger said rather cheerfully.

The two left for the library, leaving a disgruntled Hagrid behind.

'finite' Harry muttered.

Harry once again merged with his body.

'I'm telling you' Draco said. 'Next time you do that I'm letting you fall headfirst into your food, no matter how people might look'

'Thank you Draco' Harry said grinning 'I owe you one'.

Leaving Draco to mutter by himself, Harry told what he had heard.

'Flamel…Flamel, never head of him before' Rowan said frowning.

'I have never heard of it either' Nott said looking sullen.

Draco merely shook his head.

'I huve' Goyle grunted.

Everyone was suddenly alert, and waiting for Goyle to speak.

'Isunt flame the thing in thu fireplace?'

Silence followed his words. What could they possibly say to that.

The five Slytherins turned towards their lunch, Draco even calling Goyle an idiot.

When the Christmas holiday had arrived, Draco, Harry and Rowan almost had the entire common room for them alone, as most of the Slytherins had gone home. They passed the time with roasting marshmallows in the green Slytherin fires, and playing wizard's chess. Rowan proved to be very good at it, and beat Harry and Draco easily. When Harry went to bed, he was already anxious for the giant mountain of presents he was hoping to get. Smiling he fell asleep.

The next morning, a pile of presents had indeed been piled up at the end of his bed. He looked over at Draco who was still sound asleep.

Grinning evilly, Harry stepped out of bed, walked towards Draco's bed. He took his wand and muttered 'Sonorus' while aiming at his throat.

His voice boomed through the dormitory.

'DRACOO!! PRESENTS!!!'

Screaming wildly, Draco jumped out of bed, landing on the cold, hard floor, which made him jump back on his bed again.

'Tss..You do that every year' Draco said, looking immensely annoyed.

'I KNOOW!!!' Harry's voice boomed, before he realized the spell was still active.

'Quitus' Harry muttered.

Ignoring Draco's annoyed mutterings Harry walked to his own bed, and began opening his presents.

Narcissa had given both Harry and Draco a gray, silken shirt with the Slytherin symbol at the right shoulder.

Lucius had given Harry a book called 'Dangerous dark jinxes' which looked as old as Hogwarts itself.

Draco had given Harry a box of Chocofrogs, Nott a giant box of Bertie Bott's

Every Flavour Beans, Flint a book called 'Quidditch through the ages' and Rowan a black, runed, leather bracer, with a note that said that it had a protective charm on it.

Donning the bracer, Harry turned to Draco.

'Try me' He said grinning.

'Draco noticed his friend being unarmed, took his wand and said 'Tarantallegra'

Harry raised the bracer on his arm to shield himself, and was half surprised when the spell actually rebounded back on Draco, who started to dance maniacally.

'Finite' Harry said, suppressing a huge grin.

'Sweeet' Draco said with his eyes wide. He started rummaging through his presents and found a similar bracer for him too.

'These things must be expensive' Draco said frowning, 'I wonder where he gets them'

'My granddad makes them actually' Rowan said entering their dormitory.

'He owns a small leather shop where he creates leather wares and enchants them for sale. I told them about you guys and he made two for me cheaply.'

'Why didn't you have it when we dueled?' Harry inquired.

'It would've been an unfair advantage, and it is not wise to depend on that bracer too much. It only protects against minor jinxes.'

'I see' Harry murmured, eyeing the bracer up and down.

'Oh and by the way, you missed this one' Rowan said throwing Harry a silver colored package. It felt really light.

When Harry opened it, something silvery and slippery fell from it.

The eyes of the three Slytherins widened. They all knew what it was. Harry and Draco had speculated the possibilities of having a true invisibility cloak long before they even went to Howarts.

Harry touched the cloak. It felt most like woven water, eager to slip out of his grip.

Draco took a small note that had been stuck with the package and read it out loud.

'Your father gave this to me before he died. Now it is time for you to have it back. Use it wisely. Happy Christmas'

Dismissing the thoughts about his parents, Harry donned the cloak, and saw that his head was now floating at shoulder height.

'this is so cool' Harry said.

'I would give almost anything for something like that' Rowan whispered eying the clock.

'We could share it I guess' Harry said this time eying the size of the cloak up and down. 'I think it is big enough for the three of us.'

Draco and Harry pulled their Christmas shirts over their head.

'Not bad' Draco said eying himself I the mirror.

'Not bad at all' Harry said as he too looked at his reflection in the mirror.

'Mh, I don't know Harry, I think it makes you look fat' Rowan mused.

Laughing, Harry threw a pillow at the third year, catching him fully in the face.

The Christmas breakfast was of the like Harry had never seen before. Hundreds of roasted turkeys had been placed on the four tables, as well as potatoes, and golden goblets filled with pumpkin juice.

While eating, Draco and Rowan had a pleasant discussion about enchanted items and how runes could help them function. Harry did not really listen, but instead scanned through 'Dangerous dark jinxes' which Lucius had given him.

A bit disappointed, the book only contained a list of spells, the incantation, the effect and whether it had to be done verbally or non verbally, but not the wand movement, which would make the list practically useless.

Then Harry saw a spell that caught his attention, called "the sandscape curse" which was supposed to turn whatever it came in contact with to turn to sand. Folding the page, Harry made a mental note to ask professor Snape how it worked.

After lunch, the three wandered the school corridors, taking pleasure in discovering hidden passageways. They passed the library, where Weasley was reading what looked like a whole mountain of books.

'What are you doing Weasley, reading how to earn money illegally?' Draco said smiling evilly.

'Get lost Malfoy, not in the mood' Weasley muttered.

'Ooh, not very friendly' Draco sneered. 'Boys, I think its time we teach Weasley to have some respect to his superiors' Draco said while drawing his wand.

'This is the library Malfoy' Weasley said yawning. 'Madame Pinch is probably already on her way her wanting to accuse you of conspiracy in her library.'

As Weasley predicted, Madame Pinch came looking only a few seconds after that, with Draco quickly snatching a book from Weasley's table and loudly saying 'AAH so library books really ARE important, gods I would never have known what to do if Hogwarts did NOT have a library.'

Once again suppressing a huge grin, Harry noticed a pleased looking Madame Pinch walking proudly back to her office.

'Okay Weasley, back to business.' Draco said shoving the book in Weasleys arms.

'Geminio' Draco said while pointing at Weasley's books, which multiplied by ten.

'Why you-' Weasley also drew his wand and loudly send an impediment jinx at Draco, who merely raised his bracer and made the spell bound back to Weasley, who was thrown out of his seat and collided with a bookcase.

Footsteps once more announced the coming of Madame Pinch.

'Damn' Rowan said 'We need to get out of here.' He drew his own wand and pointed it at Weasley. 'Confundo'

'Good, now go!' Harry urgently whispered as the footsteps came nearer.

The three ran out of the library, leaving a befuddled Weasley behind.

The three entered the Slytherin common room a few minutes later, having taken the passageway of Malcolm the mad almost directly to their common room.

'I cant wait until nightfall' Harry said yawning. His lessons with Snape had been cut in half because of the holiday, giving Harry in Snape's words: 'some well deserved free hours, but still enough hours in my office to gain some Christmas knowledge.'

With these free hours, Harry wanted to try out his invisibility cloak, but Draco and Rowan had decided that it would be much more fun at night, so in the meantime, they would have to wait. At night, they would be able to freely roam the castle of Hogwarts.

A/N Not much really happened in this chapter, sorry about that, but I wanted a full chapter for the mirror of erased and what Harry will see when he looks at it.

As always, Read and Review.

Oh Yeah, please tell me what you thought about the magically enchanted bracer and if you though whether it is too much or not, for I figured that Harry grew up in a Malfoy controlled house, so his presents would also be more expensive (E.G Weasley's self made sweater and Harry/Draco's silken shirt).