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By December it was obvious something was going on between Marie and Snape. Rosemary could tell Snape often reserved his very rare smile for Marie alone. Rosemary was thankful that Marie and Snape hadn't been able to talk alone. Rehearsals for Firewind were very time-consuming. Firewind was going to play at the last-supper-before-holiday feast. Harry hadn't been able to watch these rehearsals because he was the Gryffindor Quidditch team's newest – and youngest – member. It was obvious that Harry had also gotten their father's flying skills.

While eating at the feast, Hermione dropped a heavy book on the table, shaking everyone's goblets. "How could I be so stupid?" she asked.

"What happened?" Rosemary asked, scooting nearer to better see the book. Ron and Harry leaned across the table.

Hermione opened the book and read, "Nicholas Flamel is the only known maker of the philosopher's stone."

"Who's Nicholas Flamel?" Rosemary asked at the same time Harry asked, "What's the philosopher's stone?"

"Where did you get that book anyway?" Ron asked.

"I took it out of the library months ago for a bit of light reading."

Ron looked at Harry, confused. "This is light?" Harry shrugged in reply.

"Will our local band, Firewind, please grant us a tune or two? Dumbledore asked the hall.

Rosemary's stomach flipped. 'Oh my gosh, this is intense!' she thought as she danced up to the temporary stage and stood behind the keyboard. The Great Hall were applauding as the girls got in their places. When the girls were ready they nodded to each other. Marie raised her lime green drumsticks in an "x" above her head and the hall went quiet.

"ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR!" Marie yelled, hitting the sticks together on each number. The band started to play immediately, except Rosemary- piano wasn't needed, so she was lead singer.

"Ooooooo…" Marie, Claire and Soleil started the song.

"Rockin' around the Christmas tree…" Rosemary sang. Claire had learned the song from thee muggle radio at her house.

The next song was another muggle favourite, and Soleil sung it, since she was the funny one. It was called 'I want a hippopotamus for Christmas'. The song after was 'grandma got run over by a reindeer', lead sung by Marie. The final song was 'jingle bells', sung by Claire. Once they had finished, the crowd in the hall erupted into applause, with Severus one of the applauders. When Marie saw Severus applauding and looking at her, she turned a bit giddy and blushed. Rosemary elbowed Marie in the ribs, causing the Slytherin to fall off her stool. Rosemary rolled her eyes and danced over to the Gryffindor table, with a high given to her by the excitement of performing. Marie ran to her own table.

"Smooth, Mars." Alie joked. Marie smacked her and began to pull various foods and sweets on her too-clean plate. Up at the staff table Severus was watching Marie laugh and have fun with her friends. 'She looks so happy.' He thought, smiling to himself.

"Severus, May I ask you why you are watching Miss Doué with intenseness?" asked Dumbledore cheerily.

"Uh, well…" Snape stuttered, but Dumbledore waved the question away with a smile.

"It's okay, I approve of anything going on between you two, so long as it's relatively rated G. After all, it is Christmas!" Snape sighed and drank his wine. He wasn't sure if there was anything going on between them. There could be, but he wasn't sure exactly what it was.

"Ok, look, haven't you noticed that Snape has been acting weird? I mean he almost smiled in class the other day when you laughed." explained Alie impatiently. Marie was being stubborn, and not accepting the fact that Snape liked her, weather as a friend, or more. 'Is it because I remind him of my mother?' wondered Marie, absentmindedly poking her pudding.

"I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas, and happy New Year!" Dumbledore called once people had stopped eating at the feast. All the students stood, except Marie, whose mind was in another world. 'Why me?' Marie wondered over and over in her head. 'Why not Rose? She's exactly like me. Is it because I'm in Slytherin?' Marie's mind was racing a thousand miles an hour. She was beginning to feel dizzy.

"Marie? Miss Doué?" said a soft voice coming from directly ahead. She looked up, but didn't see anything except blackness.

There was a thump that echoed around the now empty hall. "Marie!" Snape yelled, jumping over the long table, picking Marie up and jogging out the door.

While running to the hospital wing Snape almost ran into the short charms teacher, professor Flitwick.

"Severus! Is that a student?" he squeaked when he saw the Slytherin badge on her chest.

"Yes, it's Miss Doué!" Snape huffed. "Go alert Minerva. Tell her to get Miss Doué and Mr. Potter!" Snape stumbled a bit. "Hurry, please."

A/N – Mary: … and the plot thickens some more! Ok, well, we decided to give the origins of some of the names…

Rosemary= a name I've always wanted… I'm thinking of officially changing my name to this.

Marie= Victoria just liked the name

Doué= means 'talented' in French. Later on, the twins will speak French to one another… (don't worry, we'll translate) and both Victoria and I speak French, me fluently after 4 years of study, and her… not so much, only one year of study…

Claire DeLune= means 'moonlight' in French when spelled 'claire de lune'

Soleil Lumiére= means 'sunlight' in French when spelled 'Lumiére de soleil'

Felix (uncle)= the name was first to pop into my head.

Sophia (Skeeter)= same reason as Felix. I didn't plan that Sophia was going to be a Skeeter. It just happened.

A/N Victoria: She's weird (Sophia)… and yes, there might be Ron/Hermione later in the series.