A/N the only essential part of this chapter is the first paragraph, the rest is just for fun, feel free to skip it.

Four months after the Black Pearl's arrival, it was decided that the family would have Christmas Day Dinner (a capitalised affair for many families, especially ones as large and varied as Harry's, which that day would include Andromeda, Teddy, the Director and his usual guards, the Turners, Kailani of the Sirens, three Goblins from the smithy, the Caribbean Gringotts employees who had been adopted in, the entire Weasley clan and, as the Pearl was a ship - and of Caribbean origin - and therefore not British soil, the two remaining Malfoys) on the deck of the ship under the sky and protection of several waterproof charms, should Calypso and the deity responsible for England's weather decide to play merry hell. At the very least, it would be an interesting event.

A surprising amount of Black Point residents had elected to move onto or around the ship for one reason or another, and so aboard the ship were more than enough creatures for a rendition of 'The Twelve Days of Christmas'.

Twelve Fairies

(who, thinking to avoid the Augureys and please the various witches, wizards and crew members, laid their eggs in the rigging, giving a wonderful decorative effect by Christmas Eve)

Eleven Cornish Pixies

(who had sufficient foresight to realise any ship holding two Marauder children and the last Twin about to host a crowd of that size and potential hostility was a ripe place for mischief (their discovery of Jack the monkey just cemented their decision to make the ship home))

Ten Imps

(of the same mind as the Pixies)

Nine Puffskeins

(attracted by the large numbers of sleeping crew)

Eight Shrakes

(who unlike the Ramora, had adopted the ship instead of the crew)

Seven Murtlaps

(seeming to innately know of the rat infestation of the bilges)

Six Ramora

(originally brought to Black Point as pets of the Sirens, they had since birthed young who had adopted Harry, Teddy, George, both Turners and Mr Gibbs as their charges)

Five Jobberknolls

(eating the virulent woodworm and other insects - even the best of enchantments couldn't stop already existing bugs from breeding)

Four Jarveys

(in the bilges, hunting rats with the Murtlaps)

Three Clabberts

(who had noticed Jack the monkey and the seagulls and decided to work together to catch the larger birds and share)

Two young Bowtruckles

(who had examined the wood, found it to be sufficiently magical, then set about reviving, revitalising and otherwise repairing it)

And an Augurey

(who had claimed a part of the crow's nest for it's own, eyeing the Fairies intensely)

Other inhabitants included a Kneazle that had taken a shine to one of the Gringotts employees, a man called Cotton, an Occamy that was also very interested in a certain undead monkey, and the much-mentioned monkey himself, Jack, cursed inhabitant of the Black Pearl since Captain Barbossa had the helm, centuries before.

A/N

I got to looking through my copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and couldn't resist, sorry!