AN: Hello again! Told you there'd be two chapters, right so just carrying on from the last chapter... Hope you're enjoying Christmas in July, I mean June!

Dedicated to my little sister. How you annoy me. How you make me laugh.

We arrive at Kings Cross Station in a few hours, Val doesn't seem nervous at all, in fact she is pretty relaxed, happily chatting about muggle trains, well when I say chatting her talking and us listening. We get off the train and wait for mum...or dad...or whoever's going to pick us up. That's why I told her to look out for red hair because there's an 99.8 percent chance they'll be a Weasley.

"Has anyone seen a tall girl with red hair, she's got a rather long nose and big front teeth? and a small boy who looks like Harry Potter?" A dreamy voice wavers through the crowd, a slight figure emerges, the adult Luna Lovegood spots us. Her large orange flower in her hair, green dungarees (pockets full of peculiar items yet to be named) and purple top made her stand out from the sea of purple and black cloaks.

"Rose and Albus! I'm to drop you off," Luna says brightly, smiling as she digs around in her pockets, her eyes fix on Val. "Who're you?"

"I'm Val," Val says, grinning at Luna's clothes "Rose invited me to stay round for Christmas."

"Oh, well I only have room for four in the car, not counting myself," Luna explains, frowning slightly "Would you mind at all if you sat on the roof?"

"Luna!" Al and I exclaim, Val bursts out laughing.

"Mam, just use the expanding spell," says a grinning Lorcan, emerging from the crowd with his twin "Guests can't sit on the roof."

"Yeah," Lysander adds "Muggles gave us strange looks last time anyway."

"Expanding charm! That's a good idea," Luna agrees, finally taking out a bottle cap "I guess I won't be needing this then..." She then puts it in the bin and gets lost in the crowd, her sons following.

Val gives me a confused look. "What was the bottle cap for...?"

"Don't ask," I say simply, grinning.

"Luna?" Al asks, as him, I, Val, Lorcan and Lysander all cram into the back "Shouldn't you be in the driver's seat?"

"Why would I go in the driver's seat if I can't drive?"

"...What?"

Luna began to look through the compartment and took out a small blue crab shaped creature.

"Sebastian is the driver," She says as if it was obvious.

"Luna, listen, I don't think it's a good idea..."

"None sense, Sebastian can drive just fine!"

At the she handed 'Sebastian' the keys, which just drops next to him.

"Off you go Sebastian!" Luna says, buckling in.

...

Sebastian just sits there.

...

"Luna?"

"What?"

"I don't think Sebastian can drive..."

...

Then we hear Luna begin to cry softly.

"Luna?" I ask, concerned. "Luna...sorry Sebastian can't drive..."

"It's not your fault," Luna weeps, her voice higher than normal "I just thought he'd be able to drive, after watching R-R-Rolf!" She sobs, her hands covering her face, her charm bracelets clicking as she shakes.

"Luna..." I say softly "Do you want me to ask Dad if he can pick us up instead?"

"Okay..." Luna says sniffing "Sorry everyone about this, it must be the Wambling Olikes..."

Soon Dad comes to pick us up. He manages to get Luna into the front seat without her bursting into tears again and the rest of us have to cram into the back.

"I think mum's still upset about the divorce..." Lysander explains quietly as Luna talks to Sebastian "It was really quite sudden."

Lorcan nods sadly "She usually isn't this crazy...she said she knows Olikes and Nargles didn't exist..."

I suddenly feel a surge of empathy of the twins. They seems to happy all the time, when their family is broken back at home. But now I look into Lysander's eyes, they're full of undeniable sadness.

"Luna, please...Stop. Talking. To. The. Crab." Dad says through his teeth as he swerves through the traffic. "You're distracting the driver!"

"How am I?" Luna challenges "I'm just talking quietly, Sebastian is the only one who understands me right now."

"Bloody hell..."

"Ron, you should find something different to say," Luna snaps, unlike her usual self.

"Like Bloody Mary!" Pipes up Lorcan, trying to lighten the mood.

"Hey Luna, Merlin, I told the others you weren't ready..." Ginny helps Luna out of the car and puts a protective arm around her.

Val and I get out the car and get out trunks.

"Rosie!" Shrieks Mum, running into me, catching me into a boa constrictor hug. That's when I realise how much I'd missed her. I hug her tight, blinking away any signs of joyful tears and pull back, remembering Val.

"Mum, this is Val," I introduce, Mum smiles at her and Val grins back.

"Hello Mrs Weasley," Val says "Thanks for inviting me!"

"My pleasure, Val," Mum says smiling. Val's past stage one.

We all walk into the burrow, the entire family walking around in the small kitchen, it's like London at rush hour.

" 'scuse me," Says Grandma Molly, plates in both hands one floating above her head. "EXCUSE ME!" She shouts again and everyone parts. Setting the plates on the table she notices us.

"Rosie! Albus!" She cries snaking through the crowd to hug us "You two look so smart! Oh and you must be Valencia? You're muggleborn aren't you? Try not to mention in front of Granddad if you don't want to be interviewed...Oh! Rosie, Valencia, you two are sharing a room with Lucy, Dom and Roxy in the big attic we built last year. Albus! You're in with James, Louis and Fred in the living room!"

Val's past stage two. Val and I begin to twist and turn through everyone, Grandma's voice in the background.

"- Oh! Hermione, dear, could you pass me that empty bottle of firewhiskey? RON? There you are, get the glasses! Teddy, y'know that fork behind you? Put that in the dishwasher please -"

She eventually gets quieter and quieter as we ascend up the crooked staircases.

The wooden door creaks as I open it to reveal the attic. All the furniture had been pushed to one side, leaving mattresses covering up the wooden plank floor.

"Roe!" Lucy exclaims tackling me with a hug, Roe is Lucy's nickname for me. When I was born she was four and couldn't pronounce the zee part very well so she shortened it to Roe. "It's been ages since I've seen you! You look so tall!"

I laugh "Lucy, you saw me on the train." I correct her.

She pauses "Oh yeah!" She laughs. I've always loved Lucy's laugh, it might sound weird but when she laughs it sounds how a fairie's would. Like bells. I wish I could laugh like that, if I laugh too hard I can even snort!

Lucy pulls away, and Dom waves at me.

"Hey Roe!" The nickname caught on with most of my cousins. Dom comes up to me and hugs me tightly. I grin sheepishly at her, even though she's my cousin, she quite intimidating. It must be the way she holds herself or the fact her lips are always curled in a smirk. She has amazing strawberry blonde hair which she really didn't appreciate, which is tied in a high scruffy bun, and being an eighth-veela she was pretty. But you know that saying about how an ugly personality can change how attractive a person is? Well, this applies to Dom. Her brown eyes can cut right into you with one glare, outside her family she hates everyone. To be honest, I'm surprised she's not in Slytherin. I'd never say something like that to her face though, she really hates Molly after the time Molly told her she was going to end up homeless if she didn't do her homework. Neither of them have much patience and no one can let them in the same room alone again anymore. She really is as hard as nails, apparently she gets into a lot of fights at school...Dom smiles shortly at Val. Val's past stage three.

"Rosie!" Roxy claps in front of my face, I look to her startled, she grins and hugs me "You were daydreaming!"

Dom's the oldest in here, she's fifthteen. Followed by Lucy, who's also fifthteen, but Dom beats her by two months. Then Roxy who's fourteen and then it's me and then Val. we're both eleven but my birthday is on the 24th of June, while her's is on the 13th August.

We put our stuff away and trample down stairs. Everyone has gathered into the living room - somehow - and now talking quietly. Fleur, Ginny, Audrey and mum on the sofa. Harry, dad, Bill and George and Angelina standing up, each with fire whiskey bottle in their hands. I smile when I notice even though mum is talking to my aunts and dad my uncles, they're next to each other, dad's free hand on mum's shoulder. I hear Luna laugh as Charlie tells her a story from work. For once she looks happy, asking Charlie questions about the opal-eyed dragon. I see Teddy and Victoire in the corner, holding the others hands and whispering quietly. Dom starts to tell James, Louis and Fred a banshee story. Lucy is playing with Lily and I'm about to turn around when I feel my little brother pounce on me.

"Rose!" He exclaims happily, I can't believe he's actually showing affection towards me with other people in the room. But it's probably because family. I hug him back tightly, grinning into his hair. We pull back, I keep my shoulder around him, he notices Val and pushes my arm away from him.

"Hi," Hugo says shyly, as his face begins to match his hair. Val smiles back and says hi.

"You're Valencia?" He states more than an real question.

She nods, "Yep! And you're Hugo?"

Hugo glances at me, asking me with his eyes what I said about him before quickly turning his gaze back to Val.

"Yeah, I'm much cooler than Rose."

Past stage four.

In the evening everyone is their pyjamas, including the adults, Charlie in a dragon onesie that Grandma had knitted for him after he complained about losing his own pyjamas to a dragon. Everyone is drinking butterbeer, Val, I, Lucy, Roxy and Molly are all snuggled up on one sofa, while Fred, James, Dom, Al, Louis, Hugo, Lorcan and Lysander are squeezing on the other, arguing about space. Lily is curled up like a cat on the armchair fast asleep, no one dares wake her up, she may not look it but Lily has a fierce temper for such a tiny body. Maybe it's because she's so small, she can only hold one emotion at once, just like a pixie.

We all share family stories and memories as Molly sends round biscuits and more butterbeer.

We then sing a few rounds of Cast A Christmas Spell and Little Hippogriff. I think this is one of the rare moments we're all getting along, even Dom and Molly. The six Weasley brothers have their arms around each other, swaying and slurring the lyrics. Fleur, Victoire and Molly laughing in the kitchen, while Teddy and Harry talk in the corner. Ginny is perching on the arm of Lily's chair stroking her daughter's hair while talking to mum. Hugo and Lucy are taking turns to put wood in the fire, the other boys listen to another one of Dom's banshee stories and everyone on my sofa is playing truth, dare, double dare or spell. I do love my family.

"Alright, Val, you're turn!"

"Okay...double dare."

"Alright, you can do it with...Rose!"

"Rose?...Roe!,

I snap back in reality. "What?" I ask, as Val and Roxy laugh.

"You're right, she does do it!" Val says, I frown.

"What do I do?"

"Daydream of course, silly!" Roxy laughs. "Right, Val and Rose I dare you to...run around the room pretending to be dragons!"

To be honest, I was expecting much worse, but there's only so much you can do in a crowded room. So we run around like idiots, for some strange reason we don't cause much commotion, actually, I'm not sure anyone is actually noticing us!

"Alright, everyone up to bed!" Grandma Weasley calls, none of the adults or children object. Val and I are first to go up.

"Night Rose!" They call "Night Val!" Stage five passed. Weasley acceptance complete.

Who did J.K Rowling said she almost killed, but then replaced with Sirius Black?

A) Professor Sprout

B) Kingsley Shacklebot

C) Arthur Weasley