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Chapter Six: Snowball War, and Christmas

Everyone in class watched as the cabinet started to shake and rattle.

"N-now I kn-know your all won-wondering what i-it is. Any guesses?" Professor Quarrel asked

"That's a Boggart, sir." Aramis said

"Right, Mr. Sca-Scamander." Quarrel said "To-Today we will be facing our gr-greatest fears. Boggarts a-are creatures t-that can take th-the shape of you-your biggest fear. T-the only way t-to defeat it i-is laughter. N-now the spell t-that can be u-use against it call "Ridiculous." Say i-it with me."

"Ridiculous." The class said together.

"This class is be Ridiculous." Lucas muttered to his friends; which they laughed had to.

"V-very go-good. No-now get in line." Quarrel said

Everyone quickly rushed to line up as they wanted to try this new spell. Pretty much everyone had similar natural fears; spiders, snakes, clowns and ect. Rain fears was the strangest one yet. It was a talking dog that was wearing a suit. Everyone had looked at her weirdly. When she did the spell it turned into stuff toy dog. Malcom's fear was his grandmother Madam Mim and he was able to turn her into a tiny lizard with pink dots. Aramis was up next and his was an office desk which had everyone looking at him with disbelief.

"Um...Mr. Sc-Scamander...I-I don't quite un-understand wh-what your fear is." Quarrel said

"It's having a desk job, Professor." Aramis said

Everyone laughed a little. When he used the spell on the Boggart the desk turned into a dragon. Next up Vanessa and she was a little nervous as she knew what the Boggart will turn into. When she stepped up in front of the Boggart formed into a cloak man with red eyes and pale skin. Everyone gasped when they saw that it was the dark lord Voldemort. Vanessa quickly raised up her white wand and said the spell.

"Ridiculous!"

The man turned into a whined up toy. A few students laughed while others gave the princess with concern looks. Vanessa excused herself as she couldn't be there right now. As she was outside she heard someone following her. She stopped as she already knew who was. A hand was placed on her shoulder and she looked over seeing as it was Aramis. No words were said as he knew that seeing that man was a hard issue for her. They just sat down together on a bench as he wrapped an arm around her shoulder and she laid her head on his shoulder. They were quiet for a few minutes till Aramis thought of talking about something else.

"So...do you have any idea what's with Rain and that talking dog?" He asked

Vanessa couldn't help but laugh.

"I have no idea. Though I am worried about her sometimes." She smiled

He smiled back at her and they both laughed a little. The wind blew a little and they noticed that it was getting colder. They look at one of the castle windows and saw that it was snowing.

"Looks like winter is here." Aramis said

Vanessa nodded with a smile as she leaned her head on his shoulder again and they watched the snow together.

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It was December now, and it was near Christmas. Vanessa zipped up her jacket as she was walking Dude around the courtyard. She smiled as the five month old crub started jumping and playing in the snow. Pickett popped out his head from Vanessa's jacket and shiver when the wind blew their way. Since he didn't like the cold the little creature went back inside her jacket. Vanessa shook her head in amusement.

Dude continued playing in the snow till he halted in his tracks when he heard a familiar meow. Looking up he saw Filch's cat, Mrs. Norris. The little dog growled and started to bark as he started chasing after her. The cats cries and Dudes barking caught Vanessa's attention and she groaned. It was because of the twins that Dude started chasing and terrorizing Mrs. Norris.

"Dude, no. Get back here. Dude!" She called him as she chased after him.

She didn't need detention from Filch this week. He has threatened her that if Dude terrorize his cat again he'll make sure she gets detention for two weeks.

"Potter!"

She groaned again as she knew that it was Mr. Filch. He was standing in the hallway with the cat in his arms.

"I warned you Potter what will happen if that mutt chases her again." Mr. Filch glared

"Don't worry, Filch. I'll deal with her."

Coming behind Mr. Filch was Snape. Filch had a satisfied look on his face as he knew Snape will give her a proper punishment. When the squib was out of sight Dude started to bark out of excitement around Snape. This made Vanessa raise a brow as Dude never did this before around the Professor. Actually when her or any of her friend mention seeing Snape Dude runs and hides and they never taught him that. Vanessa looked up at the professor who was now smirking and his hair started to turn blue.

"Malcom?" She asked

The so called Snape let out a smile and his form started to transform back into Malcom.

"Who's the best tranfigure wizard in the word?" He smirked and let out a mocking bow.

"Not bad Malcom. You almost had me fooled till your hair started to turn blue." She smiled as she picked up Dude.

"Yeeeah...I'm still having a hard time keeping it under control for long." He sheepishly said

"Either way, thanks for saving me back there." She said as they headed back inside the castle.

"What are friends for. Besides I really wanted to test my transforming back there." He said "So what are yours and Harry's plans for Christmas? Heading back to Auradon?"

"We were planning to, but for some reason Harry wanted to stay here." Vanessa sighed

"I see that he and his friends are still looking for information on Nicholas Flamel." He sighed

"Yup. But I'm not going either. Ben informed me that they were going to take a cruise with Audrey and her family for a week." She said with a shiver. "Spending that long with that girl, I would rather dive off the ship."

Malcom could only nod as he heard many stories about Sleeping Beauty's daughter from everyone in their group. From what he has heard she was the typical stereotype princess that was spoiled and self absorbed. Pretty much how everyone on the Isle thought people in Auradon were.

"So that leaves you, Harry, me and the Weasley's here at Hogwarts. This should be fun. He smirked

Vanessa couldn't help but smile in agreement.

"Why am not surprise that you're not going home Mim."

The two stopped when they saw Lucas Mafloy and his group.

"From what I hear you have no home to go to. Even on the Isle of villains you are denied and are unwelcome by your family." Lucas smirked

He and his goons laughed. Dude started to growl and jumped out of Vanessa's arms as he started barking at them. He then bit Lucas leg and started tugging his pants.

"Get this bloody mutt off of me." Lucas glared as he tried to pull his leg away.

One of his goons tried to help him out but Dude let go and quickly got away. He was able to get behind the big goon and jump up to bite his butt. The big goon wince in pain and the two Gryffindor just laugh at the scene before them. Lucas seemed to have gotten fed up with it and took out his wand. Before he could conjure up a spell a snowball hit him in the face. Malcom and Vanessa looked at the courtyard and saw that it was Fred and George that conjured up a lot of snowballs and started chucking them at Lucas and his gang.

"Take that Malfoy!" Fred smirked

"What are you two buffoons waiting for? Get them!" Lucas growled as he dodged a snowball.

He and his gang started to conjure up their own snowballs and started firing back. This made Vanessa grab Dude again and she and Malcom hurried over to help the twins.

"SNOWBALL FIGHT!" George yelled

It wasn't long for a simply snowball fight turning into a snowball war as every Gryffindor and Slytherin student came and help their fellow housemates; not to mention some Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws have helped out too. The fight went on for an hour and Hermione was surprise that no teacher has stop this.

"This is madness." She said as she hid behind a snow wall.

She didn't join in the fight but was trying not to get hit when she walked out of the courtyard. To her luck she ended behind the snow wall that Harry and Ron were using as a shield.

"This is brilliant." Harry smirked as he threw a snowball at Draco Malfoy. The snowball hit him in the face. "Bullseye!" He laughed before hiding behind the wall as Crabb and Golyal started throwing snowballs at them.

"I should have expected this. This is a boys' game." Hermoine muttered

"What are talking about Hermione, Vanessa is our leader." Ron said as he pointed his thumb where the female Potter was.

"And she's winning the battle for us." Harry smiled in admiring.

When it comes to things like this Vanessa was a natural born leader and thrives to win. She had a knack for making strategies and figuring out patterns. In her mind the battle field was like wizard chess. She stayed calm and never let her emotions get the best of her. It was just something she was born with. But when it got to Dumbledore's attention he told her that she got it from both her grandmother, from her mothers' side and father. Hearing this it made Vanessa feel connected to them and embraced her leadership side. It seemed that they were winning until Professor Snape came and stopped the whole game with a freezing spell. Once he released everyone they all groan as they knew their fun was over.

"Who started this ridiculous game." He glared

Lucas pointed at Fred and George, who wanted to through their last snowballs at him. Vanessa was about to take the fall but Fred stopped her, letting her know that they'll take it this time.

"100 points taken from Gryffindor and detention for two weeks." Snape glared and looked at everyone else. "Now all of you either get back to class or to your common rooms before I decide to take 50 points from each house member that's out here."

That made everyone scatter off. Lucas smirked as he and his goons and brother were about to head back to their common room until he was hit with two snowballs. Fred and George high-five to each other as they ran off before Snape could give them more detention.

"I knew that this would happen." Hermione groan from the fact that their lost a lot of points. "That was so unfair."

"I know, we were winning back there." Ron said

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On Christmas morning, Vanessa was woken up by Dude licking her face. She laughed at first as she got up. After looking over at the window she smiled as remember what day it was. She hurried out of bed and called for Harry to wake up before heading downstairs. Her smile got bigger once she saw the Christmas that was in the Gryffindor common room. Fred, George and Ron were already up and opening their presents.

"Merry Christmas Vanessa." Fred, George and Ron said

"Merry Christmas Fred, George and Ron." Vanessa smiled

"Oh hey, mom send you a present too." Fred said as he tossed her the gift his mom send her.

Vanessa caught it with ease and started opening up. She smiled as it was another one Mrs. Weasley's homemade sweater. It was her favorite color ruby red with the letter V on the front.

"Your always knows my favorite color." Vanessa beamed as she put it on.

"Lucky you, I got maroon again." Ron muttered

Fred and George laughed at his misery while Vanessa just shook her head. It didn't take long for Harry and Malcom to come down and join them.

"Merry Christmas, Harry. Merry Christmas, Malcom." Vanessa smiled as she opened a gift that was from Hagrid, which was a leather necklace with red gem wrapped in the middle.

"Merry Christmas, Vanessa." Harry and Malcom smiled

"Heads up you two. Mom also send you guys a presents." George said as he tossed the two gifts to them.

They both got homemade sweaters from Mrs. Weasley. Harry had an emerald green one with an H on the front while Malcom had a royal blue one with an M on the front.

Malcom was stunned that he actually got a gift since he hardly got one for Christmas but was very grateful thanked them. Then Vanessa handed him his gifts that were from Aramis, Rain, Lee and the twins. Lee and the twins gift was one and it a joke box from Zonko's Joke Shop. Rain had knitted him a blue scarf that matches his new sweater and had an owl on it. Aramis had gotten him chocolate and sweets. Vanessa had gotten him a book about transfiguring into animals.

"Thanks you guys." He smiled

With Vanessa's other gifts she got clothes from her parents. Ben got her a new magical camera that she has been hitting that she wanted. With her Auradon friends they had gotten her a new Ipod from Pandora, Peter Pan's daughter. New top and pants that were slik from Amara, Aladdin and Jasmine's daughter. A new designer jacket that was made from Jordan, Genies daughter. A calm necklace with pearls from Ella, daughter of Eric and Ariel. New fuzzy slippers from Doug, son of Dopey. A charm bracelet that had a tiger, monkey, a genie's lamp, a dragon, and a seahorse from Aziz, Amara's twin brother. Aramis got her a wand holder that she could strap around her waist. Rain had also made her a scarf that was red, black and gold and there was a dragon it. The twins got her, her favorite treats. Lee got her some prank props. Harry had gotten her a bracelet that had her birthstone in the middle.

"Aw, thanks you guys." Vanessa smiled

Like Vanessa, Harry thankful with his gift and put it on. He also got a gift from Hagrid, which was a handmade flute. Surprisingly, his aunt and uncle gave him something but it was just a few cents. Hermione got his some treats. Fred, Geroge and Ron were all amazed by it. From Adam and Bell he got new clothes. Ben got him some comic books that Harry liked. He got two gifts from Vanessa. One is a book about quidditch through the ages and the second one was something he loved the most. It was an old photo of them when they were young and along with their parents.

"Thanks Vanessa. I really love it." Harry smiled

"Your welcome Harry." Vanessa said and then noticed another gift under the tree. She looked at it and it had both hers and Harry's name on it. "Harry, looks like this one is for the both of us."

She grabbed it and Harry quickly sat down next to her to see what it is.

"Your James and Mina left this in my possession before they died. It is time that its returned to the both of you. Use it well." She read the card.

They looked at each other as the card didn't have a name on it before they shrugged. Vanessa opened it and inside was a grey velvet cloak.

"What is it?" Ron asked

"It looks like some kind of a cloak." Vanessa said

"Well, one of you put it on. Let's see how it looks." Ron said

Vanessa handed it to Harry so he could put it on. Once he put it on everyone's eyes widen as everything below his neck was gone.

"Whoa." Everyone said

He looked down and saw that his body was gone.

"My body's gone." He said in surprise.

"I know what that is. It's an invisibility cloak." Ron said in shock.

"I'm invisible?" Harry asked

"These things are really rare." Vanessa said and looked at the card. "I wonder who gave it to us."

Before anything could be said Percy came in and the twins forced him to wear the sweater that their mom made him as well. Vanessa and Malcom helped them out as he was trying to get away.