Always

o7: Holiday Break

A few months had passed by quickly. Harry, Hermione, and Ron have been in the library searching for any resources on the Sorcerer's Stone. The twins and I have been pulling pranks on Trey and Malfoy and some first years in HufflePuff.

Fran and I were brewing up a potion that Professor Snape had assigned us. I had a knack of doing well in Potions class since my father was very well known of his potion making.  A paper ball suddenly hit Fran's back.

"Idiots." She muttered as she stirred our potion. "Just ignore them." I encouraged her.

Another paper ball flew and hit the back of her head. She snapped her head to the direction of where the paper ball was thrown. "Trey! I swear to Godric if you do that one. more. time." She warned. He just scoffed and threw another paper ball at her, which hit her cheek.

"GOD DAMNIT!" She screamed. She slams her hands on the table and walks over to Trey and muttered a spell that I couldn't quite make out. Travis began morphing into a rat. She smirked proudly.

"Miss King, we do NOT use those kind of spells on other students." Snape glared. "Oh you're just saying that because you favor the Slytherins." She rolls her eyes.

Frannie hardly ever causes trouble.Normally it was me in the group, who made her look even better  Seeing her act this way is kind of exciting.

Snape snarled, "Detention Miss King. Go back to your seat at once." And so she did.

Snape quickly turned Trey back into his human form and he began cursing at Frannie. She just smirked at me then frowned. "I'm sorry, I know you wanted to hang out later."

"No worries, I'll study in the library while you're in detention. You can come get me once you're done." I smiled. Class soon ended and I walked out and headed to the library.

I sat my stuff down at an empty small table near a window and began reviewing my notes. A few hours later, Harry came in the library and greeted me.

"I swear all I ever see you do is study." I smiled at the comment. "Got to make my family proud somehow."

He shakes his head. "I need your help."

I put away my notes and turned my attention to him. "I'm all yours."

"Have you ever heard of Nicholas Flemel?" he sits down in front of me.

"Nicholas Flemel? Hmm.. Well the name does sound familiar. I don't know anything from the top of my head though. Sorry." I shrug my shoulders.

"Is that what you three been searching for?"

"Yeah. We haven't had any luck though." He sighs.

"I'm sure you'll find something." I smiled. Frannie came in after that. I waved bye to Harry as we walked out.

We met Hermione in our room to help her pack. For the holidays, she will be visiting our parents.

"You know you should try talking to your parents." Hermione says. "She wrote to them, but they ignored her." Fran frowned. "So I wrote to them and of course, they answered."

"I honestly don't even want to talk about it." I closed Hermione's suitcase on the bed. Fran left the room shrilly after.

"I gave Harry the idea to look in the restricted section in the library." She admitted, zipping up her suitcase.

"Woah. Aren't you a little rebel." I smirked. "Do you think he'll do it?"

"He'll do anything for his parents." She said softly. "Well since you're leaving tomorrow, Fran and I thought we should have our own little Christmas party in here. Just us." I smiled and Hermione grinned.

On cue, Fran strolled on in with plates in both hands full of cookies and cakes.

"HO HO HO MY LADIES!" she shouted excitedly. Hermione and I giggled as we each take a cookie.

"Okay me first." Fran handed her gifts to each of us.

Hermione opened hers first, which was a muggle book that she had been talking about ages ago.

"Oh thank you Francis!" She hugged her. I unwrapped mine and held up a new pair of high top converses. "Thanks babe." I blew her a kiss and she caught it and brought it to her heart and winked.

We continue to gift exchange. I got Hermione and new sweater and Fran a pair of purple earrings to go with her long black hair. She once mentioned to me that purple was her favorite color. Hermione gave her a sketch book, since she loves to draw, and me a diary.

"It's so you can write about your adventures at Hogwarts and what not." She smiled. "Thanks Hermie." I gave her a quick hug and put on my red jumper.

"Goodnight girls" I yawned and pulled the covers over my head.

"Night."

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"Alex wake up." Not this again. "Alex it's important." I tossed the covers off me and raised up.

"Oh Harry it's just you. What is it?" I yawned. He held up a burgundy looking cloak. "Is that..?" I gasped.

"An invisibility cloak." He whispered. "Harry do you know what this means?"

"That I can become invisible, yes." He laughed. "No, we can go to the restricted section of the library. Come on." I dragged him by the arm to the library. It was colder in the hallways than I thought. I glance down at my pjs. Oh, that's why. I'm wearing shorts and a navy blue singlet.

Harry tossed the cloak around us and we began searching the books.

"It looks creepy in here." I whispered. "Maybe that's why it's restricted." He whispered back.

I looked around and a red book caught my eye. "Harry I've seen this book before." I grabbed it and turned to the index. "Look. Nicholas Flemel." I pointed to the name and the page number. He grabbed the book from my hands and turned to the page and began reading.

"Ah ha! That's where I've seen that name before!"

"You've read this book? That's impossible. Isn't this your first time in here?" He raised his eyebrow.

"Yeah that's the thing. When I was serving detention for Professor Snape one time for pranking Malfoy, I saw the book on his desk opened to this page. I sort of maybe helped myself to it." I blushed.

"You know I always thought Snape was behind this." He admitted. "And you know that I always thought Quarrel was. I still do actually." We hear a faint 'meow' behind us. Harry and I exchanged looks. "Norris" I mutter under my breath. "We better go." I put the book back in its rightful place.

"Harry, stop." I held out my arm to stop him. In front of us was Professor Snape and Quarrel. Snape looked like he was going ape shit.

Snape turned and looked straight as us. I gasped and quickly covered my mouth. We backed up a bit and Snape extending his arm. It was like he knew something was in front of him. Or some one. After we reached the common room, Harry took the cloak off of us.

"Glad we finally accomplished something." He smiled and I gave him a thumbs up. "Well I don't know about you but I am dead tired. Goodnight."

I began walking upstairs until I stopped. "By the way, Merry Christmas , Harry."

"Merry Christmas  Alex." I smiled and went back to a peaceful sleep.

Okay I lied, it wasn't all that peaceful. I only slept for an hour before Fran started jumping on my bed telling me to get my ass up and come downstairs.

"One more hour." I muttered incoherently.

"Sorry I don't speak sleep. UP!" She grabs me and shakes me.

"Oohhh kaaaayyyy." I try to say through the shakiness. She smirked and headed downstairs. I quickly washed my face and brushed my teeth and headed down.