Servitium| Theodore Nott

Chapter Twelve

Ivory was feeling much better since she had spoken to Hermione, Theodore had even asked if they could sit in a compartment together on the way back to London which she had agreed to, given she share some time with Fabiola first.

"So what are your plans for Christmas?" Fabiola asked and Ivory shrugged, Christmas with her parents was nothing but dread. It was a quiet affair, Ivory and her brother would get up in the morning open their presents and then would spend a majority of the day in their bedrooms until Christmas Dinner was ready, where they would then sit and make small talk which Ivory despised, and that would be it. The next day Ethan Galliano would already be at work before Ivory had even set eyes on him. She was sort of glad to be going to the Malfoy Manor this year now that she thought about it, she had only spent Christmas with the Malfoy's once when she was younger but it was way better than anything her parents had ever done. Narcissa seemed to enjoy Christmas and wanted to give Draco everything she possibly could, including decorations, tonnes of food and presents, like a proper Christmas.

"We don't do much, my parents don't really care for the holidays, my father is a workaholic and my mum is a socialite, she likes going out to dinners with other rich people and stuff... we still have dinner and get presents though." Ivory added more cheerfully when she saw the pitiful expression mustering itself on Fabiola's face, she didn't need that from her.

"That sounds like a shitty Christmas, maybe one day my mum could invite your lot over and show you what a real Christmas is like, I've never met your parents, I'd love to meet them."

"Ha, yeah..."Ivory trailed off looking outside of the window as the train began to pull off from Hogsmeade. "What's Christmas like at your bit?"

"Well you know I've got two older brothers as well, Filipe and Marco. So they come over and Marco the older one he's married now and he's got a baby girl called Natalie, she's about two and his wife she's a curse breaker, she's so cool! So it's a full house, loads of food, we open presents, we sit by the fire in our pyjamas talking, laughing and looking at the presents each other got, whilst mum and dad cook, dad burns the stuffing and he tells us about all the animals he's been breeding for his Magizoologist job, even on Christmas Eve we go into the nearby town and sing carols with the muggles, it's good fun, and mum likes to cook food and help out at the local muggle shelter on Christmas Eve."

"Wow, sounds hectic."

"It is but I wouldn't change it for the world,"Fabiola chuckled to her self jumping slightly as a knock came on the compartment window, Ivory stopped herself from rolling her eyes as Susan Bone's pressed her face to the glass making funny faces.

"I told her she could come sit with us for the ride, I hope you don't mind?" Fabiola asked and Ivory shrugged.

"No, not at all." Fabiola beckoned Susan in, the Hufflepuff was carrying two neatly wrapped presents in her hands.

"Hiya!" she greeted enthusiastically sitting down by Fabiola and kicking her legs up. Ivory frowned at Fabiola reaching down underneath her chair pulling out two gift bags.

"Are we exchanging Christmas Presents now? With Susan?" Ivory questioned, the tradition was that on the train home for Christmas just Ivory and Fabiola would exchange presents since they wouldn't see each other on Christmas Day.

"Yeah, I thought it would be nice, plus Susan even bought you something."

"I didn't buy Susan anything," Ivory responded glumly slouching slightly in her chair.

"Oh that's okay! I didn't expect you to. It's nothing much," she held out the smaller wrapped gift out to Ivory who reluctantly accepted. "You can open it now if you like." Ivory nodded and carefully unwrapped the gift, it was a box of chocolate frogs.