𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 (𝟏) || HARRY POTTER LOVE STORY

28

Once the holidays had started, Ron, Harry and Julie were having too good a time to think much about Flamel. All the girls had gone home and Ron and Harry had their dormitory to themselves, so she decided to sleep there during the holidays.

The common room also was far emptier than usual, so they were able to get the good armchairs by the fire.

They sat by the hour eating anything they could spear on a toasting fork - bread, crumpets, marshmallows - and plotting ways of getting Malfoy expelled, which were fun to talk about even if they wouldn't work.

Ron also started teaching Harry wizard chess, which was exactly like Muggle chess except that the figures were alive, while Julie was spending a lot of time with the twins and Mason.

On Christmas Eve she went to bed being very excited, and woke up being even more excited.

"HARRY! RON! WAKE UP! IT'S CHRISTMAS!" Julie said while throwing my pillows at them.

"Happy Christmas" said Ron sleepily as Harry scrambled out of bed and pulled on his dressing-gown.

"Happy Christmas" said Harry as well. "Will you look at this? I've got some presents!"

While Harry was still goggling at his presents, being to shocked to open them, Julie had already started opening hers.

Her parents got her a new pair of golden earrings, which i directly put on and also sent me some homemade biscuits. Harry and Ron also got some. Mason gifted her a picture of him and me when we were little. Hermione had written her a really sweet letter in the inside of a book, which Julie was already looking forward to read. Ron got her an enormous bag of liquorice wands which probably will last her a month.

"Harry you idiot" Julie said as she opened his gift. It was a white t-shirt and had "I ♡︎ Harry Potter" written on it.

"Now it's official that you love me, Jules" he said smirking.

"No, I don't" Julie said as she threw the t-shirt right into his face.

He tossed it back at her saying: "You're just mad that I have proof now."

They both ignored the shirt and started focusing on their other gifts.

"I think I know who that one's from" said Ron going a bit pink and pointing to very lumpy parcel which was laying with Harrys presents. "My mum. I told her you didn't expect any presents and - oh no" he groanded "she's made you a Weasley jumper. I think you've got one as well, Julie"

Julie opened the next gift and pulled out a thick, hand-knitted sweater with a big "J" on it. It was blue and matched my eyes perfectly. Ginny made her a pink hand-made Christmas card which was also in the parcel.

"Every year she makes us a jumper" said Ron unwrapping his own. "and mine's always maroon."

After Julie opened the last two gifts, one from her grandparents which where golden earrings and one from a friend of her parents she didn't know which was a bracelet with a little golden moon charm, she had no gifts left and watched the boys as they were opening their gifts while putting my Sweater on. Julie made a mental note to her to write letters to her parents, grandparents and Mrs Weasley to thank them for the gifts.

Harry umpacked his last gift and something fluid and silvery grey went slithering to the floor, where it lay in gleaming folds. Ron and Julie gasped at the same time.

"I've heard about these" said Ron in a hushed voice, dropping the box of Every-Flavour Beans he'd got from Hermione. "If that's what I think it is - they're really rare and really valuable."

"What is it?" Harry asked as he picked the shining, silvery cloth of the floor.

"It's an Invisibility Cloak!" Julie said. "Try it on."

Harry threw the Cloak around his shoulder and Ron gave a yell.

"It is! Look down!"

Harry had completely disappeared, except for his head and looked very shocked when he realized.

"There's a note!" said Ron suddenly. "A note fell out of it!"

Harry pulled off the Cloak and seized the letter. Julie walked over to him and looked what was written in the note.

Your father left this in my possession before he died.
It is time it was returned to you.
Use it well.

A Very Merry Christmas to you

"I'd give anything for one of these" said Ron. "Anything."

"What's the matter?" Julie asked as she looked at Harry who seemed very confused.

"Nothing" he said, but Julie could tell that he was lying. She would have asked again, but the door flung open and Fred, George and Mason bounded in.

"Merry Christmas!"

"Hey look - Harry and Julie got Weasley jumper, too" Fred and George were wearing blue jumpers, which were slightly darker than mine, with a large yellow 'F' and 'G'. Mason was wearing a turquoise one.

"Yours are better than ours though." Fred said. "She obviously makes more of an effort if you're not family."

"Why aren't you wearing yours Ron?" George demanded. "Come on, get it on, they're lovely and warm."

"I hate maroon" Ron moaned half-heartedly as he pulled it over his head.

"Aww, Ronnie doesn't like maroon" I teased and Ron gave me a warning look, when Fred and George started chuckling.

"You haven't gotten a letter on yours" George observed. "I suppose she thinks we don't know our name. But we're not stupid, we know we're called Gred and Feorge."

"What's all this noise?" Percy Weasley stuck his head trough the door, looking disapproving. He had clearly come halfway trough unwrapping his present as he, too, carried a lumpy jumper over his arm, which Fred seized.

"P for prefect! Get it on, Percy, come on, we're all wearing ours, even Harry,Julie and Mason got one."

"I - don't - want" said Percy thickly, as the twins forced the jumper over his head, knocking his glasses askew.

"And you're not sitting with the Prefects, either," said George. "Christmas is a time for family."

They frog-marched Percy from the room, his arms pressed to his sided by his jumper.