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A song for the chapter: The Prettiest Star - David Bowie

When Elwia got home, she immediately got to wrapping the gifts with Kreacher. He had been such a big help during these few days.

For Astoria, Elwia had gotten the gold emerald green diamond necklace, and for Pansy, Elwia had chosen the silver black diamond necklace. For her sister, Fleur, Elwia had bought the silver white diamond necklace and for Apolline she got the silver blue diamond earrings.

Elwia's gift for Harry was a book about quidditch, some of his favourite candy, and a framed picture of the two of them. Elwia would also write him a letter, a personal one. Hermione had talked about needing some curly hair products, so Elwia bought her those, as well as a dozen new quills and cute pearl earrings. For Ron, Elwia bought new wizard chess pieces, Bertie Botts beans, and at least 20 chocolate frogs.

For Uncle Moony, Elwia got two sweaters and the four Mars chocolate bars. The vinyl record, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars by David Bowie, Elwia had bought for Sirius.

It turned out Diagon Alley had a joke shop similar to Zonko's, so Elwia bought a few funny products from there as gifts to Fred and George. And obviously Elwia got them some Bertie Botts beans too which she had kindly jinxed for all the candies to taste like the bad flavour.

For Luna, Elwia got a book about astrology and two crystals, a rose quartz and an amethyst. Ginny's quidditch equipment had become worn down; Elwia had heard her complaining about it, so she got her a 15 galleon gift card to Quality Quidditch Supplies. For Irie, Elwia bought a sage green sweater and jasmine flower perfume. Elwia didn't care if Irie was a Gryffindor; she thought Slytherin's colours fit her much better.

Elwia wasn't sure at first whether to buy Poppy something or not; they hadn't really talked after her whole identity crisis thing. In the end Elwia chose to buy her a book named 'Magical Creatures in Europe', although Elwia wouldn't have been surprised if she already had it.

For Min-Seo and Neville, that she wasn't yet that close with, she just bought some candy that she knew everyone would surely like.

Elwia didn't buy anything for Theo, Adrian, Blaise or Draco. For the sake of their safety, she couldn't let anyone think they were friends.

The reason Elwia didn't buy anything for Mattheo was probably obvious.

In case you didn't know already, his father most likely wanted Elwia dead.

"Can you use green wrapping for the pile on the left? And red wrapping paper for the one's on the right pile?" Elwia asked Kreacher, pointing her finger at the big gift piles.

"Yes, Mistress Elwia.." Kreacher nodded and started using his small elf magic to wrap up the gifts.

"Thank you." Elwia said while pulling out a piece of parchment and a quill.

What should she write to Harry? He would find out the truth tomorrow; should Elwia write him a personal letter about how she accepted him as her new family? That would probably be a good idea since the Dursleys had been so horrible to him. Elwia wanted him to know that she would never do such a thing.

It took her a few tries to master the perfect letter. There were at least seven crumpled-up papers on the floor, and by the time Elwia was done, Kreacher had already wrapped all the gifts and had even written everyone's names on their gifts.

"Do you want to hear the letter I wrote to Harry?" Elwia asked.

"Mistress Elwia can read it, although Kreacher does not care much about Master Harry," the elf answered stiffly, which made Elwia laugh.

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