Sister of black (Harry potter marauders era)

46. Christmas at the Potter's

"Lyra! Lyra get up its Christmas!" Lily hissed in my ear, I jumped and hit her in the face by accident. "Ow."
"Sorry, you made me jump," I replied, rubbing my eyes, "what's the time?"
"Half eight," she replied bouncing on her to toes.
"You want to wake everyone?" I said, sleepily.
"Yeah," she replied, grabbing my wrist and pulling me out the room. She ran into the first room, James and Sirius, I trailed sleeping behind her.
"Guys, wake up its Christmas!" She said, Sirius and James jump out of bed, she grabbed my wrist and pulled me out, I grabbed Sirius, who grabbed James and Lily pulled us into Remus and Peter's room.
"Guys, its Christmas, get up lest go!" Lily said, I saw Remus turn over ignoring her, I giggled.
Sirius and James moved forward and lifted his mattress, he fell out of bed.
"Merlin's beard!" He said, getting to his feet, "you don't have to do that."
"Hey!" I said suddenly, "i forgot, there's something really important I need to tell you guys." They all turned to me, looking concerned, I leaned in close.
"MERRY CHRISTMAS!" I said, they all jumped and started to laugh, "let's go and open presents!" We raced downstairs and into the living room, there were six mugs of hot chocolate and six plates of pancakes under the tree.
"Excellent!" Sirius said, grabbing a mug and drinking it.
"We heard all the noise I thought you'd be down soon," Mrs Potter said, she was standing in the doorway, with a cup of coffee.
"Merry Christmas," I said, she smiled at me.
"Merry Christmas, Mrs Potter," Lily said.
"Merry Christmas," Sirius and Peter said.
"Merry Christmas, mum," James said.
"Merry Christmas, all of you, now open your presents before you explode with anticipation," she said, leaving the room.
"Let's go!" James said and I picked up a box, it said 'To Greypaws, from Wormtail', and I unwrapped it, inside was a photo album. I flicked through it, it was full of picture of us, the first was a picture of me, Sirius, Remus and James in front of the lake, smiling and laughing, the second was me hanging upside-down above Lily, the next was me and Remus walking together in the snow, then James giving me a piggyback, me and Peter playing chess and me and Sirius hugging. There were more but I didn't see all of them, the last was all of us, laughing in front of the tree at Hogwarts.
"Aww, theses are cool, thanks Wormtail," i said.
"It's ok," he replied, smiling. I got a beautiful purple dress from Adronada, a leather jacket from Regulus and a vanishing box from James. I picked up a soft parcel, from Sirius, I unwrapped it and pulled out a green jumper, it said 'Nice' on it, I looked over to Sirius who was wearing one that said 'Naughty'.
"Am I really the nice twin?" I said.
"Yeah, you are," James said absent-mindedly pulling out a pair of socks, "you haven't been on the end of one of his pranks."
"Ok," I said, pulling it on.
"Thanks Greypaws?" Remus said, holding up a piece of cloth.
"Look," I said, taking it from him, "warm." I held it up and it transformed into a jumper.
"Cold," I said to it and it transformed into a t-shirt. "You give it a description and it changes," I explained handing it back to Remus.
"Oh, ok thanks."
"No problem." I picked up a oddly shaped package and unwrapped it. "MERLIN's BEARD!" I said, I held up the rubber duck, "it's a rubber duck! Thank you Lily!"
"No problem," Lily said, smiling. I carefully put the rubber duck on my pile of presents, I heard someone snicker from behind me.
"What?" I said, turning round to Remus.
"Nothing," he said and he bent his head over his parcel. I got a box of effect sweets from Jack, a black cloak with little wolves on it from Remus and a muggle book, filled with Shakespeare plays. Mr and Mrs Potter gave me some chocolate brownies and homemade fudge, My parents had sent me a pair of white gloves and to my surprise Mr and Mrs Lupin had sent me a pair of earrings with a blue gem in them.
"Good haul this year," Sirius said, I had gotten him a collection of muggle motorbike magazines.
"Yeah, let's go outside and play Christmas quidditch," James said.
"What's the difference?" Remus said, pulling on a jumper that said 'Free Christmas hugs!'.
"You use snowballs, instead of normal balls," Sirius said, putting on a sparkly cap.
"Ok, let's go!" I said, jumping up. I grabbed my broom from mine and Lily's room and met the others outside.

"Right, beater, throw snowballs at the other players," James explained, "chasers use a big snowball and keepers do the normal."
"Ok, let's do the numbers thing," Remus said, he was holding one of James's spare brooms, Remus wasn't the best at quidditch, the first time in a broom in first year he had got about three feet above the ground sped forward, smashed his nose into the room handle and been rushed off to the hospital wing.
"Ok, Prongs and Lily," I said, "pushing them together.
"Ok," Lily said and she and James walked away a bit. I pointed at each of us and mouthed, 'one, two, three, four'
"Ok, we're ready!" Sirius shouted, James and Lily came back.
"Three," Lily said, I stepped next to Lily.
"Two," James said, Sirius stepped forward and high-fived James.
"One," Lily said and Remus moved towards me.
"Ok, four," James said, grinning at Peter. I played as chaser, weaving in and out of the others scoring, shouting and laughing.

At dinner we were called in by Mrs Potter and we sat down for Christmas dinner. It was amazing, we ate, talked and laughed. We had roast turkey, potatoes, pigs in blankets, peas, broccoli, carrots, runner beans, gravy, stuffing and Yorkshire puddings, then we had a flaming Christmas pudding with custard.

I walked into my bedroom to get my warmer jumper, and saw Lily and James talking on her bed. They looked up at me and jumped.
"Lyra!" Lily said, blushing.
"Why are you blushing, it looks like you're just talking," I said, grinning.
"Well, erm we're actually going out," James said, sheepishly. I stared at them, then whooped and cheered, punching the air.
"I knew it, I knew you would date!" I exclaimed, there were hurried footsteps and Sirius, Peter and Remus appeared behind me.
"What's going on?" Peter said.
"Prongs and Lily are going out!" I said, they blushed but the others stared to cheer.
"Well done, Prongs!" Sirius said.
"Have you kissed?" I inquired.
"No, not yet," Lily said.
"That's two couples now," Peter said, excitedly.
"Yeah," I said, punching James playfully. We ended up talking in mine and Lily's room late into the night, the boys fell asleep in our room while me and Lily talked.
"Hey," she whispered, "I think they'll all asleep."
"Yeah, have you got a pen?" I asked.
"Yeah," she said, throwing me and pen, "why?"
I caught it and drew cat whispers on Sirius's face, the pressed my finger to my lips and threw it back to her. She drew flowers on James we laughed silently for a few minutes, before I rested my head on my pillow, Remus head on my lap, and fell asleep.