To Tame A Wild Heart || Book One (An Open SS Fan fiction)

CHAPTER 41 : The Mirror of Erised*

A/N : Happy Christmas to all my friends and readers. I am giving you two bonus Christmas chapters to celebrate <3. Love ya all!!

Florina's POV:

The Christmas season was getting closer a few weeks later and with it came the first few good showers of snow curtesy of the winter season. Christmas decorations were hanged elegantly in the great hall and the some of the classrooms. Hagrid did most of the manual labour by bringing in the huge Christmas trees, a scene which I loved to watch.

I took permission from the headmaster to stay inside Hogwarts for the Christmas holidays and thankfully, he obliged. He of course, never met me nor spoke to me once for months. Whenever I tried to meet him, he would tell either Severus or David to speak to me instead. So I told David to take permission from him to let me stay.

Rose seemed to know why Dumbledore distanced himself from me but would always avoid my questions whenever I asked her about it. But there was something else that was on our minds.

We were expecting Davies to return back to us with some news, hopefully good ones. And she wanted to tell him about Markov's kidnap in hopes that he would know something about it.

My fairy got to the point where she would sit in front of the window day and night hoping for his return.

One day, David asked me why was I spending Christmas at Hogwarts. To that, I simply told him that I adore Christmas in Hogwarts with all its festivities. But a more truthful answer would have been that I also don't have a place to stay in for the holidays.

I am homeless.

And sadly, the only thing that might ruin the perfect Christmas mood was the way Severus was treating me. Ever since Quidditch, he  once again distanced himself from me. It puzzled me how his mood can shift on a dime.

I was aware that since Halloween, he warned me not to try and be his friend but I thought that our nice time at the Quidditch match would make him reconsider. I wished that perhaps, he would slowly allow me to be his friend again.

Rose and I then decided that instead of thinking about that, I would try to forget about it and move on.

The teachers and the students were having their last breakfast in the great hall before most of them were off to spend Christmas with their family and friends.

"It's not much different from all my other Christmases," I whispered to Rose as I stuffed my face full with sausage.

Rose raised a brow, "Really? And why is that?"

"Well, I always used to spend Christmas here at Hogwarts," I said excitedly "it's actually quite fun."

"How is that?" she asked concerned about the tenth sausage that I swallowed whole. She frowned when I grabbed another one.

"For starters, the Christmas feast is great," I said mid-chew and she chuckled "they have the most amazing decorations," I paused to think and then exclaimed "AND THE TREES!"

Almost everyone at the table did a double take startled by my sudden exclamation. I gave them an apologetic smile in return.

"Subtle," I heard a cold whisper from my left and turned to see Severus scowl at me.

Finishing my breakfast faster than usual and giving my last class, I headed back to my quarters to take a nap when I saw the dark haired wizard coming from the other direction. He halted in front of me and nodded as I did the same still not understanding why was he acting so icy with me.