Bonding

A Christmas to Remeber

Prompt: No one could understand Harry that year when he insisted on putting this ornament (one indicated in the picture) on the Christmas tree in the burrow. But the Weasleys all eventually accepted it. Little did they know that thanks to the muggle camera Arthur gave as a gift to Fred and George, the picture of this would somehow end up in the potions master's hands...

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"Harry what are you doing?" asked Hermione as she came up next to Harry as he appeared to hang a small ornament on the tree. The Weasleys had invited Harry and Hermione to both spend the holidays with them. Overwhelmed with joy, Harry gladly accepts and Hermione couldn't say no. They had already spent three days at the burrow and in two days it would be Christmas Eve. Hermione was on her way to the kitchen when she spotted her green-eyed best friend near the tree.

"Oh, h-hey Hermione," Harry responded as he spun on the spot and faced his friend. He gave a small smile and nervously scratched the back of his neck.

"What did you hang on the tree?" she asked as she reared her neck to get a look at what he hung. Before Harry could make a move and block it from her view, she spotted it. A small ornament that was tan in colour and it was of a face. The face of their potions master. "Harry, why did you hang that up?" she asked as she stepped closer and examined it.

"Uh... it's a little hard to explain," he said as he glued his line of sight to his shoes. Hermione looked at her best friend and saw how fidgety he was. She simply shrugged and walked off, feeling Harry would take to her about it in his own time. She found the harder she pushed her friend the more he drew into himself and the harder it was to draw answers from him. Harry took one last look at the ornament he hung on a spot on the tree that was near the back, so if someone looked they wouldn't spot it unless you really looked closely. Unknown to him the Weasley twins were watching from the hallway. After Harry left they moved over to the tree trying to find what Harry was trying to hide.

"Hey, I think I found something," Fred said as he spotted an unusual ornament near the back of the tree.

"What did you find?" George asked as he stood next to his brother and looked.

"Why would he hang this up?" Fred questioned as they looked at it.

"I don't know. But you know what would be funny?"

"Sending a picture of this to the dungeon bat himself," George replied finishing his brothers thought.

"Do you have the camera?" he asked and saw his brother pull a small camera out of his pocket. As an early Christmas gift, Arthur gifted the two of them with a muggle camera. Said to go have some fun with it so he could see how the pictures would develop. Lining up the shot, Fred zoomed in just enough to snap a perfect shot of it. Going over to the printer that Hermione brought with her - said something about how she could develop photos - and within less than ten minutes the two of them had printed out a picture of the ornament. Grabbing an envelope and shoving the picture inside, they also wrote a small note saying "Merry Christmas" on it. To make matters even more strange, they decided to borrow Hedwig. Climbing the stairs they found the room Harry was sharing with Ron.

"Hey, Harry,"

"Could we possibly borrow,"

"Hedwig to send a letter to someone,"

"If we send ours they would know we sent it,"

"And we want it to be a surprise," they said going back and forth in their usual fashion.

"Sure?" Harry said with a little bit of question in his voice. Smiling the two of them made their way over the snowy white owl's cage and tied the envelope to her leg. Giving her a treat they sent her off to her destination.