Easy Mistake ; Harry Potter

O N E H U N D R E D A N D O N E | Christmas Day At Grimmauld Place

Eleanor awoke to a strange weight at the end of her bed. She opened her eyes wearily and realised it was a small pile of presents at the end of her bed. She turned her head and both Hermione and Ginny had a similar pile of presents at the end of their beds too.

This struck Eleanor as strange as she was used to being woken by one of her fathers and ushered downstairs where Josh would be waiting eagerly to dig into the presents which sat underneath the Christmas tree. Eleanor did not mind this change in routine though and slowly arose from bed.

"Good, you're up," Ginny said. "We're going to open our presents and then join Ron and Harry in their room. Want to join?"

"'Course." Eleanor said hoarsely, stifling a yawn.

Both Ginny and Hermione began to dig into their pile of presents, so Eleanor thought she should do the same.

She had done rather well for gifts this year. Mrs. Weasley, although short notice, had knitted Eleanor a green jumper which Eleanor put on immediately, already shivering slightly from removing the duvet off herself. Accompanied with the jumper were numerous homemade mince pies. Eleanor wanted whole-heartedly to dig into one but she reminded herself she still had to eat breakfast.

Hermione had given Eleanor a homework journal and upon closer inspection, Eleanor realised it wasn't at all an ordinary homework journal for when she opened it, it said things like; 'do it today or later you'll pay!'

Although Eleanor wasn't much of a fan of doing homework, she appreciated this greatly as although she couldn't use it at school, Eleanor hoped this would give her motivation to actually do her work so she had an excuse to use the planner.

From Ron and Ginny she had received two small boxes of chocolates and sweets of all sorts containing things she had never heard of before. Eleanor amused herself for a while digging through the boxes and being amazed at the kinds of candy the wizarding world had to offer. Eleanor noticed sweets like; Chocolate Frogs, (which she was overjoyed about) Fizzing Whizzbees, Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans, (They really had every flavour!) Pepper Imps and Drooble’s Best Blowing Gum.

Moving on to her next gift, Eleanor opened another small box, this time being from Fred and George. Inside it contained a bunch of products from Zonko's Joke shop. This wasn't any old joke shop and Eleanor was immensely grateful to see that Fred and George had written a list of all the products the box included, what they were and how to use them. Eleanor read some of the products on the list: Stink Pellets, Dung Bombs, Hiccough Sweets, Sugar Quills and Nose-Biting Teacups.

Very excited to try these out in the future, Eleanor carefully hid the box out of site, mainly to keep her little brother away from it.

From her parents, Eleanor had received some roller skates which she had been begging for the most part of the year. She was delighted to see that they had managed to get them in the eggshell blue colour she wanted.

After spending ten minutes with the help of Hermione explaining to Ginny what roller skates were, Eleanor moved on to the last of her presents. She was surprised to see she had received gifts from Sirius and Remus and was glad that she had after all, picked up presents for the both of them too.

Remus and Sirius had gotten Eleanor a plain black cloak which Eleanor giggled about as she reminisced on the ongoing joke that the three of them shared that Eleanor wanted a cloak so she, like all wizards, could look like an overgrown bat. Eleanor clasped the cloak around her neck, excited to see her parents reactions.

Her last present was from Harry. Harry had gotten her a small box of Chocolate Frogs, (See I told you I'd get some more for you.) and a small glass spinning top which was called a Sneakoscope which was meant to light up and spin if someone was doing something untrustworthy near by. (So you'll know when Josh is going through your things.)