A kiss from the moon

Just the two of us

The rain that had fell down hard on Hogwarts almost non stop the past month had now started turning in to delicate snowflakes. The snow fell down in a easy smooth way some days and covered Hogwarts in a light white cover. Somedays it fell down almost as hard as the rain, if you looked outside though a window on this days all you could see was a white blur.

Sofia liked those days the best. Where she grew up the snow rarely stayed. It was always temporary when that first winter snow came. It was different here though, when those hard snow days hit the snow stayed on the ground for many days, piling up and after a while turning dangerously icy. Sofia couldn't help it but even enjoy the cold that bit her cheeks and made them red. It was the type of cold that you could feel all the way to your bones and it was much different from the soft winters she was used to.

So now that the snow had started falling on Hogwarts she was happy. She felt more at ease and calm then how she had been feeling the past few weeks. The November full moon had even passed without much of a fuss. Sofia liked Lupin and his ways. Despite his scruffy ways and scarred face he had been a surprisingly calm presence in Sofia's life. When they talked about school and Sofia was starting to tap her feet on the floor or twist her hands in her lap he didn't care. He just continued to speak to her with his calm voice and soon enough Sofia found herself to be just as calm as Lupin himself.

She had been seeing Ginny Weasley more often as well. Sometimes they found each other in hallways and walked together, other times they went to the library to study together and sometimes Sofia would catch her in the great hall and be met with a great smile.

Ginny was a good study partner. She wasn't very patient and sometimes she got a little sour when Sofia didn't understand things on the first try. But she was good at explaining and she was also good at showing how it was done. With the flick of her and she could turn a needle in to a pen, making it look easy. Sofia thought she was great but when Sofia told her how good she was Ginny just scoffed and told her to stop playing. Maybe growing up in a house with six older brothers had made made damage to Ginnys confidence, or maybe it had to with what happened to her in her second year.

Either way Sofia liked hanging out with a Ginny. Sofia's friends had looked a little surprised in the beginning when she had told them that she was going to the library with Ginny Weasley. Well except for Sol who had just grinned knowingly at her.

Most of Sofia's friends were going home for Christmas this year. Susan was going home to her parents and had spent a good 30 minutes trying to convince Sofia to join her. Sofia liked her uncle and his wife and it tugged in her heart to turn Susan down but she was to stay at Hogwarts this year. This mostly because the full moon was right on Christmas Day and Sofia did not want to trouble her uncle with that.

Right now Sofia was sitting in the library with Ginny. The girl had her nose in a book and her two braids of red hair had become messy over the day. Ginny liked to do things with her had Sofia noticed. Sometimes it was braided, sometimes she had it in pigtails or ponytails. Sofia mostly just let her own hair hang. It laid mostly flat and there wasn't much too it. Maybe she could as Ginny to teach her how to do some braids to make her hair look a bit prettier some day.

It was dark outside and snowing furiously. It got dark early during the winter and Sofia didn't love it. It was a bit disheartening to go to morning classes while it was pitch black outside and then have it be dark out again when classes ended for the day.

"What are you thinking about?" Asked Ginny Sofia, interrupting her thoughts.

"Oh not much. Just about how boring this darkness outside is" said Sofia and looked at Ginny. "It's proper shit honestly"

"Yeah Scottish winters are nothing good really. Makes me miss home." Said Ginny and looked out the window they were sitting next to.

"Oh, where are you from?" Asked Sofia and Ginny tugged on her braids, making them look even messier.

"Our house is a bit outside this small village called Ottery St Catchpole!" Said Ginny, her eyes lit up while she talked about her home. "It's mostly wizards who live there these days."

"Is it down south? I think my mum mentioned it sometime" said Sofia.

"Yeah it's in Devon! I love our rainy winters much more to be honest." Said Ginny and Sofia couldn't help but frown at her.

"Really? I grew up in Bournemouth and I hated our rainy and warm winters." Said Sofia and shuddered with the thought of it.

"Sofia... you've never been this wrong in your life." Said Ginny. "Rainy winters are the best! No icy cold snow and whenever somebody asks you to go outside you can just say no because it's raining!"

"All I hear coming from your mouth is insanity Ginny. I might just have to take you to madame Pomfrey because you might just be going crazy!" Said Sofia with a grin.

"If anyone should go to madame Pomfrey it's you.. liking snow tsk tsk.. worst thing I've ever heard." Said Ginny and looked disgusted.

"I'll give you one thing though.. I hate being cold" said Sofia. "I hate being cold but I also kind of like when it's cold out"

"That does not make sense but I kind of understand what you mean." Replied Ginny. "Oh is that why you always have like five jumpers on?"

"Yup. I despise feeling cold". Said Sofia and smiled. She was kind of telling the truth. Her lycanthropy made it easy for her to get cold fast but she didn't have to tell that to Ginny just yet.

"Well now I now what to give you for Christmas!" Said Ginny and Sofia laughed.

They spent maybe another hour in the library like that. Chatting about everything and nothing. After a while madame Pince chased them out of there and they were both of to separate common rooms.

When Sofia came back to the common rooms she sat by the fire for a little while, warming herself up while she listened to her friends chat.

"Cho Chang is a bad seeker!" Said Zacharias passionately. "We'll beat her for sure!"

"Oh please! You are just saying that because she's a girl!" Said Hannah. "You can't stand the fact that she's better then Anthony!"

"I can't stand the fact that you have absolutely zero house loyalty!" Scowled Zacharias.

Despite the arguing, Zacharias and Hannah were sitting next to each other on the same couch. They were both smiling and looked happy to be arguing with one another. Christmas joy, though Sofia before she went to bed.