9- Christmas!

It was finally the day we were all hoping for, Christmas Day. I got up to run over to Hermione's bed when I realised she wasn't there. I jumped as I stood on a pile of presents by the foot of my bed. I picked them up and ran down to the common room to meet Harry and Ron. They both were carrying a pile of presents each.

"Merry Christmas Holly" Ron sang as I wrapped an arm round his shoulder. We walked over to our usual seats by the fireplace and sat in a triangle on the floor.

Firstly I'd noticed a fairly small present so I picked it up and read the note on the side. 'Merry Christmas Holly. I spent ages choosing this for you. Love Mione.'

I smiled as I unwrapped the neatly wrapped box. It was a necklace with my birthstone engraved all across the letter H.

"Hey harry, can you do me a favour and put this on for me."

"Umm sure." Harry replied whilst he was getting elbowed by Ron with a smirk on his face.

I handed Harry the necklace and moved my hair from my neck.

"It looks beautiful Holly" Ron replied softly. I blushed as I ran the necklace through my fingers. Hermione was going to adore the present I got her. I had spent most of my money on this new collection of books written by her favourite muggle author that she was saving up for. I couldn't wait till I got to owl her and asked how she liked the books.

"Hey Ron that's from me" I implied to Ron when he picked up a bag. It was full of his favourite sweets and a box of chocolate frogs. He immediately opened one of bags of sweets and started eating them. I rolled my eyes but started laughing when Harry picked up a jumper with an H on it and put it on. Ron explained that it was from his mum and that everyone had received one. I was glad that Harry was happy with the Weasleys. He had never really had a mother figure until he met Mrs Weasley. Ron then handed me a rather large present. I unwrapped the present to find an owl cage covering. It was red and gold.

"Oh my gosh Ron it's amazing thank you so much." I cried as I ran and wrapped my arms round Ron's neck and he hugged me for a while. I hadn't decorated mystics cage for a while which I could tell was annoying my poor owl as she would nibble on my fingers when i would paint it a different colour.

"Hey that ones from me" harry quickly said as he pointed to a weirdly shaped present. I unwrapped it quickly to find a photo frame of Harry, Ron, Hermione and I playing in the snow all lying on the floor together. We were laughing and I could feel tears come to my eyes.

"Wait, you're crying, do you not like it, I mean I can take it back it's just I knew you didn't have a photo of us all together and I thought you'd like it an.." before harry could finish his sentence I ran up to him and engulfed him in a hug.

"No harry, it's the best present anyone's every given me, thank you so much." I tried to say as tears started to fall from my eyes. I felt Harry's arms wrap round my waist to pull me in tighter.

"Oh Harry this ones from me." I pulled away as I handed harry a present. I was so excited for him to unwrap it. The gift contained many things, such as sweets, chocolate, a gryffindor scarf and many more small gifts. But my favourite gift in that box was definitely a new Gryffindor jersey with his name on the back and his quidditch number. I watched as he held up the jersey with an ecstatic look on his face. His smile could light up the whole common room it was that wide.

"Holly, this is the best thing in the world. Thank you so much." He called our half shouting as he was so excited. I was about to say something when Harry grabbed me and Ron and pulled us into a giant hug.

"Merry Christmas guys." He muffled Into our shoulders. I could tell he was crying, but he didn't want anyone to notice. He's never had a proper Christmas before so I wanted to make this one the best ever. We carried on opening our presents before we went down for breakfast. I had received a Weasley jumper which I was quite surprised but really appreciated. Mrs Weasley must of known that I wasn't much of a girly girl as my jumper was a navy blue colour. Sadly, I had received nothing from my mother, not even a letter. This greatly annoyed me as it was really unlike my mother. I was getting quite upset about it when I realised that Ron and Harry had their arms round my shoulders.

"Hey, I'm sure it just got lost in the post, you know." Harry said as he tried to comfort me. I didn't say anything but I was glad that I had great friends that were here for me no matter what. We were all finished opening our gifts when Ron handed me a box.

"Hey this was under the tree it had your name on it." He said to me with a confused look on his face.

There was a card attached so I opened the card before touching the gift. The card read,

'Holly

I got you this to apologise for everything I've done to you and I'm really sorry for hurting your feelings. I understand you may hate my guts but I just wanted you to know that I'm sorry.

Draco Malfoy'

My eyes widened as I read who the gift was from.

"Whose it from?" Ron questioned as he could see my facial expression. When I said it was from Malfoy Harry's eyes went from a soft expression to a hard glare. I opened the box to find a red and gold wand box that had my name engraved into it with diamonds, the same diamonds that my wand was engraved with. It was really beautiful but I was still confused on why Malfoy would send me a gift.

"Wait, he actually apologised and that had diamonds in it that must of cost him a fortune." Harry said. I could tell he was annoyed at Malfoy gift. Ron didn't say anything which was strange. It was really awkward for a while as no one spoke to each other.

"Right, I'm starving, anyone coming to breakfast with me." I calmly said as I wrapped each of my arms round both harry and Ron's shoulders.

"You're always hungry Holly" harry laughed which greatly satisfied me.

"Well I'm a growing girl, I have to eat you know." I replied sarcastically.

"Yeah, well you eat more than me and Harry combined and that's saying something." Ron replied still laughing. I'm glad my friends were not annoyed at me or anything about the gift. We walked down to the great hall.

There were barely any people in the great hall, as so many people had gone home from the holidays. When we were walking through the doors we caught Professor McGonagall on her way out of the hall.

"Ah children, Merry Christmas. Actually miss black I was on my way to find you. Professor Dumbledore and I have something for you. Would you come to Dumbledores office after breakfast thank you."

I gave Ron and Harry a confused look but then quickly replied to McGonagall.

"Oh of course, Merry Christmas Professor McGonagall."

She nodded to me as we parted ways.

"Well, that was strange" Harry said as me and Ron both nodded in agreement. I looked over to see of Malfoy was sat at the Slytherin table. He wasn't which didn't surprise me as he had obviously gone home to be with his family for Christmas. But I had to make sure Ron and Harry didn't see me look as they would've gotten pretty angry. I couldn't help wondering why Malfoy had gotten me a gift in the gift in the first place. Harry, Ron and I were sat at the Gryffindor table laughing and eating for ages just talking about random things. I loved my friends more than anything. Now, time to see what Professor McGonagall was on about when she said her and Professor Dumbledore has something for me. I waved goodbye to Harry and Ron and agreed to meet them by the black lake after my meeting with my Professors. I wonder what they could have for me. It could be really anything.