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Chapter 48
"This Christmas is going to be the best one yet," said Ron, excitedly. He was sat on the floor in his and Hermione's bedroom, wrapping up the families presents. Hermione sat opposite him and was neatly writing on the tags andtaping them to the gifts. There was wrapping paper of different colours scattered around Ron, and rolled up balls of Spello-tape and Hermione had earlier stuck a purple bow on his forehead. Hermione smiled at Ron's childlike glee at Christmas time.
"It's still two days away," said Hermione.
"Better than being three days away," said Ron, happily. Hermione grinned. It was dark out as the snow was falling quickly onto the ground and Rose and Hugo were fast asleep in there beds. Hermione placed the gift she had just written a name tag for into the sack that was named Bill, Fleur, Victoire, Dominique and Louis. On the bed were nine different sacks, one for Rose, and one for Hugo, one for the Potter's, one for Teddy and Andromeda and the other five were for the other Weasley family members. Everyone, including Teddy and Andromeda were spending Christmas Eve at the Burrow so the whole of Christmas day would be spent together as a family. Another pile of presents was on the floor and they were for Neville, Hannah, Daniel, Luna, Rolf and the twins for Boxing Day when they would get to see them then.
"Okay, the last one. Awesome it's the new Chudley Cannon's shirt. Who's this for?" asked Ron, he looked at it longingly.
"Fred," said Hermione. Ron pulled a face but wrapped up the gift in blue and sliver wrapping paper.
"How will we get these to the Burrow tomorrow?" asked Hermione.
"I'll take them early in the morning so if the kids raid our bedroom they won't find a thing," said Ron. Hermione smiled and nodded. When the last present had been wrapped Ron went to use the bathroom while Hermione wrote the name tag. Ron came back out the bathroom and levitated the bags to the wall as Hermione went to go use the bathroom, now that Ron had finished. She came back out and got changed into her nightgown and switched off the light before getting into bed with Ron.
When the sun rose early the next morning Ron squinted as he opened his eyes and rubbed the sleep off them. He sat up and stretched while letting out a yawn and looked over at Hermione's sleeping figure and smiled. He quietly got out of bed and put on some clothes then he picked up his wand from the bedside table.
"See you in a bit," murmured Hermione, lifting up her head slightly to look at Ron. He went over to her and planted a kiss on her lips before going to the sacks of presents. Taking two at a time, Ron apparated to his parent's house and arrived in the kitchen. His mother was already up and cooking breakfast while his father sat at the table, reading the Daily Prophet.
"Morning Ron," said Arthur. He didn't even flinch at the sound of Ron apparating into the room while Molly who was just about to flip a piece of bacon jumped so much, the bacon flew off the spatula and landed on Arthur's plate at the table.
"Thank you Molly," said Arthur, putting down the paper.
"Oh Ron, you scared me half to death," said Molly.
"Sorry mum," said Ron. He went over to her and kissed her on the cheek. "Do you mind if I put these in the lounge. I've got more at home, so I'll be back in a bit."
"No problem at all," said Molly. Ron smiled and took the presents into the lounge and put the sacks under the tree, where many other sacks from different family members had placed earlier in the week. Ron apparated back to his bedroom to collect the rest of the sacks and he put them under the tree and after ten minutes he was finished. He went back into the kitchen.
"Do you want some breakfast?" asked Molly. Ron shook his head.
"Nah, I'll have some at home," said Ron. "I'll see you both tomorrow." He hugged them and then apparated back into his and Hermione's bedroom. Hermione had gone back to sleep again so Ron took off his clothes again and got back into the warm bed and snuggled up close to Hermione.
"IT'S CHRISTMAS EVE TOMORROW!" Rose and Hugo rushed into the bedroom and leapt onto there bed and jumped around on the bed excitedly.
"Can we go open our advent calendars?" asked Hugo, putting his face right up close to Hermione.
"Yes, go," said Hermione. Rose and Hugo rushed off there bed and hurried downstairs to get there advent calendars.
"Can I go open mine?" asked Ron. Hermione nodded her head and Ron got out of bed to, Hermione sat up, stretched and put on her dressing gown before heading downstairs. Inside the kitchen she could hear Ron, Rose and Hugo's voices.
"Cool I got a chocolate robin," said Hugo.
"I got a Christmas pudding," said Rose. "What did you get dad?" Hermione opened the door and saw them sitting at the table.
"I didn't look at it, I just ate it," said Ron, smiling. Rose and Hugo rolled their eyes and smiled. The four ate their breakfast and then got ready for the day. For the whole day they went to Grimmuald Place andmessed around in the snow, creating snowmen, having snowball wars, making snow angels and sledding down the hills, for hours and the four Weasley's ended up staying for dinner there.
When they got home the four of them were very tired and exhausted and they fell onto the settee after taking off there wellington boots and coats. The Christmas tree was nicely decorated in front of the window and its colourful lights were flashing around it. The Christmas decorations were moving and flying around the tree.
Withsome tricky wandmovements from where she was on the settee Hermione managed to get the kettle to boil, get out four mugs from the cabinet, fill them with chocolate powder, add the water and made them float into the lounge where they landed in Ron, Rose, Hugo and Hermione's hand.
"Thanks mum," said Rose and Hugo. The two of them were nestled in between there parents and were enjoying the peaceful family moment. Ron sat next to Hugo and had an arm across the back of the settee while his long legs stretched out in front of him and Hermione was next to Rose and had tucked her feet underneath her while her free hand twirled the curls in Rose's hair.
"I can't wait to go to the Burrow tomorrow," said Hugo.
"Yeah, we haven't seen the cousins that go to Hogwarts since August," said Rose.
"I can't wait to give Fred and Louis my idea about shampoo that changes your hair colour," said Hugo, giggling.
"Hugo what have I told you about helping Fred andLouis with there inventions for Weasley Wizard Wheezes?" asked Hermione. Hugo pouted.
"But dad helped Uncle George invent some of the Weasley Wizard Wheezes, so I'm bound to help out my cousins with some products," said Hugo.
"He's got you there Hermione," said Ron, smiling. Hermione laid her head back on the settee, letting out a sigh as she stared at the ceiling, but a smile spread across her lips.
The next morning, more snow had fallen thickly during the night and Rose and Hugo played in it while Hermione and Ron got things sorted for staying at the Burrow for the night and Christmas Day. When Rose and Hugo came back inside, they all had lunch and a drink before using the fireplace to get to the Burrow.
As soon as they stepped out the fireplace in the kitchen of the Burrow, they entered the lounge where all the family were sitting and chatting to one another. A huge pile of presents was under the tree down, so big that it was nearly stacked up to the same height as the Christmas tree.
"Your here at last!" said Charlie, smiling. Everyone got up and greeted them with hugs and kisses.
"We were starting to think you weren't going to show up," said Harry, as he leaned over to give Hermione a kiss on the cheek.
"Nonsense, we wouldn't miss Christmas at the Burrow," said Hermione.
"Look at all the presents!" said Hugo, his eyes fixed on them.
"Hugo, you see that really big one, that's mine!" said Albus, grinning.
"That's huge!" said Rose, looking at the present with her brother.
"We hope it's a just a big box to send him to Australia in," said James, grinning. Albus glared at his brother while Rose and Hugo laughed. Ron went upstairs to his old bedroom to place his and Hermione's case and then entered the children's bedroom and put Rose's bag on her bed and Hugo's backpack on his bed, and then he returned downstairs. Bill handed him a butterbeer and he sat next to Percy on the settee. All the adults were gathered in the lounge and were happily talking to one another. Meanwhile the children had ventured upstairs and were sitting in the boy's bedroom.
Teddy, Victoire, Dominique, Lucy, Molly, Roxanne, Fred and Louis were busy indulged in books and doing there Hogwarts homework, while Hugo, Lily, Rose, Albus andJames were messing around at the other end of the room.
"Guys can you please play in the other room, we've got so much homework to do," said Lucy.
"Why are you doing homework? It's Christmas!" said Lily.
"Because this is important," said Victoire. Rose went up to Victoire andsat on her back, as she was lying on her front on Teddy's bed. Teddy was on the floor, writing on a roll of parchment. Rose wrapped her arms around Victoire's neck.
"Yeah, but isn't spending time with your family more important," said Rose, smiling. Teddy, Louis, Fred, Dominique, Roxanne, Lucy and Molly looked up at Victoire as she turned her head to face Rose. Victoire smiled at her.
"You're to smart for your age," she said. Rose grinned.
"Take after my mom," she said, proudly. Victoire laughed and slammed her book shut and started to tickle Rose, who giggled and squirmed. Taking after Victoire, Teddy rolled up his parchment and ran to Lily and picked her up then placed her on his shoulders. Fred and Louis shut there book and Hugo showed them his Shampoo Hair Colour Changing product which Fred and Louis immensely got interested in. James andRoxanne got involved in a game of Exploding Snap, at which they were both advanced players. Lucy, Molly and Dominique had captured Albus and were giving his hair a tidy up as it was so messy.
"Don't put any plaits in it again," complained Albus. Molly, Lucy and Dominique grinned.
"We won't" they chanted together. Albus knew they were lying and he started to yell for help. Hugo, James, Fred and Louis ran over and dragged him away from the girls.
"I know what we should do!" shouted Lily, as she was still sitting on Teddy's shoulders.
"What?" asked everyone, as they looked up at Lily.
"Have a snowball war, we haven't done that in ages," said Lily. Her cousins and siblings agreed and they put on there coats, gloves and boots then marched down the many stairs inside the Burrow. The noise of the thunderous footsteps made the adults stare up at the ceiling as they heard there children cheer 'snowball war' down the stairs.
One by one Teddy, Victoire, Dominique, Molly, Lucy, Louis, Fred, Roxanne, James, Rose, Albus, Lily andHugo charged out of the front door, making it bang shut behind them and they started to pick up handfuls of snow in there gloved hands and threw them at each other. Snow had started to fall from the sky andthe snowflakes landed aroundthem all, as they continued to run around leaving there footprints in the crunching snow.
Hugo had run up towards his grandfathers shed and knew he had Teddy following him with a huge ball of snow clutched in his grasp. Hugo quickly entered the shed and hid then waited for Teddy to open the door. When he did Hugo held his breath and kept his own small snowball behind his back while Teddy walked past his hiding place.
"Oww! HEY!" yelled Teddy as Hugo threw the snowball at the back of his head. Teddy lunged towards Hugo and grabbed him, slamming the big snowball on top of Hugo's head.
"Argh that's cold!" said Hugo, shivering. He brushed the snow off his head and looked up at Teddy who was staring at something in the corner of the shed. Hugo looked in his direction and saw Teddy was staring at a tent.
"When did Arthur get one of those?" asked Teddy.
"Last Christmas remember from Aunt Muriel. He put it up but didn't like the inside so he kept inside here since," said Hugo.
"Oh yeah, I forgot. The inside looked like a marshmallow explosion didn't it?" said Teddy, laughing. Hugo laughed to, and then an idea came to Teddy's mind.
"Do you know what we should do?" asked Teddy. He bent his legs so he was level with Hugo and faced him. Hugo shook his head. "We should camp out in the tent tonight, all of us but we won't tell the adults and keep it our secret. What Rose said earlier was right, we should spend more time together when it's Christmas," said Teddy. Hugo grinned.
"Yeah, and we can take some food from the fridge and have a feast!" said Hugo, excitedly. Teddy smiled and he went over to the tent, after passing numerous amounts of muggle items and he lifted it up. He dragged it out of the shed and Hugo walked beside him, he called over for his sister and cousins to come over and they did, most of them still had snowballs in there hands.
Teddy told them all his idea and it didn't take much persuading to get everyone involved.
"But remember we won't tell the adults about this," said Teddy. Everyone nodded and they all went off for a long walk to the fields behind the trees where they set up the tent. When it was raised they walked inside and used Fred and Louis inventions to change the colours of the interior. It was soon a very multicoloured small house, with a huge lounge, a kitchen and a bathroom.
"We'll need to bring our bed quilts," said Louis.
"Defiantly and some spare blankets because it's freezing," said Molly.
"Hot water bottles," said Victoire.
"And food!" said Hugo.
"Games!" said Fred.
"Okay, slow down," said Lucy. She was sitting on a green beanbag chair and was writing a list of what they would need. They all returned to the Burrow twenty minutes later trying to look inconspicuous in the eyes of the adults. Running upstairs each one of them went to there beds and pulled there quilts off and collected a hot water bottle, Victoire went into the attic to get some spare blankets.
"Okay we're not going to be able to get all this pass our parents, we'll need a distraction," said Dominique.
"I'll go sing in front of them and close the lounge door when I go into the room," suggested Roxanne. Sounds of approval and nods of the heads went around the room and Roxanne gave her things to Fred to carry and she went downstairs and entered the lounge, closing the door behind her.
"Hey, the guys are having another snowball war but I decided to come in and sing Christmas songs for you lot," said Roxanne. Her grandmother smiled.
"What a lovely idea Roxanne. Why don't you sing some of Celestina Warbeck's songs," said Molly. Roxanne smiled.
"No problem Nan, but I will take on any request my aunts and uncles have for me. After all I can sing anything," said Roxanne, smiling.
"That a challenge Roxy?" asked George.
"Just name a song," said Roxanne, giving a grin. Meanwhile her cousins and brother were quietly stepping down the stairs inside the Burrow and leaving the house and making there way to the tent which was a half an hour walk away through the trees and to the field. It was out of sight from the Burrow.
"Well that's blankets, quilts and hot water bottles done. Now we just need food and games," said Lucy.
"I got my chess set in my bag," said Hugo. He held up his back pack.
"I have a deck of Exploding Snap," said James, reaching into his pocket and pulling out the deck of exploding cards.
"That'll do," said Molly. They quickly rushed back to the Burrow after locking the tent up and started another snowball war before heading inside where Roxanne's singing was filling up the house. They entered the lounge and went to there parents, Teddy went to Andromeda.
"Have fun out there?" asked Ginny, brushing the snow off Lily's coat.
"Yeah," sighed Rose. She jumped up onto her father's lap and he kissed the top of her head.
"Suppose I better start on dinner," said Grandmother Molly. She stood up and headed towards the kitchen. Andromeda, Hermione, Fleur, Ginny, Angelina went to go help her while the children got changed out of there wet clothes and stayed upstairs in there bedrooms while Arthur, Bill, Charlie, Percy, George, Ron and Harry set out the dinner table in the kitchen and placed the plates, knives, forks and spoons in place for everyone.
At half six the Weasley's, Potter's, Andromeda andTeddy sat squished around the kitchen table and lifted up there glasses as Arthur was going to give a small speech before they started eating.
"Christmas will always be my favorite time of the year. It always brings joy and happiness but most of all, it brings families together. So raise your glasses, to family!" said Arthur.
"To family," everyone repeated together and they clinked there glasses together and took a sip. They started to eat and fill up there plates with food from the center of the table and talked to the family members next to them or across the table.
When the food had been devoured and all the plates were empty and the glasses had been drained of the drink, everyone entered the lounge where they played games together. Outside the darkness crept over the world and the moon rose into the clear starry sky. Andromeda was the first to go up to bed; she was staying Percy's room as Percy was sleeping on a cot in Charlie's old bedroom.
Teddy, Victoire, Dominique, Louis, Molly, Lucy, Fred, Roxanne, James, Albus, Lily, Rose and Hugo at half nine decided to head up to there bedrooms and after brushing there teeth and using the bathroom, they all met up in the girls room and waited for the parents to go to bed. They didn't have to wait long as the adults always predicted there children getting up early the next morning andwanted a good nights rest before having to wake up at 5am with excited screaming kids jumping on there beds.
After half an hour the thirteen of them put there boots and coats on again and silently tiptoed down the stairs. Once in the kitchen they raided the cupboards of biscuits, cookies, cakes andthe fridge of drinks then the all went outside the Burrow. They made sure they locked the door behind them and traveled, in the light of the moon and Teddy, Victoire, Dominique, Louis, Lucy, Molly, Fred and Roxanne's lit wands, to the tent and hurried inside.
"This has to be one of the balmiest things we've done," said Victoire. As she sealed up the tent once everyone was inside and taking off there boots and coats.
"It's all part of the fun," said Teddy, giving her a wink. Victoire blushed.
"I'd say it was the second maddest thing we've done. Remember when we flew our brooms onto the roof and had a picnic," said Louis, laughing. They placed the food on the table and got into there sleeping bags while Teddy and Victoire went into the kitchen to heat up the water bottles while Molly and Lucy shared out the spare blankets.
"We were too young for that," said Albus.
"It was funny, we'll have to do it again this summer," said Roxanne.
"And play lots of Quidditch!" said James. Lily was running back and forth from the kitchen and handing everyone a hot water bottle when Victoire and Teddy had filled it up. After fifteen minutes the two of them came back into the lounge and got into there own sleeping bags and they all started to eat the food andlaugh with one another.
"Who remembers giving Aunt Muriel's cat a Canary Cream?" asked Molly. This made her cousins and sister laugh loudly.
"She was furious at us," said Dominique. She took a bite off her cookie and was sitting in between Rose and Molly. Lucy sat on Molly's other side and next to her was Roxanne, then Fred, then Louis, then Hugo, Teddy, Victoire, Lily, James, Albus andback to Rose again. All sitting in a circle around the table.
When there giggles had calmed down and tiredness started to overpower them, they rested back on the floor and stared up at the tent ceiling.
"Granddad was right earlier, Christmas is about spending it with your family. Who cares about the presents," said Roxanne. Her cousins and brother sat up and stared at her in shock.
"Check her temperature she may have a fever!" said Lucy. Molly put a hand on Roxanne's forehead but she brushed it off and sat up.
"I'm being serious. It's about us and sharing these moments together, isn't this more important than opening presents?" asked Roxanne. She watched her cousins, who were more like extra siblings, look at each other smiling.
"Yeah, you're right," said Teddy, beaming.
"Completely," said Victoire.
"100 percent," said Dominique, nodding her head.
"Family is forever," said Molly and Lucy.
"And presents only last until you break them," said Louis.
"Or catapult them from the roof!" said Fred, he high fived Louis.
"And were here for one another," said James.
"And we'll always have each other," said Rose.
"Not just at Christmas but always," said Albus.
"Because family is the best," said Lily, giving Victoire a hug.
"I love our family!" sighed Hugo, he fell backwards and landed his head on the pillow and was soon fast asleep. They chuckled at Hugo and Teddy, Victoire and the twins extinguished there wands so the tent went pitch black. The thirteen of them were soon fast asleep, the only soundheard was Teddy's ticking alarm clock that would wake them up at half six so they could quickly rush back to the Burrow without having there parents know they had sneaked out to spend some quality time with each other.
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Grandchildren ages - From Oldest to Youngest. In this chapter there in the year 2014, the year coming up will be 2015.
Teddy Remus Lupin - Is 16 in this chapter, and will be 17 on April 18th 2015.
Victoire Molly Weasley - Is 14 in this chapter, and will be 15 on 2nd May 2015.
Molly Audrey and Lucy Ellen Weasley - They are 13 in this chapter, and will be 14 on 21st March 2015.
Dominique Ginerva Weasley - Is 13 in this chapter, and will be 14 on 23rd August 2015.
Fred Arthur Weasley - Is 12 in this chapter, and will be 13 on 10th January 2015.
Louis William Weasley - Is 13 in this chapter, and will be 14 on 5th November 2015.
Roxanne Angelina Weasley - Is 12 in this chapter, and will be 13 on 29th September 2015.
James Sirius Potter - Is 9 in this chapter, and will be 10 on 4th March 2015.
Rose Hermione Weasley - Is 8 in this chapter, and will be 9 on 1st January 2015.
Albus Severus Potter - Is 8 in this chapter, and will be 9 on 26th March 2015.
Lily Luna Potter - Is 6 in this chapter, and will be 7 on 17th February 2015.
Hugo Ronald Weasley - Is 6 in this chapter, and will be 7 on 3rd June 2015.
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