"Oh Henry...wake up Henry...."

"For the love of Merlin, why don't you ever sleep, Hope?!" Henry whined covering himself as Hope's voice rang out loudly in the dorm room. The other boys groaned as well as the girl began laughing.

"All of you are so bloody lazy it's unbelievable!" She said before sitting down on Henry's back as he was still tucked under his blankets.

"It's eight in the morning, Hope!" Fergus yelled at her.

"Yeah, your point? I've been up since six." Hope told him. "Come on, you guys should be all excited about today! It's the last day of classes before we get to go home for Christmas break."

"You mean today's the last day before we get a break from you?" Fergus chuckled to himself.

"Yeah yeah, shut up Fergie!" she said before snatching Henry's pillow from him and throwing it at Fergus' bed.

"HEY!" The two boys cried out.

"Get up." she said in a more threatening tone to Henry. "I'll be downstairs."

"Evil never sleeps!" Henry called after Hope as she left.

"You can sleep when you're dead, Princess GuppyPuppy!"

"I, at least, better be a pretty princess!"

"The finest in all the land!"

Henry sat up in bed, grumbling angry to himself as he pushed his long hair out of his face and glanced around sleepily. He was mid yawn when he was smacked in the face with his own pillow as Fergus threw it back across the room.

"Thanks, mate."

"It's the most wonderful time of the year..." Hope sang to Henry as they sat in the Great Hall for breakfast.

He glared at her. "Doesn't feel like it right now."

"You're so grumpy in the mornings." Hope smiled.

"I like my sleep, woman."

"You nearly got twelve hours of sleep."

"That's not enough."

Hope rolled her eyes at him. 

"Don't you give me that look!" Henry said holding his butter knife up and pointed it at her.

"Don't give me a reason to roll my eyes at you then." she countered before sticking her tongue out at him.

"Offering a kiss, are you?" Henry said before sticking out his own tongue. Hope screeched with laughter as she backed again, and ended up falling off the bench. Henry quickly stood up and looked over the table. "You alright?"

"Peachy."

"Hope...why are you on the floor?"

The two teens looked over to see Hope's grandfather looking down at her as he was on his way to the Professor's table.

"Making dust angels, Grandpa Rem Rem." Hope said waving her arms up and down.

Remus shook his head with an amused smile. "Why don't you go outside and make snow angels, rather than lay on the dirty floor?"

"Because the dirty floor is warm." Hope answered.

Remus opened his mouth to say something but as he looked back and forth between Henry and Hope, he realized it probably wasn't worth it.

"Alright, well have fun." he said stepping over her. "Do you want to meet me in the Entrance Hall tonight and we'll apparate to your parents' house from Hogsmeade?" he asked turning back around.

"Sure, sounds good to me."

"Good, Henry..you're leaving with your parents tonight, right?"

"Yes." Henry nodded. 

"Alright..well..I guess I'll see you two later...behave."

"We will!" they called after him.

"I'm sure." he muttered before walking off.

"Are you really going to stay on the floor?" Henry asked her once Remus was gone.

"It's actually rather comfortable. There's so much more room down here for activities!"

"Hope, get off the floor."

"No. You come down here..."

"But...okay." Henry shrugged before crawling under the table and then lying down next to her on the floor. "Ohh this is nice!'

"See, I told you."

"What in the world...no..I'm not going to ask." Nixie approached the two with Sirius by her side as she looked down at her son and Hope on the floor.

"Mother..Father..." Henry greeted with a cheeky smile of innocence.

"Henry..." Sirius greeted him in return before looking at Hope. "Lupin Weasley Spawn."

"Professor Paddywhack."

"That's Mr. Professor Paddywhack to you." Sirius said before stepping over them. "Do I want to know why you two are on the floor?"

"Do you know much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?" Hope answered.

"And I'm leaving." Sirius said before walking away.

Nixie smiled at the two, sending them a wink as she left behind her husband.

"Henry don't be late...we're leaving tonight!" she called back. "Not tomorrow morning when you finally finish primping your hair!"

Henry made a face before turning to Hope. "Why doesn't anyone understand that it takes time to look this good. I don't wake up looking fantastic..."

"It's okay," Hope patted his shoulder. "There's only a few of us that can."

"You know, and they complain about us being late all the time." Hope huffed folding her arms over her chest as she and Henry waited outside the Entrance Hall that evening for Remus, Nixie and Sirius to arrive to bring them along with Teddy, Stella, Eliza and Elliot home for the holidays. 

"And here I went extra fast to get myself ready." Henry pouted. "I didn't even get a chance to double condition my hair."

"Oh you poor, poor thing." Teddy scoffed.

Hope looked over at him before grabbing a damp lock. "I think it still looks lovely."

"Awww...thank you." Henry placed a hand to his chest, making a sniffing sound. "I..I-"

"Hope!"

The group looked up to see McGregor making his way over to them.

"Hey Benji, what are you doing here?" Hope asked as Henry and the others watched.

"I heard that you were leaving tonight, so I figured I'd give you your Christmas gift before you left." Benjamin smiled at her.

"You got me a gift?" Hope said as the small parcel was placed in her hands. "Aww, well thanks but...I didn't get you anything.."

"That's okay!" Benjamin told her. "I just saw it and I thought you might like it...anyways, I hope you have a nice Christmas."

"Thanks, you do the same." Hope said.

Benjamin nodded his head before leaning in and giving Hope a kiss on the cheek. Instantly, her cheeks went red as the boy smiled at her.

"See you after break. Bye everyone, hope you all have a nice Christmas as well!" Benjamin said with a wave before leaving down the corridor.

Stella and Eliza grinned at one another. "Smooth little mother, isn't he?" Stella said as Hope reached a hand up to her cheek for a brief moment.

"Oooh Hopey's blushing!" Eliza said poking her younger cousin in the side.

"No I'm not!"

"Yes you are!" The group sang together. 

All of them...except Henry.