Chapter 14: A Very Weasley Christmas
A VERY WEASLEY CHRISTMAS
Lily crossed her arms over her chest grumpily and stuck out her bottom lip as she sat on the living room sofa of the Burrow. So far she'd had the worst Christmas ever and wished that she was already at the Malfoy's, unfortunately they weren't heading there until the 28th of December so she had to stick it out here for a while.
She watched with a bored expression as her cousins rushed around, choosing beds to sleep in and squealing at the top of their voices by how excited they were, especially her younger cousin CeCe how had been thrown in their room at the last minute when Molly Weasley had reluctantly agreed for Ron to bring his family over for Christmas. However, they were only staying for the night as they were going over to visit Astoria's family tomorrow.
"Do you want the bunk beneath me Lily?" her younger sister Dora asked as she came down and sat next to her sister. Lily smiled at her before nodding
"I would love the bed beneath yours Dora, and then we can have secret conversations in the night"
"Yeah, because that will really help when people are trying to revise for NEWTS" Lily's cousin Molly said and Lily rolled her eyes, as did the remaining population of the room. Roxanne was the first to speak.
"Molly, you can't honestly be thinking of doing revision during the Christmas holidays?"
"Yes I can, I am Head Girl and have to set an example"
"On what? How to be a nerd?" Dom chuckled and Molly threw her a glare before rolling her eyes again and storming out of the room.
"How she got Head Girl, I'll never know" Roxy mumbled, making the girls laugh.
"She keeps going on about it" Lucy grumbled
"How keeps going on about what?" a voice sounded from the doorway and the girls all turned to see Ginny Potter walk into the room, her eyebrow raised in question.
"Molly, she keeps getting all worked up about her NEWTS and it's driving me up the wall"
"She sounds like her father when he was doing his NEWTS"
"Does it pass?" Lucy asked, sounding hopeful. Ginny snorted
"You know your father, do you think it'll pass?"
Lucy made a face which made Ginny laugh again; she continued "Then again, you might get lucky"
"I doubt it; both she and dad want me to start revising for my OWLS now. I only survive because mum tells them it's insane"
Lily snickered at her annoyed sister, Lucy wasn't that into her OWLS and stuff, in fact, her dream was to go to the muggle world and make a difference. She wore all those 'save the whales' and 'you have a voice' t-shirts everywhere. Her father was constantly displeased with her choice of clothing.
Lily was quite certain that she had never seen her friend dressed up, ever. Even today, Christmas day, she was wearing a 'vegetarians are cool' t-shirt along with a multicoloured knitted cardigan and a pair of white-washed ripped jeans. On her feet were some ankle wellingtons with tiny ducks carrying umbrellas on them. Her hair was tied back into a messy bun on the top of her head with a floral headband resting around it. Her delicate features made you forget about her weirdness and drew you towards her natural beauty instead.
Her sister was extremely different, with her preppy knee-length pencil skirt, cream blouse, blazer, and black chunky heels. She was always mistaken as someone who was a lot older than her actual age. You could probably walk into a bar with her and be served immediately. Not that Molly would dare step into a bar, she was far too refined was that kind of ; from her horn-rimmed glasses to her clunky shoes.
"I have always respected your mother, she's a normal person" Ginny said to Lucy who laughed before following her sister out of the room. When she was gone, Ginny turned to the girls around her.
"You girls ready for Christmas dinner?"
Lily groaned before nodded and making her way out of the room, her cousins following her eagerly, ready for their Christmas dinner. Lily didn't even know why she was so upset; perhaps it was because she wanted to see Eva desperately. She hadn't been very girly before she had met Eva, having two older brothers; even her two best friends at school were boys.
She always felt extremely left out at Christmas time, usually ending up playing with Dora. She would speak to Dom and Roxy but they always went off with Fred, James, and Albus; and Lily didn't want to spend time with her brothers when they were talking about strange stuff. Lucy was great but she kind of just talked about saving the world and stuff. Molly was boring, CeCe was annoying, and Victoire was so obsessed with Teddy she didn't even realise Lily existed at the moment.
Arriving at the dinner table, she realised that half the population of the house were already sat down. Lily sat down between her father and Roxanne, suddenly realising how hungry she was.
Once everyone had sat down the table was silent, this was mostly due to the tension between Ron and Astoria, and the rest of the Weasley's. When Ron asked his mother to pass the potatoes she completely ignored him and helped herself and Ginny to the remaining few. When Astoria tried to ask Lucy about Hogwarts, Arthur started a conversation with her about whale rights. The minute Ron attempted to talk to Lily she was shocked to see her father glaring daggers at the redhead and spearing his food menacingly on his plate. Five minutes later, Lily was beginning to wonder why Molly and Arthur had asked their youngest son and his family over for Christmas.
It was completely silent until Roxanne started talking to Lily about the New Year's Eve party she was attending soon.
"So, are you looking forward to the party?" she asked and, as if triggered, the whole table starting asking the Potter's about the party; all except Ron, Astoria, CeCe, and little Scorpius.
"Yeah" Lily answered as Fred began laughing at something James had said.
"Shut up" James seethed, blushing furiously, something Lily had never seen her oldest brother do. "You know it's true, you better stick close at midnight so that you can kiss her"
"I don't want to kiss Evangeline Malfoy" James growled, making Roxy and Fred burst into laughter whilst the rest of the table just looked at him with raised eyebrows. He scowled at his best friend who was clutching his side beside him.
That name hit Ron like a ton of bricks.
"WHAT?"
"Oh here we go again, you acting all hypocritical" Ginny spat
"But she's a Slytherin, and she's a Malfoy"
"Oh well observed Ronald" Ginny snapped
"I will not let my nephew become romantically involved with a Malfoy"
"But you will practically rape someone that's married to one" Harry shot back, pushing his chair aside as he stood up. Ron scoffed
"You just don't know when to stop do you? You're no better than me, turning against me just because you found out the truth"
"Well I would have been less angry if you'd told me immediately. It was the fact that you kept it from your whole family for eighteen years and turned us against one of our oldest and closest friends. Eighteen years Ronald"
"Does it really look as if I care about Hermione right now?" Ron bellowed, making little Scorpius' bottom lip begin to wobble. CeCe looked extremely scared of her father also.
"I don't know, do you? You seemed to want to be very close to her a few days ago. You advanced on her and yet you still blame Draco and I for what happened"
"It would have been fine if Malfoy hadn't turned up" Ron countered, not daring to look at her wife who looked shocked by the news she was hearing about her husbands' actions the other day.
"NO IT WOULDN'T HAVE WEASLEY, GET THAT THROUGH YOUR THICK MIND, YOU ARE WRONG. YOU'VE DONE ENOUGH DAMAGE AND WHEN HERMIONE DECIDED TO COME BACK YOU RUIN HER LIFE ALL OVER AGAIN, AND YOU WILL NOT RUIN MY SON'S LIFE EITHER" and then Harry did something nobody expected, he pulled out his wand and pointed it at his former best friend, his nostrils flaring and his eyes sharp. The entire table gulped, this was something Ginny was famous for doing but not Harry; he was the calm one.
"Come on Harry, you don't want to do this" Ron tried to reason, suddenly realising how serious the situation was. Harry didn't get angry very often but when he did he was livid.
"DON'T I WEASLEY?"
Ron took a step back from the table with his hands raised in surrender. Harry just stretched his wand arm out farther, desperate to aim a spell at his old friend.
"Harry, please don't..."
"STUPEFY" Harry screamed and Ron was blasted off his feet and into the wall behind him. A small crack echoed through the room, stating that Ron had broken something. Molly's hand covered her open mouth as Astoria ran over to her unconscious husband. Harry stalked around the table, glaring at Ron with hatred he didn't even know he had. The Weasley's were far too scared to stop him now, once Harry was set on something, he would finish it.
He looked down at Ron in disgust as the redhead's eyes flickered open, before spitting on the floor at Ron's feet.
"Consider yourself lucky Weasley" he sneered before storming out of the room, his wife following after him.
The room was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. Fred looked guilty, this argument had happened all because of something he had said. He turned to his father for support, hoping that he had found his joke funny. He hadn't, his face was disappointed and he was shaking his head slowly. Then he too got up from the table and left the room.
Slowly, one by one, each of the Weasley's left the dining room until it was only Ron, Astoria, CeCe, Scorpius, and James left. James looked around at the Uncle his father had just stupefied in pity.
"Sorry Uncle Ron" he whispered but the man only scowled at him. James left slowly and silently but swore he heard someone mutter 'like father, like son' as he left the room.
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