Chapter 14
For the next four and a half weeks, everyone was talking about where to spend the following holidays. Some of the students' parents were so frightened about the news that Voldemort would attack Hogwarts, that they took their child away from school.
On Friday evening Harry, Hermione and Ron were in the Common Room, discussing the Transfiguration essays. When Hermione corrected the boys' essays, she and Ron sat in a couch and Harry took a seat in an armchair.
"Where will you two spend the holidays?" Harry asked them.
"Uh, sorry, mate, my folks don't let me stay here because of You-Know-Who's plan," said Ron. Harry looked sad, but accepted it anyway.
"I'm going to go skiing with my parents, Harry, I'm sorry," she even looked sad that she had to leave her friends.
"Okay. I guess I'm gonna spend it here."
"Not if Mum founds it out. She's gonna grab you all the way to the Burrow. You know how she would not want you to get harm," said Ron with a grin.
Harry smiled, but said, "Ron, that would be great, but I can't put you in danger. The Burrow's wards are not stong enough to keep the Death Eaters away if they find out where I am."
"You wouldn't put us in danger, we would ask Dumbledore to raise more stonger wards, and then you could come with us."
"I think I'll stay, but thanks," said Harry.
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Harry woke to the owls' tapping on the window. He smiled and ran to let them in. He got a homework planner from Hermione; a book titled Practincal Defensive Magic and Its Use Against the Dark Arts from Remus; a wallet with fangs from Hagrid; a little Firebolt from Tonks; a box of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans from Ron; a jumper and pies from Mrs Weasley; a painting of himself from Dobby; and a little black box without a tag. Harry opened it and found a vial of molten gold coloured liquid. There was a little piece of parchment attached to it, and in black ink the next words were written on it,
Felix Felicis
Use it cleverly
Happy Christmas
Harry looked at the liquid confusedly and thought about why was this writing style so familiar to him.
Chapter 14