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Mell Turning slightly and finally tearing his gaze away from the Christmas trees, Seb smiled in the direction of the two Hufflepuffs. He should have known that students from his former house would be the first to volunteer their help.
"I would love some help. As you can see." he said gesturning around to the trees. "Our trees are looking a little bare." Seb gave his wand a simple wave and conjured a large box. "Feel free to use magic to decorate but just in case you don't want to." Or can't. "Then I have a box full of decorations that you can use."
Minerva smiled at Mr. Gibbins. He was so super nice, plus decorating a tree sounded great. She looked at the big box and felt herself get so excited. She had to spend her first Christmas at the castle alone, which she was taking well, but this just made it better. "If you don't mind, I think I would like to do it the muggle way like I use to with my mom and dad." Setting down her book bag she picked up some of the decorations to start putting the bulbs on the one of the trees. That's when she saw her. Really she was everywhere. Then Minerva felt a little panic come up.. was she stalking her, it was just odd to have someone be in every place you were at. This started to creep Minerva out, like the girl had no life but to show up where she was to make her life miserable. At least there weren't any guys for her to be a jerk in front of this time, well other then Mr. Gibbins, but he was an adult, so she wouldn't be a jerk in front of him, would she.
Ignoring her, Minerva turned back to the tree and started humming Jingle Bells as she put bulbs around the tree. Not being able to reach the very top, Minerva grabbed her wand and began using it to float the bulbs up to the spots she couldn't reach. So it wasn't exactly like she did as a kid, but it was close enough.