"Aw..."

"Do you want to?"

Shrug.

She shifts a bit. "You've been really good about my holidays... If there's even like a part of muggle holiday stuff you wanna do I'm good with that?"

"Well... Christmas presents might be fun."

"Okay. Just any present?"

"Basically. But you wrap it up in pretty paper before you give it, and if you're a parent you put it out in the middle of the night and pretend it's from Santa Claus."

Giggle. "Santa Claus?"

"He's old and fat and has a big white beard. Lives at the North Pole and uses a sleigh and flying reindeer to visit every house on Christmas Eve to slide down your chimney and leave presents."

"That sounds really silly. I don't think there's any time-turners that'd let you visit all those houses."

"The people who believe in this are mostly children who don't think hard enough about how many people exist in the world."

She nods, giggling. "Yeah. Wizard kids probably don't know how many muggles there are, either..."

"I strongly doubt it."

"So presents wrapped in pretty paper it is, then."

"Okay."

She grins, flopping back. "Are you gonna get me presents, too?"

"Maaaaybe."

She just grins at Ellie.

"What sort of thing might you want, if were to get you something?"

...Wow that is such a hard question.

"Uh."

She scrunches up her face.

"I have books..."

Ellie giggles. "Got it."

Hum. "But... I dunno. I have a lot of books?" Shrug. "I guess the kind of books I don't have, like muggle books? Or..." Thinking. "I... There's nice stuff a lot of the especially muggleborn girls have that I don't? Like... Hair stuff, or weird skirts, or jewelry... All the stuff that's pretty cool and shiny." More thinking. "Also I kinda miss some of my old toys... I haven't had them in forever, my aunt got rid of them, but I really liked having like stuffed animals..."

Nod nod.

"What kinds of things do you want? Other than books."

"Hmm... something wizard-y? A thing magical people would get."

"I can do something magical, yeah."