Disclaimer: All I want for Christmas is the rights to Harry Potter. Sadly Santa is not inclined to deliver those

AN: Written for the Christmas Character challenge by The Kawaii Neko. It was meant to be my Christmas oneshot this year, but…it didn't play out that way

AN2: Given the mess that is The Cursed Child, I have ignored that as canon in any way, shape or form.

"How long have you been teaching my son to ice skate?" Astoria asked Daphne as she stormed into the offices of Skog Publishing House. Daphne raised an eyebrow.

"No hello, no nice to see you, nothing like that?" she countered and Astoria growled. "Why Astoria, it's almost like we're not family at all."

"Don't play games with me Daphne. You were the one who gave him those ice skates for his birthday and you're the only person I know he would trust to teach him how to figure skate so well."

"You know Astoria, you really should calm down. All that stressing about…you could do yourself a mischief. And then people might think you're Gryffindor material," Daphne said in an infuriatingly calm voice. "He asked me to teach him discretely, that's true. What he does with that skill…" Daphne shrugged her shoulders, "That's his responsibility."

"He took advantage of the weather," Astoria waved her hand at snow falling outside the office window, "to propose to his cheap tart of a girlfriend. He skated out his proposal on the ice and illuminated it in red outside her flat in Diagon Alley and she said yes!"

"Isn't his girlfriend that Weasley girl…Rose, isn't it?" Daphne asked with a slight smile. "I thought you'd be happy that he's settling down with a nice, clever girl like that. And such a wonderfully sweet proposal, just in time for Christmas."

"But-but-"

"And carving out his proposal in ice? That's a unique way of proposing. He's a regular Jack Frost, isn't he?" Daphne continued. "How's Draco taken the news?"

"He…doesn't like it," Astoria admitted and Daphne chuckled.

"No, I don't think he would," she said with a smile as she stood up. "Still, I'm sure he'll come around in time to see his grandchildren."

"GRANDCHILDREN!?"

Daphne smirked as she walked away for her lunch break. This years family Christmas dinner should prove most entertaining.

AN: The Jack Frost comment by Daphne comes from some of the old legends about Jack Frost as an artist, drawing shapes in the ice.