Excellently done! A very sweet Christmas story. I especially like Scrooge's take on whether money can buy happiness: you portray him well as wise and realistic as well as sentimental. Great work!

Good story! I really enjoyed it!

I felt my heart grow heavy as I sat reading it, the last scene especially. The energy between them was palatable to the point of souring on their own tongues; the gentleness and warmth that dangled before them reminded me of the phrase "elephant in the room", only this elephant was inflatable and easily popped, and pop it they did. It saved their sanity though, even if the metaphorical "sight" of a deflated elephant left them far colder than winter snow ever would.

AWE. i loved it! Yet another awesome story from you. You're a great author and you get the characters down just right! i love how magica is sad for a moment longing for a family and stuff in this one...sad...Oh and i forgot to say in the other one "Not Worth Ten Cents" that i loved the part where she's all "I wouldn't hesitate to strip you naked to get dime!" and he's all "I can see that..." or whatever (i can't remember but it made me CRACK UP xD)

...Why is it that, every time I find a new story by you, I try to remember to put you on Author Alert, and every time I keep forgetting? Had I not felt a sudden desire to visit your profile just now, I probably wouldn't even have found this story.

Anyways, great work on this oneshot. You delved really deeply into Magica's character, fleshing out her thought processes extremely well, and the characterization of Scrooge (combining the Barksian "hard work makes the Duck" and the Don Rosa "but he's nothing without his family" philosophies very nicely) was just great. And the idea of the old miser who pays his own nephew just thirty cents an hour offering Magica his scarf for free is (pardon the pun) priceless. :)

Interesting story.

I never really though about how the villians spend their Christmas - and of Magica being miserable at heart.

I can't say how much I loved this. My best friend and I have always thought there was a more human, so to speak, side to Magica(Personally,she's one of my favorite Duck characters.)

...And this was one of the best ways to show it. An overwhelming sense of pity, sympathy, and at the end, warm fuzzy feelings all over.

Thank you for writing this.

I usually hate Magica. This fic makes her seem more human.

Hey, I like it. You can ALMOST feel sorry for Magica.

Even if being Jewish, the 25th of December is just another day to me.

Plenty of other holidays.

Until I read this, I never felt pity for Magica Da Spell before;
but this made me want to cry for her (not to mention her poor brother, who's still a raven). How lonely and sad she really must
be! I'm now inclined to wonder how Flintheart Glomgold spends
HIS holidays. At least the Beagle Boys have each other, and their mom.

I loved this story, sweetie! You had Scrooge and Magica's accents down pat-I could practically hear their voices! SUPER job, as always. ^_^

Not much I can say except.. WOW. Tremendous job on the exchanges, emotional content and on Magica's flashbacks. Even the technicially SLIGHTLY out of character moments are believably done. Thanks very greatly for sharing this one-shot with us.