So this blog is over a year old now right and in that year this thing has gone through so much change. I’ve started liking new things, started hating old things, and it’s just become a huge fucken pile of bullshit tbh.
So I moved. And now I can finally breathe properly.
I’m @festiveazkaban. If y’all could follow me there (feel free to unfollow this one it’s just an archive now) and signal boost this!
So this blog is over a year old now right and in that year this thing has gone through so much change. I’ve started liking new things, started hating old things, and it’s just become a huge fucken pile of bullshit tbh.
So I moved. And now I can finally breathe properly.
I’m @festiveazkaban. If y’all could follow me there (feel free to unfollow this one it’s just an archive now) and signal boost this!
So this blog is over a year old now right and in that year this thing has gone through so much change. I’ve started liking new things, started hating old things, and it’s just become a huge fucken pile of bullshit tbh.
So I moved. And now I can finally breathe properly.
I’m @festiveazkaban. If y’all could follow me there (feel free to unfollow this one it’s just an archive now) and signal boost this!
So this blog is over a year old now right and in that year this thing has gone through so much change. I’ve started liking new things, started hating old things, and it’s just become a huge fucken pile of bullshit tbh.
So I moved. And now I can finally breathe properly.
I’m @festiveazkaban. If y’all could follow me there (feel free to unfollow this one it’s just an archive now) and signal boost this!
So this blog is over a year old now right and in that year this thing has gone through so much change. I’ve started liking new things, started hating old things, and it’s just become a huge fucken pile of bullshit tbh.
So I moved. And now I can finally breathe properly.
I’m @festiveazkaban. If y’all could follow me there (feel free to unfollow this one it’s just an archive now) and signal boost this!
So this blog is over a year old now right and in that year this thing has gone through so much change. I’ve started liking new things, started hating old things, and it’s just become a huge fucken pile of bullshit tbh.
So I moved. And now I can finally breathe properly.
I’m @festiveazkaban. If y’all could follow me there (feel free to unfollow this one it’s just an archive now) and signal boost this!
So this blog is over a year old now right and in that year this thing has gone through so much change. I’ve started liking new things, started hating old things, and it’s just become a huge fucken pile of bullshit tbh.
So I moved. And now I can finally breathe properly.
I’m @festiveazkaban. If y’all could follow me there (feel free to unfollow this one it’s just an archive now) and signal boost this!
I like to imagine that Draco is actually the one who tries to keep the Christmas decorations up until late into January whereas Harry is the one who attempts to slowly take a wreath down stealthily only to have Draco start freaking out because -It’s still winter Potter!!! -yes but that doesn mean it’s still christmas, it’s almost february! -!!!! Winter!! Potter!!
I like the idea of Harry resorting to sneaking decorations away one at a time over a period of several weeks so Draco doesn’t realize until all of a sudden there’s more of the house visible than is hidden under decorations, and then he’s pissed because he did not agree to this, Potter! and it’s sneaky and he’s a little bit proud among the infuriation.
Headcanon that starting on the 26th, Harry takes a single decor down every day so that by the end of January and beginning of Feb, the house is normal again and Draco isn’t allowed to complain anymore
But during that month, boy, is it a fight! All out warfare. Harry thinks keeping his presents hidden from Draco before the 25th was a big deal? It’s got nothing on hiding the tree ornaments from him after the 25th.
I imagine he has to get pretty creative in where he puts them so Draco won’t find them in 5 seconds flat. Tinsel in the aviary. Wreathes in the attic. Hell, he sneakily installs secret safes behind several paintings just for the little ceramic replica of Hogsmeade they have. He has to hollow out books to hide baubles, and Merlin forbid he even think about what he’s done with the twiggy reindeer statue things within a 50 foot radius of Draco.
And if Harry’s determined, Draco is absolutely relentless. In fact, Harry remembers a year where Draco straight up did not stop trying to find the decorations and put them back up, so much so that their tree was literally still up halfway through february because if Draco was throwing a fit about buying the remaining bottles of eggnog that are on sale then heaven forbid the tree goes down any time soon.
At some point they both know they’re competing out of spite but Harry still goes to great lengths, asking their neighbours to take down their yard decorations for them while he’s distracting Draco in the house.
It would become a point of pride for both of them, to see who can hold out longer, which one of them wins, though Draco would definitely not play by the rules. He’d go out and buy more Christmas decorations if he couldn’t find what he was looking for (not that he’d stop), so their stock just keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
Their neighbours just end up thinking they’re that ultra Christmasy couple that’s obsessed year ‘round and are kind of disgusted, but also impressed. None of them bother putting up lights anymore because Draco’s decorations will put them all to shame, and he won’t even have the decency to be humble about it.
I just had this image of Harry arranging for Draco to be kidnapped on March 1st because he’s tried, and the lights are still up, and even if he takes them down, they just reappear the next morning.
I’m laughing, this is honestly too good. Draco is most definitely that one person who goes to the stores in the middle of February and totally wreaks havoc in their SALE Christmas decorations aisles. He gets all of the extra ornaments that by the next year, there is literally no fucking room on the tree so Harry has to give them to the Weasleys as gifts.
Their neighbours are horrified by the Potter-Malfoys. Not only do they hate how there’s just continuous christmas cheer for the entire winter holiday but Malfoy is the type to refuse to put the lights down. “What’s the point if we’re going to exert effort putting them back up again next year?” is his excuse.
He’ll acquiesce to only turning them on during the winter season but it still bothers everyone when it’s june and coming up the steps and there’s those lights strung up.
Oh, gosh. They wouldn’t just have one tree. They’d maybe have one tree per room. And more in the bigger rooms. If they lived in a big house, the living room would have one for each corner, and that would be a war, too. Harry tries try to pawn them off on people in the street who so much as blink the wrong way at him, or if they look like they could use a tree. Charities come to rely on them to provide trees every Christmas because Draco won’t just bloody give in like a reasonable person and keeps coming home with twice as many as he gives away.
Ahaha, I love this so much. The second the thermostat goes under 5C, the lights are on and nothing anybody says can persuade Draco to turn them back off again, because 5C is the hallmark of winter, even if it only is the middle of October.
Within five years, three of their neighbours have moved, and overnight, 6′ hedges spring up in the front yards of several of their neighbours. One year, the family across the street strings lights up that flash and blink the word “STOP” at them.
oh my god i’m laughing so hard. The first year they lived together, they went to the tree farm together to pick out the perfect tree. Now, Harry goes so far as to threaten chaining Draco home because if they go to the tree farm, they’ll be coming home with half the trees if not more.
Stores love Draco because he clears out their aisles fast but even the Weasleys get a bit wary because they have too many ornaments and too many christmas decorations because if Harry can steal something and give it away then that’s a success.
But of course, Draco is petty as all hell so the moment their neighbours across from them start flashing ‘STOP’, guess whose decorations get amped up? Harry comes home from work and screams because it’s the middle of January and instead of the yard slowly clearing up, it is suddenly COVERED in those moving wire reindeer decor complete with flashing lights and music playing from an installed speaker.
Ahahaha, this is how they end up on a tabloid talk show.
Oh. Oh. What if they start nicking their lights and yard decorations? They just disappear overnight. Draco thinks it’s Harry at first, but Harry swears up and down that it isn’t him. Then, the next Christmas, their lights show up on 216′s door. The next day, their reindeer show up on 221′s roof. Slowly but surely, their neighbours start trying to outbid them at Christmas spirit, and that’s just not on. They steal the inflatable chimney with the motorized Santa that pops his head out every few minutes, and Harry goes absolutely mental.
Instead of continuing to try and talk Draco down, he encourages him to go over the top: they get a carousel with horses and everything and set up an ice rink on half of their property with lights, rent a couple of Clydesdales and carriages and decorate them to look like reindeer and sleighs. They go obnoxiously Christmas in ways their neighbours can’t steal, and to make it even more difficult for them, they decorate their yards in the middle of the night until they have no space to put stollen things anymore.
This is how their street becomes the most decorated street in all of Greater London and they become a Trip Advisor recommended hotspot over the holidays.
!!! I love it!! The moment one of their major decorations go missing and show up on someone else’s property, Harry is gone.
Because while Draco is all christmas spirit and whatnot, Harry is competition. So when Draco goes shopping to get the last of the decorations, Harry is there pointing out the biggest things saying “This is going to show them up. This one definitely will.”
Part of Draco doesn’t care because hey, more christmas for him. But Part of him is also worried because after goddamn 213 actually pulled off stealing one of their sleighs (there’s snow tracks and everything, it was a steal out of spite not stealth), Harry has been up until odd hours at night erecting the biggest inflatables and setting up candy cane lights that run along the length of the sidewalk and putting on the projector so that it’s blasting music and showing the same dumb clip of santa flying his sleigh projecting on the garage door.
Tbqh they don’t even care that people are coming to their yard to take pictures and pose. In fact, if Draco’s home, he tells them all about the decorations. If Harry’s home, he’s pointing around the street and claiming which ones are actually there’s.
Harry makes it his mission to find the biggest, gaudiest, most disgustingly hideous Christmas snowman inflatable, buys 100 in a bulk order, and boxes each of their neighbours houses in with them so that when they leave, it’s the ultimate walk of shame. He wakes up stupidly early and camps out by the window on the second floor with a pair of binoculars and a cup of coffee, and cackles the first time he sees their neighbours’ reactions. Snowman guilt is the best kind there is.
I think it’s at this point that Draco would have to stage an intervention because lining snowmen up outside houses like the Queen’s Guard is one step too far.
It ends when there’s snowmen lining each drive way for each house starting at the start of the street to the end of it. Harry goes so far as to standing on his sidewalk with a megaphone, yelling how his snowman army will most definitely pummel 214′s to the ground without Mercy.
The children of the other houses try and join the silly christmas man in his yelling but all the parents absolutely refuse to allow their children out to even see him.
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