drarry christmas one shots

the decorations

Draco and Harry were both ill. Very ill. They had contacted a bug that at first made them vomit their guts out, then have extreme pain in their stomachs, then pounding headaches, then more vomit, now a really bad cold. They were both coughing, sneezing and unable to breath out of their noses. Madame Pomfery had them in quarantine for for the most of it but it seemed like they were getting better so she let them into the 8th years common room. She had put a charm on it so everyone else could leave but them. All the students stayed away from them anyway so there wasn't much point in going back to the common room.

"Please Madame Pomfery." Draco begged. "I've missed 3 weeks of lessons."

"You've been given the class work though."

"But it's not the same. We're both better now." Draco tried to hold back a cough but ended up failing.

"No, Mr.Malfoy."

"We're both going mad in here. There is nothing to do, we can't go outside or anything." Harry said.

"Mr. Potter, you and Mr. Malfoy are still to ill to go back to lessons. You will not be going back until I say so. And that is final." Madame Pomfery told them in a stern voice. With that, she walked out of the room.

Harry flopped onto the sofa and wrapped a blanket around himself.

"I'm so bored, Dray." Harry whined.

"Me too, babe." Draco sighed and went over to Harry.

Draco sat on the sofa and wrapped his arm around the raven haired boy. The two had been dating since just after the war.

"We've done everything we can in this bloody room. We've played every game, we've read every book, we've tidied it up three bloody times. What are we supposed to do?" Harry asked, frustrated.

"I honestly have no idea. I'm literally think I am going to go mad."

The two sat in silence for a few minutes before an idea hit Harry.

"Dray, what's the date today?" Harry asked.

"The first of December, why?"

"We can decorate the common room!"

"With what?" Draco asked, confused.

"Christmas decorations, you idiot. I remember going into that cupboard over there and seeing a box of Christmas decorations. I can cal, Hagrid through the fire and ask him to bring a small Christmas tree. This is going t be the best decorated common room ever." Harry said, excitedly.

"That's actually a pretty good idea."

"Great, you go find the decorations and I'll call Hagrid."

Harry walked over to the fire place and prepared it. Once it was prepared, he stuck his head into the fire.

"Hagrid? Hagrid!" Harry called out.

"Huh, Harry is that you?" Hagrid's gruff voice replied.

"Yeah, I'm in the fireplace. I need to ask a favour."

"What is it?" Hagrid asked.

"Could you possibly get a Christmas tree to go in the 8th year common room because Draco and I are decorating it?"

"Of course I can, me boy. I'll be there in an hour."

"Thank you so much, Hagrid."

With that, Harry took his face out of the fire and saw Draco trying to drag a smallish box across the floor.

"Harry, help me. It's so heavy. It must have an undetectable extension charm on it."

Harry ran over to help Draco drag the box into the middle of the room. The two spent 30 minutes sorting out the decorations into different piles. Harry had set aside all the tree decorations, such as a star, baubles, candy canes, tinsel (there was a lot of tinsel), chocolate, lights and more. Draco had the other decorations. He had some more tinsel, more lights, little signs that read 'Merry Christmas' and other variations of that, some little snowman figures, some snow globes and more. There was even a wreath that Draco decided to hang in the inside of the entrance to the common room.

While waiting for Hagrid to bring the tree, Harry helped Draco had up the lights. When they were finished, there were icicle lights hanging from the banister of the stairs, smaller lights all around the top of the room and lights wrapped around pretty much every piece of furniture except the chairs and the sofas. All the lights were white, they looked very elegant. There were some coloured lights but Draco refused to use them. When Harry said he was going to put them in the tree, Draco grabbed a pair of scissors and chopped them up. Just as they finished, Hagrid arrived with the tree. The tree was perfect, not to bushy and just the right height.

"Thank you Hagrid!"

"No problem Harry."

When Hagrid left, the boys went immediately back to decorating. Harry focused on the tree whilst Draco focused on the rest of the room. It took them the rest of the day to finish but once they had, the stood for a minute to admire their work but were interrupted when the rest of the 8th years came into the common room. Harry and Draco heard a collective gasp from all of them.

"This is amazing, who did this?" Hermione asked.

"We did." Harry replied, proudly.

"It's stunning."

Lights were carefully hung all around the room, giving it a magical glow. Tinsel ran up the banister of the stairs and across the desks. Little Christmas figures were placed around the room and it seemed like there was a slight shimmer to everything. Big stars hung from the lights below and Draco had spent over an hour charming the ceiling to make it look like it was snowing. But the thing that stood out the most was the tree. The tree was beautiful, it was perfect. Lights had been delicately wrapped around the branches and silver tinsel was placed where the magical glow of the lights wasn't as strong. All the decorations had been placed with care and in just the right place. Silver, white and light blue baubles hung gently off the branches, candy canes and chocolates were scattered within the tree and other small decorations were placed here and there, but what really finished off the tree was the star sat at the top. The star shimmered gently in the light, it was a beautiful silver covered with glitter. It was so simplistic, yet so elegant.

"Oh, I almost forgot. We made cookies for everyone." Harry ran into where the mini kitchen was and brought out a massive plate of cookies.

The students cheered as they dug into the cookies.

"We did good." Harry said to Draco, leaning into him.

"We did." Draco replied and placed a gentle kiss to Harry's lips.