A Normal Sized Christmas Stocking
A\N: Hello! This oneshot is written for day nineteen of the Countdown to Christmas Drabble / Oneshot Competition (link can be found in my bio)
Prompt: Stocking
Disclaimer: I do not own any rights to the Harry Potter series, nor am I making any money from writing this, just having a lot of fun!
Enjoy!
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"Oh, Draco, darling," Daphne crooned, doing a sadly accurate impression of Narcissa Malfoy. "What was in you stocking, darling?"
"Oh, shut up," Draco folded his arms and sat back. If his parents, or any of their parents, were around, he would never do such a thing. He always sat with excellent posture and his head held high and arrogant.
But they weren't around, so he could do whatever he wanted.
"What did you get?" Pansy asked, leaning forward with a kind smile on her face trying to coax him back into the conversation.
"Yeah," Greg laughed. "I wanna know what your parents would get you that would fit inside some dumb Christmas stocking."
"Unless," Theo said, "the stocking is the size of a Thestral."
"No," Draco wined, trying to be defensive but still more than accustomed to their teasing. "It was a normal sized one."
"Yeah but what's normal to you?" Vince asked
"A King-sized bed?" Blaise guessed.
"The size of a fireplace?" Tracey giggled.
"How would it fit hanging from the fireplace then?" Millicent pointed out.
"You haven't been to Malfoy Manor," Tracey told her. "Their fireplaces are at least twice the size of the ones at my place."
"It's a normal sized stocking hanging from an arguably large but nonetheless normal sized fireplace." Draco harshly ran his hand down his face, pulling at the skin in an effort to dispel the gathering rage he could feel swirling inside.
"You haven't answered the original question," Daphne said, giving him a look that would no doubt be accompanied by her hand on her hips if they weren't all sitting snugly in a circle of arm chairs in the common room. "What did your parents get you?"
Draco debated lying, but in the end decided it wasn't worth it. "A new piano." His words were met with silence. "The one I've been playing is my mother's, she thought I'd like one of my own." More silence. "What?"
Tracey opened her mouth couldn't seem to find words to justify what she needed to say. Blaise had a nearly hidden grin, whilst Greg had broken the silence with golden laughter, and Millicent gave him a shy, somewhat awed, smile of her own.
"So what did you guys get?" Draco asked, still unsure of why they were all so stunned.
Theo face-palmed.
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A/N: Ta-da! Hope you liked it! Drop a review and let me know what you think :)