Disclaimer: I wish I owned the series... It's what I want for Christmas.
I will not use Slytherin and Gryffindor first years as Christmas decorations.
(A/N: And this is my Christmas contribution to Fanfiction! Enjoy!)
It was an amazing sight that greeted you in the Great Hall on the last day before the Christmas break. It brought tears to your eyes, whether by laughter or joy or just by pure frustration. The point is that it brought tears.
We worked tirelessly during the night decorating the great hall with all we had gathered. And now they were just trying to take them down. How dare they! At least we made it a permanent sticking charm until the end of breakfast!
It had taken most of the fall to negotiate the plan between the 7th year Slytherin's and Gryffindor's. The end result was worth all the insults and curses that they through.
On the night before the Christmas break the 7th year Slytherin's and Gryffindor's worked really hard at wrapping and dragging the presents to the Great Hall. After all the presents were there we all used the levitation charm to get them to the ceiling and used the new and improved sticking charm so they wouldn't fall in the middle of night. They are fragile after all.
I looked up and smiled. The Great Hall looked wonderful with the new decorations! Of course the wrapping paper did help identify which first year you were looking at. Green for Slytherin and red for Gryffindor. If we hadn't wrapped them it would have been in their black robes and black is not a nice colour on Christmas.
Don't worry, we didn't wrap their heads. Though we did add a bow!