Teddy Bears, Candy Canes, and Christmas Carols

"Oh no you don't!" Pansy grabbed the retreating teddy bear that was Draco before he could wedge himself underneath her warderobe.

"Pansy! Let me go!" Draco's voice was little more than a squeak, and Pansy giggled.

***

Pansy walked into Potions class with Draco tucked under her arm, as he struggled and squirmed, trying to get away. There had been chuckles, giggles, and snickers behind them as Pansy walked through the halls. Draco was dressed in a adorable little outfit of a checkered flannel shirt, denim overalls, and a little straw hat. Pansy carried the piece of straw she'd stuck in his mouth in her free hand, as he'd kept spitting it out.

"Pansy! He's sooo cuuuute!" The other girls in the class, even Hermione, gathered around Pansy as she showed off her handiwork. Draco just glowered at them all.

Draco growled, and struggled to get away, causing a wave of giggles through the crowd of girls. He finally managed to escape Pansy, just as Snape came in.

"I see we're enjoying ourselves today." There was the slightest hint of a smile on his face, as he caught sight of Draco making for the door. "Interesting, Miss Parkinson. Ten points to Sytherin."

***

Draco managed to avoid Pansy for the rest of the day, and get his paws on his wand, going out to find Potter and his friends. He was muttering under his breath when he spotted the Weasel, and a malicious grin came to his face. Perhaps being stuck like this had some advantages, since the Weasel didn't notice him.....

***

"Ron... what happened to you?" Hermione was trying not to laugh at Ron, who greatly resembled a candy cane, with red, white, and green stripes all over. Even his hair and his eyes were candy-striped.

Ron glared. "What does it look like, Hermione? I got hit by a bloody snowball!" He tossed his books down, and slumped into the couch in front of the common room fireplace.

Hermione took a whiff of the air. "Peppermint?"

Ron growled, and headed up for the sixth-year boys' dorms.

Harry looked up as Ron came in, and a smiled came to his face. "You too?" He still had the flourescent green skin, and the dancing.... and now singing snakes in his hair.

Ron nodded, flopping down on his bed. "Malfoy."

Harry shook his head. "We need to get another snowball on him." He paused, trying to catch what the snakes were singing now. "Lovely. They were singing this one in Potions, and Snape took twenty points for it." They were singing 'Hark the Herald Angels Sing'.

***

Draco moaned in despair as Pansy snatched him up as he ran. He did not want to go out there like this. He'd never live it down. "Pansy! I'm not going out like this!"

"Don't be such a baby, Draco." Pansy smiled, and hauled him towards the halls. She had a smirk on her face over the outfit she'd choosen for him this morning. Nothing but a pair of white boxers with pink hearts all over them.

***

Snape controlled the impulse to chuckle over the misfortune of Malfoy as he caught sight of the boy/teddy bear fleeing down the hall back towards the Sytherin dorms, in the outfit Parkinson had choosen that day. He muttered the counter-spell for the snowball from earlier, before stalking into the potions class.