Seasons' Greetings 2011 ♥ Stocking-Fillers

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Main posting for the fest is over, but we'd like to encourage some Lily/James-themed holiday spirit while we've still got a few days more to Christmas proper. Thus, we present:

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[doraeazure]

Title: How Prongs Became the Most Attractive Santa Ever Seen
(Or, If Santa Went on a Diet and Had Better Looking Parents, He Might Almost Be as Incredible as James in a Santa Costume. But Probably not as Terrifying.)
Author: doraeazure
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Prompt: James has an idea on how to make Harry’s first Christmas special by dressing up as Santa by fwittney
Wordcount: 3,764

A/N: So this is kinda long. I tried to keep it short because it's a comment fic, but it ran away with me. Oh well. fwittney, this prompt was exactly the type of thing I like best to write. I hope there's enough fluff, humor, and James & Sirius banter for you

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The Most Attractive Santa 2/6He got to play soooooo many other pranks too. He snuck teensy stags in amongst all the garlands and ornaments and candles, and Lily didn’t even mind that he sometimes charmed them to tease the reindeer or charge up and down the banister. He occasionally hung the fairy lights upside down and charmed all the bells on the mantle to play “Silver bells” whenever Lily came into the room. He sometimes charmed the ribbon to slither away when Lily reached for it, or to cry piteously when she tied it in complicated bows (her response was to tell it to buck up; ribbons were meant to be tied on presents, and so it must resign itself to its fate like the Gryffindor-bought ribbon it was

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On another occasion, Lily had finally seemed to understand how important this whole Christmas thing was to James, so she’d explained in detail all the ways she thought he was a wonderful father, which was totally ineffective. James knew he was an awesome father. This was him they were talking about, and he was amazing at everything. James had explained that to Lily, but she’d just rolled her eyes and handed him his son. He suspected she’d done it to shut him up, but he hadn’t really minded. She’d really only proved his point. If there was one thing in his life that that proved how absolutely incredible James and Lily were, it was Harry. (Best baby ever. Cutest, smiley-est, smartest…Harry won every category. James even swore he’d seen him do accidental magic already, which Lily completely dismissed as a story, but James knew he was right. His son was going to be one powerful wizard. How could he help it with parents like his

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The Most Attractive Santa 4/6

“You’re an arrogant little toerag, you know that?”

“I worked hard for these muscles, Padfoot. I see no reason to deprive the rest of the world of my awe inspiring figure.”

“Right. Well, I suppose you have a point. I mean, what would the world be like if I went fat Muggle for a day?”

“Exactly!”

“So you’ll be a skinny Santa, then. Harry’s not even five months old, he won’t know the difference anyway. We’ll charm a beard on you, give you a sack of presents, take a couple of pictures of your unbelievably beautiful family, which I promise not to sneak into the background of. At least half the time, anyway. And Lily will be putty in your hands.”

“Lily is already-”

“Yes, okay, more than usual. Stop trying to make us poor pathetic bachelors jealous.”

“I can’t help it, Pads. I lead a charmed life.”

“Yes, you and your gorgeous wife and your gorgeous son and your gorgeous best friend. How does the rest of the world not hate you

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The Most Attractive Santa 5/6“Is everyone here, then?” Lily asked as she came into the room. The marauders (minus Peter, who went home to see his family at Christmas and came over on Boxing Day instead) had a made a tradition of celebrating Christmas at the Potter’s ever since they’d finished school. Sirius had been coming to the Potter’s for Christmas since he was sixteen and had left his parents house, and when Remus’s parents died, leaving him with nowhere else to go either, James had been eager to have them over. At first James had been a little hesitant to suggest his plan to his wife, unsure of how she would take the idea of expanding their “family” over the holidays, but Lily had welcomed his friends with open arms. The two men had been coming to Christmas ever since

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The Most Attractive Santa 6/6

“Hey there, little me,” James murmured to his son, hefting the baby a little closer to his face. He was smiling when Harry looked up and met his eyes.

And promptly burst into loud, unhappy tears.

“Oh, hey!” James exclaimed, bouncing his son gently. Harry’s cries abated a little at the sound of his voice, but when he looked around and didn’t see his father’s face, the cries resumed at an even louder volume.

“I don’t think he likes your costume, Jamie,” Sirius told him.

“But why not?” James asked, distressed. “I thought all children loved Santa! They do in all the stories!”

“James, those are children old enough to have heard and understood the Santa myth,” Remus explained. “Harry’s too young to understand Santa.”

“So you think, what? It’s…it’s the beard?”

Sirius snickered a little. “Well, the beard scares me, so