marauders christmas hcs

• james is the kind of person who gets excited about next christmas on the 27th of december every year
• “james it’s january” “any month can be pre-christmas if you try hard enough”
• he makes and spells his own wrapping paper and does a customized one for all his friends. it’s his biggest talent in his Honest Opinion
• sirius is always wary about christmas bc his parents would have a fancy party where he’d be forced to socialize with people he hated and all his gifts would be very expensive but nothing he’d ever like
• the winter of first year, he decides to stay at school over the holidays bc his parents are still mad about his sorting. he’s resigned himself to being alone so when james starts unpacking despite having talked about getting to go home for weeks he’s very confused (but also very happy)
• after that he always goes to james’ for christmas. he tears up a little bit when mrs potter hangs a fourth stocking up the first time he stays there
• the holidays just stress remus out tbh
• he feels guilty about not having the money to buy extravagant presents so he makes up for it by trying to come up with the most well-thought-out ones ever
• the first time the marauders spend the holidays at the lupins’ comes as a giant shock when they wake up to the smell of sugar cookies and come downstairs to see remus in an apron mixing up yet another bowl of batter, surrounded by three entire trays of perfectly decorated cookies
• he and peter teach james and sirius muggle carols and it proves to be the biggest mistakes of their lives
• sirius and james, in unison: DECK THE HALLLS WITH BOUGHS OF HOLLYYYY
• the entirety of hogwarts, covering their ears: stop
• peter has like an entire collection of ugly sweaters
• he charms them to light up and sing carols when people walk by he’s very proud of them
• and also very disappointed when someone inevitably breaks into the dorm and burns all of them for the rest of the school’s ears’ sake 
• he believed in santa claus until second year and he always denies it but james has photographic proof
• even once they graduate they always regroup for christmas
• james was already planning the Big Festive Party of 1981
• but instead of spending the holiday season surrounded by people who love him, dressed in the little sweater lily had already started to knit for him, he spends it in the cold, alone, while the dursleys laugh distantly in another room
• he is one and a half, and yet old enough to know that he will never feel warm again

Jopper