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OH THE RISING OF THE SUN AND THE RUNNING OF THE DEER

Summary: The Marauders act out a cheery favourite carol. (Christmas 1980.)

Characters: Lily, James, Sirius, Remus, Peter, baby Harry

Words: 100

Notes: This drabble (yes, it’s precisely 100 words if you don’t count the interspersed lyrics!) was inspired by

author_by_night’s prompt of “Christmas Carol: The Holly and the Ivy” at the

rt_morelove Stocking Filler Exchange, but then I just couldn’t seem to get this to be about Remus and Tonks – it insisted on being the Marauders instead. So, it's here, not there.

I kind of think this ought to be a picture, but I can’t draw, so it’s a drabble instead. If it’s songfic for a medieval Christmas carol, is it still songfic?

Story:

“The holly and the ivy, when they are both full grown,” Lily sang, smiling as she leant up against James’ side. On their entwined hands, both their wedding bands reflected the glow of the fairy lights they’d strung haphazardly about the house.

“Of all the trees that are in the wood, the holly bears the crown,” she continued. Remus grabbed a paper crown abandoned on the mantelpiece and dropped it on her head, off-kilter.

“Oh, the rising of the sun,” she sang, and Sirius obligingly hoisted little Harry up higher, raising him above all their heads, “and the running of the deer” – James jogged in place, grinning madly.

“The playing of the merry organ,” Lily sang, and Peter tinkled about on the keys of the old upright piano, smiling back at her, then they all joined in with one voice as she concluded, “sweet singing in the choir.”

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The holly and the ivy, when they are both full grown,
Of all the trees that are in the wood, the holly bears the crown.
Oh, the rising of the sun and the running of the deer,
The playing of the merry organ, sweet singing in the choir.