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3:53pm July 15, 2015

OKAY NO BUT IMAGINE THIS:
harry and ginny accidentally moving in next door to draco and astoria
and when harry realises he’s like shit shit shit aboRT MISSION WE HAVE TO MOVE SOMEWHERE ELSE I CAN’T DO THIS GIN
but ginny is like come on don’t be ridiculous it was just a childhood rivalry you can do this just be cool
(but harry has absolutely zero concept of being cool around draco malfoy obviously)
and at first they very maturely and very stoically shake hands and avoid each other’s eye and nod and mumble about ‘burying the hatchet’ and ‘starting fresh’ but it all goes to shit very quickly
it starts with harry planting some fuchsias
draco is watching him over the fence, offended at the very impertinence of the thing, because he’s clearly just trying to make his garden look BETTER than their’s and draco will NOT stand for it
so he makes a trip to the local garden centre the whole time grumbling like ‘oh he’s a GARDENER now is he? stupid potter with his GREEN THUMB and his WATERING CAN and his FUCHSIAS. i’ll show him what a REAL GARDEN LOOKS LIKE’
and the next week harry goes into his garden to find draco’s garden overflowing with fuchsias and pansies and marigolds and sweet peas and sunflowers and freesias and harry automatically understands the message:
they are back to being Arch Enemies
they’re never actually rude to each other openly, they’re both too proud for that, but they both take it in turns trying to make their gardens bigger and brighter and greener than the others
(even though neither of them really give a single shit about gardening if they’re totally honest)
draco sets up a large, extravagant bird house thats like a small castle complete with a moat
harry spends a sunday afternoon swearing and complaining trying to install a gigantic water feature
eventually magic gets involved and there are colour-changing daisies and singing sunflowers and exploding hydrageanas and it`s all just generally ridiculous
(draco and harry are the only two that are rivals. little 7 and 5 old james and albus have a jolly old time playing with scorpius over the fence, and ginny and astoria regularly go out for brunch and don’t get home til late afternoon after a few too many glasses of wine)
but anyway
the entire saga culminates on a boiling hot afternoon in august when both the potter and draco parties are in their gardens eating bbq food and playing frisby and sunbathing and just generally doing typical uk-families-as-soon-as-the-sun-comes-out-things
the kids are squealing together and throwing the frisbee back and fourth over the fence
ginny and astoria are laughing together
draco and harry are carefully avoiding looking at each other
but then harry is like ‘ginny look how well the fuchsias are doing’ really loudly bc he’s a little shit and draco CANNOT resist being like ‘really? I’d say they’re looking a little peaky.. ours on the other hand’
and it escalates
it escalates until theyre both yelling at each other over the garden fence about who’s garden looks better
and then draco loses it and dumps and watering can full of water over harry’s head
and harry FREEZES and then goes for the garden hose and soaks draco
and everybody just stands in silence for about 30 seconds whilst they both stand there dripping wet and glaring at each other
and then at the exact same time the two of them just BURST OUT LAUGHING because this is ridiculous even for them
how did they end up SCREAMING at each other over fuchsias???
and then there’s a massive potter vs malfoy water fight and after that they’re bros
(but there will always be a competitive edge when it came to who had the better garden)