Every year before the Easter holiday, the primary school Harry and Dudley attended held an activity where children painted egg-shaped candy boxes in their favorite colors or decorated them with all sorts of craft materials, then donated them to charity.
Adults often vividly told children that Easter eggs were laid by rabbits, then hid them in churches, gardens, and places like that so the children could play egg hunts.
It was entertainment for adults, but not for children. Especially the "joke" about rabbits laying eggs—one of Harry's classmates had refused to eat eggs because she owned a pet rabbit.
It was not until she took part in the Easter egg-painting activity that she believed eggs really came from chickens.
Harry and Dudley had never taken part in an egg hunt. Aunt Petunia would never have let Dudley touch food that had fallen on the ground.
As for Dudley wanting candy, he did not even need to beg before Petunia had it ready for him.
Harry had not tasted the candy inside an Easter egg until he arrived at Hogwarts. Usually, his eggs were the same size as Ron's. Only in fourth year, because of that nonsensical article Rita Skeeter had written, Hermione's egg had been only the size of a chicken egg, while Harry's had been as large as a dragon egg to comfort him.
The Easter egg Draco Malfoy had received was probably as large as only an egg laid by a Ukrainian Ironbelly could be. Though Harry was already past the age of being interested in candy, he still unhappily stuffed it into a cloth bag before restoring it to its original state.
Draco Malfoy really was lucky. No matter where he went, there were always elders looking after him. Even the head of Hufflepuff had become his