May I Have This Dance?
By ONNMT.
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter; however, all original work belongs to me.
—For the Secret Battle Competition: Take Two (Round 1); The Holidays Competition (Round 4); Greek Mythology Mega Prompt Challenge (Rhea); Harry Potter Chapter Competition (The Sacking of Severus Snape); As Much As You Can Competition; *2015* New Years Competition (Marauder's Era & Complete the Greek Challenge); Pick a Card, Any Card Challenge (Six of Hearts); One of Every Letter Challenge (M); All Those Characters Challenge (Lily Evans); The Competitions Competition; The Challenge Ticketing Challenge; The Competitions Competition Expanded.
Merry belated Christmas & Happy belated birthday, bro!—
WARNING: MuggleBoardingSchool!AU, potentially out-of-character attitudes (please point grossly OOC moments out to me).
"May I have this dance?"
Hair tossed back and thornless rose secure between his lips, James Potter made quite the sight with his exaggerated dance pose. Sirius Black, also eleven, gaped at his childhood friend before smacking the other ravenette with his own suitcase.
"You are and will always be the most camp person that I have ever come across."
James laughed. "You know you love it," he sang with a flirtatious wag of his eyebrows. Hauling his baggage onto the Hogwarts Express, the first year hopped on-board the sleek train without a second thought, leaving Sirius behind to chuckle and effortlessly catch up.
"What kind of name is 'Hogwarts' anyway?" he mused when he swung into the closest compartment "The literal mental image is pretty disgusting."
"Maybe it's a school of magic!" James declared with flair, wiggling his fingers as he leant in through the doorway before a passing student shoved him into his seat. Barking out a laugh, Sirius snapped a photograph of the tangle with his smartphone, grinning lopsidedly above the camera lense at the resulting glare.
"Funny," James spat.
"Yes, it was!"
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"You ready, Severus?"
"As I'll ever be, Lily."
Hands clasped together, the pair took a deep breath before stepping onto the scarlet vehicle with their eyes clenched shut. Feeling the stability beneath their feet, the pair sighed happily and hurried into the first empty section that they found.
"Petunia is sooo jealous!" Lily whispered "That I'm going to Hogwarts when she's not, I mean. Imagine, Lily 'goody-two-shoes' Evans, going to a prestigious boarding school!"
Severus looked uneasily to the side. "I wouldn't call it prestigious."
His redheaded companion waved away his mutter. "Maybe not, but the point is that it's a step above whichever local comprehensive that Petunia has to go to." She clapped her hands together in joy. "Oh, Severus, this is too good to be true!"
Just before he could open his mouth to respond, the Snape boy jolted when a loud thump shuddered through the wall that divided two of the train compartments. He abandoned his reply to Lily to instead grumble about boisterous simpletons; Lily giggled.
(Word Count: 365)
*Chosen prompts: Marauder, romance, Sirius Black, MuggleBoardingSchool!AU, LilySirius; write about Severus Snape; alternatively, write about Lily Evans*
Author's Note: "Pantsu line! ONNMT's three-shot comin' your way~" /shot
Note that 'camp' is an affectionate British term for an action that is stereotypically 'gay'.
I hope you all had a happy holiday! I completely missed my Xmas post, so I'm going to add a new chapter to this three-shot everyday until it is finished. Also, for those of you who missed [my HTML filled] Naruto story, yesterday marked my brother's birthday and my third FanFiction anniversary! :D
Enjoy,
-ONNMT
