T'was only supposed to be one chapter, but I felt the need to put up one more...
I don't own Harry Potter! Sadly...
James Potter ending up dressed as the Easter Bunny may or may not have been partially Lily's fault.
It all started when Professor Dumbledore announced that the Prefects had voted, and there was going to be a massive Easter Egg hunt over the Easter holiday. Sure, he had to explain what on earth an Easter egg hunt was to all the pure blood students, but once they heard what it was, pretty much everyone was psyched.
Lily sure was excited. She'd gone on her fair share of Easter Egg hunts with Petunia and her parents, back before she found out about her being a witch. They would always be the most fun, searching for eggs in the bushes and trees and holes in the ground. She'd wanted to do one for so long, but the prefects never thought it was a good idea.
Then, two days after the egg hunt was announced, and three days before it was to take place, another announcement was made, about who was to dress up as the Easter Bunny. There was to be a raffle, and the box would at the staff table.
Our favorite red headed girl was sitting on James' lap, her head resting on his shoulder. As the bunny announcement was made, Sirius Black, from across the table, whispered,
"James! You should put your name in for the bunny!" James laughed, then threw a hand over his mouth as most of the heads in the Great Hall turned to stare at him.
After a rather awkward moment of silence, Dumbledore continued his announcements and James leaned forward to whisper to Sirius, nearly dropping Lily into a bowl of oatmeal. "I'd kiss Snape before I'd put my name in to be that bunny!"
Announcements ended, and they began heading off to go to their classes. First period, Lily had Divination with Sirius, and James had to head off to Muggle Studies.
As Lily and Sirius sat down on their pillows and set their crystal balls on the table, they looked up at each other.
"James' name needs to get into that raffle," Sirius told her, his face alight with mischief. Lily agreed with an overenthusiastic nod.
"The crystal ball!" their Professor said airily, waving a crystal around in the air. The black haired boy next to Lily put his hands behind his head and laid back on the pillow.
"Nap time..." he said, closing his eyes.
At morning announcements on the day of the Easter Egg Hunt, James was feeling rather paranoid.
All week, his friends - even Lily! - were going around all sneakily, not involving him in conversations, pointing to him, giggling with no apparent reason.
Dumbledore stood, a purple goblet in his old, crippled hand. "Welcome, Students! I don't know if all of you are here yet, but this cannot wait any longer. As you all know, we are having a raffle for who is going to be the Easter Bunny in our egg hunt..."
Lily leaned over to Remus, who was waving his wand and murmuring words under his breath.
"You've enchanted the goblet?" she whispered, glancing from James to Dumbledore. The scarred boy nodded with a smile and finished the spell. "Good." She looked over at Sirius. "Got the fireworks?"
Sirius got a maniac look in his eye, so she took that as a yes. "Peter's in the ceiling?"
She looked up and saw Peter levitating in one of the clouds that hovered above the Great Hall. "Okay, this is gonna be great."
"...And the lucky winner is..." Dumbledore reached his other hand into the goblet and pulled out a yellow slip of paper, "James Potter!"
Lily snapped a picture of her boyfriend's face as his name was called. Sirius let loose a whole bunch of rockets that exploded with massive sparkly colors, spelling things in the air such as HAPPY EASTER! or THE EASTER JAMES IS ON IT'S WAY!
The students all began applauding, and one of the Slytherin kids screamed as Peter, with his pink wings and diaper, came sailing down from the ceiling and throwing flowers upon all the house tables.
"Come on up, James Potter!" Dumbledore said, holding out a welcoming hand to the Gryffindor table. All his friends laughed, Sirius rolling on the floor, clutching his stomach.
James stood stiffly and glared at them. "I'm going to get you for this. I'M GOING TO GET YOU ALL!"
Of course, he did end up wearing the big fluffy pink bunny suit, having pictures taken with all the students who were young enough, or had so little dignity. Such as Lily and Sirius. Peter photo bombed in his cupid outfit, and Remus sat in the background reading a book.
There was one awkward photo of Lily jumping on James and kissing him, which Dumbledore elected not to put into the yearbook.
