A/N: I'm going to write a few of these and post them to get things started. So, here's number 2!
Disclaimer: Still not JK Rowling. So still don't own Harry Potter.
Name: More Than A Feeling
Pairing: James/Lily
Remus Lupin sat in the Great Hall at breakfast. He was waiting for it, though he thought it a very bad idea. He glanced down the table at James. He looked gleeful. Remus sighed.
He had told James this was a bad idea. But James simply insisted…
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"James, I really don't think you should do this," Remus said, looking up from his book. "Just because she's being nicer and you're getting along better doesn't mean she'll like this."
James danced around their dorm, preparing his props for tomorrow. "But, Moony, she loves this song!"
Remus sighed. "That may be true, Prongs, but—"
"Oh, Moony, let him do it!" Sirius said, watching James tap a pile of glitter with his wand gleefully. "She did tell him she loves this song…"
Remus huffed. No one listened to him until it was too late. And later, when it was too late, James would be bemoaning why his "foolproof" plan hadn't worked and why Remus hadn't "stopped him". To which Remus would say, "I tried, Prongs, but you wouldn't have any of it, remember?"
And James would just glare at him…
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Lily entered the Hall. James sat up a little straighter. Lily sat down, giving the Marauders a small wave. Remus returned it a little apologetically, trying to warn her. She didn't notice.
BANG!
Fireworks began going off, spelling out the words, "Lily-Flower…"
James stood on the table and said, "Lily, will you go out with me?"
Lily, for her part, looked enraged. Her face was red, and her fists clenched. She ground out through clenched teeth, "Potter…"
James grinned. "Yes?"
Lily seemed about to explode. Wait until she gets the finale… Remus thought.
"No, Potter, I will not," Lily said, menacingly low, "You know, I thought you were changing. I thought your head was deflating. Maybe it has a little, but clearly not enough…"
Then, the finale (set for when James was sure Lily would have said yes) went off. Glitter floated down from the enchanted ceiling, singing, "It's more than a feelin'. (More than a feelin'!) When I hear that old song they used to play. (More than a feelin'!) I begin dreamin'. (More than a feelin'!)"
AT the parts it talks about "Marianne", James had charmed it to say, "Lily-Ann". Remus watched Lily's face as she listened to the song, her face getting redder and redder. But he thought he saw something flicker in her green eyes. A soft something.
But her eyes hardened in the next second, and she tried to get the still belting glitter off as she stormed out of the hall.
James looked dejected. He stepped off the table and slouched out of the Hall to try to apologize.
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Lily had to have a silencing charm placed on her to shut up the singing glitter, which was stuck to her clothes. She was furious, but Remus could tell she was thinking hard about something.
He didn't mention his theory about the topic of her thoughts to James.
Speaking of James, he was currently slumped against the Transfiguration desk, his head in his arms.
"How did my foolproof plan not work?" he whisper wailed.
"I don't know, James, maybe because—"
"Moony! Why didn't you stop me?"
"I tried, James, but you would have none of it, if you remember…"
A/N: Number two, people! If you haven't heard the song, you should listen to it. Really amazing song, that is. (Boston: More Than A Feeling) And, to make it better, that song actually came out around 1976!
