Disclaimers: See the first chapter.
Snippets From the Potterverse
Chapter 68 - Hairclips Are IN This Season!
Breakfast time at Grimmauld Place. Harry and Ron were eating the scrambled eggs Remus had set out for them when Hermione entered the room. Her bushy brown hair was not held back by her usual Alice band, but by a pair of glittery blue hair clips in the shape of butterflies.
"You look very nice today, Hermione," Remus smiled at her. "What lovely barrettes."
"Thank you, Remus." She smiled back as he set her breakfast in front of her. Harry and Ron, of course, didn't pay the slightest attention.
Ginny entered the kitchen a few minutes later. Her wavy, flaming-red hair was clipped up in a pretty pink barrette decorated with silver stars. Remus smiled at her, putting eggs on a plate and serving it to her. "You look lovely today, Ginny. I like your barrette."
"Thanks, Remus," Ginny grinned back. Harry and Ron continued to chow down, completely oblivious to the changing hairstyles of their friends.
The kitchen door opened once more and Sirius came in. His long, shiny black hair was held back by two pairs of barrettes - one silver and oval-shaped, the other gold with pink hearts on the top. It made quite an improvement. For once his long hair was held out of his face.
Remus blinked rapidly as he served breakfast to his lover. "Er... Siri... what are you wearing?"
Sirius looked down at himself, plucking at the charcoal-grey robes he was wearing. "The usual," he replied. "Why?"
"No... I mean, what are you wearing in your hair?"
"Oh, those." Sirius touched one of his hair clips. "Don't you like them?"
"Aren't they... girly?"
"Remmie!" Sirius looked offended. "Hairclips are IN this season!"
"He's right, you know," Hermione pointed out. "Why else d'you think we're wearing them?"
"But - on a man?" Harry and Ron looked revolted as they stared at the glittery clips in Sirius' hair.
"Hairclips are gender-neutral," Ginny said defensively.
"He's got hearts in his hair," Harry whined.
"Honestly, you two are so unimaginative," Hermione snapped. "I think they look good on Sirius. They make his hair look so nice."
"My hair's so black, it produces a blue sheen," Sirius smirked, running his hands through his hair. Sure enough, it looked dark blue under the lights.
"That doesn't solve the fact that you're wearing girl's clips in your hair!" Ron said.
"Would it make you feel better if I took them out!" Sirius yanked the clips from his hair, so it hung in his eyes again. "There!"
"Thank you," Harry and Ron chorused.
"You seem to be really uptight about me wearing girls' stuff, so I suppose I'd better take off the panties I'm wearing, too, huh?"
Harry and Ron fainted. Remus, Ginny, and Hermione gaped at Sirius.
"I was kidding," he said in exasperation. "Geez..."
