Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, I do not have any rights to Harry Potter and I do not make any money from writing these fics.
A/N: Written for the Procrastinators United Competition, the One Million Words Added Challenge, the Pairing Diversity Boot Camp Challenge, the 335 Pairing Bonanza Challenge, the If You Dare...Continued Challenge and The Twelve Days of Christmas Challenge.
Prompts: Remus Lupin/Pomona Sprout, Piano, Time Goes By, and Marauders Era.
School Boy Crushes
Fifth Year Gryffindor student Remus Lupin gulped nervously as he stood alone in his Herbology class waiting for the lesson to begin. A dusting of red covered his face through it was almost unnoticeable as he sniffed the area only to gain a strong scent mixed in with the flowers and other plants of the greenhouse. It was the scent of Pomona Sprout, Remus' Herbology Professor and secret crush.
'Bloody Merlin, if James or Sirius knew the real reason why I chose to take Herbology this year I would never hear the end of it' Remus thought as he looked around the greenhouse as if he was trying to spot one of his friends in a secret hiding place 'James would most likely transfigure something into a piano and ask if I would play a love song on it for Professor Sprout.'
Letting out a low groan Remus did his best to push his thoughts of his secret crush to the back of his mind and reached down and grabbed his school bag. Lifting it up and placing it in his lap Remus began to rummage around in it only for a frown to appear on his face when h could find no sign of his homework.
'Did Sirius pick up my Herbology homework by mistake?' Remus thought as it would of not been the first time that the playful dog animagus had turned up half way through one of Remus' classes holding Remus' homework in his hand and claiming that Remus had his homework.
Deciding that it would be better if he looked through his bag more closely just in case he missed his homework so he would have enough time to track down Sirius and swap their homework before class began Remus began to flick through books and odd pockets.
'I worked so damn hard on that homework too' Remus thought with an angry scowl as he remembered the many hours he had spent slaving over his Herbology homework just for Professor Sprout to give him one of her amazingly beautiful smiles in praise.
After several more minutes of looking for his homework only to find no sign of it in his bag Remus let out a groan. It seemed that his worse fears had come true and he had left his homework back in his dorm or Sirius had taken his homework to his class to try and hand it in as his own. That never worked as Sirius did not even take Herbology.
So not wanting to see the disappointed look on Professor Sprout's eyes Remus quickly stood up only for his escape to be cut off by the object of his romantic feelings to walk in without batting a single eyelash at Remus who was out of his seat and heading towards the exit.
"Welcome class, today we will be continuing with our work from less lesson," Professor Sprout said as she walked through the classroom and up to the front as the whole class but Remus, who was giving her worried and dreamy looks, let out a low groan as they remembered the disaster of less class, "Oh and Mr. Lupin, thank you for turning in this classes homework early and with just an interesting title as 'Time Goes By' as it is about the plant we all know that is one of the main ingredients in the Time Turner."
At Professor Sprout's cheerful words as she looked at him with a large smile from her place at the front of the classroom had Remus groaning loudly and wanting to bang his head against the table, hard.
'Damn it, I am just a fool!' Remus moaned out as he turned and sat back down in his seat 'I cannot believe that I forgot for a moment that I handed it in two lesson's early in an attempt to impress her! At least it looks like it worked.'
Feeling Professor Sprout's kind and expressive eyes land on him Remus gulped nervously, nodded his head stiffly and turned his gaze downwards so he would avoid Professor Sprout seeing his blush.
"Now then I expect everyone else to have their homework ready and completed to hand in today just like Mr. Lupin's here," Professor Sprout said with a smile that made Remus go weak at the knees, "With the end of the term coming up I would like to mark all of this term's work before next term's homework begins to pile in. Anyone who has not handed in their last piece of homework for this term by tomorrow evening will have a detention, with me on the first day of school when we come back."
A round of collective murmurs of agreement and groans came from the class at Professor Sprouts words while Rmemus hung off of Professor Sprout's words like w young puppy dog following its mother around obediently.
"Now that, I hope that everyone still has their notes on the last class?" Professor Sprout said with a happy smile as her students took that as their queue to either panic and use the person sitting beside them notes or to pull out their own notes from their belongings, "Good! Then go and get your plant from last class, which should have your name on it if you had followed my instructions last lesson, and bring it back to your spot at the table with your belongings that you used last class as well out. We will be very busy and productive this class!"
Another wave of groans echoed through the class only for Remus' grin to threaten to split his face in half. Remus just loved Herbology lessons where Professor Sprout would talk on and on while they took notes. It gave him a perfect excuse to listen to her voice that entered Remus' mature day dreams. With a love sick sigh Remus quickly rushed to do as Professor Sprout said while making sure that he did not look too excited, it seemed that he had been gifted with his favourite type of lesson that had Remus letting out little love sick sighs all day long.
End.
