May I Have This Dance? - Harry Potter

ch1: Strangers

{ published: 28th december 2014. }

A/N: a repost from my Harry Potter Fanfiction Challenges forum days.

written 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.

WARNING: modern muggle boarding school au. also, this is ancient; read at your own risk.

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May I Have This Dance?
ch1: Strangers

"May I have this dance?"

With his hair tossed back and a 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 ravenet 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 lens at the resulting glare.

"Funny," James spat.

"Yeah, 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.

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WORD COUNT: 359.

prompts used: Marauder, romance, Sirius Black, MuggleBoardingSchool!AU, LilySirius; write about Severus Snape; alternatively, write about Lily Evans.

A/N: remember that period when i kept trying my hand at marauders era? yeah, me neither. 
- crystalcanon.

{ original chapter: december 28th 2014. 
updated a/n: 25th august 2020. }