Harry had come up with the best plan™ of his life, when he had been eating his breakfast in the great hall, which was right now, and his best plan™ was to take Ron to the Yule ball with himself, because who else was he going to ask?
And Ron just happened to be his best mate, so it couldn't turn out too bad. (He came to realise later that yes, things would go bad if they can go bad. And that was exactly what happened.)
(He says like an idiot, because there was a mountain of people who wanted to date him, but at the moment they were mourning because they thought he already had a partner for the ball. Which he didn't, by the way.)
He shallowed down the bacon he had been munching on for quite a while now, then Harrys eyes went over the Gryffindor tables as to find Ron, because the two were still on bad terms for some reason Harry couldn't remember anymore.
And wasn't that a sign to make a 'best plan™' in the world, because last time he ended up with 'become Animagus™ plan' with the help of his best mates Ron & Hermione.
When his eyes landed on a familiar red head that was sitting next to a Hermione who looked about ready to just bail her way out of there, he got up from his seat and started to make his way towards them with the courage of a situation that had happened once in the past, but how was he supposed to know that?
And the courage of a long dead ghost who wanted this to work in his favour, and make the professors realise how bad of a home life Harry had, but he didn't know that either.
When Rons 'Harry is about to do something but this time he's going to be pulled into it, even if he really doesn't want to™' tingle started plaring up in his head, his head shot up and his eyes locked onto the courageous look in Harrys eyes, and he couldn't help but think.
'Oh hell no.' Before getting up and walking towards the other Gryffindor who didn't give up, even if Ron looked like he was about to make his life a living hell. Literally, because this whole thing will be improvised.
When the two teens were infront of the other, Harry opened his mouth to say whatever it was he had come to Ron for, but he was silenced by Ron placing his hands around his waist, because holy shit Harry was underweight, light and small.
And then the two shared a short look which said 'were improvising so we don't look like idiots', which also meant that they were going to make themselves the absolute morons in front of the whole school population.
"Oh dear Vulpine, go to the ball with me!" Ron said with a desperate voice as he put his other hand on the small of Harrys back and the other on the back of his head as if to kiss him, and then tilted him down to put all his weight on Rons hand. (seriously has he not been eating?)
Harry let out a yelp as he put his arms around Rons neck as to not fall down, so now it looked like they were about to make out in the middle of the great hall with everyone looking at them.
But then Harry got his act back together, because he was not losing in this act, and specifically not to Ron when they were still fighting over something he still couldn't remember.
"Oh i thought you never ask honey!" Harry cried out dramatically and bought up his head & kissed Ron rather deeply as to sell the act they were going with.
And when he took his head away with saliva dripping between their lips seductively, he remembered to fluster his face, because that was how kissing worked, and he had quite literally just had his first kiss in his life. (They would talk about it later, but they were in a rush at the moment.)
Then Harry shared a fast look with Ron, and they didn't need to improvise anymore, because they finally could come to an understanding.
"Now get us out of here!" Harry cried out dramatically, and then he was thrown over Rons shoulder, and he could finally see all the bewildered, angry & sad looks directed at them, even the slack mouthed look on Hermione looked hilarious!
"Yes, my dear pine!" Ron shouted loudly and started a fast walk, and it didn't take long for it to turn into a run with a light person on his shoulder.
Ron ran out of the hall with Harry on his shoulder and didn't look back once, because otherwise people would have seen how red faced he was from not laughing out loud at how dumb they were being.
Hermione could not believe her ears and eyes, because she never knew they could go that far! And when the two were running out of the hall, she couldn't help but sputter utter nonsense, Because her brain had quite literally shut down, and then went into overdrive.
And it was hilarious to look around the silent hall when she finally got control of herself, and stopped sputtering like a tongueless idiot, then she realised everyone was in the same state expect some people who looked extremely angry or anguished by what they had just seen.
Which made alot of sense, because if Harry & Ron were together it meant two of the really good looking guys of the school were taken, and nobody would even have a chance to try.
Like even Malfoy had just screamed out, "I think bloody not! You already have the mudblood, i am not standing for this!" as he got up & went after the two boys who were already long gone.
And had Malfoy just called her Rons? Like, What the fuck?!
When Hermiones brain catched up with her, her face lighted up red with Mortification as she shot up and shouted, "Wait! I am not with Ron!" And then proceeded to run after the three who were running around the school like headless chicken.
Because she needed to prove the blond bastard that she was her own, and that if someone was someones it was Ron, because Hermione was the one in power in a relationship!
What none of the four happened to realise was that they had been in the middle of feast, and the whole school had been there, expect maybe Filch who was always prowling in the shadows creepily. shudder.
Minerva had just sat down in her chair at the high table when she heard it, the sound of a chaos being born in the hands of two Marauders, because that was what they called their friend group.
Her eyes landed on the two when she heard, "Oh my dear Padfoot, my light of the sun, the sun in my darkness, go to the ball with me!" Being said by none other than James Potter who was holding Sirius Black so close it looked like they were kissing.
Before she could shout out, Minerva heard the dramatic voice of Mr. Black answer, "I thought you would never ask Jamie, boo boo bear, the darkness in my light!"
And then they were kissing in the middle of the great hall deeply, dirtly & quite frankly, like they were about to leave the hall to do much more important stuff, holy shit if those two went further than this she would take points, even if it was her house.
"Now get us out of here~!" Mr. Black purred out with a lustful look in his eyes, and Mr. Potter has already thrown the other over his shoulder, and smacked his arse loudly.
"Oh yes~." Was Mr. Potters answer, and now the two were literally making their way out of there fastly, and Minerva thinks she's going into shock, because she would have stopped this already but she was quite literally frozen in shock.
...
Then Mr. Lupin was shooting up in his seat withan angry shout of, "God no! That is my man, you can have Lily all you want, but that ass is mine!" And running out of the great hell with speed greater than humanly possible.
Everyone could hear the mortified squeak Lily Evans made in her seat before shouting with a squeaking voice, "I am nobodys but my own!" And sitting back down and angrily showing food into her mouth, and her friends snickering quietly next to her.
Minerva was not going to survive if it meant that every new generation was going to be younger than the last in their shenanigans, because the Marauders had been in sixth year, and these two are only in fourth & half of the school year hadn't even passed yet!
She sighed mournfully as she lowered her head into her hands, because these children just had to be so similar, but so unsimilar to their ancestors who weren't even that much older than them.
Minerva might just quit early if she has to deal with these kinds of shenanigans every year she comes to hogwarts, first it was Marauders, then the twins, and now the next generation?
But at the same time she wasn't that sadistic, so they still can all have mercy, because Minerva isn't leaving before she's dead which isn't going to happen anytime soon if she has any say in it, but if she doesn't she will make sure that her portrait will make sure of it.
James doesn't know if it was worth doing what he did, because nobody seemed to realise what he troed to point out, but at least it woke up his sons inner chaos, because now Harry was acting like Padfoot reincarnation.
Welph, somebody was going to realise at some point that all that insanity in Harry doesn't come from nowhere, and he wasn't even trying to hide the fact, expect he wasn't as open as Sirius which made Harry like a more smart insane Padfoot. (With a little too much Slytherin cunning in him for James' taste.)
At least Harry figured out how to have fun, even if it meant his son was probably going to be sleeping with a Malfoy sooner rather than later, expect if Harry stayed as oblivious as he was at the moment.
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At least he went to the ball with Ron like he planned, because James had to go alone 'cause of Moony who stole Padfoot form him before they could get down to business.
And because Lily had chosen to go with Snivellus who had acted so smug for a week before stopping, but it really wasn't james' fault. Really, pinky promise & all!
(He had smacked that pretty face so hard the nose was left disfigured for the rest of time, it even was seeable now!)
If James looked behind himself he would have seen the disappointed look of Lily Potter directed at him for even trying to chance how life was supposed to go, but at the same time she would have tried the same.
But she had already tried, and it only resulted with a life harder for her son rather than an easier, because somewhy her sister just had to get worse over the years that had passed.
Like, could Petunia not see how much Harry resembled Lily, not to eyes, personality or style of doing things? because Harry may have looked alot like James, but all his actions had Evans' smartness behind them.