Formal Event

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For scribbulus_ink's Candy is Dandy Drabble Challenge (2004)

Assignment: James Potter and Ice Mice.

For Ady, who wouldn't read the French kissing aloud.


Title: Formal Event
Pairing: J/L
Warnings: None
Words: 191


Some Muggle traditions were worth it, James reflected, pulling his cake-smeared fingers away from his bride. Lily smiled at him and reached up to kiss him, licking traces of frosting from his lips before sweeping inside.

“Ow!” She jumped back and glared at him. “Whad on earth, Dameth…”

He gave her a helpless look, his teeth still juddering up and down uncontrollably. When he heard his teeth start to squeak, he tried to tell her what was going on. “I-I-I-I-I-Is-s-s-s—“

Enlightenment dawned on her face, and she spun to pin the best man with a penetrating glare. “Thiriuth Black, did you melt Ithe Mithe indo our cake?”

Sirius took off running.

The formal event, such as a wedding, naming ceremony, or graduation, is the prime setting for mischief-making, magical or otherwise, as it will garner the most embarrassment to the target. Funerals should be avoided, however, unless they are the funeral of a prankster who merrily joy-buzzed all the way to his deathbed. (See Chapter Nine, "Mum, We Swear This Is How We Want to Be Remembered".)
--Mischief Maximized, Book Two of WWW Official Prankster Playbooks





Thanks to McKay for making me write again! (And I'm starting to like this drabble thing...mind giving me another challenge?)