Wolfstar raising Harry, 750-ish words for the lovely @3lvendork who prompted me ages ago with: “Fantastic. Even worse than I’d imagined.”
“Erm,” said Remus, rubbing his chin.
“Huh.” Sirius didn’t look all that impressed either. Harry wanted to hit them both.
“Will you just fixit, before he’s here? Merlin’s pants!”
“I don’t think even Merlin’s pants are going to help this,” Sirius barked. His smirk made Harry groan, falling back on the bed.
“I’m doomed.”
“Please, it’s not thatbad,” Remus tried, but he started laughing halfway through the sentence. “Okay, actually, it’s fairly terrible. Why on earth did you think to try Sirius’s special shampoo? And an hourbefore your first date?”
“With the boy you’ve been crushing on for years,” Sirius added. Harry groaned harder.
“I thought, with how it shines when he transforms, it’s… Not helping! Do something!”
Sirius grabbed him by the arm and pulled, lifting Harry to a stand. “All right, all right, don’t get your knickers in a twist. Remus, hand us the rapid growth potion. No, the other one. The goodone. See, Harry? I really do love you.”
“Love me faster,” Harry grunted as Sirius measured a small quantity into a cup. “He’s going to be here in—shit, five minutes. Come on. Please. Move.” He gulped the thing down in one sip and prayed to all the gods it worked.
“Are you sure that’s going to—oh.” Harry didn’t like the abrupt pause one bit. He opened his eyes a crack to see Remus gaping at him, looking rather horrified. “That’s… wow. A rapid hair-growth potion, you said, Pads?”
“Yes, a… oh.”Sirius made some sort of involuntary sound. “Oh, hell. I knew your hair was special, I just didn’t—well. We can fix this. Right?”
“Show me,” Harry croaked, pushing Sirius out of the way for access to the mirror. “Show me what you’ve… oh, fluff off. Fantastic. Even worse than I’d imagined.”
Sirius ran a hand in Harry’s thick, bright green, shoulder-length hair. “I don’t know. I kind of like it. The spikes, I’d probably get rid of—and maybe make it a bit less mullet-y. But overall, I think you still look very handsome.”
“Not the time to be loyal, Pads! Fix! This!” Harry thrust his wand into Sirius’s hand, desperate and a little manic. “Just do something! You’re the one who always brags about having the best hair charms!”
“No, I have the best charms, and the best hair,the two are unrelated.”
Harry made a sound that was worryingly similar to a yelp. Remus seemed torn between scolding Sirius, comforting Harry, and laughing his arse off.
“Look, I really think you should just go with the first—”
But Harry wasn’t having this. “You said you were the experts! Always going on with the, ‘gay godfathers, what more could you ask for’, and I ask you now, what in the—”
“Please, we gave you great advice! Who else would have told you to serenade Draco outside the Slytherin common room—”
“Where he doused me with cold tea and told me never to come back again?”
“Yes, but he did come out, didn’t he? And now you have a date with him? Never once did I hear, thank you, Pads, godfather of my dreams, I’m so lucky to have you—”
“Guys, I think we’re getting a little sidetracked—”
“You’re the two hairiest men I know! You’re fluffy, for heaven’s sake! You should know these things!”
“Always complaining about this and that, never a ‘Wow, Pads, your hair looks so good today’, or—”
“I tell you your hair looks good every day!”
“Not you, Moons, I’m talking to Harry, he’s the one who’s being a little—”
“I’m not—”
The doorbell rang, and Harry thought he might have died accidentally without noticing. He gave his godparents a look of utter and complete fright.
“Please do something. I beg you.”
Sirius bit his lower lip, nodding. “Moons, you go to the door, stall him. Ask him about his… DADA homework, I dunno. Harry, you and I are going to fix it. Worst case scenario, you—wear a hat, I suppose.”
The picture of Harry wearing that awful hat still hangs in the living room today, seven years later, next to the two wedding pictures. Harry’s learned a good amount of hair charms since then—and also never to use any of Sirius’s special hair products.
Thank you so much for working on him, he looks stunning!!!
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[ID: in the first image, a wide shot of a huge aquarium tank. Tiny silhouettes stare at a swirl of fish and a beluga whale. Two of the silhouettes are Zuko and Sokka, holding hands. Second image: Zuko and Sokka’s faces, washed with mottled blue light from the water. Zuko stares in wonder at the fish, and Sokka grins as he stares at Zuko. END ID]
