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Whoever said that Lily Evans and Remus Lupin don’t have a sense of humor have obviously never met them. After all, introducing the Marauders to muggle candies (specifically ones that are so impossibly different from wizarding candies that the boys are baffled) was hilarious and couldn’t not be.
“What are these?” James asked, pouring a pile of Cry Babies into his hand.
Lily and Remus watched in hesitant glee as Sirius and Peter each took a handful as well. None of the boys waited for the two to answer before popping the candies in their mouths. Almost immediately, Sirius turned bright red and his eyes teared up and tears started streaming from James’s eyes with no sign of stopping all while Lily and Remus started to laugh and Peter was grinning ear to ear.
Sirius and James began to cough violently and Remus summoned a rubbish bin for each of them. He popped an apple Cry Baby in his mouth while he waited for the two to stop dying.
“What—” Sirius coughed again, “—was that hell fire?”
Lily grinned. “That, Sirius, was what muggles call a Cry Baby.”
“I feel like a cry baby,” James muttered, wiping his face on a bandana he had summoned.
“How are you fine?” Sirius demanded, seeing Remus and Peter happily eating the candies. “Those things are like the devil incarnate!”
“They’re not that bad.” Peter shrugged. “At least not compared to Toxic Waste candies.”
“Those are good,” Remus agreed.
“What are those?” James asked, even as he leaned back.
“Do you wanna try one?” Lily asked, pulling out the bright yellow container.
“No thanks.”
“Not a chance.”
Remus, Lily, and Peter laughed.