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And this is how she slowly fell in love with him. By constant little attentions like a very hot and very strong coffee on an harsh morning.
(When Sirius still had access to money) I bet Sirius and James killed it at getting gifts for each other. Not only did they know each other inside and out, but they were both so rich they could buy anything at any price. I bet they would be super over the top about it too, trying to one up each other with the best things. Those rich pureblood boys knew luxury.
And then when Sirius lost access to his own money, you just know Effie and Monty were super generous with him and I bet James got even more generous with him. Sirius may have lost the Black inheritance, but he was never going to want for anything. James never ever ever would have let him.
In a life or death situation, if Sirius could only save one Marauder, it's James. James is THE most important person to him.
A love like that doesn't come around often.
I don't care what universe or time period we're talking about, James is Sirius' person. Nobody is more important to Sirius than James. What they had was soooo special.
james: i have good news and bad news, which one do you want to hear first
lily: the good news
james: i won't do it again
Supreme Pizza With Extra Mushrooms
An old little Jily AU oneshot. Lily's uni boyfriend has broken up with her. Her girlfriends propose a girls night- Tinder swiping and pizza inclusive.
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Marlene’s suggestion was that the best thing to do after a break up was always a girls night. Which basically translated to swiping through Tinder looking for prospective replacement or rebound while drinking wine and stuffing their faces with pizza.
The only part of that scenario that Lily had truly agreed with was the pizza. The furthest thing from her mind was finding herself a new beau, prospective matches be damned. So whilst Mary, Dorcas and Marlene crammed themselves around her phone swiping away, Lily began the online order. 1x Hawaiian, 1x meatlovers, 1x vegetarian, and 1x supreme with extra mushrooms. She punched the order through on her laptop.
Hi! Thanks for your order, your delivery driver will be James.
While your order is cooking, here's a few things about James…
Lily was always amused by the random facts the pizza place would give about their delivery drivers. She practically knew most of them off by heart by now due to all the pizza they collectively ordered. I mean how could you be expected to survive university late nights without a decent takeaway? But this one was new, she’d never had James before. The new pizza maker intrigued her.
“What ya looking at Lily?” Dorcas asked, leaning over her shoulder.
“Nothing much Dor, just watching the facts about the delivery driver,” Lily replied.
James has left the building you can expect delivery in: 10 minutes
“Oh please Lils, don’t tell me you actually read those things. They’re always the same,” Marlene scoffed, far too absorbed by the phone screen to even look up.
“This one’s new. I’m interested. His name’s James” Lily retorted.
James would say his favourite pizza is the supreme.
If James had to pick a sport he’d pick rugby league.
The last song James listened to is “Feel It Still by Portugal. The man ” would you like to listen?
“Hey Lily! He has the same favourite pizza as you!” Mary commented cheerfully, joining the new gathering around the computer screen. “Gods I could never work at this pizza joint. It’d feel so weird knowing that the customer knows something about me without knowing anything about them.”
“I don’t know why you’re all so interested in a faceless pizza boy when we have literal abs for days right here,” Marlene interrupted, coming over to read too.
If James got lost on a deserted island he wishes he’d be stuck with the book “How to build a raft”
“Alright so the bloke has a sense of humour at least” Marlene quipped. “They could at least give you a photo so you can do a proper snoop.”
The sound of a car pulling onto the drive interrupted the conversation. Lily stood to go and answer the door for James the delivery driver. She rummaged through her purse for change as she swung open the door.
James was stood poised to knock, slightly startled. Whatever she had expected it wasn’t this. He couldn’t have been much older than herself, the tall young man in front of her was eighteen or nineteen maybe at most. James was quite handsome. His dark hair was scruffy looking, dark and windswept. The uniform he wore was splattered with flour and pizza sauce, but there were still creases in the sleeves that indicated it was brand new. Lily watched as the young man pushed his glasses further up the bridge of his nose.
“Pizza delivery for Evans?” He coughed.
“That’d be me” Lily smiled, exchanging the collection of notes and loose change from her purse for the boxes in his outstretched hand.
“Say I’ve never had you as a driver before. You new?” she asked politely, making conversation.
“Oh yeah, first day on the job. My folks just opened the chemist on May street. I just need the extra cash for the new uni semester.” He grinned, counting out the correct change.
“You’ll probably be in my year then. Considering your choice in pizza I’m sure we will get along swimmingly,” Lily flirted.
God what had gotten into her, Lily Evans did not flirt with random pizza guys. Especially not so soon after a break up.
“Hey Lily! Get in here already would you? We’re hungry!” Mary called out from back inside the house.
“You know what James… keep the change, a tip for your first day on the job.” Lily winked. “Thanks for the pizza”
“Thanks. My pleasure to deliver you pizza anytime.” James offered her a comedic bow before returning to his car.
Lily carried the tower of pizza boxes back into her room to find the girls once again hoarded around her phone. She placed the boxes on the floor and began to set them up in a line, free for the picking.
“Heya Lils, what did that pizza guy look like?” Marlene asked, pinching a slice of meatlovers.
“Tall, glasses, dark hair, hazel eyes. Why?” Lily questioned stuffing her face with supreme.
Marlene suddenly confronted her with the phone screen. Lily couldn’t believe her eyes. There he was on screen. However, this James wasn’t in a pizza uniform. He was shirtless on a beach with three other guys. She swiped through to the next photo, a close up shot of him with a shaggy black dog. Yep it was definitely the same guy. What were the odds? She scrolled down to read the bio section.
James, 18, 1 km away
New to the area. Interests include sport, laughs and supreme pizza. Comes with a bottomless stomach and great banter. Take a second to think about swiping… or not.
*The dog belongs to me, his name is Snuffles
Before she knew what possessed her Lily swiped. Bloody hell she had just swiped the pizza guy. The ‘it’s a match’ logo popped up on screen much to the delight of her friends, meanwhile Lily’s heart was in her stomach. She watched as a message popped up on screen.
Supreme with extra mushrooms. Can’t agree with mutilating an already perfect pizza but hey I think i’ll forgive you this once ;)
Lily typed back a reply rapidly.
Well if someone made them with a decent number of mushrooms in the first place, it wouldn’t be necessary.
She paused, watching her screen and waiting for the reply. She was aware that her cheeks were already flushed and she felt the eyes of all her friends on her. She gave them a knowing look, don’t start with me. She flicked back to the main page to see how Marlene had laid out her profile. Marlene chosen a snap taken last year at the school formal of the group of them, her cat Merlin on her bed and a cheeky picture of Lily sipping coffee at their local spot.
Lily, 18, Hogwarts University
Library addict, recently single because my ex boyfriend is a bit of a prick like that. Anyway, not looking for anything serious. Down for banter and see where it goes.
Lily looked up at Marlene and rolled her eyes at her. “Nice one Mar”.
“You’ll thank me later. Pizza guy is kinda cute, you should ask about his friend with the long hair.” She wiggled her eyebrows suggestively. Lily typed a second message to James
My pal Marlene wants to know who your friend is with the long hair in your picture and asks if he’s taken.
The reply came back shortly after.
I really should not be using this while I’m at work but you tempt me Evans. As for my friend his name is Sirius, he’s practically my brother. Tell your friend if she’s interested to type Sirius Black into facebook. And if you happen to want mine at the same time it’s James ‘Prongs’ Potter. I really gotta get back to work… but I promise you have my undivided attention once I finish.
Lily found herself smiling at her screen. Tossing the phone to Marlene so she could read the message. Marlene began her Facebook stalking search. They trolled through the photo pages of both James and Sirius. They discovered the identity of the other two boys in the photos, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew… which led to more vigorous social media stalking. Lily was interrupted by the ding of her phone a while later.
Tell me Evans… are you a fan of frozen cokes?
Of course Potter, who isn’t?
The doorbell rang, making all of the girls jump out of their skin. Lily leaped up quickly and wrenched open the front door. Where stood a plain clothed James Potter with a collection of frozen cokes.
“So Evans, I hear you’re down for some decent banter. Well I live to serve, it’s in my job description after all.”
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Reasons Why I Don’t Think James Potter Bullied Snape
- “James and Snape hated each other from the moment they set eyes on each other, it was just one of those things, you can understand that, can’t you?” -Sirius Black, OOTP, p. 590
- “Well, Snape was a special case. He never lost an opportunity to curse James so you couldn’t really expect James to take that lying down, could you?” -Remus Lupin, OOTP, p. 591
- “…it was also enchanted to forever repel (as insultingly as possible) the curiosity of their nemesis, Severus Snape.” -JK Rowling, Pottermore, Marauder’s Map. The term nemesis, as defined by Dictionary.com means “an opponent or rival whom a person cannot best or overcome.” Implying they were on equal footing. As in anything Snape received, he paid back in full.
- In Snape’s Worst Memory, James attacks Snape with a common jinx (that Snape himself invented) and Snape retaliates with a dark curse. What makes anyone think that Snape was incapable of using one to incapacitate James or Sirius?
- Snape had a group of friends who grew up to be Death Eaters and who harassed Muggle-borns in school. I’m sure they attempted retaliation on the Marauders. It doesn’t make any sense that they would choose not to fight against those who they most likely hate most, meaning that Snape would have just as much ability to double-team James.
- It takes a certain amount of compassion to dedicate your life to saving innocent people, and James was a member of the Order of the Phoenix. If he really harassed and tortured Snape to make him feel like shit, as is implied by many, I doubt he would have enough compassion to join an organization based on protecting everyone (read: you would have to save people you hated sometimes).
- Literally everyone who talks about James other than Snape loves him. Dumbledore, Hagrid, Sirius, Remus, everyone. Surely if he was that terrible to someone, at least one other person would hate him, wouldn’t they?
Great points that I’ve always thought were overlooked by many people. More points to consider:
- James grew up in a privileged, blessed household, yet he empathizes with nearly everyone, esp minorities. Peter was a talentless underdog, an outcast, a no one. Sirius coming from a repressing, abusive household. Lily as a muggle-born, and muggle-borns in general. Don’t even get me started on Remus and his lycanthropy issue, that is downright stunning how James handled that.
- Snape invented spells designed to hurt other people. James suspended him in the air, Snape attempted to slice his head open. One of them was intending to humiliate, the other was intending to maim or kill.
- “Well, they [James and Snape] did rather detest each other. Not unlike yourself and Mr. Malfoy. And then, your father did something Snape could never forgive.” “What?” “He saved his life.” (Dumbledore, SS/SP). This is an important parallel between James and Harry; in the end they both saved Snape’s and Draco’s lives respectively, despite their animosities towards another. The differing factor between these pair of rivals was that the Potter boys had enough capacity for compassion that they succeeded in saving the lives of their enemies.
- Sirius says in GoF that during Hogwarts, Snape was in a gang full of future Death Eaters, some of who were mentioned: Rosier and Wilkes, the Lestranges, Avery and Mulciber (GoF, Padfoot Returns). That’s a large gang, far bigger than the four Marauders, especially when you consider that James and Sirius were the ringleaders and Remus and Peter didn’t participate in most of their activities.
- Dumbledore, Hagrid, McGonagall, Sirius, Remus, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Mad Eye Moody, Emmeline Vance, Elphias Doge, Dedalus Diggle, and Hestia Jones spoke highly of James (hell even Peter knew James had compassion enough not to kill him).
- When Hagrid gives Harry the photo album of his parents in First Year, he says that he owled all of Lily and James’ old school friends for photos of them. All of those people loved Lily and James, and kept photos of them long after school, and after their deaths.
At the end of the day, James and Snape both treated each other like shit, but they had their reasons (despite how petty those reasons were, to them it was of utmost importance, we’re not living in their shoes and experiencing the same level of animosity), and it’s unfair to say that Snape was simply an innocent victim when we canonly know that he wasn’t. You can even say that James bullied a bully. Snape was a racist bigot who felt that a minority were subhuman and not on the same standard as he was. He joined a terrorist organization whose purpose was to torture, incapacitate and kill Muggle-borns and Muggles. His greatest virtue was his ability to love a single person in his life, however his compassion ends there.
People are all too willing to judge James based on SWM alone, when in fact JKR had been building up the goodness of his character in all seven books. James was capable of showing kindness to everyone but Snape; begrudging him for that is unfair because the feeling was mutual. At least James had the decency to step in and save Snape’s life at one point; Snape wasn’t capable of doing that for him even years later.
Thank you for this
It's @mppmaraudergirl's birthday! In celebration, have this random load of nonsense: sixth year Jily flirting by the lake.
frown a @jilymicrofics
The greenhouses are teeming with life: plants now overgrown and bathing in sunlight, bugs and beetles crawling about on every leaf or stem or petal, and students all anxious to shed their robes in enjoyment of the warm June afternoon.
James navigates his way through this unusual crowd; despite his height, he weaves easily through the groups of students, taking in their laughter and jokes, a warmth as easy to bask in as the overhead sun. It is courtesy of a folded piece of parchment located in his pocket that he can easily find who he seeks. Otherwise, he would have had to duck in and out of several greenhouses first.
His stomach coils at the sight of her, the familiar sight of his girlfriend hunched over a table, frown clearly visible as she shuffles through parchment. He half considers leaning against the nearest wall, creating a game where he sees just how long it will take Lily to notice that he’s arrived. Before he can decide whether or not to do so, she clears her throat.
“Yes, James?”
He grins, moving forward as if gravity itself is tugging him toward her, he the tides and she the glowing moon. “Thought I’d find you here.”
Lily can’t stop her mouth from twitching. “Funny, that, seeing as I told you I’d be here.”
James comes to rest next to her, but then can’t help but reach out, nudging her shoulder with his side. “Yes, but that was hours ago. I figured you’d be done by now.”
“Got distracted.”
“Get undistracted.”
“Hmm.”
“Okay. Be distracted in a different way now.”
She looks up, finally meeting his eye, and not for the first time (and certainly not the last) does he marvel at the beauty of that green, a startling bright emerald amongst the plants behind her. “A different way? Like by you?”
He grins, slipping his fingers through the loose strands of hair by her ear. “Of course not. I am not distracting in the least.”
She laughs and he returns it in earnest as she stands, wrapping a hand around his wrist. “Aren’t you?”
“No.”
Lily’s laughter softens, in its place a searching gaze, the kind he thinks could see straight through him and into his soul if she wished. “Liar,” she whispers, a tease as much as an accusation, and his only reply is the wordless press of his lips to hers.
“You are a distraction,” she will tell him later, when he forgets all about his insistence otherwise, when his guard is down in the complete contentedness of being together, “and the best kind, too.”
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