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CH. 52: OUT OF THE CAULDRON

The thing about fibbing, Dorcas Walker knew, was that it had to be done with a delicate touch. As a rule, Mary Macdonald didn’t much believe in regrets. James Potter liked to think he was capable of quiet, noble suffering. It was an inescapable truth that Germaine King was of a nervous disposition. Sirius Black had resigned himself to the moral low ground.

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Update: Crossed in Love - Chapter 2

Read Crossed in Love Chapter 2 HERE!

I am terribly sorry for the delay. Life got in the way! I do hope, however, that you will enjoy this even though I feel very unsure about it all. This might be, however, due to my mood today.

Miss Evans is a young woman of one and twenty who completely and utterly knows her mind. She refuses to be ruled by men and is set on the idea of never submitting to a husband’s sceptre. Fleeing her sister’s home to teach at Gryffindor House, a school for genteel young girls, she expects nothing and no one to change her mind for she will only be persuaded to marry when she finds the deepest of love.

His Grace James Potter - Lord of Peverell, son to a Duke and Duchess, owner of a large fortune and soon-to-be a member of the House of Lords - is a man of one and twenty and – by any and all accounts, just ask Mrs Bagshot – far too young to concern himself with thoughts of matrimony. But he – as his friends will attest and to his mother’s delight – finds himself stupidly in love after a mere moment’s acquaintance with Miss Evans.

The joy of being crossed in love so unexpectedly is hard to come by and even harder to act on.

A Jily Regency Romance told in Alexander Strathy’s twelve Quadrille steps: assemblé, jeté, glissade, sissonne, temps levé, chassé, échappé, pirouette, changement de jambe, pas battu, jeté tendu and jeté du côté.

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38!

38. What is your most self-indulgent posted story?

Five Stages of Starflower, easily! I was stuck at some point and then I thought: what do I want to happen? BAM! Let's make James and Lily meet in the kitchens! Add James being jealous of Sirius and Lily! NEAR KISS! Drunk declaration!

Send me one from this list!

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Favorite Canon Multichapter: The Last Enemy: Dark Marks by @chdarling

The entrance to Hell is hidden at the base of a large willow tree, a human-sized hollow tangled in its roots, ready to swallow you whole...

It’s 1976 and the events of the past term at Hogwarts have left their mark on all involved. But it’s a new school year now, with new teachers, new rules, and new regrets. Yet as the war clamoring outside the castle walls grows ever louder, the students inside will learn that some marks are impossible to wash away.

Dark Marks is the second book of The Last Enemy series, which follows the lives of the heroes and villains of the First Wizarding War from 1975-1981.

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Favorite Characterization of James: The Last Enemy: Dark Marks by @chdarling

The entrance to Hell is hidden at the base of a large willow tree, a human-sized hollow tangled in its roots, ready to swallow you whole...

It’s 1976 and the events of the past term at Hogwarts have left their mark on all involved. But it’s a new school year now, with new teachers, new rules, and new regrets. Yet as the war clamoring outside the castle walls grows ever louder, the students inside will learn that some marks are impossible to wash away.

Dark Marks is the second book of The Last Enemy series, which follows the lives of the heroes and villains of the First Wizarding War from 1975-1981.

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Favorite Characterization of Lily: The Last Enemy: Dark Marks by @chdarling

The entrance to Hell is hidden at the base of a large willow tree, a human-sized hollow tangled in its roots, ready to swallow you whole...

It’s 1976 and the events of the past term at Hogwarts have left their mark on all involved. But it’s a new school year now, with new teachers, new rules, and new regrets. Yet as the war clamoring outside the castle walls grows ever louder, the students inside will learn that some marks are impossible to wash away.

Dark Marks is the second book of The Last Enemy series, which follows the lives of the heroes and villains of the First Wizarding War from 1975-1981.

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Vulnerable.

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“How can you be so calm? I want to get there and I want to hurt every single one of those Death Eaters.” “I think when I’m angry, Voldemort wins.” “I don’t know who I am anymore, Lily.” “I do. And I’m sure Sirius, Remus, Peter never forget it too. That’s how you win, Prongs.”

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Exactly what I needed today 💕💕

“So,” said Sirius. “You hexed Bertha Jorkins.”

“Yeah.”

“The biggest tattletale in school.”

“Also yeah.”

“And you’re surprised you got a detention, why?”

James sighed and stabbed moodily at his potatoes. They were at dinner, and more than once his gaze had swept the Great Hall in search of Lily Evans…but she had not yet appeared. “I’m not surprised I got a detention, I’m just surprised Bertha took it all the way to Dumbledore. The Headmaster? Really? I mean — okay, I shouldn’t have hexed her, but all I did was momentarily shut her up.”  

“It was practically a public service,” agreed Peter with a sympathetic grimace.  

“It’s Bertha,” said Sirius. “If she had the option to go directly to the Headmaster to complain every time someone sneezed, she would. Though frankly, I’m more surprised Dumbledore was around to hear it. Your bad luck, I suppose.”

“Yeah. My bad luck.”

Bad luck, James couldn’t help but feel, was all he had these days, and it was bad luck indeed that though the Headmaster had been conspicuously absent from the castle for weeks on end, he just so happened to be passing through the entrance hall at precisely the moment Bertha’s tongue unstuck from the roof of her mouth. The wretched girl had barely waited the length of a swallow of spit to storm off and make her weepy complaint.

“He put a hex on me, Professor Dumbledore,” she’d whinged so loudly that anyone in the vicinity could easily overhear, “and I was only teasing him, sir, I only said I’d seen him kissing Florence behind the greenhouses last Thursday, and then he put a hex on me! Nearly choked me, he did!”

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I am … unwell …. never recovering

Pretty please any chance of a snippet to celebrate finishing my second ct re-read? love your writing so much xx

thank u for the kind words!! and tysm for rereading 💖

really digging deep for fresh content HAHA but here u go, from a distant future chap:

She rolled her eyes again, more emphatically this time, because it almost hurt to look at him head-on, almost hurt not to just — smile endlessly. And then she thought, I must love him. If the world didn't stop, and time didn't either, then surely her heart did, for one long pause between breaths, and it almost hurt to suck in the next breath because of how happy the thought made her. She loved James.

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The scream that came out of my mouth was not human!!!! You make me the happiest!!!!

Finished my TLE re-read, love you and your story so much! 💕

I love YOU!!! And it’s good timing since I just posted the next chapter lol ❤️

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I am relieved

miss suze, you have probably answered this quite a lot so sorry to ask again, but in your outline how close is ct to the finish line? i am only asking because i am afraid of not having a lot left because i will miss this world so much when the story is over. lots of love <3

there is a lot left! we're 75% through the timeline, but i think in terms of plot that still has to happen, we're maybe 60% of the way through? i'm terrible at answering this question and i'm positive my estimates are off, but never fear there is much to come <3

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I will pass out

do y’all want a qualifying snippet or na????

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I am fine everything is fine no need to hyperventilate it’s fine

Hey there Claudia,

I have just read your fic "Retribution" and oh my gosh AMAZING. I love the mutant AU, it's written so damn well I'm hooked. Definitely giving me original X-MEN nostalgia. Would it be possible for a snippet? 💕

Hello, hello! ❤❤

Thank you so much for your lovely, kind words. This means more to me than you can imagine. I don't have a lot written for the next chapter, unfortunately, but for you, I have a spoilery small snippet:

And oh, somehow, my lips are on his again, James’s fingers pressing onto the nape of my neck, leaving the skin there branded, burnt, aching for more of him. The whole of him. His other arm slips around my waist, tugs me until I’m seated on the edge of his bed, body all but curving forward to sigh into him. He kisses me back, as if making up for the stillness of a few moments ago, slow and deep and gentle and my fingers are twisting into the front of his t-shirt; his disappearing into my hair. And though I have nothing but a few dreams and just one proper instance of having done this before, the familiarity of being kissed—no, of being kissed by him—presses around the walls of my throat, cuts off my ability to breathe.

I’m in love with a person I know without knowing.

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if anyone was wondering how the three most outspoken voices about this issue have been treated the past few days:

we’ve all had to turn off anon because of separate bouts of ad hominem vitriol

we’ve been told explicitly and repeatedly that everyone in Jily fandom hates us, are talking about how they wish we would shut up behind our backs, and that people no longer want us in the space/we’re not welcome

we have had our identities denied, ridiculed, and weaponized against us in order to manipulate us into thinking we’re making things up and there’s no issue

we’ve been told “well you should/could have been nicer about XYZ and maybe people would have listened to you” when discussing..our own feelings of discomfort

we’ve had to reiterate and re-explain these issues countless times to people who don’t want to listen

we’ve seen people staying silent when asked to interject and step up; paradoxically, people center themselves when asked to listen to marginalized voices. the isolation of that really can’t be overstated.

I can’t speak for anyone but myself here but I’m just tired. and I know people don’t want to hear about this anymore—I don’t want to keep talking about it. trust me, I would love to go back to posting content for everyone and interacting with stories and using this space as an escape from real life. but I can’t do that—WE can’t do that—until the appropriate boundaries are in place.

please support marginalized voices now that the dust is starting to settle; we’ve been through the ringer as it is.

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Today is James Potter's birthday. 🥳

oh my god you're right. I almost forgot!!!!

ok as penitence here is a tiny little TLE2 snippet for the occasion

James, of course, was fanatical about birthdays. He never let a single friend’s birthday pass uncelebrated. There were always gifts, and a cake, and a rousing chorus of ‘For he’s a jolly good fellow’ after dinner, and god help you if you tried to cut him off; he was like a sort of birthday Hydra, coming back stronger each time with candles, and games, and — god forbid — festive hats. It was best to just silently endure the affair with as much dignity as one could muster, and then never speak of it again for the rest of the year.

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!!!

Formula One’s most impressive young talent meets Britain's favourite reality tv dancer in hotel bar under a flurry of endorphins and one too many glasses scotch. Lily’s weary of his international infamy and his jet-setting lifestyle. James just wants her to meet his parents. It was supposed to be a one night stand, but who were they kidding.

Qualifying, the prequel and secret dating escapades to Trackside is coming soon 🤍

read Trackside before it hits ao3 || ffn