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fatherly duties (April 25th prompt; Thrill) @jilymicrofics

“You’re staring, Lil.”

Lily startles, nearly knocking James off his feet as she spins around to face him.

“Woah,” he breathes, steadying her with his hands on her shoulders. “Just me.”

Lily frowns up at him, though she can’t completely hide the slight blush that warms her cheeks, noticing his bemused expression. “I wasn’t staring James, I was just—“

“Staring. Yeah.” James interrupts cheekily, giving her his typical lopsided grin.

“Checking.” Lily corrects him, crossing her arms. “I was just checking if he’s alright.”

James’s smirk softens at that, and is replaced by an understanding smile. “Yeah.” he says quietly, looking past her at the door to Harry’s bedroom, which stands slightly ajar. “I was about to do that, though. One of my fatherly duties.”

Lily can’t help but chuckle at his feigned displeased frown. “Oh, is it now?” she asks amusedly. “And what else, may I ask, would those fatherly duties include?”

James presses a finger to his chin, thinking. “Well…there’s telling horribly flat jokes, for one.” he muses, smirking slightly at Lily’s eye roll.

“Hm, they’re called Dad jokes, I think.” she replies, acting as though this conversation was indeed very serious.

James can hardly hold back a laugh. “Yes, yes, exactly those.” he agrees. “Oh! and there’s also, teaching him all the hidden ways around Hogwarts and—“

Lily slaps his chest. “James Potter!” she hisses quietly. “He’s gotten into more than enough trouble on his own, he definitely doesn’t need your encouragement.”

“Alright, alright.” James sighs, but in all honesty, he does agree with Lily. Hearing about Harry‘s many previous escapes has had them both feeling less than thrilled, to say the least.

“Well, I’ve got another one then,” he adds, walking up closer to the door to peak inside the moon lit room — the room that once belonged to Sirius and now hosts his son. “Protecting him, with my life.”

Lily feels her chest constricting with the entirety of the statement. “With our lives.” she corrects him quietly, leaning her head against his shoulder.

She watches Harry’s sleeping face, and tries her best not to think of the last time they’d vowed to do that — and the last time they almost did do that. And she’d do it again, in a heartbeat.

James wraps his arm around her shoulders, kissing the side of her head.

“Merlin, I’d take a hundred curses for that kid,” he says after a minute. Then, with a breathed chuckle. “Although, you know, I’d still prefer not having to bite the grass anytime soon.”

Lily smiles weakly. “You always hated to eat your greens.”

James turns his head to look down at her, an incredulous expression on his handsome face, before he suddenly bursts out laughing. “Wow.” he snorts. “Can’t believe Prefect and Head Girl Lily Evans would ever pull a pun.”

Lily giggles despite herself, reveling in this moment of quiet solitude. “Oh, she’d never,” she replies with mocked disapproval, before her lips tug into a smile. “But Lily Potter certainly would.”

She thinks James’s smile could probably light the entire bloody house. “I love you, Mrs. Potter.” he smiles, like the love struck teenager he hasn’t been in almost seventeen years.

Lily blushes, although she reckons she really shouldn’t anymore, being in her thirties and all. “I love you too, Mr. Potter.”

A slight creak to their right makes them both turn, and Lily’s blush increases, now twinged with a bit of guilt as she’s met with the confused eyes of their son.

“Dunno what’s more worth asking about,” Harry lulls tiredly, blinking against the light in the hallway. “Why you two’ve been standing in front of my bedroom for the past half hour, or what’s gotten you to giggle on about…?”

Lily bites her lip, sparing Harry a sheepish smile. “Sorry, sweetheart,” she replies genuinely. “We didn’t mean to wake you.”

“We’re just checking on you.” James adds, perhaps unnecessarily.

Lily notices the look of confusion on Harry‘s face. “Uh…right,” he replies slowly. “Checking for what?”

“To know you’re okay.” she explains gently.

Harry raises a brow, lips twitching amusedly. “I’m fine,” he chuckles. “I was asleep, you know…not much I could do that you’d have to check on.”

“It’s just a nice change,” James pipes up, clearly wanting to lighten their conversation. “You — sleeping so quietly, not scurrying around, beating your old man at quidditch.”

Harry snorts. “Yeah, well, I could still beat you, even with my eyes closed.” he retorts jokingly.

James gasps in mock appall; „In your dreams!“

Harry snickers, with that same cheeky glint in his eyes which Lily‘s seen plenty of times before, on James. “Yeah, there too.”

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someone said that the marauders lived the teenage years the golden trio didn’t and the golden trio lived the adult life the marauders couldn’t and i seriously needed a moment to reflect cause wtf

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all that homoerotic tension for what???? for them not to kiss????? WE WERE ROBBED!!!!

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Made this tomarry sketch omv home🎀

I want to render it so badly...

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percy is a roblox kid while annabeth is a minecraft kid

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He's literally my son ‼️

Harry warmup doodle

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Apollo be like:

Apollo: Don’t speak to me, my daughter or my sons ever-

Nico: And me I have a doctors note.

Apollo: OR MY SONS BOYFRIEND EVER AGAIN!

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probably a huge reach but I do wonder if percy’s refusal to explain his plans to anyone was influenced by him telling bianca his plan and then her getting herself killed trying to execute it

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tension ⚡️

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Sorry for all the long threads about snape on the timeline yall!! I just can't stfu and love a good debate 😋

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Hi thank you for being so respectful! 😊 people tend to get a little touchy when I share what I think about snape/how I interpret his character. I think you made some great points about sectumsempra and how Neville didn't really know of bellatrix enough for her to be his boggart. I love a good debate/discussion, so I just wanted to share a few more points! (Sorry in advance for the infodump/rant lol):

-nevilles boggart

I don't think this is a case of Neville simply being scared of dissappointing snape. I think it's a direct result of snape constantly belittling/bullying Neville. In the books whenever snape talks to Neville, Neville is described to be trembling in fear. Neville is scared to even be around snape and that doesn't seem like the behavior of someone who is just scared to let down his teacher.

-trevor

In the books during the Trevor incident sanpe say this, "Longbottom, at the end of this lesson we will feed a few drops of this potion to your toad and see what happens. Perhaps that will encourage you to do it properly." This is very clearly a threat to me, but maybe some ppl see it differently 🤷‍♀️

In the book hermione did ask to help neville (and did) and snape told her not to. However, snape did not know for sure that hermione helped until after he administered the potion to Trevor. We can observe this by his facial expressions:

"Everyone gather 'round," said Snape, his black eyes glittering, "and watch what happens to Longbottom's toad. If he has managed to produce a Shrinking Solution, it will shrink to a tadpole. If, as I don't doubt, he has done it wrong, his toad is likely to be poisoned."

The Gryffindors watched fearfully. The Slytherins looked excited. Snape picked up Trevor the toad in his left hand and dipped a small spoon into Neville's potion, which was now green. He trickled a few drops down Trevor's throat.

There was a moment of hushed silence, in which Trevor gulped; then there was a small pop, and Trevor the tadpole was wriggling in Snape's palm.

The Gryffindors burst into applause. Snape, looking sour, pulled a small bottle from the pocket of his robe, poured a few drops on top of Trevor, and he reappeared suddenly, fully grown."

Before he added the drops you can tell by his glittering eyes that snape is excited at the prospect that Neville is going to fail (which snape knows wouldn't happen if hermione helped, which is why he told her not to) However after the potion worked like it was supposed to his faced dropped, because he realized only then that hermione helped Neville. This is after he administered the potion not before, so snape knowingly put a potion on Trevor that could poison him and he was excited at the prospect. So no, he didn't know the potion was safe before hand, in fact he thought the opposite, hence the excitement when dosing trever.

Anyways, sorry for the rant! I love character analysis and there is so much to analyze when it comes to snape. 😁 you made some good points I just think there are lots of things left up to interpretation (like snape and lily's whole dynamic/how snape feels about her) but also some things that are not. Snape is and interesting character for sure, he's just not all my cup of tea 😅

i just don't get snape defenders... like do they know you can have a fav character and still acknowledge that they were a horrible person????

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I have no problems with people being fans of snape (in fact I happen to enjoy the complexity of his character) and I get that a lot of stuff he does is exaggerated. I'm just baffled at the people that deny what he did do:

Verbally abused Neville to the point that snape was his boggart (over the people who literally tortured his parents)

Threatened the life of nevilles toad and even going so far as to actually drop a potentially poisonous substance on the toad

Bullying harry for years based only on the fact that he looked like his dad. (If he was such good friends with lily he would not have treated her child like that)

Snape was fully invested in the death eaters (wizarding NAZIS) and only turned into a spy after he got lily killed (he didn't care when other muggleborns were being killed/tortured, only when lily did).

Creating spells that literally put so many gashes in a person that they start to bleed out (very cruel)

Was him eventually going the order and protecting harry a good thing? Yes it was! But when fans ignore/deny this stuff it drives me mad 😭😭

Side note: people are taking my post and assuming it means I am excusing everything the marauders did to him, but I never even mentioned them or implied I was talking about them. I think this is a good example of the cognitive dissonance some snape fans have. Just because other characters did bad things doesn't mean snape suddenly has his record wiped clean.

Also this is no hate to you and you are valid with the point that people accuse snape of things he didn't do/exaggerate his actions. A lot of people state fanon as canon and it is something that I have posted about frustrating me often.

i just don't get snape defenders... like do they know you can have a fav character and still acknowledge that they were a horrible person????

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I feel like people are misunderstanding my point on the og post 😭 I'm talking specifically about people who go out of their way to defend his actions of being a death eater, bullying children, etc. I have no problems if people are fans of him and did not say that if you are a fan of him you have to constantly say his actions were wrong when talking about him. This was a call out post specifically to people who are constantly posting about how he is such a good person.

I know this is all fake lol. I was just posting my genuine bafflement at some people. When I say acknowledge he was a bad person I did not mean constantly putting disclaimers. I literally meant like acknowledge it to yourself.

i just don't get snape defenders... like do they know you can have a fav character and still acknowledge that they were a horrible person????

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Omg I'm gonna buy this, thank you!!

you guys have no idea how embarrassing it is to have franz kafka be your favorite author. anyone who's into books just thinks you're a tiktok poser 😭 more so for me bc my fav book of his is literally the metamorphosis

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looking back on old posts and yeah this is the main consensus now, but I do remember a time (early-mid 2010s) where sirius was widly considered the dominant one/top in fics. It's so crazy how fic dynamics can change.

I think the change really started/picked up in 2020 during the pandemic when so many new ppl joined the fandom and suddenly remus went form being the "always injured/weak boy who needed to be taken care of" to " boy with short hair and scars=tough/masculine" and sirius who was once considered "cool/punk" changed into "long hair=feminine twink bottom"

It's really interesting that 2020, a period of time where gender expression/gender noncomformity felt like it was discover/preached at an all time high turned so many ships into this straightified traditional gender roles box if that makes sense? This is really simplified so don't come at me for it not being fleshed out 😭

remus tops

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i just don't get snape defenders... like do they know you can have a fav character and still acknowledge that they were a horrible person????