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Ah yes…October…a time for bonfires, cozy sweaters, Hocus Pocus, carving pumpkins & wearing black to mourn the premature deaths of James and Lily Potter

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Still Young by LiesMiranda

Author’s Summary: Lily can't pinpoint when it changed, or why, but she knows that she doesn't want to be anywhere but here with this boy, knowing that the whole year is theirs for the taking. LJ Oneshot

Words: 2,174

Chapters: 1

Completed: Yes

A James and Lily Compendium Notes: This is sweet and adorable. I love the banter between James and Lily in this. Recommend. 

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@marauderseranetwork event ✧ favorite quotes

“i think you’re like james,” said lupin, “who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.”

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hp quotes // “James’ free hand immediately jumped to his hair. It was one of the girls from the lake edge. She had thick, dark red hair that fell to her shoulders, and startlingly green almond-shaped eyes - Harry’s eyes. Harry’s mother. ‘All right, Evans?’ said James, and the tone of his voice was suddenly pleasant, deeper, more mature.” 

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She started going out with him in seventh year.

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Glass of Water by lyin

Author’s Summary: It's 1976 and Hogwarts' N.E.W.T. Divination class can only see the homework in their future. Lily Evans and Sirius Black certainly can't foresee they're falling into friendship. What happens in Divination, stays in Divination.

Words: 49,061

Chapters: 8

Completed: Yes

A James and Lily Compendium Notes: Okay, so, there’s not a whole heap of Jily here... BUT the Sirius/Lily friendship in this is adorable and the plot is just amazing and rich and beautiful and this is worth the read! There’s still some Jily (particularly more towards the end) so don’t let that dissuade you! 

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And the Wolves All Cry by monroeslittle

Author’s Summary: AU. if a certain person doesn't hear a prophecy, does it still come true?

Words: 31,769

Chapters: 1

Completed: Yes

A James and Lily Compendium Notes: An incredible fic. AU where Sirius stays the secret keeper for the Potters, but the war continues to darken and they all get sucked up into it. Utterly heartbreaking but a rewarding ending. Worth the read 11/10. 

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                                                 hp aesthetic → the marauders

                       “There were four heroes as it were in the previous generation                     and one of them betrayed the others, and then there were the three.”

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James: *seductively takes off glasses*

James: Hello, Evans. You’re looking very blurry today.

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James: Well now I feel like an arse.

Lily: When do you not?

James: Almost always. I really like me.

Lily: Baffling.

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One of Them by ScarlettSunshine

Author’s Summary: It's a challenge. One week. Lily's hanging out with the Marauders. But trying to keep up with four seventeen year old boys isn't that easy. "If I win you don't ask me out. At all. Never again." "And if I win, you're my girlfriend." This'll be interesting.

Words: 90,098

Chapters: 28  

Completed: Yes

A James and Lily Compendium Notes: Lily spending the week as a Marauder. I like this a whole lot. I enjoy the depth and the characterisation of James and Lily. I also enjoyed that the author didn’t wait until right at the end for any Jily action! This fic made me smile a whole lot. 

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James: Is Harry awake yet?

Lily: It’s still nap time but he’ll be awake soon

James: And where’s Sirius?

Lily: I said it’s still nap time

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Penmanship Smitten by HeyLookTheSnitch

Author’s Summary: There were four things that I was incredibly certain of— 1. Prongs was a troublemaker. 2. He very well could be lying and really was a female. 3. I had no clue who he was. 4. I one hundred percent fancied the pants off the bloke.

Words: 97,919

Chapters: 15    

Completed: Yes

A James and Lily Compendium Notes: This is the only Jily fic I’ve ever come across that portrays Lily in an unobservant/oblivious way that doesn’t actually make me frustrated or dislike her characterisation. Adored some of the concepts in this. 

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Scenes from a Hogsmeade Pub by B.C Daily

Author’s Summary: The Three Broomsticks is the setting for five significant scenes in Lily and James’s relationship.

Words: 14,432     

Chapters: 1     

Completed: Yes

A James and Lily Compendium Notes: The fact that this one-shot has almost 1,400 favourites (at the time I’m writing this) should tell you a lot about the quality of this fic. It’s beautiful, it’s perfect, it gives me all the feels.

It’s one of my all time favourites and I adore the characterisation of James and Lily here. I need this fic expanded and told novel-length! 

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the marauders era:      ↳ “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.” - Charles Dickens, ‘A Tale Of Two Cities.’