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Somewhere around 2am at the Malfoy Manor.

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[Dialogue]

Astoria: It’s nice seeing you like this. Draco: Like what? Astoria: Like you’re not angry with everything. Draco: Do you perhaps know a spell that can take this off of my skin? Astoria: Are you showing this to me to see if I would get up and leave? Draco: I just want to make sure you know exactly who I am. Astoria: Oh, I know… Dangerous Draco Malfoy. Draco: Astoria…

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Comfort

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That smile.

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dads

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would you like to be the hero?

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James: Hey Evans Lily: When are you going to stop calling me Evans? James: When you become Potter Sirius: [choking noises]

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I think Ginny should have been allowed to punch at least three people per book. I just think that would have been  neat. 

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Jily Rec List of Fluff and Feels

There’s a lot going on right now. If you’re looking for some escapism or just something to do while you’re practicing social distancing or are self-quarantining then here you go! If you find this months later, there will probably still be a reason you want to read jily, because jily is wonderful and amazing, so here you go! 

 Delete the Kisses by lilyjpotter : Childhood friends to lovers. I smiled the entire time I read this (okay, not the whole time, there is some angst, but most of the time)

Crushed by @lizardcookie : Canon compliant jily fic. It’s on of my favorites and I just want everyone to read it. Though anything that lizard writes is amazing and you should read it all. 

In the Stacks by @inakindofdaydream : A muggle bookshop, summer romance au! It’s cute, it’s fluffy, you need to read it <3

Two Sides of the Same Coin by @ghostofbambifanfiction : This is canon compliant fluff that will rot your teeth because it’s about how Lily loves James just as much as he loves her dammit. They’re both moon-eyed idiots and it’s wonderful. 

Seven Years and Seventy More by @surlybobbies : James has something that he wants to tell his friends (ps. it might be that he’s kissed someone!)

The Last Laugh by @blitheringmcgonagall : James’ plans shouldn’t work out so well, but with the help of a friend (Remus!) he might just get the girl! Also, James might be a turkey…

Interruptions by @pleasenotausername : James and Lily are two friends who would like shag. But they can’t, because people keep interrupting them. 

Style by @magic-girl-in-a-muggle-world : Excellent fic about a over confident, dorky James doing his best to impress Lily with nice cars and leather jackets. Half of which don’t belong to him! 

Flora and Fauna by @women-inthe-sequel - James owns a flower shop!! Anything where one of them owns a flower shop has my heart, but in this one, Lily wants to know how to tells someone how to fuck off in flower language. It’s great fun. 

Polaris by @lovesickjily : It’s a muggle au where they get snowed in and HAVE TO SHARE A BED! Just what everyone needs. To have no choice but to share a bed with the person they’re pretending not to be in love with. Tip top. 

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I have this theory that Neville is supposed to represent everything that Peter could have been. You know, both of them were the weak link in the friend group, the guy easily influenced. But instead, Rowling made Neville weak to prove the two paths an individual could take. How each of our weaknesses manifest in different ways. Peter’s weakness made him a villain, ultimately worse than Voldemort because he betrayed his friends, while Neville’s weakness made him work harder and in the end made him Harry’s strongest ally.

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Let’s talk about the battle in the Department of Mysteries for a sec. So after the group gets split up, Harry, Hermione and Neville go one way and Ron, Ginny and Luna the other. The next time we see the latter group Ginny’s ankle is busted and Ron’s brain is addled. Luna says that the Death Eaters blew up a planet in the planetarium and hit Ron with some sort of hex.

Let’s take a moment to examine that. If the curse that hit the planet had hit any of the kids, they’d be dead. So the Death Eater probably missed, hit the planet ahead of them, injuring Ginny. But here’s the important part: the one who actually gets hit by the hex? Ron.

Why is this important? Because Ron is consistently described throughout the series as tall. Like, every time Harry sees him after the beginning of summer he’s described as having shot up. Again. On the other hand Ginny is described as “the small one” by Bellatrix Lestrange. But Ron is behind her. I don’t know if you know this but tall people can run really fast. I am not particularly fit but I am tall. And I can pour on the speed when my adrenaline’s up, which I have no doubt was the case for everyone in the Department of Mysteries. But he’s behind her.

Because he did that deliberately. He kept his body between the Death Eaters and the girls. He shielded them from their spells. Because those he cares about are more important to him than his own life.

I don’t know, I just think about this a lot.

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sirius coming home to grimmauld place: hey there, demons. it’s me, ya boi

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I 110% believe that after Hermione found out that Ron went to face Aragog in order to save her she made it her life mission to make sure that Ron never has to see another spider again. Spider on Ron's desk? Not after she slams her textbook down on it. Spider crawling on Ron while they hang out on the grass? Not after she flicks it off of him and sends it to Hogsmeade.

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Every now and then, the Marauders fandom gets upset that James was chosen to be a Head Boy when he wasn’t a Prefect.

But of course he was.

It started in the autumn of his fifth year. The fifteen-year-old marched through the corridors, feeling rather important, a badge pinned to his robes.

Filch caught him within the first five minutes. To be fair, James hadn’t tried to run. (If he had, he would have gotten away). He had no reason to. Still, the caretaker grumbled threats of torture as he dragged the Chaser to Professor McGonagall’s office.

“Pretending to be a Prefect,” Filch snarled.

“I’m not pretending you old—” James eventually broke off as he realized that there was no use shouting at the lump of clay that was the caretaker. And so, he turned to Professor McGonagall and said, “I’m a temporary Prefect for the night.”

“Are you?” she asked, with a flicker of amusement. “I don’t seem to recall appointing you as such.”

“You know, Sirius’ brother told me something interesting the other day,” James said. “Did you know that if you looked at the night sky, you could see a star that represents them both? Isn’t that strange. Look for yourself, Professor.”

And she glanced out the window and saw the stars in question. Right next to the nearly full moon. Her face gave away nothing, but she curtly dismissed the caretaker, who seemed surprised if not furious.

“Surely you want me to stay to deliver the punishment?” Filch asked.

“There will be no punishment,” Professor McGonagall said curtly. “You caught a Prefect out of bed. That’s not exactly against the rules, is it?”

James could have hugged her.

As soon as the caretaker was gone, she pushed the tin of biscuits towards James. It didn’t even need saying at this point. He grinned and took his favorite kind. She always had them.

“I didn’t even think…” she whispered. “It’s not full for another three days.”

“I know,” said James. “But he’s really sick this time.”

“He should have told me,” she said. “I would have given him the time off.”

“Yeah, well,” James shrugged. “You know Remus.”

She smiled; she did indeed.

“Did he brief you on your responsibilities?” the professor asked.

“If by ‘briefed’ you mean ‘went into a three-hour lecture on what I should or should not do’ then yeah.”

“You know that I can’t make this official,” Professor McGonagall said. “People would talk.”

“Nah, I know,” James said. 

“You can’t brag about this.”

“I know.”

“You can’t abuse your privileges.”

“I know.”

“Take another biscuit.”

He grinned and did so.

“I believe you have work to do,” she said.

James gave her a mock salute and marched away. He performed Remus’ duties all night, never once abusing the power, knowing that doing so would tarnish Remus’ reputation. He performed them the next two nights as well and told a very skeptical Professor McGonagall that he was sick on the night of the full moon. (”Oh dear,” she said. “I hope your illness stagnates.”)

Truth be told, James was a Prefect almost as much as Remus was.

They were some of the only times in his term at Hogwarts that he solemnly swore that he wasn’t up to no good.

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The Marauders Series: Sirius Black

Remus is on deck! 

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Okay, but: Harry and Ron having a secret handshake.

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❝𝐴𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑎 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑠𝑠 ❞

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Bitches be obsessed with a group of fictional friends that grew up too fast in the middle of a war in the 1970’s at Hogwarts and raised hell and laughed and spent nights under the full moon in pure selflessness and loved each other without limit because they were home to each other. It’s me, I’m bitches.