#they would ship lucius x james if they could. thats the thing

[rewritingcanon]

Jegulus is sold as marauders drarry but it's actually marauders hinny (rip off version). ginny is similar to james (hot, popular, jock) and harry resembles regulus (sad emo boy as we see it in fanon).

also there's the whole best friend's younger sibling. I guess it would be impossible to have Lucius x James (like Drarry & Scorbus) because their ages don't match, Lucius is several years older than James. So they decided on Jegulus!

the thing is James is less lenient about the dark arts than Harry. I believe Harry could turn dark and there's drarry fics that explore this side of him and IT WORKS but James has too much black-and-white morals and he would rather date the giant squid than let regulus near him.

this makes the most sense to me. i think they just wanted their own gryffindor x slytherin token mlm ship like how the golden era has drarry. and i used to think the boom of the enemies to lovers appeal gave it motion too, but the jegulus stuff i see nowadays is so grossly fluffy it makes me question what the point of it was.

even the drarry dynamic rarely works because harry (despite me agreeing with how he’s more flexible with the dark arts due to the horcrux in him) is fiercely loyal to the friends that are actively prejudiced against the dark system. but take his support system away i could potentiallyyyyy see it.

but jegulus? nah.