James Potter splattering cake all over his parents and continuing to then face plant the cake on his first birthday. James Potter giggling uncontrollably when his cousins put him on a toy broom for the first time on his second birthday. James Potter accidentally enchanting his own glasses and watching as they zoom out the window on his fifth birthday. James Potter being all smug on his tenth birthday because heâs reached double digits. James Potterâs three new friends: Sirius, Remus, and Peter, throwing cream pies at his face across the Great Hall at eleven. James Potter hopelessly pining for a certain redhead instead of doing a birthday prank with the Marauders at age fourteen. James Potter getting the best gift possible from his fiery girlfriend at seventeen (Sirius proceeding to tease him endlessly about it the next morning). James Potter walking up to his wife and kissing her senseless on his twentieth birthday. James Potter throwing baby Harry up and down as Lily takes photographs at twenty-two. James Potter standing at the alter as Siriusâs best man, watching as his two friends promise to love each other forever when he is twenty-three. James Potter tearing up when Sirius and Remus announce that theyâre adopting a beautiful baby girl and they have chosen him as her godfather on his twenty-fifth birthday. James Potter laughing hysterically when Harry gets him a pranking kit for his thirtieth birthday. James Potter hugging Harry, Ron, and Hermione when they graduate from Hogwarts on his thirty-ninth birthday. James Potter conducting âhappy birthdayâ as his family sings to him at age forty. James Potter smiling and crying and laughing when he discovers heâll be a grandfather at forty-five. James Potter having a quiet birthday with Lily, the love of his life, at forty-nine. James Potter nervously asking Lily to go out on a date with him on his fifty-fifth birthday. James Potter surrounded by the people he loves as they wish him a happy sixtieth birthday.
James Potter growing up to be an old man. James Potter living.































