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J a m e s  P o t t e r

character posters: remus lupin 

endless list of otps: james potter + lily evans

There was his father waving up at him, beaming, the untidy black hair Harry had inherited standing up in all direction. There was his mother, alight with happiness, arm in arm with his dad. 

lily evans was no idiot. she was top of her class, star potions student, head girl, and a favorite of teachers and students alike. she prided herself on her intellect and wit, her sensitivity to both academic and emotional subjects. lily evans was exposed to, from a very young age, the cruelty of human nature. there were burgeoning signs, warning hints of deeper hurt–from tuney, from severus–and as she grew, as she married james potter and joined the order, she was exposed to even more. she suffered the treachery of peter pettigrew, mourned the loss of dead friends, and lived the last few months of her short life in hiding, in a remote, small home in godric’s hollow.

and yet.

when voldemort came for harry, she still screamed, have mercy! she must have known, logically, that there was no chance for such mercy, that her pounding heart was overpowering her level head. the last breath she had, the last thought she possessed, was a blind, desperate hope for lord voldemort, master of a cruel heart and an even colder soul.

and yet.

requested by anon : Sirius

 (and Lily dancing to some muggle music)

@hpminorcharnet creation event: canon ships - frank & alice longbottom

The green light filled the cramped hallway, it lit the pram pushed against the wall, it made the banisters glow like lighting rods, and James Potter fell like a marionette whose strings were cut…. 

James Potter for @ravencalws (sorry it took so long yikes)

sirius laughing on the couch, doubled over and too breathless to splutter out even a few words. sirius planning mischief with james, teasing professor mcgonagall and hatching plans for evans to notice prongs. sirius watching his little brother with furrowed brow and worry creasing his handsome face when he thinks no one notices. sirius running away to the potters’ house, bedraggled and breathing hard, suitcases and defiant determination in hand. 

sirius studying to become an animagus to ease remus’s transitions on the full moon. sirius stroking remus’s hair and soothing his aches and pains, brushing away moony’s worries one by one. sirius delightedly officiating at lily and james’s wedding, taking every opportunity he has to make jokes at james’s expense. sirius reverently taking little harry into his arms, cooing and suddenly looking years younger, vowing to protect and love him forever and ever and ever. sirius agreeing to be the potters’ secret keeper as he stands, strong, steady, before a pacing james and shaking lily. 

sirius betraying the potters, betraying peter, betraying remus. 

remus looks into harry’s wide, questioning eyes, heart breaking once more. 

james and lily’s wedding

There was his father waving up at him, beaming, the untidy black hair Harry had inherited standing up in all directions. There was his mother, alight with happiness, arm in arm with his dad.

“Alright Evans?”