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Fred: James

Daphne: Sirius

Velma: Peter

Shaggy: Remus

Like, what do you mean they were only together for 3 years before they sacrificed their life for Harry's.

Why did they only get to spend their three years of their life together when it should've been decades? Decades they could've used raising Harry, being happily married, becoming grandparents.

Pandalily, where neither realise they were pining over each other until Lily's 6th year and Panda's 5th.

Pandalily, where they both confess at the exact same time on a Hogsmead trip.

Pandalily, where Pandora loves Lily move than life itself, and Lily's love for Panda is larger than the expanse of the universe.

Dorlene, where they were rivals in every way and should've never fallen for each other, but Slytherin won one Quidditch match against Gryffindor, causing Dorcas to smirk at Marlene, which only made Marlene fall head over heels for her.

Dorlene, where Dorcas would sacrifice anything to keep Marlene safe and happy.

Dorlene, where they were the first legally married same-sex couple in wizarding Britain.

James gets so comfortable with Barty that he lets it slip that he's bipolar, a fact that he tries to hide. But before he can even panic, Barty basically says, "Ayy, me too, mate." After that, James may as well have given Barty his heart on a plater because if he was able to share his most uncomfortable secret with him, then he will be able to trust him with his entire soul.

But James doesn't do things by halves. He either goes all in or doesn't do it at all. So it really wasn't a surprise when he ended up falling for Barty. He was slightly scared at first because Barty was a Slytherin and likely wasn't that great of a person outside of their nightly flying but James had never claimed to be a good person either so he just thought, "Fuck it."

Barty knew that something had shifted between them. At first, he couldn’t quite place what was different, but it didn't take him long to figure it out. Admittedly, Barty couldn’t have been more pleased to be the object of James Potter's affection, James was fit and also unnaturally nice. Realistically, Barty should have never had done anything about it, but he's selfish and wanted James more than anything.

So Barty kissed him, and for a couple of seconds, Barty thought he had it all wrong and that James didn't like him, but then his kiss was returned in full force, it almost felt as though James was trying to eat him alive.

After that night, their little escapades continued only with a lot more kissing. Sometimes, that was all they did and would never even make it into the sky. But despite this, there was a lot of unanswered tension and uncertainty between the two. It hung like a shadow over them. James was the first to bring this up a couple of months after it started, but Barty didn't really give a solid answer. It was more shrugs and shallow agreements but this really fucked with James, and he left not long after he arrived.

James wouldn't go back until Barty gave him an answer, but it didn't mean that he wouldn't check on the map to see if Barty was on the pitch and that he was safe. Fortunately, James only had to wait four days for an answer. It came in the form of Barty storming over to James after a Slytherin vs. Gryffindor Quidditch match (Gryffindor won) and snogging James as violently as he could manage, in front of the entire school.

I think that Barty would've been a hat stall, and the hat really struggled on where to put him.

Originally, the hat was going to put him in Ravenclaw, but before the hat could even be placed on Barty's head, he was begging to be put in Slytherin. Barty hated the idea of being in Ravenclaw because his father was in that house, and Barty refused to be like his father.

Linking this in with Jegulily makes it so amazing. Like Regulus just outright dating Lily even though she's a muggleborn, not at all scared of the consequences because why would he ever give up the woman he loves for a couple of bigots?

Like I can imagine, Regulus started to pursue Lily after Sirius ran away because he thought that James stole Sirius from him on purpose. So he thought that the best way to get revenge was to steal the love of James' life from him.

Lily was so confused by this. Like the heir of the Black family is pursuing her, a muggleborn, seemingly from his own freewill. She couldn't help but be intrigued, so she allowed him to chase her. Admittedly, she had no quarrels directly with him in the first place, so she had no problem with being nice to him from the start because that's how she normally is. It's only when people (James) don't respect her boundaries that she starts to get angsty with them.

However, the most confused is James. He's literally watching his best friends brother steal Lily right in front of him. Without any shame whatsoever, despite the fact that Lily was a muggleborn. Now, James would be the first to admit that Regulus was very fucking attractive, but he had rarely ever gotten butterflies because of him. But when Regulus smirked at him, right after flirting with Lily, James had to admit that he found it really fucking attractive. Looking at Lily afterwards made his butterflies even worse because the cutest blush covered her face. Honestly his face was probably just as red.

When he had started this whole revenge plan, he had never anticipated to actually fall for Lily, but everything fell into place. How couldn't he fall in love with someone as angelic as Lily? From the moment he realised he had actually fallen for Lily, he knew he had to ask her out. Unlike before, he was nervous. He didn't want to be rejected, so it took him roughly two weeks for him to actually work up the courage. It was a Thursday night, and he had found her studying in the library. The slight bags under her eyes contrasted the bright green hue of them. He was mesmerised by her entirely. Without really thinking about it, he had strolled up to her and asked her to go to Hogsmead with him that weekend.

Lily wasn't expecting this at all. She didn't think that his games would actually get this far. She found it cruel at first, making her fall for him just to get back at Potter. Then she saw the earnestness dancing in Regulus' eyes, and how could she say no. He was her equal in every single way imaginable, and she knew that he knew that too.

It had been a while since James actually asked Lily out, partially because he saw how she looked at Regulus and partially because of how he looked at Regulus. Don't get James wrong if he was given the chance he would marry Lily on the spot. But that dream seemingly came to a crashing halt as he saw Regulus and Lily holding hands while walking around Hogsmead with the occasional shy glance passed between the two as Regulus bought Lily literally anything she looked at for more than 2 seconds. His heart had simultaneously stopped and seemingly speed up at the same time. Apparently, James had a thing for his two crushes dating each other despite the heartbreak it also brought him. After his discovery of the two's relationship, he couldn't help but bawk every time he saw them together.

Regulus was not dumb by any means, and neither was Lily. They both knew that James couldn't help but stare at them when they were together (and even when they were alone). Less intelligent people may have thought that James was acting like that because Lily had been stolen from him. But Regulus and Lily are nothing if not smart. They knew that James fancied both of them. And both of them had to begrudgingly admit that they kind of fancied James too.

Ever since the beginning of this, James has been on his best behaviour. He'd been genuinely complimenting Lily without expecting anything in return. He had been secretly ambushing Regulus in the astronomy tower, talking about how much of Regulus' self-hatred was undeserved. Regulus and Lily found it sickening, especially when it actually worked to make them fall for him. Both had been very open with each other when they had started developing actual feelings for James. After a little sobbing session over their stupidity, they came to the conclusion to corner James and ask him to join their relationship.

Lily doesn't remember how it started. She just remembers waking up one day and coming to realisation that she was unequivocally in love with Mary. The thought tore her apart from the seems. Mary would never love her back. Ever. Because she was straight, Lily knew that, for a fact, Mary never stopped talking about the hot guys in their year or the year above.

This was going to destroy Lily from the inside out because Lily could never do anything in halves. But this didn't stop her from protecting and nurturing the soft feeling. Now, whenever James would test his luck with her, she would hex him in so many ways because even though she would never ever be with Mary, even entertaining the thought of being with James felt like cheating.

Mary never understood why Lily did this. Lily hopped that she never would because then she might lose the little she receives from Mary. The cuddling in the commonroom when both of them wanted a little extra warmth. The hand holding in the corridors to stop them from getting ripped away from each other in the crowds of fellow students. The occasional cheek or forehead kisses if either one was upset. Lily couldn't lose that. She couldn't.

So she had to date others. She had hoped that she would get over Mary by doing this. But she couldn't. There were five people she dated in the hope of release of the pain of being dangerously in love with her best friend. A ravenclaw boy in fourth year; a hufflepuff boy at the start of fifth year; at the end of fifth year, she dated a sixth year gryffindor girl; throughout sixth year she dated a hufflepuff girl. But they all broke up with her because they knew that she didn't love them.

So she turned to the only person desperate enough to never leave her. James Potter. He had stopped asking her out in fifth year, and she thinks that he had found someone. She was glad for that because then he was able to experience the love that she would never never be able to give him. He was her last chance of freedom, and he gave her the world. She felt awful for using his obvious heartbreak over someone else to get close to him. He didn't deserve it, but he would be able to understand.

It wasn't until their wedding night that he found out that her feelings for him were forced. She was already three months pregnant. There was absolutely no reason he should suspect that she didn't love him. But she couldn't lie to him for the rest of their life. As soon as they were alone, she broke down, apologising repeatedly. All James could do was comfort her, and he did that as he always had, amazingly. She reckoned that she would've loved him if she had never met Mary. And she told him exactly that. He didn't shout or hurt her. He just started crying silently, knowing that it isn't possible to help who you loved. Lily comforted him exactly as he had comforted her, with all the love that she could give him, but unfortunately for James, that love was purely platonic.

After that night, it was almost as if nothing had changed. They both knew that Lily didn't love him but neither cared. They were comforts to each other in their most painful experiences of love: Lily falling in love with her tragically straight best friend and James first true love, leaving him without an inch of regret before dying. Harry certainly helped their dynamic; they both had someone that they loved with their entire beings. Eventually, James had stopped loving Lily too out of respect because that's the kind of person James was, too selfless for his own good.