THE JILY SANTA

Prompt: get together one shot of James and Lily’s last year at Hogwarts.

Why do the books that you need always happen to be on the highest shelf? Lily thought to herself as she stood on her tip toes with her arm extended in the air doing her best to grab the book she needed to finish her essay.

“You do remember the summoning charm, don’t you?”

Lily’s head quickly turned around to see James Potter leaned up against the shelf opposite the one where her book still stood out of her reach with his arms crossed and a teasing smirk on his face.

“Yes, obviously,” said Lily with an annoyed huff as she returned to her attempts at grabbing the book.

“Well…then, why don’t you use it?” he asked.

Lily refused to admit that she just didn’t think of it in the stress of finishing this essay, so she replied with “I don’t feel like it.”

James chuckled, “You don’t feel like it?” he echoed.

“Nope,” replied Lily popping the ‘p’. She had now resorted to jumping to try and reach the book.

Now while James was thoroughly enjoying the show, he couldn’t not offer to help her, “Fine then, let me grab it for you.”

He uncrossed his arms and made a move to reach for the book, which he could easily grab, but Lily stopped his arm mid-reach. It was at this moment that the world seemed to stop for both of them.

There are billions of hearts in this world, but only one matches yours.

HAPPY JILY SANTA @mischiefmanagedwrites! I’m your secret santa @thejilysanta!

My prompt was “AU in which James and Lily don’t die and raise Harry. Anything at all to do with that” and it turned into this bad boy. It’s a no Voldemort/war AU, so all the fun of magic but none of the pain of James and Lily dying tragically young! And it’s Harry’s birthday today!

Finding the right school for your child isn’t easy. Finding the right school for your magical child to attend before they are old enough to attend Hogwarts is even more difficult. Lily wants to make sure Harry has a semi-normal childhood. James wants to stop having to find a new school every two years. Featuring holy water, glitter, excessive amounts of obliviation, workers’ rights, and eight very different schools.

AO3 | FF

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“But if you are giving him an education in ‘Muggle ways’ yourself, is it really necessary for him to go to a Muggle nursery school?”

“Harry will have seven years of his life to attend a magical school!” Lily yelled, before remembering Harry was asleep and lowering her voice. “I want him to have some background in Muggle subjects and interacting with Muggles before he makes the full-time leap into the magical world. I think he will be a more well-rounded student and person for it. And I want to be able to bring him to family events without worrying he will have trouble talking about anything that doesn’t have to do with magic.”

“And I of course love my wife and agree with whatever she thinks is best,” James interjected.

“All right, suit yourselves. Send the kid to Muggle school. But don’t complain to me when he sneezes glitter in front of his teacher and you end up having to obliviate the whole school.”

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Chapters: 1/3 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: James Potter/Lily Evans Potter Characters: James Potter, Lily Evans Potter, Severus Snape, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew Additional Tags: Soulmates, Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Friends to Lovers, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Alternate Universe - Muggle Summary:

my entry for @thejilysanta​ written for @blackkbeak​ who wrote the cutest enemies to lovers fic ever. i hope you like it! <3

Summary: It’s one thing to have a massive crush on Lily Evans. It’s another thing to be snowed in on Christmas Eve with her.

read it on ao3 or ffn!

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It’s cold.

Like, bone-chilling, that-rock-in-your-shoe-is-actually-your-toe cold.

That probably should have been a given—  it was, after all, the middle of bloody December, where natural selection took its course on the idiots foolish enough to play games of life or death outside— but that doesn’t divert from the fact that it’s absolutely freezing. James doesn’t need to be outside to know that it’s cold enough for his spit to turn into a popsicle. He’s got a perfectly accurate weather app on his phone and a view of his frosted windows to have a good idea.

And yet, despite the brutal winters that were raging outside of the walls of his flat, James still thought it to be a better fate to be outside than to sit inside hearing the constant moans and groans of the couple next door.

Sirius liked to say James’ flagrant disapproval of those sort of couples stemmed from James’ ‘inability to commit to a long-term monogamous relationship’. James liked to respond that he just wanted a good night’s rest without knowing exactly how his neighbours were like in bed.

Sleep.

That really couldn’t have been too much to ask for.

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Lily Evans was a very good student.

She had good grades and did her homework, even the one given by Professor Flitwick who never checked if they’d done it. She had a stellar attendance and was always punctual and respectful. Even Professor McGonagall liked her, and it was the general consensus among the entire student body that having her like you was really, really hard.

However, Lily didn’t think that Mcgonagall would continue to like her if she stabbed James Potter in her class.

With a rounder. In his neck.

Prompt: James is a single dad, and Lily is a kindergarten teacher at a prestigious pre-school that James has been trying to get Harry in. So, James has to convince her that his 4-year-old son is a genius.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a man in possession of a 4 year old boy, must be in want of the best pre-school in town.

James Potter was no exception to that truth. In fact, he was now on the most desperate search of his life, one that involved internet deep dives, countless visits to each and every school, and keeping an eye on the teachers he knew to be in charge of admissions.

It was exhausting.

But Harry was not an ordinary boy and he would not be going to just any ordinary school. He would go to the very best one. Jane Austen Pre-school for Gifted Children. James had finally reached a decision.

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Prompt was enemies to lovers from @thejilysanta

so open your eyes and see (the way our horizons meet)

(prelude)

lily.

God I’m stupid. So, so, goddamn stupid. It’s as if I didn’t even think for one bloody second about this. I just fucking took the story, because it’s Yale and I need to impress the editor and not taking an open story certainly will not impress him.

But now I’m going to have to see him. James fucking Potter, every day for the next week.

Stupid, stupid, Evans.

james.

When coach told me I was going to be interviewed for the school paper, I thought he meant on behalf of the team. As team captain.

Nope. Turns out, the people want a segment on James Potter, the person, not the athlete. Which would be alright, if I were being interviewed by an experienced and competent journalist.

Instead, they sent a freshie, not even officially a part of the paper yet. Probably some girl who wants to use the opportunity to get some extra popularity points.

Just one week. That’s all. Then I won’t have to deal with this Evans girl ever again.

Trope requested: Royalty AU 

Title: Royal Pains

Summary: James can’t understand why he’s so terribly misunderstood and has yet to be given a cat to adopt. Sirius has succumbed to a life of petty theft. Peter has a man crush. Remus wants a nap and Lily would just really like a drink with an umbrella.

Kingsley Shacklebolt wishes every day he’d picked a different career path.

Or the Jily Modern Royalty AU  for The Jily Santa that was asked for, but they may regret asking.

Read on AO3 HERE

Welcome to The Jily Santa. This is an anonymous blog celebrating our favourite couple, James and Lily in July!

This is based on Secret Santa. Everyone who participates will be given a particular prompt (someone’s dream fic/edit.) At the end of the month, you will post your creation, and gift someone their dream fic/edit while you will also receive your dream fic/edit. The identity of your Secret Santa will, of course, remain unknown until creations are posted.

If you have any doubts, please send in an ask or contact us directly. We hope you will participate in this event, and also implore you to have fun and make friends on this journey. 

Note:

- You will be paired with a prompt by July 1st and will have to post your creation before July 30th!

- NSFW requests will be ignored.

Thank you for participating! 

Requirements: 

- Follow our blog

- Reblog this post

- Send us a brief description of the fic you would like to read or, edit you would like to see (via ask, or directly)

Welcome to The Jily Santa. This is an anonymous blog celebrating our favourite couple, James and Lily in July!

This is based on Secret Santa. Everyone who participates will be given a particular prompt (someone’s dream fic/edit.) At the end of the month, you will post your creation, and gift someone their dream fic/edit while you will also receive your dream fic/edit. The identity of your Secret Santa will, of course, remain unknown until creations are posted.

If you have any doubts, please send in an ask or contact us directly. We hope you will participate in this event, and also implore you to have fun and make friends on this journey. 

Note:

- You will be paired with a prompt by July 1st and will have to post your creation before July 30th!

- NSFW requests will be ignored.

Thank you for participating! 

Requirements: 

- Follow our blog

- Reblog this post

- Send us a brief description of the fic you would like to read or, edit you would like to see (via ask, or directly)

Welcome to The Jily Santa. This is an anonymous blog celebrating our favourite couple, James and Lily in July!

This is based on Secret Santa. Everyone who participates will be given a particular prompt (someone’s dream fic/edit.) At the end of the month, you will post your creation, and gift someone their dream fic/edit while you will also receive your dream fic/edit. The identity of your Secret Santa will, of course, remain unknown until creations are posted.

If you have any doubts, please send in an ask or contact us directly. We hope you will participate in this event, and also implore you to have fun and make friends on this journey. 

Note:

- You will be paired with a prompt by July 1st and will have to post your creation before July 30th!

- NSFW requests will be ignored.

Thank you for participating! 

Requirements: 

- Follow our blog

- Reblog this post

- Send us a brief description of the fic you would like to read or, edit you would like to see (via ask, or directly)