The View from the Ground

Is this for questions regarding anything commentarius or just chapter 25?

I originally started it just for 25, to avoid spoilers and to not spam people's dashboards. In fact, I'm going to close the ask box soon here so people don't have to keep looking all over place for answered questions. So I'd send any other questions (even 25 ones) to my regular tumblr.

So James knows she's a virgin? Or does he not know she's a virgin?

We do not know whether or not James knows if she is a virgin.

james knows that lily is a virgin right? i can't remember if that was ever brought up between them in the story

It hasn't come up in conversation that we've seen.

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Was this passage, "“Perspective," Sirius answered succinctly. "There’s rubbish you can change, and there’s rubbish you can’t.”" any way inspired by this from Pirates of the Caribbean? ""The only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can't do."" I read Sirius's line and thought of Jack's and thought maybe there was a connection there, or maybe I'm just delusional. Have a great day! =D

No, it wasn't. But cool! PotC connection! ;)

did lily come to the conclusion that she and james should be a couple because of the conversation she overhead with james and liz or would she have still made the same decision if she hadn't heard it?

I think the conversation with Liz certainly forced Lily to look at what her hesitancy was doing to James, so it did speed up the process, but Lily would have gotten there pretty soon by herself anyway.

does james realize that lily was so upset about the whole petunia thing because she was embarrassed or does he honestly think that she doesn't think enough of him or their relationship to tell him such things?

I think this goes along with this--James realizes that Lily's upset and embarrassed by Petunia's actions, but he doesn't realize just how big of a thing this is for Lily, and how much her not telling him has to do with her, and not with him.

This is a really awk question but what are the virginity statuses of James and Lily? How far exactly did Lily go with Michael Davies? I'm kind of unsure if I even want to know about James haha.

Lily is a virgin. James is not.

Do you think that James or Sirius or anyone will ever find Lily's diary in the span of the story and read part of it and freak out or something?

I think if anyone did read Lily's diary without her permission, 'freaking out' would be one way to describe the reactions.

Approximately when do you think you'll be updating again? Will we have to wait another two years?

I don't know.

But even if James comes back to her, won't Lily be a) freaked out about the whole 'so bloody fucking in love with you' and b) pissed off with him to the point where she might reconsider her decision to acquire a boyfriend?

Both very possible. =)

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I realize this is far off...BUT! Will we be seeing scenes from the party Mrs. Potter is hosting? Please say yes! I can only imagine the hysterics Lily will go through, and how many times she will consider heading off to Guam again if James invites her over for this!

If James doesn't have the whole thing called off, it's possible!

Why does James give so much credence to Liz's words as it's obvious that she dislikes Lily and is extremely jealous of their relationship and doesn't want them to be together, so it seems like James shouldn't really trust her view of the situation. And I think it's worrisome that he still lets her have so much control over his actions - like he has to defend himself and account to her for all his dealings with Lily- at some point he needs to establish way better boundaries with her.

It's not that James is just blindly listening to what Liz says--he knows that she is extremely biased, that she doesn't understand the situation, that she doesn't really know Lily...but the things Liz says aren't all entirely crazy, and Lily does a lot of things in the following days to have James doubting even more. These things tap into just about every insecurity James has about their relationship, so having to hear them from someone who he does trust at a time when everything else around him is pretty much going to hell...well, it gets to him.

His relationship with Liz definitely has boundary issues, but that's a bit of a bigger issue than just in relation to this specific incident.

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Hey Bee. Will the issues that James and Lily currently have be resolved in the near or far future, chapter-wise? I think that there's still a lot in store to challenge them as a couple, either in Lily's Super Spy Stunts or the virginity issue... so, James's secrets don't have to keep until the end, right? (if you couldn't tell, this is me not able to control my curiosity ;P)

Lily and James do have a lot of issues to deal with outside of James's secrets, so they don't necessarily have to be kept until they end, but the boy does have a whole lot of them. ;)

I understand why Lily is angry that Sirius told James about Petunia, but does she realize that her anger is a little bit hypocritical? I don't think Sirius should be meddling, but at the same time he did tell Lily a lot about James's past, so it seems a little unfair for her to be so furious when he does the same thing for James, out of concern for Lily...

Well, to be fair, I don't think she's had much time to process any of that except for feeling the initial betrayal of Sirius's telling James. But I think it's also very easy to not think logically when it's you. Still, you make a very excellent point.

I think I had an emotional break down reading the end of the chapter not even because of the fight, because that was obviously fabulously written, but because of the gosh darn cliff hanger! I don't want to ask so much in advance but will the next chapter have a cliff hanger ending like this one?!

I don't think anything can be as cliffhanger-y as this one. So the only place to go is up! ;)