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“Is this the moment that we kiss?” Jily prompt.
When Lily asked James to pretend to be her boyfriend at Petunia’s wedding, she had it all figured out.
Petunia had been completely fucking unbearable all summer, bragging about Vernon like the ignorant walrus was something to be proud of. Bragging about her shiny ring and pretty wedding and not being alone. Making snide comments about what a shame it was for the bride’s sister to attend the wedding on her own. So naturally Lily had corrected her. She would, in fact, be bringing a date. And she knew just who to ask.
James was a good friend and always up for a party, even if that party was to celebrate the union of two of the worst people he knew. So of course he instantly said yes. Free booze and an opportunity to irritate your sister? Why the fuck not?
Never mind that Lily had a bit of a crush on him. If a bit meant a massive, rapidly developing, all consuming infatuation that had taken over her entire life. Real inconvenient for that to start when James had already moved on from his a good two years ago, and was perfectly comfortable being Lily’s friend. Inconvenient and painful. Pretending to date him, even for a night, was probably was not the soundest idea… but it was the best she had, and it fed into her fantasy, so she went with it.
Now, though, with James’ hands on her waist and his cheeks slightly flushed from the alcohol and the dancing and the warm August evening, his hair mussed and his eyes bright… she’s not sure she should have done this. Not sure she can bear to leave this fantasy when the night ends and they go back to being friends and she makes up some excuse to explain away their breakup two weeks from now.
“They’re watching us,” James whispers, leaning his head in close, and Lily’s breath catches in her throat.
“Who?”
“Your parents. Your sister.” James smirks and raises an eyebrow. “Should we put on one final show to end the night?”
We’re better off as friends. We tried and it doesn’t work. Some generic bullshit of that sort should work. The song changes to something slow and romantic, and the couples around them who had been taking a break and chatting at their tables offer each other inviting smiles. Soon enough the dance floor is packed again.
“Perfect timing,” James murmurs, pulling Lily closer.
They’ve had so much fun. Drinking and dancing and judging Petunia and Vernon’s awful friends. They always have fun. But it’s a different kind of nice when James pulls out her chair and gushes over her to her family and gets her drinks and holds her close for the slow songs. Lily’s heart aches and her stomach twists. She wants this to be real so bad.
“Do you think they believe us?” Lily asks, just for something to say to keep her from spiralling into her traitorous thoughts.
“Hm. Dunno. I feel like I’m quite a good actor.” James nudges Lily’s nose with his and smiles playfully, unaware of the damage he’s just done to her heart with that one small gesture. It’s just acting. He's playing a part. Relax. “You’re a bit rusty though, can’t you pretend to be a little more in love with me?”
Lily laughs, and it’s actually genuine even if it’s a bit painful. God, if he only knew. Pretend to be in love with him, it’s really quite funny. “What do you want from me, director?”
As if on queue, the song swells and rises, that moment when the music wraps around your heart and the couples around them feel an unseen force pull them closer to one another.
James tilts his head and raises an eyebrow again. “Is this the moment that we kiss?”
Lily’s eyes widen. “What?”
“What?” James says innocently. “Everyone else is doing it. We’re supposed to be a couple at a wedding and we haven’t kissed once.”
“Because we’re not a couple.”
“But don’t you want them to think we are? Now’s the perfect time.”
He’s right. She asked him to do this and he’s trying to help and he’s absolutely right, they’re at a wedding and they haven’t kissed once, how convincing is that? But she can’t. Not like this.
“I… no. I don’t want to.”
“I mean, okay.” James shrugs. “It’s just a kiss.”
“I don’t want a fake kiss with you,” Lily admits, and she wants to clamp a hand over her mouth, because who even asked? Certainly not James.
James snorts. “Why? Would you prefer a real one?” And he’s obviously joking, because that’s James’ way. But Lily freezes up like she’s been caught stealing, her heart racing and jumping into her throat and her face burning up.
She laughs a few excruciatingly long and silent seconds too late, but it’s strained and feels like it’s being ripped from her throat. James’ smile is gone though, and he stares at her in… confusion? Concern? …Belated understanding. And finally, shock.
“No fucking way,” he breathes, his smile creeping back onto his face, and Lily wants to melt into the floor. Pathetic. She’s absolutely pathetic. She couldn’t even last one day, all it took was one joke to crack her.
“Shut up, please. Just… shut up,” she begs. She can’t bear the jokes right now.
James laughs, and the sound of it is beautiful and elated. “Why don’t you make me, Evans?” He leans in close. “Kiss me for real,” he dares.
Lily scowls and shoves him away, heart lurching. “Don’t be an asshole.”
James pulls her back instantly, weaves his arms back around her waist. “I’m not being an asshole. I don’t want a fake kiss either.”
When she says nothing, only stares at him quiet and lost, James sighs. “You’re so daft, Lily. How much more obvious can I be?” He cups her face in both his hands, calloused and gentle, and Lily melts. “Kiss me.”
There’s sincerity in his eyes and his words sound earnest even if they’re whispered and he’s really not that kind of asshole. So what’s a girl to do when the man of her dreams insists she kiss him?
Lily can’t help laughing in some mix of disbelief and delight even when their lips collide.
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Thank you for the prompt! I had fun with this one. Clearly keeping it short is not my strength, you got 1,054 words out of me! I'll do more tomorrow :)
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This is really all we can do. We can do what we can and control the things we can control. We have to work with the things we have, get creative with working from home and preparing meals and educating our kids. And we need to be where we are; not out of fear, but out of love. Staying home is what loving our family and neighbors looks like right now. "Do what you can with what you have where you are." ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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You know what really grinds my gears....
When people try to say that Ron ruined the Yule Ball for Hermione.
I know I've made this argument before mixed in with another post, but I felt this needed a Ted Talk of it's own.
First, let's go over what happened during this ball.
Okay so the Yule Ball starts and already Ron is in a foul mood because of his dress robes. That had nothing to do with the argument, I just wanted to put that out there.
So we know the story. Hermione comes down in her pretty PERIWINKLE dress and we find out that she is Viktor Krum's date to the ball. We find out very early on that Ron sees this and completely ignores Hermione as he walks in with Padma, which Hermione doesnt even concern herself with
So after that cute little dance where we find out that Harry has no coordination when it comes to dancing, Hermione, who is shown to be having a blast, comes over to talk to Ron and Harry. To ask them to get drinks with her and Viktor.
(Imma try to post as many blue dress GIFs as I can lol)
Anyways, we know the argument. Ron is jealous af so he goes in on Hermione about how he is way too old (true) and how he feels like he took her to get close to Harry (which side bar: That does NOT imply that Ron feels that it's the only way Hermione could have a date for the ball), and whatever else his jealous little self can say. Hermione of course is pissed about it and argues back, but afterwards, goes right back AND HAS FUN with Viktor.
So after Harry comes back to the common room, he catches Ron and Hermione arguing yet again. Catches the tail of it this time with these infamous words:
She did indeed say those words. But what the MOVIE does is completely blind sides tf out of viewers with this ish right here.
Hermione NEVER said that Ron ruined everything. She NEVER cried on the staircase outside of the Great Hall. Matter of fact, we dont even know what the next thing that was said was after Ron says its beside the point, because Harry is like eff this, and walked up the stairs to his dorm and went to bed.
But what we DO know is this.
(Taken from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Chapter 24: Rita Skeeter's Scoop)
Ron and Hermione seemed to have reached an unspoken agreement not to discuss their argument. They were being quite friendly to each other, though oddly formal. Ron and Harry wasted no time in telling Hermione about the conversation they had overheard between Madame Maxime and Hagrid, but Hermione didn't seem to find the news that Hagrid was a half-giant nearly as shocking as Ron did.
Now, we have seen in the past when Ron and Hermione get into arguments, they ice each other out anywhere from a few minutes to a few months (looking at you, Hermione during Half Blood Prince) depending on how they feel. For Hermione and Ron to have been the way they were the very next morning to each other indicates that they had a conversation about everything and agreed to let the ish go. We also know that when Hermione feels like she has been wronged, she really goes I to frozen mode and not says a word to Ron until things are fixed in her eyes (or until Ron caves or Ron ends up almost dead) so if her Yule Ball night was ruined so much, do you really think that she would be talking to him the very next morning?
The horrible horrible Ron bashing Kloves did that extra ish in the movies to further villianize Ron, and make him seem like an ogre. Just like throughout the movie they made it seem like Ron was ohhhhh so terrible. Even the scene where he asks Hermione to go with one of them, the only like they got right was "Hermione, you're a girl." The ish in the movie where he said her showing up alone would be sad never happened. Nor about him basically saying she was lying because she couldnt get a date.
I hate what the movies did to Ron. Especially in the third and fourth ones, where I feel they tore him down the most. And I wish people would actually take the time to read the books and actually see who Ron Weasley really is and the true dynamic that Ron and Hermione had some rocky times, but they truly cared for each other and showed it more times than the movies did.
Romione Forever. Put some respeck on their name lol
Things that really should have been in the Harry Potter films
-Hermione actually having bushy hair and large front teeth
-Ron making the jokes, not being the joke.
-Hermione having personality flaws
-Sassy Harry (the ‘pincers’ scene was not enough…)
-Rupert Grint being allowed to play Ron how he was in the books (i.e a three-dimensional character, not a comedic sidekick and walking punch-line)
-No-one else but Hermione fancying Gilderoy Lockhart.
-Ron’s obvious irritation over Hermione’s said crush on Lockhart
-Winky
-Peeves
-James, Sirius, Remus and Peter being the Marauders, and making the map
-Ron standing up on a broken leg and telling Sirius that if ‘you want to kill Harry, you’ll have to kill us too!’
-Hermione and Ginny not fancying Cedric Diggory (Why was this even put in the films?)
-The actual Quidditch World Cup final
-Ludo Bagman
-Ron being upset with Harry because he thought Harry had done it without him, not just because he was jealous
-Ron not leaving Hermione crying on the staircase at the end of the Yule Ball
-‘calmly’
-SPEW
-Ron not saying ‘I’ll go easy on you’ to Hermione. (Noticing a pattern here?)
-Charlie Weasley
-Ginny Weasley having a personality (Bonnie Wright, you deserved so much better…)
-Hermione and Ron both being horrible to each-other during the whole ‘Lavender’ debacle.
-Four words- ‘Weasley is our king’.
-Harry and Ginny having a relationship that didn’t make you wonder whether she slipped him love potion. These scenes were so weird to watch…
-Dumbledore’s funeral
-Ron and Hermione comforting each-other during the funeral
-Both Ron and Hermione saying they would stick with Harry on his quest for the Horcruxes (I don’t care if Rupert Grint was ill with swine flu when they were filming, they could have easily edited him in later!)
-RON DANCING WITH HERMIONE AT BILL AND FLEUR’S WEDDING RECEPTION! This was a massive deal for their relationship development, and the film-makers threw it out the window in exchange for a ‘Ron still can’t ask Hermione to dance’ bit!
-Ron leaving because he was worried about his family, and thought Harry didn’t care, not just because he suspected Hermione was snogging Harry (FYI Kloves, this wouldn’t have been necessary if you had written the golden trio as they were in the books, instead of trying to force your own OTP into the scripts)
-Harry and Hermione being barely able to talk without Ron around. And no out-of-nowhere dancing either!
-Dobby being present in more than one film before he returned to die.
-Hermione finally kissing Ron because she realised how much he had matured as a person (he remembered the house-elves when everyone-else forgot), and realised that she couldn’t go another moment without letting him know how she felt. Not because they both go soaked in the chamber of secrets after destroying Hufflepuff’s cup (that scene made no sense, and was so uncomfortable to watch, and I’m a Romione shipper, for crying out loud!)
-Voldemort’s body not changing into magic dandruff and disappearing into nothing. This misses the point of his death entirely.
-Harry fixing his own wand with the Elder Wand. If he was going to break it, he could have at least fixed his own first.
-Not sure about this one, but did Ron even get a line in the ‘nineteen years later’ scene in the films? Because if he didn’t get to say his ‘I’m extremely famous’ line, I am throwing up on my laptop in rage.
-Also, Ronald Bilius Weasley getting some freaking RESPECT and NOT being made into a figure of fun for non-Potterheads to laugh at!
Thoughts on my Gone with the Wind rewatch:
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I personally find Pride and Prejudice inspirational because Mr Darcy is the most awkward social train wreck of a human being ever created, he’s in his thirties and still doesn’t know how to talk to girls. But he ends up marrying his crush, an extroverted and very intelligent ten despite her fully hating him for 70% of the book. I respect that
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