Sirius hates Grimmauld Place. He hates what it stood for. He hates that it reminds him of everything he wished to forget.
He was never supposed to come back here.
Yet the world had a cruel way of reminding him that life was unfair and especially loved to make Sirius as miserable as possible.
He ignores the room while he’s there. It’s easy to at first, with all the kids and adults in the house.
But when all of them leave - Sirius feels himself drawn to it.
The door is the same as ever, the sign created when they were children still hanging on the door.
“Do not enter without the explicit permission of Regulus Arcturus Black.”
Sirius stares at it, the abruptly starts laughing. His parents had obviously never bothered to ask permission but Sirius always did. But well, he couldn’t ask permission from a dead person now could he?
He doesn’t know when his laughs turn into heart wrenching sobs - at everything left unsaid between them.
He was so young. He was 17. He was still supposed to be in Hogwarts. Not fighting in a war he was forced into against his will.
Sirius should have done more. He knew he should have. He should have tried harder. But he was stubborn and young too, at only 19.
And now he’s 34 and Regulus is forever 17.
They never had the chance to make up and they never will again.
Lily did not know what to do with her hands, or eyes, or legs, or hair. She’s frozen in the middle of the field where she’d been meeting Marley for a post practice walk back to the castle for the Slug Club meeting. Marley was busy blabbering on about Anna Spinnet getting on her nerves, going on and on about some rule book thing.
Maybe.
To be honest, the words didn’t even register in Lily’s brain. There was nothing going on up there, not a single brain cell firing, not once she caught sight of him. Instead she stood there, mute, wondering if she could die from attraction.
Next to “Fatal Attraction” in the dictionary, was James Potter.
Now don’t get her wrong, she crushed on him everyday. He had many qualities that made him worthy of a swoon.
His hair, for one, was windswept to one side with curls sticking out in places he’d not managed to tap down. She’d once gotten to run her fingers through the strands and they’d felt like sugar candy from the fair, waves spun like thread that might melt from her touch.
His eyes, if she were standing close enough, would be a deep shade of brown with gold and green flecks. Not emerald green like hers, a softer green, like the color of the sea in photos from southern islands. She’d seen it in postcards, almost like diamonds reflecting a green light.
More impressively, he was shirtless.
Rippled arm muscles demanded her gaze as he drank from a water bottle, the water dripping out of his mouth he was so careless with it. It was May, warming up, and the early summer sun had slightly tanned his chest. Curly black hair ran across his chest, and normally she hated chest hair, but this was James Potter. 
He broke all her rules but that only made sense where he was concerned. Lily often wondered if the man had ever followed a rule in his life. He was known for detentions and late night parties with friends. He had no idea how to stay out of trouble, but maybe that’s why she liked him so much.
She couldn’t stay out of trouble either.
Lily imagined if he ever showed up to class like that, she would grab him by the waistband of his quidditch joggers and pull him into her lap. Merlin, he’d tower over her, consume her, on top. His hand was big enough to hold a quaffle so he could handle her breasts with ease. One of those hands ran across his beautiful body, preparing to stretch and—
She swallowed a sigh just as someone side smacked her, making her call out and capturing the attention of everyone nearby.
“What was that for!” Lily demanded with a cry, rubbing the side of her head and glaring at Sirius Black who had his arms crossed and was looking at her like he could read her mind.
“Dunno,” Sirius tilted his head, his grey eyes slightly narrowed, “I couldn’t tell if you were having a stroke or not, your eye kept twitching.”
“So you hit me?” Lily stepped away from the tall Gryffindor, still rubbing her cheek pathetically, her eyes darting back to James who (still shirtless) was now watching them with one eyebrow quirked.
“My house elf taught me to smack my uncle Boris when he was having a stroke,” Sirius shrugged as he waltzed past, cool as could be, in James’ direction. “Hasn’t failed me yet.”
“I wasn’t having a stroke!” She called after him, “I was—“
Sirius grinned wickedly as he turned on a heel to watch her expression momentarily falter as she stopped herself from speaking. “I know what you were doing, but until you’re willing to pay up, gawking counts.”
She shot him a nasty hand gesture at which he laughed before finishing a complete turn to face James who mumbled something to Sirius quietly. Sirius kept in a bit of laughter as he passed James a shirt, not answering.
Lily cursed Sirius within an inch of his life when James took the shirt and covered back up. Sure, she might’ve made a bet with Sirius that she’d never date James Potter, or else she’d owe him twenty galleons, but that hardly meant she couldn’t stare politely when James offered himself up for it.
She just had to figure out how to get him shirtless again.
Things that the Harry Potter films left out about Snape
Called Lily a mudblood, then tried to cover himself by saying that she alone was different from other muggleborns
Didn’t see a problem with his friends performing Dark Magic on Mary MacDonald, compared it to the Marauders pranks
Dropped a tree branch on Petunia
Attacked Remus in PoA whilst he was trying to explain things and literally said the words ‘I’ll drag the werewolf. Perhaps the Dementors will have a kiss for him too’
Continued to refuse to listen to Sirius’s explanation even though he was being compliant and had only once tried to fight back, without magic, after Snape attacked Remus
After he found out he wasn’t actually going to get an Order of Merlin, or have the satisfaction of seeing two innocent men in jail, he exposed Remus as a werewolf
Ripped a photo of James and Lily and Harry being happy and in love and a family in half and stole the half with Lily on it
Actively tried to get the Marauders expelled from Hogwarts
Dumbledore was ‘disgusted’ by his attitude towards James and Harry
Harry distrusted Snape that much he literally thought he was trying to poison Remus
Abused his position as Head of House to unfairly reward points to Slytherin and take points from other houses, especially Gryffindor, far beyond the extent it was shown in the movies
Told Neville he would feed Trevor Neville’s failed potion so the possibly fatal results would teach him a lesson
Mocked Tonks when her Patronus changed, despite the fact his also changed to match Lily’s
Insulted Hermione’s appearance and told her he didn’t see any difference after Draco cursed her teeth to grow and then watched as she ran out crying
jily’s seventh year pining era will never not get me.
them looking at each other during meals and lily thinking james doesn’t like her anymore while james is just aching because she’s still so beautiful>>>
them going to sleep after a gryffindor common room party only to realize they spent the entire night together talking and laughing>>>
james trying his hardest to just be lily’s friend and respect her wishes while lily has been sending signals at him for weeks>>>
lily drooling over james after quidditch practice>>>
james being in awe of lily when she gets a question right during class after trying to compete with her a moment before>>>
them all of a sudden having inside jokes and being the first ones to look at each other when something funny happens>>>
my heart is always so warm thinking about them.
(btw remus and marlene were the most excited out of everyone)
People try to put down Jily because James was horrid to Sev and yes I agree.. but imagine being Lily.. your best friend betrays you for your oppressors who hate your very existence, your sister too hates you for your very existence and you seem to have no place where you are fully accepted. And then there's this dude who has always been an immature ass.. but who stands by you like a rock against those discriminating assholes.. this guy you've always hated is the one guarding your back as you guard his on the battlefield where you're outnumbered 20 to 1... this guy who could have carried on his shitty bullying habits into the future, but instead chose to fight against the monsters who want to eradicate you when your own best friend left you for them... this guy who loves every bit of you from the magic to the non-magic and to your very bones he worships the hell out of you... he will die for you and he does.
I don't know man, but that level of character development is an understandable reason to marry a dude ❤
Actually no I’m so not done talking about how rigged the quell was. Because I’ve seen people referring to it as “hunger games all stars.” That was 1000% intentional. Not only is it these weirdly coincidental duos that are reaped together (even from districts with tons of victors). For instance, a brother and sister duo, and two different known couples- it’s ALSO people who won their own games by extraordinary means. It IS the all stars, anyone who poses the biggest threat to the capitol. To eliminate all but one would be to eliminate any threat of the capitol’s fall. All of them arguably have the most reason for rebellion as well- it was a truly genius move that probably would’ve worked if it weren’t for Plutarch’s plan.
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