So this is a sort of au (because I'm still in denial an they're both alive and healthy thank you very much) but what about James and Lily meeting Ginny as Harry girlfriend! I'd love to read with your writing
for the best character: happy birthday harry potter
You’d think that the protective parent would be Lily, but, in all honesty, it’s unequivocally, one hundred and ten percent James Potter.
“Harry’s too young to have a girlfriend.”
Sixty seven minutes ago Lily received a letter from Harry. It was the typical type of letter at first, with their dear son explaining what had happened at Hogwarts thus far but then it… well, let’s say, deviated of sorts.
“Exactly! I mean, only last night I was holding his hand and reading him a bedtime story!”
Lily looks up from The Letter, amusement dancing in her eyes.
“Firstly,” She snorts, flicking her husband’s nose softly. “it was a story entitled Where Do Babies Come From? and secondly, you were the one who sat on him and cried that he should never let go.”
James shrugs his shoulders. “Lily, he gave us the news in a letter. A letter! Of all things! He’s been dating her for three months! We saw her at Kings Cross for Godric’s sake and he never said anything!”
To say James was panicking would be the understatement of the year. For years he’s been able to call Harry his little baby, his dumpling, his prince, his cutie-pie, his mini me, precious pumpkin and sweetie-pie darling.
Now, as he anxiously waited for his son to return home with his girlfriend, he couldn’t quite believe that his son had grown up.
“You do remember what we were like at sixteen, right?”
His ears and cheeks tinge slightly at this, avoiding his beautiful wife’s smirk. Even after so long, he’s still helplessly in love and amazed by Lily.
When Harry arrives with Ginny, the first thing Lily does is offer everyone a tea. Then she claps her hands, pulls Ginny into her arms and says that the Potter’s have a thing for gingers.
James rolls his eyes. Harry’s cheeks redden.
Five minutes later Lily and Ginny are sat on the sofa, roaring with laughter as they look through the family album. Dozens of chubby baby Harry photos (muggle and wizard) with food in his hair and slobbered all over his face… Harry winces every time Ginny snorts and grins at him.
“Best get used to it.” James laughs. “She’s never going to forget those in a hurry.”
Harry covers his face in embarrassment, just as Lily hands over a wizard photo of Harry in the bath. Water splashes around him and two year old Harry shrieks with happiness.
That’s James’s favourite photo of Harry. You can see Lily in him so much, it’s not just the eyes (though they are the same striking and sparkling green that James loves so much) but also the roundness of cheeks and the sweet, cheeky and toothy smile.
Ten minutes later they’re out in the garden, brooms laid out on the grass. Everyone’s laughing and smiling and having fun, even though James and Ginny get quite competitive and for a while Lily and Harry just watch them, both amazed at how stubborn they are.
This is the day that sticks in James’s mind the most. When he says his speech at Harry and Ginny’s wedding, with Lily crying next to him, he mentions that day. That day when he realised how grown up his son had become.
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