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⁍ lovingly loathingly yours (Hinny | rated T)

Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley are rival quidditch players who don't need to know the other exists - they play completely different positions. And yet, they can't seem to stay away from each other.

⁍ only to the wise (Hinny | rated G)

It was a simple arrangement – tired of being harangued constantly about not dating and unwilling to bring a stranger to the chaotic mess that was the Burrow during the holidays, Harry and Ginny agreed to pretend to be dating only for those few days a year. What could go wrong?

⁍ mea maxima culpa (Hinny Superhero Vigilante AU | rated T)

Harry needs to learn that love and compassion are the only things going to keep him afloat as he drowns in responsibilities and guilt. Ginny needs to learn to let go. Maybe they can help each other out.

⁍ climb soonest unto crowns (Jily Royalty AU | TW: consensual infidelity | rated T)

Lily marched off into her arranged marriage getting a crown and a difficult life—which she expected—but also love, family and a happy ending. Which she did not.

⁍ swallow makes summer (Sirius gets out early AU | rated G)

Peter Pettigrew transformed in the Chamber of Secrets and went to his Master.

⁍ adult's play (Hinny | rated G)

When Harry's best friend decides her engagement party would be at an amusement park—probably her fiance's idea, the guy he's only met a couple times—he decides to go there early to enjoy some of the rides, not expecting to meet the love of his life.

⁍ but this one means forever (Hinny | rated G)

Mrs. Ginevra Thomas has no intention of remarrying or falling in love for a second time. It hurt enough the first time. But some things are worth the hurt. For Janeuary 2026

⁍ refracted (Jily | rated T)

James reluctantly, upon his manager's insistence, goes to his hometown, never expecting what he would find there—a son, and a love he'd thought long lost.

⁍ without some strangess in the proportion (Gen with Jily & Hinny/Hedric | rated T)

The interactions between the three Deathly Hallows during the duel at the Little Hangleton graveyard led to a phenomenon never seen before - the dead coming back to life.

⁍ strike the match(maker) (Hinny and Romione | rated G)

Harry agrees to Ginny's proposal of setting Ron and Hermione up, as Ron does to Hermione's of setting Harry and Ginny up, not realizing they themselves would fall in love in the process.

⁍ enchanté (Hinny | rated G)

When Harry Potter and his godson move in next door, Ginny didn't expect much in her life to change - despite Luna's claim that he would be 'perfect' for her. She supposed it was for the best that she, too, could occasionally be wrong.

⁍ glitter in the stars (Canon-compliant PoV Outsider | Hinny | rated G)

Demelza was just excited to join a quidditch team full of celebrities. She didn't intend to get in the middle of the burgeoning love story of her idol and captain.

⁍ love me like you do (Unrelated Hinny Microfics Series)

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talk about jily!

Let's talk about Jily!

I love Jily. I adore their dynamic - but what I enjoy about them is what canon suggests.

And most Jily fanfics pretty much ignores that.

James isn't a cocky bully and Lily isn't attracted to him despite despising him. Their different social and economic classes rarely matter. Snape is an irredeemable incel (which is a whole another post).

That's why I prefer canon settings because Muggle AUs are just pure fluff or contrived angst - not that that isn't fun, but they might as well be OCs rather than James and Lily.

Also, a lot of Jily authors and fic have a tendency to treat Lily as a moral yardstick. I've heard 'Lily wouldn't have fallen in love with him if he didn't change' a million times and what??? Why isn't Lily allowed to be messy and love someone who isn't perfect but is what she wants?

Lily is canonically a hypocrite ('But you call everyone of my birth Mudblood, Severus. Why should I be any different?'). She was happy to ignore Snape calling everyone else slurs as long as he didn't say it to her. Once she starts liking James, who's to say she wouldn't turn a blind eye to the parts she doesn't like?

Which isn't to say James didn't actually grow up. A lot of anti James people like Sirius and Remus who were quite as bad as him, because they had the chance to see them as adults who were more mature.

But Lily is a separate character, not something to be used to measure that growth.

They obviously get along. They have similar moral codes, are clever and witty and enjoy jokes.

They are also both very complex, fascinating characters, however little they appear in the books, and fandom tends to simplify them into the perfect golden couple, which I have very little interest in.

That isn't to say I haven't read and written Jily fics that don't tackle these issues. There are some really great stories out there.

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Firstly, this is why I think the world will be a better place when we stop making prefect!Lily default. There's no canon evidence to suggest she's a prefect (James wasn't - there's no rule that says only prefects become heads), and I think it would free her personality a little bit if we stopped making her one in every single story.

Secondly, while I do agree with the sentiment, I do think we need to add some nuance to this statement:

Also, a lot of Jily authors and fic have a tendency to treat Lily as a moral yardstick. I've heard 'Lily wouldn't have fallen in love with him if he didn't change' a million times and what??? Why isn't Lily allowed to be messy and love someone who isn't perfect but is what she wants?

Canonically, we are told that Lily did start to date him because he did change.

“She started going out with him in seventh year,” said Lupin. “Once James had deflated his head a bit,” said Sirius. “And stopped hexing people just for the fun of it,” said Lupin.

Coupled with her absolutely brutal (and probably fair) rejection of him in his fifth year, it's pretty clear that he has to change if she is to go out with him. Even if she has a few hypocritical sides, she's also principled enough that when she cuts Severus out of her life, she does so permanently.

Now, the change we see in James doesn't have to be as major as people make it. We're told James deflated his head A BIT. I'm quite bored with how quickly James changes in the beginning of their sixth year and how perfectly he changes. Suddenly, he is this completely mature guy when he's still sixteen. Let. him. be. arrogant. and. flawed. (let him be a teenage boy!). Just a bit less arrogant and has his head a bit more screwed on than in his fifth year. (He became Head Boy you say... so did Percy. He's got plenty of arrogance and flaws)

There's still plenty of growth left for James as Head Boy, and not the least at the start of the war. (Plus, I prefer when some of James' arc to be that he comes into his own, not that he changes. He's always been above average good in some contexts, such as helping Remus, and he's got an abundance of energy he wants to direct towards people who he thinks deserve it; when that starts being active, adult DEs, that's quite sexy).

Although I do use the word "date" deliberately, because I noticed you said "fall in love with", and I do think those two things are different. I'd go as far as to argue canon suggests she fancies James before the incident by the lake, and there's nothing in canon to suggest she changed her mind after that incident either. So I do agree overall that Lily could absolutely fall in love with James without him changing. I just don't believe she would date him otherwise, and only because we're told so explicitly by canon.

I also want to highlight how much I agree with this in particular:

Which isn't to say James didn't actually grow up. A lot of anti James people like Sirius and Remus who were quite as bad as him, because they had the chance to see them as adults who were more mature. But Lily is a separate character, not something to be used to measure that growth.

But I think it's just a bit of a short-hand argument when people say: 'Lily wouldn't have fallen in love with him if he didn't change'. What they mean, or at least what canon explicitly tells us, is that James did change; he did deflate his head a bit; and we know this because it's only when this happens that Lily starts dating him.

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Fair! I suppose I went to the other extreme and took that statement literally.

Canon does state that Lily only went out with James after he changed.

But still - as someone who used vigilante justice herself (she was ready to hex James and Sirius and they looked at her warily) she probably grew more lenient about James targeting future Death Eaters after her fallout with Snape. She did call him Snivellus and leave him to hang (which I am NOT villainizing her for - she had just been hurt horribly and was angry).

Also, this is Sirius and Remus talking about their dead best friend to his devastated orphan son so I guess I'm a bit skeptical of that - even if, obviously, all the canon we know is from Harry's limited perspective so kind of have to accept that. Also they were free and truthful in admitting James still went after Snape so point to that too.

What I was saying is that Lily is allowed to be messy and make decisions like dating not perfect or wholly good people.

Also, differentiating between falling in love and dating is important. Thanks for pointing that out!

Would Love to hear your opinion on Snape/lily! Both friendship/romantically (Jily is obvs one of my OTP, I’m just curious of others pov)

I'm not a fan of romantic Snily. I don't know why - I'm a pretty easy-going multishipper so loads of things interest me - but romantically they just ... do not match. Ship and let ship, but I will admit that while the idea is sort of fascinating, I don't care for it.

But platonic Snily. . . . ooh boy. There's little that fascinates me more about Lily Evans or Severus Snape.

It saddens me that a lot of the Jily fandom reduces it to a not-real-anyway relationship when it had a huge impact on the both of them.

Why did Lily decide to trust James' friends in keeping her son safe? Because James 'height of dishonour to mistrust his friends' said it would be okay and wouldn't even hear of the idea of one of them being the spy? Or because she was desperate to believe that these friends wouldn't betray her the way another had?

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