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[theesteemedladydebourgh]

Not me already planning a JHF re-read after all these snippets 💗

🥺 hope you enjoyed! and have a new snippet to give you something to chew on 😉

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I have so much sympathy for Lily right now. You have actually corrupted me. Me before reading EW: killing one's mum is bad. Me after reading EW:

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Okay, I never know when to respond to reviews on here, bc I don’t want to post spoilers, but you guys really delivered this week 😘

Let’s remember to not fail our exams, drink water, get some sleep, and read on 😉

Thanks guys 🐻🤗

(There was another one, and if you wrote it I’m sorry, but tumblr is NOT cooperating with me today. I love you too 😘)

[narukoibito]

Ah, I want to ask about all of them for the WIP game!! Can I be greedy and ask about Unravel Me and Librarian Harry? And the FWB one 😅

You CAN! Your excitement excites me! 💖 It makes me want to write them!

Unravel Me

I'm still stuck on chapter 7 (gahhhh). I have a draft and everything, but something still isn't fully clicking yet. Here is a snippet that may or may not make the final cut:

Ginny cut through his hesitation and bridged the gap between them. Her lips brushed against his, a seeming invitation that made him shiver. He could taste the extra sugar in her latte that chased away the bitterness left on his tongue. As she retreated, he pressed forward, deepening the kiss.  He was never meant to be this lucky. Finding a magical world where he belonged came with being hunted by the darkest wizard of his time. Finding Sirius only led to losing him.  Harry couldn’t help but wonder what the might cost him.

Librarian Harry

This is my muggle!librarian!Harry and witch!Ginny story, in which they meet at the library Harry working part-time at to pay for his meager apartment and student debt. Fresh out of Hogwarts, Ginny is working for her dad in the Misuse of Muggle Artefacts Office after a curse during the war prevented her from trying to be a professional Quidditch player. Here are some previously shared snippets!

And okay, so this is so out of context but I really loved the comedy at play with Ginny being super bad at knowing common Muggle things, like:

"What’s that?" The alarm in her voice made him snap back, his fingers nearly fumbling the packet. “Oh, erm,” Harry said, flustered, “a, a condom. Don’t worry, it’s new — not expired or anything,” he added with a cringe because he really wasn’t sure what else could be bothering her about it. He wasn’t exceptionally experienced, but he wasn’t one to just carry a wrapper around all the time, hoping beyond hope. Ginny pulled back with both fascination and caution, glaring at the shiny wrapper as if it could detonate at any moment. “What's it for?” He blinked.

(Do I want to write the story just for these moments? ...Yes. Yes I want to write about Ginny setting his microwave on fire.)

muggle au fwb

Still untitled, but this is the OTHER FWB fic I have had in my brain even before Unravel Me. It's a muggle au, childhood friends, college au, friends with benefits mash-up, but very different feel from Unravel Me (I swear). Much more build-up in their more intimate moments.

Previously shared snippets. And a new one:

Harry leans in, slow and tentative. He has kissed his fair share of girls at this point, but his heart has never thumped so painfully against his ribs before. He can’t help but take her in, that pretty pink on her cheeks, the freckles he’s never seen so up close, the way those freckles trickle down her collarbone. Her chest rising and falling to match her short breaths. The air feels different between them, the tension almost painful as he hovers, suddenly hesitant, the space between them dangerously small. He can’t feel the heat of her breath intermingle with his own. What if this is a mistake? What if this changes something between them? More than her other kiss already has? Her eyes flutter, and her brown eyes gaze up at him through her copper eyelashes. “Harry?” The whisper of her breath ghosting over his lips. It’s the uncertainty in her voice that does it for him. Ginny is always so sure, so confident, unyielding and back straight through every challenge. Hearing her sound so small ignites a fierce protectiveness in him that he couldn’t reign in if he wanted to. “I’m here,” he murmurs back.

GOD I forgot how much yearning is in this one. asjfakg can someone please write it so I can read it?

I hope you enjoyed these!!! Feel free to send me asks on any of my WIPs!

[theesteemedladydebourgh]

I am going slightly wild over all these WIPs! Four (four!) GOFLL extras 😍😍😍. I'd rather be surprised by those though so can I ask more about the Reverse Romeo and Juliet please? Best of luck for your exam!!

hahaha i wouldn't give out details anyway! they're about very top-secret topics 😌

Reverse Romeo and Juliet is based on a prompt I saw somewhere on tumblr. cannot find the link for the life of me but i've got my screenshot

so it's arranged marriage, Italian Renaissance jily complete with there was only one bed + forced handholding + thirsty duels 😌

[theesteemedladydebourgh]

Hello 😊 Sorry if this was asked/answered already but was Lily friends with Snape and, if so, did SWM happen in the TFTDC universe? Thank you 🥰

hi robyn 🥰! actually this hasn’t come up but i was really expecting it to lol 😂 surprised it’s taken this long.

so in general in fic, probably as someone with a tendency to write AUs, i like to ignore Snape’s general existence to make for a relatively painless environment for Lily, my beloved. (also because I frequently forget he exists lmao).

the forgetting thing was actually the main reason he didn’t appear in JHF, especially since it was so AU, then by the time i got around to really writing their Hogwarts years and I remembered Snape, I didn’t want to write him in because that would just have been far too much for Lily to deal with on top of Olivia. Though, I do think his existence probably would have fit well with Lily’s general anxieties and insecurities, but...i think him existing would have also majorly changed how certain things ended up happening!

However, SWP did happen (which is why James has the snitch), but it wasn’t as intense of a moment because Lily wasn’t defending a friend, she was just defending a random person who she didn’t like very much against someone she disliked and saw as a bully. 

[theesteemedladydebourgh]

I am a bit late to the party but what is the situation with Voldemort in JFH/TFTDC? Does he exist? Are Jily involved with him in any way?

hi! i'm very glad someone asked this because it is very relevant to TFTDC.

Voldemort doesn't exist in this universe, meaning there hasn't been a proper war since Grindelwald. This doesn't mean that prejudice hasn't existed in its own pockets of pureblood society (as seen with the Rumor Mess in 2008), and it especially doesn't mean that there aren't some Death Eater-esque groups that couldn't pop up...👀especially since james is an auror...👀and had this mysteriously stressful case floating in the background throughout JHF...👀

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Ask me about TFTDC! 🥳

[theesteemedladydebourgh]

Re: Olivia. My first thought was that there was cheating involved (or at least the talk of cheating as I just cannot see James as a cheater). Did Olivia plant the idea in Lily's head that James cheated on Lily with Olivia? And was James so hurt by the fact that Lily believed it that he didn't even bother debunking it? The problems I have with this is 1) why would Lily believe it and 2) I think the previous chapter mentions them falling apart over the space of 2 months so that would point more towards something slowly eating away at them rather than a one-off event. Although....what if Olivia used a love potion?? Hmmm 🤔

Talking, whispering, ‘did-it-even-happen’-ing…

James feels a pulse of irritation. “Why do you do that?” he says. “Whenever you hear her name, you—“

“Forgive me if I don’t have such a great opinion of her,” Lily bites out. “After—“ she cuts herself off.

“After the rumors?” James finishes.

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Hi, so I finally finally caught up on Enemy Within and holy cr*p I was not prepared!!! Seriously though, this fic is absolutely amazing. I don't know how you've managed to create these morally twisted characters and still have me rooting for Jily?! Like, one moment I'm thinking they're so toxic and the next James does something like gets vulnerable about Lily wearing his jersey and I'm melting? And then I'm like, he's the devil, is this all some elaborate plot? Argh, it's such an emotional whiplash and I love it! I think The Ritual might be one of my favourite chapters in all of fanfic, with their sweet date and then, bam! we get peak evil James, yikes! I love how all the characters are echoes of their canon selves (except for Dumbledore, I wouldn't put his EW actions past his canon character 😂). You know we still have this loyal James who chases after Lily and I'm so glad you're exploring Lily's more problematic traits because I think Lily (not just in EW) does sometimes have this slightly self-righteous, even mean, side to her, particularly when it comes to James before they get together. So interesting to see her fall from grace and to see Remus, that one beacon of light, slowly flicker away 😭 Oh, and the threesome is the best smut I have ever read. Sorry this is so long, much love!

Hi! Sorry I’m late to this, but never, ever, EVER apologize for a long review! I have never met someone who doesn’t LOVE them! 💕 You’re the best!

This was so nice! I love that you’re getting sucked into the morality of it all bc it’s been SO FUN to explore and try to manipulate and gah! I’m so proud of these little psychos! 😍 Lol. I think ‘echoes of their cannon selves’ is the perfect way to describe them! I tried so hard to keep their key aspects the same even while they ended up so vastly different.

Also, yaaaaaaay, I have a soft spot for The Ritual as well ☺️ Just seeing James be that evil for the first time gets me every time 😏

Thank you so very much! 💜