top 5 things about james potter go!
You’ll laugh if I tell you the list that follows is me trying to be BRIEF in my love for James Potter, but here is my top 5(+2) reasons I love that boy, in no particular order:
1. He’s a Gryffindor through to his bones. He’s not just showy about being a Gryffindor for fun, he doesn’t just talk big. The fact that honour and courage are so important to him ring true in all of his life’s most important choices: being there for Remus, fighting the war, dying for Harry and Lily.
2. He regarded it as the height of dishonour to mistrust his friends. Do you understand how GOOD a person has to be, how PURE their heart must be, for their fatal flaw to be that they love and trust their friends too much?
3. He did not do a single thing halfway. He loved his friends wholly, for every part of them. He didn’t just love his friends when things were easy and they were having fun wreaking havoc on Hogwarts. He loved Remus on the full moon enough to risk everything to become an animagus for him. He had the kind of relationship with Sirius that it wasn’t even a question: when Sirius needed a place to go, he went to James. He accepted Sirius despite who his family was, when they didn’t want him, and loved him still when he made colossal mistakes. He gave Peter a place to belong and made him feel part of something when lbr, a person like Peter would have been eaten alive at school otherwise. I love that James Potter has absolutely everything, and he collects broken misfits and makes them feel like they are a part of his family and they’re valued and wanted and loved. Any person who does that for others is so so special and important. And he just… does that naturally. Not for show, not for a purpose. It’s just a part of who he is.
4. He’s a leader, he takes responsibility, and he steps the fuck up when he has nothing to gain. James was a wealthy, talented pureblood. The height of privilege in his world. He could have lived his whole life playing neutral and been a Quidditch player or something and been fine. But from the time he was young, he knew what was fundamentally right and important and he grew into a man who fought for those things. He risked everything (again) to fight a war he didn’t have to be involved in simply because it was the right and noble thing to do. And it wasn’t just the war. He always stepped up. Again, with Remus when he became an Animagus. For Sirius, when he needed support. As a husband to Lily and a father to Harry (Like not to bum you out but he was literally 21 when he gave his life up for them…)
5. This is almost an extension of the previous one but the fact that he changed. He started out as just a rich, entitled brat and bully. But he had a good heart, and I don’t know why this escapes everyone’s notice, but it’s not like he was a grown ass man when he changed. He was still a kid at school. (Unlike uh this one greasy piece of shit we know) Nothing in his situation changed, he just realized it was time to grow the fuck up, so he did. So much so that Dumbledore chose him to be Head Boy.
6. A bonus because I just love him so much: his relationship wth Lily is EVERYTHING. That’s an entirely new list but can we appreciate the fact that they were literally each other’s perfect counterpart (stag to her doe are you fucking kidding me oh my god) and their love quite literally saved the world? Your otp could NEVER. This is THE otp. The otp to end all otps.
7. Another bonus because I have a problem. So like… can we just take a moment to think about how impressive James is on a surface level, even when you don’t consider all of the internal things about him that make him such a special person (see pts 1-6). Like, imagine knowing a James Potter irl. He was attractive, academically gifted, athletically gifted, the most popular person in school, from a rich and powerful family, hilarious and probably too confident, pulled extravagant pranks and stunts, became Head Boy, got to date Lily Evans (oh my god) and then MARRY Lily Evans (oh my GOD), so gifted that even the evil wizard he had a habit of defying wanted him on his side... and despite all that he was still a cute little dork with messy hair? Charming and funny and protective and kind and a little bit awkward and just so GOOD. I can’t. I love him so much.
In summary: There is obviously a reason (lots of them actually) that literally every single person in the books who knew James LOVED him except for snep bc he was jealous that Lily, like everyone else, also loved James.
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