Full name: James Charlus Potter
Faceclaim: Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Occupation: Fully Committed to Order of the Phoenix
Amortentia: Firewhiskey, Quidditch Air, The Forest, Lily Evans’ Shampoo
Thoughts on the war: James is determined to stop the war, at any cost. He doesn’t care what he has to do, who he has to fight. All he knows is the he’d do anything for the Order of the Phoenix, and he will not stop until Voldemort is defeated.
Positive traits: Brave, Loyal, Determined, Leader
Negative traits: Reckless, Temperamental, Arrogant, Stubborn
Friends: Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Marlene McKinnon, Order Members
Foes: Severus Snape, People who support Voldemort
Ships: currently dating Lily Evans
Anti Ships: anything other than Jily
Charlus and Dorea Potter spent years trying to have a child, but eventually accepted that it wouldn’t happen. Late in the summer of 1959, Dorea Potter started to become ill and it didn’t take her long to realize that even though she was older than a lot of people, she was pregnant. On March 27, 1960, she gave birth to a baby boy, who they named James Charlus Potter. Although they were older parents, they both still actively worked as aurors for the Ministry of Magic.Due to the fact that they spent the first few years busy with work, James was mostly raised by their house elf. They didn’t ignore their son though. They loved him as much as two parents could, showering him with all sorts of gifts and a lavish lifestyle, being that they were wealthy. As they grew older and finally retired, they still continued to not deny their son anything that he wanted and that produced a son that while he had a kind heart and protectiveness for his longtime best friend Marlene McKinnon, he was starting to grow rather spoiled.
When James turned 11, he didn’t wonder if his acceptance letter to Hogwarts would come. He knew that it would. He also was confident that he would be sorted into Gryffindor. His parents were both Gryffindor and James had every quality that is frequently found in Gryffindors. He was brave, almost to the point of being reckless and had the many injuries from his many adventures to prove it. James was determined to do something great at Hogwarts, and despite the fact that they weren’t allowed, he snuck his best broom to Hogwarts with him. Once arriving on the train, he met a boy, who seemed like he was pretty cool, even if he was one of those people that was obviously from a family driven by blood purity. But the two boys clicked instantly, almost finishing each other’s sentences from the start. About halfway through their journey, they set out on an adventure and found themselves entering a compartment where an annoyingly greasy head boy and a red haired girl that made James stomach feel funny were.
It didn’t take long for the two boy to sit down and James found himself striking up a conversation, introducing himself to the girl, who he learned was named Lily. He didn’t like girls yet, but he was finding that he didn’t find things one gross. But then her friend spoke again and James eyes narrowed at the other boy, and before he had realized it, he and his new friend, Sirius Black were ridiculing the boy and James was leading them doing so, although Sirius was holding his own too. James noticed that the girl defended the annoying boy, and he couldn’t help but roll his eyes. There was nothing about this boy that intrigued him and he decided then, he was going to make his life as much hell as possible. He’d never been someone to bully anyone, but was finding that he actually enjoyed it, a little bit
As he had predicted, James was sorted into Gryffindor without the Sorting Hat giving it much thought, and he quickly met Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew. James, Sirius, and the two other boys quickly became inseparable and they quickly developed a popularity, within their year, that would eventually grow to the whole school. Early in second year, James had been noticing more and more that Remus continued to disappear. After grabbing his invisibility cloak that his father gave him before leaving for Hogwarts, he followed him out and that was when James discovered that Remus had a secret: He was a werewolf. James had been stunned and didn’t know how to handle it, in the least. But the one thing that he did know was that Remus was his friend. After not speaking of it to anyone, he had spent the next day in the library and while Remus was still recovering, James went to Sirius and Peter with an idea. They would become animagi and do what they could to help protect Remus during his transformations. James knew that transfigurations was something that they needed to excel in and he was at the top of their year already.
When he went to Remus, Remus was determined that he didn’t need anyone to help him but James wasn’t convinced. He wanted to help his friend and wasn’t going to take no for an answer. As the Marauders continued to rise in popularity and pranks, which did include James and Sirius bullying people, particularly Snape, they worked hard and during fifth year finally achieved their goal. James could transform into a full size Stag that would help guard Remus and keep him safe. As James’ popularity grew, his ego continued to grow and it didn’t help that he excelled at everything that he did. He quickly rose to be one of the best Quidditch Chasers Hogwarts had ever seen and impressed girls in all directions, except for the one he wanted to impress: Lily Evans.
James hatred for Snape continued to grow, the more Lily continued to reject him and James and Sirius took great pleasure in making the boy suffer. It wasn’t long until James was learning to turn Snape’s hexes against him and he took great pleasure in it, even if he continued to ask Lily to go out with him and she continued to reject him. But it all came to a head in the spring of their fifth year. James had gathered his fellow Gryffindors out at the Lake, and as Sirius encouraged it, James hung Snape upside down by his trousers, quite enjoying the boy’s public humiliation.
A part of his arrogance faltered when Lily defended Snape and he released the hex on him, as he fell to the ground. James told Lily that he’d leave Snape alone if she went out with him. Snape, in all of his embarrassment, then called Snape the worst thing that someone could call a muggleborn and James seethed with anger. But despite the fact that he was angry, he felt genuinely sorry that Lily had been hurt and he tried to find her later, even if she didn’t want to talk to him.
The summer before their sixth year was one that James couldn’t forget. On a particularly stormy night when James was still grounded for the incident at the Lake with Snape, there was a banging on their door. As his mum answered it, he saw his best friend on the other side. But this wasn’t the arrogant Sirius that mirrored James’ ways. He was broken and beaten and James heart broke for his friend, moving to hug him and offered him some alcohol and a cigarette that his mother had narrowed her eyes, when she saw. It hadn’t atken long for James ailing father, to make his way downstairs and tell the boys that it was settled: Sirius would live with them now and was family. James had always thought of SIrius as a brother, but now he truly was James’ brother. James and Sirius spent most of the summer thinking about pranks and finding more girls than they could count. They were both eager to get back, but there was a part of James that was scared to leave his ailing parents., especially his father who wasn’t doing well.
Although most people didn’t become Captain of the Quidditch team until seventh year, James was made Captain at the start of his sixth year. As sixth year unfolded, James continued to ask Lily out and she continued to reject him. He still spent his time hexing Snape when he could, partly because he was still mad that he had hurt Lily the way he had. But one night during Remus’ transformation, Sirius took it too far and lured Snape to the Weeping Willow, so that Remus could get rid of him once and for all, while a werewolf. James found out about the plan and even though he hated Snape more than he hated anyone, he stopped it and at the last minute, he saved his life. Late in the spring of sixth year, James received word that his father had passed away from the wizarding illness he had been suffering from. There was a numbness in James that he couldn’t begin to express, and he hadn’t said anything to anyone for weeks. Lily being the kindhearted person she was, had found him and they had spent all night talking. James wasn’t James Potter, the popular Marauder in that moment. He was simply James and he was broken at the fact, that his father who was his biggest role model was gone.
The summer between sixth and seventh year was one that changed James Potter’s life completely. His mother’s health had been growing worse since his father died and James worried that he was going to lose her too. As he started to prepare for his seventh year, he received a hefty owl from Dumbledore. Sirius watched as James opened it and they both widened their eyes and fell to the ground in amused shock. James Potter had been named Head Boy. A year ago, James would have owled Lily to boast, but he chose to say nothing about it, despite the fact that she’d owled him several times to make sure he was okay, while still maintaining that she didn’t like him. The night before he returned to Hogwarts, his mother called him to her room and had a talk with him about deflating his head, and growing into the man she knew he could be. James loved his popularity and who he was but his mother’s word had set in and he began to wonder if she was right, if he was capable of more. As he arrived on the train, he pinned his new badge to his robes and moved into the compartment for the prefect meeting. Wide eyed green eyes met his hazel ones, and Lily realized that James Potter of all people was Head Boy.
As the time went on, James started spending more time with Lily and a fight with her ended in them kissing changed it all. They finally started dating and eventually, fell completely in love with each other. Spending time apart wasn’t something that either of them enjoyed, and things were going well. Things got tense when James lost his mother in the spring, but they managed to get through it and are stronger than ever. James received a Quidditch offer toward the end of the year but ultimately turned it down in favor or something Dumbledore had talked to him about, one day. Dumbledore had called James in his office and told him about a resistance that he was forming against the growing conflict in the Wizarding World. It was called the Order of the Phoenix. James didn’t hesitate, nor did he hesitate to offer anything the Order would need financially.
Upon leaving Hogwarts, James and Lily moved in together and he spends most of his days helping getting the Order on his feet with Dumbledore and Alastor Moody, and his evenings with his best friends and of course with Lily. He knows this war is going to be tough, but he’s willing to do whatever it takes. Failure is never an option for James Potter, and he just may be thinking about popping a certain question to his girlfriend soon.
James Potter is currently TAKEN.