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For nearly a year, Lily has watched James Potter carefully, waiting for the other shoe to drop; waiting for the moment she can finally see the outlines of why he's bad for her. Just like Severus. Just like Petunia. But she's drawing a blank.
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22 Apr 2025
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I’m So Afraid I Sealed My Fate (Even Statues Crumble If They’re Made to Wait) by tulipslilliesiloveyou
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
06 Sep 2025
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Six years ago an owl with Lily Evans’ Hogwarts letter was sent—six years ago, that owl never made it. Until now. Following a great tragedy, with nowhere else to go, Muggle-raised Lily Evans has no other choice but to accept her identity as a witch and enroll at Hogwarts as a seventh-year.
Six years ago, James Potter started at Hogwarts—with just one year left, he already has his future figured out: move-in with his mates, help stop the Blood War, win the Quidditch cup.
But the moment he lays eyes on Lily Evans, everything changes.
A beautiful mystery tangled in a hidden destiny that threatens to break them both—as long as it doesn’t tear down the rest of the world first.
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19 Apr 2025
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In February of 1983, a cataclysmic shift occurred in the wizarding world, plunging it into chaos. Four years later, revelations shake the core of James Potter’s new reality when, on a mission, he discovers another faction of the Order of the Phoenix — and with them, the woman he thought he’d lost forever.
Now the two broken factions of the Order must team up to finish what they once started, while James and Lily work through four years of loss and rediscovery
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26 Mar 2025
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Lily is a second-year apprentice with Horace Slughorn at The Universitas Magistrorum of Hogwarts studying untested applications of Transfiguration to Potions. James is the best Transfiguration professor at Hogwarts, so she begins to attend his classes, and his office hours—all of them.
James has a wife and two children and Lily has a boyfriend. They both have responsibilities, their work, their family, their morals. But they have a connection: intellectual, physical, emotional. And they fuck nasty about it!
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22 Mar 2025
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but he’s a little bit too far away by firefeufuego
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
28 Aug 2022
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A decade after they met as cadets for The Times, the toll of James chasing stories in war zones is starting to hit home for Lily.
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17 Mar 2025
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Lily Evans knows her roles in life. She is a responsible daughter for her sick single father and the best waitress at an overpriced restaurant. She isn't looking for a solution because she doesn't see a problem; Lily only needs a way to let off steam.
James Potter knows his roles in life. He is the fixer of his friends & family and an unapologetic golden boy at HogwartsU. He's looking to be the solution, whatever that looks like.
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14 Feb 2025
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But every sly, cutting remark she made only made him chuckle, ruffle her hair, call her “love” and “sweetheart” and “baby”.
Prick.
Lily agreed, however, that the pool had been a good idea. Because, despite her determination to avoid James Potter, a pool day did mean a whole day of him without a shirt, which was a plus in her book.- Language:
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20 Jan 2025
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Idolum: Noun. A misconception or fallacy.
Lily Potter hated being wrong… and she’d been wrong quite a few times in her life.
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14 Jan 2025
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After an Order mission goes awry, James has to grapple with his concern for someone who's only supposed to be his fellow soldier (but in reality, is so much more). Written for the Jilytober 2023 Masquerade.
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14 Jan 2025
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i don’t know why i like you (but i do) by firefeufuego for isahorcrux
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
19 Dec 2025
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‘You are so exactly the person I thought you were, James Potter.’ That’s his girl, still so condescending even when she’s put down.
‘Yeah,’ he says, not looking back, ‘I guess I am.’Lily and James read History together at Balliol College at Oxford. Unfortunately, they just can’t seem to read each other for shit.
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10 Jan 2025
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the road to reunification is not so smooth by wisterial
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
18 Dec 2024
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Other than her persistent guilt and loneliness, Lily Evans is doing perfectly okay.
That is, until her friends give her phone number to James Potter, an old schoolmate she would very much like to avoid. If that wasn't enough of a problem, Lily meets a boy in the local library, who appears just as lonely as her, and she begins to realize that he may be the son she gave up for adoption eight years ago.
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The story of how Lily, James, and Harry reunite, and eventually learn how to be a family (with the help of time, their friends, and a lot of ice cream).
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26 Oct 2024
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It's Lily Evans who finally takes initiative and kisses James Potter - but James knows he can do better than a simple kiss. A smutty sequel to my story, Do It Right.
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- Part 2 of Do It Right
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26 Oct 2024
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So I went to the doctor / Took a look at my heart / He said we can't be together / But never to get too far apart
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19 Aug 2024
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Paris 2024. Lily Evans, English tennis star, is ready to face the highest challenge of her career and finally fulfil the dream of winning a gold medal at her first Olympics. Now, if only a certain handsome swimmer wasn't set on wreaking havoc in her life, everything would be very much smoother...
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02 Aug 2024
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There are those who claim that Lily Evans couldn't possibly love James Potter as much as he loves her - including, on occasion, James Potter himself - but they couldn't be more wrong if they claimed that the moon was made of cheese.
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31 Jul 2024
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The trip that Lily Evans expects to go on is the annual pre-dissertation jaunt to Athens with the rest of her Classical Civilizations PhD program. The trip she does not expect to go on is to 479 BCE, right on the cusp of one of the most important battles in the Greco-Persian war. Now, she has to navigate antiquity as she tries to find her way back to the 21st Century, God—or gods—help her.
James wants to win this war. No, James needs to win this war. He is a man of honor and duty, and even if it means dying a gruesome, bloody death, he will go down in history as one of Athens's great warriors. He will suffer no distractions; not even beautiful ones who speak strangely and refuse to listen to his orders.
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OR: The Outlander-Meets-Ancient-Greece Jily AU that no one asked for.- Language:
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18 Jul 2024
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James Potter, insufferable prat, gets the Head Boy badge.
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09 Jun 2024
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watch this be the wrong thing (classic) by viridisx
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
21 Jun 2024
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“Come on now, everyone wants to host the stars of the new smash hit movie. It’s iconic.”
“Frank is a star,” Lily corrected him. “I’m only on my way to become one.”
James raised an eyebrow, his eyes narrowing in amused disagreement as if he was carefully considering the idea. “Eh, I think you’re as much of a star as him already. And you need to listen to me and admit I’m right, because I am the pole-sitter and you’re not.”
She laughed, shaking her head. “Has that line ever worked for you?”
“With my parents, maybe.”
In which James Potter is a two-times world champion with Redbull, Sirius Black is desperately trying to catch him while ensuring his race engineer Remus does not have a fatal heart attack and Lily shows up unannounced to wreak some havoc.
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- Part 1 of the secret of us
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23 May 2024
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It's Lily and James' first time exchanging Christmas presents, but Lily's gift leaves her feeling uncomfortable.
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27 Apr 2024
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Rage Against The Dying Of The Light by TedwardRemus
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
24 Nov 2024
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In a universe where James and Lily Potter survive Voldemort's attack on Halloween night. Most of wizarding society is enjoying newfound peace after a decade of war, except the young heroes who fought the war learn you can never really go back to the way things were before.
James and Lily Potter must learn how to reenter society after two years of hiding and figure out how to give their son the childhood he deserves while remaining vigilant for Voldemort's eventual return.
Remus Lupin learns that institutional prejudices don't disappear after the war ends and needs to decide if he is capable of standing up for himself and others like him.
Sirius Black promises not to fail his friends again and dedicates his time to learning Voldemort's darkest secrets.
Peter Pettigrew remains missing, avoiding the post-war trials of mass retribution led by the power-hungry Barty Crouch.
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- Part 1 of Rage Against the Dying of the Light
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05 Jan 2024