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james sirius potter
HOGWARTS ALUM HIT WIZARD
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Feb 18, 2021 22:44:08 GMT -7
Post by james sirius potter on Feb 18, 2021 22:44:08 GMT -7
if you find yourself in a lion's den i'll jump right in and pull my pin Christmas break. James always recalled this time of year with many happy memories. Getting to see his cousins all in one place at their Grandmother’s house as she made sure they were all fed and clothed in a hand-knitted jumper. James could still never quite figure out how she managed to knit so much for all her grandchildren, though there was probably magic involved. It was still quite the effort he imagined. Fifteen grandchildren. James was the third oldest since Harper was four months older than he was, but he always liked to point out that he was taller. James was a bit tired. Work had been wearing on him though he probably could have worked less. There was something about this slight daze he kept finding himself in the past couple of years that was hard to shake. Honestly, once he’d learned that his father was alright and not dead, he thought he might move past it—and he had a little bit. Of course, he had plenty of emotional support with his family, extended family, and girlfriend, but then the summer arrived, and that took him many steps back.
Still, there wasn’t much else to do but keep walking tall. James always figured it was the right thing to do, keep going, and keep on the path despite its difficulties. So that was what he did, though he still didn’t understand why his father wouldn’t attend Ouroborus meetings. This split had occurred when he had vanished, and now here they were so much later on with no progress on the Purifiers or reconciliation in sight. It was reminiscent of his seventh year and the lack of progress they had made and how they hadn’t prevented the events that had occurred. James walked through the front door of his childhood home. ”Hello?” He called out as he removed his coat and scarf, hanging them on the coat rack that was by the door. He ruffled his hair to remove the snowflakes that clung to the ends of his disheveled hair. It seemed that not even magic could tame it. He didn’t hear a response immediately, so he wondered if anyone was home, but he figured that Lily would be, considering the date. Unless he’d gotten the dates mixed up, it was amazing what one forgot about being out of school two and half years.
Walking into the home, he glanced casually at the family photographs on a side table. The three of them were much younger in this photo, smiling and happy. James was clean-shaven, unlike the stubble across his chin that day. He entered the living room and paused, at least until he spotting bright red hair that he could recognize anywhere. ”There you are.” He spoke, approaching his sister. ”Didn’t you hear me come in?” He asked, a half-grin on his face.
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lily luna potter
HOGWARTS ALUM WEREWOLF WEASLEYS' WIZARD WHEEZES CASHIER
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Feb 21, 2021 15:17:07 GMT -7
Post by lily luna potter on Feb 21, 2021 15:17:07 GMT -7
▲ The fall term hadn’t gone nearly as poorly as Lily, or anyone else for that matter, anticipated. All of her papers came back with decent enough marks, and her attendance was actually something to be proud of for the first time in her eight years of Hogwarts. Now, the argument had been made that technically she knew all of these subjects already, since she had taken each class for the entire previous year. Lily swore up and down that she knew the bare minimum though, and it had definitely manifested itself on a couple of the mid-term exams. But barely passing grades were still passing grades, and it was a step up from last year. She had heard some praises, most likely to boost her confidence, but she knew that the real reason was because the majority of her distractions at school were gone now. There was no reason to skip class or mess around in her free time. And she had been surprised to find out that getting all her work done at time ended up creating the space for the things she still wanted to do. It was sort of an amazing find, albeit late. Overall, it made the Christmas break more peaceful than it would have been otherwise. This time last year, she had been given her warning about getting her grades up, before basically shrugging it off and continuing to do her own thing. That wasn’t going to fly this time, the real consequences for her actions having been presented to her over the summer and how if she failed again, she wouldn’t be allowed back to Hogwarts for a third attempt at graduating. As much as she didn’t mind doing embarrassing things, there was something about being a failure that she really didn’t like. The fact that it would be true that she, Lily Potter, was a failure and couldn’t even graduate from Hogwarts, would absolutely haunt her. She wasn’t her dad, who was talented and could get away with not having a school degree. And then there was the rest of the family. All of her aunts, uncles, and cousins were successful in their own respective fields, even her uncle George, also a dropout, had the joke shop, which was still wildly popular. So being able to sit back and actually enjoy Christmas this year was a weight off her shoulders. She almost didn’t want to go anywhere either, outside of family events, because the ability to not have to do anything was more freeing than running around like she normally did. Curled up on the couch in the living room, Lily was holding a book up in the air, above her head, and was reading. For fun. Granted it was on the history of Quidditch and something she had read before, but it was a book nonetheless. She hadn’t heard James calling out, but did hear the slam of the door behind him. It wasn’t until he asked her again that she pulled the book down and stared at him, refusing to move from the nest she had created. “Too busy learning about how the Wronski Feint was invented,” she explained. “Everyone else is out. Doing Christmas stuff or something, I guess.” Lily yawned as she closed the book, “Catch any bad guys today, Superman?”MADE BY VEL OF GS + ADOX 2.0
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james sirius potter
HOGWARTS ALUM HIT WIZARD
222 posts
played by vanessa
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Feb 26, 2021 0:58:11 GMT -7
Post by james sirius potter on Feb 26, 2021 0:58:11 GMT -7
if you find yourself in a lion's den i'll jump right in and pull my pin Lily looked like she had made a comfortable spot for herself on the couch though James had to do a double-take. She was reading. Another thing they had bonded on was their lack of excitement at being forced to read, which had always been Albus’ hobby while he’d preferred to play Quidditch with his cousins in the backyard. She explained what she was reading, and then the book didn’t seem so suspicious. Quidditch had been something easy to bond over, among everything else. The Wronski Feint, of course. The famous Quidditch maneuver that so many knew about but few could successfully execute. ”Yes, of course. Everybody needs to know about the Wronski Feint.” James responded, sitting on the couch next to where she had burrowed herself on one end. She closed the book at his arrival, and he turned to sit more into the corner so he could face his sister. ’Catch any bad guys today, Superman?’ James chuckled, he had heard the Superman reference before, but he wasn’t familiar with where it came from exactly. ”Remind me, who is Superman again?” Some of his muggle-born friends had explained it to him, but the facts never seemed to stick.
”No bad guys the past few days.” James’ admitted, in fact, the only exhaustion he’d had was mentally from catching up on reports. Even with the new magical technology, it was still a tedious process. James felt a short vibration from his pocket, and he stopped and pulled out his phone. This had been something new this past year as well, and he managed to get the basics of it, but sometimes he wasn’t sure how to work the thing, he glanced at a message, but it wasn’t urgent. ”Managed to get a day off today, wanted to make sure you were staying out of trouble.” He looked at her with that look an older sibling gives another. The irony was that he was a bit of a troublemaker in school himself, but his grades had been solid enough. James would have visited regardless, but also Ariadne was working so he figured he’d pass the time with a visit. ”How school been?” He asked. James had spent the better part of the previous year and the summer giving Lily a hard time, perhaps as much as their father might have, about how she hadn’t graduated with the rest of her classmates. He just hoped she had decided to refocus this time around.
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lily luna potter
HOGWARTS ALUM WEREWOLF WEASLEYS' WIZARD WHEEZES CASHIER
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played by Colin
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Feb 27, 2021 21:18:12 GMT -7
Post by lily luna potter on Feb 27, 2021 21:18:12 GMT -7
▲ “Right?” she said gleefully about the Wronski Feint. Literally everyone needed to know about the move. It was easily one of the most dangerous seeker techniques out there, and even though she had been a chaser during her time playing, she probably would have attempted a similar tactic with the quaffle if it meant scoring a cool looking goal. She wasn’t even sure if it was legal to that during house matches, but that wouldn’t have stopped her at all. Everything about the way she played was for pure show, and she really didn’t care about the winning part of it. The thrill of flying definitely trumped the rest of the game, and if there was a sport that was based solely on that, she would have been into it one-hundred percent. As for Superman, she didn’t really know too much, other than that he was a superhero. “Uhhh…well I think he saves people. So yeah. Pretty sure he wears tights too, so maybe that wasn’t really the best comparison?” Batman was actually the one she had been thinking of, now that she could put more brain power into it. But a superhero was a superhero at the end of the day. She was disappointed that there weren’t any ‘bad guys’ to catch, though she also supposed that it was a good thing too. No work meant no one was out there getting hurt. All of that was starting to get exhausting, and she really wasn’t looking forward to having to deal with the reality of the world once she finally graduated from Hogwarts. Getting held back only delayed that worry for a year. James went on to explain that he got the day off, so she straightened up in her spot on the couch. “The whole day?” she asked, wanting clarification. It was probably pretty disappointing showing up and then realizing she was being boring and reading for the first time in forever. “Could be better. Who knew learning could be so boring?” Plus she was without any of her friends from her original class, so it was less of a distraction than it used to be. Some of the professors had already made a note on that, Professor Zabini even pulling her aside after the first week and saying that it was amazing she actually knew how to keep her mouth shut. It was pretty shocking to her as well, to be fair. “But I’m doing better than I did last fall, so I guess that’s a thing. I doubt McGonagall will let me have a go at it for a third time though.” MADE BY VEL OF GS + ADOX 2.0
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james sirius potter
HOGWARTS ALUM HIT WIZARD
222 posts
played by vanessa
Carry on, don't mind me All I gave was everything
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Mar 1, 2021 20:57:45 GMT -7
Post by james sirius potter on Mar 1, 2021 20:57:45 GMT -7
if you find yourself in a lion's den i'll jump right in and pull my pin James enjoyed talking about Quidditch. It was a sport that most members of his family had played at one point, and his mother had played professionally as well as one of their cousins. It was also a safe topic—not that he ever had a difficult time talking to Lily, but the past couple of years had been trickier due to their father’s disappearing act and her performance at school. James had always fallen into his oldest brother role relatively easily when it came to his brother and sister. However, when Harry had decided to depart without warning, he’d felt the anxiety of that missing presence and begun to hover a bit more than usual. It had been another reason he had stayed living at home and continued to do so. As much as he had been in a hurry at seventeen to have his own freedom, he was comfortable now but wary at the same time.
The age gap between the Potter children was rather narrow. Albus was eleven months younger than James, and Lily was ten months younger than Albus. So the less than two-year age gap between James and Lily had allowed them to play Quidditch together for a short time on the house team, both as Chasers, which had been fun but certainly brought these two strong personalities head to head a few times. James laughed. It was certainly an interesting comparison and interesting that Muggles looked up to these fictional characters and their strange outfits. ”Well, fortunately, the Ministry doesn’t mandate tights. They’re one hundred percent optional.” Not that James would have ever worn them, at least not if it wasn’t some kind of bet or a dare or something with his father’s joke’s store logo branded on them. ”Are there any that don’t wear tights? I do like the ‘super’ part.” He asked curiously. Maybe he could use one of them for a better comparison. There was a thoughtful expression on his face. It was easy to boost his own ego with such titles.
He gave Lily a look when she asked for clarification. ”Yes, the whole day.” He was here, no other obligations for the day. Though Ariadne knew how he felt about his family just as she felt about her own. Fortunately, it wasn’t an issue for them to discuss such things as he’d seen with other couples. Instinctively his eyes narrowed a bit in suspicion. She was repeating her seventh year, so he personally expected her to do somewhat well, but hopefully, she had been keeping out of trouble this time around. However, he did have to agree on somethings. While his grades had never been an issue—sitting still in class and reading very much had been difficult. ”Some of it, sure. I’m still looking for where I’m supposed to use History of Magic. All that Dueling and Wandless magic came in handy.” He spoke as he absent-mindedly removed a small piece of lint from his shirt sleeve. His gaze went back up to his sister. ”I would hope you didn’t need a third time, Lily.” On this note he had to agree with the Headmistress. ”It’s good to hear you’re doing better, though. What did dad say?” I had been hard for even James to take some of school seriously when he knew his father’s stories with their Uncle Ron and late Aunt Hermione, how much class they skipped, and rules they broke, and yet they did well.
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lily luna potter
HOGWARTS ALUM WEREWOLF WEASLEYS' WIZARD WHEEZES CASHIER
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played by Colin
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Mar 28, 2021 16:43:54 GMT -7
Post by lily luna potter on Mar 28, 2021 16:43:54 GMT -7
▲ “Booo,” she whined. No requirement for men in tights? She needed to have a talk with whoever was running the law enforcement departments these days. Nothing could be more intimidating than aurors and hit wizards wearing the tightest clothing possible and then taking down all the criminals in them. In her mind, it played out like some poor fan story, but she would pay actual money to see an arrest made by people in tights. That would be hilarious. “The only ones I want to know are the ones that wear them. All the rest aren’t important.” A superhero couldn’t be super without super-tight tights, right? James could be super just because he was, but any more than that and he was going to have to pay the tax and put them on. “You should just change your middle name then. No one would want to mess with James Super Potter. You’d be like dad but super.” Or something. She still wasn’t sure what her thoughts on him pulling his little disappearing act and then coming back as if nothing had happened. Obviously it was good that he was alive and well, but she was allowed to be upset too. Having the whole day off had to mean there was a trade-off somewhere. She knew how that sort of thing worked in the law enforcement departments. They had grown up with plenty of family members going in and out of various top Ministry positions. Days weren’t freely given out around the holidays freely. “So by having today off, does that mean you won’t be around Christmas Day?” Lily asked, sitting up straighter in her corner of the couch and setting the book on the floor, where she was most likely going to forget about it. Someone would trip on it later, but at least then it would be found again. “Because you can go back to work right now if that’s the case. Today isn’t worth it.”School was always the topic that was brought up when it concerned her. Probably because she was one of the last to graduate. Louis was there still too, but nobody in the family was concerned about him as much as they were with her business. “Guess I can’t be a hit-witch then. My wand barely listens to me as it is,” she shrugged. Not that she wanted to be one. That was just more schooling to go through, and that wasn’t happening. Plus there was no way they would accept a flunky like her into the training programs. “I don’t think I will. If I have to, it would be easier to not go back. I doubt any of the professors would want to deal with me for another year.”He then proceeded to ask what their dad had said, and she shrugged again. Her grades had been passing, so that was all that mattered, right? “You know how he is,” she paused for a second, “I’m sure he sees nothing too wrong with it because he dropped out. But I’m also not him, so I can’t get away with not graduating.” Obviously there were still options, but she would be limited between her school history and the fact that she was a werewolf. Not everywhere would care, unless she wanted a job that was actually decent. MADE BY VEL OF GS + ADOX 2.0
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james sirius potter
HOGWARTS ALUM HIT WIZARD
222 posts
played by vanessa
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Mar 30, 2021 23:08:34 GMT -7
Post by james sirius potter on Mar 30, 2021 23:08:34 GMT -7
if you find yourself in a lion's den i'll jump right in and pull my pin James chuckled at his sister’s disappointment. Even though they were only two years apart in age, James still felt as though she was much younger. His little sister, and sometimes he tended to treat her as such. The idea of tights was amusing. He wasn’t sure how flattering they would be to wear—depending on the color though it might bode well for situations where wearing a bulky outfit would just get in the way. Maybe that was the secret to these “super” heroes. Then again, what was the cape for? Lily suggested that he change his middle name, and he broke out in a wide grin and a laugh but then shifted to a look that said he was considering it. ”Who says I haven’t already? I’m James S. Potter, after all.” He emphasized his middle initial, which would not have to change if he did choose to change his middle name. ”I don’t know if I’ll ever be dad’s level of super, but I can try.” He had the advantage of being his son, didn’t he? Though his image of his father as his hero had certainly shifted the past couple of years.
James gave his sister a thoughtful look. She was an observant individual. Though they all remembered Harry’s hectic schedule when he was an Auror growing up and their various family members throughout the years. Teddy had warned him of his own schedule when James initially inquired about joining him as a Hitwizard. Lily seemed concerned about his schedule, and her posture changed as well. ”Maybe…maybe not.” In his typical fashion, he paused for a bit of dramatic effect. ”But, luckily for you, little sister, I only work Christmas Eve.” Partially true, it wasn’t beyond his imagination that he could be called into work Christmas Day on something emergent that whoever was working couldn’t handle. ”I’m also not working tomorrow. I think there was a mistake on the schedule, but who am I to question my boss?” James shrugged playfully. It was exactly who he was to question, but not if it was to his advantage.
Now, he wasn’t sure what the schedule of an Auror-in-training might be this time of year, but he assumed Albus would at least try and come home for Christmas Day. He was sure that the topics of conversation would include their father’s disappearance again and Lily’s schooling and whatever he felt like bringing up about James at that time. When it came to school, James and Albus had done well academically, though with different approaches. It was where it was tricky for James to get on anyone’s case about behaving when he’d been rather mischievous himself. ”I don’t think you’d like it, anyway.” James responded, slouching a bit in his seat as he made himself more comfortable. Plus, with him and Teddy already in that department, it would be hard not to be compared as much as she was as the youngest at Hogwarts. ”Have you thought about what you might do afterwards?”
James nodded. He did know how their father was. It reminded him of the times Harry would say one thing only to ‘correct’ himself if their mother was there. ”Well he’s okay with it all until mum gives him that look.” There was a look their mother did that was either direct or a side-eye that was enough to have Harry or even any of them react.
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lily luna potter
HOGWARTS ALUM WEREWOLF WEASLEYS' WIZARD WHEEZES CASHIER
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May 30, 2021 12:37:06 GMT -7
Post by lily luna potter on May 30, 2021 12:37:06 GMT -7
▲ Now that she thought about it some more, was being like their dad even a good thing? Like, his values and drive were definitely admirable, but all the stories she had heard of his time in school were a hundred times more reckless than anything she had done yet. Being turned into a werewolf aside. That was probably why she hadn’t gotten that into trouble, since he had been off gallivanting around the country in the middle of a war. One little dog bite was almost nothing compared to that. “You can both be super then. I bet there’s a Superboy too, so you could always be that instead…” That fit James more anyways. Superman seemed too serious for her brother to take on the mantle. She didn’t really know how the hit department scheduled people, but James reassured her that he only had Christmas Eve off. That wasn’t all that bad. When was the last time they actually did anything on that day? In the past it was more of a struggle by their parents to get her to burn all of her energy (and then some) so that she would actually be able to sleep through the night. The excitement of Christmas morning was too much for her tiny existence. Nowadays that had worn off a bit, but she still shook like a chihuahua in the lead up to the following morning. It would be a miracle if every family member ended up at the Burrow later in the day. There was always someone that had to leave early or could only pop in for a short bit. She thought that was going to be James this year. “I’ll keep it a secret,” she held a finger up to her mouth. “I guess I just figured that they would make the younger hit wizards work the holidays,” she explained. It made sense in her head. When it came to what she had wanted to do after graduating, Lily shrugged. In a perfect world – one where she hadn’t quit Quidditch – she probably would have been trying to get scouted right now. Then again, if she had failed there was no way they would have allowed her to play for another year. That would be like cheating. “I don’t know…maybe Uncle George will let me work for him at the store? I’ve always liked it there.” And that allowed her to not really think about having to go through interviews and the likes. In terms of magical capabilities, she didn’t specialize in anything aside from stupid hexes and charms to prank people, and even those were half-assed and barely worked most of the time. Jinxing someone had the possibility of going horribly wrong, and that happened more often than not. The look. Lily recoiled just thinking about it, and quickly looked around the room because the mental image made her think it would summon their mother instantly. There wasn’t much of an escape from her now that she was teaching at Hogwarts, and that was only part of the reason why Lily had been on her best behavior so far this school year. “You’ve never gotten it from across the Great Hall though. It’s terrifying now,” she stated. She thought having it sent across the dinner table at home was bad enough, but she could actually feel it being sent from the professor’s table all the way down the Gryffindor one. Talk about horrifyingly accurate sight and knowledge of where and what the youngest Potter was doing at all times. MADE BY VEL OF GS + ADOX 2.0
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james sirius potter
HOGWARTS ALUM HIT WIZARD
222 posts
played by vanessa
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Jun 17, 2021 21:32:21 GMT -7
Post by james sirius potter on Jun 17, 2021 21:32:21 GMT -7
if you find yourself in a lion's den i'll jump right in and pull my pin James chuckled. ‘Superboy’ had a nice ring to it, but it sounded more like a sidekick than the main superhero himself. But, he supposed that wasn’t too far off the mark, at least when it came to the Order. When Harry had disappeared, James had been too distraught to take charge, but also he was considerably younger than some of the other members like Cas or Parvati, and he was pretty certain if he had stood up to take charge, they would have made him sit down. Or he might have made a move to stand, and his mother would have looked at him and silently told him to back down. ”I think if I tried all the things dad has done, if the stories are true, mum might think he put me up to it.” Harry was typically the one to not discourage their antics when they were children, and their mother would have to be the responsible adult. Very rarely were those roles ever swapped.
The one downside to working at the Ministry was the demanding schedule. Even departments outside of Law Enforcement suffered the same fate, but Law Enforcement typically was hit worse. But James figured he still had some luck left for the year as he had consecutive days off and would be able to see his family and loved ones. ”They usually do—sometimes people volunteer, or they pissed off the Head Hit Wizard right as he’s making the schedule.” James had seen it happen, and he’d learned to behave himself if he wanted to make it home for either Christmas or New Years'. The ones that were in training, however—well, that was a different story. There wasn’t much of a choice in the matter as they worked through the holiday season, and the ones that were forced to train them typically showed no mercy for mistakes as they were made to skip their own holidays.
”He would love to have you working there.” Many of his cousins were in careers at the Ministry or even playing Quidditch, and none were working at the shop at the moment. Which was a shame. It was a fun place to be. Uncle George could keep an eye on Lily as well. Albus might have an opinion on such a career choice, it was hardly as prestigious as being an Auror one day, but James would just remind him that he hadn’t finished his training just yet. Plus, that wasn’t what was important. If James had learned anything over the time his father had been gone was that he just wanted his family to be happy, whatever that meant.
Both of their expressions shifted, fear falling over their faces. And his eyebrow raised at Lily’s statement. The thought was enough to raise goosebumps on his arms. The look. According to their late Aunt Hermione, their mother had perfected this look while still in school, and it worked on all of her brothers and now her children. He shuddered. ”Did the table catch fire?” That was the only way he could see it getting ‘worse’. But, then that brought another memory to mind—a better one and he chuckled a bit before speaking. ”Do you remember when we were playing Quidditch with everyone that one summer? It was right before meHarper, Fred, Roxanne, and I went off to school. Dustin was there too, and Mickey must have been there or at least his sister…Anyway. Their dad was making such a fuss about something I did that was “illegal” and mum got in his face.” James paused for dramatic effect, remembering how Cormac thought he could make Ginny Weasley-Potter back down. ”I wonder what would have happened if Dad hadn’t come out right then.”
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lily luna potter
HOGWARTS ALUM WEREWOLF WEASLEYS' WIZARD WHEEZES CASHIER
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Jul 18, 2021 13:54:31 GMT -7
Post by lily luna potter on Jul 18, 2021 13:54:31 GMT -7
▲ If the stories were true. Lily had always found it hilarious when other students came up to her and asked her about certain things about her dad. Like about how he supposedly fought a giant snake thing, or was friends with the centaurs inside the forest. She could see the latter being a possibility, as the herd there were quite nice, but the big snake? No way. There was zero proof, and while she had never asked him before, it didn’t seem like something he could do. Of all the wild and crazy things that could happen at Hogwarts, that was not one of them. Being told them as bedtime stories hadn’t been the best way to keep a tiny Lily from excitedly jumping up and down on her bed when it was time to sleep, but she always ran out of energy eventually. Maybe that had been the entire point of telling her them in the first place? “Wait, so do you think some of them actually did happen? Because I don’t know…I don’t see how Uncle Ron could be involved when he’s so old and boring now…” Lily trailed off as a few of the stories started popping into her head. Some of them were written down at Hogwarts, though she assumed they were embellished when relatives retold them. Every time she talked to an adult about what working was like, it made her skin crawl. James seemed to enjoy being a hit-wizard, and Albus an auror. Why her brothers wanted to follow in dad’s footsteps eluded her completely. She didn’t see what was wrong with having a normal job, and it wasn’t like her cousins were currently working for their dad at the joke shop. Recently, she had seen Cara Bainbridge working at Fortescue’s. If even she couldn’t find a regular job after almost three years, then that didn’t leave too many things available to Lily. “Yeah, I think you’re right. Me and him? We get each other,” Lily said with a serious look on her face. Uncle George had a prankster’s heart, and she had inherited that from the Weasley half as well. It only made sense. “No! I haven’t done anything all term that would make me deserve that!” Lily protested. If she wanted to get that glare, she would light the table on fire, as James suggested, hop up on it, and then do her best Amazonian war cry with her broom above her head like a Tusken Raider about to attack. They both knew what that look felt like, and that was how she could tell it was directed at her and not some other poor, unsuspecting Gryffindor. The creeping tingle of the hairs on the back of her neck rising one by one as the piercing eyes of her mother bore into her from across the Great Hall. It was absolutely meant for her, though she didn’t know why. James brought up an event from a few summers prior, before she had started at Hogwarts, about some trouble that started because Mr. McLaggen had gotten upset about the way a play had occurred in their neighborhood match. “Dad told me once that Uncle Ron got picked over him for Gryffindor Keeper when they were in school,” Lily laughed. Which was funny because she was pretty sure that Mr. McLaggen had gone on to play professionally for a bit after that. “You think it had something to do with that? I don’t think I’ve ever heard him talk without yelling.” Which was rich, coming from her. MADE BY VEL OF GS + ADOX 2.0
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james sirius potter
HOGWARTS ALUM HIT WIZARD
222 posts
played by vanessa
Carry on, don't mind me All I gave was everything
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Aug 4, 2021 19:30:47 GMT -7
Post by james sirius potter on Aug 4, 2021 19:30:47 GMT -7
if you find yourself in a lion's den i'll jump right in and pull my pin James always figured that Potters would end up being known for something though never to the extent of their father. Harry didn’t often answer questions about those days, instead offering a smile, and their mother wouldn’t confirm them either. At least she could remember all those days. However, it had always made for good stories and facts for James to tell any kid that would listen in the neighborhood. Still, Lily had a point. James’ expression shifted into thought as he thought about their Uncle Ron. ”I suppose your right. I never saw Uncle Ron as the adventurous type.” James paused as he considered his Aunt and Uncle. ”I can’t picture Aunt Hermione breaking a rule on purpose either.” Another pause as he thought about their late Aunt.
Oh, Uncle George. A regular source of mischief in the family as he remembered all the times he’d seen his grandmother roll her eyes at something or another during Christmas. ”That you do.” It seemed that Lily was a Weasley through and through, though one could argue that her personality was also likely Al was the quiet one who wasn’t the pranking type. ”Plus, think of all the pranks you can plot for Al.” James added, knowing how easy of a target their brother was at times. And as much as Albus was annoyed by their tactics, he would certainly notice if they had suddenly stopped. Much as they had when Harry had disappeared, James and Albus had instead joined forces to keep the family together.
James stopped smiling when he thought about what it might have been like if his mother was a professor during his time at Hogwarts. Nope. He did not want to think about that. Aside from the disaster that was his seventh year and all the danger they’d constantly been in, he just didn’t want to think about turning a corner, and there she was. Plus, as the Flying instructor, that would have overlapped with his time on the Quidditch team. It was a sport that ran in the family, at least for most of them, and James gave Lily a doubtful look. ”Really? But Uncle George always makes fun of him.” Uncle George had played on the Gryffindor team as well as his late twin brother, but he’d always poked fun at Uncle Ron. How was he picked over McLaggen? Impossible. ”No. I think he just likes to yell.”
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lily luna potter
HOGWARTS ALUM WEREWOLF WEASLEYS' WIZARD WHEEZES CASHIER
392 posts
played by Colin
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last online Mar 28, 2024 19:39:37 GMT -7
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Sept 14, 2021 21:20:02 GMT -7
Post by lily luna potter on Sept 14, 2021 21:20:02 GMT -7
▲ Right. Aunt Hermione. Lily chewed on her lip as she was reminded that this was going to be the first Christmas – the first full family gathering since the funeral – without her. She was the one that had stepped in to make sure things were going well with school when they really weren’t, despite being the Minister and having her own busy schedule to attend to. And the one that made sure every search for Harry during his disappearance was done with utmost care, and she also gave reports herself to Lily whenever there was new information. It wasn’t fair, and while there had been time to grieve in the moment, she had been ushered right back off to Hogwarts for the eighth time due to her own follies and ineptitude. She probably would have been proud to see how well this term was going too… “I’d believe all the stories if it was all three of them together,” she stated resolutely after the moment of silence that followed her brother’s comment. Everything she had ever heard about the war and the events that came before her seemed ridiculous at times. But there were too many people that knew these stories or had their own to add. While their parents didn’t talk much about it, there was just too much there to not believe some of it. Working for Uncle George seemed to be the plan now. She had barely voiced that to anyone yet, though now that she was talking to James about it, it felt like a possibility. There was no way she would be turned away from it too, so it was basically a free job. Outside of that, there wasn’t much she was good at in terms of magic or research, and there was still that little bit about being a werewolf that turned so many people off still. That was mostly on her though for being stupid and overly ambitious. She poked the werewolf too many times and then refused to run when it actually bit. Looking back on that, it was incredibly dangerous and stupid. Fun, yes, but absolutely the dumbest thing she had ever done outside of trying to climb onto the Astronomy Tower roof. “Uncle George makes fun of everyone,” she corrected her brother. “But yeah, he and Al can’t take a joke without getting flustered. That’s why he does it.” And why she did it too. They were easy targets, so why not make them prickle with well-timed dungbombs or unsavory Bertie Bott’s Beans? The two of them needed to loosen up a bit. The same could be said about Mr. McLaggen, with James’s comment about him making her laugh. “I used to be able to hear him screaming if I had my bedroom window open in the summer. Poor Mickey and Ella…I think Raphael gave in and that’s why it stopped.” The youngest McLaggen was Seeker for the Hufflepuff house team, but also had years of practice perfecting the art of silent agreement. Lily always thought it was funny until their dad would yell at her for going too fast on her toy broom. Just because he was a washed up pro player, that didn’t mean he had to be a jerk to her for having fun. MADE BY VEL OF GS + ADOX 2.0
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james sirius potter
HOGWARTS ALUM HIT WIZARD
222 posts
played by vanessa
Carry on, don't mind me All I gave was everything
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last online Mar 28, 2024 20:34:33 GMT -7
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Nov 1, 2021 22:17:43 GMT -7
Post by james sirius potter on Nov 1, 2021 22:17:43 GMT -7
if you find yourself in a lion's den i'll jump right in and pull my pin His Aunt had always been encouraging. Whether James had wanted to play Professional Quidditch or thinking about working at his Uncle’s shop as a boy, she never talked him out of it. Plus, James would always be grateful that she’d been one of the first to welcome Ariadne, along with his grandmother, which had helped encourage the rest of the family. James missed her, and he knew that the whole family did. He nodded in agreement with Lily. The stories were fascinating, and even if he didn’t hear them from his parents directly, sometimes it would be his father’s old school friends who would tell them. It was that level of legend.
Their Uncle George was a person with an incredible amount of energy, but always one for a laugh and encouraging his nieces and nephews to get into trouble. James shook his head. ”Do you remember when Teddy accidentally turned my hair green, and Uncle George had Butterbeer come out of his nose?” Teddy had been going into his seventh year but old enough to use magic. But, James hadn’t even turned eleven yet. As a sort of older brother, James and his cousins had been fascinated with his stories of school and all that he’d learned before most of them were old enough to go.
But Lily was right. Albus seemed to take after their Uncle Ron, which made them easy targets during family events. Their mother often smack James upside the head, which was preferable to the glare when Albus complained. Though she did the same to their Uncle Ron. James shook his head. ”I think Mickey got the worst of it.” Perks of being the eldest, but James wasn’t as familiar with the youngest. For that, he was grateful to his own family because even when their mother and grandmother would yell at them, it was hardly the same as their experience with the elder McLaggen. James sighed, thinking about all those memories—fond ones of happier and simpler times. But as he glanced at his wristwatch, he looked disappointed. ”Well Lils, I do have to run an errand but I’ll come back later for dinner. Can you tell Mum if you see her?”
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lily luna potter
HOGWARTS ALUM WEREWOLF WEASLEYS' WIZARD WHEEZES CASHIER
392 posts
played by Colin
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last online Mar 28, 2024 19:39:37 GMT -7
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Nov 8, 2021 15:12:22 GMT -7
Post by lily luna potter on Nov 8, 2021 15:12:22 GMT -7
▲ The fact that there was ‘magic’ for magical people was always something she found interesting. Uncle George was basically a genius in her eyes, and the way he pulled off making his pranks was something else altogether. While Lily thought that she had a knack for sneakily setting off fireworks in the bathrooms third year, or hexing people’s ear hair to grow from around a corner unnoticed, George was still the king of it. Apparently there were scorch marks on some of the corridor walls from a huge amount of fireworks that he and Fred had set off during their time at school for a number of years, until McGonagall finally decided to clean them up because they were an eyesore. Lily wished she could have seen it, because that would have only fueled her need to be the best prankster Hogwarts had ever seen. The joke was on her though, because even with an extra eighth year, she hadn’t achieved that title. Yet. “Yeah! That was hilarious! I’ve always wondered how he did that…” She could ask him in a few days when they were all at The Burrow. Maybe he’d even demonstrate it on her! The McLaggen kids definitely had their trials and tribulations. Compared to the rest of the block, it definitely seemed like their home life was…worse, in a way. The only issues the Bainbridges had were with Cara yelling at the rest of them, which Lily had always found hilarious. But there was a difference between siblings yelling and parents yelling. “Well, he’s playing for the Bats now. That’s pretty nifty if you ask me,” she shrugged. Once upon a time there was the hopes and dreams of going pro. Probably why she was still reading books on Quidditch that she had read before. “I’ll tell her you had to go catch an illegal niffler breeder, or something like that,” she gave her brother a thumbs up. That was probably something he would deal with, right? She had never paid enough attention in class to figure out exactly what the difference between hit-wizards and aurors were, aside from some handling dark wizards and the rest doing normal police work. That was probably something she really should have known, considering. “If you don’t get back in time, I’m eating your share,” she added, before turning back to her book again. Starting from the top of the page, the Wronski Feint… [THE END] MADE BY VEL OF GS + ADOX 2.0
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