James Didn't Mature For Lily It's Too Overused And Melodramatic The Way Everyone Says He Grew Up For

i hc walburga disliking the malfoys. the only other family that is socially considered their equals. but she knows how they managed to establish themselves in wizarding society, particularly in regards to money and properties, doing business with dirty muggles.

it wasn’t arranged but there was an understanding that the two families would be brought closer in the form of an union between walburga and abraxas, but she’d rather died before letting that happens.

she does everything in her power to let abraxas know exactly how she feels about him.

in the end, when the blacks and the malfoys finally merged, she felt that narcissa got handed the short end of the stick.

i feel like the first time i went diving into ao3 i couldn’t find, for the love of me, any blackinnon story that resonated with me.

and swear i don’t know what happened but suddenly i have like a ton of tabs open on my browser of stories about those two i want to delve into (i guess i wasn’t looking that hard after all).

the thing is i’m scared to start reading because i don’t want to feel like i might copy someone but worse than that, im scare to find something so good inside that might make me go: yep, never gonna be able to write that good. might just give up now.

does anyone relate to that feeling? 😂

it’s genuinely the reason i don’t ever write any wolfstar or dramione.

marlene mckinnon absolutely plastered introducing the weird sisters to lily and mary, singing and dancing do the hippogriff on top of a table in the common room.

right there, ladies and gentlemen, was the moment sirius realized she was his girl.

speaking of…

(see here to understand)

just imagining durmstrang!sirius and slytherin!marlene dueling after he finds out she’s responsible for his brother’s death and marlene thinking he is a fully turned death eather uff…

them thinking they dueling but actually they taking their grief out on each other? 😮‍💨

here i am translating a few chapters in advance and completely forgot this moment existed:

"Sirius, in an attempt to encompass the room with his arms, lifted Marlene's hand, which remained in his grasp."

(i'm screaming on the inside)

what non-jily fans don't understand about lily realising she has feelings for james is that the whole deal was NOT cute. lily was screaming and trying to jump from the astronomy tower from the embarrassment while mary and dorcas tackled her down and marlene was pissing her ass off in the background. THAT is jily

I'm gonna be real with you guys.

Eleven year old Remus Lupin: (desperately trying to hide the fact that he was a werewolf) would not— in fact — make friends with the two loudest troublemakers he'd ever seen in his life on the first day of school.

Actually, the moment James and Sirius had stepped foot into the compartment he was sitting in, shoving at each other's shoulders and yelling over each other about a prank they couldn't wait to pull, he just grabbed his things and left.

Instead, he joined a quiet, shy kid who's luggage tag read Peter Pettigrew, and they sat in peaceful silence the whole way to hogwarts.

It wasn't until the four of them found themselves standing in their assigned dorm room that night that Remus realised he never really stood a chance at all, the pair would be his friend whether he wanted them or not.

(And he would want them... eventually.)

Love of my life, you've hurt me You've broken my heart, and now you leave me

Double illustration time because Grant is the legend he thinks he is. There would be no wolfstar in atyd if it wasn't for Grant, let's not forget that, hm? (there would be no post-war Remus at all, actually)

Unfortunately (or not, depends on the point of view) he's always been outshined by one very bright star. The very one Remus is staring at in the second drawing, dare I say

Grant Chapman, they could never make me hate you 😔

Sirius is an introvert forced to be an extrovert- they use their loudness as a cover so that they are always cheery and nobody will think something’s wrong

Regulus is an extrovert forced to be an introvert- growing up he watched Sirius get in trouble for being loud and acting out so he learned to stay quiet

OMG BLEUR! There’s a really good fic called The Cursebreaker’s Wife that not only follows their story but also fills the gaps during OotP, highly recommend 💓

Romione and Remadora are the hottest canon couples.

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