Just remembered Lilly and James never knew if Harry survived for a bit then remembered the whole priori incantation bit where they talk about watching him and being proud so I’m okay again
Tag: james potter
drst:
a Not Happy thought: the “you look so much like your father"s die off as harry gets older. by the time he’s thirty, he begins to miss it.
Implying both that people who remember James Potter are dead and that James Potter did not get to be old.
Harry Potter ran a hand through his hair, staring at his reflection in the lift doors. Was it him or was it beginning to thin?
Ginny used to tease him about it, when he nervously ran his hands over it out of old habits, saying he’d rub himself bald. She didn’t tease him about it now, though, which might mean it was actually happening.
He sighed; how old his reflection had gotten. The years passed and he knew that well enough, but each reflective surface still came at a bit of a shock.
He remembered the first time he looked in a regular mirror and saw his father staring out. Not approximations of his father, not the oft-comment of “you look just like James” from some adult, but actually looked in the mirror and saw the same man he knew from photographs.
And he remembered when he looked in the mirror and his father was gone and he was back to approximations. Looking like James Potter never had a chance to.
It was a morbid way of counting birthdays. This year I’m older than my father got to be. This year older than Remus and Snape. This year older than Sirius. In a few years he would be older than Alastor Moody.
No one ever said he looked like his father anymore.
The doors opened onto the floor for The Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes. The Department had two settings: chaos when some magical mishap had to be brought in to be dealt with, and silence when everyone was off tackling the mishap in person. Today was the latter but that was fine. It was James’ turn on desk duty, which was the reason he’d come down, brown bags in hand. It was the only time he could ever seem to wrangle his oldest son for lunch.
Only when he got to the desk, a young witch – a child who hardly looked old enough to be at Hogwarts much less to have graduated from it – smiled up at him.
“Mr. Potter! I have a message for you from your son. They had a catastrophe that really needed his expertise so he had to go.”
Harry gave a small smile. “You’re new, aren’t you?”
She nodded. “Just started last month.”
“Ah. First thing you should know is to never believe James Potter, especially when it comes to desk duty. He’ll do anything to get out of desk duty.”
She gave a smile you would give to an elderly relative doling out advice. “I will remember that next time.”
Oh well, if he was playing the role already, might as well commit. “And don’t let him push you around or beg off. He’ll always have a good reason but you’ve earned your field time like anyone else. And since I brought it down, you can have his lunch.”
That got a laugh as she took the bag. “Thank you. You’re welcome to join me…?”
He waved her off. “No, no, I have paperwork to deal with anyway. But thank you.”
He was about to turn back when she spoke.
“Y’know, it’s remarkable. I would’ve known who you were from a mile off.”
Harry raised an indulgent eyebrow. Four decades had dimmed people’s immediate recognition of him as The-Boy-Who-Lived, especially among the younger crowd, but it was hardly an uncommon occurrence. Still, he acted as if he didn’t know what she meant. “Oh?”
“Oh yes. You look so much like James.”
Time seemed to stop after her words. He didn’t breathe or blink, everything paused in a moment of both newness and familiarity.
Then it was done but the weight of his shoulders had eased a little bit and he gave a brief but genuine smile. Then he laughed. “Don’t say that to him; he’d be mortified.”
“I’ll remember that if he tries to put me on desk duty again then,” she teased.
Harry chuckled and waved and got back on the lift. When the doors closed and he saw himself again, he decided it didn’t really matter much if his hair was thinning. He could do with less of it anyway.
this is lovely
That went somewhere far happier than I expected it to go, whew!
f is for friends who do stuff together
u is for you and me
n is for nothing in the world could have ever prepared james potter for realising that peter had sentenced him, his wife, his baby to death. peter pettigrew, always a bumbling happy little boy, somewhat insecure, somewhat oddly placed between james and sirius, but nevertheless a true friend, a real brother. james loved him and would have gone to the ends of the earth to protect pete, would have died to save him if he were given no other choice. but peter, peter willingly left his best friend, wife and child to voldemort. nothing could have ever surpassed the weight of james’ heart as he realised, the last thoughts that raced through his mind as he fell to the floor. his trust had never faltered.
Moony and Prongs + nostalgia🌙(my first (very low quality) edit but love me plz)
here’s a thing. i have no idea what i was trying to do.
lily evans, twenty years old, resting on her side, looking small in a king-sized bed. spine curved over, and a frown buried deep in her face. without it, she looks exhausted and stressed, but happy. with it, she looks weathered, and much older than she is.
james potter, also twenty years old, but two months less so. towels his face as he leaves the bathroom. bare chest and pyjama bottoms hanging low on his hips. he catches sight of his wife’s expression and pauses.
what is it? he asks carefully, and she always smiles at his concern.
look at me she says glumly, and he’s never one to forgo such an invitation.
lily evans knows the pair of hazel eyes raking over her better than she knows anything else in the world and feels good again. she watches his face and drinks in his expression, sees his mouth quirk up at one side in an appreciative smirk, and feels great for a moment. so grateful and happy to be married to a man who makes her feel that way.
james potter thinks he’ll never get tired of looking at her. he takes in every inch of her and does his best to commit it to memory, sees her eyes widen as they fix on his face and wait for a response, and feels his herartrate increase. so lucky to be loved by someone like her.
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