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was reading the life and times as per the request of a friend and excuse me while i sob my eyes out at the notion of lily and james bonding over their mutual hatred of august only to have a son born on the last day of july.
“She was dramatic. He was dynamic. She was precise. He was impulsive. He was James, and she was Lily, and one day they shared a kiss, but before that they shared many arguments, for he was cocky, and she was sweet, and matters of the heart require time.”
The Life and Times by Jewels5
Jules Appreciation Post
Every time I reread any chapter of TLAT I find something new to marvel at. This scene from Chapter 9 when Snape manipulates Lily into unfriending James...this tiny slice of narration is so fucking poignant how does she do it??????????
"Sev..." He started to leave. "Sev, please!" Because Severus Snape was her childhood; he was Petunia before she hated Lily and Petunia when she hated her the most. He was the first time she did magic on purpose, and the time when her Dad had still been around, and a million other things of which Lily had not yet let go. "Sev, wait!"
“Why don’t you run along to your boyfriend and spend as much time as you can with him, because honestly, with all of this Shelley business and everything else, for some reason or another, I just can’t imagine it lasting too much longer between you two. Cheers.”
— Remus Lupin on Carlotta Meloni (TLAT, Chapter 34)
“James, dear, won’t you come in and close the door?” Never had “dear” been attached to a name with less warmth. James did, however, comply with Adele’s request, as well as a second one, to bring the white painted chair with the cream velvet cushions from the desk to the spot beside her bed, so that James might have a “nice chat” with her. As he sat down, he fancied his aunt might invite him to kiss the mildly ostentatious diamond rings on her fingers, but she did not.
-Chapter 36
Chapter 36 Deleted Scene
So, this isn’t the one that I mentioned before… this was in the chapter until like 30 seconds ago, but as much as I love Caradoc and Emmeline, there’s just no room, and I thought I’d throw it up here for you guys.
It’s mostly interesting because it specifically mentions the Order, as opposed to Frank and Alice’s sideways allusion to it in Chapter 29 (or was it 28?), although Lily and James *do* make specific mention of it in the flashforward at the beginning of 35, so this isn’t the first first.
Anyway, enjoy. Or don’t. I’m not your mom.
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In a spell of uncharacteristic impetuousness, the Dearborn patriarch of the early nineteenth century had vacated the family’s ancestral domain and constructed a new home for them in a briefly fashionable quarter of Poole where several other magical families were simultaneously putting down roots. These houses all vaguely resembled one another: large, square, brick, with terraced roofs, and though the other families’ roots proved brittle—they had vacated the manses within a generation or two, and the houses were thereafter “muggled,” as Adele Dearborn called it—the bond of similar origin was strong. Most of the muggles in the neighborhood insisted their homes were haunted, and half of them might have been right. At any rate, it was taken as a matter of course that the house at the end—with the immobile cream lace curtains that so diligently concealed the interior—was the home of a witch. And they were quite right about that.
It was the home of a witch and, until quite recently, her young wizard son.
-Chapter 36
So this is the section that might have been if I didn’t tear it apart and put it in an earlier chapter and make Chapter 33 Marlene centric. It was written a VERY long time ago (probably when I was posting Chapter 23-ish?), so it’s bad, and you have some stuff like Madam Pince (who was supposed to replace Ms. Sevoy between years) making an appearance and some other things. All in all, I took some stuff and ditched the rest, but it does include Lily’s Soul-Bearing essay for Madam Keepdown.
If you’re angry that this didn’t turn out, remember that by ditching this we got Green Apple Shampoo, so….
(The Chapter 32 scene is actually much more romantic, because the Green Apple Shampoo scene gives James’s perspective. Dramatically, this is unnecessary because we’ve already had a chapter end with confirmation of Lily’s feelings. Plus Chapter 32 is all about Lily being all unrequited so it’s a nice change to have the James POV)
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The moment I fell in love with November and jewels’ writing.
Marlene buried her face in her arms on the table, and Lily scowled. “That’s not helping, Mary.”
“Now is not the time for sympathy!” protested the other. “Now is the time for blame and guilt! Blame and guilt!”
She followed James and Marlene out of the room, and somewhere in the corridor, she leaned over with a mischievous smile on her lips. "How does your house elf know my name?"
James pretended not to hear her.
“Possibly Lily did not fall in love with James Potter that night, but, she would later conclude, there was no time after it that she did not love him.”
— Jules.
Touches
“She reached over and took one of his hands, interlacing her fingers with his and holding on very tightly. It was funny, how being so inexpressibly sad and angry worked like intoxication… you could sort of do or say anything, and you didn’t really think about how it might turn out the next day. For now, Lily wanted to hold James’s hand, and it didn’t seem strange at all.”
“With his free hand, he pushed back the hair falling around the side of her face closest to him and tucked it behind her ear. He leaned forward, hesitated, and for a moment, Lily thought— but then he kissed her cheek.”
“She would have had to stand on her toes to kiss his cheek, so, reluctant as she was to move against the cold, she pressed her lips to his shoulder, and then turned back to the house.”
Excerpts from The Life and Times - Chapter 36, Soldiers
The last time she stood here outside the Leaky Cauldron had been after Frank and Alice’s wedding reception.
She’d spent that night with Marlene and Donna and Frank and Alice and their families and the Marauders and the Prewetts and Sam. It seemed to Lily now that she had spent most of that time with Sam. He’d kept coaxing her into singing. They’d all stumbled into the pub soaked from the rain—the end of the drought—and then it was all just an exhilarated blur…
-Chapter 36
Remember when Sam shows Lily around James’s house in Chapter 29? I found the original version, in which James does it. Have I posted this before? Regardless…
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Would you pretty, pretty, pretty please give us the last sentence you wrote of TLAT please?
In a few days perhaps that would comfort him, but for now he only wanted to know.
In honor of the wonderful James Potter:
The first section of Chapter 35….
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