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She’s on the phone again. These days, Lily always seems to be on the phone with that whiny little muppet.
Or: No matter what happens between them, Severus is certain of one thing: Lily Evans belongs with him.
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“It’s a mutually beneficial arrangement, Evans. Simple quid pro quo — you help me, I help you.”
Or: All James wants is to pass his next Muggle Studies exam. All Lily wants is for Bertram Aubrey to notice her. Maybe they can help each other.
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Vernon refused to speak to James at the reception, but described him, within James’s earshot, as ‘some kind of amateur magician.’
Or: It’s Petunia and Vernon’s wedding day, and James finds loads of creative ways to vex the newlyweds — unintentionally, he swears.
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I’ll be home for Christmas.
The words echo warmly in his mind, a stark contrast to the brutal cold of his present reality. He’d said those words with cavalier confidence mere days ago, his hands on Lily’s waist as he kissed her goodbye on the doorstep of the small cottage they’d moved into only a few weeks ago. He can almost picture her now, cocooned in the safety of their new home — her cheeks flushed from the heat of the kitchen, humming muggle Christmas tunes as she stirs a pot of hot chocolate. The image feels like a beacon of hope in the suffocating cold of this mission.
James intends to keep his promise.
Or: When a routine reconnaissance mission goes sideways, James is determined to find a way home in time for Christmas
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The front counter. Of all the indignities Severus is forced to endure at his menial job at Slug & Jiggers, the front counter is by far the worst.
Or: While working his day job in Diagon Alley, Severus Snape has an unwelcome encounter with a loathsome former classmate.
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Lily hears a laugh, a loud clank and then the sound of something breaking. That is followed by a curse, and then the hasty footsteps of students trying to make a quick but quiet retreat; after six months as Head Girl, and two years as Prefect before that, it’s a sound she knows well.
She sighs and draws her wand, but before she can round the corner, James does.
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24 Jul 2026
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A Fugue in Four Voices by stonecoldhedwig for bloodonthetracks93
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
13 Jul 2026
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“She hated him!”
“Nah, she didn’t.”Except, for a little while, she really, really did…
When Lily Evans meets fellow glaciologist James Potter on base in Antarctica, sparks immediately fly—but not the fun kind. It’s hate-at-first-sight.
But the endless sun of an Antarctic summer leaves them with nowhere to hide. Then, when the unthinkable happens, they come to learn that maybe—just maybe—the person you can’t stand is also the person you can’t live without…
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Or: how to fall in love at the end of the world.
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24 Jul 2026
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Annoyance, a deep, visceral annoyance that only Potter seems capable of generating, stirs up within her. Part of her still wants to storm out and away from him, another part wants to smack that smirk off his face, and a third very secret part that should never have existed in the first place can’t stop thinking about that photo, about her mouth on his, about his long fingers rucking up the hem of her shirt.
If she leaves now, she reasons, he’ll have gotten the last say, and that’d be absolutely no fair.
So she stalks over, plants her hands on her hips, and looks up at him. “Alright, new deal,” she says. “One kiss — one real kiss — and then you get it out of your system.”
(Spoiler alert: Neither of them gets anything out of their system.)
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14 Jul 2026
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I sink the boat of love (but that comes later) by clarewithnoi for thequibblah
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
02 Jun 2022
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She is real, and she is here, and they are partners in this: in the fighting and in the hours after. The fervent moments that exist maybe only at midnight, or in a solar eclipse.
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03 Jul 2026
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Smash and Grab (and Run Like Hell) by ϟ (icymoons)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
26 Jan 2026
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Get rich. Get even.
It's been three years since the betrayal that tore his team apart and put Sirius Black in prison. Now, James Potter is looking to settle the score — and make off with the score of a lifetime.
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30 Jun 2026