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“You take get man out of the city, not the city out the man” but it’s what the marauders “city” would be
James Potter — you take the man out the love, not the love out the man.
Remus Lupin — the take the man out the werewolf, not the werewolf out the man.
Sirius Black — you take the man out the house, not the house out the man.
Peter Pettigrew — you take the man out the rat, not the rat out the man.
Lily Evans — you take the (wo)man out the magic, not the magic out the (wo)man.
Marlene McKinnon — you take the (wo)man out the betrayal, not the betrayal out the (wo)man.
Mary MacDonald — you take the (wo)man out the memories, not the memories out the (wo)man.
Regulus — you take the man out the black, not the black out the man.
Pandora — you take the (wo)man out the “crazy”, not the “crazy” out the (wo)man.
Evan — you take the man out the deatheater, not the deatheater out the man.
Barty — you take the dad out the man, not the man out the dad.
Dorcas — you take the loss out the (wo)man, not the (wo)man out the loss.
(this are all headcanons!!)
| Marauders
James: Hispanic (🇨🇴/🇧🇷) — his mother (effie) is Columbia and his father (monty) is Brazilian.
Sirius: French (🇫🇷) — both parents are French.
Remus: Welse & 1/4 English (🏴/🇬🇧) — His mother is Welse and his father is part Welse part English.
Peter: Irish & German (🇮🇪/🇩🇪) — his mother is Irish and his father is German.
| Valkyries
Lily: English & 1/4 Irish (🇬🇧/🇮🇪) — her mother is English and her father is half Irish half English.
Marlene: 2/4 Irish, 1/4 Scottish & 1/4 Argentine (🇮🇪/🏴/🇦🇷) — her mother is Irish and Argentine and her father is Scottish and Irish.
Mary: English and Jamaican (🇬🇧/🇯🇲) — her mother is Jamaican and her father is English.
| Skittles squad / emeralds
Regulus: French (🇫🇷) — both parents are French.
Pandora: Belgian & English (🇧🇪/🇬🇧) — both parents are English and Belgian.
Evan: Belgian & English (🇧🇪/🇬🇧) — both parents are English and Belgian.
Barty: Italian & English (🇮🇹/🇬🇧) — both parents are Italian and English.
Dorcas: English (🇬🇧) — both parents are English.
James was definitely the person everyone wanted to be, everyone definitely adored him. Even when they didn’t want to
For example:
Remus: “this bloody chatterbox can’t understand I don’t want to talk to him, just let me sleep before we get to the new school” *James trying to befriend him immediately not mentioning his scars at all* “ig him talking is something that’s somewhat tolerable”
Lily: “James is a git. He doesn’t know how to get that someone people just don’t like him!” *sees James helping Remus after a full moon* “oh.. well ig he ain’t that bad”
Regulus: “Potter is a rude egotistical man who stole my brother and thinks he’s amazing. Well he’s not.” *mets James in the astronomy tower and James calms his down from his panic attack* “nvm then..”
Barty: “who’s this Gryffindor freak who’s all smiley all the time?” *sees James helping Pandora and Mary get away from a touchy stranger* “well ig his smile ain’t bad so why not show it off ig?”
Lily: I can’t really remember when “those boys😒” became “my boys🫶”
Lily: but they were the one ones that befended me against Severus so in my books.. they’re definitely alright.
Marlene: is he the one that is so fucking insufferably annoying and never shuts the fuck up and has never been hit it his entire life?
Lily: .. I wouldn’t say that, but if I were going to say that, I would say it about him.
Peter: do you truly think so little of me?
James, Lily, Marlene, Sirius, Remus, Mary: Peter, I thought the world of you.
Remus: he’d like me better if I wasn’t a “bitch”, I’d like him better if he wasn’t 5’9
Lily: I mean you’re both at a loss
Mary: But who’s actually gonna recover from this?
Marlene: Remus.
Harry: i grew up with a lesbian mother and a bisexual father, both of which have a wife and husband so I didn’t know straight people existed until I was like 6
Ron: [is confused on who has a wife and who has a husband] Hold up, I’m confused say that again but slow
Luna: wait me too
Pansy: that’s the life every child deserves.
Pete: what would you wish for if you had three wishes from a genie, and you can’t wish for more wishes, more money or to bring people back from the dead
Pete: I’d wish for everytime I’ve ever wanted
Lily: ..okay, im feeling some undertones
Marlene: I’ve had some pretty bad wishes icl..
Remus: cause have you ever had a bad thought though, like ‘I wish I was dead’ or something?
James: or like you wish you could disappear?
Mary: exactly
Peter: ..no.
Sirius: I try to think positive..
Dorcas, Barty, Evan & Regulus: [who just wanted to stop by] . . .
Sirius: what did I do to be this short, like why do I deserve this??
Peter: maybe it’s revenge from something you did in a past life
Sirius: you think I did a crime in a past life?
Remus: you do crime in this life, you definitely did it in another
Sirius: ..
Sirius: I guess..
Peter: what crime do you think it would’ve been?
Lily: break and entry
Peter: murder
James: arson
Remus: aggravated assault
Marlene: he ain’t a pussy guys (!!)
Sirius: thank you Marlene! I cannot believe them-
Marlene: he definitely did them all
Sirius: …
Marlene: and probably more
Sirius: okay thanks let’s move on-
Lily potter is sitting in the corner, of her baby’s bedroom, by the door trying to calm and shush the both of them, while she hears James going down, because of Peter. She can hear Voldemort ordering Pete to go upstairs.
She knows she won’t live, she knows this is her last day. She suddenly thinks back to her sister, saying this, magic, would be the death of her. Oh god, she was right.
Peter opens the door and turns around to meet Pete’s eyes. (It’s Pete’s eyes, but it isn’t Pete.)
Then it clicks in Lily’s mind: he did it. He was the spy, the traitor, the one who killed Marlene. Suddenly she thinks;
She’s hiding in the corner of a room, sobbing trying to shush herself, she knows her family is dead, and she knows she won’t survive.
And now she knows how Marlene McKinnon felt, Now she knows how Joan of Arc felt.
“ 'Cause all of my enemies started out friends “ but it’s Marlene McKinnon, James Potter and Lily Evans(Potter) about Peter Pettigrew.
James Potter spends his day having breakfast with his lovely parents and they watch their favourite show together and have fun and look through all photos and they had sm fun thinking about the past and talking about the future. Then Marlene and Peter come and visit James and his parents and they talk about them childhood and their favourite memories. Marls and Pete give James his birthday present, its a collage filled of photos, glitter and stickers and filled with little notes and written backstory of what happened in each photo. Everyone cries because it’s so cute and it’s a lovely present. Then James goes off with Pete, while Marls goes off to do something “urgent”, to see Remus and Sirius. James, Remus, Sirius and Pete go to a lovely cafe and they get coffee and tea and they talk about everything and anything, they have fun and have loads of laughs, then Sirius brings out their present which us a box, colourfully decorated and inside is James’ favourite sweets, photos of James with the others, in his deer form and by himself and his favourite muggle bands and sports teams. Then they put a bandana over James’ eyes and then bring him somewhere.
When they take his bandana off his eyes he sees, all his friends (Sirius, Remus, Pete, Marls, Lils, Reg, Frank, Alice, Barty, Pandora ect ect.) and they all around a decorated beach house covered in fairy light and laughter. James partys, drinks, drags everyone to the dance floor, dances, laughs, jokes, blows out his candles and wishes everyone and everything would stay this happy forever.
James was really drunk at a party he stumbled to the bathroom to be greeted by Mary, Marlene and Lily. Marlene and Mary, instantly aware of why he’s there, go over and help he get to the toilet to vomit. Lily stands there confused why they’re helping James. Like James “asshole pure-blood” Potter?? Marlene gives out to James while he tries to sleep on the toilet, so she tells him to start talking. He rambles about how he wants to go help Pete cause he left him alone of the sofa out there, how he has to help Sirius and Remus talk because they’re too nervous to do it by themselves, how he has to give advice to Dorcas because she doesn’t know what’s the best alcohol they have, how Pandora lost her shoes and he has to help her, how Barty is overwhelmed and how he has to get him out, that Evan wants weed and he was supposed to get some for him, and how he was supposed to do and help so many people. Mary and Marlene nodding along and rubbing his back and holding his hand like it’s normal?? Lily stands there watching James potter tell them how he doesn’t have time to be sick cause there’s people who need help more.
Lily realises maybe he’s different.
James “asshole pureblood” Potter
The first time Lily saw James for James was when he was being himself. James helping a first year that was really homesick and didn’t know where to go and how to find their classes - Lily was on her way to help them - James being there first on his knees telling them it’s okay and taking their hand and walking them to their class and getting in trouble for being late but not telling the teacher why, he got a detention for being late and being disruptive, just for helping someone. Lily realising maybe he isn’t just a pure-blood slob always getting in trouble for pranks, maybe he is a good person.
For the first time in her life he realised, maybe James is a sweetheart like Sirius has been telling her.