i hope you're still doing these, they're amazing!! can you write about james and lily talking about the future+ what they want to do after hogwarts+ what the wanted to be as kids+ where they want to be in 20 or so years, etc you can include the other marauders too, if you want
When James Potter is seven he wants to be a Quidditch
player. No, he’s going to be a
Quidditch player. End of story. That’s it. He will be. There is nothing he
wants- and will ever want- more than Quidditch. Now can he please have a
chocolate wand because he cleaned his room real good mum okay I promise it’s
not all under the bed (lie)
When Sirius Black is seven he doesn’t care about growing up.
Sirius Black doesn’t care about much of anything, as far as he’s concerned; the
only good thing about growing up is that he will get to leave. And all he wants
to do is leave, because his mum doesn’t look at him like he matters, and Sirius
does not know quite how to take that.
When Remus Lupin is seven he cannot think about being a
grown up without seeing the blood on his curtains from last night, and his
mother’s look when he comes out of his room each morning after. Remus cannot
think of a job where he will be able to protect people from him, so he stops
thinking about it, it makes his chest ache.
When Peter Pettigrew is seven he doesn’t like thinking about
growing up. It is too scary, and it doesn’t make sense. He does not think he is
brave enough to be his Dad, or even his Mum. They are so big, and he is so
very, very little.
When Lily Evans is seven she’s going to be a superhero. She
doesn’t care that Tuney says they aren’t real, she just hasn’t seen one. And
Lily Evans, of all people, knows that sometimes things you cannot possibly
imagine are so real they are right in front of her face. Impossible things
happen all the time, and she can tell you that as a fact.
****
When James Potter is eleven he is going to be a Quidditch
player to end all Quidditch players. And he will get on the house team. He
will. He’s going to play Quidditch for England and learn how to beat Remus at
chess. Those are James Potter’s only life goals at this point. Oh, and to
understand girls, because Evans is bloody nuts and he utterly impossible, but don’t
tell her he said that.
When Sirius Black is eleven he plans to become the
headmaster of Hogwarts. He will make all learning illegal and all they will do
is play Quidditch and eat. He would make every single kid play a prank on a
teacher before they could go to dormitory. Yes, that’s it, he’s going to run
the best damn school is the world and he’s going to create positions for all
his mates to, James can be head of sports and Peter can be head of Charms,
because he likes it so much. Remus can be Professor of Keeping Secrets, because
there is something fishy going on with him and Sirius is going to find out what it is. Also, when he’s
headmaster he would let kids stay all year round, because sometimes when people
even think about going home it makes their insides feel sort-of lopsided. Like
someone has taken a Beaters Bat and smashed it round in their stomach. Some
people. Just some.
When Remus Lupin is eleven he’s going to be best friends
with James Potter, Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew for the rest of time. They
make him forget, and he likes forgetting, because then he can feel like a real
person, instead of a fake one.
When Peter Pettigrew is eleven he’s going to be just like
James. And Sirius. And Remus. He’s going to be just like all of them, when he
grows up, because they are the greatest and funniest people of the planet. And
they like him. And Peter would like to like himself, one day.
When Lily Evans is eleven she’s going to be a professional
potion maker. Potion’s is magic she can make,
she can chop it and mix it and crush it and see
it. Magic, though wonderful, is weird; she can do it and doesn’t know where
it comes from. But with potions Lily can see the magic; she can hold it with
her hands and create it. Lily Evans can create magic, and how could anyone not want to do that?
***
When James Potter is thirteen he’s still going to play
Quidditch. He’s always going to want to play Quidditch more than anything. So
stop bloody asking. James Potter is just going to play Quidditch, eat caldron
cakes and look at Lily Evans. What. He didn’t say that. He did not. Ignore that last part, or, at least, don’t tell Sirius.
Please.
When Sirius Black is thirteen he’s going to make out with
Mallory Fairbrother. That is his only life goal right now. And if you’ll excuse
him, that’s her, over there so he really must go very sorry yes ok what he
can’t hear you he’s already too far away.
When Remus Lupin is thirteen he might be a teacher. Maybe.
He talked to Dumbledore about it and he thinks he might be able to. Maybe he
could be a teacher. He hopes so; it makes him so happy to think that he might
just be able to. Teach, he means, teaching is so cool. Remus Lupin rather
thinks he’d like to teach when he’s older.
When Peter Pettigrew is thirteen he doesn’t bloody know.
It’s too hard, this future crap. He’ll think about it tomorrow, because dinner
is in five minutes and he really has to go, sorry, but- you know- dinner.
When Lily Evans is thirteen she’s thinking about becoming an
artist. I mean, yeah, she can’t draw for shit and her paintings are worse, but,
she wouldn’t have to do any bloody transfiguration, which would be nice. And,
okay, she hates drawing and her hand always cramps if she’s even writing for
more than ten minutes but, and this is the key point: no Transfiguration.
Because as much as she likes Professor McGonagall, if she looks at another
diagram on how to turn a tea cup into a tortoise she going to KILL SOMEONE
MARLENE I DON’T FUCKING UNDERSTAND
THIS SHIT IM MOVING TO AUSTRALIA THEY DON’T HAVE TO DO THIS CRAP.
When James Potter is fifteen he’s going to be a Quidditch
player. He HAS NOT CHANGED HIS MIND SINCE THE LAST TIME YOU BLOODY ASKED. Also,
have you seen Sirius, he stole the map and now he can’t bloody find him because
he, James Potter, does not have the map as Sirius bloody Black does. And you
know Evans- Lily, that is- does anyone else get a weird feeling in their
stomach when she walks past? Like it sort-of, drops into their foot? No? Okay,
forget it. Don’t tell anyone he said that by the way.
When Sirius Black is fifteen he is going to make muggle
motorcycles. Yeah, that’s it, he’s going to make motorcycles and then ride them
all the way around the world. Maybe to the sun, anywhere. As far as he can get.
He’s going to far fucking away from his fucking mother and her angry words and
slaps and his father’s jeers and his brother smug look. Sirius fucking Black is
going to give them the finger as he rides into the bloody sunset, so take that
and shove it up your arse dear, darling Mummy.
When Remus Lupin is fifteen he is going to be a teacher. He
thinks he deserves to be a teacher. James thinks he does, and so do Sirius and
Peter. Then again, Sirius also said if anybody had a problem with Moony being a
teacher he would unstick their head from their necks, so there’s that.
When Peter Pettigrew is fifteen he’s going to do something
brave. He doesn’t know what yet, but he’s just going to try and do something
brave, because he’s just so sick of being weak. That’s it; he’s going to be so
brave that James and Sirius will be in awe of him. He’s going to do something shock them all.
When Lily Evans is fifteen she’s just going to marry for
money. Fuck school. Fuck jobs. Fuck exams. She’ll just marry a rich bloke whose
good looking. Like, tall with nice eyes, like Potter’s eyes. Wait. What the
fuck. That did not happen. She did not say that. Nope. She’s just going to quit
school, not do bloody exams and marry someone who does not look like James Potter. Does. Not.
***
When James Potter is seventeen he’s going to marry Lily
Evans. He wants Lily Evans more than Quidditch. He’s decided, if it was a
choice between Lily Evans, and her voice and hair and smile and laugh and her
everything or Quidditch. He’d pick Lily Evans. He wants to hear Lily Evans talk
and laugh and smile and just exist, more than he wants Quidditch. And that is a
fact.
When Sirius Black is seventeen he’s going to fight. He’s
going to fight his parents and their beliefs and that guy in the paper whose
been killing all those people. He’s going to kill people, going to kill people
and rip their necks with his bare hands. Anybody who thinks his friends don’t
deserve to live just because their blood isn’t his does not deserve to be on the
same planet as them. Because they are great and wonderful and his. Prongs, Wormtail, Moony, Evans- all
of them. Fuck anyone who says otherwise.
When Remus Lupin is seventeen he’s going to be a teacher.
He’s decided. He’s going to finish school, kill this bloody bastard who thinks
he can ruin everything and be a teacher. Because they are going to kill him,
they have to so they will. That’s just how it works.
When Peter Pettigrew is seventeen he wishes to braver.
Because he does not know if he can do this, and is has a horrible feeling he is
going to do something very, very bad.
When Lily Evans is seventeen she wants to kiss James Potter
and make potions. She really wants to
kiss James Potter though. A lot. For always. Lily Evans wants to kiss James
Potter forever; Lily Evans just wants to be around James Potter forever. So
that’s it, she going to kiss James Potter and make potions. She thinks she
could be happy doing that for the rest of her life.
***
When James Potter is
twenty-one, standing in front of the wand he knows will kill him, he wants to
save Lily, and save Harry. He knows he can’t, but oh, how he wants to. He wants
this to be enough, his death, but it won’t be, so he just closes his eyes
instead.
.
When Sirius Black is standing in the ministry, far older
than he’d ever thought he’d be, he is happy. Happy because Remus is here, and
they are winning, and because Harry is just behind him. Because Prongs and Lily’s
Harry is so much better than he’d ever imagined he would be, and he is so proud
of his best mates for this kid. And what they did. Because right now Sirius
Black is alive and here and winning and everything will be fine. Everything
will be-
.
When Remus Lupin is turning a corner in the ruined the
corridor he is worried. Worried for his wife, his baby and Harry. Brave Harry
and all his friends who have come to fight with him. And although he is
worried, for his family and for his friends, Remus Lupin needs to be here.
Because Remus Lupin is a teacher and teachers do not desert their students.
So when the spell
hits him from behind he hardly feels it, and he is dead before he hits the
ground.
.
When Peter Pettigrew is in that cellar he knows that his
seventeen year old self was right about him. So when the hand closes around his
neck, he tries not to fight it, but instead tries to be the one thing he has
always wanted.
Brave.
.
When Lily Potter is twenty-one and pleading for her baby’s
life she just screams. She screams for of her James lying on the floor, still
and for Sirius, who will be blamed for this. She screams for what she knows is
to happen and for what is going to happen after it. She screams because her
baby will never know her, never know James or their house. She screams because
Lily Potter is too young for all of this, and there are still so many things
she wants that she will never have.
But most of all Lily Potter screams for her son, who will
have to do all of this alone.
***
(When they were young they wished to become heroes. So heroes
they became.)
Amazing and decimating. Just how I love fic to be.
So I just found out that back in the 90s, a famous British author wrote a series about an English boy with black, messy, hair and glasses who is told that he’s a magician so he and his pet owl enter the magical world that’s hidden in plain sight so that he can fulfill his magical destiny…
And the author is Neil Gaiman.
And the series is a series of comics called The Books of Magic.
WDC: I read somewhere that some of the details in Rowling’s books could be seen as borrowing from The Sandman comic books–I believe owls carrying messages for wizards was one example. Asked about this, Sandman creator and author Neil Gaiman’s response was basically so what? Storytellers pick up bits and pieces from here, there and everywhere all the time as they create original works. Why is this bothering you so much more than anyone else whose “bits and pieces” may have been borrowed (and note I say MAY)? Because you have so many examples? I’ve seen them on your site and think most of them are coincidental and lacking in substance, no more justifying this brouhaha than the owl messengers would be for Gaiman to throw up his arms and scream plagarism.
Nancy Stouffer: The fact is that initially Gaiman did throw up his arms and yell plagiarism. It wasn’t until he had a movie deal that his comments began to change. Initially he was terribly annoyed.
(This is the Nancy Stouffer whose case, when it went to court, was thrown out and who was ordered to pay two million in attorney’s fees and fined $50,000 for “submission of fraudulent documents and untruthful testimony”. She lied a lot.)
Actually, what I said, on the Dreaming website, long before this place existed, back in 1998, when this nonsense first started, was,
There’s a rumour going around that Neil is upset about the Harry Potter books being too similar to The Books of Magic. Neil asked me to post this to clear things up:
“I was surprised to discover from yesterday’s [Daily] MIRROR that I’m meant to have accused J.K. Rowling of ripping off BOOKS OF MAGIC for HARRY POTTER.
Simply isn’t true – and now it’s on the public record it’ll follow me around forever.
Back in November I was tracked down by a Scotsman journalist who had noticed the similarities between my Tim Hunter character and Harry Potter, and wanted a story. And I think I rather disappointed him by explaining that, no, I certainly *didn’t* believe that Rowling had ripped off Books of Magic, that I doubted she’d read it and that it wouldn’t matter if she had: I wasn’t the first writer to create a young magician with potential, nor was Rowling the first to send one to school. It’s not the ideas, it’s what you do with them that matters.
Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on.
(As I said to the Scotsman journalist, the only thing that was a mild bother was that in the BOOKS OF MAGIC movie Warners is planning, Tim Hunter can no longer be a bespectacled, 12 year old English kid. But given the movie world I’ll just be pleased if he’s not played by a middle-aged large-muscled Austrian.)
Not sure how this has transmuted into “Gaiman has accused Rowling of ripping him off.” But I suppose it’s a better story than the truth.
Did Warner Brothers Pay off Neil Gaiman, Worst Witch and Melissa Joan Hart? Warner owns the rights to Harry Potter. They later bought rights to Neil Gaiman’s work, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and distribution rights to the “Worst Witch.” They were the three main threats to the trademark.
After Neil Gaiman started squealing plagiarism, “Warner Brothers have optioned Sandman for a movie…” according to Neil Gaiman’s website. When it looked like ABC was about to dump “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” Warner went and paid the most it ever did for a comedy. How often does a show a network is dumping switches networks, let alone pay a record amount for it? Was Gaiman and the Harts who own the Sabrina show paid off?
Which, given that I don’t own Sandman or Books of Magic/Tim Hunter - they were both work for hire and are owned by DC Comics, a Time-Warner company, have been since they were created in the 80s – have never “squealed plagiarism” except in Nancy Stouffer’s sad mad mind and given that both Sandman and Books of Magic were first optioned for films by Warners some years before the first Harry Potter book was published, is not just astoundingly badly written lunatic conspiracy theory nonsense, but easily disproven creepy nonsense.
It really spoke to me, because usually the job of teaching a boy to tie a tie is left up to the father figure. Peter’s parents are dead, and Ben died the year before. Ben would have taught Peter to tie his own tie for homecoming, had he still been alive. This means the job was left to May. As we can see she clearly doesn’t know how to tie a tie, and in true modern day fashion turns to videos on the internet, but get this. She’s learning to tie it with him. I repeat. Instead of putting the video on and letting him have at it, she’s also learning along with him.
I appreciate Iron dad and spiderson as much as the next person, but I think we often forget that May was forced to transition from aunt by marriage, to mother figure. Then when Ben passed, she took on the role of being an aunt, mother, and father to Peter. She’s raising a teenage boy all on her own.
Half of both her and Peter’s support system is gone, and she manages to keep on like a trooper, while still supporting Peter.
She truly is an amazing woman who deserves such love and recognition.
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