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So I saw a post about how James Potter would never grow old and had an overwhelming feeling of “FIGHT ME”, and then I realized that the fandom never talks about what it would be like if he grew old, they just say they’re sad he didn’t…so here are elderly James Potter headcanons.

• He’s super, super vivacious. It’s like he never ages except he clearly does because hair is gray and he has a cane and has some back problems. But he never loses his zest for life.
• He goes to equality protests with the rest of the Marauders (which DOES include Lily) all the time, and tells the leaders that “he’ll hit anyone with a cane”.
• Which he would, because he has
• He fantasized about getting a sword installed in the cane. He once spent twenty minutes looking up places to do that, only to have Lily confront him later with a “please get me a sword, too”
• So he did, and sometimes they do battles in the front yard until something happens to someone’s back.
• James is that old guy that goes to quidditch matches all the time. The Chudley Cannons are in town? Whup, let’s go. He has this thing where he screams at the teams and waves his cane and the players never mind because it’s just like “it’s that Potter fellow again”
• Whenever he sees teams, he’ll make them sign two things: his apparel for them and a shirt that he will intentionally buy the week before and keep the receipt so he can prove he saw them recently. 
• He and Sirius have a thing where they’re in contest for “coolest grandparents”, and he wants to prove that he really is the coolest by having a shirt he bought “last week, my clone, see?
• He always calls James his clone because the two of them find it hilarious, and then he asks James about the Marauders and James will tell him stories
• He has inside jokes with all his grandkids.
• Him and Lily Luna have a contest to see who can unintentionally wreck the Potters’ front yard the most because they both kill every growing thing (but they try!), so whenever he greets her, he says, “wreck any yards recently?”
• Albus Severus is almost done memorizing the key sections of Hogwarts: A History so James and Albus have battles with memorized sections of Hogwarts: A History against Quidditch Through the Ages. They always have some joking talk about it when Albus arrives so they can both get their game up.
• They like to do weird accents as they do them, as well.
• Harry records all of these and sends them to Hermione and Ron because “hey look, Hermione, someone’s actually reading Hogwarts: A History”
• James’ messy hair never balds, it only goes gray. 
• Although he HAS suggested to Lily that he follow in his father’s footsteps an make a magical hair dye: one for Lily and him to share, because she’s graying too. It’s very visible since she almost never puts her hair up.
• She laughs and says she’d rather him share with Sirius.
• The people at the Muggle grocery store love him, because he sits there and tells all his wizarding stories for hours and no one can tell if he’s serious or not, but he’s such a good storyteller that it doesn’t matter.
• Whenever Harry and his kids come over he tries to help Lily bake something. It always turns out to be a disaster, but it always means he has a new story to tell them.
• He gives the grandkids gifts every time they visit. The real question is who will get a prank gift and who gets a real gift. 
• He does a similar thing with candy dishes by filling all of them with Bertie Botts. 
• He still rides out on his broom whenever he can.
• He has an old leather recliner. Because yes, of course he does.
• The Marauders meet up every week. They talk and they do projects and basically are an entourage at this point.
• Remus decided to grow a beard, which ends up looking like a few silly little wisps on his chin that bother all of them. Peter one day comments about how easy it would be to get rid of it in his sleep and so Sirius and James create a plan to hack it off
• (a plan that never works, because Lily tells him the next day and Remus decides to cut it off before Sirius and James can)
• James and Lily talk every single night and spend time together every single day. They never, ever run out of things to talk about.
• They have a chore rotation.
• Every night, before they go to sleep, he makes tea for Lily and himself (she likes chamomile with honey, his favorite changes every week). It’s the one thing he can cook besides Indian food, they food he grew up with, without entirely messing it up.
• He goes to sleep at nine thirty so he can get sleep and have a great day tomorrow, too, because he learned that you CAN be too tired to enjoy life, and he doesn’t want to waste a minute of it.
• He focuses a lot on experiences and friendships and relationships now, and he feels so lucky to be surrounded by so many amazing people that he loves, especially after the war.
• He went to treatment for PTSD after it was over. Harry had to, too, but there are nights when Harry wakes up screaming and James and Lily are there to comfort him and calm him down because they know what it’s like and they love him more than anything else in the world.
• James Potter lives a beautiful life as an older man and no one can tell me otherwise.

Hi! So, since it’s nearing the Halloween season, it’s time to get *festive*, and even though I’m on a semi-hiatus due to school and the fact that I am currently doing a lot in my cult of theatre, I figured nothing could be more perfect than changing my url to celebrate! I will switch back to @karkaroff after Halloween. Or possibly not. We’ll see. 

(also if you want to join me in being festive I have more dead Jily urls? Message me!)

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Marietta Edgecombe liked to separate her world into truths and lies. She did so every day with a brutal candor that would have impressed the best of lawyers.

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Hi, everyone! Basically, I will be gone for pretty much all of this July–half of it in Alaska with wifi I only know will be slightly good, and half of it in a camp at Washington State with wifi that will probably be much, much better (but will Tumblr be blocked??? Yikes…). As a result, I will be on a semi hiatus throughout the month of July (possibly not the second half of it, but that’s something I’ll have to see about). It doesn’t mean I’ll be inaccessible, or that my queue will be empty, or that no writing/creations will be posted. I have creations and the like in my queue, which is set for 15 posts a day, and will still be participating in nets and stuff, I’ll just probably be harder to respond/get to. Thanks, loves! Sorry for the pretty much useless message!

Prompt for @hpwritersnet: Minerva Mcgonagall

Minerva Mcgonagall was nervous.

She didn’t show it, of course, keeping her spine straight and her expression neutral. Her father, a pastor, had taught her at least that much: when you’re a flurry of emotions, keep the storm inside until later, and let your best face show. Minerva didn’t know how well this had worked for her father, seeing as she hadn’t attended church for some odd ten years out of her eleven.  But it seemed sound advice. So she kept the nervousness inside her as she listened to the giggles and whispers of her Hogwarts class. More than a few had made quite a few friends on the train and were eager to share their thoughts and fears for the sorting ahead with their peers.

But Minerva, or Minnie, as she liked to be called, had only made a single friend on the train ride–if he could even be called that. He had already gone up at the sound of his name (which was rather whimsical, Minerva thought, though her own name had caused quite the stir up in Scotland). A tattered hat had been perched atop his head for five long minutes before it roared a hearty “Ravenclaw!” and sent him to his appropriate table. She was happy for him; Filius Flitwick hadn’t wanted much, but he had wanted blue and bronze for house colors.

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