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An impossible love that spans decades.

We all know what happened that fateful night in Godric's Hollow... but have we all seen it through Lily's eyes? Written as half narrative, half stream-of-consciousness, this fic offers a new look at the pain, fear, and ultimately, love that Lily Potter felt on October 31, 1981. Inspired by Billy Joel's "Lullaby"

James has always loved Lily's laugh. When things go bad between them, he tries his hardest to make her smile again.``It takes five years, but he eventually gets it right. Songfic to Dashboard Confessional's "Hey Girl."

James Reflects on becoming a father in the times of Voldemort. This is a song fic to Creed's "Arms Wide Open."

Sirius/Remus vignette. Beginnings.

Severus Snape and Lily Evans haven't spoken for months. The Slug Club Christmas Party forces them to.

A Lily-centric look at her family and her days at Hogwarts. Times weren't so tough, Petunia wasn't exactly evil, and James and Sirius get on her bad side because they're, well, eleven-year-old boys. This fic is about fun, and remaining true....

The semi-annual Yule Ball is approaching and Harry doesn't know what to do... should he ask the girl of his dreams? Meanwhile, a certain Gryffindor ghost thinks about a smilar situation he once saw... Harry/Luna and Lily/James

Remus Lupin reflects on the life of Lily Evans-Potter and the major impact it had on him.

Once upon a time, there was a boy who liked a girl. He asked her out. She said no. He asked her again. And again. And again. And again... L/J ficlet, short and sweet.

When a visitor from Mount Olympus comes to Hogwarts, some are happy and some are ... not so happy. Lily/James.

COMPLETE. After Lily's roommate convinces their Charms class to participate in a friendly Secret Santa gift exchange, Lily starts to receive surprising presents from an anonymous source. One-Shot.

Newlyweds Lily and James Potter go shopping for china patterns, but Lily ends up finding much more than dishware.

I was just going to go inside. Harry was sleepy; it was time for his nap. But James’s words had stopped me dead in my tracks. “Harry, we’re not going to live longer, your mother and me.” an optional prequel/sequel to Brahm's Lullaby

Ollivander mentions four wands during Harry Potter's visit to his shop. How did those wands find their owners?

A lullaby has never been so unsettling. Lily’s last moments entailed more than a sacrifice for her son. No one ever said that dying was easy. Canon one-shot.

Lily and James Potter, an infamous couple, the parents of The Boy Who Lived, laid down their lives to protect him. Switch back to the past by a few years, and on the happiest day of his life, James Potter is trying to stealthily climb out the window and scarper off down the road...

The wizarding world is on the verge of the first war. A war that will alter so many lives with sadness, bravery and most unforgiving of all, death. Even though love burns brightly, the future is dark...and it's coming, whether you're ready or not.MWPP.LJ

When James Potter asks for Lily Evans' hand in marriage at the end of their seventh year at Hogwarts, Lily is thrown off balance. With the approaching dangers that the Dark Lord brings as they leave the safety of Hogwarts, Lily is not so sure that she can commit to a man like James. After all, how can she know for sure that she can love and cherish him...forever?

Sequel to "Free Falling" and Part II of the Falling Trilogy. When James Potter receives threatening notes from Voldemort, he runs away trying to keep his loved ones safe, only to be captured by the Dark Lord. The Dark Lord reminisces of his past, his childhood, leaving James believing Even Angels Fall.

James has made an important decision. Now all he has to do is find some way to complete his task. His relationship with Lily is at risk if he fails.

Did you ever wonder why Snape hates Harry so much? Did you think it was because he was bullied and teased by James? Moaning Myrtle may hold the keys to unlocking "The Best Kept Secret." Future chapters will reveal insights into Malfoy's other side, who Mrs. Norris really is (or was), be introduced to a new character named Refus the Elve, and find out about the other dark wizard Dumbledore defeated.

What happens when you have an abusive boyfriend, your life has been turned upside down and the girl you like won't go out with you?``...just ask Sirius, Lily and James.``(filled with drama, romance, fights and sorrow...these conversations have it all!)``L/J, S/OC and LM/OC

The Marauders' fifth year: O.W.L.s, Lily and James (ooh, la la!), Snape vs. Marauders, full moons, werewolves (well, ok, werewolf), Peter acting suspiciously (hmmm), and more! Join the Marauders and other future Order of the Phoenix members for their fifth year at Hogwarts!

What do you do when your life takes a turn down a road you don't want to go?

"You'd have thought he was merely bored - asked if I'd finished with my newspaper, cool as you please, said he missed doing the crossword."``~Cornelius Fudge, Minister for Magic, on Sirius Black``On a lazy Saturday morning, Sirius, Lily and James attempt to do the crossword puzzle. Baby Harry watches.

Lily and Petunia are starting a normal day when something not-so-normal happens at the breakfast table.

Lily Evans hated James Potter. James Potter liked Lily Evans. Fate is about to take a turn down a road that could only lead to the following: sadness, happiness, romance, and a little interference from the Marauders, of course! L/J

A first - my first sweet, fuzzy piece of lovey-dovey fluff; it's Lily/James, of course, and rather short. At what point in a relationship do you know you're in love?

James proposes to Lily. Not in the traditional way.

Halloween 1975. Fifteen year old James Potter had no idea what the next six years will bring, and he's too busy with his friends to worry about it much. Follow James and his friends as they grow and make the decisions that will lead them to the events of Halloween 1981.

When baby Harry turns up on the Dursleys' doorstep, Petunia must decide how to respond to the new arrival. What went wrong between her and Lily? How did she decide to keep Harry?

Azkaban brings back memories you thought you destroyed. Sitting on this bed, the vapours of the Dementors swarm around you, stripping from your mind thoughts of your house, your wife, your son, your wealth, your power. It leaves only flashes of red hair and a pretty face.

The sequel to Hey Girl. After the events of the previous week, Lily finds herself questioning James. A night in the Three Broomsticks pretty much seals the deal.

Discussion about what the occupation of Harry's parents might have been.

The Marauder have a big booze up after flattening Slytherin in the Quidditch cup, unfortunatly, they wake to some horrific conseqences...

James is a git, and he knows it. He blows his chance to ask Lily to the Valentine's Day Ball, then something 'magical' happens...

James and Lily return home after finding out about the prophecy and deal with their reactions.

Two young men, two infants, two generations, and promises made on the brink of war and in its aftermath: the legacy of family and a godfather's love. (Harry, Sirius, Teddy)

We are teenagers finding ourselves in a steadily darkening world. We are children and adults, confident and conflicted. We are different and we are the same. We are brave, ambitious, loyal and clever, arrogant, selfish, foolish and haughty. We are lovers and fighters and friends. We are Hogwarts, class of 1978.

One-shot. As Lily waits for James to arrive she thinks back to the night that changed her life, the night she discovered the Marauders' secrets, the night she realized that she loved James Potter.

The Marauders play a prank on Lily. Lily's revenge is sweet. MWPP, third year.

The story of James Potter and Lily Evans until the very end..

A slightly fluffy, rather angsty fic on the L/J relationship, told from Lily's perspective. Mostly, it's about... Love. Destiny. Choices. All that good(and yet supremely painful) stuff.

Late at night, alone, she reads the letters. One day, she might write back... A tale of two sisters, driven apart by different worlds. A wish, a hope, a fantasy - for what might have been.

Lily Evans is a tomboyish girl who seems to freak out the boys in the muggle school she attends, that is, until she is accepted into Hogwarts and meets three boys who accept her for who she is.

Petunia Evans receives a letter.

"There she was, on the other side of the Hall. She was leaning back in her seat and staring up at the sunny sky wistfully. The light made her hair shine gloriously, looking almost golden. I stared at her, completely under her spell. "

Pranks galore! Romance guaranteed! A fic set in the time of the Marauders, Lily and a new character. What could have happened?

Harry is at school, James is dead, Remus is off with Tonks, Sirius isn’t home; it’s just Lily, all alone at 12 Grimmauld Place. She looks through her closet in the room she used to live in as a teenager, only to re-vist old memories and re-open old wounds. Very A/U.

She thought love lasted forever. ``He knows better by now. I don't think that there are Happily Ever Afters, she would say. And Remus would smile at her and say I think this is Happily Ever After. R/L.

Part III in the To Make Lovers From Friends series. The title says it all.

Harry celebrates Christmas with his friends while memories of long ago float through.

To the song of Eric Clapton's 'Tears in Heaven', Lily talks subconsciously to her son. To me, I think this one-shot shows the type of feelings a mother would go through watching her child grow up without her.

Why did he have to choose her?

Before the Dark Days. MWPP First Year. Follow the journey of an ordinary young man, with a not so ordinary furry little problem, through his first year at Hogwarts. Please Read & Review.

James wonders what Lily has done to him, but when they talk, both of them end up confused.

A pair of eyes can mean a lot of things to someone. A pair of bright green eyes bring up some painful reminders of a tormented past to Snape. With the help of Sirius Black, can Snape sort out his feelings and come to terms with himself and a pair of green eyes?

The purest and truest form of courage is found not in a being’s lack of fear, but in their ability to keep going even when it blocks their path. ``Each of these chapters holds in it the story of a different passing. Some``are the passings of lives, some are the passings of a former self. ``Something is lost in each that cannot return, but often when one thing is lost, something else is left behind.``These are the stories of Lily and James Potter, Sirius Black, the Longbottoms, and others who have each lost something different.

Upon learning that she will be Head Girl and James Potter Head Boy, Lily Evans writes him a letter. It's not a standard letter of congratulations, as is Lily's habit, or a letter proclaiming her love for James, as is his wish, but maybe, just maybe, there's hope for him yet...

A short, one-shot, fluffy fanfic about how Lily finally overcame her dislike for James, told from our favorite MWPP redhead's perspective. My version of "how it all started"....

"If they were on speaking terms, Remus would scoff and ask him how he could tell the difference between one white, cotton shirt and another, but Sirius could, and did."

Severus Snape stands, quite literally, on the precipice between heaven and hell when he finds himself greeted by Albus Dumbledore--and his thoughts on life, love, and Lily.

James Potter can be called a wizard. He has just turned eleven years old and is, unbelievably, one of the last remaining descendants of Godric Gryffindor himself. I could even go as far as letting it leak to you that he is his, the brave hearted Gryffindor’s, true heir. Our tale begins a just over a month before the start of term of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry, on James’ birthday. There he begins one of his most exciting adventures yet. He discovers all the secrets of his treasured school, and even joins the Marauders. He helps in the defeat of the dark alchemist Ersatz, and gets his spot on the Gryffindor Quidditch team as one of the three chasers. You are just about to be told the tale of James Potter...

This is my version of the whole L/J romance thing, but it not only focuses on Lily and James, but their friends as well. It takes you from fifth year to the day they die. All your fave characters and some OCs I'm sure you'll love!

When the baker of Godric's Hollow gets a new customer, he is so intrigued by her that tries to discover her secrets.

Lily comes home to find James behaving in an unexplained manner. Is he polyjuiced or does he have some mysterious plan up his sleeve? One-shot

I'm really bad at writing these, but I'll try. I'm tired o fall the fics where James and Lily were always together, so I'm going for something different. Sirius/Lily

Lily and James discover that love at first sight really is possible when they first meet their newborn son.

Lily wakes up to find half her house has burnt down, and the crib in the nursery is empty... Lily/James, darkfic.

We enter the life of Kaelie Hunt, a stubborn, passionate, and hilarious seventeen year old girl, who has just entered her final year of Hogwarts. The only thing getting in her way from having the perfect last year? The Marauders, of course. Or rather: one marauder. Sirius Black.

A summer interlude between Lily and Severus after their falling out. Sometimes you don't know what you want until you get it, prepared or not.

James and Lily are in love, but can Lily keep acting as though she hates James? Even towards James?

Remus has more than a small crush on Mina, the daughter of the current Chrestomanci. What will happen when he finds out than there is more than what meets the eye about Mina?

James asks Lily to the Ball. It was supposed to be an Astronomy Tower story but I just couldn't make it fluffy, hard as I tried. It's not really sweet and, no, the title has nothing to do with emotions.

Remus must help a fellow Gryffindor when she starts to get threatening letters...who could do something like that? Someone that obviously wants her dead.

Lily and James lived in time of war, but their lives were always defined by love and laughter, not death. The story of Harry's parents and their friends, from their days at Hogwarts to their final confrontation with Voldemort.

Sirius Black has a problem. He's been in love with Remus Lupin for ages, so why is he in bed with his best friend's wife on the night of a full moon?

Have you ever wondered how James managed to get Lily Evans to marry him? If your answer is yes, then you're in good company. Harry asks Remus how on earth his parents ended up getting together. [J/L]

Sirius, Remus and Peter manage to bribe Lily into going out with James! Will they kill each other or will they get along? Will this develop into something more?

We know that James and Lily started dating in their seventh year, after James had "deflated his head a bit". But what was the reason behind his change, and just how did it come about? L/J

Ever wonder where Lupin heard about the 'Waddiwasi' spell he used on Peeves in PoA? Wonder no more, here's the story behind it.

Sirius arrives at Godric's Hollow on that fateful Halloween night. Get your tissues ready...

Lily Evans is seventeen years old, and she's never been in love. She's a bit worried about that, but resorting to Muggle superstitions? That's a bit drastic, isn't it?

On a lonely Christmas Harry gives himself the best present ever by stumbling upon a way to spend a few hours with his parents.

All Hallows Eve in Godric's Hollow, and Lily takes a moment to reflect upon her son and huband. Surely, they've taken every care and have earned a moment to bask in the comfort of this moment and their plans for the future, haven't they?

It's the night of October 30th, 1981, and one-year-old Harry is having a hard time getting back to sleep. Since his mother is sleeping, James decides to take care of him and tell him his plans for their family's future.

Songfic to Bryan Adams' "Summer of '69" about the life and death of the Potters.

Who'd have ever thought that the night Voldemort came to murder Harry, Lily and James could have been so. . . . amusing? Find out what really happened on that tragic and very silly night, and what spell Lily actually used to save her infant son.

Molly Weasley looks back on the road she's taken, the lives that she has changed and the peoples who lives have changed hers.

There’s no escaping the inevitable. Call it fate, or fortune, or force of will, but there’s no escaping it. Because Sirius fell in love with his best mate’s girl, and, though he didn’t mean for it to happen, she fell in love with him. [Fourth and Final Part of The Heart’s Progress, a series of vignettes inspired by the poetry of Pablo Neruda]

AU: What if Lily and James had a different Secret-Keeper? It's not Sirius, or Remus. In fact, it's not even a wizard!

How do you defeat a Dark Wizard? By thinking like one, of course - and how do you think like one? You become one. Two children were selected from the flock that year, by the slim, once beautiful hand of a woman who had also once been Tom Riddle's lover...

(Addition to the "Stuck in a Room with You" series.) Although everyone is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, the one with the earmuffs will prevail! Also featuring a house made of chocolate.

Lily and the Marauders are out of Hogwarts, living on their own. James and Lily are engaged, but not married, and they live in Godric's Hollow. ``When a legitimate theatre opens in town, presenting the play Les Miserables, Lily is ecstatic and encourages the boys to``audition with her. However, there turn out to be more than wholesome muggle-borns who are interested in this project. Rated R for some bad words our darling ickle Sirius couldn't keep to himself! (Bad dog!)

Have you ever wondered what exactly the Marauders did while in class? Why, they wrote notes, of course! Here and now you can read the REAL notes from all four marauders with a special quest appearance from Lily Evans (soon to be Potter)! JP/LE, SB/OC, RL/OC, PP/please; you really think I'd give HIM someone to love?

Choices. It's a part of growing up. They aren't always easy to make and the consequences can bring you down paths you never would have imagined. Can the bonds of friendship survive? Can love continue to grow when each day seems darker with rumors of war on the horizon?

Eleven years ago, a former American Death Eater by the name of Robert Peters and his wife, Catherine, left their infant daughter on the steps of The Merlin House Orphanage in Diagon Alley, never to be heard from again. Now in 2000, Lily Marie Peters is eleven years old and about to begin her first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. With a mysterious sapphire necklace to guide her, Lily will unlock the secrets of her past and find more than she expected within the castle walls... An OC story with a tinge of AU added later in the series.

James wakes up too early for Lily's liking, and she thinks something's up. Well, she's right. Sirius makes small talk with Narcissa at breakfast, Alice is hopped up about Honeydukes. Remus reads poetry, Lily daydreams about a baby. Prongs proposes, James gets a dunk in the lake. Butterbeer flows. Fluffy James/Lily piece.

A new girl mysteriously appears at Hogwarts during the Marauders' sixth year. Her journey to self-discovery leads her to uncover the truth about an unknown time guardian and prophecies that will help her set everything right...in time.