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hogwarts jily fic tropes i’ll never tire of

the “almost but not quite there” bit in every slowburn enemies-friends-lovers trope that encompasses every good jily fic:

• catching each other staring, not even caring that they got caught
  passing flirty notes in class
  
• literally everyone realizing they’re in love but them
  
• agonizing b/c ‘what if he doesnt ask me to hogsmeade??’
• months of angst&agony b/c they don’t want to ruin their ‘friendship’
• lily impulsively kissing james and then running away
  
• james being absolutely dumbstruck when this happens
• james going shirtless after a quidditch practice for some reason?
• lily being absolutely dumbstruck when this happens
• late night common room chats???
• james cheering lily up after she’s gotten an awful letter from her sister
• lily cheering james up b/c his beloved pet died
  
• summertime letters and james has an owl w/ a clever name even though he probably got it when he was 11 so it’d be named hercules or smth
• HOGSMEADE IS ATTACKED and they’re going to either rush toward each other and make sure the other is safe, or be a badass team fighting together
  
• ‘platonic’ napping b/c one of them doesn’t sleep well. bc of course
  

and then, established relationship at hogwarts?? is pretty much

• bets exchanging when news leaks that they’re (finally) officially together
• ‘sorry we’re late professor….we got caught up with heads’ duties’
  
• both of them coping (alone and together) with being muggleborn & pureblood in a society that doesn’t want them together
• lily wearing james’s scarf for good luck b/c of course she does
• defiling the heads’ office, or heads’ dorms, or both
  
• study sessions stopped short b/c snogging
• lily gaining the trust and affection and loyalty of each one of the marauders as they hang together
• jealous! snape
• that one uncharacteristic mcgonagall scene when she catches them snogging and gives them a light sentence (i.e. not skinning them alive) and smiles to herself once they’re out of view
• james making up holidays to buy lily presents bc she thinks its ridic how much $$ he spends 
• being ridiculous with the pda
• not platonic bed sharing…
• james absolutely hating slug club but going for lily
  
• literally being the hogwarts power couple they were born to be
• lily finding out abt the animagus thing bc james disappeared or ended up injured or smth. fight. snog and make up
• NEWT anxiety
• one of them bringing up that they wanted to live together after hogwarts
  
• in general, just, the more war angst the better. ‘what are we going to do when we leave hogwarts’ and ‘this the only safe place except your arms’
• snogging
• the marauders having that existential ‘what about our legacy’ crisis and go on a prank spurt just as NEWTs are wrapping up
• if a fic as the ‘leaving hogwarts in the rowboats’ scene i will cry every single time