We Gather Stones

The Sorting Hat doesn’t usually take input from students, but it listened to Harry Potter. And once before that, to his mother. a Slytherin!Lily AU

Read Years 1-3 now on ao3 or ffnet

Chapters: 4/10 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: James Potter/Lily Evans Potter, Sirius Black/Remus Lupin, Lily Evans Potter & Severus Snape, Petunia Evans Dursley & Lily Evans Potter, Marauders & Lily Evans Potter Characters: Lily Evans Potter, James Potter, Severus Snape, Petunia Evans Dursley, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Benjy Fenwick, Dorcas Meadowes, Mary Macdonald, Marlene McKinnon Additional Tags: Lily Evans Potter-centric, Slytherin Lily Evans Potter, Slytherin!Lily AU, Slowburn Jily, Enemies to Friends to Lovers,  Series: Part 1 of The way we are living Summary:

The Sorting Hat doesn’t usually take input from students, but it listened to Harry Potter. And once before that, to his mother.

Harry Potter moodboard: Lily Evans

character graphics ; harry potter

“under a tuft of jet-black hair over his forehead, they could see a curiously shaped cut, like a bolt of lighting.”

always the tone of s u r p r i s e

Your sons flew that enchanted car of yours to Surrey and back last night.

jily social media au:

the best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. -_the notebook, _nicholas sparks

happy birthday, zay! for @alicelongbottom! 

excuse the blurriness, half of it was made on photoshop, half on my phone.

you’re the one who is weak. you will never know love or friendship. and i feel sorry for you. (insp)

for eunice, aka @ronmiones ♥

James and Lily Potter. Killed by Lord Voldemort on October 31st, 1981.

“The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”

the marauders era: ( part one/ ∞ )

        what would you do differently if i told you that in a few years                                                                            all your lives would be torn apart ?

JILYTOBER: “He could still see his parents beaming up at him from the tattered old photograph, unaware that their lives, like so many of those around them, were drawing to a close”

He stopped on a picture of his parent’s wedding day. There was his father waving up at him, beaming, the untidy black hair Harry had inherited standing up in all directions. There was his mother, alight with happiness, arm in arm with his dad.

the night circus; the circus arrives without warning. no announcements precede it. it is simply there, when yesterday it was not.

Jilytober:

the story of lily and james potter through quotes from the harry potter books.

Not only was she a singularly gifted witch, she was also an uncommonly kind woman.

james + lily potter ♡