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“It’s a mutually beneficial arrangement, Evans. Simple quid pro quo — you help me, I help you.”
Or: All James wants is to pass his next Muggle Studies exam. All Lily wants is for Bertram Aubrey to notice her. Maybe they can help each other.
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03 Mar 2026
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In her first year at uni, Lily Evans broke her own heart. She always thought her relationship with James was simply an issue of timing and that things would eventually work themselves out.
It's been nine years now...and she gave up on that hope long ago.
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23 Feb 2026
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On Halloween night, 1981, James Potter sacrifices his life to save his wife and infant son. A powerful form of blood magic is evoked, and Lily Potter falls into a coma. The world moves on around her.
Thirteen and a half years later, Voldemort returns to life...evoking the blood magic once more. Lily wakes up to discover that she has been betrayed in more ways than one. By a sister, an ally, a mentor, and a friend.
As the Wizarding world teeters on the edge of chaos once more, Harry and his mother soon find themselves in a fight for their lives. While Harry struggles against the Ministry's smear campaign and the Dark Lord's ceaseless vendetta, Lily gets a job at Hogwarts, rejoins the Order of the Phoenix and vows to get her revenge.
She will win this war. She will protect her son. And she will make the traitors pay.
AU beginning at end of GoF, with the POV alternating between Lily and Harry.
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31 Dec 2025
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Lily got pregnant at sixteen and left Hogwarts to work at an inn. After seventeen years of single parenting, she now has to manage a persistent James, nosy villagers, and a son who's all too interested in joining the Order.
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21 Oct 2025
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The old Lily Evans chose casual flirting, a bit of light dancing, an exchange of numbers, and a hope for a future when she met a man.
The new Lily Evans, however, is tired of that same old song and dance. She wants to forget about the future and enjoy the reckless now.Bookmarked by BitterSeas
12 Sep 2025