diagonally:

It’s hard to believe that people who have read what McGonagall and Hagrid thought about James and Lily with their own two eyes actually hate James

prongsmydeer:

A thing that probably Actually Happened™: Someone asks the Marauders which one of their friends they would sleep with and Peter squeaks nervously, Remus says, “I’m not answering that,” and James goes, “Sirius,” at the same time that Sirius goes, “James.” 

meraudurs:

prongsno:

lily taking james out on a muggle date and james being Embarrassing™   

#getting stuck in revolving doors#insisting on paying for her food and then spending 10 minutes trying to get the correct coins#finds it offensive when the cashier/bus driver calls him chick and#‘its a term of endearment james’ bUT IM NO CHICK#going on a ferris wheel and literally being TERRIFIED#lilys like ‘yOURE ON THE QUIDDITCH TEAM. and we havent even left tHE GROUND’ (x)

jamespottuh:

i relate to james potter because i, too, am in love with lily evans and would do anything for sirius black and remus lupin

moonysfrexckles:

It amazes me that people defend Snape by saying he didn’t choose Voldemort, he was forced into it… Perhaps he didn’t choose Voldemort, but he chose fear.
Snape CHOSE to succumb to fear, to prioritise his life over Lily’s when it mattered. He might not have realised it at the time but even after he did, there was absolutely nothing stopping him from betraying Voldemort and warning Lily and James.
He CHOSE to publicly call her the most racist slur, to shatter their friendship because his ego was hurt that a girl was helping him, even though (from the sounds of things) she was the only person who was nice to him.
He CHOSE to surround himself with toxic elitist Purebloods, the kind that despised people like Lily, despite her trying to help him out and stick by him, which he then CHOSE to run back to after she abandoned him because he hurt her.
Snape might be a victim of tyranny, of influence and fear, but he CHOSE to be the coward and prioritise his own life. It was only when it was too late that he realised he chose wrong…

James, on the other hand, CHOSE to grow up and mature because he realised that his petty hounding of Lily and bullying of others was wrong and stupid, so he became a better person because he knew that’s what Lily deserved.
He CHOSE to join the Order because he loved her and wanted to make sure there was a future for them, a future where they could live happily ever after.
He CHOSE to defy Voldemort THREE times, despite his fear, despite the fact he could have died any of these times and countless more before and after.
He CHOSE to face the darkest wizard of all time, wandless, unarmed, because his wife and their baby could escape in the time it took for his body to hit the floor and there was no chance it wouldn’t hit the floor. James Potter was many things but he was not an idiot. He knew that facing Voldemort at that point would be the last thing he did, but you know what?
He CHOSE to do it. He decided that Lily’s life, and Harry’s, was more important than his own. He felt the fear but he fought against it because THAT IT WHAT YOU DO WHEN YOU ARE IN LOVE.
And I appreciate that that is a difficult thing to do, especially in Snape’s position, so Snily shippers can ship that pairing until the cows come home, but it will never EVER stop being true that Snape chose himself because of his fear, but James chose Lily in spite of it.