A medley of unconnected drabbles focusing on James and Lily.

How does Lily discover her buried feelings for James Potter? Picks up from James's and Lily's 5th year, shortly after Lily ends her friendship with Snape.

Samantha Zabini, black widow and professional assassin, sees Harry on the doorstep of his abusive relatives and decides to do something about it. She takes him to her home where she raises him in the art of death and sabatoge. Much later, a sixteen year old Harry's name comes out of the Goblet of Fire. Dumbledore will regret that move. Assassin Harry, war fic

He meets her in a tree. Innocuous enough that he should be able to forget it, but Draco Malfoy's life has never allowed him much choice in should-be's, so why would Astoria Greengrass be any different?

She was dramatic. He was dynamic. She was precise. He was impulsive. He was James, and she was Lily, and one day they shared a kiss, but before that they shared many arguments, for he was cocky, and she was sweet, and matters of the heart require time.

Their final year, their final chance at finding each other, his final plan to call Lily Evans his. To grow up. Full detailed summary inside. Canon pairings/characters. JP/LE alongside the ever wonderful Marauders.

AU. A version of how Lily Evans and James Potter would have met if they were only two university students in a world where magic and Hogwarts didn't exist.

Part I of in-progress trilogy [6th year]: The thing about being Lily Evans and James Potter was that you couldn't do anything without everybody else saying something about it.

Competition drives us all, but it affects no one as much as star Keeper Oliver Wood. Quidditch is life; Quidditch is everything. Quidditch is what introduces him to the newest Puddlemere United Chaser.

Potter was going to say that he wasn't my boyfriend. I couldn't let him do that. For the love of Merlin, I could not let him do that. I had to stop him. He couldn't tell her the truth. So I did the only conceivable thing I could think of. I kissed him.