We think we know someone, but the truth is that we only know the version of them that they have chosen to show us. There will be no further explanation, only reputation. (Slytherin!Lily/Gryffindor!James)

Lily Evans can't take her eyes off James Potter when he waltzes into the Gryffindor room with a confident air and a tray full of cupcakes. He's the cocky Hufflepuff chaser that helped slaughter Gryffindor's team on the quidditch pitch. Naturally, she ought to hate James like the rest of her friends but Lily doesn't hate him, not even a little bit. (Jily Hogwarts AU).

He asked her to Hogsmeade one hundred and thirty seven times. Then he stopped. And now Lily Evans has to battle her own fat mouth and mad head and the probability that number one hundred and thirty eight's going to have to be on her if she wants James Potter to ever smile her way again. Oh dear.

Lily Evans loves her local library. But someone is leaving strange notes in all the books she is reading. She is determined to find out who. Jily. Library AU

Lily wonders if, perhaps, you have to be mad to consider what such a thing as another person's sweat would taste like against your own lips. Smut.

He hadn't seen her in three years. Yet, here she was. On his doorstep. Looking exhausted, teary, and broken. A blubbering, incoherent mess and he still thought she was the most beautiful thing on Earth. Romione Awards runner-up! *Now upgraded to M, for more mature, non-explicit, content.* AU-ish

7 prompts suggested on tumblr for last year's Jily Week (yes, I'm late, I know).

As Voldemort is rising in power, Lily Evans is falling in love. It happens so slowly she barely notices, and so quietly that she's the only one to know. James Potter has loved Lily Evans since practically the moment he met her, but even he's starting to lose hope. A Marauders' era fic that spans their fifth to seventh years, with all the pranks, angst, and fights that that entails.

Lily's parents always told her she'd known her soulmate when she met him. But could the immature boy she met at Hogwarts be the same James who's name was written on her arm? Soulmate!AU James/Lily

A collection of Jily oneshots - Times, locations, and universes vary, but you'll find fluff, smut, angst, hilarity throughout.

Requested on tumblr: Lily starts falling for an insecure, yet charming crippled James, and naturally when his injury heals, girls throw themselves at him. (Auror!James/Healer!Lily AU)

10 different moments in the life of James and Lily. From 7th year until the end. Very little fluffy and angst-y.

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.

Another Ed Sheeran inspired fic - James is in a band, Lily is thirsty af. Muggle AU, Met in a Pub AU (a thing?), Smut.

"It turns out being head boy, your dashing boyfriend, and quidditch captain is quite the challenge." xxxThis was written for a Tumblr friend requesting the 'James calls out "Lily Potter" instead of calling out "Lily Evans' in public during an argument' Trope.

When Lily discovers her fated soulmate is none other than her friend's boyfriend James Potter, she does the only thing she can do- lie, and hope it's some kind of cosmic error. But in the ever complicated world of Hogwarts romance, nothing stays secret for long...

Because standing in front of him with her green eyes blown wide and mouth shaped in a small 'o' is Lily Evans and James is just about hoping that the ground would open up beneath his feet and swallow him whole.

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. (Gilmore Girls AU)

"We don't deserve her," the Head Boy answered thoughtfully. "None of us do. Not even me. Not because she's perfect. She's not. Sometimes I think she's even more disastrously flawed than the rest of us combined. And not because she's beautiful, even though she is. Certainly not for being lovely because she never was.We don't deserve her because she's so much more than we'll ever be"

"I'd like to assign the two of you a special, undercover mission," Dumbledore says, his wrinkled fingers steepling on his desk. "I require two Order members to pose as a newlywed couple."

In which James is oblivious, Remus plays matchmaker, Lily laughs at her boyfriend's expense, Sirius drinks, and Peter loses chess. L/J. One-shot, birthday smut edition.

"Nuh-uh, Evans. No way would Prongs skip out on Quidditch with me just to shag you.": Lily and Sirius make a bet for James's attention. L/J. One-shot.

She knew. She knew he was lying. She knew why he was lying. She knew exactly what had happened. And she knew exactly what she had to do about it. But it wasn't fair.

It all starts with some teasing banter beneath spindly branches and green leaves, all bundled up in a red velvet ribbon. L/J. One-shot, festive smut edition.

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.

It was beautiful, just beautiful, but the best part would always, always be right after.

"She likes me," he tells the hag, because the night before she had kissed him; she had brushed her hands over his spine and her fingertips had trailed lightning across his skin. — Lily/James - For Ela

"I think you're an arrogant, selfish pig, and I think you'd be doing both of us a favor if you just left me alone!" Potter stared at me for a moment, an unreadable expression in his hazel eyes, before uttering a single word: "Okay." J/L, Lily's POV.

The rules were simple. Provoke each other. Scream at each other. Snog each other. Do this as frequently as possible, but don't ever, ever kiss and tell.

Lily Evans has spent a very large portion of her life wanting to punch James Potter in the face - but when she finally does so, it's not for the reasons she expected. L/J.

"I hate how I bloody well love you!" - Minerva McGonagall witnesses history in the making. And plays a rather active role in it, too. ONESHOT

A summer storm ruins any plans that the occupants of the Burrow may have, but with it comes a unexpected arrival. With it, comes James Potter. Alive and well. Set after GoF.

LJ. Lily Evans keeps a diary in her seventh year to chronicle the strange, murky, embarrassing, and sometimes plain crazy events that a young witch set to graduate has to navigate through. Written in the style of 'Bridget Jones's Diary.' R&R?

L/J. A series of short vignettes. James and Lily like to appreciate the little things in life.

Lily's boss at the Daily Prophet decides she's developed an unhealthy fixation with Aurors so he sets her the task of covering Gilderoy Lockheart's book release instead. But it seems someone has taught Lily how to smell a rat anywhere she goes. LilyxJames

We don't remember days, we remember moments. A series of James and Lily drabbles. Part 16, a missing scene from Deathly Hallows. The story of how the vase from Petunia was broken.

Because dangerous things happen when we touch. And when he leans. JamesLily

JL She wanted him and he wanted her, and it was all that should have mattered, but for some reason it wasn’t and she felt like nothing was ever in her control.

Lily Evans has been distracted lately…and it’s all because of James Potter and his stupid, unbuttoned shirt. Hardly any fluff, but plenty of shirtless James for everybody. Seventh year fic.

Perhaps there was a deeper reason behind James’ fondness for his trusty old Invisibility Cloak, beside sneaking into Hogsmeade and wandering the castle past curfew? And why exactly will he not allow his girlfriend, Lily Evans, to wear it? One shot.

James Potter is losing shirts and he doesn't have a clue where they've disappeared to. [Oneshotish]

In her seventh and final year at Hogwarts, Lily Evans finds herself facing a tragedy that leaves her life in pieces. She ultimately finds great strength both within herself and those she never would have expected. FINAL CHAPTER UP July 8 05!

[Finished] Ah, the world of Hogwarts Quidditch, the game is exciting, the players are worshiped, the commentating is explicit and James wants Lily on his team. Things could get rioty. LJ 7th year.