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Lily Evans and James Potter

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I have always liked James Potter, it’s true… but I act like I despise him in every way possible. I scream at him. I claim that he makes me feel ill. I pretend that I don’t want to date him. Each time that I say ‘No’, and see his face fall; I feel my heart break a little. It hurts to keep acting like this. It hurts!

I can’t stand it!

So, why, if I’ve liked James since my hormones kicked in, do I say that he is the one that I would never love? Are people really that dense?

I do it because he isn’t right. I want him. I’ve wanted him since the first time that I saw kindness in his eyes. But we cannot have one another yet. He’s too immature… he isn’t the one that I want. He is, but he isn’t. I want to have that Potter boy who helped me carry my books that one day to class, but James doesn’t let him come out to much.
So I test his feelings.

I transform my passion into rage, and I shriek at him. I try to hammer into his head what is right. I try to make him the man that he is inside; the man of my dreams. I attempt to mould him.

If he loves me as much as he says he does, then his ardour should some day guide him into deciding that losing me is worse than stopping his antics. I wish for a man who loves me, and would let me love him back.

But, right now, his soul is too young. He states that he loves me more than the world itself, but I know better. His emotions and mind are too innocent and pompous to really feel like that toward me.

I will wait.
I will wait.
I will wait.

I will wait until we are out of Hogwarts.

If James Potter is not my true love, I will not linger around forever for him. I have to be practical.

I will remain until we are out of Hogwarts. Then I will go.
A short fanfic about Lily and James... I'm tired of all the stories about Lily being confused when she gets a crush on 'The boy she despises most' in her seventh year. I've always thought that Lily was a MUCH stronger character, and woman, than that. So I wrote this version of the lovestory. A version that I, personally, prefer.
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blueberryking's avatar
oh yeah, when i read the first few lines, i thought "okay, another corny fanfic" but then i read the entire thing and i thought this was one of the best yet, (not corny AT ALL ^_^)
and made the most sense coz most fanfic lily is a dummy, or l/j had a platonic relationship that james ruined with his love or prank, or that lily had a pet unicorn or snowy owl, or that she was a singer, a veela, and had beautiful prankster friends competing with the marauders (this beats them all coz the others are like WTF???)
sorry ^_^ got carried away