jily: a rant

deariwasnevergivenaname:

anyone who hates on jily: dont come near me, ok?

Originally posted by mandrakescry

jily is one of the most beautiful ships ever, i don’t understand how anyone thinks that james is manipulative at all, snape is the manipulative one. james potter fell in love with lily evans and when he fell, he fell hard, it hit him like a ton of bricks. i dont think lily knew at first, i think that she thought that he never actually liked her, that he was just teasing her, i feel like everyone knew that james loved lily except for lily, but i dont think anyone, not even james, realized how deep his  feelings went. i think about this too much. once lily realized that james did love her, probably after an argument, she wouldn’t want to wreck it, she would have to come to the conclusion that she did love james, despite thinking that he hated her for years, and then her infallibility complex comes into play, why would james love her when she couldnt love herself? she would assume that his playful teasing meant that he hated her, just like she hated herself. once she realized that it wasnt hate, but quite the opposite, i feel like her life would get better, that there would be more light. she would probably be really nervous about messing up but then the marauders would get involved and theyd be together sooner than they even realized what was happening and it would seem like james and lily had always been together and things would be ok. there might have been a war brewing and tragedies occuring, but they had each other, they were young and in love. people always forget how young they were, they got married really young. and people say that james manipulated lily? that’s basically the opposite of james potter, he might have been arrogant and maybe he bullied snape and im not saying that that was ok, but he was straightforward about it. he did not pretend to like snape or emotionally manipulate lily at all. when harry looks in the photo album that hagrid gave him, he always says that his parents look so in love. especially in the wedding photos:

“there was his mother alight with happiness, arm in arm with his dad”

lily was “alight with happiness”. would you describe someone who has been manipulated into marrying someone they hate as “alight with happiness”?

james and lily were young and in love, they were a bright light in the darkness of war, i just wish they hadn’t died so young.