#october 31 1981

[syrcinus]

October 31st, 1981.

[toorumlk]

a beautiful little family.

He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family […] The life he had lost had hardly ever seemed so real to him as at this moment, when he knew he was about to see the place where it had been taken from him. (chapter 16, dh)

[messervixen]

Lily should have survived.

“Harry was saved by his mother’s love-“ Let me stop you right there.

I present to you: James Fleamont Potter.

You’re telling me that James didn’t love Lily and Harry enough to evoke the ancient love magic that Lily saved Harry with?

Mr. “Had an ego the size of a lake but a heart to match it?”

He loved both of them so much that he literally died trying to give them a chance to escape and that wasn’t enough?

I don’t buy it.

The only semi-logical explanation I can come up with is that he didn’t have his wand and maybe you can’t do something like that wand-less but did Lily have her wand?

Even then we’re talking about a guy who literally became an illegal animagus at the ripe age of 15.

He also loves and cares for people so deeply and it was LOVE MAGIC.

Look me in the eyes and tell me James Potter couldn’t have just saved BOTH of them without his wand.

Exactly, you can’t.

Honestly I could go on about all of the reasons James and Lily dying didn’t even make sense.

This is just another thing that makes me question why they died the way they did.

Them dying on an order mission would’ve been more realistic. There were just too many plot holes in them dying in Godric’s Hollow.

In conclusion, the ending of the first war didn’t make sense. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

Edit:

Guys this post is not that serious I just mean that everything about what happened that night and the explanation for all of it felt like a stretch and kinda vague to me 😭

Even with the stuff about James not having a choice. Like yeah Voldemort didn’t verbally give him the option to back off but James still made the choice to try and hold him off.

Also James was a Pureblood and Voldemort made it known that he would spare them if they didn’t fight him because his whole thing was blood purity.

So like the “Lily was given a choice” still feels so vague to me.

Also Voldemort making the promise to Snape feels weird. Snape asked him not to kill Lily but Voldemort said that he wouldn’t as long as she didn’t get in his way. And Lily did get in his way of killing Harry so he didn’t break that promise by killing her.

Yeah he probably could’ve just knocked her out or something but he still didn’t break any promises.

And the whole reason Snape joined Dumbledore before the end of the first war is because he didn’t think Lily would just let Voldemort kill her son. He didn’t make an unbreakable vow or anything so Snape knew that Voldemort would probably kill Lily.

[lucyxlz]

as a fandom, i think we’ve all agreed that remus’ favourite artist was david bowie and sirius’ favourite band was queen.

david bowie and queen made a song together called “under pressure” and was released in november 2nd, 1981.

two days after sirius and remus’ best friends passed away.

they couldn’t even enjoy it together because sirius was already sent off to azkaban.

i’ve never known a day of peace in my life.

[loonyloopylupin96]

On this day, around this time, 43 years ago Remus Lupin woke up to find his world a very different one to that which he fell asleep knowing.

[ladystardustblack]

Think about how differently things would’ve gone if Sirius hadn’t went after Peter. If for once he didn’t give into impulse and his desire to handle everything himself.

[summerboybabe]

me when i remember october 31st 1981

[the-luzer]

slaying for Halloween because the marauders cant

[marylily-my-beloved]

beachboy is so peter bc wdym 'i know you think that i dont care about the friends i left behind, the ones who stay up late at night, screaming out their shattered minds' isn't him thinking about remus and sirius after Halloween 1981

[crymeacriver]

Happy Halloween to everyone thinking about how James potter fell like a marionette whose strings were cut !! And also rip the 80s you would’ve loved Sirius black (he wasn’t dead just in jail)

[muggleborn-slytherpuff]

James: Tonight, one of you will betray us.

Sirius: Is it me, James?

James: No, it’s not you.

Remus: Is it me, James?

James: It’s not you either.

Peter: Is it me, James?

James:

James, mockingly: Is IT mE James?

[spiritstar477]

Happy 43rd anniversary to the time James Potter forgot his wand on the couch!

[accio-sriracha]

October 31st, 1981.

[moony-mars-bars]

Them*dressed as a rat*: trick or treat?🍬🎃🧺

Me: trick.

Their parents: oh that's not..

Me: it's fucking October 31,1981 all over again!

Them: ...

Me: it's just like how James died because he left his wand on the couch!

Them: ...

Me: and how Lily didn't survive!! MY WIFE DIDN'T SURVIVE!!

Them: I think we're just gonna leave-

Me: oh no wait here have some Mars bars

[4nythingforourmoony89]

James and Lily trusting Peter so much that they put their life and their son’s life in his hands will never not break my heart. They put their safety in the hands of their best friend and he betrayed them and got them killed. Knowingly worst of all.

Peter WAS close with the rest of the marauders. He wasn’t the odd one out, which is why the betrayal hurt so much. Because they trusted him so much as to put their life in his care, and he chose to save himself which in the end was for nothing

[theladwhoisweird]

He visited the Evans to asked for Lily's hand.

It's Jily Day!