#platonic lilypad

[woefulstar]

when a fic has chapters dedicated to lily+sirius friendship pov >>>>>>>

[percyweasleyapologist]

Remus: You know, James gives Lily flowers everyday, I wish you'd do that too.

Sirius: Okay.

*Later*

Sirius: *gives Lily flowers*

Lily: ???

Sirius: I don't know, I'm confused as well.

[enbysiriusblack]

lily 'i only date jocks' evans and sirius 'i only date cringfail geeks' black are bestfriends btw

[siriusblackdevotee]

not enough people appreciate Lilypad friendship.

Sirius became Harry's godfather. Lily knew he would be perfect to raise him in the case she and James weren't around anymore. If James suggested him, Lily agreed without any issues.

Sirius could have been the Secret Keeper. Lily trusted all her friends, but the fact that the offer was made to him first, meant that not only did she trust him with her, her husband and their kid's lives, she trusted him the most.

Rip Lily Evans, you wouldn't have let Sirius rot in Azkaban

[the-sun-is-also-a-star]

everyone assuming that lily and sirius would bond over their sibling trauma when sirius is literally an older sibling who hated and ignored his younger sibling. yk. like petunia did.

[loonyloopylupin96]

Sometimes I think about how sad it is that both James and Sirius spent the final months of their lives locked inside houses under the fidellius charm.

[yourlocalchronicdaydreamer]

this was supposed to be a microfic for @maraudersgirlsprompts but it kind of turned into a one-shot sorry • platonic lilypad • 1129 words

“This is stupid,” Lily muttered to herself.

Groaning in frustration, she dipped her quill in her ink bottle and made to cross out her fourth attempt, only she used too much ink and blotted the parchment. God, she missed pens. Stupid quills and stupid ink and stupid star charts for stupid Astronomy. Why did wizards have to be so … archaic? What did they have against joining the twentieth-century and teaching students something actually useful to them instead of rote learning constellations?

“All right there, Red?” asked a voice behind her. 

Lily swivelled away from the night sky towards the figure in the doorway, only to narrow her eyes in suspicion. “What are you doing here, Black? Are you and Potter planning on blowing up the Astronomy Tower or something?” She paused. “You know what, if you did that, then I wouldn’t have to take this stupid class anymore, so go ahead.”

Sirius chuckled as he sat down next to her, glancing at the half-drawn star charts with words furiously crossed-out that littered the floor. “That doesn’t sound like you, Red,” he smirked. “Shouldn’t you be all for ‘following the rules and maintaining perfect grades’ or whatever?”

She glared at him. “I don’t sound like that. And for your information, I study because we’re at a magic school where I get to learn magic to become a good witch. Why on earth wouldn’t I want to try my best to learn that? Unlike you fancy pure-bloods, I haven’t been around this my whole life, you know.”

He nodded, as if humouring her. “So what’s Astronomy done to offend you, then?”

“It’s pointless!” she half-yelled. “Everything else we learn here is teaching us all about either magic skills or the magical world, all things that are helpful for lots of careers and also just being a part of wizarding society. I do well at those classes because I’m motivated to study for them, because there’s a point to them. But there’s no point to this, and unlike you, I can’t do it all effortlessly, so now I’m stuck working on this stupidly hard assignment instead of sleeping because for some reason they’re making us do a subject that can only be done at midnight even though there’s no point to it.”

He raised his eyebrows at her, leaning back. “You’re really passionate about this, huh? You don’t have any subjects in the muggle world that don’t serve much of a purpose?”

She shook her head. “I mean, in most subjects you’ll never use the content again after school, but they actually teach you important skills, like critical thinking. This is nothing but looking at the sky and memorising the names of a bunch of identical white dots. Why are we learning it?”

“Pure-blood nonsense,” he shrugged. “Traditionally, wizards have always put a lot of stock in the stars, have prided themselves on the fact that they know more about astronomy than muggles-”

“Is that even true?” Lily interrupted. “Muggles have been to the moon.”

“Who knows?” he said. “The point is, this is the kind of pretentious, esoteric knowledge that pure-bloods want their kids to have. Especially the Black family. Most of them are named after things in space. My name is -”

“The brightest star in the sky,” she finished wryly. “A fact that you’re always very fond of reminding everyone.”

He grinned. “I am very bright. But if you look out there,” he said, gesturing out the window towards the sky, “you can see my dear old dad, and my uncle Alphard, and cousin Bella. Andy’s got a whole galaxy to herself. And there, right at the heart of the lion, is my brother.”

“Regulus?” Lily asked. Sirius didn’t talk about his brother much; if she hadn’t heard his name called at the sorting ceremony at the beginning of the year, she probably wouldn’t even know that.

Sirius nodded. “Ironic, isn’t it, that he was named after a lion but I’m the one in Gryffindor.” He visibly hesitated, then spoke again. “Before I started Hogwarts, we were really close. But then we were separated for a year - because I left him all alone - and even now we’re in the same building, he barely looks at me. Sometimes I come up here just to feel like I’m with him because …”

“Because it hurts,” Lily said softly. “I get it.”

“I know,” he admitted. “That’s why I’m telling you.”

There was a pause again, and then he sat up, clearing his throat as if to shift the emotion out of the air. “Anyway, where were we? Yes - the Black family’s penchant for useless knowledge about the stars. It’s a huge part of our private tutelage, you know, memorising this stuff. I knew this entire star chart like the back of my hand by the time I was seven.”

Lily looked at him in shock. “Wait, is that why you’re so good at this stuff? Because you’ve been learning it your whole life instead of stuff like English and Maths?”

Sirius frowned, bemused. “Muggles spend that long learning that stuff? What is there to know besides reading, writing, and handling money?”

She raised her eyebrows at him. “God, I would destroy all of you smug pure-bloods in a maths test or a spelling bee.”

“What’s a spelling … never mind. Smug? Is that really all you think of me? I’m wounded, Red, wounded.”

“Not you specifically. Just … pure-bloods. It all seems to come so naturally to so many people, and there’s already lots who don’t think I belong in this world, and here I am having to work twice as hard to maintain the perfect grades so …”

“So you feel you don’t deserve to be here,” he finished. She nodded, ducking her head away from him out of embarrassment. “You know that’s rubbish, Red; you’re a brilliant witch. We’re only in second-year, and Slughorn probably already wants to set you up to be a famous potioneer just so he can claim to know you. All those Slytherins just have stupid, old-fashioned prejudices. You don’t need to prove yourself to them.”

“Thank you,” she said. “That was … uncharacteristically nice of you.”

“I’ll have you know I’m a very nice person, Red,” he said as he took the star chart from her. “Now, let’s get this finished so we can both go to bed, and in return, tomorrow you can use your potions genius to help me with that annoying essay Slughorn wants done by Monday.”

They stayed up there for another half-hour, bickering light-heartedly and looking at the stars as they filled up her parchment, and as they walked back to the Common Room, Lily was pleasantly surprised to find that she’d made a friend out of Sirius Black.

[fauna-flora11]

a drawing inspired by:

"James!" Lily reprimands, "Sirius' birthday party was supposed to be a surprise! why did you tell him?" James looks around, unsuccessfully trying to avoid Lily's stare, "He just-he stared at me with his big gray puppy eyes! i cant say anything to those!" at this, lilys angry facade falls as she get thrown into a fit of bubbly laughter.

"Hear that, Evans?" Sirius' voice calls from the next room. "My big gray eyes work better than your big green eyes," James scoffs, "We all know my big brown eyes are the one thing you both cant deny ," Lily chooses to ignore this comment. "Big eyes doesnt sound like a word anymore, everyone shut up!"

[pangaeaseas]

I probably am more invested in a platonic friendship between Lily and Sirius than I am in any ship involving either of them lol

[starsarestories]

fic: After All This Time by starsarestories

[beli-eve-ing]

I NEED more people to write and talk about lilypads friendship because I really believe that they would be best friends

[percyweasleyapologist]

Lily: Fight me! Sirius: Ha, look at your size! What are you gonna do, kick my ankle? *Later* Remus: Why is Sirius crying? James: Lily kicked him really hard on the ankle.

[enbysiriusblack]

i love you platonic lilypad <3

bonding over distant relationships with their siblings, outcasts/black sheep in their family, would do anything for euphemia and fleamont, chatting about the muggle world- sirius wanting to be part of the muggle world but not quite fitting in and lily wanting to be part of the wizard world but not quite fitting in, lily who hooks up with loads of people and sirius who isn't interested in that but they get opposite reputations, lily growing up doing a lot of mechanics/fishing/camping with her dad and doing that stuff with sirius, sirius taking her to london and showing her his favourite places he went to when he snuck out.

[lupiinist]

wicked but lily is glinda and mary is elphaba, so the 'no one lies a lily on their grave' in the no one mourns the wicked song hits harder

[siriusblackdevotee]

Sirius, the token male friend

Marlene: ugh shit, gotta piss

Mary: omg, pics?

Lily: yes! this place has nice bathrooms too!

Mary: nice, let's go girls!

Sirius: yeah okay, I'll just stay here

Lily: no, come with us

Sirius: ??? Lily, I'm a guy, I can't??

Marlene: aren't you like, gay or smth?

Mary: it's fineee, you're barely a boy!

Lily: exactly, so just get over here, we'll sneak you in

Sirius: *speechless*

[the-sun-is-also-a-star]

platonic lilypad...save me platonic lilypad...