when you graduate hogwarts, you're both excited, and terrified. somehow seventeen, doesn't feel as old as it did, back when you were eleven, and brand new to this magical world. for your fifteenth birthday, james gave you a necklace, but for this one, he gives you a ring.

james/lily. based off the prompt 'we only remember each other in alternating lifetimes so every lifetime we have to find one another and convince each other that we're soul mates but half the time I won't believe you and half the time you're already dating someone else'

What if, when Harry heard the Slytherin part of the Hat's song, he payed attention when the Hat sung perhaps in Slytherin, you'll make your real friends? A little boy- friendless, and lonely. A little boy- desperate for the kind of friendship he had read about in books, seen on the television screen. When the Hat offered him Slytherin, imagine that Harry said yes.