Sequel to Summer Girl 1977. Summer is over. Lily Evans and James Potter are in their seventh and final year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The world around the castle shifts, unmoored. Love and friendship become urgent, imperative concerns—become, perhaps, the difference between life and death.

A long night, an unbearable sister and her unbearable dinner party, a cluttered, brand new flat, and two glasses of wine, each. He knows just how to pluck at her strands and pull them loose; he knows just how to unthread her.

The last thing Lily Evans expects the summer before her seventh year is the infamous Potter family moving in down the street. But in the gold light of summer, James and Lily find themselves unexpected friends-and then, unexpectedly, more than friends. (Cross-posted from Ao3 under efk girldetective)

Things I absolutely did not expect the summer before my Seventh year at Hogwarts: 1) The Potters, infamously wealthy pureblood wizarding family, moves into a mini-mansion down the street from the lowly Evans'. 2) James Potter becomes a friend. 3) James Potter becomes a friend, plus other things.

Slowly, with care, he learned her. All of her. Jily/MA

It was ridiculous, really, prancing around her bedroom clad only in undergarments. The blasted things still had price tags hanging off them, price tags flaunting obscenely high prices prices she probably shouldn't have paid. Jily MA Oneshot