The students you bickered with in second year are the ones you're dueling to the death in seventh year. At nineteen, you have seen life leave the eyes of more people than you can count on both hands. A story following a few members of the first Lost Generation of Hogwarts, both Order and Death Eater, between 1976 and 1981, focusing on Lily Potter (nee. Evans.) Pairings inside.

(reupload) "I could be James," he says, but he cannot be, because James is dead. Though if you live too much in years gone by, the lines between the past and present - as viewed through an empty brandy glass - may soften and pool like melting wax. Sirius/Harry, Sirius/James, Sirius/Remus.

You'd think that attitudes would start changing in the enlightened era after the defeat of Voldemort. Except they really don't. Inevitably, even those who break the mold end up reverting back to the old ways in some form or another. Rated for later AS/S.