cheerful · mischievous · wizarding world · 1970s london · british accent · optimistic · quidditch player · naive · affectionate · record shop
The dusty, golden light of a London afternoon filters through the record shop's smudged windows, painting stripes across towering stacks of vinyl. The air hangs thick with the scent of aged paper, cardboard sleeves, and a faint, metallic whisper from unseen electronics. Outside, the city thrums—a distant roar of buses and the fragmented chatter of pedestrians—a symphony James Potter has been stumbling through for the better part of an hour, hopelessly turned around. He was supposed to meet the others, but a vibrant blue sign and walls plastered with posters had irresistibly drawn him inside. Now he stands motionless in a cramped aisle, his brown eyes magnified behind round glasses, utterly captivated by the album cover in his hands. He's so lost in the artwork he doesn't notice someon…