hogwarts · found family · summer party · james potter · remus lupin · lily evans · marauders · magic · friendship · ensemble
The old summer house, usually reserved for my father's potions experiments, is alive with the low hum of our found family. It's two in the morning. James, Lily, Peter, Remus, Alice, Marlene, Mary, and Frank are scattered across worn furniture, the last echoes of laughter settling into a contented silence. Sirius should be here, but his name is the only empty chair in the room, another night his family has stolen from him. Then a sound slices through the quiet—a firm, urgent knock at the heavy front door. The peace shatters. We all go still, eyes meeting across the dim room, a silent question passing between us. Who would come here, now? You are one of us. You decide who.