Marauders AU

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Characters: Mingle
Warnings: Gen to mature, smut warning?
Timeline: Fluid, this is an AU post, anything from Hogwarts to distant future
Preferences: AU'd characters. Feel free to use this as a mingle, post your top levels. And if someone out there plays James, I'd love to see you in this post too! Multiple versions of characters welcome and pile-up threads encouraged. So don't be shy to thread jack or start your own things.

WHAT IF JAMES AND LILY HAD LIVED
It's as simple as that. Maybe they picked Remus as their secret keeper after all and managed to mount an attack against Voldemort otherwise. This is just a silly what if scenario, go as wild with it as you like. I'll give some prompt suggestions below but feel free to invent your own, too.

1. ALL FAMILY FUN - PARTY AT THE POTTERS
Spending together family holidays or Harry's first day in Hogwarts. Maybe James and Lily didn't have time to take him to the train and instead the duty fell onto the godfather, or maybe Remus will help Lily to organize a birthday party, the whole million of Weasley kids are of course invited. What if Harry and Ron knew each other since they were babies? What about life changing things like first girlfriends or oh no, potions teacher who Harry can't stand? Sirius practically lives at the Potters, surely, is he begging treats from the breakfast table or teaching Harry how to cast jellylegs jinx even before he's allowed to use spells on his own?

2. SERIOUS BUSINESS - THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX
Now, what really happened? Did they change the secret keeper? Was Peter not the traitor after all? Maybe he deserted Voldemort's ranks before taking the dark mark. Maybe they're fighting a long, long war against Voldemort still years later and the kids will grow up to be warriors at childhood. Maybe they are on a run and Voldemort has taken over the wizarding world. Or maybe they managed to defeat him together. Have your own horcrux hunt?

3. WILD CARD - YOUR SCENARIO
????? Be the change!

Comments

[lykeios]

"I still find it truly amazing you can say something like that with a straight face, James." Amazing, impressive, whatever adjective you'd like. But the general consensus is that Remus has the most innocent face, on average, and all right, sometimes he likes to pretend at long-suffering innocence before hatching schemes. Someone needs to balance out the ruffians that make up his best friends, right?

Resisting the urge to tap Sirius' chair just enough to unbalance it, Remus commences an examination of the other patrons of the bar. "Shabby pickings," he murmurs. "Oh, school days, school days, where's a table full of Slytherins when you need one?"