Getting Ready🎃

Yesterday I drew this for Sirius birthday (posting it here one day late) Happy birthday my beautiful outcast!

james potter is sixteen the first time he looks at regulus black and sees the most beautiful boy in the world.

he is sixteen when lily's slytherin girlfriend, pandora, leans in as she passes behind him on her way to the supply cupboard in potions and whispers, "chocolate frogs are his favorite."

he's sixteen when he spends a full day walking around hogsmeade with regulus, neither of them saying much and both of them wanting the day to continue. "this isn't a date," regulus insists. "not till i leave my parents."

and sirius said he would never do it.

james is sixteen when regulus first sends him a wink that makes his knees go weak, and he's sixteen when the smallest touch sends shocks through his spine.

"don't hurt my brother," sirius tells him through a bitten-back grin.

"don't get too attached," regulus tells him through a too-sweet smirk.

the black brothers, peter told him once, getting all philosophical as he does, they'll be the death of you. james doesn't think that'd be so bad.

james is sixteen when gryffindor loses the quidditch cup to slytherin. he runs across the field to regulus, but when he goes in for a hug, regulus pulls back, smiling.

"not yet, mon amour," he says, and it's not until marlene dumps her water bottle on his head fifteen minutes later that james fully comes to.

james is sixteen when he goes home for the summer before his seventh year and regulus squeezes his hand before he leaves the train. "soon," he says, and then he's gone. james curls into remus and prays that this means what he thinks it does.

it's a week away from his seventeenth birthday when the owl comes, bringing with it a letter in regulus's perfect scrawl reading, i did it. see you on the first. james spends the entire evening telling first an exhausted sirius and then is mum about all the dates he'll take regulus on once they're together.

james is seventeen on the first of september, and when regulus jumps into his arms, it feels like coming home.

Remus: James have you ever won an argument with Regulus.

James: We never argue. He speaks French and I shut up.

sometime in their school years, harry and draco get into a vicious argument that ends in bloody fists and a month long detention from mcgonagall. harry realizes he's just so incredibly tired from having to fight off voldemort AND uphold his feud with draco so he decides to put an end to it by making amends and striking up a truce (friendship) with draco.

when asking for tips on how to go along with it from his close friends, knowing it will be difficult to get close to draco, they suggest that he go about it in the pureblood manner of "offering friendship," a lengthy ritual that's sure to work on someone as uptight as malfoy.

as per hermione's instructions, harry finds the book on the subject in the hogwarts library and proceeds to start the process on malfoy except the book has been charmed, by a previous reader so that it's not "the magical guide to compliant camaraderie" but rather "to woo a wizard: the beginner's lessons on courting."

instead, draco finds himself as the recipient of an ancient courting method and is just baffled at it all thinking it's a prank but slowly starts opening up to the idea of it while harry is following the instructions with the end goal being draco's friend, not realizing he's given hope to an already hopeless romantic who's been pining after him for way too long.

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Ody in the Cyclops Saga:

Ody 10 Years later:

Athena, bleeding everywhere and covered in electric burns: Do you have any idea what I had to do to bail you out??

Odysseus: uh. Fight zeu-

Athena: I had to DANCE Odysseus!! To DISCO!!

3rd years

no hope for that guy