Potions
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Alright so we all know that during an advanced potions cause at Hogwarts the students learn about Amortenia. Slughorn had decided that his potions prodigy, Lily Evans would be sure to help out James Potter, who was only taking potions because it was mandatory for an auror. So here we have Lily Evans and James Potter leaning over a finished cauldron of amortenia togethor.
“I can’t smell a damn thing!” - James
“Impossible! I’m 110% sure I got this right.” - Lily
“Well obviously not.” - James
“Well perhaps I could actually to smell something if you didn’t use buckets of conditioner this morning.” - Lily
“I wouldn’t be one to talk, the amount of rose perfume you are wearing is giving me an asthma attack.” - James
They continue like this for ages and the class slowly loses their shit.
That is until Lily realised that she ran out of her rose perfume last week and that James hadn’t showered that morning since Sirius was hogging the bathroom.
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Okay but what if all of the potions edits in Snape’s old textbook were just things he overheard James say in potions class because “no Padfoot you crush the bean! Cutting it doesn’t do anything! Trust me my dad told me”
But I love this because then when Harry always talks about how the prince is a much better teacher than Snape he would actually be learning from his father and grandfather…
I’m not crying
My eyes are just glistening with the ghost of my past
Based on what I’ve read on Pottermore, that’s basically 100% accurate cause James’ dad created a ton of potions (like Skele-Gro and the hair potion Hermione uses for the Yule Ball) and got super rich and that’s why James never had a job and left Harry tons of money. James would have handy potions making knowledge of that sort.
That’s exactly what I meant
A lot of people took this to mean that James was the one who was really good at potions and it was his favorite subject but all I meant was that he was probably very knowledgable about potions and couldn’t help giving his friends advice that Snape probably overheard
Like my dad is a doctor and although science may not be my thing I’m still probably more knowledgable than the average person especially with all of the lowkey medical work I’ve done over the years
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Ok, ok ok,
You know that joke that went around about “Why didn’t Harry recognize The Prince’s handwriting when he’d been staring at it on the board for 6 years?”
What if that was because it was James’s handwriting? He wrote the notes and Snape stole the book from James as a “Haha, fuck you, lets see how well you do without your cheat sheets” Then writing ”This book belongs to the half blood Prince.” to gloat that he took something from James Potter.
James is the only one we see use Levicorpus besides Harry.
I know that means James created sectumsempra, but still, it was a time of war and death eaters, maybe he created it as a last resort thing.
New head cannon
It actually makes more sense that James would have notated Sectumsempra “for enemies” because what would Snape care? If he wrote it, he would know what it does. Maybe James even overheard it or saw it used and wanted to warn himself in case he ever remembered the word but not the context and what would happen.
did you know snape was already the potions teacher when tonks went to hogwarts?
did you know she absolutely had to have done this at least once?
you can actually make love potions
this is the shit