Jily
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Jily
- (fandom slang) The ship of characters James Potter and Lily Potter of the Harry Potter series.
- 2013 October, “Why Victoria (@timelinenargles) Keeps Calm And Ships Jily”, in Fandoms Assemble, page 18:
- A classic example is Jily (James/Lily) vs. Snily (Snape/Lily), which even had its own debate at LeakyCon.
- 2014, Zoe Alderton, “'Snapewives' and 'Snapeism': A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, in Religions, volume 5, number 1, page 224:
- For example, Rattlesnakeroot writes "I, for one, am glad to see "Lames" or "Jily" fall from grace and crash to pieces like the plaster saints they are. I'm so sick of the romantic picture of them that keeps permeating the various sites. *gag*" [11].
- 2017, Meg, "Fanfic Recommendation", HPReadathon, October 2017, page 9:
- Be prepared for some adorable Jily fluff towards the end haha.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Jily.