James Deserves Better!

The report by "Eyes of the Future" undoubtedly caused a huge stir.

Many young wizards began asking their parents about Lily Evans, Professor Snape, and the Marauders during their school days.

After receiving mostly affirmative answers, the article's speculation became all the more credible.

This also prompted Dumbledore, the Order of the Phoenix, the Ministry of Magic, and The Daily Prophet to issue clarifications one after another, announcing:

The woman was Lilac Evans, Harry Potter's maternal aunt.

She looked exactly like Lily Evans simply because they were sisters.

She was close to Snape because of their shared history and their future working relationship.

Lilac Evans would soon take up the post of Potions Class teaching assistant.

Yet not many people believed those statements.

Instead, they found the speculation in the "Eyes of the Future" report even more convincing.

Some even linked it to Lupin.

After all, Hogwarts had never had the position of teaching assistant before.

The position had practically been created specifically for him.

And with the connection between Lily Evans and Snape now obvious,

it suggested that teaching assistant positions were meant for the lovers of the corresponding professors.

Thus, Lupin, the Defense Against the Dark Arts teaching assistant,

and Tom Riddle, the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, began to seem suspiciously close as well.

Combined with the strange circumstances under which Riddle had become a professor,

someone even compiled it into a long, heartrending romance novel about Dumbledore, Riddle, and Lupin.

It got to the point where Tonks had no choice but to come forward on newspapers and television to clarify her romantic relationship with Lupin.

Yet Harry's mother, at the center of it all, was not affected in the slightest.

She still made no effort to avoid Snape.

And although she could freely enter and