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1. What We Pretend to Be by into_the_past

   Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • F/F, M/M
   • Complete Work

   29 Mar 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Pandora Lovegood/Lily Evans Potter
   • Regulus Black/James Potter
   • Marlene McKinnon/Dorcas Meadowes
   • Sirius Black/Remus Lupin
   • Minor or Background Relationship(s)
   • Pandora Lovegood
   • Lily Evans Potter
   • Regulus Black
   • James Potter
   • Marlene McKinnon
   • Mary Macdonald (Harry Potter)
   • Dorcas Meadowes
   • Remus Lupin
   • Sirius Black
   • Minerva McGonagall
   • Petunia Evans Dursley
   • Original Muggle Character(s)
   • Severus Snape
   • Bellatrix Black Lestrange
   • Rodolphus Lestrange
   • Rabastan Lestrange
   • Lestrange Family (Harry Potter)
   • Black Family (Harry Potter)
   • Walburga Black
   • Orion Black
   • Tom Riddle | Voldemort
   • Narcissa Black Malfoy
   • Lucius Malfoy
   • Albus Dumbledore
   • Evan Rosier
   • Barty Crouch Jr.
   • Original Female Character(s)
   • Original House-Elf Character(s)
   • Kreacher (Harry Potter)
   • Minor Character Death
   • like multiple
   • choir
   • Hogwarts choir
   • cathedral choir
   • Pureblood society is seriously fucked up
   • child marriage (not romanticised--part of said fucked up pureblood culture)
   • BAMF Lily Evans Potter
   • BAMF Pandora Lovegood
   • except neither of them even have those last names tbh
   • religion specifically christianity and more specifically the church of england
   • religion and sexuality everyone's favourite
   • Horcrux Hunting
   • Not Canon Compliant
   • POV Lily Evans Potter
   • POV Pandora Lovegood
   • rosekiller if you squint
   • very minor past Bartylus
   • Lesbian Lily Evans Potter
   • Gay Regulus Black
   • Pansexual James Potter
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • except for purebloods imagine that period is way earlier than the 1970s
   • Child Abuse
   • Misogyny
   • Pandalily
   • Pandora is a huge nerd in this and I love her for it
   • women in STEM
   • james identifies as bi though bc it's the 70s
   • Angst
   • Slow Burn
   • note that this is not primarily a jegulus fic
   • demisexual Pandora Lovegood
   • Eventual Happy Ending

   Summary

   Women in the Lestrange family tapestry are depicted only as flowers without names or faces.

   Pandora Lestrange’s family arranges her marriage with Regulus Black, and unbeknownst to their families, the two of them plot to take down the Dark Lord.

   The essential component to their success may be the Muggle born Head Girl that Pandora befriends in choir: Lily Evans.

   This is a long fic with that covers Lily and Pandora's last year at Hogwarts and the rest of the First Wizarding War. Non canon compliant.

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