Ya I know you guys like yo have James as the fun parent and Lily as the 'follow the fucking rules' parent but like
Why would you have it that easy round when you could have it the other way
Lily sending Harry a howler in his first year and everyone thinks it will be telling him off for getting caught dueling Draco but it's actually like 'MUM IS PROUD OF YOU YOU PRINCIPLED KID' with James in the background like 'LILY EVANS WHAT ARE YOU DOING DON'T ENCOURAGE HIM' and Lily telling Harry how to charm his way out of detentions and after hearing about his attempts on dueling Draco in CoS she sends him a huge letter with detailed instructions of loads of defensive charms and basically continues like this throughout his school career because standing up for what's right is more important than rules.
Meanwhile James is fretting himself blind about how Harry is doing all this dumb shit and Lily's like 'you were literally so much worse' and James is like ' THAT WAS DIFFERENT' and when Remus becomes a teacher James writes to him like 3 times a day and Lily is all 'James please fin your chill' and Remus finding the whole thing hilarious and tell Sirius who is immediately at the Evan Potter household to rip the shit out of James with delighted help from Lily.
