sirius black is 145 days older than james potter and don’t think for a moment that he didn’t hold that over his head
sirius, inspecting his facial hair: don’t worry, prongs. you’re bound to hit puberty soon, i’m sure of it.
respect your elders, prongs: dumbledore, mcgonagall, your mother, me.
what’s that? i’ve got a watch from your parents before you? 144 more days, prongs. hang in there.
age before beauty, prongs. no wait, i’ve got that, too.
as the fairest, tallest, and oldest marauder present, you ought to listen to me.
to lily, when she turns 20: i can’t believe you’re married to a teenager.
how am i one-hundred and forty five days older than you, and i look so young? one of life’s mysteries, i suppose.
to a hungover james: when you’re older, you’ll be able to hold your liquor properly, young buck.
And then one day Sirius is 146 days older than James. And I imagine he probably kept track of every one of those days he was older than Prongs, even in Azkaban.
yea just rip my heart out of my chest why dontcha
To be fair I ripped out my own heart when I thought of it. I just wasn’t going to suffer alone. For those of you who are curious and because I saddened myself…
-October 31st 1981 is the final day Sirius is only 145 days older.
-Sirius dies June 18th 1996.
-So if we go from October 31st 1981 to October 31st 1995 that’s 365 days a year multiplied by 14 years. Ie 5,110 days. But we can’t forget about leap years. In that time 1984, 1988, 1992 are all leaps years. So we can add an extra 3 days to that making it 5,113 days.
-So then we just need the amount of days between October 31st 1995 and June 18th 1996. Keep in mind 1996 was also a leap year so February is going to have a bonus day. So we need to tack on an additional 231 days.
-That leaves our grand total at 5,344 days older than James. Providing I could math properly today. (Forgive me I’m an English major).
-Or perhaps more helpfully that’s 5,199 days without James.
Math has never been more heartbreaking. The math is only going to get even worse if I start considering Remus. Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to go bury my face into my pillow and scream into the void.
In heaven somewhere watching the trio hunt horocruxes:
Sirius: Don’t worry, Prongs. He’ll be fine.
James: Either one must die at the hands of the other. That’s what the prophecy said.
Sirius: I know. And Harry’s gonna send that smarmy dick straight to hell where he belongs.
James: How can you be sure? What if-
Sirius: I just am. You’ll under stand when you’re older.
*james rolls his eyes, cracking a reluctant smile*
5,344 days older, to be exact.
I’m so glad someone was able to make something non feelsy out of this math. Keep up the good work my friend.
Eventually they just started calling each other the names the others hated the most anyway, and then it stuck, and well, the names were so childish and they’re sixteen years old! No one’s going to think they’re these people ten years from now. Nope. Not happening.
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