“Once upon a time there was a girl who loved her father very much. Her name was Cinderella,” began Lily, smiling at the familiar, comforting, Muggle fairytale.

Thoughts began to swirl through Lily’s head; old memories of her school days, the Halloween Ball, where Lily had fallen in love with James, the early times, where everything was easy, when no psycho mass murderer wanted to kill them.  

Lily let her eyelids close over her green eyes; remembering.