What if Lily Potter had survived the attack in Godric's Hollow? What if Voldemort hadn't killed her, and instead, he spared her, as per request of one of his most loyal followers. Well, at the time, after her husband had been killed, dear Lily had made a decision; that she was done with magic. Although she had loved Hogwarts, and the perks of magic, she needed to go into hiding, so she would not be targeted again.

Why James? Why couldn't Voldemort have killed her instead and spared James? Guilt plagued her throughout her dreams, and the thought of her husband, lying on the cold ground of what was once her home, gave her nightmares. They were both so young to have had a brush with death. Lily Potter, only 21 years old, had become a widow.

She was pregnant, when Voldemort attacked, and after losing James at Godric's Hollow, she moved to a muggle community near Cokeworth, where she had grown up. Without James or her Auror status, she found it hard to make income in the muggle world, especially after she gave birth to a son, Finnian Christopher Evans. She had recently taken to living with her maiden name, as not to draw attention to herself; after all, Evans was a very common last name in muggle England. She missed James, so much, and her son was a reminder of the man she had lost so quickly. Although he shared most of her looks, fiery red hair, pale skin dotted with freckles, he had acquired James' hazel eyes that she cared for so much.

Today it was her son's 11th birthday. Finnian woke up extra early, nearly 6 o' clock, and as he went to get the post, a peculiar letter was addressed to the boy. Written in neat green cursive letters spelled out his name, address, and on the front of the envelope, was a red wax seal. Quickly, with a small smile on his face, he ran back into the house, clutching the other envelopes as his red hair brushed across his forehead.

"Mum, mum!" He squealed as the woman yawned and smiled, "Look, I got a letter!" Finnian waved the letter around as Lily smiled softly at her son.

"That's great, honey! Is it from one of your friends, or from your aunt?" She asked. Her eyes flashed for a second, as she laid eyes on the green ink of the letter. She sighed, "Oh… It's from there." Finnian gave a confused look to his mother.

"From where? Is it someplace bad?"

Lily shook her head, recalling James and her memories with him. "No no, it's just…. A school." Finnian pondered on this thought. A school? He asked himself. I'm already at a school… Carefully, Lily grabbed the letter, and broke the wax seal cautiously, as if it were to explode at any second. Hoping it was a cruel joke, she read the letter again, and again, and again. The writing never changed.

"What if," she began, looking seriously at her son, "I told you that magic was real?" Finnian laughed a bit, before quieting down and looking at his mother with wide eyes. "This. This is a letter to a boarding school," at the words boarding school Finnian cringed, "For people with magic powers. I'm not going to force you to go, but if you want to, just tell me."

Finnian thought to himself, What if magic was real? It would explain a lot of what happened to me. Just the other week Finnian had been cornered by a couple of school bullies, but when they went to grab his arms, sparks of electricity came out of him. What if it was real, and he could perform it? He could show those bullies who was boss, and finally not be the outcast. Perhaps his mother could do magic. After all, he could've sworn she had plants in her plant bed that shouldn't be able to grow in the winters of England.

After thinking it over for a second, he nodded. He nodded as he grabbed the strange school letter back from his mother's hands. He nodded slowly at first, but as a wide grin split across his mother's pale face, he knew he had made the right choice, and he couldn't help but smile along with her.

(A/N: Well, hey! I decided to make a story after reading something about how Lily was pregnant when she was killed and thought, what if she wasn't killed? I'm going to make this as canon as I can while still being as original as it can be! Since I haven't read anything like this, I took matters into my own hands.)

(A/N 2: ALSO I AM NOT JK ROWLING, I OWN NOTHING BUT MY ORIGINAL CHARACTER, FINNIAN)