"It's Gonna Be Love"
By: LunaBella006
Note: I DON'T own anything recognized from the Harry Potter series! That belongs to J.K. Rowling!
Introduction:
Lily Evans was a girl of many talents and accomplishments. She was smart (best in her year at school), funny, clever, kind, compassionate, and many other things. She was a muggleborn witch; and attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. We begin during the summer before her seventh, and final, year at Hogwarts.
Lily's family consisted of muggles. Her godmother, June, had married Keith McCarthy, a wizard, years before Lily and James's birth. Only the close family had been trusted to know that Keith was a wizard. Keith was not only Lily's uncle, but James Potter's as well.
Both families found it humorous that Keith and June were both children's aunt and uncle, whether by blood or marriage. Both the Potters' and the Evans' grew closer through Keith, which lead to Lily and James being brought up together. They spent birthdays and holidays together.
Distance, however, kept the families from spending more time together. Before Lily and James turned fifteen, the Evans's had lived in Sidney, New York(1). It was one of those small towns were everybody knew your name. The Potter's on the other hand, lived in the British countryside, just outside Birmingham.
The three children didn't get along as well as the adults did. As toddlers, Lily bullied James; puling his hair and stealing his glasses. But, as they got older, James became the aggressor; pulling Lily and Petunia's hair, stealing their dolls and toys, and sometimes he even cut their hair.
The adults were convinced that by bringing them together - even after James was to get his Hogwarts letter - they would fall in love with one another. Petunia, the oldest of the three by four years, hoped that Lily and James would never get close enough for it to happen. When away from the Potters', Petunia would attempt to poison Lily against James. At one point in time the adults thought that Petunia had a crush on James and was jealous that Lily and he were forced to spend a lot of time together.
To everyone's surprise, Lily was accepted into a magic school, Mountain Creek Shrine, on her tenth birthday(2). No one had ever seen Lily show signs of magic like James had at a young age. But, with receiving the letter, the adults were one-hundred percent convinced that the two were meant to be. Lily and James, however, had other ideas.
During Christmas vacation, the Evans's moved from New York to Britain, not far from the Potters. Petunia, just finishing her schooling, was to start college at an expensive private school for talented boys and girls. While Lily was attending Hogwarts.
Footnotes:
(1) Sidney, New York: This place does exist, which means that I do not own it.
(2) Tenth birthday: That is the age that witches and wizards start their schooling. And it extends all the way up to their coming of age, seventeen.
(3) Lily starts Hogwarts during fifth year, over Christmas. From there, the storyline follows J.K. Rowling's plot. "Snape's Worst Memory" does occur, and may be mentioned in future chapters.
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