Destiny is a bizarre word. I mean just take a moment to think about it. People spend their entire lives searching for it don't they? It's supposed to be our purpose here in this weird thing we call life. It's supposed to be what we are born for. And yet for some reason we are always searching for it, as though our destiny might miss us and say "Sorry lass, you weren't paying attention so I've moved on to someone with nicer hair and better eyebrows. Better luck next time I guess". We treat it as though it is this elusive thing, slinking around each corner always just out of our reach.

It's silly really, how much we obsess over it. It wouldn't be desniy if it didn't sneek up behind us and bite us in the ass when we are least expecting it.

Because that's my experience with destiny. Destiny is getting a letter delivered by an owl on your eleventh birthday when all you expected to get was a new set of roller skates. Destiny is meeting your best friends because they caught you crying by the lake instead of going to class. Detsiny is James Potter being in the right place at the right time...

But I am getting ahead of myself.

My name is Lily Evans and this is my story.

Summary:

Here is the deal. I don't know about you but I am a little sick of a fanfiction Lily that is just a raging bitch to James Potter all the time. In the books Slughorn describes her as kind. I know that she rejects him harshly by the lake in Snape's memories, but that was also probably one of the worst moments of her life considering everything that was going on. I mean sure, she is not a fan of the fellow by any means, but Lily isn't going to go out of her way to bully James and call him a "toerag" and hex him all the time... not in this story anyway. If there is a situation that pushes her to the ragged edge as much as the lake scene did then maybe. Who knows... but it certainly will not be a daily occurrence.

That being said we can get into the real summary:

This is Lily's story starting right before Christmas break in her 6th year told from her point of view. Political tensions are on the rise and blood purity is becoming a dangerous issue, even on Hogwarts grounds. The Ministry is trying to keep things quiet but Aurors are stretched thin trying to protect the wizarding world. Hogwarts students know that something is amiss because Dumbledore is gone quite a lot these days and everyone is uneasy and ready for Christmas to arrive.