This is a new continuing story that I've been writing for a while and now managed to edit and write clean on the computer. I have always been interested in the fate of Lily Luna Potter. In a world where everything the Potter kids are seen as is his children it can't be easy to make a life for yourself based on your own qualifications and skills or finding love among all the people who just want a spot in the limelight of your family. Come with me while I explore how her life could have turned out.
As usual, English is not my first langage so there might be errors here and there, feel free to correct me. I am also very fond of comments and such. It's very lovely... and much appreciated. Please enjoy!
Prologue
Being Lily Luna Potter definitely had its perks, to a certain extent. Being the youngest child and only daughter of the boy who lived and saved the wizarding world from utter destruction had been very advantageous during her years at Hogwarts. Eleven year old Lily Potter had always enjoyed any sort of attention her family had gotten and coming to Hogwarts where everyone had wanted to be friends with her and she would become the most popular out of her bunch of cousins was something she had enjoyed tremendously. She had never understood her brother, complaining about having to go back to that school every year with his only friend, being an outcast and a disappointment to everyone who had expected more from Harry Potter's son, and someone who was also named after two legendary wizards from the war.
But being Lily Potter also means that one day, after one or two… or seven reality checks, you're bound to crack. The first time it happened was in fifth year, when one of her supposed friends had sold quite some tasty stuff to Witch Weekly about her and she got the first indication that not everyone might have wanted to be friends with the real Lily Potter, but only hanging out with her to bathe in some of the fame that comes with her last name. For the first time then, she understood her brother Albus. He had only one friend during his entire time at Hogwarts, but that was a true friend who would do anything for him. Who had been forced to go through horrible things to save Albus, and done it without a single look back. Lily realised she'd never had a friend like that outside of her family circle.
After that one article there seemed to never end with the news of Harry Potter's daughter. She couldn't take one step outside the family house without seeing at least one photographer hiding in a bush across the street waiting to capture anything they could put their hands on. For her two last years at Hogwarts, the castle had actually rather become quite a relief, with her not having too look behind every corner to see if she was followed by a camera lens. Although, she had become more careful with her public appearance, because there could still be treacherous snakes at school, wanting to get hold of anything they could sell to get their own fifteen minutes of fame. Lily pulled away from most of the people she'd used to hang out with and spent more time with the few family members she still had left at Hogwarts.
Although, Lily didn't realise just what a disadvantage it can be to be the daughter of war heroes until after graduating. Ever since she had been a child, and quite a daddy's girl at that, she'd known that she wanted to be an auror - just like her father. But if you're thinking that having the Head of magical law enforcement, who also happens to be your dad, as your mentor during your training is a good thing then you are terribly wrong.
The newly reformed auror's training program was a result of her father's work. It focused less on grades and paperwork, but more on the practical sides of catching the bad guys. While the training had become much shorter, one year, it was a lot more intensive and the requirements to get in were much higher. You only needed N.E.W.T grades in three subjects to be able to apply, but then it took weeks of interviews and tests to see if you were qualified.
It had not taken two hours after Lily's passing of her final test before the newspapers and magazines had published headlines like "Head of magical law enforcement giving his own daughter entrance into the first class of the new and improved auror's training program" or "Should favoritism be accepted from the most powerful man at the ministry?". While her father had assured her time and time again that she had passed the test entirely on her own qualifications and hard work, and that her being his daughter had nothing to do with it, the articles still sowed a little seed of uncertainty within her. Was this how it was going to be, for the rest of her life? That she would always be first and foremost the daughter of Harry Potter and never just Lily, the auror?
The summer before starting her training she had a summer romance. For the first time in her life she was sure she had met someone who liked her for the person she was and not for her last name. She'd been wrong of course. Just like everybody else, he'd only been with her to be seen in the papers, to gain popularity for a job he was aspiring for. It was the first time since before Hogwarts that Lily had broken down in tears. After that she decided it was best to only focus on her career, if she was going to have any opportunity to ever show her own skill and prove her own worth. The few people from Hogwarts she still remained in contact with she shut out. She didn't need friends. She had seen proof of that again and again.