The Way We Were

by PoppyPotter

We thought we were ready, we thought it would be manageable, though of course not easy. We were naive. A war does not end just because you are young and fighting for it to end, it does not end without deaths and loss, without going to more funerals then you ever wanted to. A multi-chapter story on the Marauders and Lily's experiences in the Order from Lily's pov.

1. Chapter 1

The way we were

Prologue

Time flies by. Everyone says that at one point. This week went so fast, this month, this year and then before they know it not one but seven years have gone by. At least that's what happened to me. When I started Hogwarts, the end of my first, let alone my seventh year, seemed far, far away. Yet it sped by, time raced by, and with it the world moved on. It changed; we were in the era of flower power, the Beatles, and then in the magical world an era of war. My first year of Hogwarts marked the first year of that war; the tensions, the clashing of beliefs of who was superior had been raging for decades but that year words were put into action. It marked the beginning of a dark decline. Back then of course the murders were further apart, the attacks on muggles less pronounced; people, at least those who lived in the Wizarding world (unlike me) could sense a change. And yet the worst was yet to come.

My generation grew up in this war, we watched as the word mudblood became more commonly used, we watched friends get pulled out of class at news of death, we watched others leave for their safety and every year we listened to the sorting hats warnings grow all the more dire. He or rather it knew, sensed that the war we were facing would destroy our lives; it knew how friendships could fall apart, how friend could turn on friend... It gave us warning after warning. Stay together. Fight together. Do the right thing. We never heeded any of them. In the end you could say it was our fault then for not listening, for thinking we knew best, we didn't, we don't ... We were just children stuck in the middle of a war, we still are only now we've managed to fool ourselves in to believing we're warriors of war; we attend meetings, we plan, we fight- we forget our age...

A/N: This is the prologue to a story I've been planning for a while. It's going to cover the Marauders and Lily's experiences in the Order, from Lily's point of view. Updates will probably not be regular (sorry!) but I hope you can still enjoy this story. Please review!