Once Lily Evans had a sister (an older one who quite adored her)
Once Lily Evans made friends with the strange boy from across the street (such a kind girl)
Once Lily Evans found out she was a witch (a real one! with magic)
Once Lily Evans went to a HUGE castle to learn magic (and a magic hat said that she was brave)
Once Lily Evans made loads of new friends (who needs sisters after all)
Once Lily Evans met a really horrible boy and hated him (oh how she hated him)
Once Lily Evans was top of her class and became a prefect (which meant that she was smart and trustworthy)
Once Lily Evans had a fight with her best friend and never forgave him (or at least she didn't tell anyone if she did)
Once Lily Evans thought that maybe that horrible boy wasn't so bad after all (and quite handsome too)
Once Lily Evans fell a little bit in love with that not-quite-so-horrible boy and let him take her on a date (and even though she had been fully intending to hate it she found that she just couldn't)
Once Lily Evans became a young woman and graduated from her magic school (she still doesn't quite believe it sometimes)
Once Lily Evans got involved in fighting a war (and she knew magic wasn't like fairytales now but still)
Once Lily Evans saved lives (and her young man saved hers. in more ways than one)
Once Lily Evans wore a shining ring that reminded her of happiness (and James, but weren't they the same thing?)
Once Lily Evans became Lily Potter under a shining sun (and cried because her sister didn't come)
Once Lily Potter gave birth to a beautiful baby boy ("hello Harry Potter" "look James he's smiling at me" "well of course he is; you're his mummy")
Once Lily Potter heard a terrible prophecy (but maybe it wasn't true divination had always seemed a bit fake to her)
Once Lily Potter went into hiding with her family and pinned their safety on one man (though she sort of wished they'd gone with their first choice, he just seemed a bit more reliable)
Once Lily Potter heard her husband die (what use was being magic if she couldn't save them)
Once Lily Potter stood between her son and a wand (and all she could think was 'what will happen to the cat')
Once Lily Potter had everything
Today is Halloween nineteen-eightyone
Lily Potter is dead.