DISCLAIMER: I don't own any of the characters or any of the books in the Harry Potter series. Nope, I'm not JK Rowling... but I wish I was.
"To the world you are one person but to one person you are the world"
She blamed it all on her sister.
Even before the magic tricks had started, Lily had always stood out. The youngest one, the prettiest one, the cutest one, the cleverest one and then the magical one.
Was there any reason she shouldn't have been embittered towards her? What was lank blonde hair to rich ember? What was pale flatness to shimmering sapphire eyes? When your parents looked at you every day and compared you to the sister at boarding school, when they wondered aloud why the younger one had magical powers and the other one hadn't, then why should you care anymore?
So she just stopped caring, after all no one wanted her- why should she want them?
Then Lily got married to a good man- well she couldn't deny it, James Potter was good looking, rich and popular as well as kind. Lily had written letters about him.
Letters she threw away or burnt, (after secretly reading them). But no one really cared about that anyway.
And how she struggled to get someone who could support her and care for her!
No one thought she would accept Vernon Dursley's hand- so what if he wasn't amazingly slim, she told herself- he cares.
And she had a son, and she loved him so much because he loved her too.
But it wasn't long till she was second best again... Dudley always preferred Vernon , maybe that's why she spoiled him.
And so much love was stored inside her, love she couldn't give away.
And when Harry came, hate corrupted the love till there was nothing left.
There he was, a little reminder of the old times, a little reminder of being second best. And there he was, it was easy to take out everything she had stored up inside her.
And so, the poison seeped little by little, out of her heart.
But still she thought, why wouldn't someone-anyone care for her? One person who'd give away the world for her, someone she could give away the world for?
Someone she could love.
