Author's Note: For the '10 drabbles, 10 prompts' challenge on HPFC. Anything you recognize belongs to JK Rowling. Anything you don't is either based on her work or my own creation.
Prompt: Character Exploration
Character: Lily Luna Potter
The World Is Never What You Expected
Lily Luna is the baby of the family. She's always been sheltered, always been protected from the harsh realities of the world. She has never experienced horrors like those her parents and grandparents endured during the wars that rocked the wizarding world. She was blissfully unaware of the fact that old hatreds die hard, until she came face-to-face with that reality. The children of Voldemort's supporters and allies were slow to forgive. Perhaps time heals all wounds, but how much time is anybody's guess.
She cried the day a Slytherin boy told her that she came from a family of blood traitors and attention seekers. At eleven years old, she discovered that the world was not all sunshine and rainbows. It was not a lesson that she felt prepared to learn.