The Basic Anomalies Surrounding Magic
Life of a teenage muggle-born is rough; anyone who is one will tell you that.
The life of Lily Evans was practically an ocean during a hurricane, which can only be described in one complete word: chaos.
Let's add up the facts here. First, Voldemort is all up on the muggle-borns, and Lily, being an especially special muggle-born is an obvious target. Lily is special because- well, she just is, okay?
Yeah, Lily Evans' ego is bigger than Sirius Black's, and that's saying something. The only thing that differentiates them is Lily's a closet egotistical maniac, while Sirius Black flaunts his arrogance. But oh, how Lily Evans loves Sirius Black.
Not romantically, of course. That would be disgusting. No, Lily Evans loves Sirius Black in the same manner that he loves her- platonically. Sirius Black saves seats for her in the Great Hall, and when no one asks Lily to Hogsmeade that she actually likes, Sirius Black goes with her. He acts as her gay best friend, but the student population is seen wrong again and again by the growing number of notches in his bed post that Sirius Black is most certainly not gay. Anyway, Lily Evans and Sirius Black are almost never without the other, and when they are, Sirius is with James Potter, and Lily Evans is off bullying Severus Snape. James Potter comes later, and will be explained in due time. Severus Snape comes in now.
Sirius has only one friend that's a girl, for he has many girlfriends, and her name is Lily Evans. In sixth year, when Sirius Black almost killed Severus Snape, she was really, really, mad at him. He apologized, and she got over it, which was kind of suspicious because when Severus Snape called Lily Evans a Mud Blood in fifth year after being her best friend before James Potter and Sirius Black had even known each other, Lily still hasn't forgiven him, and that was two years ago. But, that little anomaly was just written off as a trait of a ginger, because if anyone was an anomaly, it was a ginger witch. They have very fiery tempers, did you know?
Then, very suddenly in fact, Lily lost her ability to hold grudges once more. This time, she stopped holding her grudges against James Potter. Yeah, you were probably thinking she stopped holding grudges against Severus Snape, huh? Well, you're wrong. And not only are you wrong, Lily Evans is right. Always. So don't forget it, or Remus Lupin might hex you. Anyway, when Lily Evans was asked out by James Potter after he won the quidditch House Cup in May of their sixth year, Lily Evans said yes. James Potter didn't even know what to say, so he stood there until she walked away. He didn't chase after her, and the whole house of Gryffindor was awkward for the rest of the month. Summer came and went, and when they got back to school, Lily Evans no longer hated James Potter and James Potter was over his initial shock.
Remus Lupin was deemed to be the most ineligible bachelors in school by Amelia Bones, whose words had a cult following. If the wizarding world wasn't utterly and entirely chauvinistic in creation, Amelia Bones might be, hands down, no questions asked, Minister of Magic. However, it is chauvinistic in creation, and Amelia Bones is reduced to how closely people listen to her repressed extensive knowledgeable in the inside life of Remus Lupin, who is apparently a secret Star Wars fanatic and chocolate addict. She even went as far as to say that Remus Lupin went to a twelve step program for his unceasing nibbling on the sweet treat. Remus denied everything, of course.
Lily Evans and Remus Lupin weren't as close as she was with Sirius Black, but it was a damn close second. Lily was the only girl that hadn't worshipped the ground Amelia had spat upon in distaste, despite the eventual departure of Amelia Bones at the end her fourth year. Remus, obviously, very much appreciated this. Merlin knows why Lily Evans did this for Remus Lupin, because she certainly didn't do much for anyone else.
Even little Peter Pettigrew, who turned out to have a good reason to be despised by our not-so-magnanimous muggle-born witch-heroine, loved Lily Evans.
In this lies the greatest beauty that Lily Evans possesses. It isn't her vivid green eyes, her long shiny red hair, her perfect body, or her muggle-born tendencies. It is her anomalies that make her Sirius Black's close friend, Remus Lupin's protector, a target of the wizarding world, and one of the most chased after ginger witches to ever become a Gryffindor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
What's that? You want to hear the story behind the awesome, beautiful anomaly that is Lily? Sorry folks, but to hear the story behind Lily Evans, you have to hear mine.
A story which, quite coincidentally, starts off at the beginning of my seventh year attending Hogwarts as a Ravenclaw with an irrational fear of being an anomaly. What good story doesn't?
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