Lily Luna Potter
1.) She's a bit heavy, always has been, but despite everything she tries she can't seem to shed her extra weight.
2.) Hugo was born first, in October. Louis was born second, in November. Lily was born in December and wonders how it's possible that Auntie Fleur, Aunt Hermione, and her mother were all pregnant around the same time and none of their fathers managed to die from the shock.
3.) Lily idolized Victoire when she was younger. She was pretty and loud and bold (and a smidgen overweight) and didn't take nonsense from anyone, Teddy included. She still keeps Victoire on a pedestal of sorts, but is much more subtle about it now that she's an adult.
4.) She likes her name, and doesn't seem to understand why James and Al were always so uptight about theirs. The one thing she doesn't like is that there isn't all that much she knows about her grandmother. Al can go to any library and learn about Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape, and James can ask nearly anyone to tell him a story about James Potter and Sirius Black and get a dozen in return. But most of the people who knew Lily Evans-Potter are either dead or paint her out to be some kind of saint. Lily wants to know the truth, not some sugar-coated story about a holy ghost who died for her son and never had an impure thought in her life.
5.) Lorcan d'Eath might be handsome, and talented, and a brilliant singer/songwriter, and ridiculously wealthy, and a half-vampire, but to Lily, he's got nothing on Faolan Finnigan.
6.) Aunt Verity is the one who taught Lily, Louis, and Hugo how to drive, despite Uncle Ron's insistence that he should be the one to teach them all. Lily loves her uncle, but is kind of glad…at least Aunt Verity didn't laugh like a lunatic when she accidentally backed the car into a rather obvious phone box.
7.) Lily is the only person who knows about James' "super-secret" love of unicorns. And really, it's his own fault that she knows about it in the first place. If a person wants to hide something, then they really shouldn't put their diary in the most obvious place imaginable...like under their mattress.
8.) She doesn't regret leaving the training program for Healing. It was utter rubbish, all the rounds and studying and paperwork that they had to do, and Lily has never been able to stand the sight of blood for more than a few minutes. She was always happier writing, and when she sees her name in print for the first time, it feels better than anything else she has ever done for the damn MediWitch Program.
9.) When Fiona is born, James gives his newborn niece a stuffed lion and Hugo buys her a set of red-and-gold footie pajamas. When Jack is born, Al buys his nephew a stuffed badger and has Jane knit a black-and-yellow blanket, while Louis gives him a stuffed eagle and a tiny sleepsuit in Ravenclaw colors. Secretly, Lily hopes that her children will be Slytherins, just so she can thumb her nose at them all.
10.) When Lily dies, she's thirty-three and three weeks pregnant, driving back from London after a rather helpful talk with an editor about publishing her book, The Brass Ring. It started raining about halfway home, a beautiful fall afternoon turned overcast and gray, and she had planned to surprise Lou and Hugo and Faolan with her news. Someone in the car ahead of her – nameless and tired and just as eager to get home as she is – swerves to avoid an obstacle in the road, and Lily slams her foot on the brake a half of a second too late.
The last thing she sees before her car crashes is the steering wheel shaking in her hands.