Wednesday, September 1st, 1971
Dearest Petunia,
I'm sorry we fought this morning. I'm sorry that Sev looked through your stuff. It was very wrong.
Being here is amazing though, Sis. The train ride was long but when we got here we were sorted into houses by a hat, how silly is that? It identified features of our houses in us and then sorted us, I'm in Gryffindor with three other girls and four boys. Severus got put into Slytherin. It's very sad that we're not in the same house. Professor McGonagall said that our house is like our family but I feel very alone without you and Sev.
I hope your first day at school goes well on Monday!
Love you!
XOXO
-Lils
Tuesday, November 2nd, 1971
Dearest Petunia,
Classes are amazing here.
I'm quite good at Charms And pretty rubbish at Transfiguration. Sev and I only have potions together. We're both good at potion making, which I'm thankful for. Now that we're in separate houses we've had a hard time finding things to talk about. He gets awfully jealous of my new friends. Potions have helped to keep us, friends.
I have four, by the way, four new friends. The three other girls in Gryffindor with me: Hestia Jones, Marlene Avery, and Alice Jenkins. They are all very sweet. My fourth new friend is in Ravenclaw, her name is Pandora, she's very funny and sometimes a bit odd, I enjoy studying with her a lot. We had the Halloween feast the other night. You couldn't imagine all of the candy and sweets, entertainment and good food, it was so fun, and we were all dressed in our witches hats! It was so funny.
I hope your semester is going well.
Love you!
XOXO
-Lils
Thursday, December 9th, 1971
Dearest Petunia,
This semester is almost over. We'll be on the train heading home in two short days. I hope when I get there you'll tell me why you haven't answered any of my letters. I've missed you so much. I can't wait until we can catch up.
Sev is excited to get back too. He says that then we can spend the days by ourselves. It is hard being so close to him but having all of these people judge us, has made it hard. His friends don't like me. My friends don't like him. It's exhausting.
We learned how to fly on a broom today. It was amazing.
Well, I'll see you soon. I'm so excited to tell you everything.
Love you.
XOXO
-Lils
Friday, April 21st, 1972
Dearest Petunia,
I hated the way the holiday ended between us. Those things you said about me weren't very nice.
But I'm sorry. I'm sorry you found the frogspawn in my jacket pocket. And I'm sorry that you didn't like my new haircut. And I'm sorry that you hate the idea of Charms. And I'm sorry that I'm so different from you, I'm sorry I'm such a freak.
But Tuney, you're my best friend. And you always have been. So I need to tell you what has happened. I've never been so humiliated. So a Gryffindor boy, whose name is James Potter (he's absolutely horrid Tuney, arrogant and mean and always bullying), and Sev got into a fight in the corridor they were yelling awful things at each other and Potter was trying to hit Sev...it was awful Tuney. Anyway, I tried to break it up (I kept hearing Sev say, "you stay away from her" and I knew it was about me) but as I got between them, one of Sev's best friends (a boy named Nott), screamed at me: "Get back Mudblood!" Well, Tuney, everyone went wild, Potter aimed at Nott and Sev said "Lily is more than that!" And my friend Hestia started yelling horrid things at Nott, Marlene got me out of there. She might be my best friend here. I didn't understand what any of it meant, I thought maybe it was like "Dirtbag" but Marlene explained to me that it's heritage. Nott doesn't like that my family is normal.
Isn't that great Tuney? I'm a freak everywhere.
I got the chocolate egg for Easter from Mum. I hope yours was filled with money.
XOXO
-Lils