Only One Lifetime to Love You
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A/n: This will be very short. I know the whole Lily/James love/hate thing is terribly clichéd but… I hope this will be a little different. Lily is not typical sweetheart Lily. Hehe… I quite like her this way, she's more interesting. I hope you like…. At least 5 reviews… or I don't think I'll continue if I don't. I've been feeling a bit under-appreciated. BE A RESPONSIBLE READER AND REVIEW! Pweaseee!!!!!!! *sad face*
Lily's POV
Prologue- Musings of a Manic-Depressive
Hello. My name is Lily Malvina Evans. I am 14 years old. At my age, most people would say that my personality is normal. I'm quiet, bookish, shy, introverted… and a manic-depressive. Sound normal for a teenage girl? Well not for someone who attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Everyone else in school is happy, always smiling and playing pranks. But not me, not Lily Evans. Scary, that's what they call me, scary. How the hell am I scary? I'm just different. That's what's scary to them, diversity.
You would think that in a school full of people, who practice magic, diversity wouldn't be a big deal… but believe me, it is. The very few really popular kids seem to orchestrate everything. They tell the rest of the student body what's cool. What to wear, how to act, what hairstyles are hip, how to do make-up, etc., etc., you get the idea. But what the popular kids say is hip… definitely isn't me.
For example, I've got bright red, almost knee-length hair; bright green eyes and a porcelain complexion. I'm about 5'1/5'2 and weigh 65 pounds; Definitely not the conventional idea of beauty. The most popular girl in school, Lurlene MacArthur, is what everyone considers gorgeous. She's statuesque, blonde, blue-eyed, and wears a 36C… see why she's popular now? Yeah…
Well, I digress… Where was I? Oh yes, my unpopularity. I've been in Hogwarts for 4 years now, and I've made one friend. Her name is Mirabella di Savoria, she's a 4th year Gryffindor like me. She's real pretty, looks so much like Lurlene that they could be sisters. She would be popular except she's a total non-conformist.
Back in our 1st year, Ria (which is what she insists on being called) got real mad at James Potter, the leader of the Marauders (who are a group of the three most popular guys in the school.), during Potions and dumped a wart potion on him. He immediately burst into huge, hairy, green warts. You should have seen it… classic.
Ever since the potions "accident", every fashionable person in the school despises her. They waged an all out prank war against her for a full two months. That incident brought us together. I was the only person who fought with her. It earned me Lurlene and her dog pack's everlasting hatred, and made me more invisible and "out-castish" than I already was.
I don't mind being an outcast though… I prefer it actually. Ria is the only friend I need. She cracks me up…
But those aren't the only reasons I'm a pariah… I'm also a Muggle-born, or Mudblood as Lucius Malfoy (that slimy git!) would say. Muggles are non-magic folk for those of you who don't know. Some people, namely the Slytherins, frown on non-Purebloods. Really stupid don't you think… Just like that thing going on right now in the US… with Martin Luther King Jr. The black-Americans want to be equal… Damn good idea if you ask me. It's quite juvenile really, to discriminate against some for a circumstance of birth they can't control… Well that's people for you, the ignorant masses jumping on the "differentness-hating" band-wagon.
Now I'm just rambling… something I do when I'm feeling down. I'm down quite often lately… ever since that day….
A/n: So…. Likie? No likie? Please review and tell me what you think…. So do you like Lily with this personality? I do… oh well… Flames welcome.