Surprise! i did end up writing Lily's. it literally took me about two weeks to write this one. for some reason the character of Lily doesn't come as easily as some of the others. well, i hope you enjoy the fifth installment of Twenty Things! cheers!
Lily Luna Potter
1. Lily loved her older brothers. She loved that they protected her from the scary bugs, and that they smuggled her sweets when her mum said that she couldn't have anymore. She loved that it was hardly ever James and Al against her, but usually her and James against Al, or her and Al against James. She loved that no matter what happened, they would always be her brothers and she would always be their sister.
2. When she was two, she blew up her high chair. Not while she was sitting in it, but definitely when her mum told her to go sit in it and finish her carrots. She was allowed to sit in a 'big girl chair' shortly after that incident, since James point blank refused to have his eyebrows blown off again.
3. She liked that she was partly named after someone that wasn't lost to the war. She knew it showed respect and love to the brave fighters from the First and Second Wizarding Wars, but she also could see the sadness in her family's eyes when they called out to Fred, or to James or Albus. There was sadness there, too, when they called out to her, but she supposed she felt nothing but honored for being named after her grandmother that she (nor her father) had ever met.
4. Lily always loved having a big family. They saw each other at least once a month, and she loved having more cousins that she could count on one hand. Her grandmother's cooking never got old, and aunt Fleur cooked absolutely marvelously too. French food, when the occasion was appropriate, like every year on hers or Lily's birthday. It was marvelous.
5. She didn't love, however, when they left for Hogwarts. When James left, it hadn't been so bad because it was still a whole nother two years before Al left. That seemed like long enough. Unfortunately for little Lily, the time absolutely flew by, and before she knew it, Al was packing to leave her too. The two years when she would go didn't look like it was about to fly by. Luckily, she had many cousins to keep her occupied over those two years. It still didn't stop her from glaring at both of her brothers when they got off the Hogwarts express for that summer. The 12 and 14 year olds were right to cower under their little sister's stare.
6. When she finally went to Hogwarts, she was nervous. What house would she be sorted in? She honestly didn't want to go into Slytherin, and not because of the old bias. She didn't like the color green, and she didn't think that she was all that cunning. But then she wasn't brilliant, not the way that traditional Ravenclaws were supposed to be. Though, when she thought about it, hardly any of the few Ravenclaws she knew were in any way what the traditional Ravenclaw was supposed to be like. She was loyal to her family, yes, but her hair and eyes absolutely clashed with the color yellow. That really left only one feasible option in her mind. Not that she had much to worry about. The Hat hadn't even said anything big to her. All it had said was, "You lot aren't as unpredictable as you hope you are. GRYFFINDOR!" And she went to sit next to Hugo at the long table, where he was situated a few seats away from James. They high-fived.
7. Lily was immediately smitten with Scorpius Malfoy's classic good looks. As smitten as an eleven year old could be, at any rate. When she saw Rosie and Scorpius hanging out though, her feelings didn't matter so much. She had never seen Rosie fight so much with a person. She had never seen anyone fight so much with a person. In Lily's eleven year old mind, there was no greater form of showing true love than the figurative "pull on the girl's pigtails."
8. Even when she was old enough that he might possibly fancy her (after all, much to her brothers' dismay, there weren't many that didn't fancy the pretty, fourteen year old Lily Potter), she didn't pursue him. Even now, late in her 3rd year, she could so clearly see the friendship differences between Rosie and Albus or Louis, and Scorpius and Albus and Louis. And after all, there were just so many boys to chose from, why would she chose the only one her beloved cousin Rosie fancied?
9. Much to no one's surprise (for most of her other female cousins had passed through the halls of Hogwarts, too), Lily was very popular with boys. This made her slightly unpopular with girls that didn't know her too well. It wasn't as if she was a tart, though. To tell the truth, she simply didn't see the interest of having anyone more than a casual snogging partner, and even that was inconvenient. Her brother and her male cousins saw to it that since her dad wasn't around at Hogwarts, they (all three of them, plus Lorcan and Lysander) would simply have to be the ones to give each and every one of her boys 'the talk.' It was quite embarrassing the first couple of times, but eventually she realized that if the boy didn't want to face her male relatives, he wasn't really worth her valuable snogging time anyway.
10. The item she received from her dad wasn't the first one she thought she would like. She had wanted the cloak, or the map. When she made the Gryffindor house team though, a chaser, just like her mum, she and her brothers realized there was something far more valuable than either of those two. Harry Potter's old Quidditch robes were heavy with sentimental value. They had been magicked bigger and longer as their dad grew, but now, he shrunk them to fit the youngest potter. These were the robes of three consecutive Quidditch championships. These were the robes of the youngest seeker in a hundred and some years. They were the ones that Lily Potter donned for the first match of the season in her 3rd year, where she was able to score so many goals and assist her teammates so well, that in the end, even when the Hufflepuff seeker caught the snitch, Gryffindor still won. Those robes were a bloody miracle. People also suspected that since so many members of the team were related to each other, they could read each other's minds.
11. Albus walked in on her and Steven Corner snogging. Well, walked in wasn't exactly the correct word, as they hadn't exactly been in hiding on that third floor corridor. Her 7th year brother hexed her fellow 5th year so badly, that he was in the hospital wing for a week. No matter how the teachers or his friends pestered him, he would not tell them who it had been that hexed him. Lily later mentioned it to her brother, trying to show him that Steven was a decent bloke, and Albus just laughed and muttered something about the wonders of memory charms.
12. To her dismay, Lily wasn't exactly brilliant. She wasn't terrible at school, but let's just say her average grade was a measly 'A.' Though her parents never said anything, she knew that they had to be at least a bit disappointed. After all, for all of James's fooling around, he was quite smart and managed to grab an apprenticeship at the renowned apothecary in Diagon Alley. Albus did very well in school, in everything he did, too! A perfect DADA N.E.W.T. couldn't be far off for him, and a perfect DADA O.W.L. for her would be impossible. Thank Merlin she did better than pass Care of Magical Creatures and Divination, otherwise she'd have practically zero chances of any career after Quidditch…
13. 14Speaking of Quidditch, she was a prodigy. That was no understatement. Even compared to the rest of her family, dad, Uncle Charlie, mum, she was a prodigy. National teams started to talk to her from 4th year up. She had many, many opportunities to play professionally lined up. She was the best chaser in the whole school, the best they had seen in many years. None of the other houses stood a chance unless they caught the snitch within the first ten minutes of the game, she was that good.
14. Besides being good at it, she loved it! After she left Hogwarts and went to play for- who else- the Hollyhead Harpies, she was the happiest she'd ever been. The quaffle was like metal to a magnet in her hands. It just went to her naturally and went exactly where she wanted it to go when she threw it. Suffice to say, she was no longer worried that her mum and dad might not be proud of her.
15. On the side of Quidditch, she worked in the Magical Menagerie in her spare time. It was fun being around all those animals, and she knew how to take care of them. It helped that there was so much hustle and bustle around the thrill of buying a new animal that most people did not immediately recognize her. That had happened too often when she worked in the Divination shop in Hogsmeade. The general busy-ness of Diagon Alley was liberating. It was also nice that she, James, and whoever of their cousins were currently working part time for WWW got together for lunch once a week. Lily had always valued the importance of family.
16. That's why, at the age of 21, Lily was ready to find someone to start her own family with. She highly doubted that she applied to the Potters-and-Redheads rule. Like her brothers, she was incorrect. The day that that beautiful redheaded bloke walked into the Menagerie, she was smitten. He walked in, bought enough owl food for about three day, and walked out. She made it her mission to find out who in Merlin's name that was.
17. It turned out to be a fine bloke of 25 by the name of Daniel Fostercue. He had lived in France almost his whole life, but was English by blood and was living with his cousin David, over the ice cream parlor that they both worked at. She learned all this by asking him about his owl, and saying that the type of food bought depended on the owl's environment. She was pretty sure that Daniel Fostercue saw right through her ruse, and she didn't give a damn.
18. When the two got married barely a year later, there was a little bit of consternation over the fact. She was the first of her siblings to get married, also the youngest. Her rationalization was that she wanted to have the wedding soon enough so that Teddy and Vic's daughter was young enough to make flower girl. This, however was completely ridiculous, as their daughter was barely one and a half, and would make a fine flower girl even 8 years later. At least, she thought, they had the decency to tell her what they thought after the elaborate wedding.
19. She didn't plan on having children too soon. She still wanted to play Quidditch, until she could gracefully step down at the fine age of 29, just like her mother before her. Everyone was just fine with that plan, because really, twenty two was just too young to be responsible for another little person. She continued with her Quidditch career, vaguely wondering if she would still be a household name even if her surname wasn't Potter. Or Potter-Fostercue, as it was now.
20. She retired gracefully at age 29, after having had one child in the middle of the season and making a spectacular comeback. After taking a few years out of the spotlight to be with her children, and having one more, she returned to be Head coach for the Hollyhead Harpies. At age thirty three, she was one of the youngest head coaches in professional Quidditch. Just another title to add to her impressive Quidditch Resume when, twenty years later, she applied to be the referee for Hogwarts games for five years.
so, what do you think? reviews welcomed! feedback of any sort is appreciated. Perhaps the Ron/Hermione Weasley children up next.
