What You Never Knew

Lily Luna Potter: The Odd One Out

1. Her grandmother irritated her.

Sure, Molly Weasley was nothing but kind to her and always spoiled her rotten, but she was just so… overbearing. It seemed as if she was always there, being her usual over-protective self. This was alright when Lily was four; but as she grew older and started Hogwarts, she found herself wanting more and more freedom that her grandmother just didn't want to give to her.

2. She hated Quidditch.

Her parents were Ginny Weasley- famed Chaser for the Holyhead Harpies- and Harry Potter- the best Seeker in the history of Hogwarts, or at least people claimed. Everyone expected her to play Quidditch, and to love it, and to be fantastic. But somehow, the Quidditch genes in her family had skipped her. So she had to watch the rest of her family play and have a heckuva lot of fun doing it. That was why she hated it- because each time someone spoke to her about Quidditch, it reminded her that she was different.

3. She used to have a crush on Teddy Lupin.

He was her first crush, and for good reason: he was kind, handsome, and always around. This crash lasted from when she was six years old to when she was nine, and James told her (and everyone else, for that matter) about finding Teddy and her cousin Victoire snogging. That was when she decided that she didn't fancy Teddy anymore; she didn't want to hurt Victoire. Besides, he was- as she phrased in later years- 'out of her league'.

4. If she didn't know better, she'd say that the Sorting Hat fancied her.

The first thing the Hat said when Professor Longbottom had gently placed it on her head was, "My, what a pretty little thing!" It went on to jabber on and on about how someday the boys would be all over her, and how they had better treat her well because they were lucky to be with a girl like her, until she had finally interrupted him and asked to be Sorted already. She was a Gryffindor- unsurprisingly.

5. Her favorite Headmaster- ever- was Severus Snape.

She had met him- or, rather, his portrait- in Headmaster Flitwick's office in First Year when she had gotten in trouble for hexing a boy who had just broken her cousin Lucy's heart. He had stared down at her with judgmental, cold black eyes.

"A Weasley, I take it?" He had sneered.

"Half-Weasley," Lily had corrected him. "I'm a Potter."

"I expected your parents would marry," the man had then remarked.

"Did you know them?" Lily had asked curiously, her brown eyes round with curiosity.

"They were both my students," the black-eyed man had answered stiffly.

"Who are you?" Lily had then inquired, being the straight-to-the-point type of eleven-year-old she was.

"Severus Snape. 'Professor Snape' to you."

"Oh! I know you!" Lily had exclaimed, grinning. Severus had cocked an eyebrow, and she had continued, "My parents told me about you! Daddy said you were the bravest man he ever knew- he even named my big brother after you! His name is Albus Severus Potter."

"Really?" Professor Snape had asked wondrously, finally displaying some sort of emotion, to Lily's delight.

"Yep!" Lily had nodded eagerly. Snape looked like he was going to respond, but then Professor Flitwick had walked in, and the two had to end their conversation.

Lily Luna didn't know exactly why, but she quite enjoyed Professor Snape's dry, sarcastic company, and frequently borrowed James' Invisibility Cloak to visit him. She knew he liked her, too; even if he kept telling her to go away.

6. She was even better at Defense Against the Dark Arts than her father.

When only a Second Year, she had been reading one of her cousin's, Rose Weasley's, books, and had come upon the Patronus Charm. Wanting to see what animal she related most to, she followed the directions and conjured a silver cougar on the first try. Only in Seventh Year, when Professor Merrythought introduced the Patronus Charm as "an extremely advanced spell which only very accomplished witches and wizards can do". Lily had a smirk worthy of Rose's boyfriend, Scorpius Malfoy, for the rest of the day.

7. She had a rather unusual obsession with Muggle books.

Ever since her Aunt Hermione had bought her Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen for her tenth birthday, each time any sort of gift-giving holiday came around, she would beg her relatives, "Please get me Muggle books!" None of them understood it; why were The Grimm Tales so much better than The Tales of Beedle the Bard? In Lily's mind, it was quite simple, really: she had grown up hearing stories about Babbitty Rabbitty and Grumble the Grubby Goat. Muggle stories took her to a whole new world, one that never ceased to amaze her. Nobody was really all that surprised when she chose Muggle Studies as her elective.

8. She never had much luck with relationships.

Jeremy Finnegan: dumped her. Johnny Thomas: a flat-out arse. Maxwell Corner: cheated on her. Alexander Smith: she only agreed to go out with him out of pity. She broke up with him the day after. Lily had various other relationships, but most of them ended one of three ways: he dumped her, she dumped him, or he cheated on her. Lily was proud to say that she was always loyal to her partners, thank you very much- no matter what the Slytherin gossipers liked to say.

9. Ron was her favorite uncle.

Charlie was cool, with his dragons and constant cheery demeanor; Bill was kind and understanding, and always there for a chat; Percy was the serious one, who would do anything for the people he loved; George was hilarious and had the best stories. But she liked her Uncle Ron best, from the moment she saw his reaction about Rose dating Scorpius Malfoy- because that one reaction gave Lily Luna enough laughs to last her a good three months.

10. She was thirty years old when she realized why her Patronus was a cougar.

Luna Lovegood had been a family friend for as long as she could remember. Lily had attended her wedding to Rolf Scamander; had been waiting in the hall of St. Mungo's as Luna gave birth to her twin sons, Lorcan and Lysander; had babysat the twins during her summers while she was home from Hogwarts. All that time, she had never expected to fall for Lysander Scamander- ten years her junior- at a family gathering. But she did, and they were married a year later.

From her lack of Quidditch skills, to her fascination with Muggle books, to her opinion on her grandmother (though she never voiced it- she didn't dare), to her marriage to a man ten years younger than her, Lily Luna Potter was different from the rest of her family. To Lily, she was always the odd one out.

I just realized, I forgot this:

Disclaimer: If you think I own Harry Potter, you need to see a doctor.

Anyways, I personally am a big fan of this chapter! What about you? Please let me know in a review! Oh, and by the way, to all you Molly Weasley Fans out there, PLEASE DO NOT HURT ME! I love Molly too, I swear I do, but I think that she could definitely be a bit annoyingly over-protective to her grandchildren.

Oh, and if anyone is wondering about when I'll update, it won't really be on a schedule or anything. Probably I'll jsut update whenever I have the time- which should be at least once a week most of the time.

Thanks for reading!

-Joelle8