Lily's Baby Diary
Starting from the day after Harry Potter was born, Lily, the Marauders, and various surprise guests write diary entries into a book, meant to be presented to Harry on his seventeenth birthday. Harry finds it in the back of his family vault, unfinished and almost forgotten about...
Starts with August 1, 1980, ends with October 30, 1981.
Should be 66 weeks
PEOPLE TO MAYBE WRITE IN BOOK
BILL WEASLEY
HORACE SLUGHORN
ANDROMEDA TONKS
WILLIAM HIGGS- father of terrance higgs. his wife is from beaubatons, he was a ravenclaw. they wanted to avoid the second war, so they took Terrance out of Hogwarts. Terrance was born before Harry, was at least a year ahead of him.
william was the 7th boy name in 1960, and in 1959 (the year of Lily and James' births, and the year before).
-Terrance is a roman name or english name, he is not one of the 28 pop pureblood names, did not cheat at quidditch, was possibly transferred out of Hogwarts, English last name, "noble and bright" english name - bertie (albert) higgs -possible relative
(never got around to adding in this OC. I made him up because I wanted a greater range of unexpected characters)
8-1-80-Lily
8-8-80-James
8-15-80-Sirius
8-22-80-Remus
8-29-80-Peter
9-5-80-Dumbledore
9-12-80-Lily
9-19-80-Alice Longbottom
9-26-80-James
10-3-80-Remus
10-10-80-James (10 WEEKS) (start going into hiding?)
10-17-80 Lily, Queen visits Vatican
10-24-80 Peter
10-31-80 Sirius (Halloween) (Peter goes traitor a year before J+L deaths. PoA)
11-7-80 Molly (Bill is 10)
11-14-80 James (really start going into hiding)
11-21-80 Remus Lupin
11-28-80 Minerva McGonagall
12-5-80 Alice Longbottom
12-12-80 Remus Lupin
12-19-80 Lily (20 WEEKS OLD)
12-26-80 James (Tuney sent an ugly vase)
1-2-81 Sirius
1-9-81 Alice (Funeral of Princess Alice- DON' USE)
1-16-81 Albus Dumbledore
1-23-81 Andromeda Tonks (lil Tonks is 8 years old)
1-30-81 Lily (Lily's birthday)
2-6-81 Remus Lupin
2-13-81 James (Valentine's day)
2-20-81 Molly (Pregnancy of Ginny announced- born on August 11, '81, almost Ron's birthday- March 1, '80)
2-27-81 Lily (30 WEEKS OLD) (on 23, Prince Charles's engagement to Diana announced)
3-6-81 Remus (Remus' birthday is the 10th)
3-13-81 Peter
3-20-81 Bill Weasley
3-27-81 James (James' birthday)
4-3-81 Bathilda Bagshot
4-10-81 Lily
4-17-81(Sirius)
4-24-81
5-1-81
5-8-81 (40 WEEKS OLD)
5-15-81
5-22-81
5-29-81
6-5-81
6-12-81
6-19-81
6-26-81 Lily (three days after dudley's 1st birthday)
7-3-81
7-10-81 (Order of the Phoenix photo taken, two weeks before the McKinnions die)
7-17-81
7-24-81 (McKinnions have died, soon before Lily's letter)
7-31-81 (Lily) (Harry's birthday) (no visitors except Batty) (Dum's got cloak) (Prince Charles and Diana have been married on the 29th)
8-7-81 (Lily's written a letter to Sirius, described as early august) (Peter was there last weekend)
8-14-81 (Ginny has been born on 11th)
8-21-81 ("An American Werewolf in London" has been released)
8-28-81
9-4-81
9-11-81
9-18-81
9-25-81
10-2-81
10-9-81
10-16-81 Sirius
10-23-81 (James) (Fideldus charm- "barely a week" POA)
10-30-81 (Lily)
do they have to give away the cat?
[Original Ending]
(At first, I had McGonagall giving the diary to Harry, but I thought it made less sense overall than it being held up in Gringotts)
Harry Potter, enchanted with the stories that came to life from the small book, eagerly turned the page, looking for more.
What he saw brought him out of the fantasy world he had been living in for a small part of the day.
The next page was blank, as were all the ones after it.
Turing back, he looked at the date on the chapter before.
October 30, 1981.
The day after Lily Potter wrote those last words, she and her husband had died.
Harry ran his fingertips over the pages, trying to regain some of the magic that filled him, just moments ago.
But it was gone.
Harry looked up at the teary-eyed face of his old professor.
"Thank you, professor McGonagall."
He said, his voice wavering with feeling.
She recognized the dismissal, and left silently, only briefly touching his shoulder on her way out.
Alone in the silent room, Harry Potter turned back the pages to gaze upon the words that gave him an amount of insight, no matter how little, into his parents' lives.
'She made her g's like I do'
He thought to himself.
Blinking back a couple of tears, Harry turned the book back to the first page.
'Friday, August 1, 1980'
He read.
'Dear Harry,
It feels a little odd writing to you, as you're sleeping next to me...'
Author's Note: Alright guys, this is the real end. It's been a lot of fun writing this, and I hope you've enjoyed reading it. Goodbye :)