#Both James and Sirius have achieved their dreams of having enough children to have full on quidditch games

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2022 Remus Lupin Fest Prompt: Family scene! Remus and his partner & a bunch of kids!

Panel 1: Image of Remus Lupin having an interview where he is asked, "Are you sure about this?" Remus Lupin answered, "Yes. I always loved children and adoption worked really well for my partner.

Panel 2: Sometime later, Remus is carrying Teddy and asking, “You have all the equipment, Sirius?” Where Sirius responded, “Of course, Moons. We’re ready for the Black-Lupins vs the Potters!” The group of children surrounding them, are discussing with each other on how they’ll be handling the quidditch team. 

“Sana,  remember our chaser plan?” “Fake left, throw right, Ollie. Ya?” 

“Are you sure I can be a seeker, Ken? I can’t see.” “Trust me, Ai. That’s my job as the keeper.” 

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The Rise and Triumph of Harry Potter

One of the most well-known wizards in modern history, Harry James Potter was born on July 31, 1980. Known for his famous defeat of the dark wizard, Tom Riddle (known famously as Lord Voldemort), at the battle of Hogwarts in 1998 – his history of helping the wizarding world dates back to when he was just a year old.

Born to muggleborn Lily Evans and pureblood James Potter (both members of the original Order of the Phoenix) Harry Potter was a half-blood wizard born in the well-known wizarding village of Godric’s Hollow. In his infancy, his parents were forced into hiding due to threat from Riddle. There has been much speculation as to the reason why the family was threatened, but it is thought to be due to a prophecy regarding Harry and Riddle (the supposed prophecy has never been confirmed by Potter).

The Potter family stayed in hiding until October 31, 1981 when Riddle located the family at their safe house. The Potter family had been protected by the Fidelius charm, and it was long believed that the Potter’s best friend (notorious accused mass murderer and later cleared) Sirius Black had been the one to give up the Potter’s location to Riddle. It was later discovered, however, that the believed-to-be-dead Peter Pettigrew had actually been the one to sacrifice his friends to Riddle.

Upon locating them, Riddle famously murdered both Lily and James Potter, and proceeded to attempt the killing curse on infant Harry Potter. This would be the first occasion that young Harry Potter helped the wizarding world, as a whole. The killing curse rebounded and hit Riddle, leaving nothing but the well-known lightning bolt scar upon Potter’s forehead. It was later learned that when Lily Potter died defending her son, an ancient magic was invoked protecting the young Potter from Riddle and thus causing the curse to rebound.

After the death of his parents, Potter was taken to muggle family on his mother’s side in Little Whinging. He grew up there, away from the wizarding world, for the next 11 years. Not much is known about his life with the muggles, but it is known that this family was incredibly anti-wizard and did not agree with his involvement in the wizarding world from 11 years old and on. On July 31st, 1991 Rubeus Hagrid (Keeper of Keys and Grounds and Care of Magical Creatures professor at Hogwarts), located Harry Potter and advised him for the first time that he was a wizard. Potter started his first year at Hogwarts in September of this same year and there met his famous cohorts Hermione Granger and Ronald Weasley. He was also sorted into Gryffindor house at this time. It was during this year that Potter first joined the Gryffindor Quidditch team as seeker, found by Professor Minerva McGonagall, officially making him the youngest quidditch player in a century. Many compared Potter to his father, another Gryffindor player known for his quidditch prowess. James Potter, however, was a chaser unlike his son. On October 31st of this year, Potter, Weasley, and Granger took down a fully grown mountain troll which had gotten into the castle. This sort of victory was unheard of for children of this age.

In June of 1992, Potter once again took on Riddle, then possessing Hogwarts professor Quirinus Quirrell, and once again came out triumphant. He also prevented the rare Philosopher’s Stone from falling into the hands of one of the most evil wizards of all time.

In September of 1992, Potter began his second year at Hogwarts. It was this year in which Potter first showed his ability to speak parseltongue, an ability widely known to be a trait unique to ancestors of Salazar Slytherin himself. On May 29, 1993 Potter discovered the rumored Chamber of Secrets within Hogwarts castle and slayed the basilisk lurking within. He saved Ginevra Weasley from the beast at this time.

In September of 1993, Potter began his third year at Hogwarts. In June of this year , he came out with a tale many would later learn to be true – that his Godfather, Sirius Black, was innocent and a wizard long believed to be dead, Peter Pettigrew, was alive and attempting to assist the dark lord. The minister at this time, Cornelius Fudge, did not believe Potter and instead ordered the Azkaban dementors patrolling Hogwarts to give Sirius Black “the kiss”. Black escaped, and many believe that 13-year-old Potter had something to do with it.

In August of 1994, Potter attended the Quidditch world cup with wizarding family the Weasleys (with whom he has been known to be incredibly close). Many remember the mayhem that broke out at this cup, with supporters of Riddle torturing muggles and ending the celebrations prematurely. In September of this year, Potter began his fourth year at Hogwarts. In October 1994, Potter was chosen as a fourth champion for the Triwizard Tournament, which had never happened previously. It was later discovered that a follower of Riddle had tricked the Goblet of Fire into accepting Potter under a fourth, fake, school. Potter took part in all three tasks of the tournament. The first task had been to recover a golden egg from a live dragon. Potter used his flying prowess and charm work to retrieve the egg from a Hungarian Horntail. The second task took place in the lake at Hogwarts, where Potter notoriously waited until all of the champions’ loved ones were saved, at risk to his own score, before completing the challenge. The final task (taking place June 24, 1995) is most well-known of all Triwizard Tasks in history. This took place in a maze created by the ministry, and Potter came out triumphant, however what makes this most well known is the death of student and champion Cedric Diggory. Potter claimed that his death had been caused by Peter Pettigrew during a ritual to bring back the dark wizard Riddle to full strength, in a graveyard in Little Hangleton. Potter claimed to have once again faced and triumphed over Riddle. At the time, many did not believe him, and the ministry condemned this story, however it was later found to be true. It was also during this year that Daily Prophet writer Rita Skeeter had taken an interest in him for the first time.

During the summer of 1995, the Ministry of Magic began a smear campaign against Potter and Hogwarts Headmaster of the time, Albus Dumbledore. They advised the wizarding community that Potter and Dumbledore were not being truthful regarding the return of Riddle. In August of 1995, two dementors attacked Potter and his muggle cousin, causing Potter to cast a Patronus charm and subsequently earning him a hearing at the Ministry. This is notable, as dementors typically did not leave Azkaban except on Ministry orders and did not venture into muggle territory. It was also unheard of for an underage wizard to receive a full criminal trial before the Wizengamot for use of underage magic. At the hearing on August 12, it was discovered that Potter was able to cast a corporeal patronus  in the shape of a stag, and had been able to since his third year at Hogwarts, due to the tutelage of Remus Lupin. Potter was found innocent and cleared of all charges at this hearing.

In September of that year, Potter began his fifth year at Hogwarts, famously clashing with Ministry official Dolores Umbridge, the newly appointed High Inquisitor of Hogwarts (a new position). Potter was reportedly in trouble a majority of the school year. During this year, Potter also gave his famous one on one interview with Rita Skeeter for magazine The Quibbler, detailing his tale of the events that had taken place in the Little Hangleton graveyard the previous year. In June of 1996 he traveled to the ministry with fellow Gryffindor fifth years Neville Longbottom (son of well-known aurors Frank and Alice Longbottom ), Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger; and fourth years Ginny Weasley (Gryffindor) and Luna Lovegood (Ravenclaw). There is still much that is unconfirmed about the 1996 Battle at the Ministry of Magic, however it is believed that Potter and friends traveled to the famed Hall of Prophecies, destroying the entirety of its contents. They battled many confirmed Death Eaters, such as Lucius Malfoy and Bellatrix Lestrange, and ultimately ended up in the main hall of the Ministry. At this time, Albus Dumbledore arrived and assisted Potter in once again taking down Riddle, now confirmed to be back as he was witnessed by multiple ministry employees, including the Minister of Magic himself. During this battle, Sirius Black was notoriously murdered by Bellatrix Lestrange.

In September of 1996, Potter began his sixth year at Hogwarts. He had achieved enough OWLs to pursue classes pertaining to his dream of becoming an auror for the ministry and began taking the classes he would need to reach this lofty goal. His romance with future wife, Ginevra Weasley, also began in this year. On June 30, 1997, the Battle of the Astronomy Tower took place. Potter and Dumbledore had been off campus and arrived back to the school after Death Eaters had already infiltrated it. Dumbledore was famously killed at this point, in the astronomy tower by Professor Severus Snape. Potter was there, hidden underneath his famous invisibility cloak and trapped by a body bind curse. He had been the one who confirmed Dumbledore’s murderer to be Snape. This battle yielded no other professor or student deaths; however, it was a huge blow to security and trust in the school. This also marked the beginning of the rise of the Death Eaters within the Ministry and Hogwarts. Potter attended Dumbledore’s funeral, before returning to his muggle family one last time.

During the summer of 1997, Potter left his family’s home in Little Whinging and on July 27, the Battle of Little Whinging took place in the skies above his childhood home. Well known auror Mad-Eye Moody was murdered during this battle. Potter returned to a safe location and remained hidden for quite some time. It was later confirmed that he attended the wedding of Bill and Fleur Weasley on August 1, under a disguise. It was also on this day that the Ministry of Magic fell, and Potter, Ronald Weasley, and Hermione Granger went on the run. It is unknown exactly what trio were doing for a majority of the time they were underground, but they were rumored to be seen at Malfoy Manor around Easter 1998, and were confirmed to be at Gringotts Bank on May 1, 1998. The “Golden Trio” broke into a vault and escaped upon the back of a dragon, next being seen at the Battle of Hogwarts. The Battle of Hogwarts took place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry on May 2, 1988. This battle was one of the most devastating battles of modern wizarding history, most notable not only because of its death count, but because of how many young witches and wizards were lost on this day. Notable among them were Remus Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks, and Fred Weasley, all of whom were considered family by Potter. Potter once again faced death at the hands of Riddle, and once again survived the killing curse, making him the only wizard alive to survive the killing curse, not just once, but twice. Ultimately, Potter faced Riddle in a duel, admitting to the crowd that he had been hunting horcruxes (incredibly dark magic, we highly discourage readers from reading about these items), that Riddle has presumably made. He also stated that he was the owner of the much-coveted elder wand, a wand rumored to be one of the three “deathly hallows” referred to in the children’s tale “The Three Brothers” by Beedle the Bard. As the sun rose that morning, Potter cast his most famous spell, Expelliarmus, and defeated Tom Riddle once and for all.

He has since become an accomplished auror, married Ginevra Weasley, and had three children – James, Albus, and Lily Potter.

Information obtained from:

www.wizardingworld.com

https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/

Harry Potter Books 1-7

Portrait from:

https://xla-hainex.tumblr.com/

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Remus Lupin Application

OUT OF CHARACTER:

Name/Alias: Admin Sammy

Preferred pronouns: She/Her

Age: 21

Timezone: CST 

Activity: 8/10 - As a full-time student and a part-time worker I am going to be around but cannot give myself a 10

Do you have RP experience? I have 10 years of roleplay experience but this is the first group I’m admin for.

Triggers: Blood & Needles

IN CHARACTER

Full Name: Remus John Lupin

Face Claim: Nat Wolff (lol Wolff)

Preferred Pronouns: He/Him

Sexuality: Pansexual

Age/DOB: 17/ 10 March, 1960

House: Gryffindor

Affiliation: Order of the Phoenix -- Remus Lupin was a man of brilliance whose life seemed to revolve around danger. He had never intended to go looking for trouble until it found him and grasped onto his heart with no intention upon releasing him. On the contrary, Remus Lupin’s life would only grow more and more troublesome as years went by. When a war broke out and all of his friends insisted that they were going to join the Order it was only right that he tag along with them. It was both the right thing to do and only fitting that such a trouble-ridden boy dig his grave ever deeper.

Species: Wizard/Werewolf

Blood Status: Half-Blood

Patronus: A great big wolf -- Remus hates it because this means the creature is not only an infliction of the flesh but also of the soul.

Boggart: As a small child it was wolves, then the full moon, it’s currently seeing his friends’ corpses with their blood on his hands, and will eventually change back to the full moon given that his friends will either be dead or in prison for killing them but hey, at least Remus didn’t kill them.

Quote: “I can’t go back to yesterday, I was a different person then.” --Lewis Carroll

Aesthetic: 

Hot Cocoa with Whipped Cream

Star Charts

Over-sized Sweaters

Cottage in the Woods

Worn-Out Books

Laugh Lines

Frosted Tree Branches

Pet(s): Barn Owl named Noctua

Occupation: Bookstore Keeper in Muggle London

Ships/Anti-Ships: 

+Wolfstar

+Chemistry

-Remus/Snape

-Remus/Forced

3 Positive Traits/3 Negative Traits: 

+Inquisitive

If you were to approach Hope Lupin and ask her about a characteristic of her son’s the first one she would list would be inquisitive. From the moment he opened his eyes for the first time, Remus was always studying the world around him and attempting to figure out how exactly things worked.

+Quiet

Remus quickly learned how to listen once he had been bitten. He was shuffled from treatment to treatment, cottage to cottage, told not to speak to the neighborhood children. Any time he broke that rule they were forced to leave again. He had started to learn how to speak up once he got to Hogwarts. However, old habits die hard.

+Collaborative

Remus Lupin does not know how to take care of himself when he does not have others checking upon him. That is not to say that he cannot survive but his standard of living goes down. However, when others are involved anything he puts his mind to improves immensely. Look at all that the Marauders had accomplished throughout the years, the achievement he is most proud of being the Marauders Map due to the skill it required to create.

-Impatient

Waiting is painful for Remus. When he has a goal in mind he wishes to rush in and get it done. People expect him to be the level-headed planner but the truth remains that he is as impulsive as his friends despite Dumbledore’s attempts to make him more responsible by naming him prefect. He supposes that is why James was made Head Boy.

-Temperamental

To pair up with the fact he is not the level-headed boy everyone expects him to be, Remus is rather temperamental. He tends to fly off the handle at even the most minor inconvenience, though that is usually of the self-deprecating variety.

-Dishonest

Remus’ life has been riddled with so many secrets that he has become somewhat of a pathological liar. The added negative for this trait? He’s a terrible liar. 

Example: In Prisoner of Azkaban when asked if he knew Sirius Black he threw his suitcase across the room and shouted “SIRIUS BLACK? NEVER HEARD OF HIM!” Despite all of the hullabaloo surrounding Black’s escape from prison.

4 Headcanons: 

Remus Lupin is not a morning person. He is used to late nights whether that was spent with his nose stuck in a book, out pranking in the corridors, or thrashing around the Shrieking Shack as a bloodthirsty beast. He does not seem to have a healthy sleep schedule so waking up before eleven in the morning is a struggle for our friend Remus. If you see him before he’s had his coffee it’s even worse.

Remus is considering actually getting a pet rabbit who he wishes to name Fluffenstein so that the rumors won’t be entirely incorrect. In the future he would joke with Harry about his classmates being under the impression of him having a badly-behaved rabbit as his “furry little problem” but every time he enters a pet shop he has to look at the bunnies and contemplate the decision for a good while. So far he has had enough self control to not pull off the act but we all know how impulsive he is.

His parents had been rather well-off until after he was bitten. After the attack they funneled most of their funds into experimental treatments for their son to no success. This led to a strained relationship between him and his father Lyall. Hope loves him unconditionally but Lyall resents his son, fueled by his own guilt for causing Greyback to target Remus in the first place.

Remus is rubbish at potions and baking but cooking is where he excels. He loves to experiment with recipes and flavors, which is especially convenient when on a budget and unable to afford a lot of foods.

Biography: 

Remus John Lupin was born to Hope and Lyall Lupin on March 10th, 1960 as a healthy baby boy. He was the pride and joy of his family, the prodigy. That all changed once Lyall shot off his mouth about werewolves in front of Fenrir Greyback, the most sadistic of the species that the Wizarding World knew about. At age five, Remus was tucked into bed, read a bedtime story, and left to dream about the stars. What they had not known was that Greyback had hidden himself inside the child’s closet to attack once the full moon had risen.

After that he was dragged from experimental treatment to experimental treatment, being let down time and time again and having to move from one village to the next with no roots to be planted. He learned to keep himself distant from those around him, learned to observe more than he participated. None of the Lupins would have expected that he would ever be allowed to leave home for even a night. When Dumbledore arrived at their doorstep on Remus’ eleventh birthday, everything changed.

He was brought to Hogwarts with tremendous caution and instilled with a level of fear of his classmates that Lyall considered healthy. Hope told him the opposite: that he was supposed to make friends and live his life as much as he could. While Remus had intended upon following his father’s instructions it appeared fate admired Hope a little more.

Throughout his time at Hogwarts, Remus grew out of his shell more and more until reality set in as to what life would be like once he left the castle’s walls. He had to face the fact that, as a werewolf, he would have little-to-no future in the Wizarding World’s society. When it came time for his O.W.L.s and his N.E.W.T.s he admitted to Professor McGonagall that he would take everything available in the hopes of perhaps landing some form of job upon graduation.

Now that his time at school has come to an end, Remus has been thrust into an unforgiving world ravaged by war. How will he survive in this world that has already taken so much from him?

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[fleurdelisxpotter]

of lily evans

CHARACTER’S FULL NAME :  Lily Evans.  Born in the sixties, many assume Lily’s parents were flower children or hippies for the way they named their daughters.  The fact of the matter is that her mother, Rose, has always loved flowers.  Named for one, she developed a love of gardening at a young age and named her daughters after two of her favorite flowers.  Her second daughter was named for the lily, a flower symbolizing beauty and innocence.  You may also notice she has no middle name.  The Evans’ never took to adding yet another given name, many women in both families simply choosing to take their maiden names as middle names once they are married.

CHARACTER’S AGE / BIRTHDAY :  18 / January 30, 1960  (In the skeleton you have her age as 19, though she won’t canonically turn 19 until January 1979.  I, however, am totally cool bumping her up a year for consistency sake if that works better all round.  xD)

OCCUPATION : Lily works in the Ministry of Magic as personal secretary to Alastor Moody in the Auror Department of the Magical Law Enforcement Offices.  As his secretary, Lily is in charge of all the mundane runnings of Alastor’s life in the office.  Her talent for organization and productivity make her well suited to the job, letting Head Auror Moody focus on the important business of running the Auror department.  She makes sure paperwork is done, works as a point of contact for the press and other outside organizations.  This in particular is a job she does often, as Moody’s general outlook on speaking to the press is “No.”  Being a member of the Order as well as Moody’s secretary also means that it is worlds easier to hide his involvement with the organization.  There are no lies that need to be told about time spent on patrols and missions that aren’t necessarily sanctioned.  But working in the Ministry, as a muggleborn, is not without it’s dangers. Lily is very aware of the whispers that sometimes follow her, of the open hostility that she faces with some of those around her.  There are many who believe she does not deserve a place in Ministry employ, or any where else in the magical world.  It is because of these people that Lily holds onto her job with all her might.  There is corruption in the Ministry and danger everywhere else, but she refuses to let that keep her from being a part of the magical community that she has come to call home.  

WAND DESCRIPTION : 10¼", Willow, Unicorn Tail Hair core, swishy.  Willow wood is an uncommon wood used for wands, usually choosing a witch or wizard with some insecurity they must one day overcome.  This insecurity is often unwarranted, as it was in the case of Lily Evans.  Being a muggleborn witch, she always felt she had something extra to prove to those born in the magical world, an insecurity that spoke to her wand.  In addition, willow wands often choose owners with the greatest potential.  The strength of the willow wood counteracts the minor disadvantage of its unicorn hair core.  Unicorn hair creates wands that are consistent and loyal, though not always powerful.  In the hands of a witch like Lily Evans, however, this side effect is never usually an issue, the power from the witch herself proving more than enough to succeed in most anything she attempts.

WHY THIS CHARACTER? : Ok so I have loved Lily for a very very long time and I feel a connection to her that I cannot deny.  I feel like there are so many sides to Lily to capture.  And I love exploring the sides of her that aren’t necessarily the pretty happy lovey sides.  For example, her insecurity concerning her heritage, her temper, her impulsivity.  I want to delve into all the parts of her that don’t normally come to mind when we think of Lily Evans.  We don’t think about how scared she is of loving James.  Loving someone when everyone else she’s loved - Petunia, Severus - have turned away from her.  We don’t think about how everything she does has and undertone of defensiveness, trying to prove to herself that she belongs in this world and is worthy of the title witch.  We think of Lily’s bravery in the face of Voldemort but what about all the times before that.  When she was offered a place in his ranks and turned him down, when she actively fought those stronger and more talented than herself, when she got herself hurt because she was not content to stand by and allow them to hurt other people.  I love all those parts of Lily most and can’t wait to bring them to life.

AFFILIATION : Lily joined the Order of the Phoenix without hesitation and without second thoughts.  She knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that it is the only place for her.  She may not have always thought that way, she wasn’t always inclined towards violence, but she has always been inclined towards action.  And then Mary MacDonald was attacked.  And Severus Snape called her a mudblood.  And muggles were killed.  And her friends got into fights with the people who thought they were better.  Little things chipped away at the peaceful and quiet side of Lily until only the protective firebrand remained.  And then, the summer after her graduation from Hogwarts, she was approached on her way home from the Ministry in an alley in London.  She was offered something few people were offered.  A place at the side of the greatest wizard of all time, a place in his inner circle, helping him achieve his goals.  She wasn’t meant to say no and live to tell about it.  She was to either say yes or die turning the offer down.  But they had  underestimated Lily’s strength, her prowess with a wand.  And they had only sent one Death Eater.  She joined the Order within the week, standing by James’ side, determined to have a part in ending this war.

HOW DOES YOUR CHARACTER FEEL ABOUT THE WAR? : Lily hates this war.  She hates everything about it with every fiber of her being.  And she doesn’t use that word to mean I really don’t like it.  She actually hates it.  She is scared of it, scared that she will lose the people she loves.  Whether they’re fighting or have stayed neutral or are muggles, she has so many people to lose and each of them are a weight on her heart.  It makes her sad.  When she stops to think, to really think, she can’t breath for the sadness.  The pain that people are feeling, the terror they live with, that fact is one she grieves.  

WHAT IS YOUR CHARACTER’S GREATEST AMBITION? : Lily doesn’t really feel like she has time for ambitions.  So much of her life is wrapped up in the war, she doesn’t have time to think about what she wants to be or do or achieve.  But then, just because one does not consciously think of it, does not mean one does not have ambitions.  Right now, Lily’s greatest ambition is to see this war brought to an end.  To see the Dark Lord defeated and so know that the people she loves are safe.  But before the war, when Lily was just a regular teenage girl with regular hopes and dreams, her greatest ambition was to find a place where she belonged.  Lily longs to feel as if she fits, as if every jagged edge and odd piece of her blends flush with the world around her.  She never felt that at home, though it had never bothered her until she found out she was a witch.  She’d thought she’d found that in Severus but she had been wrong.  She is wary now, when she thinks she’s found that belonging, she no longer trusts it.

HEADCANONS :

1. Lily’s favorite flowers are not lilies.  To be quite honest, she hates lilies.  She doesn’t like the smell of them and she thinks they’re too waxy and a little bit pretentious looking.  Her actual favorite flowers are daisies.  Simple, without frills, and they grow everywhere.  She likes them because they’re not rare.  They’re common.  They’re easy to find and surround yourself with.

2. Lily is a coffee drinker.  She is of the opinion that few people truly like both equally.  You’re a coffee drinker or a tea drinker and she has always been partial to coffee.  She likes the rich nutty taste.  She drinks it like tea, brewing it at a moment’s notice.  It’s preferred drink while reading, working, sitting, relaxing, or anything of that sort.

3.  Lily doesn’t like to fly.  She can, more or less, but she doesn’t like it.  And by can I mean she can manage to get from point A to point B without falling to the ground and breaking her neck.  She never managed the easy grace on a broom that others have. She always feels like she is giant and awkward and that little piece of wood can’t possibly support her.

4. Lily is not a morning person.  She doesn’t particularly enjoy getting out of her very warm and very comfortable bed any time before ten, but unfortunately life doesn’t usually accommodate that.  Especially not when one has a boss who regularly gets to work earlier than he is scheduled.  Lily isn’t properly social until she’s had at lease one cup of coffee, though this has it’s exceptions.  As long as you don’t talk to her, Lily is also incredibly cuddly in the mornings.  

5.  Lily has always wanted a cat.  Since she was a kid and was told she wasn’t allowed because Petunia was allergic, she has wanted a cat of her very own.  She is constantly in the process of trying to convince James (and Sirius) to let her have one.

SHIPS / ANTI-SHIPS : I mean, chemistry and all that but - Jily man.

EXTRA INFORMATION :

PATRONUS : Lily’s ability to cast a Patronus is new.  In school, the charm alluded her for a long time, it was only as her seventh year came to a close that she found herself suddenly finding the missing piece to cast the spell.  The problem was, until that time, Lily didn’t possess a memory with enough untainted happiness to call on.  Everything she could remember reminded her of losing Petunia and Severus, of feeling like she didn’t belong, of being scared to lose her friends.  The day she cast her first Patronus, however, was the day she realized she loved James Potter.  Thinking of a memory, she thought of him.  She had tried it before, thinking of James, but it hadn’t worked.  It had required her to love him, but more than that, to accept that she loved him, for the memory to be strong enough.  The Patronus she cast took the form of a doe.  But unlike some Patronus forms, this wasn’t a representation of Lily herself.  It was an embodiment of the love that made the spell possible.  Which she wouldn’t understand, until the day she saw that James’ patronus took the form of a stag.  

BOGGART : Lily’s greatest fear is the people she loves turning their backs on her.  It is no surprise this is her greatest fear, given that she’s felt the sting of it not once but twice in her young life.  When faced with a Boggart, she sees Marlene, Remus, James, Sirius, and her other friends casting disgusted gazes in her direction before turning their backs to her quite literally.  Upon muttering the word Riddikulus her friends turn back around, masks attached to faces to make them appear, in a word, ridiculous.

AMORTENTIA : Library books.  Lily associates this smell with afternoons spent studying with Sev or Remus.  Afternoons when things were easy and she could control the world around her.  In books and in her studies, things made sense.  There were facts and instructions and everything was, very literally, black and white.  

Summer wind.  Lily loves the summer.  Something about it enchants her.  The feeling of the hot sun on her skin, the feeling of freedom that it brings with it.  Say what you will but there is something about summer that makes you feel as if anything is possible in a way you never do in winter.  She couldn’t tell you why or where it comes from.  But there is a feeling of invincibility attached to summer and Lily is addicted to it.  

James.  This smell is hard for her to describe and it elicits a feeling more than it is something she can explain.  It’s the smell on his pillow or in the shirt she wears to sleep.  It’s what she smells when he holds her close and her face rests against his shoulder,  She breaths deeply and it is the smell she associates with a feeling of being safe.  Of being home.    

RANDOM STUFF :  

THIS is a song that every time I hear it, I just feel - Lily.  

THIS is one of my favorite Jily songs.  Because as much as Lily loves James, she is terrified that this war will tear them apart.  That she will die and he will be lost and broken.  And some nights when she’s reeling from a mission or he comes home hurt, she wishes that they didn’t love each other.  Because then they would be safe from the damage they could do to one another.

HERE is an old Lily moodboard I made on an old Lily account that you can now also stalk.

HERE is another moodboard, this one focusing on Lily and the war.

BIOGRAPHY

Lily Evans didn’t fit in with her family, even from day one. It wasn’t a bad thing, she was just different. When she was born, her head was covered with a shock of ginger hair - surprising amidst her family of brunettes. As far back as they could remember, neither of Lily’s parents could think of another family member from whom their youngest daughter could have inherited her flaming hair. They thought it a great joke, though, and from the day she was born they called Lily their little oddball.

They had no idea then how right they were. Before she was one she’d earned her nickname in spades.  Between the mobile above her crib refusing to stay in the air night after night and the stuffed animals that found their way from Petunia’s room to Lily’s nursery of their own accord, the Evans could have sworn it was Lily to blame. If they didn’t know better, that is. She was still an infant, after all. How could she be stealing teddy bears when she couldn’t even walk?

From the time she was toddling around, Lily and her older sister Petunia were always together. Petunia looked at Lily like her own little doll she could have adventures with and Lily looked at her big sister with eyes wide with awe. The older girl was her role model and little Lily wanted to do everything she could do. As she grew, though, she started to take the lead more and more. Lily was a fearless child. She loved the outdoors, exploring and discovering the world around her. She’d drag her sister out to the river near their home and they would play games of princesses and knights, living out their favorite fairy tales.

Coming from a small family, the girls were one another’s best friends when they were little. The lived in a small village and it was just the way things fell into place. It wasn’t until Petunia reached school age - leaving Lily without a friend during the day - that Lily started to branch out. For a time she was happy being her own best friend, occupying herself in her favorite spot by the river. It was in these solitary afternoons that she started to discover the the - interesting - things she could do.

It happened quite by accident the first time. It was the first frost of winter and Lily - a flower child if ever there was one - was missing the flowers. She sat by a bush that in summer was covered with blooms and, for lack of a better explanation, wished one into being. It shocked the usually verbose child into silence for a good long time that first day but it soon became her favorite game. She didn’t dare show it to anyone, not even her sister, though a secret like that couldn’t be kept forever.

Being a little sister, it was one of Lily’s favorite games to make Petunia worry.  When it came to teasing her, Lily’s favorite game was played on the swings.  They would swing out by the river and Lily loved to frighten her sister by leaping of the swings when it was at it’s full height.  She was aiming to break a record on the day in question and had been practicing jumping without hurting herself for days.  She planned to take it easy with Petunia around but she lost herself in the fun and slipped off her swing higher into the air than she had intended.  If she hadn’t slowed her fall using magic, she surely would have broken a bone but Petunia didn’t let this stem the flow of admonitions that greeted Lily when she hit the ground.  It was only after she realized her sister was alright that Petunia realized how odd it was that the redhead had floated so gracefully to the ground.

After that, Lily was eager to show her sister everything she could do.  The sister’s spent hours talking about Lily’s new found skill with Petunia asking question after question of her younger sister.   Lily couldn’t help but show off a little, it had been hard for her to keep this secret for so long.  She was showing Petunia what she’d taught herself to do with the flowers when another someone caught her in the act.  Petunia, eyes wide with curiosity, asked Lily how she was able to do all these things and a boy neither Evans had ever met before was the one to answer, coming from behind the bushes.  As if it were nothing surprising at all, he answered the question Lily had been asking for years.  He told her she was a witch.

The boy’s name was Severus Snape and he lived not far from the two girls.  The fact that he knew about magic and could answer the questions that had poured like water from a cliff out of Lily’s lips made him the most precious friend Lily had ever had.  She didn’t know it then but meeting Severus would effectively change her life forever.  

Nearly overnight,  Lily and Severus became great friends.  For so long, Lily had had a secret she didn’t understand and thus couldn’t fully share with anyone, not even her sister.  Once she had met Severus, she wasn’t alone anymore.  She hadn’t ever known how to voice it, but before she’d met him she’d feared at times that Petunia had been right.  That Lily was ‘odd.’  Having a friend that shared her gifts erased that fear and Lily clung to Severus and his friendship like an anchor holding her in the world.  Where she’d once followed her sister around with longing and a desire to be like her, now she spent all her free time asking questions about witches and wizards and magic.

Their shared gift wasn’t the only thing that interested the perpetually curious red head.  She wanted to know everything there was to know about Severus and asked nearly as much about his life as she did about his world.  Before long he was no longer a novelty to be interrogated but a friend she cared for and wanted to protect.  Hours, days, weeks, were spent lying in the grass by the river talking about his parents and her sister and all the things that scared them and made them laugh.  In getting to know Severus, Lily got to know herself.  And in getting to know herself, Lily started to grow apart from her sister.

The closer Lily and Severus became, the more strained her relationship with Petunia grew.  She tried to make room in her life for both Sev and Petunia but the two reacted like oil and water when they were around one another.  It became exhausting for Lily to split her affection between her two favorite people, always defending one to the other and trying to keep peace between them.  And then Lily received her letter from Hogwarts, causing her to lose her sister forever.  

The final fight between Lily and Petunia happened at the river - like most of Lily’s childhood - and resulted in weeks of silence while Lily prepared for school.  Lily tried to contain her excitement as she visited Diagon Alley for the first time, she practiced self control when all she wanted to do was show off her new things to her sister.   Neither girl spoke more than a few syllables to one another as that last summer came to a close.  When the Evans dropped Lily off at the train for her first year, Petunia refused to even say goodbye when Lily tried.  Their mother watched sadly as Lily climbed aboard the scarlet train, knowing that her girls would never be what they’d used to be to one another.

Hogwarts was nothing and everything like Lily had imagined it would be.  After an admittedly bumpy start on the train, meeting a handful of boys she would have been happy never to speak to again, Lily couldn’t help but be caught in the wonder of it all.  She peppered Severus with questions she’d asked a million times on the ride there, wanting him to tell her everything all over again.  Their run in with the two rude boys prompted a whole hour of Lily asking about the different houses.  She was desperate to be in the same house as Sev but the more he talked, the more she didn’t know that she would fit into Slytherin as well as she hoped she would.  A new set of nerves came over her, nerves about the sorting.  Where would she end up and what if she were alone.  

For the first time in her life, she had to do something truly alone when she was sorted into Gryffindor and Severus was sorted into Slytherin.   The talkative young ginger made friends within her house quickly, though.  By the end of the first week, she’d joined herself to the hip of Marlene McKinnon and a few other girls from her year, making a niche for herself with ease.  

Keeping her promise to stay friends with Sev wasn’t as easy as making her new friends.  On the surface she tried to make it look effortless.   She sat with Sev in the library, working on homework and quizzing each other in endless facts.  They fell in love with potions together, sharing secrets and new ideas.  But while she stayed loyal to her Slytherin friend, not all her other friends understood.  She stood with her head high as James Potter and his friends mocked her for her choice in mates, she tried to explain to the girls in her dorm what she saw in Sev, she defended him when housemates ranted about ‘those useless snakes.’  She told herself that he did the same for her but sometimes she wondered and sometimes she wished things were simpler.

Lily threw herself into school with a passion.  She loved every moment of this new life, from her friends to her classes to the food and the holidays.  Coming from a non magical family, Lily wanted to prove herself in school.  Between her sister’s rejection and Sev’s stories about what it mean to be pureblooded, Lily had the idea in her head that she had to earn her place at school, that she couldn’t just take for granted his incredible chance she’d been given.  She knew right off that her favorite subject would be potions.  It was magic she could see and understand.  Charms and transfiguration still surprised her for the first year, anything so traditionally ‘magical’ still had her pinching herself to make sure it wasn’t all a dream.  But potions was like arithmetic.  It was precise and predictable and she excelled at it.

It certainly helped, of course, that her best friend had the highest potions marks Hogwarts had seen in decades.

By her fourth year, Lily had caught the attention of the Potions professor and Head of Slytherin house, Horace Slughorn.  It was no secret amongst the student body that Professor Slughorn played favorites.  The Christmas of her fourth year she was invited to his annual Christmas party.  She’d hoped Sev would be there as he excelled even beyond her in Potions but it seemed that Sev had done what he’d always done best.  Stayed out of the center of attention.

In her fifth year, no one was surprised when Lily was named a prefect for Gryffindor house along with Remus Lupin.  Lily had always gotten along well with Remus, despite what she considered his poor choice in friends, and they made a good pair as far as prefects went.  They balanced each other well.  Something she couldn’t say about the rest of his friends.

Lily hadn’t learned to get along with James Potter or Sirius Black in the five years they’d been in school together.  She still thought them arrogant and entitled and insufferable.  When James decided she was his next target in a line of skirts to be chased, she couldn’t have been more unimpressed.  Her fifth year was full of constant ups and downs.   Between turning James down no less than once every two weeks and saying yes to the other boys who’d started to notice she existed, Lily had her fair share of romantic practice.  Nothing serious and nothing long term but she perfected the art of flirting and found that she did quite enjoy the feeling of being someone’s girlfriend.

As her friendship with her housemates, Remus in particular, grew stronger, time took it’s toll on her relationship with Severus.  With each passing year, it grew harder for her to defend him and easier for her to give in to the idea that maybe everyone else was right about him after all.  Each of them had their own group of friends and while her friends didn’t approve of Sev, his friends downright frightened Lily.   They were all of them bullies to make even James Potter look like a choir boy.  James and his friends were prats to be sure, but even Lily knew that none of them meant any real harm.  Not like Sev’s friends.  

Hardly a week went by in their fifth year that Lily and Sev didn’t get into a fight.  Every time she had to break up a fight his friends had started and take points from Slytherin, she made a point to let Severus know.  She knew she was being a nag and she knew it wasn’t her place but Severus was her best friend.  Even then she continued to think of him that way.  And she’d be damned if she let him lose himself to such awful people without having a say in the matter.

Despite her best efforts, though, fifth year felt like things were unraveling in her hands and she couldn’t hold tight enough to save them.  Sev grew farther and farther away from her, more sullen each time she saw him.  He grew snippy with her and she caught herself wondering what she’d done to make him mad.  And then, in the spring of that year, things came tumbling down on top of one another for the final time.  

She’d heard the word Mudblood before.  She’d even been called it before.  But never by Severus.  Hearing those words out of his mouth felt the way she imagined it would feel to be punched in the stomach.   The last time Lily had felt so utterly defeated was when Petunia had refused to hug her goodbye at age eleven.  One best friend gone then and now - five years later - another decided she wasn’t enough to hold onto.  

That summer, Lily spent as much time as possible at Marlene’s home, avoiding Petunia and avoiding Severus, building up the wall that would keep make it hard for Lily to let anyone not already close to her heart get anywhere near it.  The change was most apparent to Marlene but it would take more than late nights spend over fudge brownies to convince the redhead that it wasn’t her fault she’d lost Severus or Petunia.  

One’s seventh year at Hogwarts was supposed to be a time for excitement and planning for the future, but in Lily’s seventh year a storm was brewing on the horizon.  You-know-who was gaining power faster than anyone wanted to admit and it seemed as though war were inevitable.  But at Hogwarts, a sort of protective bubble was cast over the students within it’s walls.  There they continued to laugh and learn and - in Lily’s case - love.

Lily couldn’t pinpoint for you, if you asked, when things had changed with James.  When she had gone from finding him annoying and obnoxious, to finding him oddly charming. When watching him chase other girls had gone from disgusting to something she was jealous of.  She didn’t know how or when, she only knew it had.  By her seventh year, Lily knew she wanted to give James a chance.  It would take another few months (complete with Christmas holiday spent with her sister and future brother in law featuring a disastrous dick measuring contest between her boyfriend and the prickly muggle) for Lily to know she wanted James in her life forever.  For Lily to realize she loved James back. Then, of course, she had to tell him.  But by the end of her seventh year, it was common knowledge that no one ever loved a boy like Lily Evans loved James Potter.

Lily never felt like she lived in two worlds, not until after graduating from Hogwarts in June of 1978.  For the first eighteen years of her life, she had had one life.  Her parents knew everything about her life at school and for the most part, the people at school knew about her life at home.  But as the conflict with You-know-who turned into an actual war, Lily started to separate her lives.  Her parents and sister weren’t a part of that fight.  She couldn’t bring herself to burden them with the idea that she was using her magical education to fight in a war.  To go out in the line of hexes and curses and come home with cuts and scrapes and broken bones.  So when James asked if she wanted to move in with him after graduation, it was all she could do to not say yes so fast she’d scare even him away.

Sometimes she joked that she felt like a secret agent or a superhero with a secret identity.  Her father just thought she was living with her boyfriend, being an irresponsible nineteen year old with a rubbish job and too many parties when in reality she was doing the most important work of her life.  She got two jobs in the summer after graduation, she became secretary to Alastor Moody, head of the Auror Department, and she joined the Order of the Phoenix, dedicating everything she had to a cause that became personal with each passing day.

PARA SAMPLE

The cobblestones were moving.  She knew it was impossible that the cobblestones were moving but they were.  She was in a muggle village, there was no way a witch or wizard would be making the cobblestones move and yet, as she stood upon them, they shifted her off balance.  No one could tell her that the cobblestones weren’t moving.  

Hands gripped her shoulders, hands she hadn’t seen coming.  Not that that was surprising.  Her gaze was riveted to the amazing moving cobblestones and she hadn’t seen the familiar wizard approaching, having received an unexpected owl from one Lily Evans asking him to meet her near her home and to please not tell James.  The sudden movement startled her and her head snapped up to see the face attached to the hands.  “Sirius!” An impossibly wide smile crossed her lips as she recognized him.

“Evans,” he said after a pause, an amused smirk on his lips and one eyebrow raised questioningly at the thoroughly intoxicated redhead standing in front of him. “Everything alright?”

“Everything is brilliant,” she assured, not swaying a bit as the pavement beneath her feet suffered another moment of instability, thanks to his hands. “Just came from dinner with my sister. Well, with my parents and my sister. My sister didn’t actually want me there at all but Mum invited me. She’s engaged you know.” As she began to ramble, alcohol fueling her speech until it sped up at least twice her normal speed, she pulled herself from his hold and made her way to the low wall lining the small road they stood on.

“My sister I mean. Not my mum. Because that would be ridiculous.” She giggled absently at the idea before continuing. “She announced it tonight. She brought him over to meet mum and dad. He’s a great huge thing, all pink and blonde he looks like a pig. A pig in a suit!” A laugh interrupted her speech and she found herself leaning against the wall, grateful for it’s stability.

“We toasted the couple and we toasted marriage and love and then I just kept toasting. Do you know, I never really liked champagne but it’s really growing on me.” Hand gliding over the rough stones of the wall, Lily began to meander along it’s length.  She didn’t look back to see if Sirius was following, sure that he would and not particularly worried if he didn’t. “But the night, it was just dead boring. All talk of work and cars and wedding plans and my sister looking at me out of the side of her eyes like she was waiting for me to sprout a tail and fly away cackling, scaring her precious Vernon off into the night.” Disdain laced her last few sentences.

“So I thought, since I was feeling too brilliant to end the night, that I needed to see someone who knew how to have fun and who knows how to have fun better than you?” She spun to point at him as she said the word you and tripped over her own feet, stumbling until he steadied her. “You really must get this floor fixed, it’s a hazard,” she said through laughs she barely tried to control anymore. “It really was a waste of a good night,” she went on. “Wasted with my sister. You know, i actually thought she wanted me there tonight. That’s what my mum told me. But when I got there her eyes got all wide and she went paler than normal which is impressive since she might as well have skin the same color as snow and I knew mum had made it up.” It was harder for her now to keep her words light and filled with laughter. They became drawn and tired and then she was quiet. She pulled away from the hands that had steadied her, wandering again but this time without the manic energy.

“She looks at me like I’m some kind of freak. Like any minute I’m going to do something terrifying and embarrassing. My own sister. Can you imagine?” And she remembered, he could. It came back to her then, why she’d owled Sirius instead of Marlene or Remus. This companion. Because no one understood like Sirius what it meant to have your family turn their back on you. She turned to him again, this time slow enough not to lose her balance, and he could see the tears that had formed in her eyes.

“What am I supposed to do?”