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icysilverthreadI have fallen face-first into HP fandom (again), and my Lily-Lives AU has come back to eat my brain. Therefore, instead of homework, have 5 (+1) facts about Lily Potter, mother of the Boy Who Lived.
(1) It was years before she stopped wishing that she could shoot people, if only because then the world would be a lot simpler.
(2) She wondered when on Earth she became the one with the best social and emotional skills. Oh, right, when James died. A few years later, once Remus has managed to piece back together the trust he lost when the Marauders fell apart, she cedes the title of Emotionally Mature Adult with no small amount of relief.
(3) She took a short look at the political situation and decided that she couldn’t actually protect Harry in the magical world, and besides, growing up as a Muggle would do him good. But she made very sure that Harry knew why, and had all the tools she could give him to deal with his fame, because she knew that he would eventually need to.
(3 a) She hadn’t been able to save Sirius from Azkaban. She isn’t sure if she should save him, because, well, he did kill thirteen people and his best friend in revenge. She knows that he’s capable of murder, and she also knows that if they want to make peace and live under a rule of law, than actions have to have consequences.
(4) Sometime, years and years later, she finds advice on the Muggle internet about what to do when your friends S.O. is an abusive a-hole. She laughs and laughs, because taking away the insignificant details like who’s sleeping with who, this is exactly her and Severus (and Dumbledore). She never does forgive Dumbledore for how he treated Sev, and files him regretfully as ally of necessity, not trusted.
(5) She hasn’t spoken to Petunia since their parents were killed by Voldemort’s forces, years ago. At this distance, living through not just the war and death and grief but also the bizarrely paradoxical nature of peacetime, she thinks she understands Tuney’s reasons a little better. She isn’t sure if she should visit, though. If nothing else, any criticism of James will make her lose her temper, and that does no one any kindness. Tuney might have many talents, but keeping her mouth closed on her racist opinions was never one of them. So in the end, Lily doesn’t go. (She can’t avoid losing her temper, but she can try to avoid situations which will make her lose her temper. Sometimes.)
(5 a) She would never admit it in a million years, but Lily is deeply, deeply jealous of her pen-friend Kate, another Muggle-born in her Hogwarts year, who left Hogwarts after OWLs and took her family to Australia. They are all alive and happy, and they still have each other.
(+ 1) She has never been prouder when she hears that her son was sorted into Slytherin. About time that people realized that Slytherins were more than just Dark Wizards. Apparently, Harry had made a Muggle-born friend on the train, who was also a new Slytherin. Lily breathed a prayer of luck for the girl, because lord knew she’d need it.
(Yes, Harry and Hermione both end up as Slytherins in this one. This does not end well for the blood purists. At all.)
(1) It was years before she stopped wishing that she could shoot people, if only because then the world would be a lot simpler.
(2) She wondered when on Earth she became the one with the best social and emotional skills. Oh, right, when James died. A few years later, once Remus has managed to piece back together the trust he lost when the Marauders fell apart, she cedes the title of Emotionally Mature Adult with no small amount of relief.
(3) She took a short look at the political situation and decided that she couldn’t actually protect Harry in the magical world, and besides, growing up as a Muggle would do him good. But she made very sure that Harry knew why, and had all the tools she could give him to deal with his fame, because she knew that he would eventually need to.
(3 a) She hadn’t been able to save Sirius from Azkaban. She isn’t sure if she should save him, because, well, he did kill thirteen people and his best friend in revenge. She knows that he’s capable of murder, and she also knows that if they want to make peace and live under a rule of law, than actions have to have consequences.
(4) Sometime, years and years later, she finds advice on the Muggle internet about what to do when your friends S.O. is an abusive a-hole. She laughs and laughs, because taking away the insignificant details like who’s sleeping with who, this is exactly her and Severus (and Dumbledore). She never does forgive Dumbledore for how he treated Sev, and files him regretfully as ally of necessity, not trusted.
(5) She hasn’t spoken to Petunia since their parents were killed by Voldemort’s forces, years ago. At this distance, living through not just the war and death and grief but also the bizarrely paradoxical nature of peacetime, she thinks she understands Tuney’s reasons a little better. She isn’t sure if she should visit, though. If nothing else, any criticism of James will make her lose her temper, and that does no one any kindness. Tuney might have many talents, but keeping her mouth closed on her racist opinions was never one of them. So in the end, Lily doesn’t go. (She can’t avoid losing her temper, but she can try to avoid situations which will make her lose her temper. Sometimes.)
(5 a) She would never admit it in a million years, but Lily is deeply, deeply jealous of her pen-friend Kate, another Muggle-born in her Hogwarts year, who left Hogwarts after OWLs and took her family to Australia. They are all alive and happy, and they still have each other.
(+ 1) She has never been prouder when she hears that her son was sorted into Slytherin. About time that people realized that Slytherins were more than just Dark Wizards. Apparently, Harry had made a Muggle-born friend on the train, who was also a new Slytherin. Lily breathed a prayer of luck for the girl, because lord knew she’d need it.
(Yes, Harry and Hermione both end up as Slytherins in this one. This does not end well for the blood purists. At all.)
