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Lily Evans

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United Kingdom

Birthdate:

1960-05-16

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Lily Evans

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It was a cold and stormy night- at least that’s how Lily Evans likes to tell it when the subject comes up. In fact, it was a chilly but perfectly reasonable, if slightly overcast, mid-afternoon when the girl came into the world, born to Mary and William Evans, both muggles. As her mother was a night-shift nurse and her father worked in a hardware shop, Lily’s childhood was not terribly affluent. She grew up with her older sister and parents in a small house outside of Oxford, a house in which the plumbing was not reliable and where she shareda bedroom with her only sibling, Petunia.
From a young age, it was clear that Lily was smart. She was learned to talk early, although not significantly so, and immediately began striking up conversations with strangers when her mother took her shopping. She was quite the little charmer. She listened raptly to her mother read each evening, and begged the poor exhausted woman for more throughout the day. By watching her mother as she read, Lily figured it out for herself before she was four. The Evanses, realizing that they had a very bright child on their hands, spent what extra money they had purchasing books for their younger daughter. Very suddenly, most of the attention in the house became focused on her.
Petunia was not pleased. She was startlingly average herself, passably intelligent but no more and only vaguely pretty, and she knew it, and resenting her chattering, intelligent and charming little sister became quite easy as it became evident that her parents knew it too.
So it was that Lily passed her formative years.
And then came the letter, on her 11th birthday.
It shocked the household. To put it bluntly, Lily was absolutely horrified for at least three days, at which point she decided that if Wizards really did exist, and she was one, she was going to be delighted about it rather than shocked. What’s more, she was going to be the best. Her new-found enthusiasm proved infectious and soon won her confused and not altogether overjoyed parents from thinking “What in the world are we going to do?” to “What in the world were we so upset about?” After all, they had always believed that Lily could do absolutely anything.
Lily’s older sister had a different take on the whole thing. The horror that she and Lily had shared at the arrival of the letter- indeed, almost the only thing that the sisters ever shared- never wore off, but rather morphed into a sort of disgust based upon the fact that her bright and pretty little sibling was once again outshining her. This had been a common occurrence throughout the years, and Lily had never really been above taunting Petunia just a little once it was clear that Petunia was always going to dislike the younger girl. The redhead had a temper to match her hair, after all, and good intentions and familial love only went so far before it was triggered by her older sister’s attitude. Of course, she’d always be sorry later, but when Petunia started being difficult, Lily always felt oppressed and retaliated.
The several months before the start of Lily’s first term at Hogwarts thus became rather bitter ones, at least between the siblings. The proud Evanses spared no expense, though they didn’t really have much to spare, on outfitting Lily with the proper equipment for her coming schooling, and Petunia could not ignore the fact that she was being left out, which led to rude remarks and insults on her part, which led to her being ignored even more during the preparations. Any real relationship the sisters might have had was destroyed during this period.
Despite her muggle blood, Lily immediately felt at home at Hogwarts, making friends left and right and excelling in most of her classes. Despite her popularity, she became friends with the less popular girls and distained the attentions of the “best” boys from the very beginning. Her tendency to champion the chubby girls against the taunts of their peers, to help the bumbling with their Charms homework while refusing to allow the more charming and lazy to see her work, would most likely have made her something of an outcast were it not for her own unfailing good nature (she got angry quickly, but never stayed angry, and always apologized profusely to even those she disliked most afterwards,) and budding good looks. This is not to say that everyone liked her; on the contrary, even a few of her fellow Gryffindors found themselves wanting to hex her into silence quite often; but she got along well enough, and settled down enough by her fourth year that old enmities mostly faded.
The exception here was Lily’s relationships with several Gryffindor boys of her own year. She took it upon herself to tell one Sirius Black off for some minor rudeness on the very first day of school, and it was only a month or so later that she got into a yelling match with James Potter. She’s disliked these boys ever since, sometimes intensely, sometimes only vaguely. She respects their friend Remus Lupin, who has always been nice enough to her and her friends and who was made prefect with her in their 5th year, but she is not fond of Potter and Black.

Disclaimer: This is a roleplay journal for the game

drkphoenixrisng. I don't really think I'm Lily Evans. She's fictional. I'm not. Also, JKR owns her as well as my soul. Camilla Thorsson owns herself, as far as I know, although her modelling agency might have something to say about that.

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