Fic: 50 Sentences on Lily Evans Potter

[trinityday]

So I'm home sick today. Not very sick, but bad enough that I was an hour late for work, and since I was an hour late for work, my boss sent me home at lunch because I was sick and therefore needed rest. It was weird.

But basically, that's why I had the chance to finally play with the formatting for this. It was written for 1character where I had claimed Lily.

Fifty Glimpses of Lily Evans Potter

Touch

“Magic really is real,” Lily breathed after tentative fingers reached out and
touched the sole burning gladiolus; the proof was in the pain.

Belief

Lily’s parents remembered all those things that just hadn’t made sense, and
they were inclined to believe this stranger and her fantastic story.

Vanilla

“I hate vanilla!” Lily shrieked, pounding her hands and feet on the ground,
never once noticing that her ice cream cone was now chocolate-flavored.

Moth

Lily and Petunia fell asleep amongst the old moth-eaten fur coats, in a
wardrobe that had been closed behind them despite repeated warnings to never
lock oneself in a wardrobe, and while neither of the giggling girls felt
disappointed when they didn’t wake up in another world, the same could not be
said for when a most peculiar letter arrived for Lily four years later.

Speak

Her first two weeks at Hogwarts, Lily Evans stayed quiet, until she realized
that yes, she knew the answers, and no, she wasn’t too scared to speak out in
class even if she was just Muggleborn.

Shine

“Her hair’s brighter than a fire,” Sirius Black staged-whispered to his new
friend; James Potter decided to prove him wrong by actually setting fire to
Evans’ hair.

Spoon

Balancing a spoon on your nose was an unknown trick in the wizarding world,
but certainly won an eleven-year old Muggleborn lots of friends, despite its
simplicity.

Ways and Means

“Watch me,” Lily Evans said when they told her that Muggleborns didn’t have
the talents, the connections or the fortitude to thrive in the wizarding world.

Forest

“Fine, I’ll go into the Forbidden Forest tonight—alone—and show you all!”

Ornament

While Lily knew that passing off her failed Transfiguration test as a gift
for Petunia wasn’t the nicest of things, she truly and honestly hadn’t expected
it to turn back into a beetle when her sister opened it.

Chocolate

Every witch gets struck by PMT in her own way, but Lily was convinced that
there was someone out there who planned it and was laughing at the fact that the
only thing her monthlies interfered with was her ability to summon chocolates
and other sweets.

Linger

If she stayed a little longer than necessary after their meeting, just
talking with James about nothing in particular, than neither of them noticed—not
even James, who had been chasing after her for years.

Archway

The first kiss Lily stole from James was under an archway on the Hogwarts
grounds; the last in their son’s doorway.

Coup de foudre


Lily never remembered the words she said in her panic, just her fear, her
intent and the aftermath.

Cold

“I can warm you up,” James said, wagging his eyebrows suggestively while Lily
tried to decide whether it was a better to ignore him or flip him off.

Rose

It vexed Lily to no ends that she preferred something as common and clichéd
as roses; at least, she consoled herself, she was saved from the horror of
having lilies as her favourite flower.

Fate

Lily didn’t believe in fate, but hated the Longbottoms anyway.

Appetite

Her lack of appetite was the fourth thing she noticed was wrong and the final
thing that made her seek out a pregnancy test.

Pulse

Her pulse quickening, Lily didn’t know if she was more scared by the prospect
of a negative or a positive result.

Venom

Normally Lily had no compunction against potions with Doxy venom in them, but
since it might not just be herself she was harming, Lily went to a Muggle
pharmacy for the pregnancy test.

Perfect

It was perfect, except James was gone and they were so young and Lily didn’t
know what she was doing and a war was waging and she was all alone and oh my
God, she was going to have a baby.

Two

Lily had always heard that it was possible to kill two birds with one stone,
but wished vainly that she hadn’t learned it was also possible to kill two
people with one curse.

Mask

The first time she saw Voldemort’s followers, their masks terrified her.

Need

“I don’t need to know everything about you to like you, but I do if you want
me to trust you, Remus,” she told the unresponsive boy.

Drunk

It took three bottles of wine for Sirius and Lily to get along—three bottles
of wine and two secrets that should probably not have been spoken.

Bribe

“If you’re going to bribe me, at least offer something more appetizing than
blood-flavoured lollies,” Lily said coolly, purposely ignoring the implications
of Sirius’ choice of sweets.

Vapor

“Try not to breathe in the vapors,” Slughorn warned right after Lily took a
big whiff and started to cough—and grow horns.

Rope

Lily was convinced that there was some trickery involved in her finally
agreeing to a date with Potter, but try as she might, she couldn’t figure out
how he’d done it, and try as she might, she couldn’t get that conviction to keep
her from enjoying herself.

Summer

“I’m beginning to think that I’m a highly unusual girl in many ways, because
as much as I love summer, I couldn’t wait for it to be over and to come back to
school,” Lily told her fellow prefect when they met on the Hogwarts Express.

Error

“Only ‘errors in judgement’ shouldn’t fucking kill your own colleague, your
friend!”

Gloves

It only took Lily a few minutes to realize why her sister wasn’t wearing
gloves despite the cold weather; after all, Lily had also chosen to go
bare-handed in order to show off her new ring.

Envelope

Petunia never forgave Lily for the Howler.

Mirror

Lily had gotten used to just about everything else that was different about
the magical world, but having her reflection talk back at her when she looked
into a mirror would always be disturbing.

Vine

At first, Lily was too caught up in dodging the curses being thrown every
which way to notice the green crawling about her feet.

Butterfly

Butterflies creeped Lily out, but she knew her husband too well to admit it;
he might have settled down since Hogwarts—and there was no doubting that he
loved her—but none of that would prevent Lily from waking one morning and
finding her room covered in the beasts if she ever let slip her fear.

Candy

She couldn’t stand Potter, but that didn’t mean that Lily was going to let a
perfectly good box of Sugar Quills go to waste.

Photograph

“No, the bloody photograph doesn’t move,” Lily said the fifth time that day,
wishing once again that wizards didn’t find the most commonplace of Muggle
things to be so extraordinary.

Crossroads

“Lily,” Dumbledore said pleasantly after they had both settled into chairs in
his office, “Have you ever heard of the Order of the Phoenix?”

Refrain

“But you can’t choose your family,” Lily and Sirius chimed in together,
knowing that part of the refrain by heart.

Family

“But you choose me—us—we’re now a family,” James said thoughtfully.

Medicine

When she turned her back on Harry for just one minute and then saw him
beside the empty bottle, Lily finally realized that Muggles had the right idea
when making their medicine taste bad.

Wind

The vines were wound around her neck, choking her, but desperation allowed
Lily to call out the spell and save her own life.

Balloon

Lily first realized she was in love with James when she saw his look of
boyish joy at the sight of balloon animals being made the Muggle way.

Smoke

After the smoke cleared, Lily saw the bodies and felt too sick to even vomit.

Illumination

Their wedding day was bright and sunny and their wedding night was full of
fireworks (literal fireworks, provided by a certain best man to no one’s great
surprise).

Remain

“You’re not being left behind, Lily, you’re protecting our son,” James tried
to reassure his wife.

Fresh

“But I just changed your nappy,” Lily said as she and her newborn son
competed to see who could cry the loudest.

Grieve

Lily sat at the kitchen table with her father, who looked older and feebler
and just lost, and she knew that he wasn’t going to be apart from her mother for
much longer.

Tea

Dumbledore offered James and Lily tea before telling them about the prophecy.

Memory

Lily remembered too late why Sirius was the one she and James trusted to be
their Secret Keeper.