Post by BECCA on Jan 26, 2014 14:25:50 GMT -5
[presto]
sixteen
female
ravenclaw
halfblood
heterosexual
ciara baxendale
lily luna potter
 Lily Luna Potter was born on the 14th of November 2007. Her father’s celebrity status had begun to fade a little by that point, but the Wizarding public was still delighted; after two little boys, Harry and Ginny Potter now had a girl as well. Harry and Ginny themselves were equally (or perhaps even more) delighted. Lily was a happy, quiet baby. Many people wanted to coo over her when they went out and about, but this she did not like, and would hide her face in her mother and cry if anyone tried to coax her out. She began to talk early, and chattered easily when it was just family and close friends, but in large groups, she would go very quiet and watchful. This continued as she began to grow up; Lily was never quite as loud as some of her family, but she still functioned perfectly well as part of the large noisy crowd, even if she did tend to take herself off by herself on occasion. One-to-one, or when talking to adults, she talked cheerfully and even precociously, but when with a large group of other children (except her cousins) she would usually be found watching quietly from the edge. This did not seem to make her unhappy; Lily was entirely content with her own company. She developed a love of books before she could read the words in them, and stories became her friends. She liked Muggle fairytales and fantasies, or stories of adventures in faraway places – anything about something unfamiliar and a long way off, for Lily loved to drift away inside her own head. Other than sitting curled up with a book, the other place she was entirely happy was the garden. She was almost as fond of plants as of stories, and developed a habit of talking to trees and flowers, which older members of the family teased her for. Although, being one of the younger members of the family, Lily had to endure quite a lot of teasing, she never did more than endure it. It never amused her, and sometimes, after something everyone else saw as a joke, she would go away and cry by herself. Despite that, she loved all her family very much. She was very close to her mother, and told her almost everything, and she loved to play with the cousins closest in age to her. One of her favourite people in the world was Teddy Lupin, who visited frequently, and as she grew slightly older, she developed an almost maternal air with her brothers. Hogwarts was an ordeal for Lily to begin with. She didn’t mind at all being sorted into Ravenclaw (Roxanne was already there, after all), but the busy crowds and constant rush confused her. She didn’t make friends easily, and was glad to have Lucy and Hugo, and the Longbottom twins, in her year, even if they were in different houses so she didn’t see them much. She frequently got lost or turned up in the wrong lesson in those early weeks, but gradually she got used to it and found her own ways of coping. Although clever, Lily was never that into school. A lot of the things she was most interested in were not things taught at Hogwarts, and she was better at written work than practical spells. She would always rather have been reading her books than writing essays, but she had an innate desire to please people, so she worked very hard and got excellent grades without actually enjoying any of her subjects very much, with the exception of Herbology, something that she bonded with Abby Longbottom over. Her desire to please people also made her a very law-abiding student. She was too scared of getting into trouble to misbehave, and the worst she ever did was forget that she’d had homework on a fairly regular basis. She never understood the impulse others had to rebel. She was not, however, unhappy. She did not have a large group of friends, but she didn’t want one, being happier in smaller groups. And she avoided many of the pitfalls brought by puberty by simply ignoring all the drama and going her own way. Many of her peers probably found her boring, and she was aware of that, but it only rarely bothered her. Behind the quiet, serene exterior, however, there was a lot going on. Lily read anything and everything, and was constantly expanding her world of knowledge and forming opinions without saying anything about them. She was a better observer than many people thought, too, and was aware of much more than she let on. Occasionally, she watched the lives of other people and felt twinges of curiosity about what her friends, brothers and cousins found so appealing about things like parties and kissing and, as she got older, alcohol and sex. It wasn’t that she didn’t feel attraction to people (although her crushes were mostly on older, unattainable, people, and she kept them so well hidden that nobody ever suspected them), but she never felt ready to experiment in the same way as her friends. Sometimes she worried that there was something wrong with her, but underneath it all, Lily trusted her own convictions and feelings, and resolved to do her own thing and not just to follow the crowd. Some of her friends, of course, tried to persuade her to follow them, but if there is one thing Lily Luna is good at, it’s being stubborn. As Lily grew, so did her confidence. At the beginning of Fifth Year, she was made a prefect, something that terrified her, as she was sure she would never be able to do a good job. However, it also forced her into being more assertive, and acted as a big confidence boost. She didn’t show much outward difference, apart from being happier to speak in crowds, and even going so far as to tell people off on occasion. Inwardly, however, she began to resent the way she was always seen as the naïve, innocent child; she was nowhere near as naïve as people imagined. Now, at the end of her Fifth Year, Lily is not quite the wide-eyed little girl she was in Fourth Year. She has come to her own conclusions about many things, which she doesn’t talk about much, leading people to believe that she doesn’t have many opinions. Come up against her, however, and you’ll find that Lily has very strong, well-thought-out views, and not only that, but that she can articulate them very well. She dislikes conflict and will never seek it out, but she is still stubborn, and even though arguments distress her, she will not back down from one if she believes herself to be right. She also has a mostly well hidden temper. She still feels no real urge to join in with what she saw as the silly and pointless behaviour people go in for at parties (she attended her first big party in the last year, and quite enjoyed it, until everyone else got drunk; then she got bored and went and read a book in bed). She doesn’t judge people for it (that would be equally pointless); in fact she is mildly curious about things like what it feels like to be drunk, and more than mildly curious about things like what it would feel like to kiss someone. The latter, she thinks she’d quite like to try some time (although she’s not sure who with); the former she’s not so bothered about. On the other hand, her resentment and sensitivity to being treated as naïve and patronised has grown, and she very much wishes that people would begin to take her seriously. Sometimes it seems that, however intelligently she talks, nobody will ever see her as anything but a baby, and this makes her so frustrated she could cry (and sometimes does, although not in front of people, since she’s aware that that would only reinforce their impression of her as a baby). She fantasises about doing something that would show her family and friends that actually she isn’t some naïve child any more, and make them realise that she will in fact be seventeen, and an adult witch, this November. Not really a rebellion, since she’d hate to disappoint or anger her parents, but just something. She just needs to decide what. In the meantime, she is waiting for her OWL results, which she knows will be decent, but which she is worried won’t be as sparkling as they could be, due to her tendency to dream instead of work. On the whole, Lily worries unnecessarily about things like that; her results are usually better than she fears. But she wishes she had done a little more revision. However, it’s the summer, and Lily loves the summer, even though her red-head complexion burns easily. She can spend lots of time outside, digging in the garden or reading in the sun. For now, despite patronising relatives, impending OWL results, the fact that she’s going on seventeen and has never been kissed, and that she has absolutely no idea what she wants to do with her future, Lily is entirely happy. Becca 25 GMT |
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