Lily L. Potter

**"Point me!"**
This article is about **Harry Potter's daughter**. You may be looking for **Harry Potter's mother**.

## Biographical information

### Born

Between 1 September 2007 and 31 August 2008
Great Britain

## Relationship information

### Family members

* Harry Potter (father)
* Ginevra Potter (née Weasley) (mother)
* James Potter II (older brother)
* Albus Potter (older brother)
* William Weasley (maternal uncle)
* Charles Weasley (maternal uncle)
* Percy Weasley (maternal uncle)
* Fred Weasley (maternal uncle) †
* George Weasley (maternal uncle)
* Ronald Weasley (maternal uncle)
* Fleur Weasley (née Delacour) (maternal aunt by marriage)
* Audrey Weasley (maternal aunt by marriage)
* Angelina Weasley (née Johnson) (maternal aunt by marriage)
* Hermione Granger (maternal aunt by marriage)
* Padma Patil (maternal aunt by marriage in alternate timeline)
* Victoire Weasley (maternal first cousin)
* Dominique Weasley (maternal first cousin)
* Louis Weasley (maternal first cousin)
* Molly Weasley II (maternal first cousin)
* Lucy Weasley (maternal first cousin)
* Fred Weasley II (maternal first cousin)
* Roxanne Weasley (maternal first cousin)
* Rose Granger-Weasley (maternal first cousin)
* Hugo Granger-Weasley (maternal first cousin)
* Panju Weasley (maternal first cousin in alternate timeline)
* James Potter I (paternal grandfather) †
* Lily J. Potter (née Evans) (paternal grandmother) †
* Arthur Weasley (maternal grandfather)
* Molly Weasley (née Prewett) (maternal grandmother)
* Linfred of Stinchcombe (paternal ancestor) †
* Ignotus Peverell (paternal ancestor) †
* Paternal ancestor †
* Hardwin Potter (paternal ancestor) †
* Iolanthe Potter (née Peverell) (paternal ancestor) †
* Potter family
* Weasley family (maternal family)
* Evans family (paternal relatives)
* Prewett family (maternal relatives)

## Affiliation

### Loyalty

* Potter family
* Weasley family
* Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
	+ Gryffindor

**Harry Potter**: "*It won't be long, and you'll be going too.*"
**Lily Luna**: "*Two years. I want to go* now*!*"
— Lily's impatience about attending Hogwarts[src]

**Lily Luna Potter** (b. c. 2008) was an English half-blood witch, the youngest child and only daughter of Harry and Ginevra Potter (née Weasley). Lily had two older brothers, James Sirius and Albus Severus Potter. She was named in honour of her late paternal grandmother, Lily Potter, and her middle name came from her parents' good friend Luna Lovegood.

Lily began her education at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in 2019 along with her cousin, Hugo Granger-Weasley, and was sorted into Gryffindor House.

## Biography

Lily Luna Potter was born to Harry and Ginevra Potter, as their youngest child and only daughter. She had two older brothers: James Sirius and Albus Severus Potter. Lily was around two years younger than Albus, and four years younger than James.

In 2014, Lily, along with her family, attended the 2014 Quidditch World Cup final in the Patagonian Desert. Lily was sporting Bulgarian red, along with the majority of her family. It should also be noted that she was very well behaved, as Rita Skeeter, a poison-pen journalist who found something nasty to say about everyone, not make any scathing comments regarding her behaviour.

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In 2017, she went to see her brothers and her cousin, Rose Granger-Weasley, off at the Hogwarts Express, but was not herself old enough to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She also acted as excited and enthusiastic as her mother Ginny had acted when Harry and Ron went to their first year of Hogwarts about going to the school one day. She and her cousin, Hugo Granger-Weasley, were around the same age. Hugo and Lily talked excitedly about which house they wanted to be in at Hogwarts.

In 2019, Lily began her education at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and was sorted into Gryffindor House. In 2020, she was seen on Platform 9¾ along with the rest of her family, sitting on her older brother's trolley.

## Physical description

Lily inherited the red hair of her mother's family, and had inherited most of the Weasleys' physical traits, as well, not just her hair colour. Her most notable characteristic trait was her cheery-looking smile, which was possibly inherited from Lily Potter, her late grandmother, who had a very prominent smile as well.

## Personality and traits

Lily seemed to have a personality similar to her mother. She was very jealous of her two older brothers when they were leaving for Hogwarts, quite similar to the eagerness and envy Ginny displayed when the last of her brothers went away to school in 1991.

Lily also seemed to enjoy talking to her family. She and her cousin Hugo had an "animated discussion" about what house they would be in, suggesting they were very close.

## Relationships

### Family

#### The Potters

 ―Lily tightly holding her father's hand

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Lily had a close relationship with her father and her mother. She resembled her mother, Ginny, in appearance and personality. Lily also seemed to love her father dearly, as she held hands with him in 2017 and looked towards him for comfort. During the 2014 Quidditch World Cup, Lily sat to close her father and stared up at him in what appeared to be admiration.

James had a fondness for teasing his younger siblings, including Lily, who reciprocated his care and humourous attitude to both her brothers. When Lily went to see her brothers off to Hogwarts, she seemed to be close to her brother James Sirius and was hugging him at Kings Cross Station.

#### The Weasleys

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Lily was around the same age as Hugo, and excitedly discussed Hogwarts with him in 2017, suggesting they may have been close. Lily was also very excited when she found out her cousin Victoire Weasley was dating Teddy Lupin.

### Teddy Lupin

Teddy Lupin was Lily's father's godson. He often spent time at the Potters' home, and Lily was very excited at the news that he was dating her cousin Victoire. She hoped that they might marry so that Teddy would become an official member of the family. This was very similar to Ginny's longing to have Nymphadora Tonks (Teddy's late mother) in her family, deepening the connection between Lily and her mother.

## Etymology

* The given name *Lily* comes from the name of the flower, which is a symbol of purity. Specifically, the lily is often associated with the Virgin Mary; one type of flower is known as the Madonna lily. Greek mythology also links lilies to the Muses and to the goddess Hera, and the flowers continue to be representative of purity and love in Europe. In Chinese, the lily is a play on words for "forever in love", and the flowers were thought to be capable of averting evil.
* *Luna* means "moon" in Latin. It is also the name of the Ancient Roman goddess of the moon who was the mother of the Menae, fifty goddesses who embodied the phases of the moon used by the Ancient Greeks to keep time. In some myths, she was also the mother of the Nemean Lion.
* *Potter* is a very common surname of English origin. It traditionally refers to the occupation of making pottery. Beatrix Potter was a well-known English children's author. Potter's Field is the name for a burial ground for the unknown or unclaimed dead, particularly soldiers and orphans; the Potter family had many members that fit that description. The Potter Box is a model for making ethical decisions developed at Harvard University.
* She was named after important people in her father and mother's life. Lily – after his mother and her paternal grandmother, Lily Evans, who died to protect Harry from Voldemort when he was just a baby. Luna – after Luna Lovegood, Ginny's good friend at Hogwarts. Many people believed the name Luna to come from from Remus Lupin, but this was disproven by J. K. Rowling.

## Behind the scenes

* Daphne de Beistegui portrays Lily Potter in Template:DH.
* Lily is portrayed by British actresses Christiana Hutchings, Zoe Brough, and Cristina Fray alternating the role in the original West End Palace Theatre production of *Harry Potter and the Cursed Child*.
* Lily was the first of Harry's children to be introduced in the epilogue, where she was shown holding her father's hand, much as her mother was introduced in *Philosopher's Stone*.
* She is the only child of Harry and Ginny who was named after a person still living at the end of the series: Luna still lived while Lily, James, Sirius, Albus, and Severus all had died.
* In the film version, Lily is seen standing with James, even sitting on top of his trunk when he was taking it into King's Cross.
* In the novel, Lily protests about her desire to go to Hogwarts, despite not being able to go for another two years. This is very similar to the desire her mother, Ginny, expressed in *Philosopher's Stone.*
* She is related to the House of Black because her maternal great-grandmother was Cedrella Black. Her maternal great-grand aunt was Lucretia Black. Some sort of relative on her paternal side was Dorea Black.
* She is also related to Lord Voldemort and the Gaunts through her paternal ancestor Ignotus Peverell. Ignotus Peverell's brother was Cadmus Peverell who is Voldemort's ancestor.

1. ↑ According to *Harry Potter and the Cursed Child*, Lily started Hogwarts in September 2019 meaning Lily can only have been born between 1 September 2007 and 31 August 2008 to have started then
2. ↑ FAQ at Template:JKRS (Archived) - For an individual to be pure-blood, the witch or wizard should at least have no Muggle or Muggle-born parents or grandparents. Therefore, the children of Harry and Ginny Weasley are also half-blood as Muggle-born Lily is their grandmother.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Template:DH
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Template:WW
5. ↑ *Harry Potter and the Cursed Child*, Act One, Scene Four
6. ↑ The Potter Family Tree at Template:PM
7. ↑ *Harry Potter and the Cursed Child*, page 1
8. ↑ Template:PM
9. ↑ J.K. Rowling's Twitter
10. ↑ 'Cursed Child' new feature reveals first look at Harry, Ron & Hermione together. *SnitchSeeker.* 13 July 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
11. ↑ Rowling, J.K., Tiffany, John and Thorne, Jack. *Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two.* Broadway, New York, NY: Arhur A. Levine Books, 2016. Print. pp. 313-15.