Lily Potter

**“Lord Potter may be concerned with the fate of the wizarding world, but Lily Evans-Potter is concerned with the fate of her two boys, and the rest of the wizarding world can go to hell."**

*Lily Evans-Potter, arguing with James Potter and declaring her love for her children.*

**Lily Evans-Potter** is the Professor of Muggle Studies at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She is also the wife of James Potter and the mother of Hadrian “Harry” Black and James ”Jim” Potter. Jr.

## Biography

### Family Lineage

Lily is descended from the House of Wilkes through her mother, Rose Carichael, descendant of the squib Hyacinth Wilkes. House Wilkes is an Ancient and Noble House that came to England sometime in the 5th or 6th century, along with 16 other notable Roman wizarding families of the time. Though they are not a member of the Sacred 28, the Wilkes family has held a Wizengamot seat since its inception in the late 11th century.

### Early Life

Lily Evans was born on January 30, 1960 to Michael Evans and his wife Rose Evans. She had an older sister named Petunia, whom she was quite close to growing up.

At the age of nine, Lily became friends with Severus Snape, who was the first person to tell her that she was a witch, and he went on to teach Lily a great deal about the wizarding world while the two eagerly awaited the time when they could attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry together.

Lily's magical abilities and friendship with Severus caused a big rift in the relationship between the Evans sisters.

At the age of 11 Lily went to Hogwarts where she was sorted in Gryffindor, along with Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew, James Potter and Marlene McKinnon. She developed a great disgust at the cruel and childish behaviour of James Potter and his gang, not helped in the least by Potter’s unwanted advances towards her and his highly antagonistic relationship with Severus.

In her fifth year, Lily stood up for her then best friend, Severus Snape, when he was being bullied by the Marauders. However, Snape in an attempt to prevent himself from being bullied by his fellow Slytherins, called her a "filthy Mudblood" and this was the final straw that led to her ending their friendship.

During the same year she went on a lunch with Dorea Potter at the Summerisle, who informed her of the reasons for James’ childish behaviour and his obsession with her. That luncheon(which she would later describe as “very unpleasant”) would change Lily's perspective on many issues and will also lead to her inviting James on a date, on the conditions that he studies and behave, the following year.

During the sixth year Lily and James grew closer and closer as he cuts the worst of his behaviour, something made easier by her cutting off Snape and she consoled a shaken James after the Shrieking Shack Incident and kissed him for the first time.

On her seventh year she became the Head girl, and she graduated in 1978.

### First Wizarding War

Lily joined The Order of the Phoenix along with her boyfriend and his friends soon after graduating.

In the summer of 1979 Lily married his former classmate James Potter. Despite the Potters efforts to keep the wedding low-key the Daily Prophet still published an article on it, framing the marriage as a direct attack on Voldemort due to her blood status. This article may have led to the Death Eater assault on the Evans home, in which Michael and Rose Evans were tortured and killed.

Later in the same years James' parents were also killed by Death Eaters.

Lily wrote a very famous and much-admired Letter to the Editor of the Daily Prophet in which she denounced the Death Eaters and Voldemort and encouraged her fellow Muggleborns to take up arms and stand with the government against the forces of bigotry.

On July 31st 1980 Lily gave birth to twin sons named Hadrian Remus Potter and James Evan Potter. Jr, but she soon went into hiding with the rest of her family when they were informed that Lord Voldemort interpreted her children as the potential subjects of Sybill Trelawney's prophecy.

Lily fought Ms. Demeanour, Lord Voldemorts personal assassin to a standstill in a duel in Diagon Alley in December of 1980

At first the Potter's wanted to name their friend Sirius Black secret keeper, but Peter Pettigrew convinced them to appoint him instead. Peter immediately revealed the location of the Potters to Voldemort, who attacked their home on Halloween of 1981.

Lily was stunned by Voldemort along with James, and when he attempted to kill one of the children, his killing curse bounced back, destroying his physical form and seemingly killing him. Peter Pettigrew found the unconscious Potters and altered their memories, making them think they did name Sirius their secret keeper.

After the attack her eldest son Harry was diagnosed as a squib. Lily, fearing for the safety of her child had the idea to hide Harry from the Potters many enemies with Petunia and her family, with whom she had reconciled with during their pregnancy, and she along with Albus convinced a highly reluctant James. The plan was for Petunia to raise Harry as her own, telling him she and James died in a tragic accident, and planned to reintegrate Harry into the family They then paid for a new home for the Dursleys and secretly sent Arabella Figg to watch over him.

## Book 1 - Prince of Slytherin

In August of 1991, she was informed by James that the plan to protect Harry went horribly wrong, as the Dursleys did not disclose that Harry was a wizard and worse, they abused him for years over his “freakishness”.

Unbeknownst to her, the Dursley’s abuse was a result of Bob psychically tormenting the Dursleys with artificial fear for almost a decade.

She met her estranged son for the first time in years on 1 September, 1991, where they mostly engaged in small talk over what Hogwarts would be like. After the boys sorting and the following howler from her husband, she sent a revenge howler to James’ office in a fit of rage to ”SEE HOW YOU LIKE IT!”

## Physical Appearence

Lily has fair skin, red hair and big green eyes that changes intensity according to her emotion, more light when she is happy and the exact color of the killing curse when she is furious.