Lily Evans

gryffindor; sixteen; muggleborn; my powers turned on, starting right now i'll be strong.

[lilyyevxns]

lionking-sley‌:

“Bless you. I love it, I’m in love. I’ve got yours for you as well, for once we sit down.” He said, hugging the container of gingerbread men to his chest with reverence. As much as he loved his Mum’s holiday baking, and he really truly did, something about the Evans family gingerbread recipe just couldn’t be beat. Giving the container another reverent look he tucked them away in his bag with some of the dog supplies before taking the ice creams. 

“Break’s been wonderful, really. Nice to see family and get away from the castle.” He said honestly. More accurately, nice to get away from hiding from Remus like the coward he was. Some Gryffindor he made. Kingsley hesitated, remembering that Lily and Remus were close. Maybe she’d seen him, maybe she’d know how he was. Not like Kingsley had much right to care but… “Err, have you… have you talked to Remus, by any chance?”

Lily dropped the coins for the ice creams into the server’s hand, thanking him politely as she did, before leading Kingsley away from the counter and towards a comfy looking booth in the corner. His reaction to the present was heartening; it wasn’t a lot and she knew it, but she absolutely loved giving gifts, no matter how big or small. Any opportunity to make her friend’s smile and she’d take it, honestly.

“I do miss it a bit, though. I think I take it for granted a bit, having house elves there to run around after me and do my washing – I almost forgot that my mum expects me to tidy my own room. The audacity of it is shocking,” she hummed, grinning afterwards so that he’d know she was only joking. “I’ve spoke to Remus a bit, yeah, he stayed back at the castle for the holidays, but we’re going to arrange a meet up in Hogsmeade.” She paused for a moment, “If you fancy joining us, maybe?”

[moonysecrets]

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Lil, ( @lilyyevxns )

No school work?! Here I was excited thinking you were hitting the books like me. I’m kidding, I oped you would have had a nice relaxing break and not many things would concern you. What book are you reading? Or have you been reading a few chapters each book? That’s what I tend to do. Oh I hope you do mean that. I hope you get back at least a day before classes start, so we can make sure to just eat chocolate all day.  We have lots of cocoa to catch up on! Gwen has made me go outside a few times as has Rita Skeeter. Did a little ice skating and some snow man building. I thought about filling u the Slytherin common room with snow, but I don’t think I have it in me to be that evil.

That’s funny, but I’m glad you’ve seen them over break. How did Kingsley look?  Did everyone look like they were enjoying their break?

I’m glad you were teasing, because I’m pretty sure McGonagall would somehow know her name is mentioned in a letter and give me four detention sessions. I’m free any day for catch up for sure.. I was going to try to get a few days before New Year’s Eve? It’s Rita’s birthday and I wanted to get her some  treats since she would be spending it here. As far as any celebration? I don’t think so no. How is your sister treating you?

Thank you for the ginger bread! They didn’t even last ten whole minutes. I hope I don’t get too many crumbs stuck on his parchment. Cheers.

Remus

[lilyyevxns]

Remus,

I’m reading The Shining at the moment, my dad recommended it to me – I’m only a few pages in at the moment, but I’ll let you know my thoughts once I’ve read enough to form a proper opinion, but it seems brilliant so far.

Good on them! I’m glad you’ve not holed yourself up in the library or common room and that you’ve gotten outside, this weather is far too lovely to pass up on. I’ll be back on 7th Jan so we’ll have the weekend to lounge around and stuff ourselves with chocolate before classes start back up on Monday. We’ll have to squeeze in a snowball fight too, I reckon I might actually beat you this year. If you change your mind and decide to follow through on your initial plan of filling up their common room, please take a picture!

Eh, I’ve been trying to keep out of my sister’s way as much as I can, especially after the fiasco on Christmas Day… But that’s a story for another time. We’re still not really speaking much. But it’s alright – I’ve been having a lovely time with mum and dad, I can’t wait to be back at school but I also don’t want to leave them.

Do you want to meet up on the 30th? We can have early New Years celebrations in Hogsmeade.

Everyone looked like they were having a lovely break, yes. Kingsley was asking after you actually.

All my love,

[lilyyevxns]

Leaning forwards, Lily hunched over the table in the back of the library, the ends of her long red hair brushing against the table as she hastily scribbled away at the fresh page in her notebook. To say that Christmas with her sister and that dreadful bore she called a fiancée was a trainwreck would be an understatement – and in hingsight, perhaps transfiguring the oaf’s moustache into an actual slug had been a step too far, even if it had been hilarious, and completely deserved. But now her sister was being even more off with her than usual, and Lily felt awful, because the last thing she ever wanted was to upset her sister, whom she still loved despite their estranged relationship.

Letting out a frustrated sigh, she tore the page out of the notebook and screwed it up in one hand, because no matter how hard she tried, her apology sounded so wooden and completely insincere, which she supposed had a lot to do with the fact that she wasn’t actually sorry for how she had acted.

Leaning back in her seat, she noticed that someone was hovering beside the table, and she forced a smile, “Sorry, you can have a seat, if you like.” She paused for a moment, casting a brief glance over her shoulder to the table in the other corner where there was a group of second years giggling and hunched over the latest issue of Witch Weekly. “Unless you’d rather go and join them, that is.”

[lilyyevxns]

moonysecrets‌:

Remus made a face, scrunching up half of it when she mentioned Decaf. “Decaf?! I was joking.” He almost squeaks out the word in pure protest. Though he can’t help but laugh after she nudged him gently. “I didn’t think Decaf was in our vocabulary.”  The boy comments with a snicker in her direction. He looks from her to his essay with a tilt of his head.” I always did want to be a doctor, but I don’t think I have the patience.” He lied. He couldn’t be in the healing profession when he himself was a monster. It was too dangerous. “I’d be delighted to join you of course as always.” He replied with a beaming grin. “Sorry? Did you forget who your partner is? I do homework in my sleep for Godric’s sake.”

“Oh, how daft of me to forget.” Lily deadpanned, shooting him a brief amused glance. “All this work and no break can’t be very healthy, Remus. We’re going to have to do something about you.” Humming softly, she glanced back down at her textbook, flicking over to the next page. “You have more patience than anybody I’ve ever met, your negotiation skills are astounding – and you’ve been so wonderful with the younger kids since Professor McGonagall made you a Prefect. I don’t think you have nearly enough faith in yourself, and you should.” She paused for a moment, her nose wrinkling, “You’re right about Decaf though, although it might be a good idea to give it a whirl once in a while. My mum threatens to cut me off when I go home for the holidays.”

[lilyyevxns]

moonysecrets‌:

Remus listened to her reasoning and slowly nodded his head. “I suppose I’m your hungry herbology hero.” He laughs at his own little lame joke, but clears his throat turning more serious as he glares over at where he had blasted the knotgrass. He let out a relieved sigh when he heard that she didn’t have any marks to worry about. “I’m glad you’re unscathed.” He replied with a small smile. As she brought it up he had started to worry and nodded to her. “I’ll come with you, because that is unsafe. What would have happened if it were.. a second year? Third year?”

Lily shook her head, the corners of her eyes wrinkling with mirth as she laughed. “God, that’s the worst superhero name ever, we’ll have to come up with something better.” She leaned down to pick her bag up from the floor, dusting it off with one hand as she took a careful step away from where the knotgrass was still lying threateningly close to her ankles. “I know, I honestly didn’t fancy my own chances getting out of that mess if you hadn’t shown up when you did. I dread to think how one of the younger ones would have fared against it.”

[lilyyevxns]

siriusthestray:

Perhaps rather selfishly Sirius hoped that his Mother would take a while in the store just so he didn’t have to explain who Lily was. Because he knew that would only end up in him having to sit through yet another lecture on who he should and shouldn’t be friends with. And he also didn’t want Lily meeting his Mother just in general. He didn’t want that with anyone.

“Today really isn’t the best day for errand running. I’ve never seem people so frenzied over gifts. It’s like they didn’t know this day was coming.” Sirius said with a chuckle. “No I’m not here by choice.” He told her and took a second to glance over his shoulder to make sure his Mother, and Kreacher, weren’t watching him. “My Mother is doing a little bit of last minute shopping. And since i got one too many bad reports from McGonagall already this year she’s in full surveillance mode so I’m being dragged along.” He said and let out a sigh. “If I’m lucky she will be done after another fifty shops.”

“Oh, tell me about it. I feel a little afraid for my life. You’d think the fact that the shops start preparing for Christmas as soon as Halloween’s over would be a bit of a reminder.” Lily replied, thankful for a friendly face; it was a nice break from the crowded shops and the constant shoving and the snide remarks from her sister back home. “Well I’d say I hope you’ve learnt your lesson to stop causing so much trouble in the New Year, but I know better.” She sent him a brief grin, leaning against the wall. “Well if you fancy a break from trailing after your mum, I was planning on heading to Diagon Alley soon to get some ice cream or grab some lunch, if you want to join me.”

[lilyyevxns]

lionking-sley:

Kingsley had to stiffle his laughter as he heard Lily swearing somewhere behind him. This was definitely on the same scale of hilarity as hide and seek with a two-year old. Only with more cussing, apparently. 

“45…44… 43…” He continued slowing down just slightly, trying to give Lily more time to recover her dignity and finish hiding.

Lily found that she had to army crawl in order to fit underneath the coffee table, which was most definitely a lot closer to the ground than she had anticipated, using her elbows to pull herself further underneath it. Waiting rather impatiently for him to finish his countdown, she rested her chin on her folded arms, ignoring the occasional pounding in her head which would probably have tripled by the morning.

[lilyyevxns]

seeringsybil:

Lily,

Why do you wish to have stayed at school? Well, if you did we could build a snowman together. We can still maybe build a snowman if they let us outside when you get back to the castle. Does your mum and dad make the holidays better?

That does count. I would say it does! That’s good she wasn’t a .. mean person today.  Maybe I should ask the cosmos about her?

I’m at school actually. My parents don’t believe in Holidays, and mum says being home clouds my third eye. It’s been rather quiet around here. Sometimes I hear Remus laughing in the hallways, but that’s only when I venture to get food and then I come back up here to the Astronomy tower.

Love,

Sybil,

Hogwarts always looks so beautiful in the Winter, especially after it’s snowed. We haven’t had any snow back home which is a shame, the park at the back of where I live is perfect for sledging. We’ll build a snowman when I get back! Being with my mum and dad make the holidays a lot better, yes. I miss them something awful whenever I’m away at school, so it’s nice to have these two weeks together.

I bet it’s nice to have the space at the castle though, isn’t it? Without the hallways and the grounds being too crowded, have you been enjoying the break?

Love,

[lilyyevxns]

a lily evans playlist

01. This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things - Taylor Swift

02. Do You Believe in Magic - The Lovin’ Spoonful

03. Survivor - Destiny’s Child

04. Fuck You - Lily Allen

05. I Won’t Say (I’m in Love) - Susan Egan 

06. Anything but Ordinary - Avril Lavigne

07. Fire Starter - Demi Lovato

08. Fix You - Coldplay

09. Warrior - Demi Lovato

10. Little Me - Little Mix

11. Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) - Kelly Clarkson

12. Fight Song - Rachel Platten

13. Suddenly I See - KT Tunstall

14. Kiss Me - Sixpence None The Richer

[lilyyevxns]

seeringsybil:

Readings always made Sybill happy, especially if the person wasn’t a naysayer right off the bat. She was content with what the cards had foretold in Lily’s future. To have almost a guaranteed match was exciting, at last it was more than Gemini – which last time she had read her own was the end result. Sybill had promised herself she would never consult the fates about herself again.

Sybll figured that Lily would know how to talk to boys. After all she was outgoing and pretty, which meant she did talk to boys at least… right? She rarely questioned her intuition when it came to asking Lily for advice. Lily was cool and Sybill was odd putting it lightly.  She tilts her head curiously when the other said she might not be the best person to ask. Well why not? The girl nods to her frend, “Common interest.. okay yes.” She isn’t exactly sure what Antonin’s interests are besides looking like a cute brooding snake, smoking in a corner. She could maybe try smoking? She perked up and swallowed, “But what if fate tells me when they will die? I shouldn’t speak of it?” He wouldn’t want to know? How weird.

The girl trusted Lily nough and giggled shyly before she leaned in to whisper. “Antonin Dolohov, isn’t he.. “ she paused to sigh in adoration. “Dreamy?”

Lily furrowed her brows for a moment as she thought how best to answer Sybil’s question without accidentally insulting the girl, and she rested her elbows on the table as she leaned in a bit closer. “Most people don’t particularly… enjoy being told that they’re close to death. It has the potential to make them a bit nervous, so if the star’s do tell you so then it’s probably best to keep it to yourself,” she reasoned, and sent her a kind smile; Sybil was sweet, and interesting, and Lily really did enjoy her company, but even she could agree that the girl’s predictions could be a bit… much sometimes. She always took them with a grain of salt, and she knew that not everything she said should be taken as gospel.

Her eyebrows rose slightly in surprise at the girls response; Dolohov seemed… alright, nicer than some of the other people they went to school with, not that she’d ever spoke to him that much. But she was surprised to find out that Sybil had a crush on him. “Dolohov?” She replied, sending her another smile. “He seems quite nice, are you and he friendly?”

[p-pcttigrew]

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Gift shopping was always Peter’s favorite part of Christmas, mostly because it gave him an excuse to go in and out of different shops and have fun. It was entertaining to him, so there he was leaving a sweets shop to get a collection of sweets to gift his father, who had an incredible sweet tooth. Large bag in hand, he noticed Lily walking his way. Waving with his free hand, a smile was visible on his lips, “Hello Lily! Gift shopping as well?”

[lilyyevxns]

p-pcttigrew:

He only had a few last gifts to buy, unlike all the other years he actually got around to doing it earlier. He had a necklace for his mother and some other gifts for family members, he just needed to pick up the candy for his father and get a gift for Gillian. He gave a short nod with his bright smile, “It is always nice to get away from the house even if just for a short bit. But so far just some sweets for my father, he has a bit of an obsession with sugar.”

Lily gave a nod of agreement, a bright smile on her face. “It really is – don’t get me wrong, I love going home to see my mum and dad, but it’s nice to get outside,” she responded. “Your father and I have that in common, I think. One of the things I miss most during the holidays is the day trips to Hogsmeade so that I can visit Honeydukes. It’s a bit of a pain living where I do.”

[lilyyevxns]

gwenjonex:

Lily!

Happy Holidays! How is everything at the Muggle world? I hope at least “Santa Claus” is treating you better and giving you a chance to use some charms around. If not, let me know and I will find a way for you to at least stupefy someone. The castle is still lock down but we always can play Quidditch anywhere, right? So it’s not a big deal, unless you want to buy some chocolates, so this will be a problem.

I know! I am so excited with the offer that I cannot sleep almost. I want so bad to start the practices and use their uniforms, but until then Hufflepuff needs to win the next game. If not, it will be a problem and this is not good at all. We are keeping ourselves occupied, like going with Remus do some stuff and taking him out of the library because how in the world Merlin allow someone to stay so long inside of that spot? Daisy and I were playing with some snowball fights too. You should be here, seriously.

My mom does that with me during the summer, winter breaks and she got mad because I told her about the offer and the possibility of living alone. She said I never clean the house and because of that my life would be a disaster. So, I can relate to you strongly and support how you are upset with all the situation. Next time, stay with the Puffs. We clean after each other and beds are never made because we sleep on them after.

Tell me: how is a muggle Christmas?

I want to know with pictures!

Love,

Gwen.

Gwen,

Santa Claus has been very kind to me this year, actually—I mean, he hasn’t given me much of a chance to use magic, but I received some quite lovely gifts. If the lack of chocolate is driving you crazy just let me know and I’ll send some over with my next Owl.

I’m really made up for you, Gwen, the offer is fantastic, and completely well deserved. If I wasn’t banking so much on a Gryffindor win I’d be rooting for you lot this year… but alas, I’m sorry. Although you might be the only team that I wouldn’t be too upset losing to, but don’t tell anybody I said that.

It’s alright, I’ll be back soon and I can trounce you both in a snowball fight then. Good on you for dragging Remus from the library (kicking and screaming, no doubt), he really doesn’t know when to switch off and give himself a break sometimes.

A Muggle Christmas isn’t too different from a Wizarding one, I’d imagine. I’ve just polished off the remains of the gingerbread house that my dad and I decorated, but I’ve taken loads of photo’s with the Polaroid that my mum gave me for Christmas, so I’ll show you those when I’m back at the castle!

What’s Christmas been like at Hogwarts? I bet it’s magical, the grounds always look so beautiful after it’s snowed.

Lots of love,

P.S. I’ve enclosed some fudge that I picked up from a sweet shop in the village I live near, it might even put Honeydukes’ to shame. I hope you like it. 

[lilyyevxns]

lionking-sley:

“Girls rooms are off limits.” Kingsley said as he clamped both of his hands over his eyes. Cor this was brilliant he hadn’t played hide and seek since he’d last looked after Henry. Playing it with a drunk Lily Evans probably fell somewhere similar on the scale of hilarity.

“I’m giving you until 100.” He decided. That’d probably be long enough right? “1…2…3…”

“100. Right…” Lily muttered, one hand on her hip as the other continued to clutch the bottle of firewhiskey as she cast a quick glance around the common room for somewhere that she could hide. Hide and seek really did seem a lot simpler when she was a child; when did she become so uncreative? It didn’t occur to her that her lack of creativity probably had a lot more to do with her being sloshed rather than being older.

Her eyes landed on the coffee table and she beamed, getting to her knees so that she crawl underneath it – he would never think to check there – but she must have miscalculated the space as she had barely crawled half way underneath before she smacked her head, “Ouch, you little fucker…”

[lilyyevxns]

daisyhxk:

Lily’s words getting through to her- at least a little bit- helped. She still couldn’t talk other than letting out heaving sobs due to the pain and shock, but she nodded, taking the girl’s offered hand and shakily standing up, leaning on her as she held her wrist close to her chest, trying to keep it still. “Th-thank you.” Daisy managed to get out between sniffs, trying to recompose herself but it was so hard.

“There’s no need to thank me,” Lily assured her kindly, grimacing only slightly as she caught sight of Daisy’s wrist which was starting to bruise and swell. “Carrow is a bastard, and a bully, and frankly I’m sick of it.” She dropped the other girls’ good hand and reached into the inside pocket of her robes, plucking out her class timetable, and used her wand to transfigure it into a tissue to offer to Daisy. “Come on, let’s get to the hospital wing.”

[lilyyevxns]

darknessamongthestars:

Bellatrix continued to eye Lily warily uncertain why the redhead was being so nice to her. Holding the chocolate frogs in her hands Bellatrix looks down for a moment before looking at Lily again. “I will see you in the library after we get back to the castle. We should probably go our own way before people begin to wander if we’ve been cursed.”

“It really does seem like the only plausible explanation for us being so civil with one another.” Lily agreed, lips quirking up into a reluctant smile, before she added: “I’ll see you in the library later on.” And with that, she turned to head back up towards the castle.

[moonysecrets]

✉️

Dear Lily,

How is your break so far? Have you been studying Potions homework? I have I stayed at school for break, and I’m at least happy that the library seems rather quiet. But it’s a bit of a bore not having you around to go into a chocolate coma with. Have you seen anyone for school over break?

I uh.. have a way to break the school rules and erm sneak out to Hogsmeade if you want to catch a hot cocoa while we’re on break. Do you  have any plans for the new year?

Remus

[lilyyevxns]

Dear Remus,

My break’s been quite lovely, thank you, but unfortunately I’ve stayed away from any school work thus far. I’ve spent a lot of time catching up on my reading—I could feel my book shelf judging me, I buy all these books but have very little time to read them during term time. I promise I’ll be back soon and we’ll celebrate with a copious amount of chocolate, don’t you worry about that. Other than it being quiet, how’s it been back at school?

I bumped into Sirius, Pete and James in London—all separately, would you believe. And I arranged to meet up with Kingsley at Fortescue’s which was lovely. Being back in Cokeworth can be quite lonely, so it was nice to see some friendly faces.

Oh, I don’t know if I should be condoning such rule breaking. What would McGonagall say? Ha.

Only teasing, of course. I’d love to meet up in Hogsmeade if I can sort out a way to get there – let me know when you’re free. No big plans for New Year as of yet, mum and dad usually have a bit of a gathering so I’ll probably just hole myself up in my room. Is there any celebrations going on at the castle?

I’ve enclosed some of my mum’s homemade ginger bread, I really hope it’s not gone funny during the journey. Let me know what you think, I hope you enjoy it.

Love,

[lilyyevxns]

lionking-sley:

Wrangling Luke and Leia through Diagon Alley should, in theory, get easier with time. Not many things seemed to follow the theoretical these days, though. All the dogs wanted to do was sniff every single thing they saw and say hello to every person along the way. It took him a good extra fifteen minutes to get to Fortescue’s and by the time he entered he felt more than a little beleaguered. 

“Luke, Leia, behave.” He scolded the wriggling dogs before walking them over to his friend. “Hey, Lils! I’d love a scoop of strawberry, and the snoots’d love a scoop of vanilla if you don’t mind?”

 “Of course I don’t mind.” Lily assured him, as she repeated the order to the lady who was serving behind the counter, before she crouched down so that she could greet the dog’s. She scratched them both behind the ear, laughing as the bigger of the two almost knocked her right over. She gave them both one final affectionate scratch, before straightening up again to greet her friend, “I brought you this actually—” She added, digging around in her bag for the small Tupperware container that she’d packed with some of the gingerbread her mum had baked. “It’s not much, but I hope you like it. Have you been enjoying the break so far?”