ABOUT THIS SERIES

• i will be making several lists of "50 random facts" for lily and sirius (possibly others as well), each following an important event in their lives.
• i have chosen to start lily's lists after her entrance to hogwarts both because i feel that the time before that is well-documented in the books and because i have not really explored this time in any of my role plays.
• i may create lists for other characters later.
• i may also go back and add more for lily or sirius.
• all lists in this series will be blue, so you can tell them apart from personal lists.

ABOUT THIS GIRL

• her full name is lily nichole evans, and she thinks it's a fine name, but if you must go about referring to sev by his surname or something worse, you'll have to call her plain "evans," too, thanks very much.
• she takes her tea with lots of milk and sugar, and if you haven't one or the other, she won't take it at all.
• three months ago she started her first year at hogwart's school of witchcraft and wizardry, which means that it's nearly time for the christmas holiday, and then her birthday.
• she'll be turning twelve, which is practically teenage, so she doesn't understand why she still is not permitted to rouge her cheeks or wear lipstick when she goes to meet amos diggory for transfiguration tutoring.
• not, of course, that her mother could logically find out if she did tart up, just a bit, for her tutor, but she has always had a sneaking suspicion that her magical inclination comes from her mother, who always knows just a little bit more than she lets on.
• her mother is a rather round woman who wears spandex a little more often than is probably healthy for her children's egos, but both lily and petunia have developed coping mechanisms, and lily hardly even notices it now, except when ladies from church come over for tea and she realizes just how different her family is from the other families in the neighborhood.
• of course, being a muggleborn witch, this difference oughtn't surprise her, but she supposes she hasn't completely adjusted to what she is just yet.
• nor will she ever, if her sister can't be bothered to even feign a tolerance for what lily is. lily didn't expect petunia to come around right away, but she's been sneaking wizarding candies and trinkets from her roommates' trunks for three months now, and tuney's letters are as cold and infrequent as ever.
• still, she treasures every one of them, penned though they are in a petulant, childish hand, always beginning with "i'm only writing you because mummy is making you," and invariably full of details of the boring friends that lily secretly thinks petunia has made up in order to seem as though she doesn't mind being left behind in the muggle world.
• if only tuney would respond to her the way she used to, or write "love and kisses" before she signed her name, even if she didn't mean it, lily would never let her be left behind. she would study hard and become a famous witch and find some way for her sister to come and live with her in the magical world.
• sometimes she can't help but be hurt by petuna's letters--which is actually most of the time, because she is eleven years old and not exactly good at being the bigger person.
• when this happens, she takes the letters and puts them into an inside pocket in her robes and lets them rub against her all day, milking all the self-pity she can from them, and then takes them out and gives them to severus to take the mikey out of as they walk around the lake after dinner.
• severus is always good at cheering her up, always.
• of course, she doesn't need cheering up often. she likes hogwarts, likes being a witch, likes all of her classes except for transfiguration, and just might be in love with her transfiguration tutor.
• she hates pumpkin juice.
• the boys in her house--mostly potter and black, but sometimes pettigrew, and sometimes the others, too--poke fun at her for being a girl, or for being a redhead, and sometimes she thinks she likes them better than the female gryffindors, but then they see her sitting with severus and their eyes darken and she knows they will make it hell for her that night if she decides to try and do her homework in the common room instead of in the library.
• she avoids the common room, mostly, because the other gryffindors seem to think she is committing some sort of unforgivable crime by being friends with severus.
• this doesn't bother her, much. the sorting hat made a mistake. she is a slytherin at heart--she has the green-green eyes to prove it--and she is better than all of them combined, better than they could ever hope to be.
• she knows that sometimes the other slytherins give severus a hard time for being friends with her, too, but this is only because they do not understand that she is not a gryffindor, not really, she is one of them, clever and resourceful and good.
• still, sometimes she watches severus talking casually with the other slytherins and wishes she had just one friend inside her own house, because she hates there being any imbalance between them.
• of course, she does have mary macdonald, the girl who is always poking her short, sharp nose over the spines of lily's potions books when she tries to read in the dormitory and asking her if she and severus have ever tried kissing, and if he is good at it, and what are her thoughts on kissing in general?
• they haven't.
• she is certain he is, as he is brilliant at everything, though she feels absolutely no need to test this theory.
• she is always a little uncomfortable during the kissing scenes at drive-ins, but when her cousins got married, they kissed before the altar and they looked so pretty and happy, so she supposes it must be alright.
• she thinks, if this is what having a friend in gryffindor is like, she's really better off with just sev.
• though, sometimes, she also thinks that he isn't completely obvious.
• of course she believes that he didn't know anyone had a prejudice against muggleborns, of course she does, but sometimes she can't be certain that he doesn't see the validity of their arguments.
• after all, even she sees how they might have a point, just a small one.
• james potter once overheard her discussing this with mary macdonald.
• he swore at her and called her an idiot.
• she might have thought of him, just for an instant, the way she thought of amos diggory when he did that.
• then she stood up and swore back at her, using words she had only overheard but never pronounced before, and when her lack of fluency amused him, they had their first of what would become their infamous rows.
• she didn't believe him when he said he wouldn't fight a girl.
• still, she was glad he said it, because it gave her time to get in a good, hard punch before he and black could pull out their wands and start hexing her.
• he had a black eye for a week after that, though whether it was out of some strange form of masculine pride or just because madam pomfrey wouldn't fix it after she heard how he got it, she never found out.
• that was her first detention.
• she got a second one less than a week later when she attempted to repeat the spectacle, this time with markedly less success.
• after that, she and potter made a silent pact to contain their rows to areas where they were not likely to be observed by professors mcgonagall, slughorn, and dumbledore all at once.
• it was the first and last time she ever lost points for her house (10, taken by mcgonagall).
• it was also the first and last time professor slughorn awarded points to a house that he was not his own for a blatant violation of school rules (15 to one miss lily evans for a particularly biting witticism that referenced the current potions lesson).
• slughorn had always admired lily's potions skills, but after that, the two formed a peculiar sort of bond that mostly involved the eleven-year-old smarting off to the rotund professor until his eyes watered from chuckling and he had to warn her to settle down before the other students started getting funny ideas about favoritism.
• mcgonagall didn't like her much after that, though. lily has seen the way her eyes sometimes sparkle when she is reprimanding potter, and this instance of favoritism outrages her.
• she is perfectly aware that this is a double-standard, thank you very much. her father pointed it out to her in one of his letters, which are always much longer and much more entertaining than her mother's letters.
• her father, who is an electrician by trade, has always understood her better than anyone else, even severus, sometimes.
• as such, he never lets her get away with anything, the way some fathers dote on their daughters.
• for instance, he has pointed out on numerous occasions the uncomfortable fact that students from slytherin house quite often appear to be the villains in inter-house quarrels.
• he has also, coincidentally, suggested that she take her nose out of the air before it rains and she drowns.
• it might help her make real gryffindor friends, he thinks, and if that doesn't work, she could always stop pilfering their belongings for trinkets to send to petunia.
• she knows he's right, of course, but she's far too high-and-mighty to admit it to a muggle such as himself.
• sometimes she catches herself thinking like this and it frightens her. sometimes it just makes her feel powerful.