Okay but sentimental!journaling!Lily Evans Headcanons
- Lily Evans still has her first lunch box she ever received, when she was six years old, filled with mementos of her early days at muggle school
- Things such as bottle caps or lollypop wrappers, or report cards, or class photos, or small scribbles of short stories she’d (attempt) to write during class (but the poor darling had the worst handwriting and it wasn’t until she was fifteen that her handwriting became anywhere near legible, and it wasn’t until she was 17 that it became somewhat pretty, so everything was sloppy and although the words themselves were beyond perfect for a girl of her age, they were nearly impossible to read)
- After Lily and Severus met, Severus gave her a hat box that had belonged to his mother; it was old, and had stains of things that Lily didn’t even know what they were (although she assumed they were water stains from his leaky roof, for the box had been stored in the attic for ages, and his roof had the most dreadful leak). But the hat box was big, and it was beautiful, with roses printed all over it – which were Lily’s favorite flower (so much so that when she was little she wished her parents had named her ‘Rose’ instead of ‘Lily’, for although Lily’s were quite beautiful in their own way, nothing compared to the delicacy and scent of roses).
- In that hat box, Lily stored every memory she had of Severus
- Notes they’d leave for each other in the park (which was their meet up place); cool rocks they’d find, leaves, dried flowers (the flower she ‘magiced’ into blooming the day she met Severus was in there, too), snapshots she and Sev took as they got a bit older and were able to take a picture without their eyes being closed (Sev never smiled in any of the pictures, but Lily could see the happiness shining in his eyes).
- She also kept spells that she and Severus would make up when they were ten and eleven (even continuing on once in a while, until they were thirteen); spells that weren’t meant to work, of course, for it were the names or intents that made them wonderful (names such as ‘balingdawoofwoofbarkitybarkbarkdium’ or ‘buzzbuzzbroombroomzoomityzoom’, and spells to make a kitten yawn, or a turtle speed, or candycanes to turn black and blue).
- When Lily turned fourteen, her friends bought her a pair of black and white sneakers (which was something she had wanted for ages), for her birthday. She kept that shoe box, which would end up holding little snippets of her life with her best friends (Who were Marlene, Mary, and Alice).
- That shoebox contained; the blackbook (the small notebook, filled with the names of boys that either they refused to date for one reason or another, or had already dated), their bucket lists (Lily wanted to visit every coffee shop in Europe, while Alice wanted to try every ice cream flavour, Mary wanted to climb Mount Everest, and Marlene wanted to open up an animal shelter), fabric clippings of their favorite dresses, a bit of wax from a candle that Marlene had given her, photos, candy wrappers… Lily had even put her first tampon wrapper in the bloody box (pun not intended)!
- And then… then, she met James Potter. Of course she had already met him, they were in the same house for Merlin’s sake! But then, she met him. The real James Fleamont Potter (Fun fact; when Lily found out James’ middle name was Fleamont, she refused to call him anything but Fleamont for the first three months they were dating; something Sirius loved every minute of, while James just said ‘Oh, just bloody kill me now!’).
- After she and James graduated from Hogwarts, they immediately joined the Order of the Phoenix; James joining the auror division of the Ministry of Magic, whereas Lily started her training to become a healer (something the Order of Phoenix appreciated very much).
- They moved in together after a month of leaving Hogwarts.
- Lily had always captured every second of her life, because she wanted herself and anyone else who might end up glancing through her boxes and journals, to know that her life had been filled with happy times, as well as sad times. She had never thought about death much, but the reality of the war loomed over hear head. So, she decided to do what she had done best; capture life through words, or old bubblegum wrappers, or pictures.
- She used her old Hogwarts trunk to put all of the memories in them. And in some way, quite literally. After she and James were in hiding, after learning about their pregnancy and the prophesy about Harry, it gave her a lot of time to think. A year and a half’s worth of time, to be exact.
- She knew that in the Potter vault, somewhere, there was an old pensive that had once belonged to James’ great-great-great grandfather. So, she (and James as well) extracted some of their most powerful memories, as well as some of their (what seemed at the time) least important memories, and put them in vials.
- Memories of Lily and James growing up separately (Lily getting a bubble bath with Tuney, James learning how to play Quidditch with his father while his mother stood with her cup of tea, laughing as her son got the Quaffle past his father, who was playing keeper, James playing exploding snaps with the Marauders, Lily attempting to pronounce her Year 1 book of spells, James’ memory of receiving his first O [which was in Transfiguration], Lily’s memory of receiving her first T [which was in astronomy]).
- Their memories of meeting each other at the sorting. Their memories of all their little spats throughout their years at Hogwarts. Their memory of finally sitting down and getting to know each other. Their study dates (which they had insisted to everyone weren’t actually ‘dates’, but were just study sessions). Their first date at Hogsmeade. Their first ‘I love you,’ (which was at the Quidditch Pitch after James had gotten hit by a bludger). James’ proposal. Their wedding; the love that shone in their eyes, as James carried Lily over the threshold.
- She also kept a scrap book of Harry growing up; card stock with his hand and feet prints, pictures of her muggle ultrasounds, a copy of his birth certificate, pictures of each of the Marauders holding Harry, letters written by Lily to Harry about how he was doing, and how exhausted she and James were, but how in love they were with their boy.
- The scrapbook was never completed.
- The last picture was of Harry dressed up for Halloween, in his Rudolph costume, James beside him with his reindeer antlers on, with Lily’s handwriting underneath, “My beautiful, strong boy; like father, like son. October 31st, 1981.”
- Many years later (20 to be exact), one Harry James Potter was searching through the potter vault, looking for anything that his parents might have owned that was personal (i.e. not worth anything in terms of money, but in sentiment) and came across an old, dusty Hogwarts trunk, and inside that trunk were countless journals, scrapbooks, a container filled with glass vials, a hat box, a lunch box, and a shoe box.
- Harry never got rid of anything that had been placed in that trunk.
(via daily-harry-potter)
