I know that I'm a day late on this damn thing (I'm still gonna comment everywhere) but this is absolutely the most perfect gif I have ever seen to start off a post like this.
She was smart, would not let others talk her down. She wanted to be friends but if someone said something against saw they weren't for her. She was a bit scared about what she was but excited as well.
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Yes, just like his father. He has never seen them so only wants to think of the good and not the bad. Hard to see them as humans with flaws.
I can see any loving mother doing the same for her kids or any dad, for that matter.
Why Lily Evans Potter is great and haters can keep on their hateration and holleration (part 1)randomnesesJanuary 31 2011, 00:23:09 UTC
Lily, as a whole, seems to either be loved, hated, or treated with complete and utter indifference. While I'm firmly in the "love" category, I take issue with HP fans that loathe or dislike her (usually for no legitimate reason) as well as fans who really don't think her limited presence in the books is nothing more than her dying for her child, being an object of desire of men, etc. But despite not seeing much of her in the series apart from the recollections of living characters, what we DO see and gain from the experiences of others paints not only a much fuller character than most give Lily credit for, but also an incredibly admirable woman beyond the act of dying to protect her infant son. It doesn't take a lot of reading between the lines to paint a fuller picture of Lily, but I believe that the fact that she is essentially a character of "minority" status in the Wizarding World makes it easier for me, a person of color, to have a different sense of empathy for Lily. So here are my not so coherent thoughts on this fierce,
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Why Lily Evans Potter is great and haters can keep on their hateration and holleration (part 2)randomnesesJanuary 31 2011, 00:23:11 UTC
So now I guess I'm going to section off my thoughts of Lily and the various facets of her rather short life~
Her personality:From the little we see of Lily, her personality is positive overall. She's friendly and inquisitive. She's best friends with a scrawny, weird, Dark Arts obsessed boy for seven or eight years and even at a very young age was caring enough to ask about how he was holding up in his bleak household of quarreling and neglectful parents. She's a Gryffindor with a strong sense of right and wrong, ad we know she fought for what she believed was right for a few years as a member of The Order. But I'd also argue that she can be judgmental and naive even though I think a majority of her judgments were pretty accurate for the most part. Her judgments on Mulciber and Avery were apt, as well as her disdain for the extra curricular activities Snape was getting up to. She also disliked James and Sirius for obvious and understandable reasons for a while. Her language while judging others is strong and uncensored. She
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Re: Why Lily Evans Potter is great and haters can keep on their hateration and holleration (part 2)improvedJanuary 31 2011, 00:31:57 UTC
I agree with you about Lily's faults. It's not so much as seeing black and white always, because she obviously can change her opinion if proven otherwise.
The relationship Lily and Petunia have is one that I can definitely understand, being in the same family dynamic myself (I have one older sister). It's difficult when you feel competitive and excluded to your sibling, especially when you're simply incapable of being on the same level. It's a sad situation all around, imho, which is why I can't truly hate Petunia. I think she was a terrible "mother" to Harry and, like Snape, was unable to put her own feelings of malcontent and bias aside to care for the son of her sister.
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Yes, just like his father. He has never seen them so only wants to think of the good and not the bad. Hard to see them as humans with flaws.
I can see any loving mother doing the same for her kids or any dad, for that matter.
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Her personality:From the little we see of Lily, her personality is positive overall. She's friendly and inquisitive. She's best friends with a scrawny, weird, Dark Arts obsessed boy for seven or eight years and even at a very young age was caring enough to ask about how he was holding up in his bleak household of quarreling and neglectful parents. She's a Gryffindor with a strong sense of right and wrong, ad we know she fought for what she believed was right for a few years as a member of The Order. But I'd also argue that she can be judgmental and naive even though I think a majority of her judgments were pretty accurate for the most part. Her judgments on Mulciber and Avery were apt, as well as her disdain for the extra curricular activities Snape was getting up to. She also disliked James and Sirius for obvious and understandable reasons for a while. Her language while judging others is strong and uncensored. She ( ... )
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The relationship Lily and Petunia have is one that I can definitely understand, being in the same family dynamic myself (I have one older sister). It's difficult when you feel competitive and excluded to your sibling, especially when you're simply incapable of being on the same level. It's a sad situation all around, imho, which is why I can't truly hate Petunia. I think she was a terrible "mother" to Harry and, like Snape, was unable to put her own feelings of malcontent and bias aside to care for the son of her sister.
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