HPRP: The Gathering Storm

[SilverTiger]

Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters are haunting Britain, the Order of the Phoenix is fighting them. The First Wizarding War is starting to loom over Wizarding Britain, and yet Hogwarts remains. Like clockwork, the Express takes students to and from the castle, lessons convene…and the battle has infiltrated the daily life even there. Except, inside Hogwarts grounds, it’s a battle between aspiring Death Eaters and the Marauders…Only time will tell what happens after graduation. (or history )

OOC: This is a Marauders era RP set during the 1977-1978 term. Namely, the Marauders’ seventh year and the year before they join the Order and fight the war themselves. It is open to everyone, and feel free to play a canon character (who doesn’t want to RP a Marauder? Lol but obviously they’ll be first come first served) or an OC if you so choose. I’m not picky. Feel free to post your bio in a spoiler and start posting right away so we can get the ball rolling and I’ll keep track of who’s who here in the first post

Scenario One: September 1, 1977, just after 11 am, and the students are on the train headed on their way to Hogwarts

Characters:
Lily Evans: SilverTiger

[SilverTiger]

SPOILER!!: Lily’s bio

Lily Evans
“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”


Name: Lily Jessamine Evans
Nicknames: Lily, Lil, Lils, Lily Flower
Age: 17
Birthday: 30 January 1960
Birthplace: Cokeworth, Midlands, England
Blood Status: Muggleborn
House: Gryffindor (head girl, along with James as head boy)

Wand: 10¼", Willow, unicorn tail hair
Amortentia: Warm bread, freshly picked wild flowers, and fried bacon
Patronus: doe
Boggart: being forced to duel a loved one

Face Claim: Esme Wissels
Font Color: #9CBA7F, mint candy

Skills/Strengths:
• Magically, Lily is rather gifted. That doesn’t stand to reason that she doesn’t study for her classes. She just picks up the spells and such rather easily. Potions is her best subject, however she has skills in Charms and Transfiguration as well. Plus, she’s rather an expert dueller.
• Somehow, she has the ability of seeing the best in others, even if they themselves are unable to, and she will fight for those people with everything she has (unless they betray her)
• She stands by her self-imposed principles no matter what
• She can be courageous when the need arises, hence how she ended up in Gryffindor

Flaws/Weaknesses:
• Deep down, she feels the sting of being Muggleborn. But only a few people know this about her because she will defend anyone no matter their blood status
• She absolutely hates the sight of blood, when it isn’t Potions-related
• She has a bit of a temper and can sometimes make rash decisions/hold grudges. Namely, if someone ends up on her bad side, they’ll have to prove themselves before she will associate with them again, but then she also can be a bit hypocritical insofar as she’ll reprimand her friends if they do the same.
• There’s a level of self-sacrifice in her that’s dangerous. She will quite literally put herself in front of her loved ones if there’s danger, or even just something as simple as an argument

Personality: At her core, Lily can be described as a spine of steel encased in a silk package. Every fiber of her being radiates kindness and empathy, yet she’s also vivacious and outgoing. The only difference being that she actually, generally, is going to consider the other person’s feelings before her own. She sees the best in people even when they can’t see it themselves. Disapproval hurts her, yet she can also, quite regularly show, if not outright disapproval, disappointment with her friends’ decisions, and this gets tested quite regularly with her alignment with the Marauders nearly a given fact. However, she retains her own self no matter what. Her own beliefs and her own rules. Her own brand of wittiness and cleverness, yet that’s never been something she’s acknowledged herself. All she’ll acknowledge is that she’s herself, and she stands by her belief that she makes her own decisions, not anyone else. She has an innate courage running through her veins, whether or not it generally is shown in the usual way.

Bio: Born the younger daughter to two Muggles, the young Lily always had something to prove. However, seeing her sunny nature, it seemed to everyone who knew her that she’d accomplish just about anything she set her mind to. The young Lily was rather inseparable from her older sister, Petunia, even if Tuney was always the dark to her younger sister’s sunlight. They did just about everything together, a regular yin yang situation, until Lily showed her first sign of magic. This, along with her friendship with Severus Snape, seeing as they came from poverty and also showed tendencies toward having abilities, tested the sisters’ relationship immensely. Mostly due to Petunia’s envy of her little sister’s abilities and jealousness that she didn’t share them, yet to this day the elder Evans sister won’t admit that.

However, Lily loved her abilities, and the stories that Snape told her about the Wizarding world and Hogwarts, and she was elated when she got her letter, her wand, and everything that proved she was a witch. The only dark spot in her sunny world was the knowledge that Tuney couldn’t follow her, yet that spot has gotten smaller and smaller over the years. She’s never forgotten where she’s come from, but the possibilities ahead have grown much more enticing and yet also frightening.

Getting to Hogwarts, she wasn’t sheltered anymore from the darker side of the Wizarding world, but Lily hasn’t backed down. Sorted into Gryffindor, people flocked to her and it’s both helped her blossom and also given her the reason to not want to welcome the change that her future after Hogwarts would mean. Not to mention the fact she’s constantly found herself being tested, given the innate enmity that seemed to exit from day one between her housemates, several of them specifically, and her best friend from home. Tensions can only build for so long before they reach a breaking point, and even Lily can’t say she knows who’s going to be the one who breaks. She does know she can’t be a peacemaker forever, yet the idea that that time is going to come is terrifying.

Most of her world had changed, even discounting all the reports from the Wizarding world about attacks and the sort. Friends she had always thought she could count on were questionable now; others were proving to be possible friends. Either way, it was a pensive Lily who was found curled up in the prefect’s compartment as the train had pulled away from Kings Cross. A pensive Lily who was toying with the badge she had yet to pin to her robes, which were currently draped across the bench seat next to her awaiting the donning that would happen closer to their destination. Until then, she felt the need to stay in just the regular parts of her school uniform.

She wanted to stay in what was comfortable.