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Mmk, so I've written a Lily II oneshot for a challenge on HPFF in which she is a rather up-herself eleven-year-old and thinks she's pretty much the best thing since sliced bread. It was fun, and I hadn't read the epilogue in aaaaages when I wrote it so it was possible all wrong but whatever. :P The challenge was that I had to have an OC called Elias Olsen and set at the Quidditch Pitch. So my plot was that she was practising because she hadn't gotten onto the team that year and Elias, a git of a second year, plays a game against her and wins, thus ensuring that she hates him for all eternity. obviously.
Anywho, as soon as I finished I was attacked by plot bunnies. Of course I was. (This is why I had never written nextgen before. :P) And so one of them was that Elias gives Lily a Valentine in his sixth/her fifth year after she was dumped by her first boyfriend, but it's a joke because he's a git and she thinks it's not a joke and things just go downhill from there.
Thing is, I've been convinced by no less than three people that they must end up a ship, which I hadn't actually planned for. I had imagined that at the end of the sixth year debacle, she would still hate his guts.
...so what I'm *trying* to ask, very badly, is whether I should go with the shippers or scrap this idea completely or still have them hate each other and hopefully the bunnies will leave me be? D: :tahi:
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I remember you telling me about this! It seems like a whole barrel of fun. You'd do brilliantly to write it, I think.
But your question... I actually don't like Lily Potter because, well, I just don't. I've never been interested in her as a character. But your characterization seems very apt and unique.
NOW your question... I don't think they should end up together. Maybe as a fling, to please the shippers, but otherwise... I don't think so. It would be more unique that way. Plus, there's always the will-they/won't-they chemistry you could play up instead. The thing with will they/won't they is that it ALWAYS ends up as a "they will" situation - I'm thinking Jim and Pam from the American The Office, Ross and Rachel, et cetera. So I'd looooooove to see characters who do have that chemistry but don't actually get together. It would be a cynical/humorous/ironic ending and... yeah. :D
I posted it on an archive, and now apparently Lily's too OOC ("Lily is cute, but her character leans dangerously close to being too whiney and too egotisical and a bit OOC, because how could Harry and Ginny's daughter ever be like that?"), which I don't entirely disagree with, but honestly I was just having fun and she needs to protect herself from James SOMEHOW. I meant to make her whiny and up herself because she wasn't supposed to be a character that you loved to death anyway. She has rather large flaws. :P
The story can be found +on TDM (12+) if anyone cares to read it and give their opinion, because now I'm worried that I should bury it in a deep dark hole and not put it into the hpff queue.
Anywho, to actually address you, Gubby, I was leaning that way myself - because them getting together is booooring. XD Anyone else fancy swaying my ever-indecisive mind?
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I see where that author is coming from, but honestly, who's to say she doesn't turn out that way? I imagine her as the baby of the family, so natch she would be spoiled and of course Quidditch-savvy. I think - THINK - the issue is that as it stands, it's a one-shot, and there's really no rhyme or reason to Lily's egotistical-ness and all of that. A WIP, like the one you're planning, would make it easier to understand Lily and to possibly break down that barrier. Or not.
SOOOO - is it at all possible to have this as a prologue or something? Or maybe retold in flashbacks? In the WIP? Or does the challenge specify "one-shot"?
However, I thought it was very adorable and I loved Lily's voice. So don't worry about it, I think it would be received very happily at HPFF ^_^
Now THAT is an idea. It didn't specify one-shot at all, I just... you know, like one-shots. :P It as a prologue would be a very good idea, methinks. Gubby, you're one of the most useful people ever.
So now it shall go on my Grand List of Things to Write, which is ridiculously long but thank you thank you thank you! <333 :gubby:
Lily II
