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The January Challenge: Lily revisited

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The January Challenge: Lily revisited

[info]sylvanawood
1/3/11 04:02 pm
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The Challenge for January 2011:

Lily revisited



Years ago (we've been around for a while, oh yes!)we had 'Severus and Lily' as a monthly challenge.

[info]alicekinsno1 suggested to take a closer look at Lily's character:

Maybe something that discusses the character of Lily more deeply? I'd love to see what some of your ideas are for just how Lily went from treating Snape so harshly and talking back to James, to being the stereotypical "saintly mother" at the end of her life. There's something about her personality that doesn't add up.

That is to say, how her apparently selfless decision to die for her baby makes sense in light of the way she treated Severus or even James. With possibly a side comment about how despite being so powerful and gifted she didn't really show any of that by dying pleading for her baby's life without even trying to take on Voldemort.

Please post your entries here or in a separate post. I'm looking forward to your entries.
If you have ideas for new challenges, please post them here. (This is a new list, your earlier suggestions are still in the old post).
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  • [info]shyfoxling
    1/14/11 09:09 pm (UTC)
    It really is a waste of time here trying to discuss Lily's character in a more positive light, isn't it? Dissenting opinions are not allowed.

    *raises hand* I mean, do not like Lily personally, in the sense that she does not seem like the kind of person I would want to befriend and hang out with. "Cheeky", "vivacious" etc whatever kind of gets on my nerves - she is not in the nerd crowd, and that's surely where I was and am. But she seems like a rather normal teenage girl to me, with the personal insensitivities, convinced of being right and invulnerable, and dose of self-centeredness that normally go along with that.
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