[HPforGrownups] Who were Lily's Hogwarts friends?

[RSFJenny19 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 76632

In a message dated 8/11/2003 3:46:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
rredordead at aol.com writes:


> Lily had to have had girl friends in school and most likely one 
> particular girlfriend. I'm sure all of you other female fans out 
> there, like me, know just how close school age girlfriends can be. 
> 

Well, my vote for a best friend would be Alice Longbottom.  I know we have no 
idea how old the Longbottom's are, except that 1)they were young in the 
picture Harry saw of the original Order and 2)they had to be at least 20 because 
they were Aurors, which takes 3 yrs training past Hogwarts.  Though there's no 
canon to support it, I can definitely see Alice and Lily as friends, heck, they 
even had their babies within days of each other (Neville and Harry were both 
born "as the seventh month died", or something like that, according to DD).  I 
imagine that Harry and Neville played together as babies, before the Potters 
went into hiding.  It would definitely explain why Harry has never heard from 
Lily's best friend. Just my guess though :)

~RSFJenny :)


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