Tomboy Lily

[Serena Moonsilver]

No: HPFGUIDX 59253

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Inge" <Elvishooked at h...> wrote:
> This may have been discussed before - if so - Im sorry to bring it 
up 
> again but I have long wondered if Lily didn't have any close female 
> friends at Hogwarts.
> We know of James' close friends and what happened to them later on -
 
> but there has been no mention of any close friends of Lily's. Isn't 
> that a bit odd?
> Was she such a tomboy just hanging around with the boys?



We never hear too much if Hermione has any female friends outside the 
trio, too.  Possibly Ginny, but otherwise it doesn't seem that way.  
Still, since the novel is from Harry's POV, we may not hear about the 
long midnight talks she has with Lavendar and Pavarti because Harry 
doesn't really know about them.  

Anyways, it does draw a parallel between Hermione and Lily (and go 
away all you H/H shippers, that's not what I'm implying).  More a 
long the lines that there will be striking similairities between 
Hermione and Lily because perhaps Hermione is acting as substitute 
mom.  

Anyways, to the point I was getting to before I rambled off on the 
whole Hermione/Lily parallel--Just because Hermione hangs around the 
boys all the time, I'd hardly call her a tom boy.  So I don't know if 
Lily was a tom boy or not, but if my parallel theory holds out she 
probably wasn't, just a girl who felt more comfortable hanging out 
with the guys.

Serena