The only time she ever felt useful to the Order these days was when she was helping Pandora Lovegood. She didn’t brew often anymore--she was out of practice, first of all, and she had little time, second. The little house she and Harry inhabited with Sirius and Remus wasn’t set up for potion-brewing--nor was single parenting. Pandora had a good setup and no toddlers, and she probably had a better headspace to brew consistently. Lily was still working towards building up enough trust with the Lovegoods to offer them her help more often than the occasional.

She’d found a few useful herbs on her walks that day, and Harry’s nap meant she had some time to run them over to Pandora to preserve for future potions. Lily knocked on the door to the Lovegoods’ improvised home, cradling the pouch she was keeping the herbs in.

♪ Xeno- Trickster by Memimo Tuati 

(No real lyrics which is unusual for a rec from me but it gives me a pretty strong Xeno vibe with the whispery back track) 

♫ The Lovegoods- New Constellations 

There’s no walls and no ceilings as far as I knowJust the echoes of scars and the unbeaten roadTrip the gun on cautions that I’ve been sold

‘Cause it’s hard to believe that it’s wrongTo want more than the truest of blue and a love like a roarI will run to wherever I want to go

Oh, charting Neptune by the fire of the sunI’m looking for new constellationsNew constellations

So keep calling me crazy 'cause I never learnedYou should stop loving fire because you got burnedNow it feels like I’m living some sick déjà vuLike the answers were there when I stared into you

in what situations are you most assertive?

     ‘When not doing so means someone gets hurt. I’m happy to sit back and let the world roll by, let people do what they will, but I can’t stand to watch someone hurt when they don’t need to, and I can’t stand having my kindness taken advantage of.’

do you tend to focus on the past, present, or future?

     ‘Probably the past, right now. It’s hard not to, when we’re camped out in a bloody mausoleum. If you’d asked me a year ago, I would have said the present without hesitation, but that was in the middle of a war when every day could be the last. Right now, we’ve had our last. The past is practically all we’ve got left, and all I wish I could do is change it.’