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Hey guys! Durmstrang here with one final blog for task one. For this edition, our prompt focuses on the Evans family. We'll be featuring some lovely art, edits, and some brilliantly crafted writing. Hope you enjoy it!

MOODBOARD | STEVIE

Edit type: Moodboard

Time taken: Approximately 10-15 minutes

PSD used: me and you psd

Apps used: Photopea (applying psd), Pinterest (images), DeviantArt (finding the psd), Picsart (editing).

Description: I found the images I needed using Pinterest and then I added all the images into a moodboard on Picsart. Once all the pictures were put together, I added a font and arranged the pictures for them to be next to both Lily as well as Petunia. The flowers are inspired their names, while I found pictures of them before they were both married and while they were still sisters finding their way in the world, even though they are unfortunately different, I tried to show the complexity of their relationship. Once the images were added, I went over to Photopea and applied the psd.

Edit type: Moodboard

Time taken: Approximately 10-15 minutes.

PSD used: Midnight City psd

Apps used: Photopea, Picsart, Deviantart, Pinterest.

Description: I found the images from Pinterest and compiled them into a moodboard using the collage function in Picsart. But I also added a bow sticker with the noise filter. I am not sure why but I thought it went with the vintage theme. After this, I decided to add a psd and went to add the layer by using Photopea to do. Overall, I’m pretty satisfied with the result, although I feel that the saturation of the psd is not consistent. This might be because I decided to widen the border and I thought this would bring attention to the images.

EDIT | OLIVIA

Edit description

Time spent: 30ish minutes

Apps used: Pixelcut (format), PhotoGrid, Picsart (editing), Pinterest (pictures)

Description: Using Pixelcut, I formatted the images (a camera, sweaters, her wand, etc.). I then used PhotoGrid to add a simple filter, then used Picsart to add in stickers (Lily, her name, her and James), and text. I then added borders of flowers, I finished off with a film reel filter.

ART | AXEL

Drawing Description

Drawing: Snape and Lily under the tree they used to go to.

Okay so I started with the reference image, but honestly I didn’t really go directly off of it. I kind of just started drawing my own tree and used that as a guide. I started off with the outline of the tree, adding the darker spots for flair and value, before adding in the people. I left faces blank to symbolize how their friendship fades over time.

ART | MOONY

Petunia and Lily Drawing

Time taken: 27 minutes

App used: IbisPaintX

Process: I sketched their figures and then colored in the outfits with the bucket and then I saved it and cropped the picture

EDIT | AXEL

Lily and Petunia: The Language of Flowers

Edit Description

Edit:: Young Snape and Lily

Time Taken:: 20 mins

Apps used:: Picsart

Description:: I started with the base images and then put a border and filter on them! After that I pretty much just played around with picsart. While it may look like a Christmas edit, that’s simply their house colors!

Petunia Dursley Harry Potter Wiki

Petunia and Lily Evans were sisters in their muggle family. Lily discovered when she was a child that she was a witch because of the rare phenomenon that children from muggle families can become wizards. Lily was called a muggleborn. Even though being a witch was likely cool for Lily, this did put a strain on her relationship with her sister.

When Lily discovered she was a witch through her wizard friend at the time Severus Snape, Petunia disliked this and thought Lily’s behavior was weird even though she was also envious of it. She also did not like Severus because he was poor according to her.

Once Lily got her acceptance letter, Petunia tried writing a letter to Dumbledore to ask to go to Hogwarts, but he said no due to her not having any magic. Petunia grew resentful of her sister after this and was jealous due to her magic. Petunia was now against the wizarding world and hated that her sister was getting all of their parent’s attention because she was magic. She began to call Lily a freak, this started when Lily first emerged onto the Hogwarts Express. Lily’s relationship was also strained with her sister now knowing that she was seen as a freak.

After Vernon and Petunia got engaged, they met Lily’s boyfriend James while they were in their seventh year. The meeting went poorly. James described his racing broom which made Vernon think he was living on unemployment benefits. When James talked about all of the galleons that his parents had, Vernon thought that James might have been trying to fool him which caused Petunia and Vernon to storm out of the restaurant and Lily bursting into tears.

When Vernon and Petunia got married, she was ashamed of Lily and refused to have her as a bridesmaid which upset Lily. Vernon also thought that James was acting too much like a magician at the reception.

After their wedding, Petunia barely talked to Lily. They did not attend Lily and James’s wedding and when Lily sent her an announcement of Harry’s birth, she threw the letter out. But Petunia did send Lily a vase for Christmas which included a letter to Sirius Black.

The day after Lily and James died, baby Harry was sent to Petunia’s house. She reluctantly took him knowing that because she was Lily’s relative, there was a protection over the house. But she did not tell Harry or anyone else he was a wizard. Even though Harry was her nephew, because he was Lily’s son, she did not treat him well. His room was hidden in the cupboard under the stairs and she always gave her son Dudley gifts but not Harry. Harry was also the one holding the responsibility to do the chores. And Petunia told him his parents died in a car crash and did not let him ask any questions.

Even when Harry was accepted to Hogwarts, she and Vernon tried destroying the letters. After he went to Hogwarts, they constantly excluded him for going to that school and only kept him because of the protection over the house. After the second war ended, she and Harry kept a relationship but were not that close because Petunia never got over her jealousy.

Severus Snape Fandom Wiki

I Wish I Could Have Saved You

TW: Past character death description

He walked and walked aimlessly as he looked for any bit of relief from this nightmare. The war, the battle and the strength it was taking him to keep going. He knew he had to do this, he knew he had to keep fighting. If not for him then for Lily, the woman he had loved since forever. Snape eventually arrived at the one place he hadn’t been able to visit for years out of fear and sadness.

Snape sat under the tree where he and Lily would meet up every day, looking back on the past and what. could have been if it weren’t for the house system. He had spent every single day with her, and every single day he fell more and more in love with her. That was, until it had all come crashing down. James Potter, his friends who bullied him and called him horrible names. Every day with Lily had been so magical, Snape had even thought that perhaps they could still be friends despite being in separate houses. As a boy, he was young and naive. He hadn’t truly begun to realize that humanity could be a cruel downfall when there were those with a massive ego. He had done some things he had regretted, he knew he shouldn’t have ed the Slytherin bullies and the Death Eaters. He could have still had a chance to get her back if he hadn’t ed them. Truly, he had wanted her to see that he wasn’t like the rest of them but instead he became one of them. That was what drove Lily away from him, maybe he could have made everything end differently.

Snape hadn’t visited this place in years, just the sheer thought of visiting made him want to break down. The tree they had once had so many happy memories by, shattered by death itself. He had wanted to protect her, but he was too late. When he had arrived at the house he found her and James on the ground, lifeless. He did, however, find their son completely unharmed somehow. He questioned it at first, but he figured that Dumbledore would know what to do. As he held Lily’s body in his arms, he sobbed. He had never loved anyone as much as he loved Lily. I mean, how could he. He had loved her since he was a small 9 year old boy simply telling her all about Hogwarts. It was more than your typical kind of love, it was the kind of love you only felt for one person throughout your entire life. He had been committed to her even though she wasn’t committed to him. He had been committed to her even when she married James and had a son with him.

Snape began to reflect on how he had treated her son over the years, he felt the need to protect Harry while simultaneously he couldn’t help but resent him. He was a symbol of both what he loved as well as the man who had gotten her in the first place. The man who had bullied him and who was always extremely arrogant. It was a complicated thing, emotions. For the most part he had always kept a monotone voice, never really giving off much. Many saw him as an emotionless man who kept to himself, but Dumbledore had always seen right through that. Deep down, he knew he would always feel love for Lily.

Everything he did, everything he sacrificed and fought for in life was for her. It takes guts to stand up to Lord Voldemort himself, but that’s what he did. He begged for Voldemort to kill James and Harry but spare Lily, though instead Lily refused and sacrificed her own life to save Harry’s. He had been broken for so many years over this, he never truly processed what had happened. Every day he woke up and he was still thinking about her, wishing that things had turned out differently.

Once Lily was murdered, he became a member of the Order of the Phoenix, to fight against the side he once felt confined to. He had felt no more need to fight alongside Voldemort, the monster who had killed the love of his life. Snape had risked everything and became a double agent, working with Dumbledore while simultaneously serving Voldemort. It had all been worth it to avenge his true love.

Overall, he just wished all of this could be over. He didn’t want to live if he wasn’t living with her and he didn’t think that anything else was worth fighting for. He knew that his time was almost up, he knew that he wasn’t making it through the Battle of Hogwarts. Perhaps that’s why he visited, so that he could go peacefully and know that he spent some of his last moments in the place where his true happiness had begun. Even if it was years ago, this place brought the same comfort it had when he was with her, just with a hint of sadness.

He sighed as he held the bouquet of lily flowers in his hand, his hand trembling as he set them at the base of the tree. It may have been years, but he still loved her. He would continue to love her, always.

Prologue:

Always was such a strong word, one that held truth and promise. That’s what he had done throughout his life, he had faced his own harsh truths while promising to avenge his love. There are many different meanings to the word, but in his case it was a symbol of how much he cared. It meant that he would go through life dedicating himself to her even when she wasn’t here. Dumbledore knew that and saw what he did for her, he was the one who had realized first how much she meant to him. He felt seen, he felt like he was doing something right even if it meant risking being a double agent. So maybe that’s life’s purpose, to find your personal ‘always’ and stick to it.]

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Thank you so much for reading our blog on the Evans family! This will be the conclusion to task one, and we'll see you all soon :revolving_hearts: .

Special thanks to the following people for working on this blog! Olivia