Lily Potter's SECRET Letter to Sirius Black - Harry Potter Explained

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Welcome to another installment of Harry Potter Theory. In today’s video, we’re going to be discussing Harry Potter’s mother, Lily, and Harry’s godfather, Sirius Black. More specifically, we’re going to be taking a look at a secret letter that Lily wrote to Sirius in the year 1981- shortly after Harry Potter was born.

Harry Potter was of course born to parents James Potter and Lily Evans. The story of their love was an interesting one, as when they first met Lily wasn’t too impressed by James. Lily had grown up in the town of Cokeworth, and spent much of her youth with her childhood companion Severus Snape, who grew up in nearby Spinner’s End. When Lily and Snape began attending Hogwarts, James Potter was horrible to Snape- which negatively skewed Lily’s perception of James. However, when Snape eventually began to go down a very dark and troubled path- a path involving dark magic and terrible people, things changed. One day, while Snape was being bullied by James, Lily intervened. The embarrassed Snape then lashed out at Lily- calling her a ‘filthy mudblood’- this effectively ended their relationship.

While James was at school he was a part of a quartet of boys that called themselves The Marauders. The boys began their studies in 1971, the same year as Severus Snape, and they all had one thing in common - they were all Gryffindors. Before the sorting ceremony even happened the boys hit it off, and when they were eventually sorted in to the same house, they knew that they were destined to be friends. Though the boys got on with many of their other classmates, this particular group of 4 boys had a truly special bond. This group was comprised of James Potter, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, and the subject of this video: Sirius Black.

Sirius was a great friend to the Potters- so much so that he was chosen to be the godfather of Harry Potter. Sirius hailed from the powerful wizarding family, The Blacks- and while many of his family members placed an unreasonable amount of value on blood purity, Sirius did not share this same belief. Many of the members of the black family went down a very dark path- but Sirius was able to choose his own path. After graduating, Sirius, along with the other Marauders, went on to join the Order of the Phoenix. The purpose of the order was to oppose Voldemort and the Death Eaters. However, it turned out that not all members of the Order were good-as Sirius’ old friend, Peter Pettigrew, would go on to frame Sirius for a heinous crime.

In 1981, just 1 day after the Potters were murdered- Peter Pettigrew murdered 12 muggles using a dark and powerful blasting curse. Someway, somehow, Sirius Black was blamed, and was promptly sent to Azkaban. After being banished to Azkaban, seemingly the whole world turned on Sirius, and he was left there to rot for an astonishing 12 years. That was the 1st of November 1981.

However, just a few months before everything exploded, Sirius Black received a letter from none other than Lily Potter. This is what that letter said....

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