Lily Potter is an average 15 year old living in the United States in 2011. When magic upheaves her life and drops her and her younger brother into a beloved world she thought was fictional, she discovers old family secrets-and family in general.

'Families are like roses. The petals are intertwined and tight-knit, but there are always the petals that are on the outside, wanting to be part of the beautiful pattern and not quite making it. In my family, I was the outside petal; always there and trying to fit in, but not quite managing. That was the way it always was and how I thought it always would be. But I was wrong.' Lily Luna Potter never really fit in with her family, who was constantly under a microscope to the public. She didn’t like that everything she did wrong was known by wizards and witches everywhere in Britain. Lily thought she was different to everyone else, but she never realised just how normal she had been, until one night something goes horribly wrong. Dark magic that nobody can understand taints Lily. Nothing like this has ever happened before to anyone and Lily has no idea what to do and how she will free herself of the curse she has to deal with and hide it from her family.

While Harry, Ron and Hermione out searching for horcruxes, Ginny is faced with a whole set of horrible ordeals as well. She has to deal with torturous Death Eater teachers, living in fear that everyone she loves could be killed so easily, and keeping DA running, giving everyone hope to keep fighting against the Dark Arts.