All of their stories were different. She changed James' view on school, and life. Albus thought love wasn't for him, when it really was. He was Lily's Forbidden Prince Charming, but they made it work. The stories of James, Albus and Lily learning to love.
"Do you think I asked for him to be my father? For my earliest memories to be of my siblings and I freezing, starving and homeless? Did I ask to have to watch my own mother, who gave everything she could, die? I didn't ask for any of it. Stop blaming me."