Or it could be something else... too that drives her inside... no one ever knows till they look... It is like being a fire mage and finding out, after your powers are stripped you can use Ice better than you could ever use fire... or that you have many different aspects in you.... and then can colmenate(word?) them into a power.

For all we know, lily could have power over Material magic... to shape and change things ^_^ or make new things.