He doesn't know why he does it, everyone else has avoided taking either stool to the right or left of her...but he plonks himself down. Later, he'll think maybe it was because everywhere else was taken or because she used some of that magic on him. There, though, he just thinks he's the luckiest dog in the whole goddamn world when her lips flick up into a scarlet smirk. One-Shot.

Tossing the snitch up and down as he lay beneath the covers, Orion ends up missing the chance to catch it when his bedroom door opens. Looking up, he see Lucretia in her nightgown and robe staring at him with the most awful expression. "What's-" He starts, but in a blink of the eye, she's at his side. "Hide!" She hisses. Companion to We can Begin the World all Over Again.

Horace, though, is a fearful, selfish man and knows he will not be the one to save the children of Slytherin. He's already lost them-he lost the first one and from here on out, the lambs will all become the wolves of a madman's army. One-Shot. Companion/Prelude to We Can Begin the World all Over Again