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  • Simply Himself

    People don't marry their first love, and Ginny Weasley wonders if this is true, even for her. Drabble, written for the First Love Challenge on the HPFC

  • Breaking Down the Paper Walls

    Remus/Sirius, oneshot. "The words are his saviour, but sometimes when he looks at Sirius, his tanned, coarse hands bathed in the moonlight, he thinks that Sirius is his everything."

  • To Love and Be Loved

    Neville/Hannah, oneshot. Maybe that’s why he likes Herebology so much: the plants are a metaphor for his life.--Pop Culture Challenge, dedicated to Hannah.

  • A Different Kind of Art

    Dean/various characters, oneshot. Dean Thomas' life has been built on recreating others, and along the way, he's lost sight of himself. Five Things Challenge response

  • Home is Where the Heart Is

    With Cedric, who showed me how to skip rocks on the lake and took me to all of London’s best parks over the Easter holidays, it was easy to forget that I had a past in China, which felt like so much more than a continent away. :Country Challenge Response:

  • Folkin' Around

    Ten drabbles on different unrequited love pairings, written for challenges at the HPFC. Now complete.

  • Forever and a Day

    The love affair of Remus and Tonks was always a tumultuous one, but some moments stuck out more than others. Follow them through the seasons of their last year, and find out exactly what made their love so special.

  • A Long Road Home

    Fights, kisses, misunderstandings, children, disasters, and most of all, love. The tale of Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley, in 75 ficlets.

  • Analogies

    Great minds think alike is such a cliché, but what could I say? Remus and I were bloody meant for each other like Lily and James and Dumbledore and omniscience and Sirius and his stupid damn cheesecake addiction. Remus/Tonks, oneshot.

  • Rebuild All Your Ruins

    Weasley’s Wizarding Wheezes was naught but a shadow of what it had once been, and if it hadn’t been for Lisa and the others that died, Michael thought that laughter might have been the war’s worst casualty of all. Michael, Terry & Anthony, oneshot

  • These Accidents of Faith and Nature

    Sometimes he wishes his life wasn’t laid out in straight lines in front of him, that for once, the answers were multiple choice.

  • A Time of Hope

    Susan’s aunt dies that first summer after the war begins, becoming one of the first casualties, one of the first statistics.

  • Masks

    Black cats in the alley near his flat aside, the worst thing about his luck: the Marauders love Halloween. Written for the Reviews Lounge Halloween Project.

  • Seven Steps to Self Destruction

    For every fight Sirius wins, there’s a million tears to lose, and million different ways to say I’m sorry. He never takes them.

  • Courage is Not the Absence of Fear

    Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear.' Hermione finds the courage to restore her parents' memories.

  • These Empty Metaphors, They're All in Vain

    Petunia/James, oneshot. Lily is the poetic one whose life is built on metaphors for beauty and love, and Petunia’s not even sure where this story begins, or if it ends.

  • Noise

    After her death, Ariana ponders her condition, the pretty green light, and why she got the funny red smudge around Gellert

  • Catch and Fall

    Gideon glances at Marlene one last time – her unruly black curls, the glossy lips, the smear of blood marring her pale left cheek – and then he falls. Oneshot, Sirius/Marlene, Marlene/Gideon

  • Seven Years of Friendship

    Seven drabbles, each relating to a different school year in Peter Pettigrew's life.

  • Momentous

    Draco is not the dancing type, especially not at these high society balls with suffocating tuxedos and the smell of too-strong champagne, and in the end it’s pure boredom that nudges him in the direction of Astoria Greengrass. 10 Things Challenge response