The story of Remus Lupin: the beginning, the end, and everything in between. "We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that, deep inside us, something is valuable…Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit." ―e e cummings

"Many of our oldest family trees become a little diseased over time. You must prune yours, must you not, to keep it healthy? Cut away those parts that threaten the health of the rest…"

Jess had been working at the Holly Bush since the day after she'd dropped out of uni five years ago—and in the last year or so, she's found a wonderful excitement in eavesdropping on this particular regular—this sickly-looking, older gentleman, with his tattered, old-fashioned overcoats and his seemingly endless slew of flashy, excitable, much younger girlfriends.

Arthur Weasley has learned to survive Prewett family dinners through a combination of polite smiling, mild comments, and plenty of sherry. But one birthday dinner throws all his strategies for a loop.

It's just another Friday for Tess, the waitress who works the afternoon shift at Skyline Café on Tottenham Court Road.

Two times Sirius Black missed his family, and one time he didn't have to.

"It costs us nothing to love someone, to care for them, to do our very best to give a child what we know they deserve."

"It costs us nothing to love someone, to care for them, to do our very best to give a child what we know they deserve."

After a long night at the St. Mungo's spell damage ward, Albus and James have a much-needed chat about appreciating what it means to lose someone.

"Our hair is our power, Angie, it's our history. It tells the world who we are."

Harry enjoys talking to Dolores Umbridge from the other side of the interrogation table.

Harry is going to propose to Ginny in six days. Well, that's the plan, anyway. He just doesn't have a ring yet.

She wanted to scream, and curse, and bury her head in her pillow and cry as she had never, ever cried before. Because in all her years of knowing just how deeply she cared for Harry Potter, nothing had ever reminded her of just how insignificant she was to him like those two words had.

The headmaster could deny it all he wanted, but Severus knew he was nothing but a link in the long chain that was Dumbledore's plan.

Victoire Weasley doesn't want to celebrate her birthday this year.

"It's the saddest part of my day, leaving you."

Thirty-five years after the Battle of Hogwarts, Wizarding Europe is hit by its biggest calamity since that fateful night. Now, it is the adult children of Harry Potter and his friends who must endure unexpected trauma, piece lives back together, and find a way to work through tragedy.

A story of Hanukkah at Hogwarts. "I'm always going to have faith," Anthony told Padma seriously. "I wouldn't be in the D.A. if I didn't."

Zacharias had always hated Sunday dinners, but this summer, they had become quite intolerable.

"I think I should've been in Slytherin, James. The hat said I'd do well there—I had to ask it not to put me there."