According to every logical reason he can come up with, he should be in love with her. (But he isn't, because she's not Lily.)

(She was most definitely not over Oliver Wood.)

Katie didn't understand why they called it "falling in love." (Kissing him felt more like flying.)

By the time Pansy's first year of Hogwarts rolled around, she and Daphne Greengrass had settled into a strict routine of hating each other.

The instinct to touch his arm flared up inside of her for half a second, but Lily had gotten good at repressing that. She hadn't touched James in nearly six months. She wasn't allowed to anymore.

Fred let out a great gasp. "Up to no good?" he repeated, offering Katie a chair. She sat. "Us? What could you possibly mean?"

Everyone knew Teddy Lupin wasn't going to be a werewolf. (But they still breathed a sigh of relief when his first full moon came and went and nothing happened.) / For Liza

The firelight made his face look different - not soft, Lily thought, but less sharp, less angular - she had to remind herself that she hated this boy.

Once upon a time there was a little girl named Rowena who lived in a cottage by the sea with a woman called Mummy and a man called Dad, and everything was happy until it wasn't.

Ron wanted to dance with her more than anything in the world.

"New Year's Eve is nothing special." Levina's hourglass had frozen; she gave it a quick tap with her finger, and the sand dropped to the lower bulb. "1772 will be exactly the same as 1771 has been, and then next year we'll all feel silly for celebrating something so trivial."

"I will be here when you wake," says Tom, and it could be a promise, or a threat, or a lie, she doesn't know, and Ginny has a terrible feeling she is never going to find out.

Gilderoy Lockhart, Best Smile Award, he repeats over and over, until it's the only thing left in his entire memory. He will never forget again.

You sit in your Muggle Studies class and you scratch little notes into the surface of your table for Blaise Zabini, who sits in this chair one class period after you, and you try as hard as you possibly can to tune out the voice of Hermione bloody Granger.

A pile of dishes hit the floor with a clatter; Lily's wrist had twitched. "Potter?" she said, and her eyes were wide. "What Potter?" / Gatsby AU. For Safari. Complete. [Word Count: 22,141]

When Percy walks through the doors on his first day of work, he's so nervous that he doesn't see the girl until he quite literally runs into her.

Five-year-old George looked at his twin brother and sighed wistfully. "I wish we could do magic."

"I'm not going to Hogwarts, Tuney," Lily said. "I vetoed. We sent the letter to Dumbledore an hour ago. I told Mum I want to stay here with you."

The thickest book on the shelf by her bed was about a beauty who fell for a beast, which Lily Evans thought was the most romantic thing in the world, and which Sirius Black thought was a load of crap.

Dudley had never been to that pub before - Queasy Cauldrons, or something like that - and they'd looked at him funny when he'd tried to pay by credit card.