"Albus' mumblings echo in your mind as Harry shifts himself in the hospital bed. You know how big a war can get: this child is so small. It almost breaks a part of you that you know you need unbroken, and so your voice is crisp and certain as you lie." An experiment with second person point of view, set the day after the Third Task of the Triwizard Tournament, Harry's fourth year.
Harry contemplates raising children in light of all the other wild sh*t he's done despite deep under-preparedness. (A sequel of sorts to Accidental Magic.)
"When he explains that love itself burned Tom away from his mind and back into the atrium, she thinks of the room that no-one could open." Ginny's perspective on the battle at the Department of Mysteries.
Albus Severus and his godfather make discoveries together about honesty, courage, and coming out as who you are. (Submission to THC Year 9, Round 6).
He turned back to face her. "Look, you can't tell mum." Two conversations with Ginny Weasley in the days surrounding Albus Dumbledore's funeral.
Minerva pointed her wand and a hedge blackened before vanishing. "We taught through the first war. I always told myself, 'I can keep them safe at Hogwarts, and that's enough.'" "The first war," Pomona echoed, voice deliberately impassive. Minerva nodded grimly. "You can't pretend otherwise." Two friends reclaim the Quidditch pitch after the Triwizard Tournament.
The burdens we carry, the choices we make. A piece not formally submitted. Prompt: [Object-Potion] Draught of Living Death. Specification: "Potion MUST be drunk." Trigger Warning: Suicide implications. Feedback would be greatly appreciated, and I'll return the favor if desired on YOUR stuff.
One alternate idea for how the Trio got the Sword of Gryffindor: minor canon divergence set in the middle of the seventh book.
"Between the years of 993 and 1996, Peeves had gotten himself banned from five hundred and thirty feasts, but the one scheduled for April 2nd, 1996 was one he simply couldn't miss." An unlikely alliance forms when one Dolores Umbridge is installed as Headmistress during Harry's fifth year. Submitted for The Houses Competition, Year 9, Round 3.
"Harry's first memory of school is not of school at all." A meditation on how Harry came, over time, to see himself differently than how the Dursleys saw him. One-Shot submitted in response to the prompt: Word: Pivot, Year 9, The Houses Competition.
An evening in the Headmaster's office Harry's sixth year, as a dying Albus Dumbledore places the Resurrection Stone within the Golden Snitch.
A conversation between Hermione and Ginny as they prepare Harry's birthday cake for the year he comes of age.
Three moments after the escape from Malfoy Manor during the timeframe of the seventh book.
"Hermione was not a girl who cared much about flowers." Three moments set in the months around the war, as Hermione, Ron, and Harry connect with themselves, one another, and a world that has changed.
A middle-of-the-night conversation between Harry and Ginny, set a few months after the war. Submitted in tribute to one previouslyjade, in thanks for her insights and her confidence that I can say something interesting about the dynamics of these two characters. One-shot: angst, but also romance, because I am cool like that.
A spell cast at a grave and a talk about a train station, set a few weeks after the second fall of Voldemort. Written for The Houses Competition Y9 Round 1.
"In this moment, in this graveyard, Lucius Malfoy reaches and connects with Harry's shaking shoulder, using the hand of a father who loves his son. The hand pushes Harry forward, firmly, towards torture and death." Drabble composed in response to the prompt "Tripping Up/ Tripping Over", from The Houses Competition. Set in the graveyard at the end of the third task.
"Lucius reaches and connects with Harry's shaking shoulder, using the hand of a father who loves his son. It pushes Harry forward towards torture and death." One-shot on the prompt "Tripping Up/ Tripping Over", set in the graveyard during the end of the third task.
Many of us have been saying it for years, but this could be how it happens. Harry Potter engages with the concept of therapy in a time frame a few months after the second fall of Voldemort. (One-shot.)
A serious of interconnected moments after the fall of Voldemort, as the characters grapple with what happened and figure out what's next.