Teddy had never imagined himself working for someone like Dean Thomas.

Salazar was wary as he held the root above the cauldron. It had to be placed in the liquid whole and undamaged, and left to simmer on a low heat for fourteen minutes. If the root had not dissolved after fourteen minutes, then he had done something wrong. If it exploded at the three-minute mark, then he had definitely done something wrong.

Usually Helena Ravenclaw kept to the halls of Hogwarts, floating past the windows, watching the seasons flicker. It used to be that she would wander alone, but now she had not one regular visitor, but two. And perhaps they were not regular visitors at all, but fine, kind friends.

Blaise found him in the Greenhouses. It was the first place he looked, and the first place anyone would expect to find Neville Longbottom.

Where James went, Regulus went. That was the deal they had made, long ago, when Regulus came to the door of the castle, asking for refuge with the side he had fought against for so long. If he was to live in the Kingdom, then he was to prove his loyalty by protecting the Prince. It was not a deal he would have made if he knew how insufferable James was. Or how easy he was to love.

When the time finally comes, years and years after a long, happy life, for The Boy Who Lived to stop living, Helga Hufflepuff is the one that greets him.

"You're such an idiot," Hermione hissed through her teeth, shutting the door and locking it with a snap of her wand. "I told you not to touch it, but no! You saw an ancient, shiny statue in the middle of the tomb and you simply had to touch it, didn't you, Ronald?"

In a twisted version of Beauty and the Beast, Bellatrix keeps Lily captive in a manor, descending deep into madness all the while.

Blaise notices that Daphne isn't wearing her engagement ring. It only takes a conversation to clear it up, but he's never been all that good at communicating.

Charlie isn't the best person to talk Ron down from wedding-related woes and worries, but he's the only one in the room, and he's not going to let any of his siblings down. Not again.

There was no magic in this world, a fact that always left Albus sorely disappointed, and so he was tasked with finding magic in the smaller, more ordinary things. The lavish way a cake was frosted, for example, or the dimple that punctured Scorpius's cheek whenever he smiled, or the fact that they were getting married soon.

Potions Professor at Hogwarts is supposed to be a safe, comfortable job. When Albus is poisoned during an ordinary school day, it shocks everyone around him, and he spends the week in hospital, recovering. They might not have been dating for long, but Lysander has no plans to leave his bedside until Albus is awake and well again. Even if it means taking up knitting to stay sane.

The Pygmy Puff was pretty small, and it did look a bit like it was still trembling, but even though Albus wasn't completely heartless, he was still reluctant to show sympathy. Scorpius would see it as a weakness, and he would pounce, and soon they'd have a small army of pets living in their flat.

After Albus lets slip that he's afraid of the dark, Scorpius offers to help him through his fear for long enough to learn the Nox Charm.

It was one year since Astoria Greengrass had passed away. All week, Scorpius had withdrawn, growing quieter and stiller until he was barely a shadow of a person. Albus stuck by him, but in contrast, he got a little louder, drawing the attention away. He hated every second of it, but there were far more painful things he would do if it meant that Scorpius was okay.

Raising Harry was never going to be an easy task, but it's made much easier when Sirius doesn't have to handle all the ridiculous, hilarious, troublesome parts of it alone.

Sirius runs away from home after a fight with his mum that goes painfully wrong, and ends up at The Potter's house. It's pretty lucky that he's got James to take care of him.

Padma waits for summer to come each year, just so that she can see Luna again.

Ron suffers an injury during a routine Auror mission, and Draco is the fool lumbered with looking after him while he recovers.

Usually Seamus didn't revise much for exams, but Dean was busy with Ginny, and the whole castle seemed to have gone love-mad, so he had some spare time on his hands. Might as well do something useful with it. Hence, the gradual and doomed-to-fail wooing of Hermione Granger.