IWSC writing school prompts.

In which everyone is well-adjusted and trying to organise a Little League Quidditch game that ends with someone catching the snitch. Or Severus Snape gets roped into refereeing Little League.

The Dursleys gave me nothing to call my own, and to them, I was the heaviest of all burdens. I did not understand it then, and I cannot pretend to understand their reasons for opening their door to me now.

The room is filled with moths, most a ghostly white, and he closes his eyes as if begging the heavens that he could be anywhere but here.

You should have been dead, but here you stand with your feldgrau-tinted robes looking more like the victim with every word you speak.

She wonders what exactly possessed her to come back, to lie on top of the Astronomy Tower and to gaze at the stars.

Susan doesn't look like it, bundled in layers of warm jerseys and wearing a bright yellow Hufflepuff beanie, but she has a nasty habit of making people like her. She plays the good cop to Parvati's bad one.

The beauty of the first snow reminded Bill of happiness, happier days and the memories he built.

It is a Hogwarts tradition for the Seventh Years to leave Hogwarts for their final train ride through the boats on the lake.

Some magical children had their magic manifest in explosions and miraculous saves, while Lily's had come to her in the form of being able to find lost things.

She wants someone to save Padma, the way Lavender saved her.

This invitation was not an olive branch—Harry had made that clear—but he so desperately wanted to know about his mother and that was enough to bring an uneasy truce to their relationship.

But why on earth do they call their role in the Ministry as "Unspeakable" when all she has been doing for the last year is talk, chant or argue?

Petunia awoke knowing that it was her last day as a free woman. Not that her freedom should mean much to her; not when this had been her choice.

Tom's fingers were cold, but he had always run cold. The tips of his fingers and the end of his nose is red. Not that Hermione should have taken notice. Tom wasn't hers, not anymore. Muggle AU

Merope has never seen herself in a white dress.

Helga is idealistic, and sometimes she sees that as her worst trait.

Irrespective of her parents' opinion, Padma is built to be an Auror.

Marcus isn't sure what possessed him to work in hospitality.

"I know you," she says, spitting. "Of course you do. We made moon-eyes at each other for what must've been the last five years." The girl, no, the woman says.