The residual pain from the Cruciatus Curse and the knife dull significantly as she looks into his eyes, which she thinks she notices for the first time are grey. She feels her magic surge forward in spite of her, and the way it meets his in the middle of the room should be obvious to everyone, but nobody is watching. Veela AU set mostly in Eighth Year.

To anyone looking at the group, so clearly happy in each other's company, it looked as though each of them would be together through it all, straight to the end. Maybe, if their timing hadn't been so unlucky, that would've been the case.

After the Ministry of Magic legislates the Marriage Act of 2015, which mandates every witch and wizard be married by the end of the summer following their seventeenth birthdays, Rose Weasley finds herself matched with Scorpius Malfoy, possibly her least favorite person; only, nobody seems to understand exactly how much she hates him, or why. Rating subject to change.

Book One in my Once Upon A Time series. Enclosed are a series of connected one-shots detailing the life and times of each of our favorite Marauder-Era characters, including all four Marauders, Lily Evans, Frank and Alice Longbottom, and more.