The letter lay on the mantelpiece for a week, then two, until Andromeda finally had to admit to herself that there were no two ways about it: She was being rude. She should have the decency at least to write and decline Narcissa's invitation. (This story is now also part 5 La Ronde Noire.)

Tonks sleeps; Remus muses.

Without quite meaning to, Angelina drops by Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes to see George. Without meaning to at all, she keeps going back.

The war is over. Everything should be fine. And if only Ginny could stop having nightmares about Lord Voldemort, maybe it would be. Characters: Ginny, with the whole ensemble: Harry, Hermione, Neville, Luna, Ron, all the Weasleys!

"So then I got to thinking, who else can I invite to my party who would make my mother have a fit? Moony's perfect already, because no one likes werewolves." "Oh, thanks," Remus said with dripping sarcasm. "I mean no one except us, and we're the only ones who matter," Sirius replied impatiently.

Remus with Teddy was easily the sweetest thing Tonks had ever seen. It seemed Remus couldn't ever hold Teddy without gazing down at his son with a huge, helpless, delighted grin. "Don't your cheeks ever get tired?" Tonks couldn't help teasing him once, and he'd glanced up, bewildered by the question – he didn't even realise he was doing it.

"Your mates have been after me for months to go out with you," Lily said. "Why, didn't you put them up to it?" "Me?" James sounded affronted. "You know I'd never stoop to such underhanded methods."

"Sirius Black was just as arrogant and annoying as James Potter. The pair of them, honestly." A story of how the Marauders came to be.

Harry and Ginny talk names.

Ginny adjusts to an unexpected family member.

She wasn't even surprised when the Headmaster with the weird name of the weird school rejected her childish plea to come along too, because Petunia already knew she wasn't special. She didn't make fuses blow and flowers grow three times as fast. She didn't even really want to be able to do those things. But she didn't want to lose Lily. So to keep from being left, she left first.

"Someday we'll come here with your grandchildren, Prongs," Remus said. "You'll tell stories about the old days and they'll be horrified their doddering elders ever did young people things." "Like this, you mean?" James asked, leaning over to give Lily a smacking kiss. "My eyes, Prongs!" Sirius moaned. "Or it will just be Sirius you horrify," Remus smirked, as Sirius tackled James.

"Charlie!" Nymphadora Tonks was standing in the doorway. Grinning ear to ear, she swept in and grabbed him up in a hug. Charlie, his thoughts lagging somewhere behind him, stood up and wrapped his arms around his old school friend. Tonks stepped back and smiled at him. Charlie stepped back and looked at her. Whatever he'd been expecting, it wasn't this.