Series of unconnected drabbles submitted to The Houses Competition!

“You could Bat-Bogey Hex them!” Ginny looked at Luna in gleeful awe. “Hah! Bat-Bogeys on the Wizengamot!”

Hermione inhaled sharply and fell to her knees in her haste, pressing her fingers against his neck and hoping to Merlin she’d find a pulse.

Charlie looked good, Tonks realized, wondering why that thought made her feel so odd.

Harry's pain, Severus realized, was no different than his own.

Harry double checked the tiny piece of paper in his hand, but there was no mistake. Draco Malfoy lived in the top flat of this unassuming brownstone in Brooklyn.

Voices and quick footsteps scurried down the stairs, but the boy in the cupboard did not move, so focused on staying still and quiet that he barely breathed.

Ron let his thoughts wander, deliberately trying not to think about his case as the tiles slowly got coated with rain.

If there was one thing Draco wanted, it was to someday get out of his tower and finally see what was beyond it.

Harry had never been more grateful that he and his soulmate would be the only ones able to read their wrists until they touched.

When Fred opened his eyes, he knew he was dead.

Draco's outfit (and everything he attempted to put on his body) immediately turned undeniably feminine. It was completely unfair, Pansy thought, because even in girly clothes, Draco still looked incredibly hot.

Harry had no idea what sort of birds they were, just that they were rather large and black, and sometimes it was only one or two, and other times there were at least a dozen perched around his general vicinity.

"Do you really think she likes me?" Teddy asked uncertainly, feeling his hair turn pink with nervousness. "I'm so sure of it, I'd swear an Unbreakable Vow."

He laid his wand down on the table slowly, as if moving quickly would disturb all the work he had done, and with cautious reverence, he picked up his invention and turned it in his hands. The Luminator, he called it.

It was like walking right into her dream, just like it had happened two years ago with her mum.

Teddy had heard tales of the Prince of Snow before – he used to like them when he was little – and he was frightened, because the Prince of Snow was a powerful fairy and no one knew where he had come from, but it was said that he was cold and cruel. Snow Queen AU.

"I kinda think defeating Voldemort was the biggest test of our lives," Ron shrugged. "And as for NEWTs… I mean, I've done as much work as I can, at this point. I just don't think worrying about it will change anything."

Just yesterday, she'd caught him going through her jewelry box and trying on her rings.

"He's beautiful," Lily whispered, even though he was the ugliest, reddest, wrinkliest newborn she'd ever seen.