Ginny after the breakup, because Harry may have thought he was doing the right thing but it didn't change much in the long run. (Thank you to my therapist for this one)

Cho Chang and reflection on lost love. Set in OotP.

Remus spends the first full moon after Halloween alone, and he can't help but remember everything that was.

It was strange, Ron not being there. Hermione after Godric's Hollow.

Harry and Ron had exciting seventeenth birthdays, so why shouldn't Hermione? / A missing scene from The Halfblood Prince

Luna couldn't imagine a worse situation, but she was never truly alone. Her best friend arrived quickly with acceptance and a promise.

He just wanted to ask one more time, then he would be done. He wasn't the same boy he had been, and she wasn't the same girl. So he would ask once more then never ask again.

It didn't feel quite real, and she blamed the circumstances. / Hermione and endings

No one is perfect, and no love is perfect. Severus Snape learned that the hard way.

Why should she have a heavy heart? Why should she start to break in pieces? Why should she go and fall apart for him? Ginny Weasley and her thoughts on a requiem for the boy she believed was a friend.

"If I go to bed before I'm exhausted, I'll be alone with my thoughts." And that would be a terrible, terrible thing.

Maybe they had always been meant to be, and she hadn't realized it. Or maybe this was fate's way of telling her what she already knew. Drawing soulmark au

Tom Riddle wasn't always Voldemort. When he was in Hogwarts, he almost seemed to be like any other Slytherin, even if he was more obsessive and interesting than the rest. One other Slytherin watched as his quest for balance pulled him into insanity. For qlfc, season 7, round 2, reserve beater 2 for puddlemere.

Arthur reflects on the past year. Written for the alphabet soup challenge from the beaded bag, for Ilvermorny. Song used is "Auld Lang Syne"

Lily Evans struggles with loss. Who better to help her than James Potter? Written for The Greatest Show for Ilvermorny.

An outsider watches, seeing the very moment they nearly break. She saves them from a future they could never survive. Written for the alphabet soup challenge from the beaded bag, for Ilvermorny.

Ginny finds it hard to watch as Harry seems to fall for another girl. Written for the alphabet soup challenge from the beaded bag, for Ilvermorny.

A girl reflects on a chance meeting that changed two lives for the better, and on friendships formed without spoken words.

Insanity comes from brokenness, whether of the heart or the mind. From a young age, her life had been dictated. Her one attempt to follow her heart ended in tears. Written for the alphabet soup challenge from the beaded bag, for Ilvermorny.