Life gets worse for Sirius. He's not sure if it was ever good, to begin with.
Lily has long since thrown caution in the wind and waved it goodbye. [Punk-Rock!AU]
When Draco Malfoy had opened the Café de Verde, he had not expected to attract quite this kind of customers. Like, sure there are still plenty of hipsters and exhausted businessmen lusting after their latest fix of caffeine, but that is far from the complete list of his clienté.
"He's a boy; their rules are different," the nanny explains. Alice, in all of her four year old glory, decides that she does not like this. "That's silly," she declares. She proceeds to ignore these 'different rules' for the rest of her life, and no one can ever bring her to stop. They do try very hard. [Genderbending, LGBTQ Polyamorous Relationships]
When Thomas 'Tom' Benjamin Riddle spotted a young boy that looked eerily similar to himself enter the grounds of his family's mansion, he realised a couple of things.
Somehow, Ron had never quite realized how grim funerals can be until right this moment. And that's despite the fact that he's attended more than he cares to name in the twenty short years of his life.
Her face lights up just a little. More than Ginny had ever expected to see from a Slytherin, but not as much as her own would. "I would love that." [Amnesia!AU]
"How about we get some footage from your nephew now? Given our episode length, we can't afford to spend more than three minutes per child."
Dudley is twelve and his first begins bleeding during lunch on the seventh of December. It's Desdemona's eleventh birthday and no letter arrives. She punches the wall until her parents drag her away. [Soulmate!AU]
"Hello? Can you hear me?" Draco's picture on his own screen is still buffering and the other end only shows up a heartbeat or two after he asks. Harry confirms that he does and then he frowns, focusing on something behind him. "Is that… my merch?" [YouTuber!AU]
While he commits murder, he is cold and precise. He's rational and emotionless, because he needs to avoid doing a messy job. The one thing he can't afford at this point — after multiple robberies, one of which the people in charge took over a week to discover — is mistakes. [Serial Killer AU]
"Can we keep him? His name is Hunter," Florence informed her family, doing her best pleading expression in the hope to persuade her papa. Papa was usually the one who gave in first and then convinced her dad. "Sweetheart, that's a niffler," her dad pointed out.
"Want to see something I used to do as a kid?" Lily asked.
Thus they are arranged, a bunch of magical beings, all watching a movie done by Muggles, about the great warlock Merlin. There is a joke here, somewhere. [Middleground pairings: LunaGinnyHarryDraco, ViktorRonHermione, SiriusKingsley, otherwise canon part #1 of Movie Fights]
"You're paying with actual gold?" the shopkeeper questions upon seeing him take out his purse. "Umm, yes?" Sirius drags the word out, unsure of what the shopkeeper is getting at. He takes out four coins. She sounds kind of desperate as she continues. "For Karl Marx's The Capital?" [Communist AU]
"Hello Harry Potter. The Gurgling Hunkifings were telling me that you looked sad, so I came to tell you that I don't think you could ever do something this horrible."
"I'm just gonna presume that you introduced yourself silently and inform you that I'm blind," the Japanese girl. "The name's Pansy. No, that's no traditionally Japanese and no, you're not allowed to know my entire family history." Hannah was at a bit of a loss. She understood Pansy's sentiment - Hannah wasn't exactly a traditional Cherokee name either - but how to communicate?
[Temporary Character Death Warning]
There is an infinite number of universes out there. Why on earth would Regulus be born in the same time and place every time?
A family from France moved in across from the Dursleys and the Butterfly Effect is a thing that exists. [Used to be "A New Neighbour"]