Astoria Greengrass and Draco Malfoy clash when they meet. (It's not Draco's fault Astoria's best friends with the only Muggle-born in Slytherin, right?) Their habit of keeping things from each other dies hard once the war creeps upon them. It takes some time and several mistakes, but they come to understand what it means to really love another person through thick and thin.

Voldemort mysteriously fell in 1980, forcing both loyal and disloyal followers alike to sweep up the trails of crimes they had left behind in the First War. So many years have gone by that society has rebuilt. Yet the Dark Mark is starting to feel the same as it did back then... (7 ficlets, 7 POVs: Bellatrix, Lucius, Nott, Alecto, Euphemia, Barty, & Snape)

Hestia Carrow sits between her family's old pure-blood ideals and a rapidly changing society. Her twin, Flora, does whatever she's supposed to just to keep things quiet. Hestia, though, was always her family's bitter disappointment. One day, she meets a girl who makes disappointing her family sound like a pretty good idea. [Hestia/female OC, pre-femslash]

emIt was late February when she arrived out of nowhere like an isolated storm./em 1966 Bellatrix finds Alecto Carrow's magic infatuating, but what is she getting into?