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Fandom: Harry Potter

Summary:

“It’s silly,” Sirius said. “You’ll think I’m absurd.”

“I always think you’re absurd,” Remus countered, but with a fondness in his voice that entirely undermined his words.

Characters: Remus/Sirius

Words: 700

Notes:

I've been doing Flash Fiction February, using it as a chance to focus on original fiction...but a couple of days ago, Remus and Sirius snuck into the day's prompt anyway. :-)

(Also, it's been so long since the days when I used to dash off one-shots easily and at a moment's notice. So doing this now was satisfying and fun!)


Read here below or on AO3.


( Bliss of the Domestic Kind )
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Fandom: Harry Potter

Summary: Dean Thomas survived a year on the run from Voldemort, only to find that the hardest part is reconnecting with his Muggle family now that it’s all over.

Characters: Dean Thomas, original character (Felicity, Dean's sister)

Words: 3,200

Notes: Beta: emily_in_the_glass.


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( MAMMAS, DON'T LET YOUR BABIES GROW UP TO BE WIZARDS )

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Fandom: Harry Potter

Summary: Cho Chang flees the wreckage of the war, and learns to make a new life for herself in California.

Characters: Cho Chang, mentions of others

Words: 1,200

Notes: This is the first of four fics in the series More Than This World Can Contain. Each of the four stands alone, and they don't need to be read in order; but the linking theme is that each one-shot catches up with a different character in the years beyond the end of the war. My thanks to emily_in_the_glass for thoughtful beta feedback and great discussions of story and character!


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( CALIFORNIA )

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IF YOU'VE GOT A LANTERN HOLD IT HIGH

Summary: Three years after the war, a stranger arrives at Hogwarts with a letter addressed to Minerva McGonagall by the familiar hand of an old friend. Before the summer is through, the contents of the letter will bring together several lives that might otherwise never have touched.

Characters: Minerva McGonagall, Andromeda Black Tonks, original characters (Serena and Joy from "Raise Your Lantern High"), Teddy Lupin, briefly Hagrid, offscreen but alluded to often: Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks

Words: 12,900 / Chapters: 4

Notes:

Set a few years after “Raise Your Lantern High” (not a sequel, since that story is complete – more of a “bonus extra”!) but it also works as a standalone if you haven’t read that story.

“Raise Your Lantern High” followed Remus and Tonks throughout HBP; the two original characters in this story, Serena and her daughter Joy (also known by her werewolf name, River), are characters Remus got to know during his time living with a werewolf pack that year. I’ll include some more background at the bottom of chapter 1, if you’d like to know more, but again, I don’t think you’ll be confused if you just dive in!

(Note for those coming here from “Raise Your Lantern High”: the character was known as Joy in that story, because it was from Remus’ perspective and he thought in human names; here you’ll see her as River, because it’s from her own perspective. And yet I’ve used Serena’s human name here, because she’s among humans and thus using her human name …And yes, I do realise I made this complicated for myself when I created the construct of werewolf vs. human names!)

My great thanks to gilpin25 who provided such a thoughtful beta-read of this story. (And Brit-picking, too!) I appreciate it so much.

Read here, or on AO3.


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(  Chapter One: A Visitor at Hogwarts )

WAITING FOR THE SNOW

Summary: Four days. Victoire will be back from France in four days. Teddy can survive that...right?

Characters: Teddy, Victoire, Andromeda, Molly, Harry, one OC

Words: ~3,300

Notes: Here's the first one of the fics I wrote for this year's rt_morelove... It's Teddy/Victoire (and Teddy + all his wonderful extended family), with mentions of Remus and Tonks. FYI, I use my own headcanons for Teddy, so my stories don't necessarily align with JKR's latter-day Pottermore and/or Twitter revelations. I've also left the context here vague enough that it can be compatible with my Andromeda story "Saying Yes" (in which Teddy of course features prominently) if you want it to be!

This year at rt_morelove I found myself on this odd kick of trying to use as many of the prompts as I could (I got in 10 out of 30!), so this was written for:

21, Write a fic with 'If you are reading this' as your opening line
and also:
16, Teddy finds his parents' friends have very different tales to tell about them
26, the first snow
20 [picture of tranquil winter woods with sun setting through the trees]

I really wanted to take that sad sounding "If you are reading this" and turn it into something happy. :-)

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( Waiting for the Snow )

CHAMBERS

Summary:

In the winter after the war, Ginny navigates not only her own recurring nightmares, but also the demands of Quidditch captaincy, the weirdness of double-dating with one's brother and the surprisingly difficult path back to Harry, along with Hermione's obsession with inter-house unity, Neville's retreat into his books, Luna's lonely family life and a gaping hole in Ginny's family where her middle brother used to be.

In the winter after the war, Ginny starts putting the pieces back together, with a little help from her friends.

Characters: Ginny, with Harry, Hermione, Neville, Luna, Ron and all the Weasleys!

Words: ~22,000

Story:

Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five

Story also available on AO3.

FEELS LIKE HOME

Summary: Sitting together on her dilapidated sofa over a cup of cocoa seemed like such a cosy, homey sort of thing to do. And Harry, to Hermione, always felt like home.

Characters: Hermione, Harry

Words: ~1,400

Notes: …And we’re back to my usual mode. As in, here, have a character-driven one-shot in which two people talk and reflect about things! :-)

Inspired by conversations with stereolightning about Hermione as a character, and about potential Hermione-and-Harry interactions. This is written to stand alone, but also draws on some of my headcanon established in "Chambers" (takes place about a year before this story) and "Saying Yes" (takes place a number of years after).

Story:

 

( Feels Like Home )

 

NEVER TOO LATE TO SAY THANK YOU

Summary:  Andromeda Tonks expected nothing more than a quiet afternoon, while Harry took Teddy out for the day. Instead, a young man named Dean Thomas turned up at her door.

Characters: Andromeda, Dean, Harry, baby Teddy

Warnings: None, aside from references to (past) canon deaths during the war.

Words: 3,000

Story:

( Never Too Late to Say Thank You )

SAYING YES chapter 14

Summary: At 17, Andromeda Black thought being in love was everything. At 57, Andromeda Tonks knew better. Yet the first time Kingsley Shacklebolt asked her out, she surprised herself by saying yes.

Characters: Andromeda Tonks, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Teddy Lupin and ensemble (Harry! Ginny! Molly! Kingsley's kids! All the Potters and Weasleys!)

Warnings: None

Chapters: 15

Story:

( chapter 14 )