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Title: The Arc of Years
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG
Genre: Gen
Word count: 3430
Characters: Pansy Parkinson, with appearances by Tracey Davis, Millicent Bulstrode, Blaise Zabini, and the Parkinson family (OCs)
Summary: A series of moments from Pansy's school years; how is it that she came to yell "There he is"?
Author's Note: This was written for the 2012 hp_holidaygen fest as a gift for aliciadances. Her requests were "Hidden canon moments, anything marauder era!, trio era characters who aren't the trio"; this one has focused a lot on hidden character moments for Trio-era characters.

( the arc of years )

Title: To Find a Safe Place
Fandom: Harry Potter
Genre: Gen
Rating: G
Characters: Remus Lupin, Minerva McGonagall, Poppy Pomfrey
Word Count: 977
Summary: Remus is sure that he shouldn't be at Hogwarts. Written for Martine of Ravenclaw over at hogwartsishome.

( to find a safe place )

Title: I'll Be Home for Christmas
Fandom: Harry Potter
Genre: Gen
Rating: G
Characters: Sirius Black, Lily Potter, Harry Potter, James Potter
Word Count: 422
Summary: Sirus Black is always glad to be home for Christmas. Written for Chelsea of Ravenclaw over at hogwartsishome.

( i'll be home for Christmas )

Title: Little Moments of Understanding
Fandom: Harry Potter
Genre: Gen; romance if you squint.
Rating: G
Characters: Lily Evans, James Potter, Remus Lupin, with a touch of Lily/James
Word Count: 1558
Summary: Lily knows that James Potter is a well-meaning fellow. He's just such an idiot sometimes.
Author’s Note: Written for Kerri for the hh_sugarquill Christmas fic exchange. The prompt was "when Lily realized that she didn't hate James". This got a bit into privilege and stereotyping, so I hope it's not too heavy for you. I've always thought that wizarding views of Muggles would be very important to Lily, and that it would be difficult for her to date someone who didn't try to really understand the Muggle world.

( little moments of understanding )

A pair of Blaise recs for today!

Title: Switzerland
Fandom: Harry Potter
Author: ofankoma
Rating: PG
Character/pairings: Blaise Zabini, Justin Finch-Fletchley
Word count: 9300

Blaise's snark in this fic is so good, but he's much more than the usual snark machine. He's thoughtful (if jaded) and truly, beautifully human and well-rounded. Justin is also quite excellent here; he banters, and is witty and smart (not a stereotypical "Hufflepuff duffer"). The fic also deals well with some of the inevitable results from the war in a plausible and interesting way---and oh my has it got the utter tedium of many political meetings down.pat.wow.

Title: Saturdays Are for Football (The Rest of the Week Is for Everything Else)
Fandom: Harry Potter
Author: pitry
Rating: PG-13
Character/pairings: Blaise Zabini, Dean Thomas
Word count: ~4200

This fic deals with the remaining racial tensions after the Second Wizarding War---and it does it brilliantly. There is healing here, yes, but also hurt and rage. The fragile friendship between Dean and Blaise is well done, and the way that Blaise slowly comprehends what racism during the war really meant for Muggle-borns reads true.

Title: What Rita Sees Around Her
Fandom: Harry Potter
Genre: Gen
Rating: PG-13 for politics and condoning violence
Characters: Rita Skeeter
Word Count: 300
Summary: Rita sees it all around her, and she cannot help but go down this path.

( what Rita sees around her )

Written for the AU Death Eaters challenge for the Young Death Eaters club at hh_clubs: "Write an AU drabble about how someone from the side of light came over to the side of dark and became a Death Eater." I'm not entirely sure if Rita ever counted as "light", but she's the only character I could think of that would plausibly go from light to dark (especially in 300 words or less).

A series of drabbles for Term XXIV Hogsmeade Writer's Block challenge, some executed decently, some rather farther from the original prompt.

( for avi of hufflepuff )

( for allison of ravenclaw )

( for brina of gryffindor )

( for william of slytherin )

( for sam of hufflepuff )

( for miranda of ravenclaw )

( for alice of ravenclaw )

( for danni of hufflepuff )

Title: Becoming Part of the Pride
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: G
Characters: Luna Lovegood
Word Count: 98
Summary: Luna gathers friends.

( becoming part of the pride )

Title: Being a Haiku Distilling the Essence of Lee Jordan's Quidditch Commentary
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: G
Characters: Lee Jordan, Minerva McGonagall
Word Count: 12

( being a haiku distilling the essence of Lee Jordan's Quidditch commentary )

For drabble challenge #104 and poetry challenge #77 at hh_sugarquill; x-posted there.

Title: How Dumbledore Found Out
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG-13 for canon character death
Characters: Severus Snape, Lily Potter
Word count: 515
Summary: In which we discover how Dumbledore found out that the Potters were dead.

( how dumbledore found out )