Rating: 1st-2nd Years
Stories
Passion Among the Primroses by Equinox Chick
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: Mafalda Hopkirk is only too pleased when her transfer to the Misuse of Muggle Artefacts Department come through. For one thing it means she won't have to work with the bumbling Cornelius Fudge anymore.
And for another, there's a new and rather shy clerk working alongside her.
Confiding in her diary, she tells her tale of passion and primroses.
Disclaimer: I have no idea who I am, but I'm certainly not JK Rowling.
Another entry for the Inaugral Great Hall Cotillion. Thank you Jess and Viv for such an amazing competition. Let's leave it a while for the next one, eh?
A Box for Your Soul by Free_Elf
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •
Summary: For years, Lucy Weasley bared her soul in the letters she wrote to Lorcan Scamander. Now, as they are in the process of moving in together, she discovers a box filled with each and every one of those letters; her essence in written form. Presented with irrefutable proof, can Lucy like the person she finds? In her turmoil, she writes to Lorcan, of course.
This is Free_Elf of Hufflepuff finally getting around to writing for the Great Hall Cotillion.
Hindsight by BrokenPromise
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: Draco Malfoy looks back at his childhood now that it is over.
The Folds of Life by hestiajones
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: "To the well organised mind, death is but the next great adventure." This is hestiajones' ninth submission for the GH Cotillion Challenge. I am not J.K.Rowling.
The Final Walk by hestiajones
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: The Snitch is open; the Ring is out. A poem written for the Anniversary Challenge at Poetry Anyone? in the beta forums.
Operation: Lily by siriusly_confused
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: For Lily Evans, James Potter was just a crush. A guilty pleasure, in other words. She never meant to fall in love with him. Especially after six long years of having to reject him. James would always be chasing after her, so why not live a little before giving in? It's finally come to their Seventh Year at Hogwarts after all. But little did Lily know, James took his tactics to a whole new level- Operation: Lily.
Not Even Him by AidaLuthien
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: Helena Ravenclaw spent centuries keeping the secret of her mother's diadem from everyone.
So what made Tom Riddle different? This is AidaLuthien writing for the Great Hall Cotillion Challenge.
Making It a Fair Fight by ToBeOrNotToBeAGryffindor
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: Rap along with Regulus Black in his final hours as he tells the Dark Lord how it is - to the tune of Cleaning Out My Closet by Eminem.
Frank by welshdevondragon
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: In the closed ward of St Mungo's, Frank sees:
This is based on a 2012 SPEW Lovenotes I wrote for Lily/Padfoot1333, but the lovenote aspect has been somewhat removed.
Nostalgia by welshdevondragon
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary:
My blind desire for the fleeting
Only the moon understands
The beauty of love when held by hand
Like the aura of nostalgia
Nostalgia: From the Greek, meaning, ‘the pain from an old wound.’ Stephen and Beatrice Granger are many thousand miles away from home, and have the vague sense that they’ve left something, or someone, behind.
Lyrics above quoted from the beautiful song Nostalgia by Emily Barker and the Red Clay Halo.
This is welshdevondragon writing for the Inaugural Great Hall Cotillion.
Restless by Envy_I_May_Be
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: In the days after Ron leaves them behind, Hermione reflects on the things that are, the things that were, the things that should be, and the things that never were. She thinks about her feelings, and what she should have done. She thinks about Harry, and she thinks about Ron, and all of the people she’s left behind on her journey to help Harry seek out and destroy the Horcruxes. But mostly, she waits. And while she waits, she is restless.
A little one-shot set during Deathly Hallows.
Love by HerHeadsInTheSky
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: The problem with love is that it distorts you. It binds you and frees you, hurts you and kills you, but in the end, it's worth it. L x J one-shot.
Hesitation by Writ Encore
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: Benjy Fenwick waited too long to ask the question he'd meant to ask ages ago.
This is Kuri of Ravenclaw writing for the Great Hall Cotillion Challenge.
Warning: This piece contains information pertaining to Pottermore, and I wouldn't want to ruin that for anyone. So, if you haven't had a chance to experience that, please don't read this.
The Daydream Pedlar's Song by Equinox Chick
Rated: 1st-2nd Years • Summary: A Pedlar of Potions is the most welcome of salesmen as Valentine's Day approaches.
Disclaimer: I am not JK Rowling.
Thank you to Julia for running wonderful challenges in Poetry Anyone over at the MNFF beta boards.
Lady in Spain by Writ Encore
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: Kingsley Shacklebolt offers a lonely guest houseroom and patiently waits for her to wake from the past.
This is Kuri of Ravenclaw writing for the Great Hall Cotillion Challenge. Betas: Alice, theblacksister, and Alyssa, harry4lif, thank you, thank you for your patience and help. This would be nothing without you. And Julia, mi hermana joven. Still.
New Beginnings by AidaLuthien
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: It's January 1971 and both Severus Snape and Lily Evans are turning eleven. Both are eagerly anticipating their Hogwarts letters, but not everything goes according to plans.
This is AidaLuthien writing for the Great Hall Cotillion
Secrets by Eleanor Lupin
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: By the age of seven, Andromeda Black had three things hammered firmly into her head. Never trust anyone. Feelings are for the weak. And never associate with Mudbloods. And she has never had any trouble following them. Except with him. This is when she broke all three of her rules in one night.
This is Eleanor Lupin of Hufflepuff writing for the Great Hall Cotillion!
Fading Light by PotterGirl5
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: George is trying to recover from Fred's death, he really is. But everyone can see he's not doing well, and George begins to wonder if he will ever stop grieving.
A poem from George's perspective.
Advice (The Bogey Man) by minnabird
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: Advice to a child: keep away from werewolves.
Harry Potter and the Women in Black by L A Moody
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: To commemorate the release of the Daniel Radcliffe vehicle, The Woman in Black, herewith is my version. Stitched together from the disjointed glimpses offered in the original trailer, this alternate treatment seeks to provide closure of a different sort to Harry’s adventures. As such it is a parody, not a cross-over.