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Stories
The Skeletons' Tale by Oregonian
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet," wrote Shakespeare. This story arose from a 500-word drabble in a Beta Forum challenge, presenting a character who gained new and startling information about his ancestry and acted upon it. I expanded the drabble into a full story for my Creative Writing class at the local community college, necessarily deleting obvious mentions of magic and changing the characters' names. Thus, Draco, Astoria, and Scorpius Malfoy have disguised themselves as Denis, Aurelie and Silvestre Paridelle, and the Death Eaters are masquerading as Nazis, with a little jiggering of the timeline to accommodate the date difference between the Second Wizarding War and the Second World War.
With its Harry Potter roots thus concealed, the story was well-received by my instructor and classmates; nobody suspected a thing, but you, my readers, will instantly see and understand everything.
Thanks to my instructor and classmates for being my unwitting beta readers. Their comments and suggestions were valuable and improved the story greatly. The story is rated Alternate Universe for the accommodations that had to be made, but I hope you will enjoy it anyway.
Autumn At The Castle by Oregonian
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: The 'treat' of autumn's glorious beauty is inevitably follow by the 'trick' of winter's bleak and freezing desolation. Compare this poem with the poem Winter At The Castle, also on my author's page.
Written for Stage Three: Trick Or Treat, of the Sixth Annual October Triathlon: Race To Hallowe'en.
Graves by Oregonian
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •
Summary: In December of 1997, Harry visits his parents' graves in Godric's Hollow and realizes that they are the end toward which we all are headed.
Written for the Sixth Annual October Triathlon: Race to Hallowe'en.
Inspired by this fragment of verse:
We do lie beneath the grass
In the moonlight, in the shade
Of the yew-tree. They that pass
Hear us not. We are afraid
They would envy our delight
In our graves by glow-worm light.
—â€Thomas Beddoes, Dirge
Nominated for 2015 Quicksilver Quill Award, Best Poetry
Unexploded Bombs by Oregonian
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: Dudley Dursley has just experienced the death of his elderly father Vernon from heart disease, when he receives a letter from beyond the grave, a letter that puts a new light on things. An unsuspected time bomb involving his cousin Harry has been ticking for nineteen years.
This is Vicki of Slytherin House, writing for the Second Annual Terrible Two-Shot Challenge.
A Thank You to Elaine/Islastorm of Gryffindor for looking over the manuscript for me.
This story was nominated for a 2015 Quicksilver Quill Award, Best Post-Hogwarts.
The Ruin by Oregonian
Rated: 1st-2nd Years • Summary: Even in its abandonment and slow disintegration, it retains its power to destroy. This is my Poem #1 entry in the Sixth Annual October Triathlon: Race to Hallowe'en, a sonnet, prompted by this scrap of verse:
Curious, how she tried the window,--
Odd the way she tried the door,--
Wonder just what sort of people
Could have had this house before.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Wraith
Argus Filch by BrokenPromise
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: Written for the Anniversary Challenge v3 over on the boards - a double dactyl about a much maligned character.
The Sparrow and the Wolf by Nagini Riddle
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: Remus receives some interesting council after one horrendous werewolf transformation, but he doesn't really take the advice...
Written for the 2014 Random Song Title Challenge
Moonset by SilverDarkHorse
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: The Marauders, in the Shrieking Shack at moonset.
Freeverse.
Epithalamium by Northumbrian
Rated: 3rd-5th Years •Summary: Weddings don't just happen you know! They need planning.
The Weird Sisters - B-Sides and Rarities, Vol. 2 by ToBeOrNotToBeAGryffindor, Hypatia, eternalangel, Equinox Chick, Nagini Riddle, 1000timesingoldenink, Al Clark
Rated: 1st-2nd Years • Summary: The Weird Sisters are back for an encore. Ten more tracks from your MNFF authors.
Dark Enough To See The Stars by Oregonian
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: Scorpius is looking for answers in the constellation that bears his name. He becomes what he was not, and stumbles into Hogwarts' past, thanks to an unexpected arrival from the heavens.
This is Vicki of Slytherin House, writing for the 2014 TV Challenge. This story is also my final exam of "So This Is Romance" Independent Study Class, 2014, at the Mugglenet Fanfiction Beta Boards.
This story was nominated for the 2015 Quicksilver Quill Award, Best Next-Generation.
The Full House by Nagini Riddle
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: "Power and the money, money and the power,
Minute after minute, hour after hour."
-Gangsta's Paradise by Coolio
Nobby Leach, the first Muggle-born to ever take the office of Minister for Magic, has left his post. Rumors of a shady plot circulate, and Abraxas Malfoy is thought to be involved...
A dialogue between Abraxas and his family.
Nagini Riddle here of Gryffindor House, writing for the TV Challenge.
Betty by Nagini Riddle
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: Betty Braithwaite is in for a surprise when her first job as a Daily Prophet reporter is an interview with one crooked woman...
Written for the 2014 Random Song Title Challenge.
The Weird Sisters - B-Sides and Rarities, Vol. 1 by minnabird, Hypatia, eternalangel, the opaleye, Nagini Riddle, Kinnu, Al Clark
Rated: 1st-2nd Years • Summary: Welcome back to another rousing round of rambunctious rock!
However, a new act has edged into town and bumped ol’ Celestina off the stage for a two-night-only event. Rocking their way into the main event are the boys with the noise, the fellows with the cellos: The Weird Sisters!
Wrocking Wordsmiths out there have taken songs from many genres of rock (from light rock to metal, and everything in between) and give it a good Potter treatment to bring you songs that might make it on the Wizard Wireless Network’s rock station.
A Restless Wait by Nagini Riddle
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: As Lily hides with her family, she finds that she is increasingly restless, and even writing to Sirius doesn't help...
Tapestry by Equinox Chick
Rated: 1st-2nd Years • Summary: As Walburga Black stitches, Sirius rebels.
Two poems written about the infamous Black tapestry.
Searching For The Horcruxes by Oregonian
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: What was it like for Harry, Ron, and Hermione during that long winter when they roamed through England on their almost hopeless quest? In the Last Line Standing Challenge, we poets were given the final word for each of sixteen lines, and we had to fill in the rest of the poem.
This poem won first place in the Last Line Standing Challenge.
A Lesson with Biscuits by Nagini Riddle
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: A revisit to McGonagall's warning to Harry in the fifth book, in free verse.
Written for the Tumblr Inspiration Challenge
A Truth by Equinox Chick
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: James and Lily started off on the wrong foot, and continued limping until their fifth year. And then Lily started to see that Potter wasn't quite as awful as she'd previously believed.
This story was originally written for Lori (Weasley Mom) and Sophie (the owl) in the SBBC Lovebombs month. They like James/Lily and Jane Austen, so this is what I came up with.
Disclaimer: Not only am I NOT JK Rowling, I am not Jane Austen either.
The lines threading through this tale are from Pride and Prejudice.
The Boy Who Cried by ToBeOrNotToBeAGryffindor
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: Draco Malfoy carried the weight of the world on his teenaged shoulders — a world whose fate was held in the balance of his successes and his failures.