The Last Casualty by trinsy

Rated: 1st-2nd Years •
Summary: Nobody really wins in a war. Scenes from Teddy Lupin’s complicated childhood. The story of the last two casualties of the war against Voldemort.

Pineapple in the Library by 1000timesingoldenink

Rated: 1st-2nd Years •
Summary: It's late on a Sunday evening, and Neville has a couple of questions...

Why is there a whole bunch of confusing Arithmancy in his Herbology textbook? What in Merlin's name is the Fibonacci series? And since when has he been feeling so strange around Luna?

This is 1000timesingoldenink of Ravenclaw writing for the Great Hall Valentine's Day Cotillion 2013.

Shall I Compare Thee to a Winter's Eve by 1000timesingoldenink

Rated: 1st-2nd Years •
Summary: There are stories everywhere. Some reveal themselves to their characters, but most do not.

One story goes like this: Once upon a time, there were two children, a boy and a girl, who were best friends. The boy had grown up in the cold, and he fell in love with the girl’s bright warmth; he cared more about her than anything in the world. Yet fate rejected them, and one day, without meaning to, the boy shattered their friendship forever. He tried to apologize, but it was too late. He had been swallowed back into bitter iciness, while the girl remained in the light of the sun.

Yet the girl does not know all this. She only knows of the turning point in the story, the hurt the boy has caused her, the reason she would not forgive him.

These are Lily’s words to Severus at the turning point in their story.

(It is also, for no apparent reason, a parody of Shakespeare sonnet.)

Hogsmeade Lights by Nagini Riddle

Rated: 1st-2nd Years •
Summary: A wizard looks to the Hogsmeade lights during the holidays.

Written for the Carol Challenge. It took third place! :)

The Baby in the Closet by Oregonian

Rated: 1st-2nd Years •
Summary: As Harry and Ginny eagerly await the birth of their first child and their new lives as parents, Harry discovers that before he can move forward, he must take a journey into his past and revisit what has never been put to rest. He learns the truth of the poetic line "The child is father to the man."

This story has been nominated for a 2013 Quicksilver Quill Award: Best Post-Hogwarts Story.

Albus Potter and the Room of Requirement by Theloonyhermione

Rated: 1st-2nd Years •
Summary: Albus Potter is at his first year at Hogwarts, and things aren’t exactly going as planned. Mysterious deaths of Aurors and the blocked off seventh floor corridor leads to many rumours - but which ones are true?

*AU Warning is for something EXTREMELY small. Honestly, I don't even go near AU stories and the warning is only so that I can put a tiny fact of my head canon into the story. Violence is in later chapters and not bad at all, and character death is very minor.

The Closed Ward by 1000timesingoldenink

Rated: 1st-2nd Years •
Summary: Thanks, Mum.

A look into the mind of a woman with no identity, no memory, and only the barest ability to feel. Nominated for a 2013 QSQ.

Behind My Smile by goldensnidget92

Rated: 1st-2nd Years •
Summary: Fleur Delacour's beauty has its benefits, doesn't it? So why is she attending the Yule Ball with Roger Davis, and not the boy she might actually like? For some reason, Cedric Diggory cannot see beneath that perfect smile of hers; cannot tell that she is so much more than that.

But does she have the courage to show him?

12 Days of Drarrymas by Sly Severus

Rated: 1st-2nd Years •
Summary: Harry and Draco are spending their first Christmas together and Draco has no idea what to get his lover. He ends up going a little overboard.

Figgy Christmas by ProfPosky

Rated: 1st-2nd Years •
Summary: Arabella Figg expected to spend Christmas alone, as she did almost every year - as she did almost everything else. A knock on the door changes that...