"Well, though we're opposites, we're also two of the same - time will go on, everyone and everything will die, but we'll remain, until the end of time."
"I think he's just been watching those memories in the Pensieve, over and over and over again, and it's killing him, I can see it, I'm watching it happen, but I just don't know what to do."
"I quit," Pansy snaps to the girl in the full-length mirror in the corner, folding out of the splits and standing in one fluid motion, arms crossed and expression sour. "I'm quitting gymnastics. I'm never competing again."
Cissy wants to fix her but Cissy doesn't understand, Cissy thinks that Bella can still be fixed, and Bella wants to laugh because what else do you think happens when someone breaks?
And no, Aurora doesn't think she's a coward for doing so - it's not like she's afraid to reach out and ask Potter if he wants to hear about his parents. She just doesn't think it's worth it.
"Your Highness, if I may? I'd heard that you had gone missing, that the king and queen were worried sick, trying to find you… You aren't running away, are you?"
"It's a device that will track the location of everyone you love," Tom answers, almost absentmindedly. "Will you continue to fight me, even when- What?" Harry can feel the blood rushing to his cheeks as a glowing dot labels itself, Tom Marvolo Riddle.
"Three… two… one… Run. And we're off. Let's see how well this batch will do, shall we?" Abraxas rolls his eyes at Charlus' faked excitement. "As though it's a surprise, anymore." As though there's any chance of a Muggle-born actually winning.
The intruder's face and hair is covered and she's standing in the shadows of the saferoom, but, well, James has always been able to recognize her voice, recognize who it is who's aiming that gun, stance unflinching, at him.
"Everyone who was at the Battle of Hogwarts, I think is what we've figured out, has the dreams, so you can drop the act, okay? I know you know who I am - who I used to be - and who you used to be."
Lady Jacqueline Finch-Fletchley, of number two, Victoria Lane, was proud to say that she was a perfectly rational person, thank you very much. Some might call her a tiger mother, but, well, she liked to think of herself as a firm, guiding hand.
"Why are you letting the circus, letting what we did to you, take away what you love? Why don't you make dancing, performing, your own again? Maybe not now, but when you're ready?"
Antonin used to be afraid of the dark. That was back when he was younger, of course, back when he could still feel emotions like fear, back when he didn't crave-want-need bottled Emotions to not feel empty inside, back before the Null.
Just as Narcissa starts talking, Bellatrix breaks off a chunk of the poisoned pastry to take a bite. This is what Lily's been working towards, all her life. But she can't do this.
Subjugated by Muggles after losing the last war, the Talented, those with special abilities, are growing desperate. Children can inherit a mixed talent from their parents. Of course, that leads to arranged marriage and selective reproduction to the extreme.
"They're obviously secretly dating." Except that's not true, because Sirius isn't dating Remus, secretly or not, and their constant disappearances have nothing to do with each other. After all, it's not like Remus is the man Sirius is always away to fight, his supervillain persona's nemesis, Moony.
"Get him out of here," Tom smirks, and Harry flinches, because despite how many times Tom's said that, in this strange cycle of reincarnation, those are the words on his left wrist - the last words his soulmate will ever say to him. Among Us!AU
The story of a prince (Draco Malfoy), a king (Lucius Malfoy), an evil stepmother-queen (Pine Apple), forbidden love (Drapple), seven not-dwarf siblings (plus their spouses), and the struggle for power. Snow White!AU, for Amanda
Maybe it's ironic, that after all they, the resistance, have done to end the sacrifice system, here they are, sacrificing one of their own so the rest can live.
At his cousin's wedding, Dudley knows he shouldn't be jealous of Harry, after everything he's been through, but he can't help but wish he was Harry. Cinderella!AU
She's just like any normal nineteen-year-old, except for, maybe, the fact that she's lived in foster homes since she was fourteen. (And the strange memories of Ariana and Albus and Gellert and Abe that keep popping up - but those are just imaginary friends. Right?)
The loop may have begun as a punishment and an experiment for the wizard who dared mutilate his soul so, but it is also (arguably) justified no longer, not when the result in every iteration has been the same, not when he's never given an opportunity to change. Until someone offers it.
In which Tom is an assassin and Harry his newest target. Except Tom's got no plans to actually kill Harry, because he's got no intention of helping Dolores get her revenge (and not because of anything to do with his and Harry's past).
"Can you hear me? You, yes you, wake up! We've got to move!" There's explosions rocking the ground and gunfire around every corner as Remus wakes up on a planet in the middle of a war zone, pulled just barely out of danger by pirate and smuggler Sirius Black.
"You're the ruler here, right? Do you rent out dungeon cells? Asking for a friend." Though Harry never would've guessed how that simple question would lead to the takeover of the Ministry world.
It starts simple, with a complaint from Draco that, even though it's been three years, even though Harry Potter himself spoke at Draco's trial, people still don't trust him. "What's your happy thought?" "Meeting you, for the first time." For Sab.
"Some girls are just meant to smile," your mother tells you. And even as you taunt and gossip and belittle and smile, you're thinking that this is a girl worth so much more than you.
The raggedy hat settles onto the dark red hair, and for a moment, it seems about to shout its decision, before it hesitates, because: Not Gryffindor, the girl thinks fiercely.
Dudley's first thought, as he opens the front door to see three children, curled up, sound asleep, is that this must've been how Mum felt, twenty-some years ago, when she found Harry on her doorstep.
"Who are you?" Belatedly, Albus realizes that he can speak once again. "Wait, you can see me? I mean, obviously you can, but also that, this, is not how it normally works." Or: how to make AlbusScorpius with the other Albus canon-compliant (I guess?).
Sirius is glad Lily Evans is here, because if she falls in love with Remus then the curse will be broken and they'll all be human again. He's not jealous. At all. Really. Beauty and the Beast!AU
"It's obvious, isn't it?" "What's obvious?" "Darling," Tom Riddle says, the endearment somehow sarcastic and genuine at the same time. "You're a witch."
There's a horse dragging Draco around by the foot, and it's absolutely hilarious. Especially considering that the horse is Tom, the head palace guard's horse, and that Draco is a thief who's trying to steal the heart of Harry's human, Hermione. Tangled!AU
"You should go into witness protection." Harry startled at the words, coming from the person who would benefit most if he not-so-mysteriously disappeared. Still, he snapped the same answer he'd given to everyone else: "No."
"Yeah, but who made you sorcerer? The Genie has more power than you'll ever have!" And it's a cunning plan, something Harry wouldn't have expected from Ron, but there's a gleam in the new sultan's eyes, and Harry knows that Tom might just be more cunning. Aladdin!AU
There is a magic in music found nowhere else. It was music that brought them together, it was music that pushed them through conflict, and it is music that keeps him in this world.
They're almost halfway up the North Mountain by the time Harry finally understands why Princess Ginny of Arendelle is headed towards the sudden summer snowstorm, but he thinks the bigger problem is that she left the kingdom in the hands of a man she just met, Prince Tom of the Southern Isles. Frozen!AU
Somehow… she was certain Edgecombe had done this to get detention tonight. But surely, that had nothing to do with what Cho had confided in her earlier? Surely Edgecombe hadn't gotten detention for Cho?
The war is over, but scars remain. Physical injuries that are least painful and least permanent. Emotional hurt of those loved and lost. Psychological trauma in memories. But when you were the one to leave those scars, then how can you be worthy of recovery, of redemption? The war is over, and Pius Thicknesse doesn't know what he's living for.
He follows orders. That's what he's good at. And when bad things happen, things that are wrong though he only realizes it sometimes, he looks away and stands to the side. He's just following orders.
"Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here." But Harry Potter, Severus Snape, and Tom Riddle were hardly the only lost children who passed through Hogwarts's walls.
Whatever secrets Victoire and Dom might have had always went away during their midnight chats. As they snuggled together one night during the winter holidays, it was that fact that terrified Victoire.
Once upon a time, Hogwarts was the safest place in the world. Now, it's one front of the war, because the students won't keep their heads down and let things lie in their school. And Dumbledore's Army is still recruiting.
1981. The most famous baby of the wizarding world is left on two doorsteps: the Dursleys', then an orphanage's. 1985. Harry Potter becomes one of the youngest-ever recruits to a top-secret child spy program. 1991. The Boy Who Lived arrives at Hogwarts with big goals and the means to achieve them. Because the adults never suspect the kids are spying on them… Inspired by CHERUB.
The Black Widow, she was called. The Husband-Killer. The one with seven husbands, all of whom had mysteriously died. She didn't deny the rumors, because she wasn't a good person. It just wasn't her who'd killed all those men. And it wasn't until Blaise that she tried to escape him, the killer of her husbands, the boy she'd once been friends with, the one she still loved.
There was a saying, in her family, that a phoenix would come to any Dumbledore in dire need. Well, if that was true, Ariana thought that her phoenix had come three years too late. Only maybe, it wasn't her who the phoenix was truly there for.
After the war, Percy was lost. It was his fault Fred had died, his mistakes that tore their family apart, his happiness that couldn't be, anymore, because it was wrong for him to be happy when Fred, and so many others, were dead. No one understood… except, maybe, Audrey Brown.
Mary Macdonald had always been the coward of her friend group. Always too scared to speak out. Too scared to do anything more than flirt. So when Mulciber attacked her, at the start of sixth year, it became her excuse. She didn't join the Order. And then, Lily Potter died, and You-Know-Who disappeared. And then, Mary applied to the Department of Mysteries.
Tessie Prewett knows that there's something wrong about Tom Riddle; that he isn't the model student he seems to be; that he's dangerous, somehow. And she's determined to make everyone see that. She just never thought...
Aberforth knows that Gellert Grindelwald will bring them nothing but pain. Why can't Albus see that? Gellert is the best thing that has ever happened to Albus. Why can't Aberforth accept that? Gellert has finally found a companion, just as brilliant as he is. Why does Albus insist on dragging his wayward brother and his damaged sister along?