Stories by slightlysmall

"What did happen with you and Dad at Hogwarts? You said Nana and Papa Weasley and Gramma and Granddad Malfoy used to hate each other. Then one day you and Dad got married. That's all you've ever told us. What happened in between?" This is that story.

9-year-old Hermione Granger didn't believe in any kind of magic but the magic of words. So when she picks up "Matilda" from the new books section, she isn't ready for the magic inside it, or how that magic would transform her.

"Do you ever get the feeling something is about to go wrong? Not something magical, just sort of an ominous weight in your chest that this might be the last time you're happy?" "Amelia," Sirius said, pulling her closer and kissing her forehead. "You make it sound like there's a Dementor nearby. Everything will be all right. I promise you I'm still going to be here."

Molly Weasley, the Minister's daughter, has enjoyed her life in the spotlight, until her very public relationship and breakup with Lysander Scamander. Eight months later, rumor has it that Lysander is getting married and Molly doesn't know what to do. When she runs into an old friend, she might just be ready to try loving again. But everything seems out to keep them apart.

You start with two hands, like every clock, but yours swing at random, and you know the information is more pertinent. You don't need twelve different places to be, and what are ones and sixes but numbers? Those numbers never stay the same and a clock in Australia would show completely different numbers. You didn't see the point of that. Numbers were arbitrary.

"What the hell is he doing here? I peer over the aisles between us. Shampoo. Severus Snape chose today to buy himself some shampoo. It figures. But here he is again, probably about to talk to me for the first time in years, while I hold a freaking pregnancy test at freaking twenty years old." Snape/Lily/James. Modern Muggle/Uni AU

Dear Dennis, I'm not sure you want to hear from me or not, but I have to write you. I know everything has changed, but you're still my best friend and I promised I would send letters and pictures so here you go. / Dear Colin, I promised you when you left that I would be upset for the rest of eternity, and I would never write you no matter what. Well… you stopped writing me.

"In the bright morning, Harry's arms had gone limp around her." Prequel to "Come to Die."

AU. Draco managed to murder Dumbledore, and Snape has some tidying up to do with the new Headmistress before going back undercover.

(Ten fingers, ten toes, and he had his wits about him well enough. But there was something off about that boy. She had known it all along.)

Not yet 19, Audrey is supposed to be marrying a man she doesn't love in just a few hours. Miles away, Percy Weasley agrees to visit a Muggle cafe his father loves in order to help heal their rocky relationship. In the beginning, it's the clothes that get them talking.

"The Muggles overcame us by sheer numbers. Well, it was mostly the numbers. Their weapons helped, too. It wasn't difficult for them to confiscate the little sticks that were our only means of fighting back. Wandless wizards are nothing against the power of semi-automatic weapons and grenades." Dystopian setting. Scorrose. Epilogue-compliant.

"You learn a lot, fighting with someone. Like how your right fist always clenches when you're holding back something really nasty you want to say. And the way the redness you get when we row starts on your neck instead of your cheeks." Romione. Muggle!AU.

"If the whole universe were without light, darkness would have no meaning." It is only light and dark together that can bring meaning to the most helpless of situations. Unrelated collection. 1. Sirius and Harry 2. Luna and Harry 3. Cho/OC 4. LouisLorcan 5. Molly i and Lily Luna 6. Katie and Charlie 7. Gred and Forge

If you had to use a color to describe how you love her, it wouldn't be red, or gold, or green. It wouldn't even be white. To you, loving Molly Weasley is the color of eggshells.

I don't know what to do with myself, having conversations about feelings and not power. Being treated like a person. I also don't know how to answer him, because I don't know what the feeling inside my stomach is when I look at Blaise, but it's something I've never felt for Draco.

"I love you. You know this. But they're just words. They're beautiful, but they're not warm enough to keep out the cold." The rain beat against the window of the classroom, and lightning struck nearby. The thunder followed in an instant. "You're right," he said. "It's not enough. But it's a start, isn't it?"

A collection of one-shots loosely based on songs. See chapter list for songs and pairings. Various pairings, eras, and ratings - all T or under. Warnings for individual chapters given at the start of each. Complete.

"What do you mean, watch what I'm saying? Or else you might find out that someone truly cares about you? That someone can see past who you become one day a month and see who you really are? I love you, Remus. I'm not asking you to love me back. I'm just telling you how I feel."

"You are free to go," he said, but Narcissa didn't get up. This whole time, she hadn't said a word. "Please, let me take the place of my son." "No. You must go free while he is in prison. This is the extent of your punishment," he said, and he knew it was punishment enough.

Ten drabbles of various Weasleys, in chronological order. 1. Molly/Arthur. 2. Charlie/Tonks 3. Ron/Hermione 4. George 5. Hermione 6. Rose/Scorpius 7. Lucy/OC 8. Lily Luna 9. OC/OC 10. Ginny

When she realizes Harry won't be able to go on their first Hogsmeade trip, she isn't looking forward to spending the whole day alone with Ronald Weasley. But maybe he's a better friend than she thought.

It's 3003 and Rowena Potter is nearly finished with her sixth year at Hogwarts. A mysterious object found in the Forbidden Forest opens her up to a world of adventure - one with implications about her past, the history of the world she thought she knew, and a future she has to make for herself. (Second place in the Original Character Competition!)

When Gilderoy Lockhart publishes his autobiography, Rita Skeeter is dying to sink her teeth into the story. And if she's lucky, maybe she'll get to sink her teeth into a bit of him as well. But what she finds out when interviewing the author of Magical Me is, well, less than magical.

In your dream she swims through the flood at the ending, swims and swims, and you jump into the water around your arena, too. If you both keep swimming long enough, you're sure to find each other again. Your arms flail in your sleep as you search for her, because finding her, holding her, kissing her lips again - they're the only things left that keep you breathing. - For Sam. -

"I want to, though," Michael said one day. "Do you think Harry left Neville in charge? I doubt it. I mean, he's Neville. We know what he was like. I could've done it, Anthony. It could have been me sending out the message, rallying everyone together. For Britain. For Hogwarts. For each other. I could've done it, I know I could've done it."

It was enough just to experience the moment with him, to watch the sky alight with fireworks. Maybe the Muggles knew about magic, somehow, too. The fireworks were beautiful; more amazing than nearly anything she had seen, and watching with Harry's hand in hers only made it better. The sparks between them were brighter than fireworks.

"Well, Argus," she said. "Have you written them yet?" The way she batted her eyelashes was terribly distracting. "Not yet. Too many students to punish." "It should only take a few minutes of your time to write them. I don't see why you haven't yet." Her voice had turned from flirtatious to the tone she used with the students in the library.

Hugo got his wish, and the Sorting Hat has placed him in Gryffindor. But his excitement doesn't last long as his dorm mates call him Hugo the Hufflepuff and tease him incessantly. When he finally tells his sister, she knows exactly who he should talk to. Sequel to Forging Bravery, but makes sense on its own.

"Oh Merlin," came Anthony's voice from beside her, and she pushed in front of him to see what he saw. He was staring in the direction of the Astronomy Tower. Her refuge. She hoped nothing had happened to it, but now that she thought about it, the chaos had seemed to be heading in that direction. Why hadn't she stopped them?

The thing about windows is how undeniably two-sided they are. You can't look out into the world without expecting to see a glance of yourself in the passing. And you can't look out through a window without inviting the world to look right back in. Molly Prewett looks out through windows... and gives us the opportunity to look in.

Freeverse. Alicia Spinnet reflects on Quidditch.

Gabrielle Delacour receives an owl from the Hogwarts headmaster, requesting her presence for the next task at the Triwizard Tournament.

He receives the Dark Mark in a secret ceremony. His mother does not attend. Long fingernails against his wand, massaging it into Draco's flesh. It burned like nothing he had ever felt and he wants to cry. He wants to murder his father for upsetting the Dark Lord. He wants to kill himself, too. (Rated M for strong language, violence, and suggestive themes)

Ignotus faces death after a long life, and he is proud to say he can greet Death as his friend. But there is something he must do first. Title is a play on the poem by Dylan Thomas.

Dennis stood beside him, shuffling his feet and looking down. Colin wanted to console his brother, but he wasn't sure how. After all, Dennis was probably a Muggle, like their parents. Gently, Dennis placed the camera in Colin's hands. "Take pictures?" he asked. Colin smiled, hearing in his brother's sincerity all that wasn't said. "I will."

The first time he hears her sing, she leaves him so breathless she doesn't say a word to him for eleven years.

Sure, young Norbert made a bit of a mess of the place, and had the inconvenient habit of breathing fire. The poor fella was so young yet, and didn't know any better, after all. No mummy could be better than he was, anyway. That was certain.

Drabbles about each Weasley. 1. Ginny 2. Ron 3. Charlie 4. Hugo 5. Victoire 6. Percy 7. Arthur 8. Dominique 9. Roxanne 10. Fredi 11. George 12. Rose 13. Mollyii 14. Mollyi 15. Audrey 16. Bill 17. Fleur 18. Hermione 19. Angelina 20. Lily Luna 21. Louis 22. Fredii 23. Jamesii 24. Albusii 25. Lucy 26. Harry 27. The whole family.

Sitting at a desk just outside the Minister's office, Percy Weasley questioned his loyalty. Signing paperwork on behalf of Cornelius Fudge himself, a faint whisper in his brain would not leave him alone: Maybe you're wrong.

Could anyone have known that he wished to die in glory? To be remembered as a young man, the one they could depend on for protection - that was his dying wish. He had a dying wish at the age of thirty-five and yet here he was, more than twice that age, lying in a comfortable bed in his castle at Hogwarts, waiting to die in his sleep. It seemed like a cowardly way to die.

Rose was so far away from them, secluded in her tower, opposed to having fun, and generally opposed to Scorpius Malfoy in general. So that feeling in the pit of her stomach that made her nauseated and gave her butterflies - that feeling had to have a different name than jealousy.

Dennis Bishop and Tom Riddle were supposed to be friends. They were around the same age and were both dropped off with Mrs. Cole as infants. When they were three, Dennis said, "Friends?" and Tom said "Okay" and as far as Dennis was concerned, that was that. But as they got older, Tom seemed less and less interested in being friends.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that any half-werewolf metamorphmagus with turquoise hair must be in want of a Weasley. The issue, for Victoire and Dominique at least, was which Weasley he would want.

My sister is dead, she thought as she painted her lips. My brother-in-law is dead, she thought as she added mascara to her long lashes, and though she never knew him as such, it hurt some. They died for opposite sides of a war. One sister unashamedly fighting for Dumbledore, the other unashamedly fighting for the Dark Lord. And then there was her.

Being Muggle-born was inconvenient. All these years of just wishing he could disappear - and he could? Destination, determination, deliberation. He could manage that. And he did. Mundungus Fletcher was brilliant at disappearing.

Colin Creevey didn't sneak into the Battle of Hogwarts alone. His little brother came with him, only fifteen years old, and he was carrying a camera. Won Fan-Favourite for the November 2012 One-Shot Awards.

"Playing the piano is really difficult; you can't expect to be perfect the first time you try it. But secondly, and most important, music is a way to express emotion. You have to feel something. And when you press the notes, you sort of let your emotions sink into the piano." Sirius/Narcissa family fic.

Neville becomes a leader as he faces his last year at Hogwarts under the Carrow regime. Rated T for violence.

Sirius has just died, You-Know-Who is rising, but Molly Weasley doesn't think that those have much to do with why Tonks has been spending a lot of time at the Burrow lately.

"Oh, Tom, I'm sorry I keep telling you all of this." "Don't worry, Ginny. I find it all fascinating. And..." The page that moments ago was covered in her own and Tom's handwriting was suddenly blank again. "I can keep a secret," it finished, beginning again at the top of the page.

A look into Molly and Arthur's lives together on May 2nd of various years, starting in 1968 as they get ready to graduate from Hogwarts and continuing until they are 100 years old in 2050. Rated T to be safe.

Victoire is excited to see the first snowfall of the year and can't wait to share in the experience with her sister. But when she bursts into Dominique's room, she can't believe what she finds. Vic/Teddy/Dom love triangle. Won first place in SilverOwlMalfoy's One Line Competition 4.

The Battle is over, the castle restored, the funerals held. But for Dean Thomas, getting back to normalcy isn't as easy as he would hope.

Hermione Granger is digging through old newspapers and books in the library, trying to help Harry find as much information on Sirius Black as she can, when she finds some information that will change her life, if true.

It had been more than seven years since she used magic, and just once, while her husband is away at work, Eileen Prince Snape pulls her wand out from her linen closet. The consequences when her husband catches her, however, remind her why she had put her magic away for good. Rated M for language and domestic violence.

Just after graduating from Hogwarts, Rose is content to spend her summer moping at the Burrow, and the last thing she wants is to see, talk to, or even think about her now-ex-boyfriend Scorpius Malfoy. But it's really hard to avoid him when he shows up at the door.

"They say you die twice: one time when you stop breathing, and the second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time." That's one thing she's sure of as she goes to speak at her husband's funeral.

The only thing that Hugo wants as he gets ready to start at Hogwarts is to be in Gryffindor, but he's sure he's not brave enough. Rose, however, thinks differently. Won first place in HedwigBlack's song lyric competition.

Lily Evans has agreed to marry James, but when she's alone, she just can't seem to stop thinking about Severus Snape.

Rose and Scorpius have resolved to tell their parents about their relationship when they go home for Christmas break. Rose can't help but feel she has 24 more hours of being an accepted member of the Weasley family, and spends the majority of those hours worrying about it.

A series of five drabbles that follow Ron and Hermione throughout their relationship. In chronological order, same universe. Their relationship starts slightly earlier than is canon. For HedwigBlack's Romantic Drabble challenge.

20-year-old Severus Snape reflects on his friendship and romance with Lily Evans Potter. Original song lyrics.

Hermione's mad at him- again- and Ron is left having to complete an essay for Snape all by himself. Entry for LynxMalfoy's Random Prompt competition.

Remus knows Tonks wants to marry him, but he's sure it's the wrong thing to do... isn't it?