Stories by starfishstar

While on his undercover mission to the werewolves, Remus disappears. Tonks sets out north on a quest to find the man she loves and reclaim him from the clutches of a powerful magical beast. Along the way, Tonks meets many who help – or hinder – her quest, until at last she reaches the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard to face the dreaded Snow Wolf himself.

In the winter of the war, the Tonkses and Lupins open their home to a Muggle family on the run. Love, light, warmth and Chanukah in the winter of Deathly Hallows.

Three years after the war, a stranger arrives at Hogwarts with a letter addressed to Minerva McGonagall by the familiar hand of an old friend. Before the summer is through, the contents of the letter will bring together several lives that might otherwise never have touched.

In which Remus and Tonks fight battles, arrest criminals, befriend werewolves, overcome inner demons and, despite it all, find themselves a happy ending. A love story, and a story of the Order years. (My Remus/Tonks epic, years in the making! This is the second half of the story, set in the Half-Blood Prince year.)

Twenty drabbles about twenty characters, and where they are twenty years on from the start of the Harry Potter series – in honour of the twentieth anniversary of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first published on 26 June, 1997. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HARRY POTTER!

It wouldn't be the Auror Christmas party without a mystery to solve, a spot of mischief, and a very well-earned slow dance.

Four days. Victoire will be back from France in four days. Teddy can survive that…right?

In which Remus and Tonks fight battles, arrest criminals, befriend werewolves, overcome inner demons and, despite it all, find themselves a happy ending. A love story, and a story of the Order years. (At long last, my Remus/Tonks epic, which has been years in the making!)

It was the people around him who made it worthwhile.

Lee Jordan has the best idea of his life. Now he just needs someone else to hear him out.

Crookshanks disliked the loud, ginger-haired one from the first.

Tonks hates waiting, but some things are worth it.

Newlyweds Tonks and Remus come to dinner. Ted and Andromeda observe them from the other side of the weight of years.

From "Flirtation" to "Babies" in the space of a year. A series of moments set over the course of "Deathly Hallows".

Remus is in a house full of women.

When his Dark Mark throbs for the first time in years, Severus is in his basement classroom, washing potions vials.

Hermione's never stopped dreaming of inter-house unity. But these days she does more than just dream.

Remus has returned to Tonks, and Remus and Ted have a conversation. A sequel to "Already There."

Remus returns to Tonks, and Remus and Andromeda have a conversation.

The romance of Andromeda and Ted, in a series of vignettes. (Formerly titled "A Series of Firsts.")

Sitting together on her dilapidated sofa over a cup of cocoa seemed like such a cosy, homey sort of thing to do. And Harry, to Hermione, always felt like home.

For some reason, Remus doesn't seem keen on the idea of running around the city naked, sacrificing a goat, or lashing anyone with a whip made of animal hide. Luckily, there are other ways to celebrate Lupercalia.

Twelve years is a great deal left unsaid. "Lie low at Lupin's" is only the very beginning. (Part of a series with "Skellig, Azkaban, Albion, Éire" and "Cast Your Soul to the Sea," but also stands alone.)

Even when everything's falling apart, sometimes a chat with an old friend can bring a little sunlight back into the world. (Takes place at the very beginning of Easter break of Deathly Hallows.)

Hope Lupin adjusts to her family's new reality.

On a boat leaving England, Remus is not as alone as he thinks. (A sequel, of sorts, to "Skellig, Azkaban, Albion, Éire.")

Sirius sometimes thought the ceaseless crash of the waves was the only thing that kept him sane. / Remus found himself drawn to the far-flung edges, the places where the world seemed to drop into the sea.

Teddy has questions. Harry has some of the answers.

Harry and Professor Lupin talk about women, and other things. During Christmas of HBP. (A gen story, but with very strong hints of Remus/Tonks and Harry/Ginny.)

The Marauders act out a cheery favourite carol. (Christmas 1980.) A drabble (yes, it's precisely 100 words if you don't count the interspersed lyrics!) inspired by author by night's prompt of "Christmas Carol: The Holly and the Ivy" at the rt morelove Stocking Filler Exchange, but then the story insisted on being about the Marauders instead.

Written for the Stocking Filler Exchange at rt morelove, for gilpin25's prompt: "Listen, no bloke in his right mind's going to fancy Tonks when Fleur's around." (Ron, HBP, Ch.5) Squint at the timeline with me here: Imagine there's a time at the start of HPB after Fleur arrives at the Burrow, but before Tonks gets too depressed to change her appearance… Also, hey, my first drabble!

Tonks finds an old favourite book; Remus hasn't heard of it.

To come out of the cold, first you have to be in it. A moment of warmth in the winter of OotP.

"It's really very strange being back here, after all this time," Andromeda says. She's peering closely, quite clinically, at the spot on the tapestry where her own name was blasted off nearly a quarter of a century ago. (Part 4 of La Ronde Noire)

Regulus' hand tightened on his wand. "I mean no harm," he repeated. "I highly doubt that," Sirius said, but his hand relaxed fractionally. "What do you want, then, Reg?" (Part 3 of La Ronde Noire)

Regulus keeps coming to tea at Narcissa's home to rant and rave about how Sirius is a traitor to the family. But they've all known that for ages, haven't they? (Part 2 of La Ronde Noire)

There were two kinds of goodbyes, Narcissa thought. This was not the one she had wanted to say tonight. (Part 1 of La Ronde Noire)

On 31 October, 1997, Remus and Tonks light candles.

Andromeda Tonks expected nothing more than a quiet afternoon, while Harry took Teddy out for the day. Instead, a young man named Dean Thomas turned up at her door.

At 17, Andromeda Black thought being in love was everything. At 57, Andromeda Tonks knew better. Yet the first time Kingsley Shacklebolt asked her out, she surprised herself by saying yes.

The letter lay on the mantelpiece for a week, then two, until Andromeda finally had to admit to herself that there were no two ways about it: She was being rude. She should have the decency at least to write and decline Narcissa's invitation. (This story is now also part 5 La Ronde Noire.)

Tonks sleeps; Remus muses.

Without quite meaning to, Angelina drops by Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes to see George. Without meaning to at all, she keeps going back.

In the winter after the war, Ginny navigates her own nightmares, as well as Quidditch captaincy, double-dating and the difficult path back to Harry, plus Hermione's obsession with inter-house unity, Neville's retreat into his books, Luna's lonely family life and a gaping hole where Ginny's middle brother used to be. In the winter after the war, Ginny puts the pieces back together.

"So then I got to thinking, who else can I invite to my party who would make my mother have a fit? Moony's perfect already, because no one likes werewolves." "Oh, thanks," Remus said with dripping sarcasm. "I mean no one except us, and we're the only ones who matter," Sirius replied impatiently.

Remus with Teddy was easily the sweetest thing Tonks had ever seen. It seemed Remus couldn't ever hold Teddy without gazing down at his son with a huge, helpless, delighted grin. "Don't your cheeks ever get tired?" Tonks couldn't help teasing him once, and he'd glanced up, bewildered by the question – he didn't even realise he was doing it.

"Your mates have been after me for months to go out with you," Lily said. "Why, didn't you put them up to it?" "Me?" James sounded affronted. "You know I'd never stoop to such underhanded methods."

It didn't matter if they were unpredictable Blacks or show-off Potters, or even someone harmless like Peter Pettigrew. None of these boys could be his friends, and it was time Remus started remembering it. He didn't mind, Remus told himself. He didn't need friends.

Harry and Ginny talk names.

Ginny adjusts to an unexpected family member.

She wasn't even surprised when the Headmaster with the weird name of the weird school rejected her childish plea to come along too, because Petunia already knew she wasn't special. She didn't make fuses blow and flowers grow three times as fast. She didn't even really want to be able to do those things. But she didn't want to lose Lily. So to keep from being left, she left first.

"Someday we'll come here with your grandchildren, Prongs," Remus said. "You'll tell stories about the old days and they'll be horrified their doddering elders ever did young people things." "Like this, you mean?" James asked, leaning over to give Lily a smacking kiss. "My eyes, Prongs!" Sirius moaned. "Or it will just be Sirius you horrify," Remus smirked, as Sirius tackled James.

"Charlie!" Nymphadora Tonks was standing in the doorway. Grinning ear to ear, she swept in and grabbed him up in a hug. Charlie, his thoughts lagging somewhere behind him, stood up and wrapped his arms around his old school friend. Tonks stepped back and smiled at him. Charlie stepped back and looked at her. Whatever he'd been expecting, it wasn't this.