Nobody knows quite how it started, but soon it's unmistakable. Once again the stalls and tables have begun to cluster on the lawn, some of them bedecked with streamers and decorations, all of them laden with interesting things. The chilly breeze blowing up toward the Mansion brings laughter with it, and lively voices, and scents of cinnamon spice ( Read more... )

[She is a young woman still, though weary -- so weary, her smile bitter where once it was sweet as she surveys her surroundings. This is not where she was questioned by the Comité, it is not a cell, nor is there any efficient machine of execution in sight, though she knows she is condemned. She pushes her hair back from her face, where it has been ( Read more... )

There is a young man sitting in the kitchen. It would be difficult to say how long he’s been there - he is very quiet, very still, very intent on the thick book in front of him ( Read more... )

James' latest prank has been carefully planned out. By himself. He's done practically all the research, helped by the Weasley twins and Sirius. Reading bad fanfic almost turned him off, but to keep inspired, he just remembered all the terrible fics he found involving Snape ( Read more... )

Any day now the Mansion will be blanketed in snow and festooned with icicles, right on schedule; but for the moment, the lawns are still bare, the wind brisk but not bitter, the air bracing. Conveniently, because something seems to be going on ( Read more... )

Who is Spain?

I don't like bayonets.

Well, I'm sittin' here eating a bunch of tasty stuff various neighbors and family cooked for the 4th, and I figured I'd try to get to know some of you fun-looking folks ( Read more... )

Hello! Captain Jack Aubrey, pleased to meet you all. I'm told that there's a series of books about me and my particular friend Doctor Stephen Maturin, written by a gentleman named Patrick O'Brian. It's twenty one volumes long, which seems excessive, particularly since they seem to be hefty volumes (rather like myself, ha!) and I'd say I didn't ( Read more... )

You may think I'm a simple hat ( Read more... )