Lily's been to a lot of Professor Slughorn's "little supper parties" over the last couple years, but this has been one for the books ( Read more... )

It shouldn't, perhaps, be a surprise that Hogwarts feels largely the same way it always has. It's Hogwarts, after all ( Read more... )

It's the week before OWLs, and everyone is starting to look harried and rumpled and worried and on edge, even the professors. Even Potter, though Lily kind of suspects that has more to do with the Quidditch loss than their upcoming exams ( Read more... )

Sometimes, Lily wonders if she and Severus are the first two people to ever attempt to be friends across the Gryffindor-and-Slytherin divide. Some days, she decides that the law of averages alone means that they're surely not, that in Hogwarts' hundreds of years they can't be, that maybe it's easier when the Wizarding World at large is more ( Read more... )