Title: Lavender's Green
Author: janus
Rating: G
Characters: Severus, Tobias, Eileen
Word Count: 1181
Warnings: none
Summary: Severus goes to the market with his parents to help sell his mother's baking.
Notes: The first poem is from Market Square, by A. A. Milne. The second is revised from Lavender's Blue, traditional, 17th century or earlier.

( Lavender's Green )

Title: Wassailing
Author: Janus
Rating: G
Characters: Rabastan, Rodolphus, Bella, Bartemius
Word Count: 375
Warnings: A dark day - the darkest day of the year, and the darkest day of a life.
Summary: In the bleak midwinter, Rabastan prepares to go with his kith and kin to call on their schoolmates, the Longbottoms.
Author's notes: Originally ( Read more... )

I apologise. I am one day behind. We had unexpected house guests. These are not stories prepared in advance - I am writing them each day, so there may be gaps. It is a busy season but a happy one.

Title: Christmas Presence, Christmas Promise
Author: janus
Rating: G
Characters: Abraxas, Gellert, Severus
Word Count: 580
Warnings: none
Summary: ( Read more... )

Title: Hoar Frost
Author: janus
Rating: G
Characters: Severus
Word Count: 500
Warnings: none
Summary: Severus encounters the silvery frosty world of deep winter.
Prompt: Hoar Frost

( Hoar Frost )

Title: Slytherin Pride
Author: janus
Rating: G
Characters: Severus
Word Count: 465
Warnings: Slytherin's key quality is pride. But other Houses would have different key qualities. This does not make them less, just different. Sprout's title could read Hufflepuff Humanitarians. Flitwick's title could read Ravenclaw Wisdom. McGonnagal's title ( Read more... )

Title: Egg Nog
Author: janus
Rating: G
Characters: Severus, Lucius, Abraxas
Word Count: 777
Warnings: none
Summary: Severus discovers an interesting new beverage and has a discussion with Abraxas about drinking
Prompt: egg nog

( Egg Nog )

Title: Ghost of the Christmas Past
Author: janus
Rating: G
Characters: Severus, Rabastan, Abraxas
Word Count: 700
Warnings: none
Summary: Severus is haunted at Yuletide
Prompt: ghost

( Ghost of the Christmas Past )

Title: An Offering of Hirschtalg
Author: janus
Rating: G
Characters: Severus, Igor Karkaroff
Word Count: 368
Warnings: none
Summary: Severus is concerned about Igor's visit to Hogwarts.
Prompt: Tallow

( An Offering of Hirschtalg )

Title: Christmas at Home
Author: janus
Rating: G
Characters: Severus
Word Count: 825
Warnings: none
Summary: Imaginings, fears and the reality of Severus' eleventh Christmas, as well as a special hope for one to come.
Prompt: Severus' first Christmas at School

( Christmas at Home )

Title: Like Church Bells
Author: janus
Rating: G
Characters: Severus
Word Count: 625
Warnings: none
Summary: At midnight on Christmas Eve, the bells toll and Severus opens his little present.
Prompt: Church bells

( Church Bells )