Harry was eight years old when his cousin got the bike of Harry's dreams. Not that Dudley would actually ride the bike. His cousin resisted every sort of physical exercise. Harry would have killed for that bike. He'd been given parchment and ink for Christmas. It was, actually, one of the nicer gifts his aunt and uncle had ever given him. Then he ( Read more... )

Let us die young or let us live forever ( Read more... )

For the first eleven years of my life I was lead to believe that my parents died in a car crash. My aunt and uncle were desperate to keep the truth from me because they feared what I was. They feared all things that were different from what they found acceptable. The truth was my parents were a witch and wizard, and they died on Halloween night ( Read more... )

While this a eclecticmuses topic response for September activity, it's based on current hpsixwords canon.

( Cut for loads of spoilers for DH )

This response is written based on full canon. The rp and slightly au things we have set up will not be effected by this, but sometimes I chose to do topics on canon alone.

( cut for ootp and dh spoilers )

My immediate response to this was to say I'd change the night my parents died. Perhaps I would need to go back a little further, and change Sirius deciding that it should be Wormtail, instead of himself, that was made my parents secret keeper. I understand why he convinced my parents at the last moment to make the change. It was brilliant, really, ( Read more... )