“That which does not break us makes us stronger.” Muggle saying, author uncertain.

For a given definition of strength.

( The Blood Quill )

The Girl and the Boy

Summary: Some have compared the opening chapters of Harry Potter to the Cinderella story. But Petunia is living out a much older, darker tale.

“When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, ( Read more... )

Hit a nerve, did I ( Read more... )

Raison_gal (in "Ode to Petunia" http://community.livejournal.com/hp_essays/tag/characters:dumbledore+family:albus ) makes a good case that Petunia merits all possible accolades for courage in allowing her sister’s lightening-rod son protection under Petunia’s own roof ( Read more... )

Winter

Summary: What if Snape found himself unable to resist saving Lily’s life at the expense of her baby’s? Wouldn’t Lily be appropriately grateful at being saved? Wouldn’t that be sweet?

“But I am the place where all desires are fulfilled. I mean: all desires.”
Margaret Atwood, the Circe/Mud Poems, “now it is winter”AU to canon, of ( Read more... )

A/N: None of the characters is mine, though this interpretation of them certainly is. Canon-compliant in terms of facts: if anybody sees anything I overlooked please, PLEASE tell me so I can change it. I’m just borrowing JKR’s setting to tell a story about a relationship that Smallpotato (marianros) asked for…. (It’s her fault, hers, hers. ( Read more... )