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[ElectronicQuillster]

Title: Every Foolish Dream
Rating: 1st-2nd Years
Warnings: None
Summary: Curiosity can be a painful thing. Lily Evans learns that lesson well during her years at Hogwarts as she battles between curiosity and indifference where one Black is concerned.
Link: Click + Read Me!

She wishes dearly that it had been Sirius. Or James or anyone else, for that matter. Someone like Sirius would’ve just laughed her off, accepted her apology, and perhaps said something ridiculous and amusing, but nothing rude. She’s not a mean person, after all.

[luinrina]

My second LoveNote is finally up - took me only about three months!

Title: A Truth Universally Acknowledged
Rating: 3rd-5th Years
Warnings: Sexual Situations
Summary:

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
~ Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Narcissa Malfoy wishes for her son to marry, but Draco is not content with her decision. Though, when a young woman enters his life in an unusual way, he finds himself wondering if he feels more than just the need to possess her.

[XhayleeXblackX]

Title: Keeping Her Safe
Rating: 3rd - 5th Years
Warnings: Sexual Situations
Link: 'No way to know how long she will be next to me.'*
Summary:

After failing to complete a mission for the Dark Lord, Blaise Zabini has a difficult decision to make: stay put and prepare to die or run and leave his love behind to ensure her protection.

The choice may seem easy, but for Blaise, the decision to leave Keighlyn may be the hardest he will ever have to make.

Excerpt:

"I can’t just leave her!” Blaise yelled, jumping to his feet.

“Would you rather watch her die? ‘Cause I’m sure they’ll let you watch,” Nott said, his voice growing dark, biting sarcasm growing with every syllable.

-Haylee

*Lyric from "You Found Me" by The Fray

[Sainyn Swiftfoot]

Title: The Writer
Rating: 1st-2nd Years
Warnings: None
Summary:

A writer struggling with writer's block.

A bedtime story.

A legend.

[luinrina]

Title: What Imagination Has To Offer
Category: Poetry
Rating: 1st-2nd Years
Warnings: None
Summary:

A normal morning. A moment of magic.


A poem, haiku-style.

[jenny b]

Title: That Night-time Stroll
Category: Other Pairing
Rating: 1st-2nd Years
Warnings: None
Summary:

"She gave me such a telling-off one night when I got back to the dormitory at four in the morning ... your father and I had been for a night-time stroll."

This is the tale of Arthur Weasley and Molly Prewett, their love, and that night-time stroll.

[XhayleeXblackX]

Title: Promises Kept
Rating: 6th - 7th Years
Warnings: Abuse, Violence, Mild Profanity
Link: Right this way!
Summary:

Love can cause a person to act in ways that they never dreamed they would – reckless, compassionate, stupid, and selfless.

Unfortunately for Keighlyn Smith, Blaise’s act of love and the promise she made to him puts her in the exact danger he was trying to avoid. Imprisoned by Death Eaters, Keighlyn's love causes her to react in the only way she knows how.

Defiantly.

-Haylee

[Sainyn Swiftfoot]

Title: Bellona
Rating: 3rd-5th Years
Warnings: Alternate Universe, Character Death, Mild Profanity, Violence
Summary:

A revolutionary programme, that lets a Muggle learn more about the wizarding world.

A Muggle named Dudley Dursley. A dragon reserve. An orphaned dragon egg.

And a bond.

Bellona is a companion one-shot to Not Your Usual Love Story!-- it'd help to read that story first, though it isn't strictly necessary.

This is Sainyn Swiftfoot of Hufflepuff writing for the Third Task on the Beta Forums.

[fg_weasley]

Title: Poppy Seeds
Chapter: Two - Tolerance: When The Devil and the Angel Sing
Rating: 6th - 7th Years
Warnings: Sexual Situations, Substance Abuse, Mild Profanity
Link: 'Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.'*
Summary:

His drug of choice? Lily Evans.

Her drug of choice? Sirius Black.

It was enough to tease him, almost to make the need worse, but he needed more. He wasn’t thinking anymore; not about James, or about himself, or even about what he was about to do. Only that he wanted – needed – to do it. And when he looked up, finally turned his head, he could see in her eyes that fire. She needed it too.

And that was it. Suicide.

This was not a crush. This was not lust. And this most certainly was not love.

This was an agonizing, bone-crushing, physical addiction.

And what a sweet, slippery slope it was.

Excerpt:

Grinning wickedly, he stopped before their lips could meet, breathing heavily onto the tip of her nose. “You’re like putty in my hands, Evans. I make the rules. I own you. You’re mine.” He could feel it, it was tangible, the hold he had over her and her addiction.

“Go to Hell, Black.”

She hissed it. In that moment, the movement was subtle, a slight twitch of the eyebrow, a small twist of her lip. Green eyes blazing, challenging him. Daring him. Do it.

Right then, the power shifted between them, from him to her and back, and Sirius came to a realization: As long as they were both addicted, they could play this game all night. They both had the power, yet neither of them owned it, not for very long. Sirius had to take his back.

Just as she began to speak again, he seized his moment, the openness of her mouth allowing for little politeness; zero to sixty in point two seconds. Pressing her body hard to the wall, his right hand went to her neck like a magnet, snaking through her red locks. The other hand found hers just as fast and their fingers entwined, gripping hard as he brought their hands over their heads.

“With pleasure, Evans.”

Because he was, without a doubt, going to Hell. Betrayal surely secured a person a one way ticket to that Lake of Fire.

But if Lily was his ticket – if this was his ticket – he would willingly pay the price. Anything was worth feeling this.

*quote by Marquis De Sade

[luinrina]

Title: Fears... and Hope
Rating: 1st-2nd Years
Warnings: none
Summary:

‘Hope shall die last, Minerva.’

A bright morning, but will it be bright for everyone? Or is the rising sun painting an illusion only?



This story had been written for the Perfect Plot in a Prologue challenge in June/July 2008 on the beta boards, in response to J.K. Rowling publishing her prologue.