Summary: Severus' love for Lily drives him to try to save her, but will his efforts really help?

Summary: Merope has been left to struggle in the streets, and she lets herself succumb to the vile darkness.

Thank you, hestiajones, for all your inspirations!

Summary: On the night the Dark Lord seeks to kill the Potters, he ends up having to push past some anguish at hearing the baby's cry. But he leads himself to his own ruin...

Written for the October Triathlon: Part 2.

Summary:

Haunted memories are as the ghosts that follow...

Merope's life takes a different path when she meets Abraxas Malfoy, a rich young man who promises to help her out of her situation. But when she arrives at the designated place to meet, he isn't there, and all she can see is a ghastly green potion beckoning her to step forward and drink.

Consuming the potion leads her into another world, where marbled structures speak in Delphic tongues, forests hold the mind prisoner, and poisonous bugs stalk their victims.

But that isn't all. She comes to the realization that perhaps memories and experiences are naught but deceitful apparitions meant to drag her soul down into endless misery. It is then that she must make a decision - give in or simply give up.

This is Nagini Riddle of Gryffindor, writing for Round 9 of the Gauntlet.

Summary:

*And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can't replace
When you love someone, but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?*

Merope's life is full of painful memories that make her wish to vanish forever. Even when she finally gets what she wants, she lets it slip through her brittle fingers, and she is left to fend for herself and an unborn baby in the bleak, grey world.

Will the fates allow her to die?

This is Nagini Riddle, writing for The Chaptered Challenge in the Great Hall, prompt La Vie et La Mort.

**Lyrics taken from "Fix You," by Coldplay.

Summary: The inequalities of the wizarding world run high among the werewolves, causing them to be shunned from society.

This was written for the Off With Your Head challenge in the Poetry Anyone? forum.

Summary: On a bright night enriched with the full moon, a young boy races across the meadows, only to meet his dreadful fate.

Written for the Birthday Challenge in the Great Hall.

Summary: In the Tale of Three Brothers, Death magicks a stone to raise the dead. But the second brother finds that he truly cannot have the power to bring back those at peace.

Written for the Birthday Challenge in the PA.

Summary: An empty photograph slowly comes to life, a reminder of picking up the pieces and starting over.

Written for the Birthday Challenge in the PA.

Summary: Ginny Weasley enters her first year of Hogwarts with one friend - a diary. But is all as it really seems?