4She Thought, Maybe One day, Minerva had told her: "You've got to have strength, Augusta, or else you'll never survive this." And so that was what Augusta became. (This is the story of Augusta Longbottom before she was Augusta Longbottom, and the story of Frank Longbottom before he was that, too.)

3The Dance of Fatherhood "James chats idly with Harry as he drifts about the kitchen. It's rather like dancing, he thinks, being a father. He's not quite so good at it—Merlin, he's burnt himself twice with this bottle—but he moves like he might be. And he likes it. He reckons that's important, too." / In which James gets to babysit Harry for an entire thirty minutes.

2The List "The paper was wearing thin where the man's quill had carved into it, words like a list coloring the white of the page and bleeding just hardly into the text. 'You see, generally, I don't believe that people get second chances. That's not the way the universe likes to work. But there are exceptions. And this is my thanking the universe for that.'"

3 One Latched Window He had sometimes wondered if his brother hated him, and he found himself wondering it then as the blackness seeped like poison into his skin .. Fitting, really, that it would be black and green against the red .

4 The Absence of Color "He was just an empty slate constantly taking whatever form he pleased, no identity to himself, just a passing reflection in the water." / In which Sirius Black wonders who he really is.

23 The Apology You Never Heard "I hate her, and it's awful that I can say that without feeling any sort of remorse, but I do. We choose who we hate, don't we? It's a conscious decision that we make and it's a conscious decision that we carry out. But love is different. You can't help who you love, try as you might. It just grows and grows and grows until one day you notice it's there."

12 Promises That Feel Like Scars Lily Evans was a mystery that Sirius Black was not to indulge in - so she said, anyways. Promises, after all, are not always meant to be kept. / A late night conversation between a prefect and a troublemaker, with a little bit of firewhiskey.

8 Blurred Breathing James Potter's skipped out on Head Boy duty, for Quidditch, to absolutely no one's surprise. This, also unsurprisingly, doesn't settle well with Lily, and before she knows it, somehow she's managed herself on a broom and she's chasing after him. Problem being, though - Lily doesn't fly.

13 A Little Blazing Secret Harry's got a secret that he won't tell Ginny, and she's livid. It seems as if everyone's in on the secret, too, and so in desperation, Ginny resorts to thrashing and shoving her way through to figure out what's going on. Well, isn't she in for a surprise?

18 The Only Traitor "I never thought I'd die from poison," Remus mutters into the dusk. "And I certainly never thought it would be from you." It is here that Sirius deceives Remus, with three drops of Veritaserum, into telling him the truth he does not expect, but yet, always has. A truth they've both always known but yet never have at all. And it's lethal. A Wolfstar fic written for SilverOwlMalfoy.