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Written for Cat's Birthday HP Drabblethon 5  at mctabby's lj.

Recipient: anitaray
Prompt: Arabella Figg and Petunia Dursley seek each other out after the events of DH. 

Word count: 370

Rating: PG or G (unsure)
 

Trust Potter with the entire Auror force at his beck and call to ask her of all people to deliver it. He thrust the letter in her hand and disappeared in Diagon Alley before she could say a word. She'll leave it on the doorstep on the way to buy milk for Mrs Tibbles's kittens in the evening. If the message gets blown away by wind, it surely won't be Arabella Figg's fault and may be the Head Auror will learn for future use to get people's agreement before assuming they'll do him a favor.

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I want to forget you
I feel completely defeated
I want to forget you
Like you never existed
Yet you still haunt me out of the blue

Petunia shuddered and quickly turned off the radio, yet the stupid love song's lyrics continued to haunt her during the day.

But I want to forget you
Start my life anew

But I want to forget you
For that moment is now due

Unfortunately, the memories she would most like to forget were the toughest to leave behind. In her dreams she continued to be stalked by talking letters, to helplessly stand near Dudley as he was chocking after eating only one minuscule candy cane, to hide in one of those freaks' houses, afraid to move, lest she accidentally touched something magical. Once she awakened to the wailing of the neighbors' newborn infant and felt more frightened than she'd ever been in 2 years since they returned home.

Perhaps Diddy was right and she should try this new AAT thing. Of course, she won't go to a therapist – she would hate to have neighbors talking about her breaking down after the no-good nephew disappeared somewhere, probably getting life sentence for murder. Besides, the only thing therapists were good at was parting between fools and their money & Petunia didn't consider herself a fool. She probably should check Ms Figg's kittens in the evening. Street cats always seemed dislikable, sneaky, wild creatures. She could easily understand why they were believed to be witches' familiars. However, lazy, longhaired cats were another matter altogether. Their entire look seemed to broadcast: "I'm domestic and respectable and as normal as you're". Yes, she will definitely look at them.    

A wonderful, creepy drabble, which archon_mentha has written for me:

Prompt: A conversation between Voldemort and Albus Severus. (V doesn't know (at first) who the boy is).

\\Part 1 is here.\\

Seeing both of them at the parlor's door, Narcissa stopped smiling and quickly rose from the table. The guest rose too. He was a thin, tall old man with a very arrogant face.

Lucius was lost. If he really was a lover, it had to be acknowledged that Narcissa had quite peculiar taste in men.

Anyway, the guests had to be introduced.

Poetry:

More than a year ago I found 2 wonderful Harry Potter poems about Harry and Draco by an unknown author. After googling I found they (and many others) were written by Judy Nathanson, a retired theater arts teacher, who has written poetry all her life. On her site you can find both HP and not HP poems.

My favorites among HP poems are still the first 2 poems, which I found long ago. As for not HP poetry, I haven’t decided yet. A few examples are:

If We Took The Time

Where Are The Children? (about her former students)

Secret Dreams of The Heart

Guardian Angel


Summery Executions 9:

What can evil stem from, if not from cruelty? How does Molly decide to congratulate her son for being promoted to a high rank in the Auror business? What are the dangers of a wild snowball fight down on the grounds of Hogwarts and why is Narcissa furious at Bellatrix? Read to find out.

Note: My criterion for choosing summaries is their being funny, not the fic's badness. If I am highly amused by a summary, I think probably other people will enjoy reading it too for one reason or another. Since a summary is supposed to make people want to read a fic, its' being funny is a plus (if it’s intentionally funny, of course). Sometimes there can be summaries of wonderful fics. I read only a very small part of those fics, but if I read a fic and like it, I will give a link (this post has 3). I will never link to a fic I didn’t like, since that would be a sort of flaming.

* Now that the Wizarding world is safe, Fudge needs a job. So when he's offered the opportunity to host the new Wizarding reality show, 'England's Got Evil', he realizes that it is a chance he can't miss. But will he be able to keep it together during the final episode where Bellatrix Lestrange, Amycus Carrow, and Fenrir Greyback compete to add a hot tub to their Azkaban cell? And who in the name of reality shows everywhere are the Stage Handz?

And I thought some RL reality shows were unethical…

* Draco is depressed. He shuts out everybody who cares for him. He's getting weaker and weaker. When he's strolling around the castle, he faints... (H/D Friendship)

HBP in AU?

* Evil doesn't always start out as cruelty. Sometimes it's simpler than that. Sometimes it begins with something as simple as

 The current UK election campaign reminded me of this wonderfully funny fic, inspired by… UK election   

Swinging the Vote by Wormykins (Chapters: 1)

Rating: PG - Spoilers: PoA - 882 hits - 1084 words
Genre: Wizarding Society, General - Main character(s): NarM, RL, SB - Ships: None - Era: 1970-1981 (Including Marauders at Hogwarts)
It's election time again, and Remus Lupin has a reputation for being a tough voter to win over. Why is this, and will anyone ever succeed? Inspired by UK election canvassing, of all things.

Summery Executions 7 : Do you know what is wrong with the saying that Narcissa persuaded Lucius not to send Draco to Durmstrang? What is the real moral of Tom Riddle's back-story and how will Dobby save Harry from V's clutches? And, most importantly, why Harry & Ginny had to be together?  Our writers will tell you everything!

"It seems to be common knowledge that I persuaded Lucius not to send Draco to Durmstrang. Actually, that's not quite true - Draco was always going to attend Hogwarts. All I did was to remind Lucius of that." Let Narcissa tell you how.

They were outnumbered, they were outclassed, and they were led by Harry Potter.

The third sentence is merely a coincidence, of course. (This quote is my favorite with the first one.)

 

"You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your relatives," goes the saying. How unfortunately true. An OotP-compliant look at the Black family, affectionately nicknamed as "why canon extrapolation is so much fun."

Harry sees a chance to be a hero, but Lord Voldemort sees the chance to regain everything he lost during the war.

Guess who dies in the end of the fic… 

One of my favorite plants in bloom: 

anehan

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The Reunion.

The author: Ferry.    

Humor||gen||G||chapters:1|| publishing date: 28.04.06

The original fic in Russian: here.

-Nev, and what do you think?

The head was already buzzing from the drink and a great fiat of will was needed to retrace the topic of the conversation and understand what he was asked about at all.     

-  McGonagall, of course!

- No, Ron, as a teacher Professor Flitwick is significantly…

- In my opinion, better than Professor Lupin…

-  Whatever you say, but Divination…
- Nev, and what do you think? Who was the best teacher in our generation?

He blinked a few times to focus his stare on the flushed Finnigan's face, shrugged his shoulders and gave out:

- Professor Snape.

And immediately the buzzing in the ears intensified:

- Ough… For crying out loud!

- This greasy rascal?!

- No, Nev, out of all people-you?!

After meeting with a squall, he took his coffee cup, put it on the plate upside down and accurately placed it in the middle of the table. Hermione caught the falling bottle.

- Here. Can you transfigure it into a hedgehog?

- "Urr…", Ron, returning to the old habit, thrust a hand into his red hair, which greatly thinned out on the top during the last years, "well, we have already drunk so much…"

- Fine. And charm it to sing "The fire burn, the cauldron boil"?

Hermione took out a wand, but paused, frowning:

- I am not sure about the second syllable… We need to check in "Basic charms"…

 - "Well," Neville turned the cup back and put it in front of Lavender. Harry with grace of a professional seeker caught a cup with stickjaws.

- What will I do tomorrow morning?

Lavender squinted and concentrated on Neville's cup.

- "Having that morning-after feeling," murmured Harry.

Everybody laughed. Hermione skeptically looked at Harry.

- "And who remembers the recipe of the anti-hungover Potion?" he asked carelessly, taking back his cup from Lavender.

- "What is to remember! Only seven ingredients!" gave a snort of contempt Ron.

- "And there is no need to take into account the lunar phase," cheerfully added Parvati, "Only to steer anticlockwise…" she concluded considerably quieter.   

At the table in "Jolly Griffin" the silence deepened. Ron broke down first.

- No, I don't understand how did the nosed monster succeed to hammer this into us?!   

- "I don't understand something else," pensively said Hermione. "Why Neville alone could notice that?"

- "Why… Let's say, I had the opportunity to look at the situation from another side," answered the Herbology Professor of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Neville Longbottom.  

I have been lurking at this site  for a long time & finally decided to make a list of the best fics I have met after ≈2 years of enjoying hp fanfiction both at this site & others. To make choice easier I will sort them by genre, each fic will have a summary & the rating. [The summaries aren't my & were mainly taken from The Nifflers Recommend section.] This list will be (hopefully) regularly updated. Enjoy!

P.S. I will be grateful to hear your opinion about the fics. Each of them has made a lasting impression on me, thus other people's opinions are particularly interesting.