Alexandra Lynch

In a time before Voldemort, he has everything...breeding, money, looks. So what made Lucius Malfoy fall from grace? And why does Arthur Weasley hate him so? Slight AU from OotP.

The war is over, everywhere but inside those who fought it. When do you retreat with honor, and when do you hold on for love?

Sometimes we admit our lies only to ourselves. Sometimes others see them in unguarded moments. Five people speak of masks, lies, desire, and truth.

Of Pensieves and books and boys and girls.

Memories always are sharper at night, griefs harder to forget, and comfort simpler to find.

Even in the deepest friendships, we are ultimately alone.

If you have your life planned for you already, you have to grab your pleasures where you can, and not waste opportunities. You're going to have all your life for regrets. Femslash and het and a whole lot of angst.

To move would be to say something irrevocable. And, to ask....She didn't even know how to ask, or what to say, or how to say it. She had thought this out before. Better not to speak. Better to just be a friend. Better to hoard to herself the little glimpses of something lovely and lush and too beautiful to touch that were wrapped up in that gorgeous girl who had the bed next to her, and to wait, grimly, painfully, until this went away. ````Crushes are hell. They're worse if you don't know if you have any hope. They're worse if they're on your best friend. Hermione/Ginny slash.

Once you've won, what now? In the silence before the celebration begins, the hero reflects on his enemy. Implied Lucius/Draco

Hatred and love, addiction and memory. His gifts were of fairy gold, and pain.

"Parts of me sometimes wonder if it ever could have been different. And then the other part, the rational, sane part, slaps the first in the face and says, "Wake up and smell the coffee, arsehole." An adult Draco Malfoy is sitting alone, and thinking...and not drinking.