Malecrit

During Harry Potter's fourth year at Hogwarts, Stella Sinistra's first love returns unexpectedly (and undetected) to her life.

"'Do you believe in the life to come?' . . . 'Mine was always that.'" - Endgame by Samuel Beckett. Tom. Harry. Blood, genetics, power, immortality. A one-shot.

It's 1917 and the Great War is raging in the Muggle World, but Newt Scamander, age twenty, has troubles of his own. His Ministry career is "tedious in the extreme" and, to make matters worse, the girl he'll one day marry is parading around with a character he finds most disagreeable. Beasts, books, Quidditch, and post-adolescent confusion abound as Newt and his friends sort out their lives.

Rita Skeeter once mentioned in an article that Love Potions are banned at Hogwarts. So how exactly did that rule come into existence? Join Rita and her best friend, Gilderoy Lockhart, as students in the spring of 1967, and you'll find out.

Christmas 1981: Severus Snape pays a visit to an old friend and Death Eater.

During the Death Eater trials of the late '70s and early '80s, the word 'Slytherin' is practically synonymous with evil. Here, Rita Skeeter ponders the label she can't escape, even years after she's left Hogwarts.