Meg Kenobi

"I am a vain and self absorbed woman. This is a lesson I sorely needed to learn." Narcissa Malfoy narrates the loss of her weaker child in a horrible tragedy and the origins of the darkness in her surviving son, Draco.

"There is a clearing there, you will remember, a thick tangle of trees, all wound amongst another, angry knotted limbs forming a wall of tree-flesh." What thoughts cross Remus's mind as he is slowly tortured to death? RL/SB slash.

Just away from Potter's prying eyes the Pensieve held some of Snape's most scarring memories. A riding accident that demands an unthinkable choice, the first brutal ride to Hogwarts, an incident with a DE's daughter that reveals Dumbledore's bias, a family tragedy for which he is blamed . . . in short, the makings of a Death Eater.

"So you understand then the predicament in which we are mired." When Remus Lupin is captured, it could spell the end of the Order. The unlikely intervation of Severus Snape brings an unsettling salvation. RL/SB overtones. One-shot.