Title: Lily's Visit with Dumbledore
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: HP, HG, RW, AD, LP
Rating: PG
Words: 935
A/N: Chapter 6 of WIP, A Christmas for Potter (1 link, 5 chapters). Not betaed because I'm sick and too impatient to wait. For catrinella.
Summary: Dumbledore reflects back on a visit with Lily Potter. The Trio are in the Shrieking Shack discussing the pensieve Hermione created.

( 'You have to promise me, Albus,' he remembered her saying, moments before her voice broke from the pensieve on an iridescent bubble. )

Title: A Christmas for Potter
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: HP, HG, RW, AD, MM, LP and growing...
Chapters: 5/?
Words: 4,633/?
A/N: Started for hp_kris_kringle challenge. First 5 chapters, continuing the rest in my journal.

Challenge/Chapter #1: Christmas Present; Title: The Gift; 730 words
( 'Do you think he’s ready, Albus?' A dark-haired woman with rounded square spectacles stood just to the left of the Hogwarts Headmaster. Her right hand sprawled, stretched much like a cat’s paw, out over his shoulder. )

Challenge/Chapter #2: Carols; Title: Caroling Ghosts and Pumpkin-Juice Jumpers; 1,072 words
( He couldn’t bring himself to look at it. The memory. It rested on the palm of his hand, cool through the bottle. And Harry could only stare at it. )

Challenge/Chapter #3: Mistletoe; Title: Mistletoe and Tulpas; 730 words
( 'A tulpa,' he said, lifting his chin a little as he spoke, 'is a creation of the mind; a being imagined and made corporeal by a focus of thought...' )

Challenge/Chapter #4: Free-For-All; Title: The Shrieking Shack; 833 words
( Minerva McGonagall walked down the forty-two steps inside the moving staircase that lead to Dumbledore's office. She could have stood still on one step and let the staircase twirl her until the hall was revealed. That seemed a terrible waste of time—just standing about when she could be DOING something instead. )

Challenge/Chapter #5: A bonus; Title: The Pensieve; 1,268 words
( The sparks dissipated, leaving behind a blue-white light that illuminated from within the curvature of the bowl, and the air rang with what sounded like small wind chimes. 'Hermione—' Harry started. He couldn’t BELIEVE it. He couldn’t believe HER. 'Is that a...' )