Naught Alley

Here are writings labyrinthine and tales that defy the call to comply, and, though all are meaningless in the end, stray until then from your bright, canonical way to wander through pathways and Byzantine back ways and into the alley that is Naught.


Table of Contents


02. Time Bomb
There was a certain trick to living with an unruly haired, bespectacled, sixteen-year-old magic time bomb. The Dursleys had pretty much nailed it over the summer.

03. Basilisk (what if?)
"Close your eyes, luv," he said, and Hermione obeyed, but at the sound of a crash her eyes flew open again. The thing that had chased her into the alley lay unmoving, and the strange boy with the glowing scar was gone. Later at Hogwarts

04. Don't Write
It was an early summer evening, and four friends sat and talked of the future even as it unraveled before their eyes.

05. The Social Worker (satire)
It was an anonymous tip, and the party in question was popular in the community, so naturally the claim of abuse vanished almost immediately. Someone caught it, though, and wouldn't rest until she learned the truth about Number Four. Abused!Harry fic

06. Shattered (timefic)
'Granger had mentioned withdrawal symptoms once in one of her intermittent ramblings. It felt like those. He smirked, coming back to the present, and leveled his wand at the skeleton swooping through the gaping doorway. Time for his fix.' HGDM…er, ish?