A/N: So I had a thought for a collection of one-shots, and decided to give it a shot. Please let me know what you think! Criticism is welcome!
Thanks!
Prologue
Minerva watched somberly as Dumbledore tucked his letter into the blanket the baby was swaddled in.
"Albus" she whispered tearfully. "Are you certain this is the only way? Perhaps one of us could-"
A small chuckle interrupted her. "Please, Minerva. Who would take care of him? You?"
His voice was soft- he never raised it- but the words cut through her like ice. She couldn't help but feel as if she had stepped through a ghost. His eyes alighted on her in the dark, and his smile disappeared, replaced with a piercing stare and a frown set like stone.
"Minerva, this is the safest option for the boy, you and I both know this. And you do not even have any children of your own, what makes you think you could properly care for the child?"
And so he proceeded unhindered in delivering the child on the doorstep, and Hagrid howled at the moon, and Minerva became a cat and stole away like a thief in the night, and Dumbledore returned the light, and the story continued as it was told once before.
But not for long.