A/N: This entire collection is written for the 30 words or less challenge, where each entry under a prompt is a maximum of 30 words. This chapter is also written for the Snakes and Ladders Challenge: Pomona Sprout, and the If you Dare Challenge, 940 – a child's dream.

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In the Past
2. Pomona Sprout

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11. Drunk

Everybody said she had a nice drinking face, made nice company. That made her sound masculine, or old.

She'd wanted to be young and the pretty girl.

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12. Disaster

She couldn't change herself though. She'd tried, and felt absolutely horrible.

That little date – if indeed it could be called that – was a disaster too.

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13. Turned Off

That wild part scene – it wasn't for her. Bit by bit, she drifted away from it. And eventually, she thought to herself: I've had enough.

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14. Past, Present, Future

She wondered what it was she really wanted. What she'd always wanted. A friend? A lover? A dependent child?

It was the children, she decided; she was wasting her time with the men.

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15. Dysfunctional

It was pretty crazy of her, trying to get a job with her record. But she managed it. Managed to secure a post at Hogwarts under the Headmaster Dumbledore.

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16. Men

By then she'd managed to turn herself around, and she was happy. Happy teaching. Happy having that chance to change and stay changed.

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17. Behind My Back

Sometimes she heard whispers behind her back, about her less than pristine past. But she'd found her happiness, and she didn't plan to let go of it.

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18. Study Sessions

If someone had told her she'd be teaching when she was back at high school, she would have laughed. But now she loved every moment she spent with her students.

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19. Cut It Out

Sometimes, she remembered the wild nights where she hadn't fit, or was reminded of them. But she'd shake her head and move on, because she had a better place now.

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20. Dreamt

It wasn't what she'd dreamt, but it was the job of her dreams nonetheless.