One shot. Luna Lovegood on truth, life and being yourself, no matter what people say or do. Short, but powerful.

During his first visit to the Burrow, Harry asks Mrs. Weasley something he's been wondering about.

Neville Longbottom goes Christmas shopping to find just the right gift for someone very special.

A vignette of young Sirius Black and his mother, as seen by some Muggle children who happen upon him on a summer's day.

Written for the Third Floor Corridor contest. No good deed goes unpunished. Fred and George are about to find out.

When Sirius was in Azkaban, he was waiting for something to stir him into action. He found it in Fudge's paper.

During the last years of her life, Mrs. Black was not all there. Sirius, Remus, and Tonks try to clean up the mess she left in the bathroom. Set just before OotP.

The Christmas of Ted's seventh year, Alphard Black cornered him in Hogsmeade. Alphard knew it was coming down to a choice for Ted and Andromeda, after all, and he didn't want his neice to make his mistakes.

Regulus Black needed his brother to tell him it was okay to be scared. 'I'm still afraid of storms, Sirius,' he thought. . . . But this time, Sirius wasn't there.

As Sirius prepars to leave home for good, Regulus is torn between the urge to beg him to stay and the knowledge that in one sense Sirius left the moment he was sorted into Gryffindor.

Dear Peter has got himself stuck, as a rat, in the drainpipe of a sink. . . . Strange things result from the other Marauders' attempts to get him out.

James and Sirius on the possibility of James's death, a possibility Sirius REALLY does not want to think about. Neither does James, but he's getting worried enough to talk about it. . . .

Regulus Black visits Andromeda in search of forgiveness for every idiot thing he's done in the past . . . and perhaps also to say goodbye.

Shortly after Regulus's death, Sirius runs into his father playing cards at the Leaky Caudron and sits down to have their first conversation in years.

Looks a bit like a cigarette burn, doesn't it? A few days after Andromeda marries Ted, Sirius has a heart to heart with his uncle Alphard about their feelings for the family tapestry.

It's a little while after the first war after it ended for thirteen years with one final shower of grief. Ted and Andromeda Tonks are taking things one day at a time, carrying through the mess it left lives in.

Sirius and Remus are in the library, and Sirius happens to notice that Regulus is sitting next to a girl. A little too close to a girl for big brother's comfort. So big brother proceeds to make a fool of himself.

Thirteen year old Marius Black is brimming with frustration about being a squib and determined to make magic work for him, at least until Phineas explains to his grandson that there are Black legacies that have nothing to do with spells.

Lily Evans comes into the library venting about Sirius Black and James Potter. In a parody of Arithmancy, Regulus Black attempts to explain their obnoxious behavior.

While their parents are attempting to enjoy a conversation over tea in the drawing room, Sirius is trying to avoid the expected beating from his cousin, Bellatrix. Before the Marauders came to Hogwarts.

A part of both Sirius and Regulus Black knew it might be the last holiday season they shared together and they found a way to make it one they really did spend together.

Lily Potter runs into Regulus Black in the Three Broomsticks. The ensuing conversation proves to be a fairly uncomfortable one for the young Death Eater.

Andromeda Tonks runs into her uncle Alphard at the Leaky Cauldron with an odd question and some good news.

Sirius remembers the first time he ran into the narrowmindedness of his parents' pureblood philosophy, a conversation with his father when he was six.

Salazar watched Godric as he stared at the sword's jeweled sheath and knew exactly what his friend was thinking: How was he supposed to remind Rowena that he already had a perfectly good sword without offending her?