Seven Hallowed Evenings.
By Rose Williams.
Rated G, and owned by JK Rowling.
I wrote these for the Halloween challenge on the HP100 livejournal community. I'm still writing everything else I ever was, but it will be slow, b ecause Real Life™ is important. Even if I really wish it weren't.
These will be separate chapters because the formatting is strange on so I will tell you know that on the fifth of November the English commemorate Guy Fawke's attem pt to blow up Parliament by setting off fireworks and burning a dummy (a Guy).
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Peter bent over the baby, cradled in his mother's arms, to say goodbye.
"You won't stay?" Lily asked. "At least til midnigh t."
Peter shook his head, Harry's first Halloween was going to be a party, but: "Matilda's at home," he said.
Lily smiled and Peter blushed. Even after a more than a year with Peter, Matilda still found magic a li ttle disconcerting, and she had to work the following day.
"Give her my love," Lily said.
Harry grabbed Peter's hand a gurgled.
Peter walked home thinking that kids weren't so bad; and found the Dark Mark floating in the sky.
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