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Contents

1.	Early Discovery	****
2.	The Quibbler, Ransom Page	****	[HP100 #19]
3.	Sideshow Mirror	**	[HP100 #13]
4.	Misplacement	***	[HP100 #10]
5.	Change	*****	[HP100 #2]
6.	Final Purchase	***	[HP100 #1 + #9]
7.	Upside-umop	*****	[HP100 #6]
8.	Unamenable	***	[HP100 #11]
9.	Argument	****	[HP100 #22]
10.	In the Pants?	***	[HP100 #26]
11.	Halves	*****	[HP100 #33]

(I've rated my drabbles based solely on how much I like them. 1 through 5 stars.)

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1. Early Discovery

"Ugh! Damn, damn, bloody hell!"

"Mornin'. What's got you so worked up?"

"Here, Harry, hold still."

"What are you doing? Let go!"

"You insanely lucky git!"

"Ron, what is your problem?"

"This."

"Ew. When did you get that?"

"Overnight, I reckon. And you've not got any!"

"Really?"

"Yes! Look at yourself!"

"... Gosh. I never noticed that before."

"Never noticed! You are so lucky, Harry."

"Yeah? Let's trade. You take being an orphan on the run from an insane wizard, and I'll take that pimple."

"... Sorry. You're not an insanely lucky git."

"Thanks."

"You're just a git."

"Hey! Get back here!"

A/N: "I see Harry as someone who has great skin. That's the one thing he's got going for him, thank God. I mean, spots on top of everything else would be too horrible for him." -- J.K. Rowling, in an MSNBC interview
This's my first HP drabble, written some time ago. I submitted it to HP100 before I quite understood the whole "challenge" system they have going over there. This's also the first and only drabble I wrote on paper before typing it into the computer. You can see my work if you like. Lots of scratches and notes, but that's to be expected when you have a word limit to stick to.

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2. The Quibbler, Ransom Page

"Someone's pink bunny pajamas have been kidnapped," Luna announced.

This assertion was met with snickers (Ron, Harry, and Ginny) and stares (Hermione and Neville).

"It's true," she insisted, waving her newest Quibbler. "A photo was included with the ransom demand." The six gathered to stare at the jarring image of a masked man holding up ragged pink pajamas.

"Whose do you suppose they are?" Neville wondered aloud.

Soon they heard two students' grumbling voices. "Why is Snape so grouchy lately?" "I hear he's not slept all week."

When Professor McGonagall found them ten minutes later, they still hadn't stopped laughing.

A/N: This drabble was written for the Pick a Number challenge. The quote that inspired this was "Someone has Snape's pink bunny pajamas," which can be found in the summary of Tootsie Roll's "Hogwarts Is High."

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3. Sideshow Mirror

He stared at the Boggart in disbelief; it was like looking into a mirror. He was afraid of himself? That made no sense -- the last Boggart he'd seen had been...

Then he noticed the subtle differences in the copy. A dark, sinister expression. Crossed arms and a defiant posture. A robe torn and stained with an unknown substance.

And finally he saw the eyes. Green eyes with unnatural serpentine pupils gleamed behind the glasses.

A quote appeared unbidden in his mind: "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster."

Harry screamed.

A/N: The quote is a rather well-known sentence from Nietzsche. It is followed by, "And when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you." This drabble was written for the Boggart in the Wardrobe challenge; it's a bit heavy-handed, but I still like it.

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4. Misplacement

"You really messed that one up."

A dragon and fox are not often seen together. (Well, for longer than about twenty seconds.)

"I'm sorry! Teleportation is a difficult subject!"

A dragon and fox who stand on two legs and speak? Significantly rarer.

"No help for it, Jan. We'll have to ask directions."

But much like a butler, a house elf serves, however bizarre the circumstances.

"Whatever you say, Fen."

"Pardon me, can you tell us where we are?"

Dobby cheerfully replied, "You is at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!"

Fendrian looked at Johan, who groaned. "Great. Another school."

A/N: Give up? It's the two main characters from the webcomic Spellshocked. I wrote this one for the Crossover Week challenge. My original idea had them showing up at St. Mungo's, where they were directed to the Dimensional Travelers wing.

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5. Change

Desires change.

Harry and Ron have encountered the Mirror before. Harry saw the family that he can never have. Ron saw himself standing out in his own family, on his own merits.

Ron's brothers have only heard the legends, but they all know what they would see. Fred and George (always united) would see their long-desired joke shop, and Percy would see himself sitting at the Minister of Magic's desk.

But none of that matters tonight. Everything has changed.

"Miss Weasley... has been taken into the Chamber."

If they found the Mirror again tonight, all they would see is Ginny.

A/N: Wow. I've never been able to write angst before. What happened to me? This drabble (done for the Heart's Desire challenge) appeared half-finished in my mind as I lay in bed last night. I'm very proud of it.

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6. Final Purchase

Dust tickles your nose, unsurprisingly and unavoidably; the entire room has the musty scent of a long-shelved book of poetry. The air tastes very slightly of tin. Warmth fills your body from toes to fingertips as you lift your hand up into the air.

You swing your arm down, dust scattering in its wake. The world explodes around you. Bright sparks, piercing pinpoints of light, burst around you and hang for the slightest moment. Now they float slowly downward, softly snapping and sizzling as they touch the floorboards.

"It seems we've found you a wand," Mr. Ollivander informs you happily.

A/N: I love the imagery in this one. It's simultaneously an entry in the First Time (first wand, specifically) and Ensnare the Senses challenges.

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7. Upside-umop

Ron first realized something was wrong when Harry used the word "Mudblood."

Soon he was constantly noticing grotesque violations of all that was right. Hermione dreamily peering into a brand new crystal ball. Ginny fawning over Draco, who had become inexplicably clumsy and shy. Neville screaming that no one could understand what he'd been through. Luna berating a classmate for a small mistake. Snape smiling. Smiling!!

He quickly realized the horrible truth: everyone's personalities had been switched! He had to find a way to save his friends. It was lucky he hadn't been affected.

He went to the library immediately.

A/N: Hee hee. A little clarification: Ginny happens to be channeling Pansy, and Snape has become... heck, I dunno, just someone who smiles. I think the rest are obvious. For the When Pigs Fly challenge.

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8. Unamenable

For a few brief moments, no one could speak. Then Malfoy yelped, and the hallway erupted with excited chatter.

"Hermione, I think I love you. That was incredible."

"Oh, god, how could I have done that?! I wasn't thinking..."

"Better than the ferret and Bat-Bogey combined!"

"I hope Madam Pomfrey can cure him..."

"Where did you learn that hex, anyway?"

"A few years ago an Auror fumbled the 'Cruciatus' spell..."

Harry tuned out Ron and Hermione's conversation and focused on the raging Malfoy, with his newly acquired red pincers, antennae, and armor-plated torso.

He had to learn the "Crustatious" spell.

A/N: Explanation of "Crustatious" here: Summary Executions Part V. Wish I could take credit for the idea. For the Unstandard Book of Spells challenge.

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9. Argument

"Oh, come on! It's obvious that they only tolerate each other because they have to."

"That's nonsense! The reason they snap like that is because they care!"

"Give me a break. They wouldn't last a week."

"Well, what about your precious little pair? They've never shown the slightest interest in each other!"

"There are hints of it. It'll just take something to make them notice each other, that's all."

"What, a miracle?"

"All right, that does it!"

Confused stare. "What's all that about over there?"

"Oh, that's the Hedwig/Pig shippers arguing with the Hedwig/Hermes shippers. Just ignore them."

A/N: All I have to say is this: Bwahahaha. For the Owl challenge.

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10. In the Pants?

"Harry, Ron, look at this!" Hermione waved the latest Daily Prophet excitedly. "They've discovered the magic gene!"

"The what?"

"It's what determines whether a baby is going to be a wizard or a Muggle!"

Harry glimpsed part of the article: ...team of wizards and non-wizards working from a California laboratory...

"Just think of the possibilities!" Hermione gushed. "With genetic engineering advancing as far as it has... Why, one day... every person on Earth could be a wizard!"

Ron spoke up. "Doesn't that also mean... one day every person on Earth could be a Muggle?"

Hermione had no answer for that.

A/N: I had the idea for this about five minutes before I posted it, completed. As with most technologies (and, come to it, a lot of magic as well), genetic engineering holds great potential for great things and terrible things. Me, I'm optimistic. For the Muggle Studies challenge.

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11. Halves

He'd managed to save the pieces.

How could he not? It had been one of his only links to a life he couldn't remember. A life where he might have been happy. He'd sooner die than simply leave it behind.

But he had it now, and that was the important thing. Even if it were useless, as silly as it was, he still wanted to have it. To have that one remnant of the past to remember them by.

The two halves of the wand rested next to a pile of crumpled gum wrappers.

Neville closed his trunk and sighed.

A/N: Yeah, this one's a little depressing. I wrote it in five minutes flat, so forgive me if it's a bit choppy. For the Wand challenge.

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