"First Lines" meme

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Seen at Syne's. A year later, I still lose at cross-posting and tagging, so I'm going by Gmail threads. All stories HP except where noted otherwise:

December 2006:
To get through the rest of his days, Remus knew he was going to have to think of this as just another ill-conceived, throwaway scene in the outrageous farce known as his life.
- "Out of Body Interrogation" (Remus/unexpected baddie; NC-17 and a bunch of warnings; for busaikko, for Christmas Kink 2006 at LJ's Pervy Werewolf comm (now locked); reposted here)

January:
He had never mattered enough to anybody to be their one and only love, but it had taken him thirty-seven years to accept that it had nothing to do with what he did or what he failed or neglected to do.
- Taken, Not Granted (Tonks/Lupin, Snape/Lupin; R;1700 words; birthday adultery-fic for cordelia_v)

February:
It was now so easy to see how separate he had always been from them.
- Quelqu'un m'a dit (Lupin/Snape; G; double drabble; blamed busaikko for the bunny)

March:
Loving someone, Snape reflected, didn’t mean that they didn’t, couldn’t, and wouldn’t drive one demented: Remus Lupin was living proof that "thoughtful" and "conscientious" were not synonyms.
- A Dose Of... (Snape/Lupin; G; thank-you drabble for an Anonymous with a striking resemblance to lore)

April:
Remus Lupin was surprised to discover he enjoyed being fucked on his dining room table.
- Hard (Snape/Lupin/Whomping Willow (sort of); R; drabble for snupin100's Alphabet Challenge)

May:
Very first line: "The horizon appears free again to us," Kingsley reported. (written back in March 2006)
First line of new part posted in May: A year later, they're more aware than ever that time is running out.
- Their Man (Snape/Tonks/Lupin; R; 1850 words; series of drabbles that originated with LJ's 30_hath comm. That stilted first line = shoehorning in a prompt.)

June:
Fourteen months after his arrival in Japan, Snape secretly began to study magic again.
- "Just Like Strangers Here," part 2 (Snape/Lupin, R, 9K total; fic for ymfaery (Fantasy Fest 2006) and sor_bet)

July:
It amuses Bran, that Will plays chess as well as he speaks Welsh, which is not very well at all.
- Forward (Dark Is Rising; gen; G; drabble for thedarkisrising100)

August:
Nothing.

September:
Every time the new issue of Playwitch arrived at his house, Remus Lupin’s face broke into a grin.
- Afterglow (Tonks/Lupin, Snape/Lupin; NC-17; 1500 words; for the bbtp_challenge)

October:
Remus Lupin had never expected ward 49 of St. Mungo's to become one of his favorite places to haunt after his death.
- A Type of Happy Return... (Lockhart and Lupin, G, birthday drabble for gmonkey42)

November:
Near the end of the Second War, Severus Snape was declared a casualty of Lyolbrake Plain, a small but horrific skirmish from which only two individuals had emerged with their minds and bodies intact: Remus J. Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks.
- "D'accord, d'accord" (Snape/Lupin, PG, 11K)

Nymphadora Tonks had known she might die during the War, but she hadn’t anticipated how annoyed she would be about it.
- "On the Same Damn Side" (Tonks/Lupin, Snape/Lupin, NC-17, 5400 words)

Both stories (written prior to DH) appear in Chocolate and Asphodel.