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Before Harry's 5th year at Hogwarts, the Dursleys hit a bump in the road along their journey of blind hatred toward all things magical. One of them discovers that their muggleness may not be so Muggle after all. Could there be magic hiding amongst this trio? If so, how can the Dursleys and Harry cope with this revelation?

When Camelot fell, Merlin took Excalibur and hid it within his keep, a realm not entirely within this world. He entrusted an order of Knights to guard it until a new king could retrieve it and rebuild Camelot anew. But if evil got ahold of Excalibur, darkness would reign for near eternity. Harry gets caught up in the prophecy and needs the help of Ron, Hermione, and a few friends to prevent evil from getting the sword. The ancient order of knights sends help in the form of a new student and unlikely hero. Bill Weasley is the DADA and falls in love with someone unexpected and Draco Malfoy becomes even more dangerous. Slash impending. Harry/OC, Bill/OC, Ron/Hermione.

Abused at home the summer after OotP, Harry snaps. Tired of life on the run, Harry decides to hide in plain sight and learns the truth about the Prophecy. Features Dark!Aristocrat!Harry, Manipulative!Dumbledore, and HarryMany

The REAL stories of the Marauders at Hogwarts are yet untold. Here they will be revealed!

As the wizarding world mourns their hero, Harry wakes up and finds himself thrust into one of Dumbledore's schemes. Now armed with a new face and a new name, Harry must find his way in a foreign land while burdened by the weight of many secrets and with few friends to help him. Join Harry as he unlocks secrets from his parents' past and journeys to a new school where he encounters untold wonders, giggling girls, and hidden dangers. The war against the Dark rages on, and Voldemort is never idle.

A ploy by the staff to help overcome the excessive house rivalry goes awry when some potions are mixed up. Strange friendships spring up, messing with Hermione's life as she, Ron and Harry are trying to defend Hogwarts from spies. And exactly why is Draco acting so strangely? A Draco/Hermione friendship-->romance fic with generous helpings of adventure.

Harry's fifth year may prove to be the most dangerous of all--- and not just for him. An ancient object holds incredible power, and blood becomes more important than ever before. There's a question around every corner, along with memories of the past that some people would rather not be brought up. The new DADA teacher may hold the key to the mystery, but the question is, will she give it?

If Mary-Sue must exist, evil will make the best of it.

During the summer Harry is transported into an alternate universe where he finds Sirius and his parents are still alive and he is Voldemort's most infamous deatheater. Post-OotP.

-"Draco Malfoy: The Saga", Sometimes in dark times it is the evil man that is the hero and the hero that needs saving. Yes, I want power and strength, but I also want Potter! I just happen to want Potter more then power and strength. Where is it written? That I can not have Potter, Power, and strength? I just have to be "Good" *shudders* I can pull that off! Book 1: "The Tale of Two Rings"

Third installment of the Mage Knights series. Peace has returned to Magiterran, and happiness reigns throughout the Four-Kingdom Alliance. Yet, there is a shadow on the horizon for evil has survived, in the form of an ancient crystal.

As Harry struggles to cope with the past years' events, tragedy strikes him at home. Afterwards, he wants nothing more than to return to the safety and familiar comfort of Hogwarts. Suddenly, a bizarre accident lets Harry learn more about his parents’ pasts. However, Harry’s precarious situation could change the world forever. What price would Harry pay to live the life he’s always wanted? Who would Harry hurt to keep it? And is it possible that James Potter wasn’t Harry’s father?

Draco, Ginny, Hermione, Harry and Ron are all transported to the``time of the founders, under the guise of the founders themselves. There they``must retrieve a hidden gem which is, in the present day, in the hands of Lord``Voldemort. With it he can destroy the world. But things then don’t go quite to``plan…With snogs, love triangles, angry wives and black silk boxers.

A crossover between Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl"! Not long after Jack Sparrow regains his ship, he ends up with a problem: a headstrong wizard captive with an attitude issue. DO NOT read if you have not seen "Pirates"!

Bill Weasley is thrilled when he's offered a job that pays one-hundred galleons. Unfortunately, he starts to have doubts about it when he gets shot at by wizards with guns. Dodging bullets and sarcasm from his new co-worker, Bill finds himself travelling to Venezuela and searching for an item that could end free will. An Indiana Jones meets Lara Croft meets Harry Potter sort of fic, except there's no Jones, Croft or Potter.

The sequel to An American At Hogwarts. Now that a battle has ensued, the Final Battle draws nearer. Follow our heroes as they struggle through times of darkness, yet still find time for their own drama. When are Ron and Hermione ``going to admit their feelings? Where exactly do Harry and Ashley stand in their relationship? Death Eater attacks do not go unnoticed, and, oh, yeah, someone dies in the end. You'll never guess who.

Taking place directly after Harry's sixth year, "Soul Splitting" deals with the search for Horcruxes, as well as how Harry and his companions deal with the build up to the final battle against Voldemort. Along the way Harry must do his best to uphold the lessons Dumbledore taught him, which means putting his trust in someone he never would have imagined -- Draco Malfoy. Eventual Harry/Draco slash.

The fifteen-year-old Harry Potter had been staying at the Dursleys for a whole week now. He would constantly get owls from his friends but these weren’t enough to cheer his bleak existence. The thought of Sirius falling through the veil would always flash inside his head whether he was awake or asleep. He hated doing chores but it helped him get his mind off those sad memories.

When a folder is found in the Department of Mysteries the Wizarding World wonders what on earth it could contain. One potions master knows exactly what, his past, and he will do anything to protect it. This is the story of Severus Snape and Severus Snape the Death Eater, how do they both relate and how will he cope when the world finds out. As revised repost of Death Whispers Sweet Nothings.

Three years post-HBP. Hermione and the Order want to break Harry out of Azkaban. The bespectacled twit got himself thrown in there when he failed to kill Lucius Malfoy subtly enough. Starts off H/G and R/Hr but Ron and Ginny are killed off in the first chapter. Hermione burns Harry in effigy, kills Draco, negotiates with a traitorous and unredeemable Snape, brews potions with Fleur, gets drunk with the Weasley twins and Lee Jordan, organizes an illegal jailbreak, writes columns for the Quibbler, and helps Harry come to terms with his Animagus form. This fic comes with a warning (aimed at diabetic readers) for an excessively sappy ending.

Harry gets an unexpected visit at the Dursleys' from Lavender. Together they must set out on a journey to rescue Lavender's parents. A journey which will include adventure! surprises! danger! and....snogs! *gasp*

Four years on from Hogwarts, Ginny has faced up to Harry's indifference and made a life for herself. However, she is forced to re-examine her feelings when he returns to London to solve a mystery and save his friends from grave danger.

In the prequel to Harry Potter and The Secret of the Heirs, follow the stories of The Marauders, Lily, Snape, The Weasleys and some O/Cs as Voldemort rises to power.````Beginning in 1963 we will follow their lives until 1997 and the beginning of Harry's seventh year at Hogwarts.

Set during Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, this is part ``one in the Avis series. Having been destroyed during the dark times of Vol- er, ``You-Know-Who, the renowned Colégio Ingarnal, the westernmost wizarding school ``in Europe, was rebuilt and ready to greet new students.

An exciting summer that opens up mysteries, revelations and unreal relations for Harry, Ron, Hermione and Draco like no other-- little do they know that this is only the beginning of an even more complicated school year. New people but old, forgotten stories-- a lost daughter reunited, betrayls against the Dark Side long forgotten, and mistakes that cost the burden of lifetimes... all that and still time for romance.

This story begins where the Goblet of Fire left off. Harry has to come to terms with what has happened and the implications it has for the future. What is Arabella Figg's part in all this? Why is Neville so forgetful? And does Harry stand any chance with Cho?

The Ministry is in chaos- danger, death, & doomed romance all ensue with the advent of Voldemort. What will happen next to the``unfortunate students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy? There's lots of angst and drama in the later chapters. Written before OotP.

As a mysterious darkness manifests within Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must aid a brash and impetuous boy, whose past is obscured by a powerful Memory Charm, to understand what exactly he is up against. With Ron and Hermione at his side, Harry is confronted with startling new problems he never thought he would have to face. As wrong things are done for the right reasons, and darkness continues to siege the very life Harry has grown to love, choices become harder and harder to make. Is this new boy, Sora, a solution to his problems, or a cause of them all? And all the while, who can miss that gleam of collected malice, deep within Draco's eyes?

They settled back into their old roles with an eerie ease, talking and pacing and arguing and assuring like the war still wasn’t over, for maybe it wasn’t, maybe they had been foolish to think that the war would end with Voldemort.

It's the summer before seventh-year and everyone is on their summer vacations. But mysterious events happen and twist the fate of the others. Harry receives a guest, Hermione runs into an alley where something is about to go down, and Ginny sees something strange in the distance. But that is just the beginning.

During the summer before sixth year, Harry Potter is sucked into another universe by forces not of this world. Dazed and confused, Harry finds himself in a world where his parents were never murdered, where Voldemort had never fallen and he is Voldemort’s key enforcer. Harry finds himself feared and despised within the community, revered and honoured by the Death Eaters, and endowed with instincts and abilities he has never known. As Harry discovers the terrible deeds he has done, he sets about trying to rectify what he never remembers doing.

Two days before the start of her third year at Hogwarts, Hermione receives a letter. But who from? And why is she suddenly having strange dreams?

In this AU of OotP, a dark, ancient evil seeks to have the Wizard Community in its grasp before Voldemort comes to power. A servant named Undertaker has been sent to Hogwarts. He has Harry under his control. Only one man can stop this evil--a Muggle warrior trapped in a time not his own. Chapter 1--Help arrives.

A year in the life of a fugitive: an energetic, resourceful, intelligent fugitive. He gets by, with a little help from his friends. (Friends don't let friends sit starving in a cave for a WHOLE YEAR and do nothing about it.) Note: this saga was started pre-OotP; hence a number of events and characters that don't quite fit canon, or wouldn't, if continued. On the whole, I think my family history and characters are more plausible, given Books 1, 2, and 3.... These are wizards, after all.

The war is long over, and Draco Malfoy is dying. However, his soul is not at ease. He recounts the events of the war that made him the person he is. Action.

AU. What if Sirius Black had Disapparated right after Pettigrew framed him, and proceeded to kidnap Harry from the Dursleys'? Harry grows up with Sirius while hiding from former Death Eaters, the Ministry AND the Order of the Phoenix!

Harry is sad and lonely, whilst Draco is cold, and wishes people didn't hate him quite so much. Alone they are nothing, but together they have a chance to give each other what they truly crave. ``Slash.

Aurors, ambassadors, secret elite societies with dark intentions and Unspeakables like Ginny Weasley abound in the political turmoil which surrounds the Ministry of Magic after it falls victim to a disaster which quickly evolves into an international incident. Meanwhile, Ron, a Ministry employee, Ginny, Hermione and Harry (not to mention Colin Creevey and Zacharias Smith) are just trying to make it through the next few days at work.``A tale of action, adventure, sarcastic Weasleys, Auror!Harry, plots to overthrow the government and, who could forget, just a dash of romance. First part of the Questor Trilogy.

AU. What if Harry had not gone and lived with the Dursleys? At least not for eleven years.``What if a certain werewolf had fought the fight of his life with the Ministry of Magic to get custody for Harry?``Love, peace and happiness for everybody involved? I don't think so.``Throw in the Dark Lord, Death Eaters, and escaped convict and an overprotective Lupin Family and you're in for a ride...a ride that lets Remus' custody struggle with the Ministry appear like a picnic.``The story takes place when Harry is seven years old.

She was smart, witty and brave as any Gryffindor. He was handsome, smart and arrogant...until an event in his 6th year made him change. Now Draco Malfoy, is quiet and reserved. ``It's their 7th and last year and Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy must come together, not only as Head Boy and Head Girl, but in order to fulfill a prophecy the whole world depends upon. Muggle and Wizard``alike.

Post-Hogwarts. Harry Potter is no longer a boy. He is a twenty-year-old man, and he rules the world. He has defeated Voldemort. But he is alone; his friends have vanished. And resistance against his rule is annoying him.... The Prince is in for a shock when the identity of the rebels is revealed....

Romance, and anger on part of the Weasley men. Not to mention a run through the latest in American pop music... Just general fun, and hopefully a plot.

Sixteen years after Harry Potter and the Daoimear de Dán, life is idyllic for the great heroes of the war. They love their jobs, their families and their lives. Mind you, sometimes things really are too good to be true.

Draco has some bad news – the consequences of such leads to a whirlwind revelation of love, hate and all the emotions in between as he discovers what it’s like to fall in love, defeat an age-old enemy and still have time to get completely confused.  Harry/Draco slash.

"Unusual Beginnings" is the first installment of my 'Unusuals' Series. "Beginnings" is a compilation of prologues about the years before my characters are accepted into Hogwarts. Read this first before reading the rest of the 'Unusuals' Series. Controlling fathers, Evil Charms, young Harry is abused and violent, very young Voldemort supporters, Voldermort is a half-spirit... and young Hermione is in the junior cheerleading team? Doesn't this spell chaos? Aye! And this is just the beginning!

It’s Uric “the Oddball” Beaufolle’s final year at Hogwarts. Badgers, goblin raids, young love, demon summoning, evil vampires, new classes, and of course, Uric himself.

Ron is acting strangely, sneaking out of the dormitory 'til all hours When his friends ask him what's going on, he refuses to explain, insisting that it's none of their business. . His grades are suffering and he's in serious danger of being expelled from Hogwarts. Can Harry and Hermione discover Ron’s secret before it’s too late?

Ginny is engaged to Harry Potter, and the wedding is in two months, but when she starts working as Draco Malfoy's secretary in the Ministry of Magic, things start changing, and Ginny is having second thoughts about the wedding...

When Harry decides to go visit the Weasleys after leaving Privet Drive, Sirius has no choice but to reveal himself, leading them both into a different adventure. AU third year.

Draco has a secret,``Ginny wants to know,``Malfoy won't share it,``And Ginny won't let go!

A different Harry comes to stay at the Burrow after the events of the Tri-wizard Championship, and no one knows quite what to do. H/G, R/H. Covers Harry’s 5th year. Surviving Voldemort, prophecies, girls, growing up...

Harry falls in love, with Lavender Brown? Snuffles is at Hogwarts, and Lupin the DADA teacher is back teaching again. Harry can do wandless magic.

Post Hogwarts, with tension in the wizarding world and Voldemort lying low. Once, Ginny Weasley would have done anything to become Mrs Potter, but things change. In a frightening turn of events, she realises that it's not just her that has changed. GW/DM.

Harry will go through a lot during his fifth year at Hogwarts. ``Between constantly falling out of bed, plagues of nightmares, getting a little ``over exuberant with Butterbeer, dodging Weasley chaos, and finding out more about ``his past then he ever wanted to know; Harry’s in for the adventure of his life.

Harry has been sent back in time, placed into his younger body before he was born. It becomes clear that Harry isn't completely human. And this time around, things may go differently. He has a chance to change the past...and save his parent's lives. But what will be the consequences? This is what happens when time is tampered with.

Ginny is rubbish at Potions and she needs help. Snape is Snape and Ginny is out for revenge, just who is going to help her? Draco gets the wrong idea and complications arise. This fic is supposed to be amusing....

When Sirius Black reawakens on the other side of the veil, he has one thought in mind: Harry needs him. As he searches for his godson, he comes across a host of old acquaintances that he was sure he'd never see again. But exactly what part do they have to play in the delicate and dangerous quest to return to the world in which he belongs?

The Terrific Trio's 6th year at Hogwarts turns into one away from the school as they receive training to become part of an elite group of wizards and witches. New powers are also discovered as well as new and unexpected friendships.

Ten years after Hogwarts everyone has scattered to continue with their own lives in peace, but not everyone had a happy ending.  Ron is one of a few who knows one of their circle didn’t die as the history books recorded; she was living in shamed exile.  He and Hermione must join forces again to battle dark wizards and pick up the pieces of their friendship with the help of an old enemy.

Harry's fifth year may turn out to be the most dangerous yet. Voldemort has discovered a way to drown the world in evil, and only the Guardian stands in his way. But the Guardian has betrayed the Light before...

Draco’s sixth year started badly and got worse. Join him as he struggles to learn a new skill, ignore the distraction of his best enemies and come to terms with a future he didn’t expect. Includes a walk in New Zealand and some stunning imagery.

The summer after OoTP, Lucius Malfoy is killed. At Dumbledore's urging, Draco is sent to live at the Order headquarters. There, he learns to live with Harry Potter and the rest of the Fantastic Four, until a Death Eater plot turns his new world upside down. When push comes to shove, will Draco defend his new comrades? Or will he embrace his old life, grabbing at his own share of power?

During a school visit to a wizarding country house, thirteen-year-old Tom Riddle is given a task by his Arithmancy professor -- but the far-reaching consequences are more than he bargains for.

Draco’s initiation as a DE and all that comes with it. Lucius, ``Severus, Slash!, Voldemort, Slash!, Draco, Narcissa, Angst!, and Pansy. Slytherins ``fight over power and control.

Ginny realizes she wasn't just chosen to be a prefect; later on so does Draco. There are more responsiblities they must bear . . . something about ancient magic . . . saving the world . . . and in the process, each other . . .````(Continuation of Iuga Sortis: Bound By Destiny)

Witches? Magic? Morgan was confused; she had just taken a vacation from her busy normal life and had travel to a country famous for its haunted castles and magical legends. But Morgan's idealized vacation was soon turned into the most traumatic experience in her life. From the moment she set foot on England she suffered from estrange and recurrent nightmares, she had an accident in an abandoned dirt road and she found herself as the recipient of a great and terrible secret; and to top all that, she got entangled in a war against a dark evil wizard! ``Her secret could change the direction of the events and save many lives, specially the life of a young boy, who was the only one who had the responsibility to stand up against that evil wizard.

Sequel to Harry Potter and the Orb of Power. ```` As Harry enters his sixth year at Hogwarts, he stands united with his friends and family, ready to confront another year of school. But when the wizarding world is thrown into chaos by the lack of a Minister and Voldemort's return, Harry finds his life begins to break down. Harry must find the Tome of Shadows, an ancient book that holds the secrets of immortality, and a way of defeating Voldemort, while he must also contend with a mysterious illness plaguing the students of Hogwarts. ````*Must have read Harry Potter and the Orb of Power, as it is an alternative fifth year story to Order of the Phoenix.

The Battle of the Gods begins. Fate is no laughing matter.

They always say there are two sides to every story. And then they always say that history is written by the victors. Well, we all know Harry Potter's side of the story, but what about another side? A side that shows a story very different from what you knew. The side of Draco Malfoy.

It's been over a year since Voldemort returned, and Draco is wondering where his loyalties lie. Matters are complicated further by the arrival of a strange individual from his past ... Voldemort makes nasty plans, mud-bloods start getting sick, Draco and Ron get lucky.

Harry Potter, Seeker extraordinaire for the Chudley Canons is retiring at the age of twenty-seven, looking to go back into the world of fighting Dark Wizards. As he is readying to enter into a new career as an Auror, he meets Ginny Weasley in the Leaky Cauldron. What happens when they get back together… overall fluff, right? Maybe not.

It's the end of the year holidays just after the sixth year at Hogwarts, Harry has been removed from the Dursleys care in his fifth year and is now staying at Hogwarts. He wakes up one morning to find himself changed tremendously... into a girl! How will he cope with the transformation and what is the cause of this sudden gender change?

In the summer of 1996, Voldemort launches eleven attacks against the Muggle-born of Hogwarts while he leads an attack against Privet Drive. What defenses could the poor Muggles possibly have against Death Eaters and their apprentices? See what the Grangers have waiting for them.

Will Harry *always* save the day? Can we trust his point-of-view on anything? An alternative 5th-year, 15-chapter novel, "The Potions Master" is inspired by the unanswered questions in the first four books. Harry's misperceptions of Snape complicate both a Voldemort-instigated adventure and a Marauder era mystery. Almost everyone we know from the HP canon makes an appearance (except the Dursleys). This story has been thoroughly betaread and edited through several drafts. Enjoy.

Eleni arrives at Hogwarts at the commencement of 5th year, with no memory before the age of nine. She tries to settle in but is plagued nightly by a mysterious reoccurring dream. Is the dream memories trying to surface and what is that Snape knows about her past? And why does Lucius Malfoy become so concerned?

Who is Bellatrix Black and how did she get to be so horrible? This is her story -- told through memories of her childhood and later school years. Follow her and her acquaintances as they grapple with the war and the challenges of following the Dark Lord. This is a story of those interesting characters who are the enemies of Harry Potter. Are they really all that different? It's time for you to get to know Bellatrix Black and find out.

Harry's fifth year, Order of the Phoenix style. Dementors, D/G pairings, The weirdest new teacher and the Marauders playing with time! Not to mention a surprise for the new Quidditch team captain!

Ginny Weasley steals a Time-Turner and devises a plan, but her initial intentions are ruined by clumsiness. Instead, Tom Riddle kidnaps her and takes her back with him to 1945. The only witness of Ginny's disappearance is Draco Malfoy, and he has a hidden agenda of his own. Will Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Luna be able to find her in a time when the Wizarding World was consumed by fear of exposure?

This fic is set in fifth year from the professors' perspective. ``Snape has lost out on the DADA position again, and to add insult to injury, he ``is forced to work with the new professor to protect the students when the school ``is targeted by Voldemort and his Death Eaters. Snape must work out his personal ``issues in order to recognize his true worth and fight the Dark wizards.

Lily and James are married. They begin their couple life. Mission for Dumbledore, friends' death, cries and other things...

April, 1982. Remus Lupin travels to India to track a creature that has been devouring villagers in the Himalayan foothills.

Parvati Patil has always been in the same house at Hogwarts and had all of her classes with Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger, people things happen too. They are always in the middle of something exciting. She has never lived a very exciting life but she is suddenly faced with choices that will change her life forever. Things get interesting for her and she is suddenly thrown into an exciting dangerous adventure where she has to fight for her life.

Following OotP Harry finds himself captured by DEs and framed for the murder of the Dursleys. Harry escapes and has to evade the Muggle Police and at the same time piece together the puzzle that is his family tree!

In Harry’s seventh year, Dumbledore comes up with a tournament of games whose purpose is to raise morale and eliminate inter-house animosity. Harry gets put in a group with Draco Malfoy and Jade Latimer (a Slytherin OC). When forced into spending time together, they realize that they’re more alike than they are different and become good friends. Slowly, Harry and Draco learn that love can grow out of even the most hostile soil.

While the wizarding world prepares for war, tensions rise even more at Hogwarts. In the meantime, Hogwarts sees yet another Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher who brings Harry more questions than answers about who he is and what he was meant to become. Lines are crossed, friendships destroyed and reformed, and the secret hidden in the depths of the school's most secret places may very well be the thing that destroys the wizarding world forever.

"I always say: Keep a diary and one day it'll keep you." -Mae West. From dazzling Paris and foggy London to bustling New York, six comapions find that their roads converge into one that leads to unexpected places. After the storms of his fifth year, Harry learns that he must rely on others or sink under the weight of his responsibilities. He will need the help of steadfast friends, new acquaintances, and old enemies to end an evil that was set in motion centuries before. The sequel to 'It May Be Raining.'

A short story sequel to the Ancient Order. Harry returns to Privet Drive for the summer only to find out that he has two new neighbors. One will lead him to adulthood, the other to maturity. One will teach him what love is, the other will show him what love is. Can Harry cope with these new experiences with Sirius's trial looming over his head? And where exactly does Cho Chang fit in the big picture?

One minute, Harry Potter was playing Quidditch against Slytherin, the next; he’s being magically transported to Voldemort and the Death Eaters. Will Draco and his sister learn, in their quest to torture Harry as much as possible, exactly why those curses are Unforgivable, and why their use earns one a lifetime sentence in Azkaban? And could Harry come out of this with Draco Malfoy as his friend?

An MS fic on its head: Mary Sue as a side character in a Hufflepuff’s life instead of the other way around. As Mary Sue saves the world and shags her way through fanon, the Hufflepuff house goes about its daily business. Justin Finch-Fletchley, this is your life.

Hermione and Draco are arguing by the lake, until the Giant Squid suddenly appears and sucks them into... another world. At first, they are trying to find a way home, but they find out that there is more than meets the eye, and get more involved than they expected. Mystery, romance, snogging and more. This fanfiction crosses over with the Final Fantasy 10 universe, including the characters.

After the events of A Most Ingenious Paradox, Harry and the gang are plunged once more into mystery and intrigue. A new quest takes Harry to far off Central America, Ginny meets up with both an old friend and a mysterious stranger, both Lee and Fred become involved with the same girl, and we discover what Sirius Black does for a day job.

The first chapter of this story was written as a reply to the "Highly Unlikely" challenge on The Potion's Master's Muse. This Christmas-themed challenge involved having the Potions master do something highly out of character while keeping him as in character as possible. As the story continues after Christmas, it travels from twelve, Grimmauld Place to Muggle London to Hogwarts with a multitude of canon characters. There's some politics and some romance, with the emphasis always being on a snarky Snape. It takes place parallel with OoP and slightly beyond.

Harry Potter has never once asked why he so often ends up fighting alone at the end. Not when he went to save Ginny Weasley from the Chamber of Secrets. Not when his name came out of the Goblet of Fire. Not even when he learned about the prophecy. He has never pitied himself for his situation or wished for relief from his responsibility, but for his friends he would ask that someone else take his place. Someone strong. Someone brave. Someone who knew what they were doing. He never expected someone to actually make it happen. But someone did; they sent him to a world where he grew up with his mother's best friend, and Neville Longbottom was marked. Set in the Prelude to Destiny/Backfire Universe.

Sakura Kinomoto finds a strange injured cat and soon discovers the wizarding world in the midst of their war. Wishing to help, Sakura, Syaoran, Tomoyo, and Eriol move amongst the wizards in secret and make some startling discoveries. Harry Potter/Cardcaptor Sakura crossover.

Remus joins his friends James, Sirius and Peter for their second year at Hogwarts. This year, things start off quiet but as the year progresses strange things lead up to the possibility of a professor's death.

Harry is subconsciously falling for a certain close female friend. In the mean time, he and his friends realize that sufferable sacrifices must be made as new gains and losses come to mind. With the Maneosioan War going on, which will determine either the final domination or defeat of the Dark Lord, will the power to weaken Voldemort be found in Harry Potter himself, or will they find it in those who they least expect - each other?

AU: Harry finds a way to bring Sirius back and in turn finds new allies in old friends in his quest for freedom.

Granted great power from the mysterious book of Black, a young girl comes under the care of the wizards and witches of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where she must learn the limits of her power and confront those that wish to take it from her.

Sirius Black is eleven years old and going to Hogwarts! Follow him from first year to James' death. See him grow, change and drift from his family and everything he was expected to become. What made Sirius so different from the rest of the Blacks?