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Hermione's feelings are hurt as Harry unknowingly hurts her in the most unexpected way.

The name of Mary Sue has gone down in Hogwarts legend for a person provided with certain extremely unamiable personal features. But who was the original Mary Sue? And why is she remembered? Be warned: there is a distinct shortage of laughs in this story.

Remus and Tonks, content in pretending.

Hufflepuff isn't generally a house that stands out. But as Hannah Abbott discovers, they may have something which nobody else does.

A quasi self-insertion occurs early in this fic, but don't let it dissuade you. This story is about how envy affects love and hate; it occurs in an AU where Voldemort is victorious. If I've achieved what I wanted to, by the end you'll have sympathy and understanding for both Gryffindor and Slytherin.

A poignant twist on the standard Diagon Alley scenario. While Hagrid is busy with others, Snape is sent to pick up a child, much to his chagrin and ill temper. However, after a curious scene on a crowded street, he comes to rethink his initial impression of her.

Harry hates Draco and Draco hates Harry even better. He gets a wonderful opportunity to play nasty dress-up games with Harry. Harry fights back. Sixth year, post OotP. Warning for cross-dressing and maybe even pre-slash, if you want to see it. Another Anti-Romance; definitely no romantic fluff.

Harry writes a letter. SLASH Harry/Severus

When Luna Lovegood's daddy finds out that his little girl was in the thick of the fight with the Death Eaters at the Ministry, he gets... upset.

Written for the HP_SS_Gen_Fest challenge 36: An emotionally damaged Harry flees to the Muggle world after years of fighting. The war is not over though so someone needs to bring him back. The only person available is Snape, who could care less about the mental well-being of his former student. Will this change though when he sees what the expectations of the wizarding world has done to the young wizard?

Later in the evening of June 24th 1995, Albus Dumbledore relives the fated night of the Tri-Wizard tournament, all the while pondering the choices of Severus Snape and the future of Hogwarts and the Wizarding world as he knows it.

A meeting for coffee in a busy bookstore/cafe leads to a reflection of thoughts and an unexpected twist. For Ishuca, as part of the war of words. Harry/Draco

‘No need to be held and loved, when you can merely spurt your deepest fears to someone you've known for years.’ ````The war is raging in the wizarding world and two lost souls find solace in each other. A very short and bittersweet ficlet. D/Hr

Scorches and claw marks left by the dragons may not be enough to heal the memories of a childhood loss.

When Lily goes into labour, Sirius finds himself questioning whether he really wants a baby to come between himself and his best friend.

On a warm April day, the Dark Lord Voldemort died and 15 year old Harry Potter became a murderer. With his life spinning out of control, he finds himself in despair. How can Lucius Malfoy save him from his downward spiral? And who is Ms. Dana Malfoy? AU fifth year fic.

He hadn't been the same since Sirius had died. Lupin and Hagrid's deaths didn't help things. What was the point in living anymore? So he could be the great hero from a prophecy? The prophecy didn't say who would survive. It might not even be him. Harry was sick of it. Sick of all the hero worship, the panic all around him was slowly driving him over the edge. That was part of why he was currently sitting on the edge of a cliff, thinking about death.

Hermione Granger knows the manner of a hero's death. (OotP spoilers, no romance, no death. Only bad dreams.)

It's his first day at Hogwarts, and Severus Snape has already managed to alienate every other person he's met, despite his best efforts at cracking jokes. All except one shy blond Slytherin boy called Nick Nickleback, that is. A Marauder-Era fic, although the Marauders do not star. Blood and Brothers details the first two years at Hogwarts for Severus Snape and Nick Nickleback. No slash (or any sort of romantic relationships, period. PG-13 for swearing and future blood and gore.)

James and Peter don't handle Remus and Sirius's little revelation very well. Fortunately, there's a pretty redhead named Lily Evans there to (reluctantly) save the day. First-person LE. An OC is thrown in free of charge. :-)

Little Harry knows what he wants for his sixth birthday. This is a sad childhood fic. One-shot.

It's Draco Malfoy's sixth year at Hogwarts. He has always approved of his father being a Death Eater. If he changes his mind will he be able to survive the consequence?

Sometimes, a few moments is enough.

Things aren't always what they seem.

Ficlet, set in the Lightning Letters Universe. Draco comes home after the War.

Polyjuice Potion, may the mayhem begin. Who is who? Who is snogging with who? Why does Draco have to tie himself to Crabbe or Goyle. Lots of slash.

By the time you read this I hope to be dead.

ONESHOT Hermione is Minister of Magic and responsible for all of the prisoners of Azkaban. She signs her name and their fates are sealed. Easy enough, but what will happen when she recognizes the name of someone she believes to be innocent?

In my third year, I became infatuated with a boy. A boy I knew I couldn’t have, no matter how hard I tried. You see, he was in love with someone else. You could see it in his eyes. Every time he looked at her, the hunger in his eyes, as if just the sound of her voice would send him in a dizzying spiral. There was something else. He was my best friend.

The Dark Lord's power is growing in the wizarding world as Bellatrix Black is heading into her seventh year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Unwillingly betrothed, Bellatrix tries to find herself again when she feels her future is lost. What made this Slytherin turn to the dark side and become Voldemort's leading lady? Read the true accounts of Bellatrix Lestrange.

Draco is still the inconsiderate prick we know and love but suddenly some unexpected events threaten his steel exterior. Will he accept these new experiences or will he harden his soul further?

What if when Harry destroyed Tom Riddle’s diary in the Chamber, Riddle’s memory wasn’t quite as gone as they all thought? After all, Ginny certainly remembers the experience. What happens when she begins to hear Riddle’s voice in her head?

A short songfic to The Who’s "Behind Blue Eyes." Slight Draco/Ginny.

"Everyone knows Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and especially Gryffindor all have their share of Muggle-borns right? Why is it then that no one stops and wonders why it is that none are in Slytherin?" -- Terence Higgs is the only muggle-born Slytherin in his year so he must deal with learning about a different world all alone.

Here is a story that is set between Draco's fifth and sixth year. How lives changed in only a three month period. Twenty-five people die as six others are injured living to tell their children how quickly life can change and to be thankful for what life is like now, but not what it may become in the future. For the future could be changed in a matter of seconds.

Everyone hates Snape - it's a given at Hogwarts - at least until the night he rescues eleven-year-old Hermione Granger from a terrible demise. Then our Potions master finds himself on the receiving end of a serious schoolgirl crush, complete with love letters and doe eyes! Severus is SO not amused... but boy, his fellow teachers sure are! This is GEN, set in year one. PG is just for one scary scene. Predominantly Hermione and Severus, with Dumbledore and McGonagall.

Some people react badly to love, others don't know what to do with it.

Think you know the real Ginny Weasley? Think you understand that sweet innocent child that would never hurt a fly? Think again, discover the real girl behind the mask.

Hermione Granger has been seeking her revenge for a decade. But when she finds what she's looking for, is it really what she's wanted all along?

What happens when you are colder than ice, and you think nothing can break through your hard shell? What happens when you're wrong? Draco is losing control.

Harry Potter and his closest friends have been captured been renegade Death Eaters, had their wands brutally broken before their eyes, and are in dire need of a resue that will probably never come. So, why are Dean and Seamus so happy?

Minerva McGonagall's thoughts during a memorial for James and Lily.

Hermione's childhood pen pal and friend recounts his relationship with her. He's bitter and lonely, she's nowhere to be found, apparently. Set a few years before its companion fic, Fireflies.

They always said time changes things, but Ginny found you actually have to change them yourself. She also found that things didn't always change, but she did.

This fairytale is dead and her Prince Charming is nowhere to be found. [Tom/Ginny, Ginny/Harry, R.]

After Harry ended a short fling with Hermione, she has trouble adjusting from being 'The Girl' to just being 'a girl' again. She's frustrated in that Harry is perfectly cheery now in Christmastime, while she just can't seem to get over him. Told in her PoV. With lyrics from "Stuck" by Stacie Orrico.

After a freak accident sends Draco Malfoy and his surrogate family into disorder, Draco must comes to grips with his rocky-road relationship with his half-sister, Chloe Lupin-Snape. Warning this story contains Severus/Remus and Harry/Draco

Set during Virginia Weasley's sixth year. Virginia ends up in detention with Malfoy, but he's not the person she's made him out to be. They're both about to have different second impressions of each other than they ever expected.

After the war, Draco Malfoy finds that some battles are just beginning.

Voldemort is up to his old antics again. Harry learns a number of potentially unpleasant truths about his past. And what is Hermione doing with the Big Book of Nefarious Dark Wizard Plotting Devices, anyway?

Draco shows up at Harry's door one day, asking him to take him in, but will he?

Hermione writes a letter that cannot be read.

Set the evening after the MWPP-era Defence Against the Dark Arts OWL. Severus Snape angsts about the true reason he insulted Lily Evans.

Draco Malfoy. Ginny Weasley. Both worlds apart, in more ways than one, or is it really? With the onset of the Second War, both teenagers, one broken and one tainted, will find out that sometimes some wounds run too deep to be healed. D/G

After his seventh year at that place, Petunia has a final meeting with her nephew.

Two short vignettes, one each for Ron and Hermione, of their thoughts after the Skeeter article pertaining to Hermione, and the fateful Potions class in which the reading took place.

It doesn't look at all like a memory...

Lord Voldemort abducts Hermione. But why? Oneshot.

With the war lost, Remus and Tonks are in hiding. He is trying to kill off every memory of before, she has too many thoughts to be put into words.

A ruined house, a knock at the door, a cold breakfast. One choice and history is changed forever. AU.

Over the summer, Draco Malfoy becomes yet another one of Voldemort's victims. Too proud to ask either parents or teachers for help, he finds understanding and help in perhaps the least likely place of all: Blaise Zabini.

Draco visits his father in Azkaban, and they end up doing more than talking. [Warning: Incest]

“March used to climb these trees every afternoon at this time of year, grabbing at McIntoshes and Macouns, turning the stem of each apple exactly eight times as she recited the alphabet, the way girls do to learn the identity of their true love, making sure to pull the twig free only after she’d reached the first letter of his name” -Here on Earth, by Alice Hoffman. This story is based off of that quote - pretty much, it's unrequited Hermione/Harry, but there's a twist as to why it's unrequited but I won't give it away. PG for the tiniest hint of slash.

He's having a hard time letting her go, but he knows she needs to be happy. That doesn't mean he's going to be happy himself. It's alright, because there's beauty in the breakdown.

Harry is suffering his usual daily torments from Piers and Dudley. But this time, a little magic is involved. Pre-Hogwarts.

Sixteen-year-old Bellatrix lives a life of darkness, evil, hatred, angst, faithfulness, and seduction. Follow Bella through her triumphs, emotional strifes... her seductions, and of course: Faithful service to the Dark Lord. *In Character!*

There are moments in people's lives that change everything. Hermione makes a decision and her life changes forever. Is it too late for love?````Companion fic/sequel to "She's Out of My Life".

When Ginny Weasley catches Harry Potter with someone else, she flirts with the idea of evil. ``Rated R for language and for one sexual situation and one sexual innuendo. D/G, H/L, R/Hr

Ginny's fiance is sent off to the war against Voldemort -- on the front lines, no less -- and she receives letters from him and the Ministry of Magic. And they don't bear good news. Not really a songfic, just.. inspired by a song.

An explanation for Sirius' angry reaction to learning that Snape was to teach Harry Occlumency. Before the beginning of OotP, Snape interrogates Tonks.

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. -- Kindness, Naomi Shihab Nye Oh yes, he has lost things. Lost his friends, lost his family, lost his love and his world. He has lost his direction. Lost his dreams, lost his faith. Lost his temper, lost his mind. The war is won, and Remus Lupin is lost. --- After Voldemort's defeat in 1981, Remus Lupin is left alone, and he is an angry and bitter young man. But out of loss, kindness can grow, and sometimes an unlikely person provides the opportunity for redemption. This fic covers the years 1981-1997.

The Dark side won. The Light side lost. Dumbledore gave Hermione her last gift: time.

Draco abandons Harry to grasp an only chance in defeating Voldemort. Harry quietly mourns his death, but people don't see Draco, who remains even after he died, in the form of a spirit, trying to finish what he never did in his mortal life. Written to the song from Casper's soundtrack, Remember Me This Way.

This is a story about Millicent Bulstrode and motivations and reasonings behind her actions. Sometimes people only see the surface state of certain people, and never look any deeper. It is important to look deeper, because there is more to people than their appearance and actions, expecially to Millicent Bulstrode.

An aside to Switch. SLASH. "The person underneath - where does he go? Does he slip by the wayside - or does he just die?"

Harry hates the night. It is in the night that his worst memories have been made. And this night is no exception.

After OotP, Remus is mourning. Severus sees him crying one day, steps inside and talks to him, being his nasty self - until he tells an old story. Oddly enough, this seems to comfort Remus some way.

It is only just that one Malfoy should follow another, in all things. ````WARNINGS: Incest. AU. Child abuse. Slash. Angst. Insanity. And. Um. A mild foot fetish?

While awaiting further instructions from Dumbledore, Remus helps Sirius conquer his demons. (Post-GoF, S/R)

Harry approaches a thought, carefully. How do you grapple with something like that?

Snape is hurting and needs release from his unhappy life, but who would actually want to give him the help and love he needs?

Harry has a dream that he's just five, and he is pretending he is a knight and bringing his mother, his fair lady, a rose from a magic tree.

Lily Potter's emotional trials after learning of the prophecy.

Ravenclaws are a fairly popular house, everyone's second choice, and some people's first. They are known for their intellect, their thirst for knowledge. Hardly anyone dislikes them. But everyone knows that. They are not known for their faults. No one seems to remember that Ravenclaws can be egotistical, can be stubborn in their obsession with the correctness of books. People forget that they are as flawed as any other house. But what one must remember, as with any other house, is that they are not all the same.

That would be it. The end of Hermione’s friendship with Ron and Harry. They would forgive her for a lot of things, but never for falling in love with Draco Malfoy.

Harry's eyes aren't as green as they used to be. Hermione thinks about why.

Harry waits for the summons to go fight the last battle of the war against Voldermort and contemplates, with Remus, the sacrifice he knows he'll have to make during it.

Sequel to Going Under: Ginny has a little chat with Hermione, in hopes she will be able to explain her new feelings to herself.

Hermione becomes very jealous when Ron chooses to go out with Padma Patil and she hears rumors of how the date went.

George waits, Ginny watches, and the ending will come anyway. ``WARNINGS: Incest, implied slash, implied non-con and underage (Ginny/Tom), death, much sadness, folklore references

Ginny is 16. And Tom comes again. He tortures her. Will she endure? It's a bit frightening but there is a little romance...

Ginny works in a post-war world where the Dark Lord reigns supreme.

This is a dark, twisted treat for Hermione-philes who feel it's high time she had a little fun. Draco/Hermione romance all the way, with as few other characters as I could possibly get away with.

We all knew it when we saw it; that turning point where, if Harry had just been a little smarter, a little more trusting of Snape, Sirius might have lived. Well, what might have been the price of that one life? AU from page 746 of OoTP on.

Harry died, and as a result the wizarding world is thrown into massive chaos. Azkaban echoes with bitter laughs from prisoners. The Ministry is hopelessly taken over. The house of Black...let's not go there. But with deceit comes a certain unfound secret. Who is this girl that was purposefully kept in Hufflepuff to fool even the professors in estimating her skill? How did she survive all these years with... Voldemort as her teacher?

"How can she be right in front of him, cowering yet vigilant, while he daydreams? Watching him, always afraid he will do something, always prepared to stop him." A childish amnesiac under the care of Ginny Weasley and the search for his identity, unaware of the trauma inflicted upon her as he gets closer to who he is... and what he was.

What happened to Professor McGonagall to make her resign from Hogwarts? Why is the Headmaster so cold? What does Aberforth have that Dumbledore wants?

Remus doesn't want to know why Sirius thought he was the traitor fourteen years ago.

The end of the world had been at the back of her throat, and at that crazy moment in time, with that blood-- dirty blood-- burning her fingers, it hadn't seemed likely that either of them would ever see another sunrise. She had been half out of her mind, and after the danger had passed, Pansy barely even remembered accepting.

The last battle comes and in the aftermath Hermione is left to pick up the pieces... but she's not completely alone. Set to Sheryl Crow's "Safe and Sound"