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Myfanwy Tewdwr's family has lost their fortune and reputation with Voldemort's downfall. In need of money, Mr. Tewdwr asks an old friend for help--Lucius Malfoy. Lucius is looking for a new maid, and Myfanwy is desperate for the money. She is shipped off from the coast of Wales to the huge Malfoy Manor, where she is expected to face a lot more than dust bunnies.

AU. Sirius dies while fleeing Azkaban. But he has sworn that not even death will stop him...

Harry, Ron, and Hermione go back to school after a summer where Voldemort had terrorized Scotland. Then they meet Myra, an exchange student from America. When a man named Drake shows up strange things start to happen. Snape has a crush, and we find out a huge secret about Lily Potter.

Ten years after Deathly Hallows, Filius Flitwick's family faces the exposure of the magical world.

Voldemort is dead and Harry is excited at the prospect of having a peaceful year at Hogwarts. But things begin to get complicated when he starts getting letters from someone claiming to be in love with him. Who could it be? Could it be Cho? Or Ginny? Will Harry be able to cope up with the least expected ``Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher? How does Hermione and Neville fit into ``the picture? Read to find out!

They lay quite near to each other. They were knocked out in the struggle of the battle between Death Eaters and members of the Order of the Phoenix. They had been left, thought they had perished. They hadn't.

Harry struggles to come to terms with the events at the Department of Mysteries. Sirius’ death and his friends’ injuries weigh heavily on him as he begins another long summer with the Dursleys. He feels like he has been through so much already; too much. Is he prepared to become the hero he must in order to defeat Voldemort and save the wizarding world? Harry has learned a lot of things in his years at Hogwarts, and the hardest of these is that changes come, whether you are ready or not.

Hagrid meets with a beautiful stranger from his past in The Three Broomsticks to reminisce…or more? Who is this woman...and what is her relationship to Hagrid? More importantly, what will their relationship become?

Harry Potter had once believed that his seventh year at Hogwarts would be a year to cherish. Yet as September approaches, Harry finds himself reluctant to return. When he does, the castle is nearly empty, its corridors silent, the teachers half-hearted and afraid, and the High Table devoid of the familiar twinkle-eyed headmaster. Those of Harry's friends that did return have changed as well: Ron seems to be hiding something, Hermione is obsessed almost to the point of insanity over finding the Horcruxes, and Neville is acting more violently than before after every Death Eater attack. Harry himself is becoming increasingly attached to the question of "What if...?" and also, the words "Neither can live while the other survives."

And the unseen eyebeam crossed, for the roses``Had the look of flowers that are looked at. ~ T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton````All good things must come to an end, including life at Hogwarts. So Hermione Granger has realized as she starts her freshman year at the International Wizarding University. Though she tries to forget a difficult past, she must face it and her present to ultimately answer the question: who is she, really? ````Featuring roommate troubles, interesting romances, angsty ranting and people getting "lei'd". Enjoy!

Hermione has something to tell Ron. Ron has something to tell her. They end up in a closet, but, unfortunately for Ron, not snogging.

On a peaceful evening at home, Harry and Hermione's daughter Helen reflects on life as a Potter.

Set in the Marauders' fifth year, this is a collection of short stories told in Remus Lupin's POV. It details the highlights of that year including Animagus transformations, full moons, Snape grudges, careers advice and OWLs as well as touching upon the Marauders map, the daily slog and pranks.

What happed when Arthur Weasley returned to the Ministry of Magic after Harry's disciplinary hearing? Includes a pair of impatient gloves and an unimportant toaster.

In the Trio's and Malfoy's sixth year a girl who is identified as Snape's niece shows up and changes their lives forever.

Third in the alternate-timeline series (starting after Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) begun with "Who We Are" and "Trouble Brewing". A sphinx meets a Riddle, Ron wins at chess, Harry meets an old friend, Sirius escapes from Azkaban, and Tom almost gets a picture of his mother....

We know how their story ends, but how did it begin? A tale of love amidst a back drop of war. R/T This story begins at the end of OOTP. We will be following canon for now, but reserve the right to change our collective minds.

New people arrive to school and change Harry's life so much, he could have never imagined it. He also makes many revelations, and great descisions. Everything is different by the end of the year. Better or worse? You decide. This is my version of Harry's fifth year and it's a whirlwind.

Spike has run away from Sunnydale, he’s gotten his soul back, and he’s not happy. Rather than return to the arms of the Slayer who rejected him, he goes off to London to brood for a while. There he meets an old wizard with an interesting offer that will whisk him away into old memories that he would rather forget, and a prophecy surrounding the one known as the Boy Who Lived. A Buffy the Vampire Slayer crossover.

Hermione and Ron visit Harry in a safe house during the war.

Harry Potter receives a letter from Lupin regarding a new godfather. While Harry is miserable, Voldemort continues to hunt him down.

After a long day of flying about on the Quidditch Pitch, Harry heads to the locker room. Someone else also has that idea.

They were very much in love. But fame came between them; one wanting a normal life while the other, basking in the limelight. Now she tells her daughter about her past, and her mysterious father. But the two lovers will meet again, for better or worse.

A glimpse into Fleur's silver-blonde head--why does she flirt with Cedric? How would she react to Draco Malfoy? What drives her?

A fifth year fic centering on Hermione. When a new Muggle Arts and Entertainment class comes to Hogwarts, chaos results. Hermione's past is literally thrown into the spotlight as we learn her secrets. Meanwhile, Hermione and Ron's relationship is slowing going from best friends to something more and is this class going to get them together, or complicate matters for them? This fic has it all, including humor, action, romance, and anguish!

Politics. Power. Lies. Love. Percy Weasley. What happens to a Dream Deferred?

The Marauders have a new friend. She's beautiful, intelligent, has loads of talent, and her name is Connie. What happens when she and Sirius get mixed up in love and forbidden curses?

What if Hermione never went to Hogwarts? What if she went to Beauxbatons instead? This is the story of what happened when she went to Hogwarts in her fourth year and made friends with Harry and Ron.

Lily Evans thought she was an ordinary muggle. She actually knew what a muggle was. And that is what interested James Potter. But Lily is not a muggle, and someone knew that before she was even born... but how? Later in her first year at Hogwarts, Lily discovers a book, but there is something strange about it.

There were others at Hogwarts who led their own lives with their own drama that Harry never met. These people would also grow up to someday fight He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. She was one of them. She wasn't perfect by any means. She wasn't the prettiest, or the most charming, and at first, she definitely wasn't the smartest. She didn't save the day, or date any of the heroes(Harry, Ron, Oliver, Malfoy, etc). She was just another normal witch at Hogwarts who had to overcome her own struggles with herself. This is her story.

Harry learns that he is the last surviving Heir of Griffyndor, and that Prophecy says an Heir of Griffyndor will destroy Voldemort. This is why Voldemort wants Harry dead. Harry has a cunning plan to exploit Voldemort's faith in the Prophecy -- or did Dumbledore think of it first?

Sirius is lost to Harry forever, and Harry's having trouble handling it. He begins to realize just how much Ginny means to him, but can't seem to express it while holding onto the past and fearing the future. Can Ginny make him see that you can't deal alone? (H/G)

Harry has started his fifth year at Hogwarts with Voldemort back to power. Join Harry in his new adventure along with the old crew, Dumbledore, the weasleys, Hermione and the Hogwarts itself to face the new challenges.

Hermione discovers an entirely new way to do magic. Professor Snape needs her new abilities for a Potions project. Can spirituality ever reconcile with cold rationality? Contains much musing and speculation on the nature of magic; and an alternative 'History of Magic' that would definitely upset Profesor Binns!

How did the Marauders meet? Includes the points of view of all the Marauders.

Summer after GOF. Harry writes to Sirius and asks for help. Sirius then has to care for a sick Harry. Sirius lovers will like this story.

All's fair in love and war... With tension high among the Order of the Phoenix, what will happen when envy, anger, desire, and even love are added to the mix? Response to the "But I Saw Her First Challenge" on When I Kissed the Teacher. Snape is attracted to Hermione, but has sworn to himself he would never act on his feelings. How does his opinion change when he discovers Hermione in a rather compromising position with a fellow member of the order: a man his own age, and a former professor of Hermione’s, not to mention an old rival? How far do you have to go to prove you love someone?

Sometimes to win a war you need to make your own luck, or at least import it. Harry’s class gets an import from across the pond in their seventh year. She’s rude, dangerous, and doesn’t like the cold. In the end she might also be the last moment leg up they need. From here on out the rules are different as love, money, belligerence and violence take center stage.

In Harry's fifth year, he is contacted by a mysterious organization. He disappears and comes back a year later with a new look and a new name. A lot happens in the span of time that he is gone, and both Dumbledore and Voldemort each think that the other has Harry secretly hidden away. Harry disappears and neither side realizes that the enemy does not hold him. The wizarding world lives on without it's hero, and most think that he is off somewhere training. If only Dumbledore or Voldemort realized how close to the truth the common people really were.

We've all had the talk at one point or another, right? But from our parents....How would you feel, girls if you received this "talk" from Fleur Delacour? Or guys, from Fred or George Weasley? Well three certain Gryffindors are about to experience sex advice at it's worst. And what - pray tell - does Draco Malfoy have to do with it? From Harry's POV.

"I have a challenge for you, Ronald Weasley." Her voice was now soft, too soft. "A challenge? Oh really, and what may that be, Hermione Granger?"

"You said you wanted to hear a love story, didn't you?" Two people. Best friends. Neighbors. Soulmates. Two of a kind. Seamus Finnagan and Natalie MacDonald. Their ups, their downs, their in betweens. This is their story. Good even if you don't like minor characters (and especially if you do!)

It is the trio’s seventh year and it’s full of surprises: Ron has found love, Hermione isn’t the quiet bookworm she used to be, Draco is squeezed in there somewhere, and what about our dear Harry Potter?

Sirius Black is starting his second year at Hogwarts, along with his three good friends, James, Peter and Remus. However, something seems to be wrong with Remus, like the way he sometimes disappears for a few days at a time and comes back looking incredibly tired and (occasionally) beat up. Well, Sirius has had enough of trying to guess the problem, which has been going on since first year, and with the help of Peter and James, he's going to find out just what's wrong with Remus Lupin...

Draco's job is to escort travelers through the dangerous, war-torn countryside. Harry Potter is forced to hire him, but his destination isn't quite what Draco expected. Mild slash.

Ginny Weasley is faced with unbelievable hardship as her fifth school year draws near. Forced to leave her home behind she receives a strange gift that has the power to bring two lives together in unexpected ways as she takes a journey through grief, pain, and ultimately love. Love due to The Power Within.

Definition of 'hag': an ugly, old woman who smells horrible and has warts all over the place. A hag is also what Hermione Granger calls her younger (and previously unknown) sister. Of course, Helen prefers the nickname Helen of Troy. Much more suitable for her (so-called) exotic aura and beauty. Of course, Hermione would just say 'hag' fits better. Sisters are sisters.

It's Christmas, 2005. Remus Lupin is Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts; Peter Pettigrew is The Man Who Betrayed the Dark Lord. Both are married with children. They have unfinished business with each other. (Light RL/NT. Postlude to "Running Close to the Ground").

Draco Malfoy has a little secret he wished to dispose of, but is seen by Harry Potter. By some sheer luck (misfortune), a potion falls their way and its effects are made known the next day when they wake. Expect ickleness and hugs, and more appearances of Professor Snape.

Hermione returns to Hogwarts as a Professor rather than a student, but how will she cope teaching her old friends and enemies? What are the powers of Hermanté, and can Hermione use them to help win the war against Voldemort? ...or will she be tempted to join the other side? ...and can Snape protect her when the time comes? (Snape/Hermione)

Voldemort was finally defeated six months prior and not without sacrifice. The battle was fought and there were casualties on both the Dark and Light side. Witches and wizards celebrated for weeks, but now the summer's come and plans for a new school year must be made.``The year is 1998 at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and a new witch is appointed the position of Care of Magical Creatures. She brings with her eight animals, an accent and a past from a world of make believe.``Even Wizards have places that are known only in myth. And like Wizards to Muggles, sometimes the inhabitants make themselves known.

Lily and James have been enemies since first year, and vice-versa. Their friends know that there is a certain flame between them, and are determined to get them together. But then something goes wrong, and they think that Lily and James are never going to get together! How wrong were they!

Young Duncan Dursley doesn't understand why his father hates him. It's not Duncan's fault that strange things happen, or is it? And who's this mysterious uncle in the black robes? Will justice truly be done?

Harry can't last one night without sneaking in her room...

Sometimes, all you need after all long day is a hot bath and a pizza.

What if Lily Potter had never died that night in Godric's Hollow? What if Voldemort did get past her to little Harry? What if the world was turned on its head by this? What if I could actually switch off my imagination and stop coming up with such weird storylines?

Minerva finds Snape's last requests. Then, from an unknown source more bequests come forth, attesting to the man's character and oft mis-spent life.

Things start to get a little crazy when the Weasleys get a new swimming pool and are left with it for seven hours... with Fred and George in charge!

OotP was a long book, but what if it had been just a few pages longer?``Characters' thoughts as they leave the station. H/L?

Things start getting strange for Harry even before the start of his fifth year, with Harry, Hermione, Ron and others trying to stop Voldemort's spread. Trouble with the Dursley's, anti-Voldemort leagues, cults, and lots of excitement inside.

Despite wizards trying to keep the magical world secret, the USA's FBI has been tracking the Death Eaters. An OC agent is sent to hunt down DEs in Britain and runs into mysteries, adventures, Sirius, Aurors, even Harry and Voldie!

With Voldemort at full power no one is safe. Hogwarts seems to be the only safe place but for how long can Dumbledore keep the evil out? What will be done to protect those in the most danger from Voldemort?

It's the Summer beginning exactly 1 week after the leaving feast. Harry's depressed. Dumbledore has an idea. We meet 3 new characters with a past of their own. New love, new friendships and a weird turn of events!

The war is over and Severus Snape has one more term left to work at Hogwarts. How does he end up running the school games club and how will it affect him?

What if Sirius had a son? What if he and Harry found a way to change the past so Sirius lived, and Harry's parents were prepared for Voldemort? Would they do it?

A school play at Hogwarts? Oh dear god.

Gabrielle Delacour arrives at Hogwarts pursued by dark beasts, ``attempting to get a message from her sister to Harry and Ron. Unfortunately, it ``is Draco who finds her. And then her message is intercepted by a mysterious force. ``Meanwhile, Harry has been having strange dreams....

Ron is lying on his bed, alone in the dormitory reflecting on his feelings for Hermione

Contained in these pages is a crossover that I've been thinking about for the last year or so and have finally gotten around to writing. Harry and the others begin to learn the ways of the Force to combat an as-yet unseen threat. Come on, it's Star Wars and Harry Potter, what could be better together, aside from macaroni and cheese?

This is the story of Narcissa's teenage years and how she became the fatal flower that she is. Her quest for beauty is ultimately a quest for love and she finds it in the most unlikely place.

*Complete* Miriam Strout is an accomplished Healer - whether she wants to be or not - with good friends - generally, anyway - and a passable social life - well... So, when her ex-husband escapes from Azkaban prison, it understandably throws a wrench in her plans. Takes place in PoA, Sirius/OFC. Funny, quick, interesting, and something that fell into place very nicely without any central planning.

Severus Snape met his match when he was a student only to lose her shortly before graduation. When she returns after over a decade, things change. This story goes back and forth between present day and the past when Snape and the Marauders where in school.

Written for Jen on her birthday, with a certain cute little boy in mind. Harry/Draco, future-fic. Pure fluff.

Sirius Black is off to his first year at Hogwarts. Once there, he must fight to be accepted, but must also learn to accept himself. Pranks with James, fights with Snape, and sinister happenings behind the scenes, this looks like being a very eventful year for the young wizard!

What if Harry had realized he had the ability to talk to snakes before he found out that he was a wizard? His life with the Dursleys, his introduction to the wizarding world, even his experiences at Hogwarts would all be very different. Nine-year old Harry’s dreary life of servitude to the Dursleys takes a turn for the better when he accidentally finds out that he has the ability to converse with snakes. Two years later, he received an invitation to attend a mysterious school that will change his life even more. Instead of a popular hero in Gryffindor, he winds up a Slytherin, ostracized and feared by most for his apparent dark powers. Harry learns to rely on his friends, while contending with the mystery of the third floor corridor.

When Ron becomes a father, he must confront his issues with his mother.

Christmas shopping is always a hassle. Christmas shopping with your two closest friends for a present for your wife, on your first Christmas together? Oh that’s always worse.``James was always intelligent when it came to spells, enchantments and hexes. Not so much in the Why These Blokes Are My Friends area, though.

Ginny Weasley has found out she has been exploited without her knowing. A Polyjuice brothel. Draco Malfoy. A grown and not-so-innocent Ginny Weasley.

When a cures of seven plagues is cast upon Hogwarts things go more than slightly awry. No one is as happy as they thought, their false faces are shattered, revealing a diferent side. Through all this love is found, with students and teachers breaking out in song and acting on their true feelings. D/G R/Hr, humor, angst, guilt and romance, a bit of everything!

There are two sides to every story. See the events of the infamous werewolf prank as they unfold through the eyes of both Sirius Black and Severus Snape.

A mysterious girl catches Draco's eye in his seventh year. As he gets to know her he finds out she is more than she seems...

19 year old Ginny wishes for something more in life, and she just might find it in a certain unexpected somone. Draco/Ginny.

Twenty years after leaving Hogwarts, Harry and his friends return for a reunion, a celebration, and to watch their own children begin their lives at the fabled castle.

This year, Father Christmas is busy. He asks his dear friend Albus to help him give away presents to the students of his school. Find out what our favourite characters asked for (Harry, Ron, Hermione, Draco, the Weasley twins, etc).

Soul Weaver is a compelling story of regret, redemption and romance spanning the life of Severus Snape from the time of the Marauders to the final battle between Harry and Voldemort. Learn the astonishing truth about Snape's past, a truth that has been hidden even from him. Join Harry after the events of Half-Blood Prince in this sweeping tale of mystery and adventure, as he takes up a unexpected mission for Albus Dumbledore - a mission that will result in long-hidden secrets being unravled and that will lead to the inevitable showdown between good and evil. Will hate destroy all who stand against it, or will love truly show itself to be the most powerful force in the universe?

Ron and Hermione observe their six daughters' physical and mental features before they take them to Hogwarts Express. The beginning of series of families observing their children's character traits.

AU beginning after Chamber of Secrets. Voldemort makes an electrifying return and a mistake born of arrogance; Harry talks the illusion of a young and uncorrupted Tom Riddle into reality.

(H/D slash Dark!Harry) After a rather disturbing set of events orchestrated by Voldemort, Harry has no choice but to serve the man he once hated. Will the Light be able to help him or is he truly irredeemable?

What would an outsider have thought of the Dursleys' treatment of Harry? Set during PS/SS.

Ron and Hermione argue. Harry and Ginny talk. Revelations, realisations, and chocolate! What else could it be but a Harry Potter fluff fic?````Chapter 1 of 4: Ginny's Tale, or why horrible older brothers can sometimes have their uses.

After discovering that he is the Heir of Slytherin, Tom meets the Heiress of Ravenclaw. His life becomes intertwined with the lives of three generations of Ravenclaw daughters as he pursues their prized heirloom and turns it into a Horcrux.

Harry is trying to deal with the death of Sirius and the knowledge of the Prophecy while spending the last two weeks of summer at the Burrow, when an unexpected visit from Luna Lovegood turns his entire thought processes askew...

Colin Creevey remains impossibly optimistic- despite his parents' divorce, his impoverished existence as a latchkey kid in a Liverpool slum. The one thing he's really got in this world is his little brother, Dennis- and a need to find someone worth looking up to. Then one day an owl arrives with news that open up a whole new, exciting world- and he meets a hero named Harry Potter whose influence changes Colin's life forever, even though admired from a distance. This innocent novel takes place at exactly the same time as HP:CoS, but is written entirely from Colin's POV.

Actually, Harry did enter the sealed room in the Department of Mysteries at the end of his fifth year.

Why was Lupin so surprised to find out Harry had heard James' voice? What has Sirius been doing all summer? Why exactly is Harry such a great Seeker? Will Snape ever be "normal?" And how much like his father is Draco Malfoy? It all comes to a head during Harry’s fifth year at Hogwarts...

A new student at Hogwarts has had experiences which are similar to Harry's, and he seems to be taking over Harry's place in the school. Meanwhile, Ron has a crush on _____ and Hermione is going crazy studying for the O.W.L.s.

A fic about the Marauders, starting from the very beginning! It's the very best place to start...

Will you marry me? It’s a simple enough sentence right? But for the eight Gryffindors in Harry’s year, each has different experiences with the phrase. They range from R/Hr’s casual proposal, in which they might have easily have been talking about a shopping list, to Pavati having to turn down a very public proposal.

It is Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts, and he doesn't know what to expect this year. Ron's having strange dreams. Hermione is getting impatient with Ron and also doing a lot of research. Draco is acting very oddly. Blaise is getting tired of the enmity between the houses. And there are new arrivals at Hogwarts. R/Hr H/?