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The Magical Law Enforcement Squad think that they're the good guys. But that's news to Sirius, especially when one of them sets out with something to prove, and it might cost him his life.

**2008 Quill to Parchment Award: Runner-Up Winner - Best Marauder Era** Summary: What happened on that fateful night at Godric's Hollow and the (still!) unknown events that led up to Harry's arrival on Privet Drive the next night? What motivated the actions and decisions that were made in the years leading up to the defeat of Voldemort? The truth is neither black or white - only complicated shades of grey. Behind the stories of Lily Evans, Severus Snape and Peter Pettigrew, we learn that we are all vulnerable to evil. Written between HBP and DH - story is complete.

After a summer in exile, Harry is desperate for someone honest in his life. When he bonds with the new DADA Professor, he goes through dangerous personality changes. The threat of Voldemort is growing and even Dumbledore is second-guessing his decisions. Hermione and Ron must team with Sirius, Remus and, surprisingly, Snape to help Harry. But who will save them?

Remus Lupin has been missing for two weeks. As Severus Snape finally finds him, a new shock awaits both Remus and his friends: He's pregnant. And not to Lucius Malfoy, who's raped him, but to Severus, who's never laid a finger on him. Between Voldemort's twisted plans and Sirius's suspicions, Severus tries to both take care of Remus and keep his child from becoming the victim of an ancient Dark ritual.

Sequel to Armilla. Armilla's story continues: the wizarding world is now at war and it seems old grudges must be put aside for the good of the Light. As Severus struggles to do this, Armilla also faces her own personal hardships. HBP year, but now AU

Just a game? Since when was this all just a game? Draco Malfoy does not play games. Games are for Gryffindors and other subhuman life-forms. The people genuinely worth having in your address book take everything as life and death. Chess, cards, Quidditch, and love. So why doesn't love have rules? If Potter could move on those squares only, and Draco could avoid being taken in with a little bit of strategic playing, things would be so much easier...

It is Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts. He is struggling to come to terms with what has happened over the last few years, but this year is not going to get any easier! There is someone at Hogwarts who can not be trusted ...

After a brutal attack, Harry loses his memory and ends up trapped in Malfoy Manor. Here, games are everything and you have to keep your wits about you to survive. Can Harry play the Malfoys at their own game? DRACO/HARRY slash, plus LUCIUS/DRACO.

This is the second part of a three-part story about the Malfoy family, the sequel of 'Ad Mortem Festinamus' and the prequel to 'Et Nulli Miseretur'. This part describes the time between Voldemort's downfall in 1981 and Dumbledore's death in 1997

After the events of the TriWizard Tournament, Harry finds himself depressed and terribly lonely. Even his closest friends can't see what's wrong. A chance encounter on Christmas Eve with his greatest rival (no, not Voldemort or Snape) leads Harry down a path he certainly never expected. Rated R for language, abuse/rape (non-descript), slight AU.

Slight AU - summer before OotP. All Jack wants is a hefty ransom for that spoilt Dudley Dursley. When he kidnaps another boy in the Dursley house along with Dudley, however, he gets a lot more than he bargained for.

A series of short fics following the HP-verse into the afterlife.

What starts as a harmless dare leads Harry into a place even more frightening than the Forbidden Forest: Draco Malfoy's heart. Seeing himself reflected in some of Draco's most private thoughts sets Harry up for a host of new experiences, the least of which are some very private moments with his so-called enemy.

Pansy Parkinson returns to school for her seventh year to find that everything has changed. The most jarring difference is the existence of Moonshyne Riddle, the new saviour of the wizarding world. Part parody, part AU.

Remus Lupin tolerates mischievous friends and lycanthropy, while the prophetic Ariadne MacDougal negotiates a misguided family, and everyone must deal with the Death Eaters. A rather dark coming-of-age story about the death of innocence and the renewal of hope during Voldemort’s first war. Part I of

In the summer of 1995, Lord Voldemort pays a visit to number four, Privet Drive. Fortunately, the Dursleys are in Majorca. Unfortunately Harry isn't. Transformed into a serpent, a prisoner in Voldemort's lair, Harry must engineer his escape amidst encounters with Nagini and Wormtail to bring Dumbledore vital information, and then find a way to protect Malfoy from the Dark Lord's wrath when Draco's mission goes awry.

What would it be like to be a classroom assistant at Hogwarts? One with a dark past? One makes even he who believes love is a frivolity want her? One that will even betray her lover? Severus Snape gets more than classroom help out of his assistant.

31 October 1981. Instead of going to Azkaban Sirius Black goes on the run, determined to catch the traitorous Peter Pettigrew even as post-war violence tears through the wizarding world. Meanwhile, Remus Lupin and a handful of others work desparately to clear Sirius' name, and to find him. After all, they are not the only ones hunting Sirius. The Ministry of Magic has set the Dementors on his trail, and they have been given permission to administer the Kiss the instant they catch him. The remnants of the Death Eaters are pursuing him as well, in hopes that he will lead them to Pettigrew, whom they blame for Voldemort's defeat.

We all know what happened the night of Dumbledore's death. We know how Harry felt, and what he did. But what about Draco? What happened to Draco that terrible night? This is his story. Follow Draco through his summer as he remembers that horrid night.

Katie Bell thought she had a normal life. She had parents, a roof over her head, and she went to a great school. But a few weeks before her fifth year at Hogwarts, everything changed. People requested a fleshed out version of "Cry"...here it is.

Harry learns horrifying news about his parentage, which highly affects his relationship with Draco Malfoy.

Hermione Granger is turning her Sweet Sixteen, a time when each girl becomes the woman she will be for the rest of her life. (some H/Hr)

A Draco-Ginny fic like no other...

Draco receives a letter from his father, and with it, a mission involving Harry Potter. This is a story about how even the most carefully considered plans can go wrong sometimes.

"It’s easy to hate someone from a distance. When you talk to a person, up close, things can look very, very different." Draco sets Harry up for an ambush, but revenge isn't enough. He wants to see Harry fall for himself, and he wants Harry to know, when it's all over, that Draco Malfoy finally beat him. So, Draco decides to shadow Harry all day... but he gets much more than he bargained for. Never get too close to your enemy; you might mistake him for a human being.

When Harry sneaks into Hogwarts nether regions to spy on a visiting Lucius Malfoy, he has no idea what he's getting himself into. A different kind of showdown, in the Chamber of Secrets and beyond, between Lucius Malfoy, Harry Potter and Tom Riddle.

When Voldemort lures Harry Potter to the Department of Mysteries, the life of Severus Snape starts to get REALLY complicated. This story includes MAJOR SPOILERS for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. This story is in part a re-write of my (abandoned) pre-DH story of the same name which is incpompatible with DH canon. Parts of it may therefore seem familiar to readers of that story.

SS/HG. Severus Snape and Hermione Granger have one thing in common: they remember because they must and they forget because they can. But one cannot run from the past forever. It eventually catches up to you, for good or for ill.

Nothing interesting ever happened to Sindaria Olsen, or if it did, it was very rarely. She went to school; she did her homework, and lived life in the dangerous streets of New York City. Her family was poor and they had barely enough money to put her through school. She helped around the house as well as she could and bagged groceries at a nearby mart to help her struggling family. As she nears her tenth birthday, strange things begin to occur. Then her father got a job offer in London, England and they had to pack up what little they had and move. Little did Sindaria know, her life was about to get very interesting.

One question: If Harry survived because of his mother's love, why did Lily die? So, that fateful Halloween night rolls around, and James' love saves his wife and son. Two years later, Lily remarries, still more dead than alive after her husband's death, and has a daughter a year after her marrage. At eleven, Harry recieves his letter and leaves his half-sister, stepfather, and two best friends, James Black and Romulus Lupin, to go to Hogwarts. How has his fate been affected by the man he's learned to call his father?

Severus snapped his head to look down at the girl with a startled frown, the next words that Albus Dumbledore would calmly say ricocheting throughout his mind with a reverberating echo that would cause his head to ache for quite some time afterwards. ``“You are looking at the girl who turned Tom Riddle into Lord Voldemort...”

Two years after Voldemort’s fall, Remus Lupin plays at teaching, while Ariadne MacDougal prepares for a career in apothecarism. But what is the price of choosing what is right over what is easy? And is Caradoc Dearborn really dead? Part II of

In his fifth year, Tom Riddle falls into the grasps of an all - consuming darkness. He becomes obsessed with inventing a new spell -- an enchantment that will allow him to see into the future and reassure himself that he will play an important role in life. During his seventh year, he uncovers the spell and instead of his mind being thrown into the future - as does a seers when they make a prophecy - Tom is thrown into another time: mind, body, and soul.

"I've had enough trouble for a lifetime." A continuation of Harry Potter and The Deahtly Hallows. What happened in the nineteen years? What happened to Harry, Ron, and Hermione? DEATHLY HALLOWS SPOILERS!

Harry, Cho, Ginny, Ron, Hermione, Luna and Draco are going to stay with muggles in a small American town.``Buffy and the scoobies agreed to host some students from England.``Lucius and Angelus meet.``Voldemort wants to take over the world.``Everything happen for a reason.````A story full of magic, vampires, suspense, action and, of course, romance.

The power of Harry's bloodline has kept him alive. How? In Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts, he learns of the power he inherited, discovers new students and talents, and begins to grow into the shoes that will take him to his destiny.

When your enemy learns your deepest secret, something that could cost your dearest friends their wands, you have no choice but to submit to his blackmail. But what happens when he awakens parts of you, searing and dangerous, that only leave you wanting more of his torture?

The boundary between the fëa and physical world has faded; what was sealed in the past will once again walk free. The elves ancient enemy has awakened and alliances of all creatures will be formed. The threads binding Harry Potter, Remus Lupin and Sirius Black tighten, interconnecting with the lone elf who has returned to the mortal world.

Snape-centered fic, also contains Harry, Remus Lupin, Dumbledore, and Sirius Black. Takes place in the summer after Year 4. This is a Snape-as-Harry's-father fic. Characters are true to books (So no mushy-Snape). No sex (not even a hint!) or gore, violence and character deaths very minor and will not upset. No non-canon characters.

Nearly a decade post-Hogwarts, Harry's Quidditch career is slipping into oblivion, his marriage to Ginny is failing, and even his friendship with Ron is on the rocks. Lord Voldemort, having lost all his magical powers, has been imprisoned by a Ministry too fearful to kill him and is slowly whiling his years away in bored ignominy. Meanwhile, the magical world itself is losing the ability to perform magic ...

He needs someone to fill the void. He needs someone to dissolve the illusions. He needs someone to understand. Someone to trust. Someone to love. To love him. And he needs it before he gives up his life forever. A Voldemort fic. Draco is chosen to join the inner circle, to be bound by blood and for life to the Dark Lord himself. Perhaps Harry can save him, but who’s going to save Harry? Harry gets vengeful. Draco collects moonbeams in a jar. Snape plays mentor. And Dumbledore is himself.

Harry\'s term at Privet Drive.

In the aftermath of GoF, Sirius has disappeared on his way to alert the old crowd...

OotP-AU. After Voldemort's defeat, something is still wrong with Remus. Sirius and 18-year-old Harry are determined to find out what it is. Was there something more into the werewolf haters' attack the last summer?``Meanwhile, Severus begins to doubt his decision to keep a certain relationship - or, rather, a certain marriage - in secret. What's the point of being married if you're always the second to your husband?

Harry Potter/Stargate SG-1 crossover. Wizards and Goa'uld can be a dangerous combination.

Harry Potter finds himself in trouble when the Las Vegas CSI show up and he has a dead body in his bedroom. The one time he needs the Ministry to butt into his business, and they’re suspiciously absent. Now, how is he going to explain this one? A crossover with CSI.

Four boys: An orphan, who barely remembers his family; a pureblood, with a happy home; a half-blood, with a slight problem once a month; and a boy who thinks he's a Muggle... until he receives a letter. Four houses: Gryffindor; Hufflepuff; Ravenclaw; and Slytherin. Four futures: Death; Prison; Betrayal; and... Teaching. One dark wizard; one aim; and one plan. Without Dark, light wouldn't exist, but when the balance between the two tips, some people will do anything to right it again...

Hermione can't sleep, and decides to take a walk. She runs into someone who understands. Set about 8 years post-Hogwarts. Inner pain! Character death! World War III! Alcoholism!

Now that he has turned sixteen, Draco Malfoy must choose between becoming one of the strongest Dark Lords the world has ever seen, or falling in love.

Just after HBP. Hermione gets captured by Death Eaters. Her saviour? A certain blonde Slytherin, her enemy, Draco Malfoy. Will friendship and bravery be enough to complete their journey and defeat Voldemort? Hermione/Draco AU after HBP (although a lot of themes from DH will play a part in this story).

AU end of sixth year fic: Harry finally confronts Voldemort and his Death Eaters alone and triumphs in a bloodbath. But he is betrayed by those he saves. He takes the ultimate revenge. A slightly different take on Betrayed!Vengeful!Harry.

Vernon Dursley's other sister, Julia, and her daughter, Melody, are coming to Surrey from America. Melody is sixteen and a somewhat goth. She befriends Harry when she has to live at 4 Privet Drive for a couple of weeks. What will happen.

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?

It isn't easy to get to close to Severus Snape. It's not impossible; after all, sometimes one simply falls into unusual friendships. The problem is, there is frequently an obstacle in the way. More often than not, that obstacle is Severus Snape.

Five years after the trio graduate from Hogwarts, the war against Voldemort is still raging. It has become impossible to tell who is on which side anymore. Time is always of the essence. When time is changed, manipulated, are things always the same? Who is the master and who is the servant? Who is the teacher and who is the student?

Voldemort's powers are growing. To the world, Harry Potter was destroyed at the dark wizard's Azkaban fortress. With hope apparently gone, who will come forth to save the world from Voldemort's grasp?

This is my first fanfic, based on an original idea of JK Rowling's. When she posted that "I don't think his history will ever make it into the books." I decided I'd have a go at telling the story myself. This fic is set alongside Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, this year Harry's fellow Gryffindor Dean Thomas discovers that everything he knows about his family is wrong...

When Susan Bones went back to Hogwarts for her Fifth Year, she had no idea that she would be drawn into the beginning of the Second War. (Order of the Phoenix from her point of view). Hufflepuff pride.

Harry lives only to fulfill the demands of the Prophecy. When a vague companion prophecy makes it clear that death may come sooner than he thought, he is content to oblige. Rated for violence and suicide themes. Post-Hogwarts, Non HPB/DH compliant. Complete

Exactly four years after Remus gave birth to a stillborn son, he has a startling nightmare. When he and his husband Severus then are told to go to check on Harry, much more gets into light than was supposed. But even though Dumbledore deserves to be yelled at, little Jeremy needs his parents.

Voldemort punishes Draco by sentencing him to 'service' the Death Eaters. Harry catches a glimpse of him when its Voldemort's turn through their connection. Experiencing what the Dark Lord is, Harry begins to unintentionally fall to the surprising and enthralling allure of his arch nemesis.

-"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"

Harry discovers a secret that has been kept from him for all of his life; it links him to Voldemort in a way he could never have imagined. Harry will never be the same and as he tries to come to terms with the truth, he is forced to question who he can trust. All the regulars will feature as well as old favourites, such as Sirius, Lucius, James and Lily.

The night James Potter died, Sirius Black stopped to think, and three lives unfolded another way. One-shot, AU, RL/SB.

What do we know about Sirius Black's past? Not a lot, not until his daughter comes to Hogwarts, completely unaware of her significance to the coming war, and how her disastrous relationship with a certain Slytherin will be. Drama, Romance, Pain and an end to the war... or is it?

The story of the courtship and relationship of Narcissa Black and Lucius Malfoy. Narcissa might have an icy exterior, but things are not always what they seem on the outside.

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.

Draco always adored his father. How will he get even with him when Lucius goes off and has a new family with a woman other than Narcissa?

The Trio are caught in Hogsmeade. Voldemort decides to have a little fun before offering Hermione a horrible choice.

Sometimes secrets hide in the most unusual places...``An epistolary in six voices. Eventually SS/HG with hints of MMcG/AD.

Harry gets into Evan Rosier's Pensieve and learns things about Snape and his friends that will forever change the way he looks at the Ministry and the "good side."

Harry is staying in Uncle Vernon's house for his summer when suddenly Malfoy and Wormtail appear in his bedroom. He decides to fly away with his Firebolt but is caught by an anonymous man and becomes unconscious...

Harry gets attacked by two creatures and becomes a combination of both. But that's not all he has to deal with in his 6th year at Hogwarts.

At sixteen, Harry made a terrible mistake that will cost him for the rest of his life. His new necromancer teacher saves him, giving him new abilities and a strange new appearance in the process. Over the course of three years, the war with Voldemort progresses and the Order of the Phoenix is losing. Even their most powerful Auror, Harry Potter, cannot stop the newly-immortal Dark Lord. Nineteen-year-old Harry decides to return to a time when he could. His sixteen-year-old self must take his place in the grim future. AU, time travel, themes of suicide/depression.

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.

"If it had been someone else, maybe they had been pushed over the edge earlier, but that doesn’t matter. The fact is that this was my last push, the last thing that was needed to block me from the world." Is Harry able to handle Sirius death and the new about the prophecy? The answer is no.

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.

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?

In the Christmas of their sixth year, a tragedy in the wizarding world sparks a change in the lives of Lily Evans and James Potter. *edited after HBP*

Draco returns after an unexplained absence... Someone commented that the Escort Series didn't really belong on The Dark Arts. Well, this one does.

Snape's life is turned upside down when he discovers he's the father of a bright, young Australian! As time passes, he sees the major impact she has on the many lives around her, including his.

Harry. Hermione. Draco. One thing that happened years ago changed forever the life of one of them-and will change two of their lives all over again.

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?

Lucius and Draco corner Hermione in Flourish and Blotts. Mudbloods with secrets really shouldn't go shopping alone...

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.

Could the Sorting Hat have made a mistake? Slytherin fifth year, Daphne Gordon seems to think so. She and her best friend Mark Ferris are nothing like their fellow Slytherin students. Or are they?

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.

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....

Voldemort's final victim resides with the other spell-damaged wizards in St. Mungo's Hospital. Harry suffers survivor's guilt and finds an unusual beta. Cream-colored knee-high leather boots make a brief appearance. Harry/Draco pre-slash (chapters 1-4; you can stop there if you choose) to slash (chapter 5).

The Marauders James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew start their first year at Hogwarts and, while out sneaking around the fascinating world that they were learning about, discover a monster hidden within the forest that was making its presence known for the first time in almost 500 years.

Harry and Draco have formed an unexpected alliance, but will their new relationship be able to survive a different kind of war?

Lord Voldemort not only ruined the lives and destroyed the families of the witches and wizards who stood against him, but also those who stood with him. The naiveté of youth is slowly washed away by a darkness that envelops a group of schoolmates at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As they grow to recognize their own powers and limitations, the histories of their families change them, and they, in turn, change the history of the wizarding world. At the end of it all, Severus Snape must go back to the beginning to understand what it truly means to be a Slytherin.

Takes place just after HBP ends. Draco is being kept at Snape's house for security reasons. One day his father shows and things get a bit... deadly. Future H/D.

Book 1: Briallen Bevin has just found out she's a witch. But the excitement is marred by an unusually cruel flying instructor, a sadistic janitor, temperamental friends and seemingly clingy enemies, not to mention the mysterious disappearances of several students from the school. Though she's told to let it be by her Grandfather, Briallen can't shake the feeling that all of this has something to do with that old cave in the north wood... (to see maps of Bergamot and The Village,

Four years later, and Ron still hasn't gotten over Melly! Harry and Ron go to a Death Eater party - on purpose! - and end up getting captured and given to Melly to do whatever she pleases. What happens when Melly and Ron are finally back together again? What about Draco? And, the most asked question of all of Harry to Melly - Will Melly save Harry if he was dying at the hands of Voldemort? How many times will she have to do this before either Harry forgives her, or she just gets tired of saving him, and decides to let Voldemort do as he pleases? Finally, the second part of Secret Behind the Mask: Taking Over Me.

Harry's summer away from Hogwarts after Order of the Phoenix. A suprising change in Aunt Petunia, a visit to Grimmauld Place, and a revelation from Snape himself.