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Alternate Universe Story: The old woman in Bed 17-B has a secret. Her stories of Dark Wizards and hidden wars seem fantastical. Is Professor McGonagall a harmless dementia patient, or is the danger she foretells true?

Everything has changed for Harry after fifth year. Overcome by feelings of regret and feelings of guilt, he is wasting away at the Dursleys until finally two people read between the lines of his letters and come to the rescue.

Severus Snape was having his worst summer yet. Then an unexpected person reminds him that he should just be happy to be alive...

A short look at Snape and Hermione through the lens of Hemingway's code hero.

When they’re alone together, they feel they might die. When they’re apart, they feel like they’re dying.

They thought the worst was over. They thought the evil was gone. But it was merely hiding in the shadows. Join Harry as he tries to battle his toughest enemy yet, and the world around him threatens to fall apart. Ginny and Sirius are worried: Can they help save Harry?

Albus Dumbledore receives an appeal he cannot ignore from a Resistance leader on the Continent.

Before they were champions of darkness and of light, they were simply Hogwarts' Head Boy and Girl: Tom Riddle and Minerva McGonagall. Fifty years of hatred and pain separate them now, but amidst the barrenness of regret, there is solace in remembrance. A tale of a lion, a witch, and two serpents.

"Red sky at night, sailor's delight; red sky in the morning, sailor's take warning." - Fisherman's Proverb Seven years after the end of White Noise, Draco Malfoy is released from Azkaban a changed man. When Draco and Ginny meet each other again, will they be able to work through the past and be happy with one another at last?

Ginny helps Professor Lupin heal from a near fatal injury, and during his recovery, Remus discovers that she is the willing consort of a dark spirit named Tom. In time, Ginny will ask Remus to help her join Tom in a corporeal, eternal union—a request which results in difficult choices for Remus. A rather intense look at the power and dangers associated with human desire.

How can one come to a place where you can forget rain?

Draco just wants to be a normal seven-year-old, and play with his only friend, Dobby the House Elf. Unfortunately his father has other plans for him...

Remus Lupin claims to have deserted the Order of the Phoenix for Fenrir Greyback's werewolf pack and Lord Voldemort's service. His new masters want him to prove it.

Harry, unwillingly, goes with Ron and Hermione to twelve, Grimmauld Place to search for Slytherin's locket. When he finds it, he realizes it's not that easy to open it, let alone to destroy it. When he really needs help, help will come and it will be appreciated... even if it's not in a human form.

H/Hr, but not happily ever after. Harry’s POV as he thinks about events from the not-too-distant past. All post-Hogwarts. What can I say? I’m a tragic idealist when it comes to romance.

An unexpected betrayal plunges Hogwarts into chaos, and a student finds that love does not die so easily, that sometimes, there is no victory.

A spooky tale to be read on Hallows' Eve...

If Harry could give Draco a second chance, would he? Draco Malfoy served two years in Azkaban after Voldemort's defeat. Now, he is stuck in a Ministry protection program, cut off from the wizarding world. When someone tries to kill him, Harry Potter, now an Auror, is assigned to find out who wants him dead.

Written sometime during OotP, a letter not meant to be read by anyone else apart from the author, Potions Master Extraordinaire Severus Snape. What could he possible want to say to Sirius Black by the light of a dying fire? Warning: slash, angst.

A child is only the reflection of his surroundings.

On the ninth day I secretly owled her a package, a box wrapped in brown paper. Inside was a statue, a miniature statue. I meant it as a gag, a joke, but the next night I found half of it upon my pillow. My half was the same white marble as hers; she broke it cleanly in two, with only a bit of jaggedness along the base. My half is an angel, a nude angel with a spear above his head. A set of white toes are attached along the bottom of the statue at an angle to his own feet. I set it on my bedside table anyway, beside the candle.``What is the best way to break somebody? Would you dare to do it? When hatred breaks, what is the next step? And, most importantly, where does the line between love, hate, and lust fall?

Neville visits his parents at St. Mungo's and imagines they can comunicate with him.

During the post-war trials of accused Death Eaters, Harry forms a friendship with Theodore Nott.

Draco Malfoy's story as he reviews his life from SS/PS to midlife. Tries to shed light on the canon version of Draco and who he really is. An internal struggle worse than that of Harry Potter, a secret ambition to die for, and thoughts that could betray him. Why hasn't the Dark Lord killed him yet? Why doesn't he want to be a Death Eater? What is it about Ginny?

A short chapter fic to show a darker side of our favorite hero. What would you do if you knew you couldn't have the girl you wanted?

One evening, Remus comes across a big, shaggy black dog and decides to follow it into the Shrieking Shack, but what he finds inside is not a dog...anymore. A man he thought was dead is standing right in front of him. Is Remus being deceived?

He was one small boy, sent to live with an aunt who would come to hate his very existence. He was one small boy, taken from the ashes of a ruined home in order that he might rise again. He was one small boy, marked as evil's equal.

What brought the four wizards and witches together to make Hogwarts? Where were they before Hogwarts and where did they go after? Find out how closely Godric and Salazar were connected to each other, and how their posterity must end what they started a thousand years ago.

The Death Eaters have attacked Hogwarts. Logic finaly fails Hermione. Hypothesize, observe, and conclude. Hypothesize, observe, conclude, and fail.

After the events of Order of the Phoenix, it's no longer safe to spend the summer at Malfoy Manor. Draco's got to spend the holiday with a relative he never knew he had- his father's half-brother in America.

Harry Potter faces consequences of infidelity...

Deleted Scene from Chapter 6 of Harry Potter and the Forbidden Passage. Harry and friends go to a movie in a wizarding theater for an experience that's a little different than a Muggle theater to say the least.

“Why is that?” the boy by the window asked.````The sandy-haired boy frowned. “Why is what?”````“Why can’t you choose how to die?”

Once the survivors decide what to do, life goes on...

Dreams can be more real than reality if you want them to. Think about it. When dreamland offers more than reality ever could, would you grasp it? When you enter dreamland how can you be sure what is real and what is not... love clouds more than just senses...

"I'm fine. We're fine." The Potters at the brink of the abyss.

Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts ended in the murder of a mentor by the very man in whom he had placed his trust. The Order of the Phoenix struggles to overcome loss and the harsh sting of betrayal, while Lord Voldemort has continued to grow in power and strength; Wizarding Britain is on the brink of collapsing into darkness. Harry sets out on the path he chose, seeking the rest of the Horcruxes, and the story will culminate in the final and climactic battle between the forces of good and evil, where death, loss, betrayal, and the overwhelming strength of love and friendship abound. After so many years of terror and war, who will be victorious in the end -- Harry Potter … or Lord Voldemort?

Your enemies will triumph. Your friends will believe their lies. They will think you are a traitor. You will die like a dog; and nobody will ever know how and where you died.

When the Dark Lord returned in Goblet of Fire, lots of lives were thrown into turmoil. This is from the POV of one fourteen-year-old boy who has to come to terms with the return and what it means for him and those around him. Set between the Leaving Feast and the train ride home.

"There is no black or white, Blaise." Hermione teaches Blaise that the Death Eaters aren't the first of their kind, and that prejudice isn't just a Wizarding thing.

Some business offers are just too good to be true. That's why Aurors Potter and Weasley are on the case. Although cases don't always go the way an Auror expects them to ...

Where is the laughing, happy, innocent boy that Ginny Weasley once knew as her brother? She can't find him now, in the face of the man who demands that she help him find a powerful Dark artifact in the smoldering ruins of the Burrow.

The only thing in life we can be truly certain of is death. The stones stand as a marker of the past ... but one witch still remembers and brings white lilies.

What if Harry hadn't seen everything in the pensieve Snape was trying to keep from him? In times like this people needed belief. The boy needed it more than anyone, needed to believe in the goodness of his parents, the permanency of their love. He needed to believe that Snape was exactly who he seemed to be.

After the summer in his fourth year, Harry is severely depressed, and is troubled by dreams that plague him daily. What happens when he overhears a conversation stating that now, because Voldemort used his blood for his new body, that a certain connection has been formed?

Vignette - Severus reflects on the choices he's made and how they've affected his life and the family he could have had. Sevitus.

In the pursuit of her new life, Hotaru Tomoe has become a Death Eater--and one of the best. As a mission from Voldemort, she goes to Hogwarts to befriend Harry, then betray him in the end. But with all of the new surprises waiting for her, will that be the outcome? Sailor Moon/Harry Potter crossover!

Sometimes you need a Grim Reaper, sometimes you need a teacher, sometimes you need a little bit of both. Susan Sto Helit has a job to do. [Discworld crossover]

Snape resorts to desperate measures to win Lily back after the "Mudblood" incident.

"He strips himself, feeling the slender long bones and planes beneath the tips of his fingers, smudged with ink from yesterday night's reports. There is an almost-breath of satisfaction as he admires the smooth, if freckled, surfaces devoid of baby fat, then quick censure as he, embarassed, discovers as he does twice or thrice every day that this body is too effeminate, and too weak. " Sometimes things can only be explained through the eyes of the people themselves. A series of one-shots featuring Percy Weasley, Draco Malfoy and Blaise Zabini.

George reflects on his relationship with Fred, and someone who knows more than she should ...

Do we REALLY know the reasons for Snapes "hatred" for Harry? Or is there something deeper? And just what is the deal with Draco?

Just what are the employment options for a teenage werewolf just leaving Hogwarts? Suddenly a desperate Remus Lupin is faced with that question, and his daring friends, James Potter and Sirius Black, are going to make sure he takes whatever opportunity he's given--even if it leads to danger...

On a moonlit mid-October night, a lone dark-clad figure seeks to fulfill the covenant he swore years before.

When a Slytherin has a strange request for Ron, he can’t find grounds to refuse – but when Harry and Hermione spot him hanging around the Slytherins, they’re more than a little put out about it. Can Harry or Hermione find a way to thwart the disaster they’re sure is coming – when there are more than just the plots they see brewing in the background?

Severus Snape spends a quiet evening reflecting on his life, and on the choices that have carried him to his terrible position as a spy. He reflects on all the secrets that he must keep from everyone around him - he remembers his secret life. It was a life of pain, of ambition, of forbidden love, of terrible loss, and of aching loneliness. And he reflects on the one friend who helped carry him through it all. But the evening will not stay quiet for long - that very night he will be forced to make his most terrible choice of all. A post-HBP story.

As Draco comes to realize, what is sacrificed can be insubstantial to what is for the greater good.

"It ain't easy growin' up in World War III, never knowin' what love could be, you'll see, I don't want love to destroy me like it has done my family." Every family has its secrets. The Weasleys are no exception. But just how deep do the cracks run in this seemingly perfect family? Only Ginny knows. And only Ginny suffers the consequences.

As Harry waits at the Dursleys' for the Order's rescue the second he turned seventeen, a VERY unexpected source passes him terrible news: Although he'd used the Cruciatus Curse solely to arrest Snape, who'd just betrayed and murdered Dumbledore, the Ministry, undoubtedly still corrupted, plans to sabotage the Order's rescue and charge him for it the moment he turned seventeen...

What would happen if a wizard child should disappear and the only people who could help her were... Muggles. Muggles and a Squib. And what if the stakes were so high, that a single mistake could destroy the whole world? Would you trust Neville Longbottom's daughter to save Hermione's child?

Harry was lied to by the people he trusted. He wondered why didn’t anyone tell him. He told himself,maybe they were waiting? But then, waiting for what?

Having once aborted Sirius's child, Remus is delighted to hear that he's again pregnant.``However, the baby, this time much hoped, is still-born. The werewolf is heartbroken, but fortunately, Sirius gives him new hope. SLASH and MPREG RL/SB.

October 31, 1981: a date that changed the Magical World. Yet for them, it was simply another day, another Halloween, spent in homes, with family, and in fear. AU in the Unbroken Universe, a short story written for Halloween.

Ginny Weasley was bitten by a werewolf. Realizing the consequences of being a bite-victim, she decides to go to New York and come to terms with her condition. She did not expect to cross paths with a certain sneering, snarky, arrogant prat, who left the country for his own reasons. Bickering, culture-clashing, some hilarity, and an unusual romance ensue.

There are seven sins considered so terrible that they're called deadly. Yet, most of us have committed at least one, many a few and some all seven. Gluttony, Greed, Pride, Jealousy, Sloth, Lust, and Wrath. This features seven chapters: one sin and one character for each one of Harry's years at Hogwarts.``In his first year, Neville Longbottom hurts, indulges, and regrets.

1985 -- Remus Lupin awakes with the first hangover of his life, and absolutely no idea how he got it, nor where he is, nor whom he's with. Then he remembers, and it all started with the best chile burger in the state, and the worst tequila money can buy.````Rated for excessive drinking, implied slash, and a kiss. (RL/SB, RL/OC implied)

Severus Snape and Remus Lupin. Harmless Slash. 'Nuff said. Oh well... It's a possible sequel to "Of Potions and Wolves". Taking place sometime in Harry's fifth year and has bits of everything: Drama, Humour, Bickering, Romance... Kissing!

The story of a Pureblood dinner from Hell. After a whirlwind romance abroad, Hermione Granger has become engaged to the son of one of Britain's premier pureblood families. Home on leave, she is invited to a dinner at the Malfoys', where a series of unpleasant surprises are waiting for her.... Featuring Surly!Snape, Adult!Crabbe, Blaise!Zabini and the Aggressive Artichoke

When Ron and Hermione can't find Harry, they quickly deduce that he has run away. Will they be able to find him? If they do, can they convince him to come back home with them?

'Hermione is an accomplished liar - she's not proud of it, but it's a necessity. If she wants to remain a witch, she has to be a liar.'

Hermione loves the summers at Ron's but deception is always with her. She tries to explain, but no one will listen. When it seems GOD is her only friend, an unexpected love appears, but at what cost. Could a little white lie really ruin everything she has worked so hard to accomplish?

"I was only fifteen. He was only sixteen. We are brothers. We are enemies... He could not stay and I could not go." Regulus Black watched his brother flee from home when he was only fifteen. Note: stream of consciousness piece

A depressing insight to Voldemort and what he's done.

A short fic that takes place after the fifth book. WARNING OoTP spoilers. It has five different POV’s talking about the death of... someone.

21 years after the war the world is moving on from Lord Voldemort, but when dark magic is on the rise in an attempt to bring him back there is only one person who knows every secret and detail about Voldemort and the war. However, that person just so happens to be the biggest secret of the Wizarding World and only a select few know the truth. Harry and the rest of the characters are about to learn a lot of unknown information from the biggest shock they've experienced yet.

We all make mistakes that we regret, but some can never be forgiven. What happens when you give away something you can't take back? A tale of picking up the pieces, being strong for those you love, and going on with life.

Darkness shines its brightest when the lights have all burnt out.

“Good boy. There’s only this, power, which I have over you, you sniveling little brat. There’s only power and control, Riddle, remember that. Those with power and control rule, those without power and control are squashed like little cockroaches. Do you understand, Riddle?”

The silver thorn of a bloody rose, fire and ice mixing to produce agony, Draco’s left questioning everything—including himself.

Something’s wrong. A monologue.

Harry sees a chance to be a hero, but Lord Voldemort sees the chance to regain everything he lost during the war.

What drove Sirius to telling Snape to prod the knot on the Whomping Willow so he could see Remus in his werewolf form? Why did Dumbledore trust Snape to keep his discovery a secret? Does that event have a connection to the reason why Dumbledore trusts Snape?

The final battle has come for Harry and Severus.

A fic about the life of an original character frequently used in the fic, "Secret of the Medjai".

[Slash! Rape, cutting, and all things dark, including Dark!Harry.] After Vernon's abuse rises to new heights, Harry is forced to extremes. Running away afterwards, he falls into the grasp of none other than arch-enemy Draco Malfoy...

Songfic about a love born innocent, a love that should never have happened.

A short nightmare involving a flash of green light and an unexpected twist.

Harry Potter's seventh year. Featuring new relationships, new teachers, new friends, and a new outlook on life. N.E.W.T.S., S.P.E.W. and mischief abound! What happens when you've got to risk it all to rid the world of Voldemort? H/G and R/Hr.

Four Aurors raid a house where someone is selling a particularly addictive kind of Dark Magic for money. And Tonks wants to know why anyone would ruin their lives like that, and pay for it too.

Sometime a moment is all you have to act, before suddenly it's gone. Sequel to "Stuck in a Moment"

Neville comptemplates a bit of his past and future while he waits to purchase a new wand. Short, one-shot.

Bill and Fleur welcome their first child into the world on a night in late July. What does this new child portend for the future of the world during the Second War?

A "TOEING THE LINE" COOKIE, originally meant to be the Prologue. Harry & Hermione have a little Chat on Graduation Night.

Due to an accident, Harry and Severus had to look after Sirius together... Would they drive each other insane?

Voldemort shows Harry exactly how he deals with Draco Malfoy's inadequate performance. Will Harry risk everything to save him?

How could a simple battle go so horribly wrong? It tends to go that way when Tom Marvolo Riddle is involved . Join Ginny as she is captured by a teenage-looking Dark Lord and together, they spiral back through time. Will they work together to find a way back?

“Why, Harry,” I say in a patronizing tone. “I remember a time when you used to like me calling your name... or was it calling out your name?” Draco Malfoy, ex-lover of Harry Potter and the most hated man in the Wizarding World is locked in Azkaban, yet Harry Potter knows there’s more to his story than the man's letting on and he’s going to use every dirty trick to find the answers. Post Hogwarts H/D Slash.

This morning, the dawn had come not long ago. The light crept into the bedroom, glistened on the photographs- photo after photo framed and covering the walls of the room. As long as Teddy Lupin could remember, his life had been spattered with images of the three people he would never have known otherwise.... A story of love, loss and, recovery.

Knowing his death is approaching, Albus Dumbledore visits Lucius Malfoy in Azkaban. Will Lucius understand what Albus is offering, as they come face to face for the last time?

Companion of sorts to "Confessions of a Fat, Ugly Slytherin." Pansy Parkinson reflects on how there's always something lurking below the surface...