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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.

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

(Written pre-OotP) Picks up at the beginning of Harry’s fifth year. As magical terror spreads, a young girl at Hogwarts discovers herself caught up in the most horrible war in the history of magic. She finds herself fighting the darkness in her heart and she struggles to find the side on which she belongs. What connection does she have to Voldemort? She must answer this: whose side is she really on? The fate of the whole world rests on her decision when she is the only hope for either side.

Hermione is chosen for Snape's assistant, but her real tasks begin when she finds her professor for once helpless and lost for words. What happened, and, most important, what will happen in the brooding dangers of Voldemort's ongoing plans? What role plays Harry in all this? And why are Snape's memories essential for Hogwart's defence?

Ever wonder what happened to Dudley and his parents after they took that right turn off Private Drive during Harry's 7th Year. Well, this is my own interpretation of what happens to Dudley, and how he changes from the character we all knew and mostly disliked to someone who embraces the wizarding world...

One year after the defeat of Voldemort, a friend helps Harry come to terms with his guilt over a mutual loss; this fic’s sprung largely from this H/H shipper’s desire to try and see their relationship from a different perspective.

AU. Harry and Draco are both having a bad start to their summers, but why would they be seeing each other in visions? And what is up with Professor Snape?

Ever wonder what Draco Malfoy's Journal would contain? Well now you have the chance to find out! Take a glimpse inside Draco's mind and read his personal thoughts. But be warned! It is filled with darkness, pain and a desire for the one person he can never have-Harry Potter!

Years have gone by, for Harry was no longer a student of Hogwarts, nor was he the boy that he once was. His battle with the dark side marked the defeat of the one that destroyed his parents, his friends, and countless number of lives, including his very own. After the destruction of Voldemort, Harry's life was stolen during a single moment of weakness. Before he realized what had happened, a race towards reincarnation began as the dead interfered with the living. Soon, Sirius and the rest of the world would find out that Harry's death was more than what it seemed.

It's 1940 and Paris has just fallen to the Nazi Regime. The Muggle world is in turmoil, but little do the Muggles know that the Wizarding world is also at war. A weary traveler comes to England carrying a secret that will change both worlds for better or worse . He comes seeking the protection and help from the adept Albus Dumbledore, a Professor at the famous Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. But there is more danger about than even Albus has anticipated. Can Dumbledore protect the traveler and his secret?

Despondent over the loss of Sirius, Harry's summer goes from bad to worse when he falls terribly ill. A letter from Mrs. Weasley, a reluctant Aunt Petunia, and a raging fever converge to pull Harry out of his grief and guilt and show him things he never thought he'd see.

Tom Riddle isn't just charismatic; to Ginny Weasley, he's an addiction. T/G and H/G. Definite darkfic, not for the weak-hearted.

This is my version of Harry's 5th year at Hogwarts. Harry finds a mysterious scroll that may help finally defeat Lord Voldemort for good.

GoF in the words of Cedric Diggory as you've never seen him before. Nobody's hero and nobody's fool, not only did he survive Voldemort's rebirth but he's decided to set the story straight about his sixth and 'final' year.

AU: Voldemort chooses Neville, James & Lily live, but Severus Snape still finds himself on a quest for absolution. SSLE

The Death Eaters have new recruits. Percy does an Anakin Skywalker, Marcus languishes in unrequited love all while making Nefarious Evil Schemes, and Adrian bakes muffins. Set mostly in 1994 to 1998. Occasional deviation from canon.

"It’s a sad thing, really, that we all strive for the perfection we can never reach. Even the stars themselves struggle in their attempts of outshining the sun in the night sky." Sometimes the question that you should ask is if perfection is really worth it. HP/DM

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

Surviving the war was easy. Learning to live again will be much more difficult.

Draco is tired of the way he is and decides that his seventh year will be different. But why now? why not earlier? Is it because of this secret he holds or is it because of the love of girl?

Harry Potter is different this year. And Draco Malfoy is definitely noticing. But will Draco be able to keep Harry faithful and make sure his own heart doesn't get broken?

(COMPLETE) Severus Snape begins by taking a post as Potioner on a secret Ministry project in Azkaban. He ends by taking his first step on the path to Lord Voldemort.

Selina Julliard is in trouble. For starters, her parents, as well as her older sister, were murdered a little over a week ago, leaving her in deep financial trouble. The only solution to getting out of debt? Marry the recently widowed Lucius Malfoy. As if marrying a man twice her age isn’t bad enough, Selina can’t shake the feeling that her parents’ killer is out to finish her off. Upon discovering a mysterious wedding gift Selina, along with her friend Riley, set off to solve her parents murder. As time progresses, though, Selina begins to find that her husband might not be so bad after all, and then the real trouble begins...

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

There's a girl at Hogwarts who had thought that her father was Lucius Malfoy, until the summer after the Triwizard Tournament. Her real father is not someone whom she would have liked to have, until her fifth year, when she gets acctepted by him and his goonies. Now, in their seventh year, the trio face having to cope with a new addition in their happy little trio family. The only thing is, she's out to spy on Harry.``Chapter One-A traitor Amoung Us: Meet Melly Avalon. She's a Gryffindor, and a loner. She only hangs around Parvati and Lavender when she has to, but all her friends are in Slytherin!

She was so sick of being the third wheel... why couldn't they just pretend for a minute that she was the same girl she had been at the Yule Ball? Hermione is fed up with being treated like "one of the guys". But what else is there for her? One Hallowe'en Night she finds a mentor.

Post-HBP, major spoilers. Hermione is determined to figure out why Dumbledore trusted Snape. Starts immediately after the end of HBP.

Harry Potter is not dealing with the death of his godfather well at all. So Harry is forced to leave Privet Drive and spend the summer with none other than Severus Snape. Will Harry and Snape live through the summer?

As the last days at Hogwarts come to a close, Remus Lupin must face his unpleasant future. However, when Professor Dumbledore offers him an opportunity to join a secret and elite group of aurors known as the

AU: Sirius is famous for capturing Death Eater Peter Pettigrew. He is awarded custody of baby Harry.

What would it be like to be a young witch or wizard in the USA? Sarah's parents had been divorced since she was five and now she is eleven. What secrets have they kept from her and how are they about to change her life?

A spell by Voldemort sends Harry into an alternate reality where his parents lived, but Harry himself was killed on that fateful Halloween. Now Harry must deal with two grieving parents, a risen Voldemort and the life he was never allowed to have.

What is drama, after all, but a slew of ill-made decisions? Hermione Granger and Severus Snape discover the side affects of lust, love, and everything in between.

Potions projects, sarcastic familiars, spies, danger, hard-learned lessons, and redemption. Snape's forced to a new direction fighting Voldemort, and Hermione's trying to live up to a Gryffindor's courage. 7th Year, eventual SS/HG

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

The Dark Army has no place for a man who can't kill, yet Draco Malfoy is not about to join the Light; is he? Stuck in a house with Remus Lupin, it's well past time for Draco to reflect, grow, and make the choice between what is right and what is easy.

What would happen if Sirius Black had a daughter that nobody knew existed and she could talk to the dead? Chaos, pranks, a prophecy, and a very freaked out Sirius...

In the summer after Voldemort's return, the Order of the Phoenix goes to work turning the Black House into a headquarters. However, it begins to seem as if Sirius's childhood home is taking a worse toll on him than Azkaban. Lupin realises that it's up to him to stand up for old friend---and in this he may be standing alone, even among his allies. (A/U split after GoF but influenced by OotP; WolfStar 'ship, but ambiguous/nonsexual). 7/18 - reposting polished and in (mercifully!) smaller chapters.

Cho looks on with apathy as things go from bad to worse for Luna, while watching her growing friendship with Harry with conflicting emotions...

While waiting for his 17th birthday to arrive so he can leave the prison of the Dursleys', Harry learns new information about himself, his aunt, mother and Albus Dumbledore. The information he learns will greatly increase his power while at the same time change how he feels about the woman given the task of raising him.

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

Violet Brown lives in the shadow of her witch sister, Lavender. She attends Muggle school, and feels like a stranger in her own family. "She might receive an A in something dull like Composition, but what's that compared to Lavender's O in Transfiguration?" This is the story of a Squib: a minor embarrassment, an unspoken disappointment, a fifteen-year old girl without a country.

Since the first war, parents wanted to prevent the next generation of Slytherins from becoming Death Eaters. They passed a law that all the Slytherin students have to serve as a Servant from 1st to 6th year. Draco Malfoy, a blind young man, starts his first year in Hogwarts. His Duty will be a lot more harder than the other students. He will learn important things like friendship, companionship and eventually love.

What would you see...? Well, what WOULD you see? Although, more to the point - what would they see...? A series of short stories about several characters encounters with a certain mysterious mirror featured in the Philosopher's Stone...

At the start of PoA, Harry sees the large dog in Laburnum Crescent, steps back, trips over the pavement and summons the Knoght Bus. What might have happened if he hadn't tripped?

Adrian has no memory of the first twenty one years of his life. Now, fifteen years later, a strange dream acts as the catalyst that brings his memory back, and he remembers who he is. He knows he must go home, but has no idea what he'll find when he gets there... especially where his son is concerned.

Ten years after his class graduated 27 year old Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts as the new caretaker. But why is he so depressed? Find out what happened and who the new and old teachers at Hogwarts are.

The warning given to the Dursleys by the Order back fires. With help from Tonks, Harry learns to deal with what life has thrown at him and begins to heal (eventual Harry/Tonks). Rated R for later chapters.

Kate Riddle is in her first year at Hogwarts and is the cousin of the great Draco Malfoy. Her first year of Hogwarts, basically. Takes place during Harry's first year.

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

Harry, Ron, and Hermione’s fifth year at Hogwarts. Some really strange things start happening to Harry over the summer and during the beginning of the school year. Severus Snape also discovering that his younger sister Saerry, thought to have been killed fifteen years ago, is still alive. What happens next is a long roller coaster ride of jokes, shocks, and terror.

In Harry\'s third year, Sirius Black is on the loose, and a werewolf comes to teach at Hogwarts. From what Harry can see there seems to be a strange alliance between the new Professor Lupin and Professor Snape, but with only Harry\'s POV to guide us, who is to know? This is the story of the third year from their points of view. A tentative respect grows from their mutual concern with one potion, but circumstances surrounding that potion drive home the fact that memories, and even their senses, can be misleading. Contains Slash.

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

Halloween, 1981. What might have happened if Sirius had not chased Peter down? What if he took Harry and ran, instead? What if Fudge doesn't believe Sirius should have Harry to raise? What if Peter was faced with Azkaban, instead?

Dumbledore's ulterior motives in hiring a new Professor of Divination become clear when she is sent, with Professor Snape on a special assignment for the Ministry of Magic.

Bound to his cousin by a sacred vow and brought up to be a pureblood prince, Sirius Black struggles to find his identity in the face of all that is intended for him.

A Sherlock Holmes mystery set in Victorian Hogwarts and London. A valuable artefact has been stolen from Hogwarts, and the only suspect - a Muggleborn pupil - has disappeared. Headmaster Phineas Nigellus Black summons Holmes to Hogwarts to retrieve the Ravenclaw Codex, but things are not as simple as they seem, and Holmes and Watson soon find themselves in the middle of a most perplexing case.

In which two of the most intriguing characters from the works of J.K. Rowling and Lois McMaster Bujold meet for tea and, eventually, sympathy. A meeting between these characters is certainly something their respective authors would never have anticipated, but their worlds turn out to be oddly congruent. Takes place during the spring of Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts (not that Harry figures in this story in any but the most peripheral way) and, from the Bujoldian point of view, during KOMARR.

The summer after Voldemort's resurrection charm expert Edana Rosier receives a letter that sends her back to England, and forces her to remember her years at Hogwarts. It was 1980, when Voldemort was at the height of power, and Edana was a Slytherin caught up in a political rift not of her own making and alienated from her housemates.

Lily and James Potter had a daughter instead of a son. When they died, Dumbledore left the baby, Bethany Lily, at the Dursleys'. However, Vernon did not want a freak in his home and Petunia didn't really want to have anything to do with her sister's child. Beth was left on the steps of an apartment bulding. In the morning, the residents discovered the baby and wondered what to do. One of the tenants happened to be a single witch named Natalia Harper and recognized Bethany. She decided to adopt the child and Bethany grew up as Bethany Lily Potter-Harper. Eventually, Beth attends Hogwarts with her best friend and makes four other friends. I have also put this fic on fanfiction.net

The Record Book of the Order of Merlin is kept at the British Archives of Magic. The librarian has been Memory Charmed. One day, more than five years after the war, he makes a discovery.

The final story in the Snape/Vorkosigan trilogy. In which Dumbledore is given a farewell, Snape is given absolution and a handkerchief, and Miles (yes, Miles!) is given a large aquatic surprise.

Seventh year in Draco and Hermione’s shoes—prefect’s meetings, letters from home, new friendships, odd professors, Quidditch matches, classes, and a Halloween festival.

What if Sirius was freed and declared innocent of all crimes when Harry is just five years old? Sirius gains custody of Harry but not before something happens that will stay with Harry for the rest of his life...

It's the worst that could possibly happen. The end comes at last when Harry Potter, Boy Who Lived and soul hope for the survival of the wizarding world falls. Hermione watched it happen. She watched him fall, and then she was taken by the last person she would have wanted to touch her. Can she survive? Is there hope? Is this truly the worst that could happen?

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

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

AU. After the war, the wizarding world expects life to return to normal. For Aurors Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger-Weasley, however, a normal adult life is something they will have to learn how to have. Yet as they all wearily pick up what remains of their youth, Draco, plagued by nightmares Harry shares, begins to hear voices he cannot ignore. Just who is working against the Aurors, how will the government be healed, and what really happened to Draco in his weeks of torture before the war ended? As Harry races to halt Draco's fall, he will have to learn yet another thing: Dark Lords are not the only sources of evil.

When the least likely of students approaches Hermione with a plea for her help, she can't resist. Nor can she resist the opportunity it presents to change the course of one young wizard's life.

"For years I have loved you and cursed your existence. You are more powerful than I ever bargained for, a worthy opponent and brilliant partner." A deadly game controls generations of Malfoys and Potters.

Two unexpected allies join Harry, Ron, and Hermione in their quest for the Horcruxes. This fiction describes preparation for the search rather than the search itself, and the emphasis is on bonding among the characters--particularly Harry, Remus, and Sirius. Questions are answered, secrets revealed, and plans made. Ties of friendship are explored more closely than romantic ones, but the assumed romantic pairings are Remus/Sirius, Ron/Hermione, and Harry/Ginny. Action begins on August 1st of what will be Harry's seventh year at Hogwarts, and continues over the next few days.

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

One night, staying in the Grimmauld Place, number twelve, Severus Snape witnesses something about the Black-Lupin marriage he doesn’t want to believe true. Little by little, he finds out that not only is it true, but also Sirius Black doesn’t think that a simple rape is enough to control his submissive husband. SLASH RL/SB RL/SS

Aged twenty, Ron, Harry and Hermione work together to put away crimnals from the magical world. And they have their biggest job yet when a spate of murders of no defined motive threaten to spin hopelessly out of control.

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

Draco’s class has the Boggart lesson with Professor Lupin (like the title says) and thus we find out their worst fears.

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

Minerva McGonagall's life and adventures during World War II after she leaves Hogwarts

Sequel to Fears: Part 1

What does it take to be a Weasley? A bunch of little OneShots where the Weasleys explain in first person their lives and the problems they must face everyday. All end in the same battle against You-Know-Who. Relationships of all kinds and sometimes angsty.