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(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.

What would have happened if James, Lily, Sirius, and Remus met Inu-Yasha, Sessho-Maru, Kirara, Sango, and Miroku? Well that's the idea behind this concept. You'll have to read to see what happens...

Severus Snape discovers that there's more to his pointless death than his miserable life counted on. A story of redemption, love, and second chances.

A nine year old Fleur is told what a Veela is and where they come from. Can she accept their dark past? Lots of Veela questions answered and an interesting fairy-tale!

Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley bond over their nightmares. But Ginny has a secret. A secret she will fight to keep. WARNING: This story contains SI.

Continuation of

Harry's lust for adventure drives him right into the rising tension between Dumbledore and Minister Fudge. Suddenly, he finds himself playing a key-role in a game of deceit and betrayal that will either strip the Light Side from their most important spy or will be the first step in defeating He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named...

No one ever said that being Harry Potter’s girlfriend was going to be easy, but after seven months at it one sly Slytherin thought she’d mastered it... That is, until she was forced to explain their relationship to the inquiring minds of the Order of the Phoenix. It was all downhill from there.

I thought that love would last forever: 'I was wrong.' On Harry's sixteenth birthday, he and Lupin are still coming to terms with Sirius' death. But how do you cope when you've lost everything? Not slash.

Some stories are worth hearing again and again, be it a story of love, a story of war, a story of death, or a story of life. But a truly good story ... you can never be content to hear it only once. ..::..

Harry accidentally traveled back in time but lost his memory in the process. There he had some strange dreams about a lonely boy called Tom Riddle. What happened when the future enemies met? No Slash

Glimpses of our heroes at the end of the battles and beyond, as they face what's lost and what's to come. Post-Deathly Hallows; spoilers abound.

Everyone knows that Harry defeated Voldemort when he was a baby. What everyone doesn't know is how he did it. In Harry's seventh year at Hogwarts this mystery will finally be brought to light.

A story of Hermione Granger coming to terms with her greatest loss, self discovery, and coming of age. She finds herself in a world battered by a never-ending war with strange allies and even stranger enemies. H/Hr, D/G, with slashy references.

In Harry's fifth year, Voldemort defeated the forces of good and replaced Dumbledore with Lucius Malfoy. Those who failed to pledge their allegiance to the Dark Lord were forced into servitude or escaped to plan Voldemort's overthrow. It's two years later, and Hermione is not only dealing with the changes to her own life, but dealing with Harry as he starts to lose his mind.

AU. What if, rather than see their son die, James and Lily had agreed to serve Voldemort. Fast-forward eleven years to a wizardying world with Lord Voldemort in charge and the resistance crumbling. James and Lily are alive and their son is a perfect little Death Eater. He’s mean, he’s a bigot, he’s perfectly happy to torture and maim unworthy people. But he also has to go to school. And here’s where the trouble starts...

Remus has never cheated on Severus. In fact, he has never as much as kissed another guy. However, he is now pregnant -- even though Severus is sterile. Convinced he's been cheated on, Severus leaves Remus alone with his pregnancy -- until he realizes that Remus might die. But it may already be too late...

The memories of Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs, remembered by them, written by them... Two are now dead, one is a traitor, and the other, is completely alone... This is the story before The Boy Who Lived.

The Durmstrang Institute is infamous for its Dark Arts courses. Dark wizards teaching the frightening enchantments have undoubtedly seen it all and fear nothing - except perhaps the school budget. The first in the Durmstrang Chronicles.

Draco Malfoy is the stereotypical Death Eater, but what about Hermione Granger?

15 years after the fall of Voldemort, the Elric Prophecy is coming true, and a new group of students will be the world's shelter... or it's destruction. Tiffany Potter, Hangeld Hagrid, Lisa Malfoy and Emma Weasley will join forces with four new family names. The enemy? Nobody knows yet. When will this war start? Nobody knows yet. All they have is one Prophecy written eight hundred years ago. But they still have to do something. That something will create a legend, or doom them all to walk the earth as ghosts until they can undo the Evil.

The day before Harry's 15th birthday, Remus Lupin and Albus Dumbledore receive letters revealing the truth of Harry's parentage. Now the truth and its consequences must be dealt with by the involved parties.

In the Muggle town of Newberry, veterinarian Emilia Reynolds, is mystified by a sudden streak of dog killings. When Charlie Weasley comes into town to try to capture the unknown threat, both of them learn more about life and love than they ever expected.

Shortly before the defeat of Voldemort in Year 7, in a field hospital Somewhere In England Draco Malfoy is reunited with an old friend. The meeting will determine whether Draco falls to the Dark or the Light. The decision will be made before the turn of the tide, and there will be no going back for either of them.

Draco’s malicious misuse of a potion partially transforms Harry to a phoenix. Using it carries an automatic life sentence in Azkaban, so Lucius has to beg Harry to ask for his son’s freedom. Harry thinks he is an ugly freak, Lucius thinks he is wholly enticing, Voldemort thinks he offers a new means to immortality, and Dumbledore thinks – who knows? Lucius is sure it’s not good, so he is soon trying to negotiate another deal with Harry. (Warning for slash.)

In the summer after Harry's fifth year, Remus Lupin discovers that the wolf is not the only monster within. This is the continuation of "Here be Monsters."

Harry Potter is a bad apple - a delinquent - a horrible example of a boy entering his teen years. Why, the Dursleys can tell you that right away! There's nothing special about him, even if he once thought the scar on his forehead looked like a thunderbolt and that he used to think about flying. No. To put it simply, there's just nothing magical about him.

Bellatrix Lestrange delights in cruelty, and she can torture with words as well as with a wand. One night alone with Severus Snape is all she needs to break him.

This story is Snape-centered and begins just post-HBP by one week. It will offer one possible explanation, compliant with canon, for Snape's actions and his rather horrid personality! It also supports his loyalty to Dumbledore, and reveals a legacy left by Dumbledore for Snape. This story has fairly dark overtones, and is a character-driven angst drama.

So you want to go to Hogwarts? You've heard all the glorious stuff about magic, the wizarding world, fantastic beasts, wondrous sports and adventure? ``Well, let me tell you how it is – introduce you to the things that don't make it into the brochure, the report they should send with the famous Hogwarts Letter, but sure as hell won't. Heck, if I were deputy headmistress McGonagall, I wouldn't either!

script version of Order of the Phoenix

Canon-style story taking place in year six. Story leads off with a fun scene of Harry helping McGonagall rescue Professor Snape, for which he is not particularly grateful. Malfoy takes revenge for his father’s troubles, leaving Harry at death’s door. Harry’s troubles are only just beginning at this point as a super magical creature comes after him, making the teachers scramble to protect him. All of this makes Harry’s magic change as well as his thinking about who can help him the most when the final battle arrives.

Draco is not good enough.

The usual yarn: Snape retrieves an injured Harry from the Dursleys, only this time the damage is permanent and Snape is not prepared to be cuddly.

The subject of Muggle Studies has been inadequate, to say the least. The need for new curriculum means someone must spy out the Muggle world for information. Guess who gets to do the honors? How can the great greasy bat from the dungeons be the best person to fix it? And who will he be forced to work with to get it done? Beta'd by Somgliana.

At the beginning of seventh year, Harry is visited by the Fates, who tell him that they made a mistake with his very existance. They want to reverse the damage and give Harry the life he should have had. He's interested to find out what a Dursley-less life would be like.... but what's this about Snape?

Passion and obsession are found in unlikely places as Lucius and Draco are forced to redefine love and loyalty...

Seven years has passed since Hermione Granger left the wizarding world but now a new prophecy has surfaced that needed the Golden Trio to be reunited to defeat the Dark Lord. But what is the reason Hermione left and is she willing to come back?

AU: disregards OoTP. Having overcome his grief over Cedric Diggory's death, Harry returns to Hogwarts for his fifth year. Upcoming events include tons of homework, the O.W.L. exams, a new DADA teacher, Voldemort becoming more powerful, and a new student. Things in his relationship with Ron and Hermione also take an interesting turn. Featured ships: Harry/Ron/Hermione, Ginny/Neville, Luna/OC

"Images filled her head, strange and foreign, but all too familiar. High, chilling laughter; the gaunt, haunted face of his godfather; beady, watery eyes; a handsome boy with a blank, cold face; a pale face streaked with tears; a blinding flash of green light, and unbearable, searing pain. She was aware of a piercing shriek. Then everything went black."

A psychological thriller. The Diary left more than battle wounds. Voldemort's ingenuity planned for more than Harry initially assumed, and now the time has come when he must truly transcend the shades of grey that colour the Wizarding World. When tempted, Harry must forge his own path. Harry/OC to begin with. No slash. Pre-DH. AU from PoA.