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Harry is depressed over his godfather's death, but when he gets an important letter, he makes a decision that will change his life forever. GW/DM BL/LV HP/??

This story was inspired by a picture that appeared recently on one of my lists. Severus Snape comes across his well worn, well loved teddy bear, Cuddles.

On his flight from Hogwarts following Wormtail's escape, Sirius drops in on an old friend for a breather and a confrontation.

Severus Snape recalls previous memories, best left to rest. But who can blame him for his thoughts about Hermione, and her 'betrayal'? His actions, drastic, yes, but to him necessary. SNAPE/HERMI, somewhat. Sev is NOT dead, don't worry.

A glimpse of the lives of Nymphadora Tonks and Remus Lupin, and the years of friendship between them. Begins one year after the Marauders' graduation and ends just after OotP. (One-shot)

Harry's run away from Hogwarts and Hermione and Ron try to find him. Based on/songfic to Linkin Park's "Easier to Run."

An entry for the "First Time I Saw Your Face" Challenge. A father holds his child for the first time.

A look at one of Snape's worst memories that Harry saw, and we're not talking about the James one in the Pensieve.

This is just a brief vignette about Oliver later on in his life. It's a brief moment of realization, and not a particularly happy one at that.

After a reflective summer, Harry relocates for training with the two unlikeliest of instructors to prepare for the final battle.

Phineas Nigellus was the least popular headmaster Hogwarts ever had, in the words of his great-great-grandson, Sirius Black. But why does he think this? How did Phineas gain his terrible reputation? What did his children and their friends think? All is explained in this thrilling, spine-tingling, chilling adventure…

In Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter is offered a momentary chance to live with Sirius Black, and he wonders what the reaction of Dursley's will be when they meet Sirius, and recognize him as the televised criminal. Of course, Harry loses that chance, snatched away by a twist of fate. But what if the circumstances had been different, and what would Sirius have done for work? This story explores that possibility.

The Media never lies: agreed? I don't think so... Sometimes the lies published in the tabloids can seem so plausible; believable even; and these lies can then become convincingly like the truth if you are searching for someone to blame. Natural human responses will tell us this much as we have all blamed someone unfairly at some point in our lives. But what happens to the people on the receiving end of the false accusations? And what are the consequences when those affected are driven away by those who they once counted as friends? Sometimes, only when the physical pain is starting to fade do the deeper scars begin to reveal themselves. And some scars take a long time to heal.

"I’ve had Blanky as long as I can remember. Sometimes I think that maybe my parents gave it to me." Harry Potter lives in a cupboard under the stairs.

Something happens with Dudley that is most unexpected, something is revealed about the residents of Privet Drive, Harry saves himself and the Dursleys from a certain unmentionable wizard and his followers.

Spoilers for DH. An alternate ending to Snape's story line, picking up where DH left off. Short one-shot.

Why is Cornelius Fudge in the Leaky Cauldron, on the night Harry blows up his aunt? What is he thinking, as he looks out on drab grey Muggle London and looks back on his drab grey Magical career? When will there be any news: of Harry, of the aunt, of the fugitive Black whose escape does the Ministerial reputation no good at all?

Harry Potter's daughter is sorted into Slytherin!

Slightly-AU. Draco peels away the layers, scrubs away impurities, numbers and circles making him clean. "There's something to be said for having perfect form." Slightly slashy undertones.

Set in the summer following Harry's sixth year. The Trio set out to find the Horcruxes, while at the same time Harry struggles with his inner demons. H/Hr.

TRANSLATION. PreHBP. Harry Potter, The Boy-Who-Lived, the Boy expected to be the Savior of the Wizarding World, is now Filldeserp, Voldemort’s Heir and his right-hand man. All hopes of finishing this heartless war are on Neville Longbottom’s shoulders. Will he be able to defeat Voldemort and his protégé? Not Slash.

It's here, seventh year has finally arrived for our favourite trio. What new surprises will arrive for our friends at Hogwarts this year?

#4 in the WarSong Series -- Harry considers the war so far, the darkness that has swallowed him, and the curse that seems to surround his love.

Draco has always played with the Dark Arts. Now that they have become a reality, the question is not whether he can break free, but whether he wants to.

H/D slash, sequel to "With You". Draco, spoiled Malfoy that he is, wants something otherwise deemed IMPOSSIBLE TO GET. That is... Harry! How he does``this is less than morally right. Here he finally learns how he and Harry just``can't work out. Rather angsty.

Our lives are made up of memories and hopes. How much can we remember? What is true and what isn't? Risk is just part of the job... But just add love and fear and you are drowning... What are you drowning in? In yourself...

"Harry could tell they had rehearsed this conversation..." --Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter Eleven

"You'll find out. Now listen carefully. The War has not begun, but our spies tell us that Potter is under heavy surveilance 24-7. So, what we are doing is you will go to Hogwarts, an orphan, since mother and father will be dead. Alright, and we have used magic to make that Mudblood Granger, who is one of Potter's best friends, think that you are a distant cousin, and that is what everyone else thinks, due to more magic." Selene Malicia's parents are Death Eaters. When a great plan to finally kill Harry Potter is put into place, she is forced into it. Forbidden not to defy any part of The Plan, she does so anyway, and meets Draco Malfoy, someone she will never forget.

The war against evil has been waged and won but, the price was great many were lost. What happens when Hermione unknowingly meets the person who sacrificed his life in order to save hers?

Sydny is in direct relation to the Weasley Clan. But she is unlike them in many ways. because of a loss, she needs to find her true self. She finds it in unlikely places. Rated R for later chapters and language.

It begins where it ends. In nothingness. A nightmare born from deepest fears, coming to me unguarded. Whispering images unlocked from time and distance. A soul unbound - touched by others but never held. On a course charted by some unseen hand. The journey ahead promising no more than my past reflecting back upon me. Until at last, he reach the end. Facing a truth he can no longer deny. Alone, as ever.

When someone dies, they leave behind others to deal with the pain of their death - more so when no one is expecting it. And always, there is the question of why? Why did Severus Snape take his own life? Why did he leave them that question? A sequel to "The Teddy Bear".

This family has found peace at last.

It was a time of terror, a time of panic and confusion. It was a time when death and pain ran rampant, and shadows sought to destroy the Light. It was a time when friends and family feared for themselves and for others. It was a time when Darkness threatened to overcome the Wizarding World. It was a time of death ... but also a time of life. It was the time of the First War.

The traditional climax of the Dark Wizards' Ball is the waking of the Imbolc Serpent. As the "Dark Wizards" are strictly fancy dress and the Serpent doesn't exist, Harry isn't too worried ... until the Imbolc Serpent actually turns up.

Cho Chang disappears just after her sixth year. Where is she? Will she find her way home? Discontinued.

“I am a Hufflepuff. I am hardworking. I am loyal. I am also awaiting trial for the murder of eight Aurors, five students and one Albus Dumbledore.”

In the final battle against Voldemort, what are two lovers to do when the world is ending around them? Remus and Sirius are faced with a difficult, bittersweet decision...

Snape's daughter returns to Hogwarts and secrets are revealed. He's turned down for DADA once again and it's because of her! Can she survive the year without stepping on her daddy's toes?

In the aftermath of the fight with Voldemort, Harry tries to recover from dreams that never quite came to pass and nightmares that won't go away.

A twist of fate brings a six-year-old Harry into the company of the Malfoys and Voldemort. Will the boy survive?

A new, powerful memory-loss drug has been developed by Voldemort. He gives it to Lucius Malfoy, informing him of a plan to kidnap Hermione Granger - and to use the drug on her. The plan begins, with Hermione as a pawn, and Lucius as a king.

Sequel to One Fateful Night. Harry and Hermione reveal their darkest secrets, then make a life-changing decision. As the death toll rises, our beloved Headmaster makes the ultimate choice...

Neacie Ruck is a sixth year at Hogwarts who just happens to have a relationship with Severus Snape, too bad Severus needs to push her away to keep her safe from He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Little does he know all the pushing he is doing is driving her right into the arms of the man he never wanted her near in the first place, Sirius Black.

Harry is back at Privet Drive after completing his sixth (and maybe his final) year at Hogwarts

Ginny Weasley went mad. That's what they all say, at least. Now it's her turn to tell the story. She really didn't mean for it to turn out the way it did. A letter 'to all it may concern' written by the hand of Ginny Weasley.

Marivetta Hunter is the daughter of a Death Eater who thought that there was only a single path set before her. But in her seventh year she finds herself drawn into a silent war she wasn’t even aware was taking place. Forging an unlikely alliance with her Potions Professor, she must now choose between the path of a Death Eater and the path of a hero.

Some songs are so powerful that they can give you the answer to the dilemmas of life... or at least, make you feel as if they had. And what would a Muggle think if he heard an (expurgated) version of Harry's life?

Excerpt: The final battle between Harry and Voldemort was so near, he could taste it. They’d finally destroyed the final Horcrux. Harry just sat here now, as if steeling himself for the battle. The silence was deafening. These are the reflections of seperate characters, including Ron, Ginny and Luna post HBP. They all have their path and they must take it, but however hectic their lives may be, there is always time to reflect, no matter what. When you look into the water what do you see staring back?

While sitting in his room at Number Four Privet Drive, Harry Potter finds a crucial clue that could help solve a mystery and give the Longbottoms back their sanity.

A young Sirius Black is awakened early in the morning by a terrible cry - a cry belonging to his friend, Remus Lupin. Confused and worried, Sirius rushes to his friend's side, only to discover the reason for Remus' horror. What began as a simple prank did not end that way...

"He had just watched his own father collapse under the bright blinding flash of the Killing Curse and done nothing. It had not hurt as much as he thought it would."

After his death, Sirius looks back on his life... the good, the bad, the disgusting, the funny, and sometimes the just plain embarrasing.``was Bellatrix a problem-teen? what was Narcissa like? why was Andromeda Sirius's favourite cousin?``read my fic to delve into Sirius's deepest darkest memories...

What do an insomniac Gryffindor, a middle-aged werewolf and an ex-Death Eater have in common? Not much, actually. That doesn't mean they can't help each other.

It's the last school day before Father's Day, and the class is making cards for their fathers. What is poor Harry to do?

When Tonks finds an old album in Lupin's attic, she discovers a side to his past that she never knew. He just wants to hide his memories away, but Tonks is determined to find out who Cat and Meg really are. After five nights of old memories and truths revealed to be lies, Tonks must choose if she can stand to stay with him, or if his lies will drive her away.

Snape goes existentialist and revisits his dark Death Eater past, his experiences with Lily/James/Sirius/Lupin (unintended``quasi-romantic undertones), and follows them up to the present in his``Potions class with Harry, Ron, Hermione, Draco, etc. Is You-Know-Who``really as bad as they say? Are Lily/James as perfect as people make``out? Snape thinks not. Find out why.

Draco Malfoy was sent to his aunt Andromeda when his parents are killed, and he wants to be anywhere else but there. He never expected to end up in a world he thought existed only in the imagination, without his wand or any familiar face. Nor did Andromeda expect to land in a world that she found in a book, and was fascinated by from her first glimpse. What will happen to these two misplaced mages as they adapt to this new world, and the idea they may never be able to return home? And what other surprises does it hold for them and their futures?

Draco Malfoy has an encounter with a House Elf during the Christmas holidays. Set in Book 5, and has Draco angst, while attempting to keep him in canon. More an objective character study than anything else.

What happens when Lupin finds a teenage werewolf in his backyard and adopts her? Well, send her to Hogwarts of course. But when our favorite trio becomes friends with this new student and finds out her secret will they do as Lupin's friends did and become animagi to help her?

A crossover between the movie Troy, Charmed, and Harry Potter. The Charmed Ones are sent back in time to the time before the Battle of Troy. Harry is feeling left out. Now he has to bring the Charmed Ones to Hogwarts, but some one tags along....

While on prefect duty Narcissa Black runs in to some trouble in the form of an invisible James Potter. Could this night somehow make up for the worst summer of her life? Or will it only serve to frazzle her nerves more?

Severus surprises the whole staff of Hogwarts one day by revealing that he has a spouse and two children. Except that he no more has children, thanks to a careless wizard driving a Muggle car. Jessica and Rebecca are dead, but the hardest thing Severus has ever had to do is to convince Remus of the fact...

Dean muses about his family, war, art, and Ginny Weasley.

Rufus Scrimgeour reflects on his conversation with Harry, and receives an unexpected visitor with an unwarranted demand. A one shot character piece.

We all know that Harry Potter, the boy who survived the killing curse, is one of the few that can speak Parseltongue. But what if there is an entire family that has the Gift of Snakes as well? This family has worked for years to hide their powers and letting the gifts leave. The gift has skipped many generations of these children, but suddenly it is back, striking the youngest daughter with its powers, its gifts.

Sequel to the fic 'Melancholic'. Harry goes to Hermione for help, and learns about some unexpected horrors in the Weasley family. Part one of three.

We all know Harry isn't an angel. He does have mean bones in his body. What if those bones got out of control? Just because it's Harry and Ginny doesn't mean it's fluffy.

Harry is drowning in grief until he meets someone from the U.S. This someone will be important to Harry. This someone is also a Sorcerer... In training.

The AU fic to end all AU fics. Short, sweet, and to the point! Ronald Weasley opens up an old letter and reads a startling account of the truth. The truth is stranger than fiction...

Icarus drowned in the sea. The Blacks drowned in tears.

One night, Harry partakes in his usual habit - selfharm. Except this night is not like all the rest. This night things go out of control. This night he is followed, by the one person he wants most to keep in the dark about his new habits. His life is changed forever after. Can his secret being let out bring him farther way from the one he cares most about, or closer to her?

Harry knew he was bad. So did his family. They didn't like him because he imposed on their perfect life. Life is like a bomb tred on one and you die.

There's more to that Harry Potter books than meets the eye. In fact, they've been cunningly designed to keep a secret hidden. I'm going to reveal that secret to you. The Ministry will have my head for it, no doubt.

Petunia's PoV. Sisterly love is a strange thing, it breeds rivalry, jealously and anger, yet the love that is given, is given with question. Set after Lily's death, with flashbacks.

Years ago he broke the doll. Now he breaks her.

Harry Potter plunges headlong into a Pensieve, and in the process discovers the shocking reason exactly why Albus Dumbledore trusted Severus Snape.

Supplement to Wolf by Ears, which is located at Schnoogle.com. This is the political document that Jarohnen Ianikit wrote during his stay at the Sentient Magical Creature Penitentiary.

Harry gasped. "I shouldn't be doing this," he told himself out loud. "I shouldn't be here." "No, I suppose not. But you want to be here, Harry, don't you?" asked the cold voice. A one-shot of betrayal, lust, indecision, and a love lasting a lifetime... "You're all I need. Stay here with me, forever and always..."

October 1981. One prophecy, two children. What if it had gone the other way?

You must watch what you say. You must weigh every word. Among Death Eaters, one word out of place - and you would be hurtling screaming towards destruction. Severus Snape and Narcissa Malfoy have a chat.

For Sirius, nothing looks the same from prison.

#3 in the songfic series - Hermione endures long days of waiting while Ron is missing and everything seems to be going wrong.

Harry returns to Hogwarts five years after graduation and must confront the painful memories that the school holds for him. (H/D slash implied) "I've got your kiss still burning on my lips..."

Could you kill you best friend?````Because in the Battle Royale Program, it could be a choice between that and an ugly death...````pg-13 for content and violence. May be possible slash. Could go up to R for violence.

Cho Chang goes to visit some friends in hospital, and sees someone she hasn't thought about in a long time ...

When faced with the discovery of his Secret by his friends, Remus learns the meaning of acceptance and friendship, while Sirius muses about logic, stalking, voyeurism, and the reliability of certain books found in the library of a fanatical, pureblood family.

After Harry's fifth year. He is down about Sirius's death. He tries to kill himself but ends up sending himself somewhere where he doesn't know who he is. This is about his journey to learn who he really is and to find his past.

Well Harry stands on the window and thinks, Hermione thinks too...

Harry can't get over Sirius. Ron and Hermione try to help but Harry's resistant.

Mr. Malfoy is the benefactor for a Merlin, a fatherless boy whose life has similarities to the orginal Merlin. Lord Voldemort has a sinister interest in the child.

Harry and Draco. Both very different, but the same in many ways. When they both get abused so bad that they return to Hogwarts late, they are both stuck in the Hospital Wing for a long time. In beds right next to each other. Read how two school rivals to the highest extent become friends – until something comes between them and one of the best friendships ever that the like of hasn’t been seen for thousands of years falls apart and starts the revolt of the century. The war of good and evil. One is the leader of evil, the other of good, and it’s a lost friendship that maybe no one will be able to put back together. It’s a game of chance that puts the highest risks ever on the line, and both are willing to risk it all. Or are they?

Set during seventh year. Harry goes up to Astronomy Tower in hopes of being alone. When he gets there, he finds that someone is there for other reasons. Tragedy can make for strange bedfellows, as well as bringing stereotypes to light.

Harry feels as though he's been cheated out of his life, so he persuades Dumbledore and Snape to make it up to him. Features a manipulated Dumbledore, a speechless Snape, and a vaguely insane yet amusing Harry. NOT HBP compliant

On the night of the full moon, a forest creature meets with an unexpected visitor.

Spoiled, stupid, and suddenly penniless, Draco is forced to think about things he never had to consider before and to become a person he never thought he would be.

Susan Vitalis's first year at Walton Academy of Magic. A young American witch going to a school in the United States must deal with a powerful artifact fueled by its bearer's emotions. (Abandoned)

Everyone has a few skeletons in their closets. Including Mr. Seemingly-Can-Do-No-Wrong Harry Potter. Only his are in a dungeon and Ron is determined to find out what they are.

Astoria Malfoy cannot stand Draco's family and the feeling is mutual. Then, she meets a little Metamorphmagus who she could easily like and this feeling is also mutual.