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Colin Creevey's home life, and a peek into his thoughts. Is he really that shutterbug worshipful admirer of Harry's that we all perceive him to be?

“That’s Dorcas Meadowes, Voldemort killed her personally.” Mad-Eye Moody, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, chapter nine``More than an image in an old photograph where the faces of the lost far outnumber those of the living, one casualty of the first war against Voldemort tells of those whose work she continued in the battle against evil as she faces death and the Dark Lord on her own terms.

An auror contemplates what makes good aurors go bad. Angst for the literarily inclined.

In their 5th year of Hogwarts, the infamous Marauders and the Witches 4 battle it out, literally. After an unforgivable prank that the Marauders play on her and her friends, Lily Evans convinces them to wage a prank war against the Marauders. They accept the challenge, but will James' feelings for Lily stop him from giving his all in this war? How can the Marauder's girl, Jessilyn, prank against the Marauders? And what happens if she ends up falling for one of them? All we know is that both teams won't play fair. But hey, All's Fair in Love and War...right?

Ficlet, set in the Lightning Letters Universe. Draco comes home after the War.

Severus and Harry lived (somewhat) happily ever after.

The Dark Lord's power is growing in the wizarding world as Bellatrix Black is heading into her seventh year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Unwillingly betrothed, Bellatrix tries to find herself again when she feels her future is lost. What made this Slytherin turn to the dark side and become Voldemort's leading lady? Read the true accounts of Bellatrix Lestrange.

On their very last night at Hogwarts, Blaise Zabini comes upon Draco in the Slytherin Common Room. It seems like the time for her to make some long overdue confessions... a run-back story.

Harry Potter has always known Snape as the cruel, nasty Potions Master, but was there a lot more to Snape than meets the eye?

It was only when he thought he might as well see if the whomping willow was still around when he heard two voices coming from around the bend.`` “I refuse to name him Vicky!” came an all too familiar voice.....``My take on the last chapter of the last book. Take a look back with the survivors.....

ONESHOT Hermione is Minister of Magic and responsible for all of the prisoners of Azkaban. She signs her name and their fates are sealed. Easy enough, but what will happen when she recognizes the name of someone she believes to be innocent?

By the time you read this I hope to be dead.

What if when Harry destroyed Tom Riddle’s diary in the Chamber, Riddle’s memory wasn’t quite as gone as they all thought? After all, Ginny certainly remembers the experience. What happens when she begins to hear Riddle’s voice in her head?

"Everyone knows Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and especially Gryffindor all have their share of Muggle-borns right? Why is it then that no one stops and wonders why it is that none are in Slytherin?" -- Terence Higgs is the only muggle-born Slytherin in his year so he must deal with learning about a different world all alone.

Life is tough for seven-year-old Draco Malfoy. It's Halloween and his father won't let him go trick or treating. Add that to the fact that his mother won't give him sweets and you have one very bored boy. So, how will he pass the night?

Wizards are born with teeth. Some toys with fire. Time: Mid-October 1981. Setting: The waiting room in the Ministry of Magic's Child-Ward Department. Players: Lily Potter; her son Harry, almost 15 months old; Marjorie Rutherford, a nanny; her ward Draco Malfoy, about the same age as Harry.

The war does things to people. Changes them. Makes them forget. Harry hopes Severus will one day remember. (Snape/Harry)

Think you know the real Ginny Weasley? Think you understand that sweet innocent child that would never hurt a fly? Think again, discover the real girl behind the mask.

Harry Potter starts his sixth year at Hogwarts, and a mysterious girl long since dead appears with a story to tell--a story about her life with the Marauders. In the dusk before total darkness, Harry has to learn how to fight his worst enemy. War is approaching and who is he to trust? But unknown situations wake unknown feelings, and in this dark time love still ensues...

How did the Magical world educate its youngsters before there was a Hogwarts? Follow one girl on her journey into magic, and into the Gryffindor family.

"There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil." -Clarence S. Darrow -- OC with what could be considered an AU, I suppose. Takes place in Harry's seventh year.

Some people react badly to love, others don't know what to do with it.

Just a snippet of the final battle between good and evil. Guess: Who will cry, and who will die?

Something happens to Hermione that she never thought possible.......

Minerva McGonagall's thoughts during a memorial for James and Lily.

What happens when you are colder than ice, and you think nothing can break through your hard shell? What happens when you're wrong? Draco is losing control.

After the end of his fifth year Harry starts having strange life-like dreams just as a certain red-haired girl, as Voldemort uses a powerful object in a desperate attempt to gain more power. But as an ancient evil awakens both sides will have to face demons from the past, forgotten fears and deal with well-hidden – till now – secrets. All will be hunted and Harry and his friends with the help of the Ritter family, known as the Shadow-Hunters, a mysterious girl named Beryl and other unpredicted allies, some of which will unexpectedly come back from the dead, will have to fight against Voldemort and even against themselves in order to rid the world of a fate that is worse than death, a never-ending nightmare. H/?, D/?, G/?, R/Hr

After the war, Draco Malfoy finds that some battles are just beginning.

After a freak accident sends Draco Malfoy and his surrogate family into disorder, Draco must comes to grips with his rocky-road relationship with his half-sister, Chloe Lupin-Snape. Warning this story contains Severus/Remus and Harry/Draco

This fairytale is dead and her Prince Charming is nowhere to be found. [Tom/Ginny, Ginny/Harry, R.]

Although it doesn't seem like it at first, this is a Hermione/Draco fic... The plot is only really revealed in chapter three...

The origins of Hagrid. Philander Hagrid meets Fridwulfa while stranded. We all know what happens from there. But what else happens during the formative years of Hogwarts' most beloved giant?

AU. Harry grows up with his bachelor uncle and quite a few invited guests(and uninvited guests) along with some strange adventures may happen before Harry can even start school.

There are things that Harry can say only at the right time and in the right place. Fortunately, Ginny understands.

Draco shows up at Harry's door one day, asking him to take him in, but will he?

How could a mayfly, born at dawn and dying at dusk, ever understand the concept of night?

Set the evening after the MWPP-era Defence Against the Dark Arts OWL. Severus Snape angsts about the true reason he insulted Lily Evans.

Sometimes, there is no need to depend on time or words. Sometimes, all you have to do is to watch your miracle. H/D, one-shot.

Harry has fallen into a depression following Sirius' death. Starting at Hogwarts, Harry his comtemplating throwing himself off the South Tower when he hears somebody singing on the other side of the roof. He investigates...

Draco Malfoy. Ginny Weasley. Both worlds apart, in more ways than one, or is it really? With the onset of the Second War, both teenagers, one broken and one tainted, will find out that sometimes some wounds run too deep to be healed. D/G

During the summer after his 5th year at school, Harry Potter is attacked by Death Eaters. He is hit by a spell and sent through a window to the time of the Marauders.

A brief look into Dumbledore's mind without the help of a penseive! What does he think of when the dementors drift by, what does he

After his seventh year at that place, Petunia has a final meeting with her nephew.

It doesn't look at all like a memory...

Be a good boy. Try a little harder. You've got to measure up.

Baby Harry's first Christmas Eve. The Marauders and Lily get into the Christmas spirit, but are interrupted when an unexpected friend comes to call with some dreadful news.

Osiris Silver has a sordid and violent past. All he knows about his father, is that he was a Death Eater and was killed by Voldemort when he was three. When he gets kicked out of his pureblood, private school for incidents of dueling and fighting, he transfers into Hogwarts where Professor Snape intends to keep him in line.... Severus Snape soon finds out that the impulsive boy is a bit of a prodigy and his particular talent is in potions. What happens when Osiris breaks Malfoy's nose? What happens when Snape deciphers certain well-kept secrets of Osiris? What happens when Snape begins to speculate possible identities for Osiris' dead father? Why does Osiris not carry the last name of a pureblood family when he is a pureblood? OC and slight

A ruined house, a knock at the door, a cold breakfast. One choice and history is changed forever. AU.

Lord Voldemort abducts Hermione. But why? Oneshot.

For four months, Draco had been held captive. Now all he wanted was a glimpse out the window.

Draco visits his father in Azkaban, and they end up doing more than talking. [Warning: Incest]

"To contain death; the whole of it". Tom, ruby stars, immortality, the Trans-siberian Express. For Rhoddlet.

Harry is suffering his usual daily torments from Piers and Dudley. But this time, a little magic is involved. Pre-Hogwarts.

Over the summer, Draco Malfoy becomes yet another one of Voldemort's victims. Too proud to ask either parents or teachers for help, he finds understanding and help in perhaps the least likely place of all: Blaise Zabini.

Voldemort broods while sharing Quirrell's body - and mind

Ginny has to deal with the consequences when a relationship that was always supposed to mean nothing turns out to mean everything.

When Ginny Weasley catches Harry Potter with someone else, she flirts with the idea of evil. ``Rated R for language and for one sexual situation and one sexual innuendo. D/G, H/L, R/Hr

As Harry’s seventeenth birthday approaches, he is hidden with a small team in a sewer, discussing choices and scars and waiting for the last assault on Voldemort to begin. Sybill Trelawney’s first prophecy is about to be fulfilled. Set post-OotP.

He's having a hard time letting her go, but he knows she needs to be happy. That doesn't mean he's going to be happy himself. It's alright, because there's beauty in the breakdown.

Several years after the Trio left Hogwarts, they find themselves back, to defend her as Harry searches for an ancient self-defense system, left behind by the Founders.

Sixteen-year-old Bellatrix lives a life of darkness, evil, hatred, angst, faithfulness, and seduction. Follow Bella through her triumphs, emotional strifes... her seductions, and of course: Faithful service to the Dark Lord. *In Character!*

Sirius has always been a strong person. But what's the force that makes someone strong? (Sirius as an altar boy.)

James dreams of Lily, of Remus and Sirius. Most of all, though, he dreams of Harry.

The Dark Lord has discovered the Prophecy and will become immortal by the next full moon. A note given by a nameless sender throws Harry into a whirlwind of events to race against time to become immortal himself. Tossed into the heart of an unknown culture, he is given a new ally, a quirky alchemist, and a goal of defeating a man who is feared by a society of long-lost gods. Can the Boy-Who-Lived-Despite-Everything make it through this one last adventure, or will the full moon rise upon the endless reign of the Dark Lord's terror?

What drove Peter Pettigrew to become a Death Eater? Was it something James and company did or said? Or was it something more complex then that?

An explanation for Sirius' angry reaction to learning that Snape was to teach Harry Occlumency. Before the beginning of OotP, Snape interrogates Tonks.

An aside to Switch. SLASH. "The person underneath - where does he go? Does he slip by the wayside - or does he just die?"

Hermione’s mother is distressed by the growing distance between herself and her daughter. When Hermione visits her parents for Christmas during her sixth year at Hogwarts, they try to bridge the gap. Maybe a broken heart is good for something after all.

After OotP, Remus is mourning. Severus sees him crying one day, steps inside and talks to him, being his nasty self - until he tells an old story. Oddly enough, this seems to comfort Remus some way.

It is only just that one Malfoy should follow another, in all things. ````WARNINGS: Incest. AU. Child abuse. Slash. Angst. Insanity. And. Um. A mild foot fetish?

Harry has a dream that he's just five, and he is pretending he is a knight and bringing his mother, his fair lady, a rose from a magic tree.

Tom Riddle and his boggart.

A girl explores the year of the Triwizard Tournament with only the news given to her from the papers and her older sister. A companion to the "Unities" trilogy.

While awaiting further instructions from Dumbledore, Remus helps Sirius conquer his demons. (Post-GoF, S/R)

Ravenclaws are a fairly popular house, everyone's second choice, and some people's first. They are known for their intellect, their thirst for knowledge. Hardly anyone dislikes them. But everyone knows that. They are not known for their faults. No one seems to remember that Ravenclaws can be egotistical, can be stubborn in their obsession with the correctness of books. People forget that they are as flawed as any other house. But what one must remember, as with any other house, is that they are not all the same.

George waits, Ginny watches, and the ending will come anyway. ``WARNINGS: Incest, implied slash, implied non-con and underage (Ginny/Tom), death, much sadness, folklore references

Written for the wizarding porn challenge. Dying is an art. Snuff films & dangerous games in front of cameras. Fleur/Gabrielle.

Have you ever wondered how J.K. Rowling actually came up with the Harry Potter stories? What if she just happened to stumble on their world? Takes place in 1995, two years before she wrote the first Harry Potter book.

Harry waits for the summons to go fight the last battle of the war against Voldermort and contemplates, with Remus, the sacrifice he knows he'll have to make during it.

There is no need to fear Greyback. At least, as long as you follow his rules.

Mrs. Weasley is worried that Bill won't ever get married until one snowy evening.

Ginny works in a post-war world where the Dark Lord reigns supreme.

Ginny is 16. And Tom comes again. He tortures her. Will she endure? It's a bit frightening but there is a little romance...

We all knew it when we saw it; that turning point where, if Harry had just been a little smarter, a little more trusting of Snape, Sirius might have lived. Well, what might have been the price of that one life? AU from page 746 of OoTP on.

Most people believed that he was Ollivander's brother, or else otherwise related. But he wasn't any relation to him. Great wandmaker that Ollivander may be, his wands were standard, every-day things. They weren't powerful or great or rare. But his ... his were a different story.

The end of the world had been at the back of her throat, and at that crazy moment in time, with that blood-- dirty blood-- burning her fingers, it hadn't seemed likely that either of them would ever see another sunrise. She had been half out of her mind, and after the danger had passed, Pansy barely even remembered accepting.

"How can she be right in front of him, cowering yet vigilant, while he daydreams? Watching him, always afraid he will do something, always prepared to stop him." A childish amnesiac under the care of Ginny Weasley and the search for his identity, unaware of the trauma inflicted upon her as he gets closer to who he is... and what he was.

What happened to Professor McGonagall to make her resign from Hogwarts? Why is the Headmaster so cold? What does Aberforth have that Dumbledore wants?

One day you will meet a girl you have always known. She will tell you a memory, give you a rose, and under the ashen sky, you will learn to let go.

Remus doesn't want to know why Sirius thought he was the traitor fourteen years ago.

Every wizard, at the age of sixteen, goes through their full coming of age. They come into their full powers, and the next two years of school are spent not only learning what they need to know, but learning how to control their newfound powers. While Harry had always known he was different, his coming of age makes him dangerously so. His cravings are more and more extreme, and there is nothing he can do but face the fact that whoever he gets close to, he will end up hurting in the end.

Sometimes what we wish for is never what we receive...sometimes our gifts are worth far more...and far worse then we could have dreamed of.

'He has his mother's eyes, but I gave him a mother's love.' Molly Weasley reflects on Harry Potter and what he means to her.

"Of all the people who could discover her secret, it had to be him." Hermione struggles to deal with her problems, but does anyone really care?

*The strange woman looked over her shoulder, out the window and into the night that awaited her.*

In St. Mungo's, Minerva McGonagall receives a visitor with dreadful news. Snape/McGonagall.

You think you're Ordinary, and no one can help what they dream. Harry/Draco.

Harry is standing on the edge of Battle, waiting for Voldemort. Memories flood him. And both Harry and Voldemort find that Harry is not as alone as he thinks; Luna comes with others in order to fulfill a promise she made to him. Tomorrow is a day for tears. But today is a Resurrection.

"Probably," he smiled, "but it never hurts to think. I wonder, though, what kind of person I would be if I was just Harry Potter."``"What makes you think you'd be any different?" queried Hermione, raising an eyebrow. Harry turned to face Luna, only to find that she had also quirked an eyebrow at him.``Harry wonders on how different he would be if he was just Harry Potter; Hermione and Luna show him that he'd be just the same.

Hermione is put up to something that makes the truth about Harry come out. Soon she reveals that she knows more and as Harry's giving her the details, the subject of the conversation appears, and he doesn't look good. H/SS, Character Death.