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"Every cop is a criminal, and all the sinners, saints."

Glimpse into the traumatic childhood that may have made Severus Snape the Potions master we all love to hate -- including his early connections to the Death Eaters, the Malfoys, and Albus Dumbledore. Based on information from OoTP (but not a spoiler). Teaser to/adapted from the first chapters of my longer biography of Severus Snape, available at: http://www.geocities.com/asphodelandwormwood/. Enjoy!

Each of them had a reason to leave. There were lovers, and mothers, and siblings waiting for them in the safety of their home. They had goals, and dreams, and wants yet to be fulfilled. Everyone has a reason to leave- but everyone has a reason to stay.

It was dark. Hermione couldn’t see anything, save Harry. He was holding on to her, begging her not to give up. She was smart, she knew these wounds were fatal. She didn’t know how long she could hold on... didn’t know how much longer she had to live....

Harry confronts Sirius about the last fifteen years, but doesn't like what he hears.

Twenty three years after Harry Potter graduated from Hogwarts, there is a plot to bring back the Dark Lord. Who can stop it now? Certainly not the fifth years, who are starting to suspect something. Right? Can the unlikely combination of Slytherins and Gryffindors stop``this evil plot? They seem to think so.

I'm sure you've snuck into your parents' bedroom before. All children do, but what if you were a Malfoy? The things you might find are infinitely more dangerous and taboo.

After Hogwarts and the war against Voldemort, Harry talks about his life over the last few years for an interview to be featured in the Daily Prophet.

When Hermione is apparently having a hard time dealing with her Mother, Harry and Ron set out to help her. Little do they know what really is wrong with Christina Granger, and when they find out, helping Hermione past her anger becomes Harry's job...

Captured by the Death Eaters and working for Lucius' Ministry of Magic, Ron and Draco plot its downfall. Hey you. Don't help them to bury the light. Don't give in, without a fight. Part three of the 'Beg Me For It' series.

The Fidelius Charm has been performed, and the Potters think they are safe. James reflects on the future.

There have always been arguments over which piece of the board is the most powerful. Most will say the Queen; she can mimic any move, take any square. Others will say the King; despite his limited mobility, the entire point is to protect your king and capture your opponents. It is the center piece of the game. There are any number of arguments for five of the pieces. The last piece, or pieces, are often neglected. They are the front line, the first defence, and the first to fall. All but one. And Ron must see it to the other side. A look at Ron, and why he plays chess so much.

A one-shot in which Harry begins what will no doubt be one of the many difficult days of his life. Whilst at the cemetery to farewell him, Harry stumbles across a grave that he should have stumbled across long ago. Slight Lily/James.

Snape muses on the road not taken, the end of love, and of his own descent into darkness and disbelief. SLASH: RL/SS and SS/ER

When Hermione agrees to interview a stranger, what happens goes against all her expectations

Snape is at a loss. How is he going to tell Dumbledore that the sum of all evils is a small girl, And the hidden truth that he and Lucius covered up many years ago.

It does not do to dwell in dreams, and forget to live...

Harry Potter has to sacrifice himself for his friends and family. What it the sacrifice and will he do it?

Neville discovers his spine, with a little unexpected help from Professor Snape. Set in fourth year, but doesn’t really have anything to do with GoF.

As nineteen year-old Regulus Black contemplates his dark and uncertain future over a firewhiskey in The Leaky Cauldron, he has an unpleasant encounter with James Potter that leaves him changed forever.

The boy had broken a long time ago...

They didn't die together. Fred wasn't prepared to handle that. This fact is so shocking that he hesitates in limbo. The Weasley twins were different people, but they always acted together. They were separate bodies and minds, but they always pooled their efforts. It is hard to make a life and death decision without George. It is harder than he would have thought to think what George would have done.

Tonks was a clumsy girl, but her worst accident was not caused by herself but by a certain thief. Find out what she gets up to in the Order of the Phoenix with Mundungus at her side! T/MF.

Tom comforts Ginny as she lays dying in the Chamber of Secrets. Slight Gin 'n' Tonic.

We've all been here before, and we'll all be here again. When a wizard (or witch) dies they can either stick around in ghost form or go on and be someone else. Though the lives are always slightly repetitive ... as James, Lily and Remus are about to find out. (MWPP&L/Trio fic)

They think you betrayed two of your dearest friends. They think you killed thirteen innocent people with a single curse. They sentenced you to a fate worse than death. You try to tell them that you're innocent, but who listens to a madman?

On a mission for the Order, one of the Trio is badly injured. How will the other two cope with the possible loss of a third of their unit?

Tom Riddle had two loves, one of wealth and one of squalor. In the end, he is bereft of them both. This is their story.

Remember Moody's photo of the Order of the Phoenix? What if someone had a similar picture of the DA? Eight years after the final battle, he looks back and remembers.

Harry as Shakespeare's tragic hero? Suspend your disbelief: it actually fits? But be prepared for a few characters behaving in an apparently atypical fashion. Unfortunately, we all already know how it ends.

Reasons. Without them a story can be very different. With them you can get away with murder. Or so Ron hopes.

A chance encounter between two old lovers opens old wounds but also gives closure.

The whispering has begun. This is only the beginning, and what is in for store for all of Hogwarts is shrouded in shadows. The Shadows of a Heart. The answer is in the Heart of Shadows

It's been raining steadily since the parchment arrived on your doorstep, the looping emerald letters of Dumbledore's script spelling out only 'He is coming. Prepare.'

Remus Lupin’s thoughts on being a werewolf. A monologue. Written in his seventh year.

A story of incest between Ginny and Percy. Relatively graphic, set in the summer after Ginny's first year.

A young werewolf tries to escape from the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures, with help from Remus Lupin. The rating is just for language.

‘They were young and daring. They were free. Nothing mattered but the moment and Draco's guests were never disappointed.’``Draco. Pansy. Blaise. Crabbe. Goyle. Flint. A look inside the nursery of these young children before they properly entered the wizarding world. Slytherins aren't born evil. Innocence is for the young and those who have yet lived. Meet the children...

Four friends, torn apart by a mistake. He's stopped caring, she's all alone, he's an alcoholic, and the other is in Azkaban. Deal with it, or deny it, either way, they must come to grips with reality, and by the time they do, it will already be a long way past midnight.

When the war ends, the survivors are left to reap the spoils, and Hermione sees exactly what is left.

Draco gives Harry flowers. Not just any flowers, lilies. Will this win Harry's heart? Bickering, snogging, and exclamations of love. Not everything ends sweetly.

Sweat ran down Harry's face. He wiped it off with the back of his hand, then hissed when a twig stung the inside of his wrist in a spray of droplets. He didn't slow down; his godson was out there in the half-dark with a monster.

Sometimes you don't see until you look. Harry/Snape, Occlumency and angst.

A prequel to "Brothers in Arms" - On Christmas Eve, in the rebuilt Godric's Hollow, Draco and Ginny have an encounter that leaves them both hurting.

Ever wonder what turned Tom Riddle into Lord Voldemort? Find out here.

It's not easy when you're a 10-year-old boy with an abusive, alcoholic mother. When Sirius Black finally cracks, he persuades James Potter, his only friend, to run away with him on the adventure of a lifetime. Rated for murder and language.

I was his saviour, the strong one, the one that helped him put his life back together. A strange role, I thought, considering my own was falling apart.

She was back on the Quidditch field, there was a dark figure coming, it was so huge, so - so - but where was Harry, in the hospital wing, not even here, not even in the stands, not on the wing, no Ron either, Ron gone, no Harry, no hope, none!

Five-year-old Nymphadora Tonks had an uncle whom she loved very much. He died a hero. She grew up and became an Auror, inspired by his sacrifice. Now, the wizarding world is engulfed in strife and nothing is so simple anymore. Especially when uncle and niece meet again.

Who he was and she was don't matter even if maybe they knew each other years ago in another world where people bothered with books and letters, where progress and knowledge weren't things to be torn down by dirty-blooded boys in labour camps who came home to tired-rented girls and another bottle of filthy-tasting sleep.

"I don't want to live anymore. Life has nothing more to offer me. Hasn't it given me everything already?

Lupin dwells on the recovery of the Marauder's Map.

Only through a Necromancer or a Medium can the dead speak to the living. Scorpio Black is both. Voldemort wants her by his side as his second in command and the Order wishes to manipulate her power into something they can use against Voldemort. Harry only wants to love her. Her powers and communications with the dead are growing as the darkness begins to cover the wizarding world. Meanwhile, behind the Veil of the Dead, a rebellion is beginning. Death's presence has left and only a Necromancer can take His place. Scorpio will have to choose between love and duty, right and wrong before her time in the world ends.

The curse-breaker, and the cursed man--Bill and Sirius have an evening together during the second half of Harry’s fifth year. There are repercussions. OotP compliant.

"You feed the trace of darkness inside her. You offer it her pain, her humiliation, the tears streaming out of her lovely brown eyes. And it grows, and becomes more ominous, spreading through her like poison."````A tale of darkness and betrayal, of blood and tears. Of what happens when your own heart is your worst enemy.

Hermione visits Draco in Azkaban. Sequel to I Just Keep Running, Bitter Tears Come From The Fallen, and The Coward's Way Out.

SLASH - When Sirius went through the veil, he left behind not only a devoted godson, but a best friend, a lover--Moony. Now Lupin's letters to Harry are going unread, and the residents of Number Twelve Grimmauld Place are unable to reach Remus. Witness Remus Lupin's spiral through memories into grief as he looks back on their last year together.

While Harry, Ron, Hermione and the gang search for the remaining Horcruxes, they discover an abandoned mansion with information that may be useful. But the more information they find, the harder it becomes to piece the information together.

Long ago, an ancient, evil dark sorcerer was distroyed by a champion of light and freedom. Even in his death, however, he has set into motion a series of events that could well lead to his resurrection. Few know the specifics, and fewer still are equiped to stand interfere. One young Ravenclaw, however, stands poised to avert disaster, or will she get caught in the crossfire?

Every witch or wizard knows that the reason they have managed to keep their existence a secret for so long is that Muggles just don't look. But what would happen if one day, someone did? This is the story of an ordinary man who happened upon an extraordinary place.

She heard that he’d been found. She knew they were bringing him in and that it would happen tonight. One-shot written for a challenge at the FIA Forums.

"It means that you may be very logical," mused Luna, turning over to face the sun, "and I may be a bit eccentric, but if you like crunchy peanut butter, then you're okay with me." A Hermione/Luna friendship fiction.

Draco is put in Azkaban pending a trial for numerous Death Eater activities. But Harry has a request of Hermione: please make sure Draco walks free.

A/U. The choices one makes for one's future is usually dependent only upon one lifetime...but what happens when previous lifetimes come into play? How does one choose between one's past and one's present? What happens when the lines start blurring and the present is not strong enough to keep the past at bay? For Harry, Hermione, Ron, Ginny and Draco--their last year at Hogwart's just got more complicated. Will they have the strength to choose their own futures or will they succumb to the past's pull? In order to break the cycle--they'll need to work together...but are they prepared to deal with all the twists and turns that are thrown their way? Will they all survive?

There is more to the identity of pure-blooded wizardry than the excesses of the Dark Lord and his Death Eaters. But the obligations that come with old blood are not always less painful...

Complete, One Shot. What if Dudley ever felt remorse? What would he do? What would he say? And how on earth would that ever even happen in the first place?

Snape reveals all his secrets in his diary. What led him to become the murderer of Dumbledore? Find out here.

AU. After the Willow incident, Ministry decides to get rid of Remus, whom they see as a potentially dangerous creature. Sirius doesn't react too well to this. Darkfic, death and suicide. Slash RL/SB

One year after her husband's death, Hermione meets the man who murdered him. This chance encounter pushes her over the edge of reality into a world she never thought herself capable of entering.

A woman succumbed to a stranger's charms and ended up changing her fate forever.

Song-fic to Dido's Here With Me.

I never meant to kill him. Really. It was simply meant to teach him a lesson. How was I supposed to know that knives were so sharp and flesh so soft? But I loved him, loved him like a brother. How could they say I killed him?

Sirius explains to Dumbledore the relationship of hate between himself and Snape. Not for the faint hearted or for those who believe Sirius can be evil. Slash warning. SS/SB and SS/RL

Teddy Lupin is running, running from the press, the law and the public. So where do you go when you have nothing left and are being hunted in your own country? When all of your family - real and adopted - are dead? When you caused those deaths? Why, Australia of course! (1st of the Wizards of the World Trilogy)

After Umbridge's Quill carved words into his skin, Harry kept his silence. Sirius won't allow him to any longer.

In the after math of the war, Harry makes his own kind of immortality. His suicide note.

One-shot. Narcissa hates the man who made her life not worth living. And more than that, she hates those in her life who made her marry him.

Of Muggles, mysterious magical artefacts and murderous alcoholic visions...

Draco Malfoy takes his life, and his future, into his own hands. Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived, is also his Salvation. Angst galore. No overt slash, only implied.

There is no going back for Ginny Weasley. After finding a diary bearing Tom Riddle's name, with a promise to bring her dead love, Cedric, back from the dead, it's hard to resist temptation. But temptation can eat you inside until there is no more...

Harry's life has been full of pain and suffering, and just when he thought things were looking up, all hope abandoned him.

"Even when I was little, I was slow. I started walking months later than I was supposed to, and I spent the first three years of my life babbling nonsense that no one but I could understand. It was a well known fact - Gregory Goyle was stupid." Goyle has always been slow and stumbling. Perhaps it's time to learn why. Written for the Special Needs, Special Love Project - NOT a shippy fiction.

The title says it... Ah well, it's also a Remus/Severus reflection vignette.

I had a few people that liked my take on the Krum-Hermione situation. This could be a scene from after the letter he sent in "Always The Last To Know."

Perhaps, together, the future can be brighter than the past ever was.

Ginny reflects on her love for Draco and where it's led her.

"It was not fulfilling. It held no meaning. It was absolutely unproductive and useless, and would have been better off had it been ended as well those ten years ago. But it was Remus J. Lupin’s life, and he was living it."

He is Draco Malfoy. Rich, charming, and handsome, he has everything he could ever want in life. Except for the heart of the woman he (thinks he) loves.

James Potter is awakened in the middle of the night by his two-month old son, Harry. As he tries to put the baby to sleep, he talks to him about the future and the world.

One morning, Harry wakes up finding himself in a strange place. He thinks he should be in his cupboard, but instead he finds himself in a huge castle, and everyone seems to know him. Set in first year. Completely AU, partly OOC, partly obliviated!Harry.

The Order of the Phoenix is bound together by the things they know, bound by secrets, dreams, and nightmares. Sometimes friends and lovers, but always allies, their strength is in the knowing. Moody/Tonks, Snape/McGonagall, Lupin/Black.

So what exactly was Wormtail thinking that fateful Halloween, as he sat twiddling his thumbs and waiting for the Potters to be killed?

It's Ginny Weasley's third year, and Professor Moody is her teacher for Defence Against the Dark Arts. But during one lesson, things spin out of control....

Draco is dead, and Harry misses him...in a way...

What would Harry do, given the chance to use a Time Turner?

He stepped out into the rain, a frustrated, chilled rain that was the cold tears of bitter angels. He stood there for a while, reluctantly allowing the attempt at cleansing to soak him through. A ferocious, steely wind whipped up, violently pulling at his hair and cloak. He turned to face the wind, and walked, purposefully to the churchyard, the wind cutting his face with sharp blades of fury.

Lucius comes home after Azkaban and has a conversation with his son.

All Ginny Weasley ever wanted was for Harry Potter to love her. She dreamed they would get married and have beautiful children. Now, when it seems that dream has been shattered completely, Ginny must pick up the pieces and make a new life for herself.

Hermione Granger makes a potentially fatal mistake. Severus Snape must risk her life and his in order to save her. *COMPLETE*

A girl enters Hogwarts with a special background will change the future. She is the child of a Psychic and a Witch. Few know of her heritage until it is time. Jessica's destiny awaits. This is the start of a journey. Over the years, she will grow and gain power. Discoveries loom in the future. Jessica must adjust to this new world in order to survive. Her parents past follows her. With the help of her friends, family, guides, and fate, events will occur that will shock two worlds. Original character story.