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A look at James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew and Lily Evans on the day before their first day at Hogwarts... the Marauders before they were Marauders!

When Sirius's date dumps him much earlier than anticipated, all he wants to do is have a good sulk in the privacy of the boy's dormitory. How quickly he forgets that there will be one other boy there...one who's there every Friday night. Very mild slash. SB/PP

In January 1983 Remus Lupin pursues advanced studies of goblin rebellions and practises not to dream.

In 1981, on the eve of Voldemort's fall, a Ravenclaw and a Slytherin form an unlikely bond.

'He always said crying was a sign of weakness. So I never cried. He said laughing only made me look vulnerable. I don't know how to laugh anymore. He said showing your emotions was wrong. He taught me how to hide my emotions. I was always changing myself for him. But no matter what, I was never good enough for him. '

Nick is turned down for the Headless Hunt (again) and finds a sympathetic ear in the form of second year Luna Lovegood. However when she hatches a scheme to decapitate him properly, is Nick really ready to fix his little problem permanently?

When Charlie was young, Ollivander captivated him with wands. As Charlie grew, so did his love of wands. Dragons got in the way. Charlie-centric one-shot, explaining why Charlie gave Ron a wand with its core sticking out.

An out-take, showing exactly how MWPP learnt to do the reversal spell in the shrieking shack.

An eighteen-year-old Dung Fletcher is in dire need of money, and together with a friend he comes up with the idea of the century... to rob Gringott's.

Harry has problems dealing with the battle with Voldemort.

To be scared of dying is a natural reaction, but you must always meet it with courage...

The first war with Voldemort - toward the close, the Order and the Aurors are worn, and recruits have a thorough fear of Voldemort, and aren't really up to much. Prequel to ‘Whispers from Beyond the Veil.’ Read in any order.

Being "The Boy Who Lived" isn't easy, you know. In fact, Harry Potter has the most difficult life anyone his age has ever had to suffer through. Or so he thinks. Two new students join the fray at Hogwarts, with many secrets and quite a mysterious situation...

Dumbledore is dead and Sibyl feels guilty. Relief comes in the form of countless bottles of sherry.

Remus and Sirius struggle with self-hatred and doubts as they try to make up for lost time. Songfic to 'Nobody' by Five for Fighting. I know it's been written many times before, but this is a bit different.

Just a series of interesting stories. One every week!

Severus Snape wants to challenge the Death. Will he succeed? The White Rabbit will be his guide through the whole trip in the Death's world.

Set in the "They Shook Hands" universe. Elan Malfoy is playing hide-and-seek with his cousin Fritz. Although he is warned not to allow himself to get into trouble again, Elan can't resist another dare. When Fritz wants to go down to the basement to play, Elan goes along and discovers that there is a lot to his house he didn't know existed. Even to a pure blood child, magic can pose a real danger and Elan is walking straight into a force that nothing can prepare him for.

Narcissa Black falls through the ice on the lake, Severus Snape is tormented as always, and Lucius Malfoy shows that there is such a thing as Slytherin loyalty. Everyone skates on very thin ice before the first war.

This fic explores the repercussions of being levitated by people in masks.

Unfulfilling curiosity. This is part of Dusk-till-Dawn. Scenario 58 –``Harry finds out that Severus Snape is gay. It gives him ideas.

Lycanthropy isn't as it seems.

It had always been easy for Sirius to hate Severus Snape.

Lily Potter sacrificed her life to Lord Voldemort so that her only son, Harry Potter, could become The Boy Who Lived. This fic describes the last few seconds of her life and what thoughts crossed her mind as Voldemort murmured the death spell.

Ron Weasley is an adult now, even if he doesn't much want to be. Ron/Remus, Charlie/Harry. Warning: character death.

Memories of love leave quickly when you stay in Azkaban... Very light slash of the Sirius/Remus variety, with added Dementor-angst.

It's quiet in here. And dark. Moonlight has been blocked out by thick, black curtains. Certainly Madam Pomfrey's work. It annoys me; I like to watch the faint glow of the moon and the stars dancing on the ceiling at night. It must be about two or three o'clock in the morning. I smell the cup of tea that was brought to me a few hours ago and which I ignored on my bedside table. It's probably stone cold by now. I don't want it. I don't want any of this anymore. Voldemort is dead, yet so is Harry Potter, the Boy-Who-Lived. How did it get to that? Ginny, supposedly sleeping in the hospital wing, thinks about the events... and the day after.

Remus Lupin has a particular interest in Luna Lovegood. Purely paternal, of course.

A witch and a wizard meet at Worlds’ End. A Sandman crossover, and sequel to Sleep Spent.

Neville Longbottom's world comes crashing down around him as his wife Ginny admits to having an affair with Harry Potter. Murder and resentment, anger and pity, suicide and hope for redemption ensues.

"Ends and beginnings--there are no such things. There are only middles." ``A Post-Hogwarts POV-piece.

The battle is over and Voldemort has been defeated, but what happens when victory comes with too high a cost?

Wormtail is a selfish, cowardly rat, isn't he? He'd agree with you.

Sirius' girlfriend starves him of affection. He comes home angry and takes it out on Remus. Remus resists, but he knows it's futile. Sirius always gets what he wants.

A collection of my HP-inspired poems.

Bad things are happening at Hogwarts. It must be the Slytherins' faults.

"No deprivation is any trouble if you do not miss what you have lost." Lord Voldemort remembers an early victory.

The most interesting events in the history of Hogwarts, School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, happen after nightfall. Hermione, the Head Girl, has faced several life changing events. Now, she is trapped between two worlds, each pulling away at each other. Yet, she finds herself lying to her boyfriend, Harry Potter, and sneaking away and confiding with the only other Death Eater at Hogwarts — Draco Malfoy. With graduation just six months away, Hermione must make sense out of her once simple life. But once she turns the light off, can she get out of the dark?

Luna and Parvati. Bittersweet nights. Memories.

I hate him. I hate the feeling that I always get when I think of him. I hate the taste of sour cherries and nutmeg that he always had.

It's the trio's seventh year at Hogwarts. The final battle is coming closer. Yet Harry seems to be disappearing a lot. And what does the new American student have to do with Harry's Past?

Bellatrix is devoted to her Master. But she can never satisfy him.

What happens when Ravenclaw House has a baby staying with them? How do the Ravenclaws deal with it---not to mention the teachers! Set in the _Slytherin Rising_ universe.

Harry and Hermione's daughter telling us about her mother's lonely Valentine.

At first Harry dreaded coming. He hated the sterile smell of the place, the squeaky, rubbery noises, the cheerful politeness of the staff. He hated the way he sometimes heard screaming. . .

The rain falls. Cleansing me. I stand, face uplifted, letting it soak through my thin robes. The rain and my tears mix. I could drown here and I would not care. I have nothing to live for. Everything is gone.

Oliver Wood sits alone in the bar and remembers his team.

The war has ended, but no one has remained unscathed. Least of all Harry. Going on a bloody trail of revenge, he finds himself at the Lestranges's door. But soon enough, he's in over his head in a situation that's a little too close for comfort. How deep is hate? How consuming is revenge? How redemptive is love? And if you've crossed the line, can anything - or anyone - pull you back? Post Hogwarts, some Bellatrix/Rodolphus. Rated for some violence, very little language, and character deaths.

Blaise raises the sword again and runs it slowly from Draco’s left shoulder, across the grey silk of his shirt, and slices off the top button with the tip of the blade. The perfect shell button hits the floor with a barley audible tick. As cool steel hits warm skin for the barest instant Draco lets out a hiss, not of pain, but of surprise. Blaise grins. Draco knows this game. They’ve been playing it all summer. He is tired of it. boy!Blaise/Draco

"The war, the prophecy, everything, it was bigger than me, but maybe it wasn’t bigger than the three of us,” Harry said slowly, so quiet he could hardly hear himself.

He knew it not for what it was but for what it represented. A mother tells her son a bedtime story.

Sixth year is going to be rather difficult for certain students at Hogwarts! Harry has to deal with the prospect of murder: kill or be killed; Hermione's having trouble with her feelings for a special someone; Ron is, well, Ron; and Draco has to deal with the lure of evil. The one thing they all have in common is... Restless Nights!

Sirius longs for James; Harry feels as if he owes him. Remus tries to get to the bottom of it, but doesn't know if he can bear it.

Harry reflects on the past year, on both a personal level and the changes in the wizarding world. However, what appears to be a normal Christmastime in the Weasley household, takes a sudden sinister turn as night falls.

I left the Burrow at dusk, the air still smelling of the verdant musk from an unusually hot and humid day. I could feel the family’s eyes on me as I exited the door. What did they think was going to happen? I refuse to tremble and weep. If I started I would not stop.

Severus Snape recalls his relationship with Sirius Black through their third and fourth years at Hogwarts, as told to Remus Lupin during Harry's third year at Hogwarts.

Harry learns the horrible truth of what the future holds and begins his quest to become the perfect wizard and change the future of death and destruction he's foreseen. Not yet realizing what the consequences of his actions will be, he finds himself becoming a catalyst of a revolution against centuries of oppression. 4th Year AU, Harry & Katie Bell relationship.

A look inside the mind of an anonymous Death Eater. Read, if you will, though some may regret it.

It is the middle of the night, and every student, teacher and creature of Hogwarts is fast asleep. Only one young wizard is aware of the danger waiting to pounce on the school. And with that feeling in the pit of his stomach telling him he's probably going to die, Harry Potter isn't about to wake anyone up and drag them to his final confrontation with Voldemort.

After his Lord's downfall, Lucius Malfoy isn't just shaken. When a certain Diary finds its way to his hands, we have a Lord Voldemort-starved Malfoy who thinks he has very little to lose and a projection of 16-year-old Tom Riddle. Diary Riddle wants to find out more about this man who had dazzled his future self. As he walks through the maze of Lucius, he finds himself becoming increasingly attached to the Malfoy and deeply in love with him. Also Lucius is affected by closeness he had never even dreamed of having with his (secretly) beloved Dark Lord. The pale reflex of what he could have had with Voldemort tortures him, but he finds himself incapable of putting the Diary away, like he had never been able to unravel himself from that love.

Every Friday I clean Mr. Harry Potter's flat. Every Friday I go home sad.

Remus Lupin walks down a cold street in London, reminiscing about his old school days and a certain man who he is missing very much.

A series of quiet epiphanies. Post-GoF, Sirius/Remus slash. "Even the sunlight's older here, faded and cooled with dawn; the floorboards feel odd under his human feet, and his skin is too thin, too sensitive. So long as a dog, and he's almost forgotten - this muted scent of dust, of Remus, of books lining the creaking shelves."

After undergoing an unexpected dark transformation, can Harry Potter resist corruption while he seeks vengeance and justice or will he end up unleashing an evil worse than Voldemort's unto the already afflicted magical world? A story of deception and the blinding quality of love. Vampires, OC, dark!Harry

A dystopic story set after Harry Potter wins the war and becomes Minister of Magic. He does his best and is completely oblvious to what is happening around him. Hermione goes missing and Ron finds her; that's when their troubles begin. Ron tries to understand what is happening, while others make plans to strike back and escape. They forgot to take Luna into account, however.

Young Severus Snape enters to Hogwarts for first time. How will his schooltime go? Warning of school teasing! Please read and review!

Following the battle in the Department of Mysteries, Lucius Malfoy is sent to Azkaban, leaving Severus Snape to ponder the years of love and transgressions they have shared. Romance/angst. SS/LM slash.

Jacquelyn Randolf wants this Christmas to be the best Christmas for her and her orphaned brother and sisters. What happens when she gets her wish? How does Hogwarts and Harry Potter fit into all of this?

After an Order meeting towards the end of Harry‘s fifth year, Moody speaks with Dumbledore, yet cannot see what is tormenting his old friend. Moody is half-blind, yet acknowledges this, and even his eye cannot penetrate the barriers of the mind. [OotP Spoilers]

Slightly AU. Harry gets a new identity. And a new job. A mysterious killer murders at the stroke of midnight, leaving almost no traces. Who can it be?

One-shot. Pansy watches dust settle, and thinks about light and darkness. Character death.

Remus and Velma have been next-door neighbors, and friends since they met each other, though their personalities can differ. But one summer night, the summer before the first year of Hogwarts, Remus accidentally transforms into a wolf in her backyard. Will Velma ever forgive Remus? And what is he going to do?

Drucila Weasley, cousin to Ronald and the others is coming to Hogwarts. Placed in Harry's sixth year. She comes from Durmstrang and she is absolutely disgusted by Harry Potter. All seems well on the train until they get a message that Hogwarts has collapsed. How did it happen? Where will they stay? What house will Dru be in? What will happen in the way of romance? (Drucila IS Ron's age and year)

Neville Longbottom realises that his admiration for his third-year Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher isn't just hero-worship... it's love.

Harry is being chased by Death Eaters, until he is cornered. What will happen in the end?

Epilogue to Nine Months in F Minor.``Hermione and Ron's relationship finally reaches the next level; Harry makes a confession; and Draco's punishment is finally realized. H/G, Hr/R Quite angsty.

How serious can a boggart really be? It can be a simple fear of spiders or something more horrifying, like the fear of fear itself. Sirius has an all different fear: the fear of someone's disapproval. Semi-Sequel to The Boggart.

Even in the deepest friendships, we are ultimately alone.

There is a place, it exists for nearly all of us, that seems to serve solely as the physical manifestation of everything that reminds us that we are imperfect, uncomfortable, or simply don\'t belong. This place, for Sirius, is none other than the drawing room in Grimmauld Place. A Sirius Marauders-era fic.

Sirius Black wonders about a past with a Slytherin girl of high social standing, a girl married to Lucius Malfoy. That which is in the past does not haunt the future. Right? A Sirius/Narcissa fic with plenty of angst and a bit of romance.

Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair are confused about their Floo bill. A Mr. S. Black has been using the fireplace, but the only other residents are the Jarvey and their large dog, Harold...

Two friends sit reminiscing about the past and remembering better times. But the arrival of dire news causes arguments to erupt and choices to be made. Guilt is still felt, the past is remembered, but he won’t let it happen again.

It is like a game. Whichever arm bleeds the most gets the most points, but in the end they all win. She sometimes compares it to Quidditch. Sometimes it hurts, but you always feel satisfied in the end. This isn't rated R for language, just the whole idea. This is the story about a girl who is so depressed she will do whatever she can to end it...

Vinyl isn't just something to wear. Music, mayhem and Muggle love abound during the summer of Harry's fifth year. To be played at maximum volume...

Hermione will now know not to call Draco Irascible.

Regret. Grief. Longing. What he kept from everyone. How it really feels to loose so much at sixteen.

First sequel to "Somewhere in my Past". When Harry first opened his eyes that night, it was Draco he first thought of.

Draco loves music, and plays the piano like no other. Harry just soars.

Today is THE day. Pansy waits for Draco to propose. But what is this? Cold feet?

Harry has returned from his fifth year at Hogwarts and now everything that has happened has started to sink in. He also learns he must say goodbye to someone before he can move on.

In which the Marauders have a very deep, yet slightly comical talk about best friends and Peter is very itchy. Set in their seventh year and very foreboding.

Fanfic comprised mostly of original characters! Malfoy and Snape and Slytherin-in-general oriented! ``It's about a character named Elise *who's based on me* and her trials through her 5th year at Hogwarts. Also, what she finds late one night, and how the item changes her forever....

Alone. The word bounced around in his head, reverberating over and over. He’d always been alone, even in a crowded room. Had anyone else in history ever been so isolated as he?

A cliche line: every hero needs a dragon to be slain-- Harry got one.

It's Christmas Eve and Penelope Clearwater is about to make a decision that will change her whole life. Percy/Penelope. Set during Ootp.

Percy Weasley reflects... upon the past, the present, and how his sister had changed throughout the years. Somewhat angsty one-shot about siblings growing apart.

As he is brutally told his brother fled the house, Regulus understands he has to make Sirius come back. He'd prefer not to think about their differences.

On a rainy, fateful night in October 1981, the world which was perfect crashed down before Sirius Black's very eyes... Songfic to the Ronan Keating song of the same name.

I would be just too depressed. There would be rumors and speculation about things no one had the faintest idea about. Stories and slander I didn’t want to deal with. The Boy Who Lived didn’t want to deal with it anymore.