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Fred Weasley is on his way home from a normal day at work when he comes across something that changes his life forever... and forces him to grow up faster than he would have liked.

"I love the smell of coffee in the morning. Oh, I don’t drink the stuff. Gods, no. But he does. Did." -- A Remus monologue in which he doesn't quite say what he means. Between-the-lines RL/SB, if that's how you choose to see it. OOtP-compliant.

A fifteen year old named Viviane Devereaux survives the destruction of her school, Aquitaine, but where can she go next?

A story about Rowena Ravenclaw, one of the founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

How can you summarize something so stupid, so pointless, so annoying and so moronic? Hmm... SPAM, I think. Spam. Yes, Spam. Lovely, lovely Spam. Not to be read by Bush supporters. A must for people who don't want to wait five chapters to get to the punchline!

Margot Shaw lived through the worst of it, as an Auror during the Dark Days. Sometimes the aftermath is worse than the event its self.

On Twelfth Night, Professor Blaise Zabini, sitting quietly at home, receives an urgent call from a friend....

Remus gets more than one birthday surprise. (Remus/Ron)

Another nineteen years later, two old friends enjoy the simple pleasure of each other's company.

One Shot Sequel to Menage a Quarte. (It's all written, just not posted yet.) Antoine comes home to see his lover after finishing his Order business and finds out that his life has gotten more complicated, maybe unbearably so. (Warning: major spoiler to Menage a Quarte in here.)

“Glancing out the bedroom window, Hermione reminisced how different life was in Hong Kong compared to England. There was no countryside. There was no need for cars as public transport was highly reliable. English people did not crowd the streets but people of a completely different colour and different language. Most of all, he wasn’t here. His soul lived on the other side of the world as she remembered her last day in England.”

Remus takes Sirius on an excursion to Muggle England. Naturally, things do not go according to plan.

Together we are so alone and yet we let ourselves live in this perfect hell.

Scorpius is starting his Fifth Year at Hogwarts as a prefect and with his father making a sudden career change to work at the school as the physician. The family has never been the same since the death of Scorpius's mother. Scorpius has also spent his entire time at Hogwarts as a big brother to all of his siblings. But he supposed this year would be different.... he just didn't know how different. Secrets will come to light and so will and new paths and futures to unfold.

Non-magic AU. Detective Sirius Black's world is turned upside down when a gruesome murder occurs in the heart of London. At the centre of the investigation, Remus Lupin. While Sirius' instincts say one thing, his heart says another. He just doesn't know how to decide which one's right.

Mantolwen: Welcome to the Epically Bad Tale of Hagrid and Fang.``Fang: *barks*``Hagrid: Ow!``Fireboltflyer: You wouldn't believe how messy his hair is. Two-hundred and three. You'd better read this before I snap all the combs.``Fang: *cowers*``Hagrid: Don' worry, Fang, it's jus' my fandom.

He closes his eyes and imagines for himself: his father. He's reading the Quidditch scores out loud and it will always be Holyhead 250, Puddlemere 110. And Lily Potter feeds her son porridge, blown cool between pressed-red lips, out of a tiny silver spoon that, though tarnished, glimmers softly in the torchlight in his mind. Harry goes to Godric's Hollow, looking for something.

The sixth year from Hermione's point of view. What happens when Hermione runs into Draco in downtown London during summer vacation? Why is he acting so differently? Hr/D

An Alternate Universe version of Harry's fifth year. Harry Potter and friends must prepare for the coming war, but with the arrival of a new student Harry finds himself alienated, and outside of Hogwarts the Dark Lord's machinations have dangerous consequences for Harry and his friends.

Professor Blaise Zabini and his cat Macavity find themselves in an alternative universe. There they encounter a mystery and some very pleasant people....

Years after Hogwarts, Draco reflects on his parents, Harry, and the decisions he has made.

Blaise Zabini visits a town called Koriko, meets a young witch who runs a flying delivery service, and one VERY strange person...

AU. In the final battle between good and evil something unpredictable occurs. The fighters are sent to an alternative universe where their lives are totally altered. How would be life for Harry Potter if sorted into Slytherin with Draco Malfoy? And what about Hermione Granger becoming a Ravenclaw?. The quest of the new trio is about to begin but neither of them know how will it end. Join them to their great adventures on the quest to find their real world

All Draco wants is to be above it all: the Death Eaters that hunt him, the family that shelter him, and that pesky Golden Boy that sees him. All Harry wants is to live: to not chase his nightmares, to not shelter his friends, and to not let that arrogant Slytherin fall.

Merope liked to watch the beautiful boy because he made her feel wicked. (Gauntcest)

As Harry is summoned into the very lair of his enemy, he is forced to think back to the day that changed his life and most likely foretold his fall from power.

This is every life lesson packed into too few words: God, friends, cooking, and bathtub therapy.

The war ended once and for all on October the thirty-first, 1985. An AU exploration of what might have happened if Peter had not turned traitor.

Join Remus Lupin for a full moon!

Draco, Ginny, and Harry's lives are intertwined. See how they cope after the fall of Voldemort.

Thoughts of a lightly crazy but predominantly normal Remus Lupin, before he received his Hogwarts owl. Slightly AU.

Life with the Potters is always interesting. What emergency could haul Deputy Head Auror Harry Potter from his bed in the middle of the night?

We could be the perfect couple. But we're not. H/Hr, TN/BZ, L/R implied D/Hr, D/BZ, G/H, Hr/BZ

Blaise Zabini, the Care of the Magical Creatures teacher at Hogwarts, suddenly inherits an estate. He goes to see it and finds that a valuable thing is stolen from his new house. Macavity, his cat, assists him in recovering the object and in finding the thief.

Poor Harry Potter--his life is made so difficult by his wicked stepmothers and cruel, greedy stepbrothers, and the crude house-elf Kreacher. When an invitation to a ball arrives, Harry is so excited. But his wicked stepmothers squash his excitement. Luckily for Harry, he has a fairy godfather.

During HBP, Pansy Parkinson attempts to talk to Draco Malfoy. (D/P)

Peter Pettigrew reflects on his life - from the decision that led to his betrayal of his closest friends to the choice that he's left with seventeen years later.

'Honestly, I can't even tell you when we truly had crossed the line that separated blinding hate from...something else. But we crossed it, or rather I did, dragging her kicking and screaming along with me. And, I didn't just step over the aforementioned line. No, as a Malfoy, I bulldozed the line, creating a black hole to take up the spot that used to be occupied by my common sense. Hers too, I suppose.' *Song-fic to Hedley's 'Villain.'

Frank Longbottom meets Mr. Crouch and his son at the annual Department of Magical Law Enforcement Christmas party and extends a fateful invitation.

Ginny Weasley had been in love with Harry Potter, but when Harry died she thought that he was gone forever. But is he? His presence lingers and torments her from the inside out, or is she just insane? Either way, Ginny Weasley is haunted.

Two different ficlets...story of angsty love about Harry & Draco.

Andromeda counts her life by moments.

Professor Blaise Zabini's friend, Angus MacFusty, invites Blaise to stay with him, at his old ancestral home, a quaint old mansion in the Highlands. There Blaise solves a case of poisoning...

Remus at 12 Grimmauld Place. Post-OotP. "Wide, rough scars on the wooden floor, still matching the shape of Buckbeak's talons. Soft velvet, worn and folded in blue layers on top of the cupboard - old curtains, the ones Remus sees in Black family portraits. No scent of Sirius here - not even on the stiff shirts in that chest of drawers, too formal for Sirius' tastes, no doubt only donned at his mother's command."

So...Ginny Weasley killed herself and Tom Riddle is free of the confines of her head, he is walking, she is soaring, and he will not ever walk again...

Why did Sirius send Snape to the Whomping Willow? Here's one scenario. Rating for language and adult themes. Slash. WIP.

Ginny wards against the dark in an unusual fashion. A one-shot in the same story arc as Initiate. D/G

"When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between." - Sir Walter Scott A Remus/Sirius ficlet.

n the aftermath of the Final Battle, in an attempt to mend things, broken pieces are gathered. Sometimes they cut. (Percy/Oliver)

They were on their way to a party, but instead, four famous heroes find themselves ghostbusting.

Harry listens to Dudley's old "Disturbed" album and feels like the words are relating to him. He thinks back to Sirius and remembers how horrible it felt to lose someone. Angsty and depressing. Songfic.

Rookwood arranged his daughter to marry the Malfoys' son. Everything seemed to be going according to plan until she meets the boy who lived. HPOC DMOC

A year after the Battle for Hogwarts, Hermione remembers her dead.

A fluffy post-HBP ficlet. Remus/Tonks, with some mention of Remus/Sirius. Remus is haunted by memories of the past, but Tonks is there to lead him home.

A brief look into one night of the post-Hogwarts lives of Remus Lupin and Sirius Black. Stress, mundane burdens, moonlight, important things like love, and those unfortunate things you just have to do to keep food on the table. SLASH.

Blaise Zabini, a teacher at Hogwarts, going to Edinburgh for the summer holidays, gets an errand from his fellow teacher and friend, Firenze. In Edinbugh he goes to an apothecary's to fulfill Firenze's errand, but his purchase gets mixed up with a mysterious flask....

To his horror, Knight Bus driver Ernie Prang is 'invited' to become an informer for the Ministry at the beginning of the second war. As the months pass, Ernie finds that he is forced to decide which roads are the most dangerous ...

Harry never understood why he was the way he was. Questions filled the thoughts of a fifteen-year-old Hogwarts student who happened to be the savior of the magical world.

A Slytherin student has found a potion which helped him create a Hold to destroy his dark feelings. He tells Harry Potter the story of his life, his love for Malfoy, and his self destruction.``Do not expect cuteness and pink flowers. Please do not commit suicide as soon as you're done reading.

Life is full of tests.

R for some violence to animals. In Hogwarts, during MWPP time, there are secret meetings in the dungeons for upcoming Death Eater trainees. James wants to make the Order and nothing is quite what it seems.

"Sometimes the very thing you're looking for is the one thing you can't see." Or: sometimes boys aren't too bright. (George Weasley/Lee Jordan)

'... many thought he was an attention-seeking little monster. Others gave him a wide berth in the hallways because he was supposedly a raving lunatic. The little boy’s green eyes full of wonder became the young man’s green eyes full of sadness. And worry. And fear.'

Over 100 years before the Canon: Same Hogwarts. Different teachers. In J K Rowling's canon we only really see Hogwarts from the point of view of the students, glimpses into the lives of the staff are rare and tantalising. Behind the Staffroom Door is a story set some hundred years before the main action of the canon. Its main character is DADA teacher, Peregrine Proudfoot and how he deals with running the school for a very ill Headmaster and handling staffroom politics.

On the eve of Harry's election to Minister of Magic, Draco must decide if being with Harry is where he wants to be.

Harry has to go back in time to retrieve a Horcrux from Grimmauld Place. But can he really keep from changing future events?

Professor Blaise Zabini with his cat Macavity comes to stay with his friend Liam Rhenford in a quiet seaside town, and solves a mystery of the disappearance of an Oriental star ruby...

In the Forbidden Forest, during Goblet of Fire, Barty Crouch Jr. encounters shadows.

I'm dying now and it's not what I thought it would be. It is all the regrets I’ve ever had knocking down the doors of my mind, screaming all the things I should have done. It is all the mistakes I ever made, crying for the apologies I never said.

In every frozen heart, there lies a weakness, a spot where, if touched, the warmth inside will spill out. But every spill carves a deep hole and the recovery may be worse than living with the icy pain. Ginny/OFC - femmeslash

Rosalie Edwards thought she had the perfect life: a loving husband and three beautiful daughters, but her husband's secret past is going to turn their entire world upside down. **Written in response to NevilleFan's "The I Heart Muggles" Challenge on HPFF**

As Albus, James, and their faithful friend, Leo, go to Potter Mansion to enjoy their Christmas break, they learn that you can never be too young to learn how to conjure a Patronus. Especially with what they are going to find lurking around.

Cressida is a shy fourth grade loner. She has just gotten into her first ever fight, verbal or physical. However, it is just the first step down a path to new friends, who drink Firewhisky behind the Herbology greenhouses and sneak in Dragon Puff Cigarettes. But, perhaps best of all, they get sweet revenge.

Professor Blaise Zabini with his cat Macavity and his friends Justin Finch-Fletchley and Trevor Entwhistle visits the city of Fez. There, due to a mistake, he finds a vial the contents of which are not what is written on the label...

Hermione muses on Neville's similarities to Clark Kent.

Teddy and Cedric make a vow to reform the Centaur Liaison Office, but the price may be more than they can bear.

It is hard, if not impossible, to break down the barriers our parents have erected for us. (Cedric/Oliver)

Headmaster Dumbledore fears the Potions Master's ability to draw conclusions (CoS missing moment with events of DH in mind).

The war is over, but the aftermath is just as bleak.

Albus returns victorious from facing Grindelwald, but the other wizard's words still haunt him. Written for Grey Mist's challenge in the Genficathon: Dumbledore confronts a Boggart, set prior to the start of the series.

All mankind is of one author and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

My Prisoner of Azkaban parody appears, bringing with it Snape's ACTING, a furious audience, and no plot whatsoever! Because we have trees!

Professor Blaise Zabini investigates the disappearance of a man who is thought to be seized by a Lethifold...

Professor Blaise Zabini with his cat Macavity goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras, meets a relative and captures a criminal...

Ginny performs a final service for a beloved friend. D/G. [Initiateverse one-shot]

Rated R for language. Basically, what happens when Snape's cover is blown in a room full of his fellow Death Eaters... exciting! Takes place before the start of "Harry Potter and the Return to the Riddle House."

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." (George Bernard Shaw). Ginny revisits some old haunts and finds lurking ghosts, disturbing mysteries and twisted truths. She can't escape it twice. Dark Angel crossover.

Even now, years after Tom is gone, Ginny feels him everywhere.

Harry's first time out of the British Isles left something to be desired. In fact, as the locals would say, so far it sucked. Written for HP 10K Awareness.

As the smoke settled after the final battle, Hermione began to count.

The rain evokes memories from long past, and the very nature of love is called into question. If love is happy, perfect, and sweet, then how can his heart hurt so much?

Every moment centres around something different. Not every moment fits with the next. Character sketches and drabbles of Lily and James, each is about something.

A one-shot about Minerva McGonagall and her lost love. Has anyone ever wondered how the war with Grindelwald affected the characters we know and love? This is just a little speculation on that theme. MM/OC

Voldemort decided one fateful night that Neville Longbottom was the infant whispered of in the prophecy. Unluckily for the wizarding world, Neville and his parents were killed, leaving Voldemort to continue his tyrannical reign over the wizarding world. The story is centred on two victims of his barbaric reign, Desdemona and Antenociticus Snape. Both of them left parentless by the hand of the Dark Lord. Struggling to find sense in this land of hypocrisy and war, they fumble nervously to care for themselves.

"His pale, freckled face was lit by the flickering flames and gave his eyes a murky glow. The bright blue, so like Dumbledore’s, was shaded, and no one noticed. Ron was used to it. In a large family, you got used to being overlooked. Being the best friend of the famous Harry Potter, you got used to it. Didn’t mean you had to like it." A glimpse into the mind of one Ron Weasley, on a night down in the Common Room

In the end, he wondered whether the boy's name might have made a target of him - his first name even more than his last.

A twenty-something Hermione spends a night out with friends and doesn't know how much more banality and ridiculousness she can take, but when confronted with some real meaning, how will she react?

Harry has been thirsty all his life... (H/D slash, one shot)

What is the terrible secret that Headmaster Gideon Fortescue is hiding, and what will he do to keep it? His world is flying apart, and while he'd love to blame the retched Gaunts, he knows that everything is his own fault.

Who is Hestia Jones and why is she fighting Lord Voldemort?