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What Might Have Been explores the story of James and Lily- and by extension their friends. The first seven parts to this story will focus on their years at Hogwarts- one part per year. In this first part meet 11 year old James Potter, Lily Evans and their new-found friends! See Hogwarts through their eyes, and discover just what might have been!

Harry comforts Hermione after she has a rather explosive argument with Ron.

Voldemort's dead, but his followers live on. Harry and Ginny must learn to deal with the aftermath of the Battle and with those who will not let the Dark Lord's agenda fail. Romance, secrets, and action abound.

Draco has that nasty feeling he's falling for someone he really shouldn't...

The story of what should happen summer after fourth year! Harry finds that he is closer to Cho Chang than he thinks, but after a meeting that turns out in a way nobody expected, his summer is turned upside down. Featuring: Harry/Cho interaction, animagi, Voldi, phoenix tears, and, of course, the Order of the Phoenix!

"I am truly sorry, Harry. I wanted to break the hero, not shatter your soul." When Harry Potter is taken prisoner by Lucius Malfoy, he discovers that the mind can be a very fragile thing indeed. Very mild slash.

The post-war musings of one Ron Weasley at around 5:30 in the morning on the first snow of his seventh year.

A little vignette during 7th year's Christmas Break. Hermione's POV.

An alternate universe fic set in Harry's fifth year. Several 'invented' characters. On the evening of Peter Pettigrew's death, Iris McGonagall makes a decision that will impact on her life in ways she never imagined. Or at least, those around her believe that... 14 years later, her delinquent daughter, Morgiana Pettigrew, arrives at Hogwarts, plagued by mother-influenced fears of Sirius Black. One night, she dreams of her mother's murder, sparking a murderous chain of events that threatens to rip Hogwarts apart at the seams...

Harry and Ginny get married, have a baby, and live ever after.

After Dumbledore's death, Harry goes on to finish the tasks that Dumbledore assigned him. With the help of his friends, a few unexpected allies, and the mysterious stone basin that found its way to Harry's possession, will he be able to defeat Voldemort as he looms ever closer?

Harry is tired of life on Privet Drive sick of the constant checkings, and so he will travel back to the house of Black to spend the summer before going back to Hogwarts to find some changes in the school.

Acheron: The name of one of the five rivers that flow through the realm of Hades. The name means "river of woe." The year is 1970. The day: April twenty-fourth. As the seasons change, so does the wizarding world and with them, the Marauders, who grow to realize that rivers often come with an unexpected undercurrent.

Pansy Parkinson made an oath after Draco Malfoy failed to fulfill his mission: she wouldn't be caught on the losing side. In the world of war, a girl's got to do what a girl's got to do, whether it's drugging family members, arranged marriages, having a child, or becoming a Death Eater. Watch Pansy Parkinson struggle to make ends meet with the help of her friends, a little sarcasm and lots of aged Firewhiskey.

A school boy crush is supposed to go away, right? Draco Malfoy's didn't, and it only grows deeper with a night of passion. All Harry was expecting was a night of clubbing, what he got was more than he bargained for.

There was no guarantee that Draco wouldn't be poisoning Ron's dinner that night.

It has been five years since Harry Potter has seen either Ron Weasley or Hermione Granger. He left them behind after graduation to lead a solitary life as an auror. A surprise announcement leads him to return to his friends to hopefully reclaim the one thing that he has always wanted: Hermione’s heart. But can time heal all wounds?

The Quidditch field after nightfall is the perfect place to share a talk... among other things.

What if you were in love with your best friend’s girl? What if you knew the tragic secret behind her death? And what if now, twenty years later, you’ve begun to see a woman who looks strangely familiar… After the dramatic downfall of Lord Voldemort, life is slowly returning to normal. Harry Potter and friends are starting their seventh and final year at Hogwarts; Sirius Black is returning to the wizarding world a free man, cleared of all charges; and Remus Lupin is settling into a comfortably uneventful life in the British countryside… until a visit to Diagon Alley reveals a mysterious stranger who opens up a doorway to Remus’s checkered past—and who may give him a second chance with the only girl he ever loved.

When Hermione falls in love with her red-haired best friend, she comes to realize that holidays are no help at all. Features secret agent Hermione (theme song included!), semi-psychotic Ginny, smugly smirking Harry, Quidditch kit Ron, snowball fights, breaking and entering, presents, stolen clothes, owl poop, broken platters and a truly spectacular hexing of Malfoy.

What if Hogwarts and other international schools of wizardry developed an exchange student program?``Ramona Garcia, a reluctant American witch who would much rather spend her days listening to Muggle music, is transported from the Rintorditos Academy in Arizona to Hogwarts, where she meets up with Harry and the gang. After the initial culture shock, Ramona finds that she fits right in, and her unique personality has quite an impact on the school, between making Potions an enjoyable class for everyone, having insult matches with Malfoy, co-commentating Quidditch matches, and keeping everyone's spirits up, despite the ever-present threat of Voldemort. ``This story contains humor, drama, action, and very little romance.

Two fourteen-year old wizards. One bottle of Firewhiskey. It was love at first sight.

As he attempts to master one of the darkest curses, Harry discovers that an old enemy holds the key to something he wants even more than Voldemort's destruction. A continuation of Crucio, and the second story in the Unforgiveables trilogy.

What exactly will happen to the magical world now that Voldemort begun his reign? How will Harry react to his destiny? What will he do if those closest to him are those that betray him? Love, hate, old friendships, new alliances, prophecies and a nice look at human nature.

The madness of Ginny and Draco started on April 20 at exactly 8:27 PM. What exactly happens when Horcruxes, dogs, ferrets, weasels, and wands collide? A whole heck of a lot, that's what.

I look over at you from across the common room. You have one hand entwined in your hair, ruining its usually perfect styling. The other one is twirling a quill around and around, dipping it into a jar of ink but never pressing against the parchment. I get up from one of the large couches that bedeck the large room and make my way over to you, swerving around furniture. My hair falls into my face as I lean over you. It falls into yours, too, and you glance up at me. I can tell that for a moment you are disoriented, but then you smile and bat my hair out of your face.

Dum de DUM! You asked for it, and here it is, the sequel to Stuck in a Room With You and The Obsession with Duck-Duck-Goose! Snape's starting to get annoying (duh) and Sirius is starting to be more annoying! Needless to say, things get interesting!

Draco Malfoy changes a lot before his sixth year. The battle between Harry and Voldemort is drawing nearer. Draco is also destined to fight his father.

Harry has died killing Voldemort. Hermione has the chance to go back and change it all. But can she face it?

Hermione has been rather separate from the rest of her peers since returning from the summer holidays, and after months of causing worry to her friends she sheds the charade that she has put on for the past six years. In a story of love, war, hidden secrets and raw emotion Hermione will show the world that she is not the helpless bookworm they think her to be.

Draco's father is in jail and all that pressure's gone, or so he thinks. A few new characters and lots of old ones, including Draco's mudblood girlfriend Kay.

Expectations are funny things. When we expect something to be one way, it’s rather interesting when it isn’t. Harry Potter was expected to go out with Ginny Weasley, not break up with her to go out with Cho Chang. Ginny Weasley was supposed to retreat crying to her room, not try to make him jealous...by going out with Blaise Zabini.

We have changed beyond all ability of the eye. We each have our choices to make, and they are hard to preform. In these chapters, each inspired by a quote, you find how each character comes to terms with the end of book five; they come to terms with themselves, old wounds rapture, and please, if you think we are not consumed, quote us if we're wrong.

Hermione’s tries to start again, far from Harry and Ron. She begins to settle into her life and meets someone—someone that could be her guide to the new life. If only he weren’t from her past one.

Ginevra Weasley, a beautiful sixteen-year-old girl who had a lot going for her. She was one of the most beautiful girls in her year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, had almost perfect grades in all her classes, had boys chasing after her left and right, a loving family, and wonderful friends. She seemed to have the perfect life, until one night...

It\'s the evening of Harry Potter\'s wedding, and Ginny Weasley is...drinking. Alone. Well, at first. Who better to interupt her evening of misery than Draco Malfoy himself? Yet, things don\'t go exactly as Ginny expected them to. In fact, things don\'t go exactly as anyone expected them to.

Harry and Draco find themselves in a bit of a predicament when ``they blow up the Potions lab. In an attempt to make the two most incompatible ``boys in all of Hogwarts end their ceaseless feud, he sends them off to a Muggle ``boot camp over the summer. Strange twist, blown-up potions labs, boot camp, Harry ``gets suspended over a crocodile infested pit and Draco's chased by a mountain ``lion! What more could you ask for?

Terry Boot holds sole occupancy of an ivory tower and he likes it that way, thank you very much. The perpetual quest for esoteric knowledge kicks arse. People are just confusing and besides being a person himself, he doesn't have very much in common with them ...

Sequel to Nightswimming. Back at Hogwarts, Ron and Hermione have managed to keep their newfound relationship hidden from their family and friends. But when someone finds out about them, how long do they have before their secret is exposed?

In the summer before Draco's 7th year, he has an unexpected encounter with a Ginny Weasley. Ginny suspects he has a secret agenda, but then again, so does she. "I don’t know what your game is, Draco Malfoy, but trust me, I’m going to find out, Ginny decided."

Twenty-one candles, and twenty-one moments when the world changes.

A friend of Dumbledore's visits and brings word of a new prophecy and word of a magical tome that can increase a wizard's power if he follows a ritual involving a snake. It is lost in India but it is foretold that Hermione can find it with help from one other. Meanwhile Harry finds an unexpected love and Hogwarts hosts a masked ball for students. AU sixth year, HP/DG, Hr/RW, LL/GW

Hunting Horcruxes in the wilderness has been difficult from the beginning, but when both Hermione and Ron are grievously injured, Harry feels overwhelmed with a deep sense of guilt and by a relentless loneliness which he doggedly continues to deny. Harry has already met his match in stubbornness, though; and thanks to an ancient and largely forgotten charm, he finds himself back in the familiar arms of a certain someone. Still beseiged by doubts he doesn't at first know how to respond, but her presence ultimately proves to be comforting to him in ways Harry has barely dared to dream were possible.

In which Arthur Weasley comes into contact with far more Muggles than is healthy, Harry hosts Ron's stag party with increasing mother-hen tendencies, and two unexpected guests turn up in Ibiza. Warning: drunkenness, slash and pink hoop earrings are all made mention of within. Read at your own risk.

Torture devices among other things in this co-written story of angst and romance. Hermione, Ron, and Harry must finally find a way to defeat Voldemort before he destroys them all.

As the world goes down in flames, Narcissa Malfoy tries to hold on to everything she once thought was dear.

Sirius, I need you to set off at once. You are to alert Remus Lupin, Arabella Figg, Mundungus Fletcher-the old crowd. Lie low at Lupin\\\'s for a while; I will contact you there. Sirius must immediately go tell Remus what is happening, and also tell him the job that Dumbledore has for him. Remus must go back to the town he used to live in and try to get his people to see Dumbledore not as a threat, but a friend...

When Harry and Ginny are trapped together in a blizzard, will either take the opportunity to say how they really feel? One-shot ficlet with gobs of fluff. Make sure to brush your teeth after reading!

Every full moon, the howling from the Shrieking Shack began. Every full moon, the villagers of Hogsmeade woke up in fear. One man even went to great lengths to end the terror once and for all. Years later, Remus Lupin has returned to Hogsmeade to visit his past. What he can’t understand why the howling has started up again. [Contains a few OCs and plenty of puppyshipping, of course.]

Ginny is envious of Hermione's friendship with Harry so she comes up with a plan to break them apart. It backfires and feelings are not what they appear to be with anyone.

Wherein Draco realizes he has met his foil, and Harry learns to fight fire with fire. Angsty and/or sappy by turns, but always slashy...So beware.

Draco Malfoy is thoroughly, shamefully, and inescapably in hock. His only hope is Hermione Granger, CPA, and her surefire plan for the ultimate heist. The only problem? It's horrendously illegal. Supporting cast includes Gilderoy Lockhart, Birgit De Nijs, Eastern Siberian gnomes, some dancing Bolsheviks, and a few plastic gophers.

Is Hermione really the perfect little angel we've all made her out to be, or did she have some late night rendevouz like most teens? More fluffyness in this chapter! The Professors have an interesting chat in the lounge room, and we see more of the Potters.

Five years ago, Draco Malfoy captured the famous couple, as he had been trying to do for years. He gives them each a bit of Veritaserum and make them spill a few secrets. And when they escape, Ginny runs, furious with the secrets hidden from her.

Jamaila-Ashley was thrown out of her home, now making her way northwards she finds things out she never knew about herself. This Chapter: Fighting, and running away.

Harry accepts an intriguing offer from Draco Malfoy and steps onto the playing field only to find his timing off and his judgment shattered on this most unfortunate of days. Is forgiveness in order? I don’t think so.

The material seemed impossibly smooth as it whispered over her lips, and Ginny breathed deeply, shakily. It was a mistake to do so, as Ginny was abruptly made aware of the distinctly masculine scent that belonged to Draco.

My response to pok’s “Hermione Flavored Beans” challenge at portkey.org. Terms of the Challenge: Harry gets an accidental taste of Hermione’s lips and, during a Hogsmeade visit, buys a bag of Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans. He pops one bean after another into his mouth until one flavor catches his attention—a bean that tastes like Hermione. He becomes obsessed with finding that bean/flavor again. Hermione is concerned and vows to find out why he’s acting that way and help Harry overcome his addiction.

The Boy-Who-Lived lives no more. Going against the Prophecy and the law, Hermione goes back fifty-four turns on the Time Turner to change what happened and possibly save the world.

A crossover with Classic StarTrek. Here Dr. Christine Chapel is Harry's godmother (his mother's best friend) and Dumbledore's grand-daughter (he and McGonagall are married here) and Christine was once engaged to Sirius, Harry's godfather. HP universe is canon except for being set in 23rd century.

(Lily/James) Cold, proud, and reserved, Lily Evans carries herself aloof of her fellow classmates. Enter the Marauders, who touch her lonely life with warmth, friendship, laughter . . . and love. Told through Lily’s POV, as she might have dictated it in a letter to her son. Mystery, foreshadowing, romance, and characters that are, hopefully, more true to life than the ones in other stories of this cliched plot line.

If the end of Harry's fifth year was bad, the beginning of the sixth is going to be much worse. When Death Eaters capture both Harry and Neville and drag them halfway across Europe, it's up to them to find their way back - not to mention having to deal with a certain ex-miniDeathEater tag-along who happens to be cursed more than once. All three will need to work together to build up the skills necessary to survive - while back home, their friends are struggling to deal with their loss.

Hermione receives a bit of a shock - one that doesn't fit in with her carefully constructed life, one that doesn't fit in with her 'plan.' Can Ron help her to sort it out?

Viktor returns home to find Bulgaria in the grip of anti-Muggle hysteria as Voldemort gains control of the Bulgarian Ministry of Magic.

As Ginny sits next to Draco as he sleeps, she contemplates her past, and what led up to their relationship. Draco/Ginny.

A fifth year fanfic. Harry, Hermione and Ron become involved in the fate of Dragons throughout the world. `` ``Voldemort begins his campaign of horror, but another group may be working against everyone else.

The night before her wedding, Hermione decides to put a few of her most favorite memories down on parchment.

Cassandra Trelawney's curse on Phineas Nigellus' descendants is fulfilled five generations later when his last surviving great-great-grandson is felled by his own cousin. But what did Cassandra really see in that crystal ball on that long-forgotten evening so many decades ago? And what did she weave in it?

Professor Slughorn goes to a Black family Christmas party, observes the dynamics of pureblooded society, and gets very drunk. Sirius and Snape get into a fight, Narcissa and Lucius kiss for the first time, Bellatrix threatens Lucius, and Slughorn eavesdrops. Welcome to pre-War pure-blooded society.

A HP-Angel Sanctuary crossover! When Voldemort kidnaps two archangels to extract their divine power for himself, Harry teams up with none other than Setsuna Mudou and friends to stop him!

After Lord Voldemort's plan to recover the Prophesy in the Department of Mysteries fails, he employs the help of the mischievous and unpredictable Sidhe to get what he wants. With a Changeling left in his place, Harry is abducted into the very heart of Faery, and his friends will have to cross many dangerous lines in order to save him. The trouble is, they don't even know that he's gone.

This is a songfic written around Faith Hill's song, "There You'll Be."

A variant of an idea from Christmas of Surprises (AT, 10 chapters) in which Ron and Hermione do decide to tell his parents they\\\'re now lovers. This isn\\\'t part of that story\\\'s continuity though, it\\\'s just one way things could have happened. Ron/Hermione, obviously. Set eight months after the end of Christmas of Surprises just to confuse people.

Murdered by her heartless husband, Ginny Weasley wanders between the gates of life and death. Tormented by crucial knowledge that only she possesses, she looks back on a life decision she made at the age of sixteen. But you can't change the past... can you? GW/HP, GW/DM

Harry has a nightmare and finds comfort from an unexpected source. H/Hr.

Hermione finds a small leather book that belongs to Draco Malfoy. Her perception of him has to change and romance ensues...

Parvati on life, love, and just about everything in between. Contains Lavender/Parvati slash.

Ginny's a fifth year at Hogwarts, and an exciting year is in store for her. It all starts out with her school list. Ginny is torn between two different guys. She wants to be with Harry, but Draco has other ideas........

In the sequel to The Grandfather Paradox, Ron and Hermione's son from the future adapts to life in his new home. Or tries to.

JKR has so far told us nothing about Luna's years at Hogwarts before we meet her as a fourth-year student. Has she known the secret of the Half-Blood Prince all along? This story consists of six vignettes from Luna's life. Each takes place during the time-frame of one of the existing Harry Potter novels (well, the first takes place the summer after book one), and the last takes place during the summer before the book we are currently anxiously waiting for. Make your waiting a little easier by reading my story to see what Luna might know about the mysterious Half-Blood Prince.

Fred and George come across something interesting while wandering the halls of Hogwarts...

Tonks asks Remus for a favor, involving a dinner party and several pieces of silverware. Remus did say it himself: loads of people eating and himself just don\'t work out...

Ever wonder what if Harry had a teacher he couldn't resist? No, sorry not Snape! But one from the opposite sex with dark eyes, black hair... and a perfume he finds he cannot resist...

When war comes, all good things must come to an end. And it is up to the brave to fight for it. Amidst all the hate and destruction, love abounds, and a new hope comes to life.

Percival Ignatius Weasley, next Minister of Magic of the United Kingdom, is now a prisoner in the Dark Lord's dungeon. His only hope is a certain glint in the eye of Marcus Flint. To what depths will Percy sink in order to escape?

Ron and Hermione discuss the name of their second child -- Ron is not impressed with Hermione's first choice in boy names.

Gens gentis figularis. A Clan of a Potter.``Four Harry Potter-loving teens and their lives as they attend an Anti-Potter school. They are just regular kids, defending what they believe. But is it more than just make believe for some of them?

Lily Evans has now survived living in Gryffindor Tower alongside her best friend, Cassie Burbank, and the Marauders for four years now, certainly no mean feat. Considering that not only has Lily been made Prefect, but it's their OWL year, it looks as though this could be the most difficult yet. However, not even Lord Voldemort gathering followers in the background and the impending attempt to seize a powerful birthright could stop the usual chaos, family feuding, vindictive Slytherins to deal with, Quidditch, and of course, pranks... Slightly AU, as the general situation and relationships are pre-OotP, although it has been edited to take the fifth book into account.

Sequel to "My Immortal" - What is left to Remus after losing Sirius? Reaching out to help someone who bears a striking similarity to Sirius, of course!``This is a series of songfics cowritten with SlightlyJillian.

A dark Harry-is-abused-by-the-Dursley's-and-saved-by-Snape fic. It was probably one of the first of it's kind.

It’s 1995 and the summer holidays before fifth year are just beginning. Fudge is refusing to believe that Voldemort has returned to the Wizarding World, and the Ministry is in a state of chaos and confusion. Harry’s having nightmares, Hermione’s being stalked and Ron’s wandering around in circles. And, of course, as school begins, we discover that Voldemort has The Plan to end all plans – and Harry Potter.

All those who have died are not mourned, and all those who are mourned did not die. Series of short postwar character sketches, all fit roughly with my story "Empty Chairs At Empty Tables", but can stand alone. Some chapters contain slash. Pansy, Charlie, Snape, Lupin, etc.

Obviously the members of the Order of the Phoenix have run out of substantial, Order-like things to do. They've come up with an extremely silly plan to help two of their own realise what's right in front of their faces. Fluffy Remus/Tonks.

As the beginning of Harry's final year at Hogwarts begins he tries to deal with the death of Sirius, the inevitable final confrontation with Lord Voldemort, and love. A new student from Durmstrang arrives as the clouds build on the horizon.

Toujours pur, this is the Black family.

Harry doesn't give a damn about anything, but someone gives a damn about him.

Harry and Hermione are separated from the Hogwarts Express and their forced proximity pushes Hermione to make a choice she wasn't expecting.

Salazar Slytherin gave a rose to Rowena Ravenclaw, and it has a message in it.

Draco has a problem. He tries to win over Harry at the New Year's masquerade ball.

She had always been proper. Collected. But Hermione should have known she couldn’t keep it up, not when her life falls apart and all of Wizarding Britain is watching and taking pictures. The problem is, she's not sure she ever learned what it was to live. Hermione/Penelope