Potterworm

Harry comes across Hermione crying in an abandoned classroom after the Yule Ball. A few moments of comfort and suddenly nothing is like it's supposed to be. Harry/Hermione, for people who don't ship Harry/Hermione.

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Expectations by Potterworm
03/07/2010

People often become who others expect them to be. When Harry was sorted into Slytherin, he realized he was alone, friendless, and apparently meant to be evil.

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If Snape hadn't transferred his grudges onto a student, and Harry hadn't hated his professor as a result, they wouldn't have been friends or allies, but perhaps there would have been a grudging respect between them.

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Drifting by Potterworm
01/28/2009

After being tortured into insanity, Alice and Frank Longbottom live in a closed ward for permanent spell damage at Saint Mungo's. The Healers say they cannot recognize their family members. The Healers call them insane. Alice Longbottom drifts through time, experiencing small blips of sanity when her son, Neville, comes to visit. This is her story.

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Masked by Potterworm
06/17/2008

When Sirius ran away from home, it was ten years in the making. But no, it wasn't because of abuse or something equally dramatic. Really, it was just another holiday.

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AU set after Harry's fifth year. "He knew it was a stupid hope, but he wished, and he hoped, and he hoped to stop hoping all the same."

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You never hated him. If anything you loved him as much as your own son. But that was why you had to force it out of him. Because it would kill him. Just like it killed Lily.

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