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Severus is overstressed and does not take care of himself, so Poppy Pomfrey and Minerva McGonagall have to. SS/MM

Funerals are for the living.

Once the Dark Lord returns, alliances are made and loyalties are divided in the Slytherin common room. Someone needs to keep track and report movements. Millicent Bulstrode has always strived to lurk in the shadows...

A foundling, abandoned in Diagon Alley and raised by half-bloods, Romilda Vane had never troubled about her family until she saw a face in the newspaper and had to face the truth, as a daugher of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black.

"Love is like a violin--the music may stop now and then, ``but the strings are still there."~Anonymous. Sequel to Slow Dance.

1981. After Voldemort’s fall, Andromeda Black reflects upon her place in a new world and the loss of the old.

Crouch, jr/Sinastra. An unconvention romance relived, while dancing at the Yule Ball.

Some Valentine's Days are worse than others. One-shot ficlet.

What made Petunia the way she is? What went wong and why did things end up the way that they did? Harry asks for answers, but the truth that he gets may not be the truth that he wants to hear.

A series of vignettes which chronicle the heartbreak and romance of various members of the Order of the Phoenix, during the Christmas season of the First War.

After The Quibbler is banned from the school, a group of Ravenclaws answer by publishing their own secret newspaper, The Fourth Estate, and leaving copies around various points of Hogwarts for the students to read. If any of them are caught, the worst wrath possible will fall on their heads. But that fear has done nothing to stop them.

Ever wonder what a headmaster does during sumer break? Ever wonder how the Triwizard Tournament got started? Ever wonder what Olympe Maxime looks like in a bikini? Well, the last will have to be left up to your imagination. But for the rest, here's the _real_ story! Originally written for the Try-Wizard Contest

Andromeda was Sirius' favorite cousin for multiple reasons and they were closer than any than other two members of their family. She was the one who taught him how to smoke and he was the one who gave her a way out and in the end the Black family lost two of its brightest stars.

A companion fic to "An Angel in Disguise," because it features Jim!the Janitor and eight-year-old Harry. An essay assigned by a substitute teacher yields some surprising results.

Irma Pince has a secret that she didn't know she was keeping. How does she react when Severus removes the charm that reveals that she really is Eileen Snape?

"Young Harry Potter was always different from the other children, preferring the company of his books and the dusty corners of the local library to playing games in the park with his sisters. Aged fifteen, he was exactly the same, except for one thing: an obsession." [One-Shot] [Slashy] [AU]

From basilisks to prefectships, job searches and... unplanned events, Percy and Penelope's relationship develops over the years. With some twists.

Andromeda Tonks sees a ghost from her past in Diagon Alley.

After the cursed necklace incident, Katie Bell has some trouble coping with life until she meets Marcus Flint. More of a Katie-centric gen fic than a shipper fic.

When Lily Evans attended school at Hogwarts, she made a choice that affected the magical world as we know it. This is the first part of her daughter's story.

Vauxhall Orphanage housed many children. One of those children was a boy with jet-black hair by the name of Tom Riddle. During the course of a summer he met a velvet-clad stranger by the name of Albus Dumbledore, and it was through him that Tom learnt his true wizarding identity. This started off the chain of events that led to Tom attending Hogwarts, and this story follows that fateful journey.

What they didn't know about each other would fill volumes, but Alice eventually gets her message through.

Rosie Zeller has never had it easy, living life on the streets of London. What will happen when she learns that Lucius Malfoy is her father? AU because Dumbledore is still alive.

In a beach villa in the south of France, Fleur and Gabrielle Delacour are allowed to be sisters. Genfic, oneshot.

A meeting with Draco turns out to be more than Hannah is expecting.

After the Quidditch Final in Half-Blood-Prince, Neville finds himself discussing relationships with Katie Bell of all people. Shameless fluff, absolutely no plot.

Andromeda Black is a fifth year Slytherin who longs for freedom and wishes she were in another house. Ted Tonks is a rude, if not a little dashing, seventh year Gryffindor. What will happen if these two fall in love?

The promise was broken. A reflection on the Snapes.

Some things didn't happen the way they were written down. Andromeda Tonks remembers how things were while dealing with the pressures of being a mother-to-be. Sirius/Andromeda.

One shot! A behind-the-scene look at a fashion show to benefit St. Mungo's. Hosted by Madam Rosmerta!

After graduating from Hogwarts, Cho Chang didn't know what to do with her life. She was broke, she was friendless, and her emotions were a mess. She's never been anything but a burden, and her chances to do the right thing slip through her fingers like sand through a sieve. When opportunity stares Cho in the face in the form of the Order of the Phoenix, though, she's willing to risk everything for a chance at self acceptance and her dreams of a better day.

A story about the quidditch world cup of 1999. Concerns Oliver Wood, Viktor Krum, Katie Bell, and as many quidditch players as I can muster up. Some slash in later chapters. Read to find out more!

Some time after the events of GoF. Songfic. Percy Weasley and Penelope Clearwater come to an understanding.

August 1970. Sirius and Regulus' first trip to Diagon Alley.

One formidable Longbottom grandmother and two mischievous Weasley twins teach Rita Skeeter a very public lesson... UK English, canon-ish, humour.

You remember when you lost him to the Dark Arts. You remember the way he scoured the papers every day, reading the news on Grindelwald's latest attack. You thought, hoped, this was a passing obsession, until it escalated even further than just simple curiosity.

Secrets are revealed within one night.

Madam Pomfrey visits the Restricted Section of the Hogwarts library and is reminded forcefully of her own schooldays. [A short piece written for the FictionAlley "What's Your OTP?" challenge.]

As irritating to his students as always, Professor Slugborn - who is really far too jovial to be the head of Slytherin - has instigated a ball for his new house. Problem is, they have to invite dates from [I]other[/I] houses. When it's pointed out to one Millicent Bulstrode in a less-than-flattering manner that she's far too intimidating for anyone to ask her to the ball, yet too traditional to ask someone herself, she vows to take manners into her own hands. Ernie/Millicent one-shot, featuring joint Blaise-Pansy snark.

Severus Snape has bad hygiene -- in the opinion of Sirius Black. Who pointedly tells him so. Severus Snape has dirty blood -- in the opinion of Regulus Black, who unwittingly tells him so. One telling leads to the other -- and both have surprising repercussions once they all start school.

Little Harry asks Santa to take him to someone, who loves him. Will Harry be able to find a home in the magical world? Time travel to the Founders' time and back to modern time's Hogwarts! Partly childfic, partly OOC, Completely AU! Abuse!Dursleys.

Minister Kingsley Shacklebolt has to learn on the job, fast, and painfully. Everyone thinks they have a claim on him; everyone has demands; and no one is willing to listen. And the sinister Black clan seems to have plans of its own.

It has been three years since Dumbledore died, Harry has long since gone into hiding. Voldemort rules supreme, whilst Ginny Weasley works as part of the insurgency against him and his Death Eaters - one of whom just happens to be Draco Malfoy ...

Even our favourite bunch of Slytherins were adolescents once. Now we get to laugh at the expense of Draco, Pansy, Crabbe and Goyle, and all the others! Rated for language and crude humour.

This is how my mind filled in the missing details of Dumbledore's conversation with Mrs. Cole. Rated PG-13 for subject matter.

Contrary to popular belief, Katie Bell's crush is not on Oliver Wood.

Life. Death. Love. Loss. Percy. Marriage. Whiskey. The Wheeze. Rolf. Romanians. Sex-Education. Snorkack-Catchers. Malaysian Battle Spatulas. Dead Siblings Talking From Beyond the Grave. All as seen by his Holeyness, George Weasley.

Remus Lupin had always wanted to ask Dolores Umbridge why she hated half-breeds that much. But when he has the opportunity to know, he finds out he really didn't want to see the skeletons Dolores hid in her closet.

Ever wondered what happened to that little boy Harry saw playing with his father's wand at the Quidditch World Cup? Well now little Kevin is eleven years old and about to start school at Hogwarts. While shopping with his mother in Diagon Alley he runs into Harry Potter and discovers that he's not so different after all.

Time is precious when fighting deadly curses. Missing moment from HBP.

Tom Riddle is the epitome of everything Merope Gaunt wants. Merope is everything that Tom scorns.

In 17th century France, an evil wizard tries to get the Philosopher's Stone from Nicholas Flamel by kidnapping his wife Perenelle.

The princess is gone, the prince is under a curse, and the knight does not know how to save him. Sirius/Remus.

Professional Quidditch player Marcus Flint is at home with his pregnant wife when he receives some unwelcome news.

Because of fainting spells, eight year old Harry is taken to Hogwarts. What do the elements have to do with his problem? Completely AU, partly OOC.

Written for the "What's your OTP" 2006 Valentine's Day challenge. Eloise Midgen worships Petunia Dursley. Personally, I found this an odd topic to write on...

What would you do if you had powers more extreme than any other witch or wizard and Lord Voldemort was holding you hostage for it? Why not get rescued by Harry Potter, go to Hogwarts and fall in love along the way!

Romilda Vane: girly, flippant, and catty. What happens when she needs a favour from Luna Lovegood? Certainly, Romilda never expected to get her come-uppance for tormenting the school's infamous Loony! Set during HBP, and written for the Broken Quill challenge.

Time passes, the world forgets, and one woman is left alone with her grief...and memories...of course, if your husband threw your son in prison for the most shocking crimes imaginable, could you forget?

It may not be Christmas Day, yet the reaction of everyone's least favourite Potions professor isn't any less "Bah Humbug." Severus Snape is determined to avoid attention this Valentine's Day, yet a certain someone is as least as determined to bestow it upon him. What is the identity of his secret admirer? Set during Harry Potter's second year.

Rolanda Hooch has always had peaceful, pleasant recurring dreams about her heritage. One night, however, her dream quickly becomes a nightmare...

See the fates of two Gryffindors in a Voldemort-victorious A.U., where Death Eaters and Umbrors dog the Potterists.

While it\'s very interesting that Harry, Ron, and Hermione are taking off to hunt down Horcruxes, Jimmy Peakes, Ritchie Coote, and Demelza Robins are a bit more concerned with the state of their Quidditch team. After all, without a Seeker and a Keeper, how will they ever win the Quidditch Cup? As they discuss potential replacements, their conversation takes some interesting turns.

Eileen Prince has only been glimpsed as a sullen girl and a cowering woman. Here's another quick look at a resolutely quiet witch.

Everyone's lives are put in jeopardy when a secret revealed causes identity confusion and a tangle of assassins after the Boy-Who-Lived. When the hunter becomes the hunted, who can put things right? A tale of love, family, lies and blackmail.

"We want to know more about people who fail. We care about people who are scared, who act foolishly, who are tricked by their vanity and trapped by their desires ... Flawed characters are the unforgettable ones" -- Susan Shaughnessy. Half-blood Slytherin Millicent Bulstrode reflects on her time at Hogwarts, the years of wasted effort she put in trying to be accepted by the popular students of her House, and what she intends to do about it. [Written for the femgenficathon.]

The hand didn't let go but I gradually became aware that the ceiling was moving. How odd. I'd never heard of that before. Stairways, yes, but not the ceilings. But then I didn't usually look at the ceilings. That would change now! From this moment forward, I will always look up to the ceilings. They would be sacred. ...James is stuck to Lily. Literally...

In the world of Harry Potter, things never turn out well. If only his hopes weren't always so quickly shattered. AU, creature!fic, slash, and depictions of child abuse.

They all thought that she was like them. A normal, pureblooded Slytherin. But she's not. Millicent Bullstrode has her own secrets.

A missing moment fic, explaining exactly how Fleur Delacour got back to shore after being attacked by grindylows in the Second Task.

It's two in the morning, and Ginny's alone in the Grimmauld Place kitchen: "Looking at the whitewashed wall opposite her, Ginny sighed, sensing the ghosts of the place--”real ghosts, imagined ghosts, metaphoric ghosts--”swirling around the damp, heavy pile above her head."

Hannah fancies Neville, Neville fancies Hannah - but they're both too shy to make the first move. Drastic measures may be called for . . .

Ted was a Muggle-born. Andromeda was a pure-blood from one of the greatest Wizarding families in history. Until she married him. We know them as the parents of Nymphadora Tonks. This is their story. And just wait until you find out who’s telling it!

Eight-year-old Harry writes a letter to Father Christmas like every year. Will Father Christmas listen to him for once? Completely AU, partly OOC, Abuse/Neglect!Dursleys, sick!Harry.

Leanne has just been given the very worst shock her life, courtesy of her friend Katie Bell. Now, alone in an empty ward with Madame Pomfrey, she spills all that she can spill...

Set in HBP. While thinking about death, Draco stumbles across a ghost in a bathroom. When she comforts him, Draco realises that death may not be as bad as it once seemed.

Andromeda Black and Fabian Prewett are slumming it on their Muggle night out. Only it doesn't end the way either of them expect. Co-winner of FictionAlley's July 2007 Challenge.

"Though she wasn't given to obvious facial animation in general, Alicia always secretly admired how well the average Slytherin could nail a smirk. Gryffindors either ended up looking like they had some sort of facial tic or just caught a whiff of something unpleasant." Recent graduate Alicia Spinnet is at Diagon Alley when she has a surprising encounter with an old school rival, who seeks to engage her company.

"It's been coming on for a while," said Percy ... "But I had to find a way out and it's not so easy at the Ministry, they're imprisoning traitors all the time." (DH, ch30). This is Percy's journey to that point.

"I have information as to the whereabouts of the missing wizard, Caradoc Dearborn. He is alive, but imprisoned, and may be in danger..." So reads the letter Frank Longbottom receives one day at the Ministry. Voldemort has met his doom. It is a time of newfound hope; the wizarding world is safe once again. Isn't it?

Growing up, Harry Potter became a smartass. Now he's starting Hogwarts, with trusty sidekick Millicent Bulstrode, a question for everything, and a cheerfully sarcastic demeanor that makes everyone want to smack him. And apparently there's death lurking in the third floor corridor. That's gonna end well.

Minerva McGonagall is in love with Albus Dumbledore, but he is married and not in love with her. Working on a project, she travels sideways through time, and falls in love with someone who actually loves her back.

A look at Alice and Frank Longbottom's life together while they helped the Order fight Voldemort. Cameos from Baby Neville, Augusta, and Moody.

A songfic about Katie and Remus. Katie is standing on the edge of a cliff, and she's preparing to jump. Remus intervenes - who will get their way?

By a chance encounter Buffy and Company learn of a whole new magical world they never knew existed and all the problems this world is having. Will the Scoobies help the wizarding world? Will the wizarding world want there help? What will happen when the Scoobies pasts are revealed? Can some things be forgiven? A/N- I know there are a lot of OC's, but these are all Buffy people. I only made up a couple characters. All other OC character are established in either the Buffy-verse and Harry Potter-verse.

Inspector Weatherby, witch, comes face-to-face with the masked terrorist known as 'V'. One-shot with a surprise twist.

Katie Bell never knew her father, but it never really bothered her. She had her mother, her grandfather, and her daydreams about Oliver Wood to occupy her time. But what happens when lies from her mother's past threaten to affect her future? (Takes place during OotP)

Millicent Bulstrode, in the Fifty Galleons universe.

"The hardest part about taking care of a person dying inch-by-inch isn't the sleepless nights, the wrenched back from lifting once (or twenty times) too often, or the isolation. The hardest part is afterwards." Gregory Goyle/Millicent Bulstrode (GG/MB) (Sequel to 'Memory Like Old Lace')

"So we know that, near the end of her pregnancy, Merope was alone in London and in desperate need of gold, desperate enough to sell her one and only valuable possession, the locket that was one of Marvolo's treasured family heirlooms." What really happened there?

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

Someone gets an unexpected visitor

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.

Adonis Rookwood was brought under mysterious circumstances to the Rookwood household, the most notorious and wealthy Wizarding clan in Britain, on the day of his birth. Katherine Reynold is a driven young witch who lost her mother to the hands of war. So what do these two have in common? Lord Voldemort. Their meeting was no coincidence, for there are no real coincidences. And as their seemingly different worlds clash, both begin to unravel Lord Voldemort's hidden past through cryptic objects, dangerous encounters, and tales from the most unlikely of people. Throughout their journey, not only do they learn of how Tom Riddle became the Dark Lord, but of themselves, and what it truly means to be human.

There's an adventurer, a schemer, and a rapscallion...and then there's Peter. And he certainly never dreamed that this would happen. Marauder-era genfic, AU theme. But it could happen. With Professor Sprout and Hagrid. This was for the January 2006 challenge on the omniocular community on livejournal. Special thanks to Pavonis for "Kate" and the Hanging Basket inclusion. Title taken from the Rolling Stones song.

"His back was to me, but somehow I knew it was him. And what surprised me even more was that somehow I knew he should not have been there. After all, it isn't every day you run into supposedly dead ex-boyfriends." Bertha Jorkins is on vacation. Now if only she can remember why Peter is supposed to be dead...

What's life like when your mum is a serial killer, your dad has just remarried, and it's your first year in Slytherin? Well, just ask Blaise Zabini! Includes Slytherin!Trio elements.

Did Amelia Bones's murder affect her niece, and what would it have to do with Marietta Edgecombe's magic-induced acne? A look at an unplanned interaction between two very different students. Set during HBP, written for the Broken Quill challenge at Fiction Alley.

In 1942, with the Muggle world at war and the Wizarding World in chaos, the situation at Hogwarts is tense, with the relationship between Muggleborns and purebloods already strained to breaking point. Then the Chamber of Secrets is opened... A look at a Hogwarts troubled by war, within and without.