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When Harry asked Dumbledore what he saw in the Mirror of Erised, he couldn't make sense of the Headmaster's answer. This is my little explanation of a strange answer.

During the middle of the first war with Voldemort, the original Order of the Phoenix discovers a map to the Death Eaters' secret headquarters and plans a raid. In the face of the pain, loss, and betrayal that threatens to destroy everything, the love of newlyweds James and Lily Potter is given new dimension as the Order struggles to live to face another day.

Minerva promises to come back to teach at Hogwarts and be with Albus.

Professor Snape comes back to school with a rather interesting change in his appearance. Chaos ensues.

After everything that's happened on the night of the third task, Professor McGonagall has a lot she should be doing. So why has Albus sent her to the pumpkin patch to look for a dog?

Eight-year-old Maybeth knows she's special. When she sings, she can make special things happen. But when an unexpected visitor with a lightning-bolt scar shows her that special is really magical, Maybeth discovers that her voice can make a difference in a dying world.

Later in the evening of June 24th 1995, Albus Dumbledore relives the fated night of the Tri-Wizard tournament, all the while pondering the choices of Severus Snape and the future of Hogwarts and the Wizarding world as he knows it.

Dumbledore goes looking for some moral support from kindred spirits.

Minerva McGonagall's thoughts during a memorial for James and Lily.

Snape is required to attend a masquerade in a costume that Dumbledore chose for him.

A brief look into Dumbledore's mind without the help of a penseive! What does he think of when the dementors drift by, what does he

Albus Dumbledore has everything under control. Find out how he does it in this little tale.

Baby Harry's first Christmas Eve. The Marauders and Lily get into the Christmas spirit, but are interrupted when an unexpected friend comes to call with some dreadful news.

Most people believed that he was Ollivander's brother, or else otherwise related. But he wasn't any relation to him. Great wandmaker that Ollivander may be, his wands were standard, every-day things. They weren't powerful or great or rare. But his ... his were a different story.

What happened to Professor McGonagall to make her resign from Hogwarts? Why is the Headmaster so cold? What does Aberforth have that Dumbledore wants?

*The strange woman looked over her shoulder, out the window and into the night that awaited her.*

No one is safe from the world. Not even the prominent family of the Dumbledores, and for once, the playing field is left even.

Andrew Brody has heard rumours of a mysterious lake in the mountainous regions of Scotland. Determined to investigate legends of Nessielike creatures in its depths, he enounters something altogether unexpected.

A treasure from the dawn of time. Something so ancient that the mere rumour of it makes the whole wizarding world boil over with curiosity, nervousness and excitement...

Dumbledore has but one excuse for the way he's treated Harry.

It's their last year at Hogwarts, and Dumbledore has "retired". Lucius is sent to Azkaban and Draco finally gets everything... except for the one woman he has always wanted. An accident happens, leaving the trio and Malfoy in the MUGGLE WORLD, where witches have hidden, devising a plan to raise the dead and destroy Hogwarts once and for all. Rita Skeeter's daughter goes to Hogwarts, a gay professor fancies Ron and Crabbe and Goyle have a hidden secret! Has the wizarding world gone mad? Sacrifce. Love. Lust. Death. It's all in here. Warning: Draco and Hermione Shipper

I like happy endings, or at least hopeful ones. The action takes place during the summer between books 3 and 4. All about hiding out and healing wounds.

Snape and Dumbledore argue.

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

This is a group of songs edited for HP characters!

In the midst of death, Harry and Severus find each other.

Head Girl Minerva McGonagall learns more than she bargained for about her boyfriend, Tom Riddle, and the supposedly innocent society he formed. In the process, she discovers that some truths cause rifts that last forever, and an era can end in a single night. Other bonds, however, are strengthened by tragedy. And even in Minerva's darkest hour, an unexpected gift could change a life.

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...

Lying low at Lupin's wasn't what Sirius expected.

Snape returns to the Headmaster's office after the end of HBP not to ask for forgiveness or gloat, but to seek the understanding he himself didn't have about what transpired.

There is a book in Hogwarts that knows far more than Dumbledore knows. It deals out its knowledge only as it pleases, and plays with the lives and deaths of mortals. It ``seduced and ruined Salazar Slytherin. Now, in the shadow of the Voldemort War, it has killed a student... and for what reason? A follow-up to "Mary Sue at Hogwarts".

Glimpse into the traumatic childhood that may have made Severus Snape the Potions master we all love to hate -- including his early connections to the Death Eaters, the Malfoys, and Albus Dumbledore. Based on information from OoTP (but not a spoiler). Teaser to/adapted from the first chapters of my longer biography of Severus Snape, available at: http://www.geocities.com/asphodelandwormwood/. Enjoy!

Harry Potter has to sacrifice himself for his friends and family. What it the sacrifice and will he do it?

Remus Lupin gets sacked, heads for the Hog's Head, and reminisces about Order history and procedure, including the infamous Patronus-communications.

Sirius explains to Dumbledore the relationship of hate between himself and Snape. Not for the faint hearted or for those who believe Sirius can be evil. Slash warning. SS/SB and SS/RL

McGonagall visits number 4, Privet Drive, in the first week of November 1981.

If I were Harry, I'd be asking a lot more questions than Harry seems to ask. Did you ever wonder why Harry doesn't ask more questions? Sort of a brief sequel to Obsessively Normal.

Dumbledore has been a manipulative force in the wizarding world for many years. Perhaps he has been motivated by good intentions. But good intentions, as they say, pave the road to Hell.

It is the eve of Harry Potter's death, and I have the best seat in the world.

Ever wonder how Hogwarts came to be?

Indiana Jones invades Hogwarts, much to the dismay of the staff and students.

Harry thought Sirius was dead. Was he? See what happens when a prank goes too far. And if you think you're got it figured out, well, think again.

What happens when the three greatest wizards in fiction get together for a little tea party!

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

The tumultuous life of a girl is thrown into complete chaos when she discovers she has certain powers. The meeting of a very powerful wizard will change her life as she knows it. And just what is her connection to the Wizarding world?

This is my outtake from the end of OoTP, Chapter Thirty-seven.

Dumbledore's past revealed! Take a look into his first year at Hogwarts, his family, his crazy past and ancestry! Rated R for later chapters. This is such a PG fic for now. *Sorry* Some slash later on and of course what ``would a real R fic be with out those "explicit scenes." *wink wink* ``Read on.......

A unnamed older Slytherin meditates upon one of the younger Slytherins and comes to a suprising conclusion. Guess who before you reach the end.

The afterlife bears a surprising resemblance to a railway station...

Story written, actually, for an honours English class. Severus Snape reflects on his mentor and the rest of society, after Goblet of Fire.

After returning to Hogwarts for his fifth year, Harry learns of a secret that no one has ever been told. He and his godfather, Sirius Black, investigate further and learn something that shocks them greatly.

Ron and Hermione always fight, but this time their fight doesn't end in the usual way. Thankfully, Ron gets some unexpected advice and a chance to start again.

As far as I can tell, the main problem with growing up in a cupboard is that it gets you used to living in a cage. - Harry's POV. One-shot.

The end of Harry's seventh year. The final battle. The ultimate showdown between good and evil. The power Voldemort knows not saves Harry's life yet again, this time courtesy of Ginny Weasley.

'He felt dead inside. He was so tired of it all.' In an AU 1976, the attempted suicide of a boy at Hogwarts will haunt the lives around him and the very future itself...

It was betrayal of the worst kind and he relished it. A sweet betrayal as told from a mad man's perspective.

A foray back in time to retrieve a Horcrux means that Harry has an unexpected encounter with someone he didn't intend on seeing. Suddenly, Hermione's rules about not meddling with the past become a lot harder to keep. Gen, Harry, Dumbledore. Oneshot.

In late February 1997, Dumbledore receives an unexpected visit...

"Harry was back with the Mirror of Erised, his back turned to it. He stared down his enemy with a look of hate, all of these memories rushing through his mind. He wished that he didn't have to be there, that he didn't have to have his friends hurt, that he didn't have to battle, and the he didn't have to be the Boy Who Lived. It was too much for him." A oneshot of what Harry now sees in the Mirror of Erised.

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.

A companion piece to "Summer of the Sixpack" in which the events of the summer are seen from different perspectives. It sets up the continuation of the storyline in subsequent fics. Lots of shippy goodness!

James asks Sirius for a very important favor for him, Lily and James. One-Shot.

Dumbledore's last moments on the Tower, as seen through the eyes of Draco Malfoy.

This story is about the continuing pain of Harry's scar and the return of Voldemort. Also in this story you find out lots of information. You will find out why Dumbledore always sends Harry home to the Dursley's before going to Ron's house.

Harry witnesses the passing of a mentor and doesn't know how to cope. Quick one-shot.

The night after Voldemort's fall, Albus Dumbledore pays a visit to Severus Snape. Features Snape's first lesson as a teacher!

Challenge Response, written before HBP. Having been taken from the Dursleys' early, Harry is brought to Hogwarts where he learns a surprising secret about his mother and Narcissa Malfoy. A secret that will affect the course of the war and provide him with the key to the power the Dark Lord knows not.

Albus Dumbledore is a wizard, known for his power, and even more so for his wisdom. But one isn't born with such knowledge. Instead, it is learned through considerable experience. This little one-shot looks into such an experience that taught our favourite Headmaster an important lesson.

Harry Potter was told that he is the only one who can defeat Lord Voldemort. For the past few months he’s been dwelling on that prophecy. But there’s another prophecy, one that he doesn’t know about yet. ````There is one person who can help him. A person who is, in fact, essential to the defeat of Lord Voldemort. ````She is Albus Dumbledore’s daughter and she’s been living as an American Muggle for the past sixteen years, unaware of her true heritage. Can Harry and Ella defeat Lord Voldemort together? Or are they doomed to spend the rest of their lives searching for the strength to destroy the greatest evil that has ever threatened the wizarding world?

What made Severus Snape kill Dumbledore? Is he really a loyal Death Eater? Take a step into his mind to find out what really happened.

The first victim of the Death Eaters. Who she was, why she was hated... how she triumphed over her enemies.

Tricked into falling through the veil, Harry finds himself in an alternate dimension where the first war continues to rage and people he thought he had lost are alive and well. Harry thought killing Voldemort would take a matter of days this time. He was wrong. H/G.

There was only one thing going through the mind of Severus that night as he aimed his wand at Dumbledore: He will be forgiven.

The dark, evil Azkaban tower had no idea what it was in for when a quarreling couple tramped up to its doors, soon to be joined by a confused Severus Snape, still rattled and disgruntled from the HBP incident. And you'd never know that you could tell so much about someone just by looking at their socks.

One-shot dealing with how Minerva and Albus met.

Harry has a talk with the portrait of a certain headmaster

Minerva, with Dumbledore's help, discovers a special magical prowess. BeST's response to the September/October 2007 FA/Quidditch Pitch challenge. UPDATE: Winner of the FA/QP challenge.

Voldemort's been defeated by Harry, and Lupin and Dumbledore look on as Harry lies in a pool of his own blood.

Harry Potter comes to a realisation of who he his, what he has achieved, and what he can do. Sometimes the clarity of the truth is all that is needed.

A one-shot about Albus Dumbledore and his impossible love for an impossible man.

Snape's thoughts after Remus Lupin was hired as Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher and Sirius Black escaped from Azkaban. Warning: very bitter Snape

Harry is ten years old and has a dream about something that happened few years ago, but was wiped off his memory.

Deep in the hidden places of Hogwarts, Albus Dumbledore watches over a colleague and friend as he plays a dangerous game.

“…old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young…” (OotP, p. 728). Meet a young clever prankster and the-one-who-inspired-you-know-who as children: Albus Dumbledore and Adolph Grindelwald. Insight into their minds.

Professor McGonagall enters Dumbledore's office after Dumbledore tells Harry everything he should have told him years ago. AD/MM

Songfic to David Bowie's "Space Oddity" Tom Riddle has turned his life around - or so it seems. Chronicles his final fall into Darkness and his burning hatred for Dumbledore.

Incomplete story based on the theory at the website Knight2King. Check it out, it's quite interesting. ``Anyway, this story is still in the middle of being written, but I thought that I'd ask all you nice people out there for some feedback. Thanks!

Can we think that Dumbledore was doing nothing but waiting during the ten peaceful years while Harry Potter was growing up at the Dursley’s? How could he protect Harry and prepare the members of the Order of the Phoenix for a new war that he dared not even tell them was coming? And what were Voldemort’s Death Eaters really doing in secret behind their facades of reformed, upstanding citizens? This chronicle begins on the Halloween night when Harry’s parents were killed and shows us the behind-the-scenes operations of Dumbledore and his little band of fighters until J. K. Rowling takes up the story of the Order of the Phoenix in Book Five.

He would only give, never take. If Albus Dumbledore had wanted to be worshipped, Minerva would not have admired him so much... but working for the good guy isn't always easy.

Watch the transformation of shy, innocent Minerva Duncan into the formidable Professor McGonagall. Her story so far!

After entering his first year Harry discovers a secret along with his godfather, Sirius Black, that no one has ever been told.

Well, now we know that Albus was in love with Gellert as a teen. See how he pines...

The day before graduation is at hand, and Tom Riddle counts the seconds before he is free of Hogwarts, free to fulfill his terrible destiny. Before his departure, one professor has one important final lesson to teach him.

The prequel to

Part 2 of my series explaining the spells used in HP books. (Part one was the Fidelius Charm.) Talks about the theory behind the Mirror of Erised, a bit about what was involved in putting the stone in it (not much), points out a few plot holes, and talks about the character of Mr. Potter.

It is the eve of the final battle against Voldemort, and two lone figures stand beside the side of Light's first great casualty. But who is it that has passed on? One shot.

Hagrid needs to die an exceedingly painful death. Here's my suggestion.

Despised and abused by his relatives, Harry Potter's life is changed forever when he discovers he is a wizard. A different and darker take on the Harry Potter world.

Black and Lupin have escaped from the Potions Master’s clutches. Vengeance and an Order of Merlin have been snatched away from him by none other than Albus Dumbledore. How on earth can an embittered Severus continue to work with his Headmaster? An insight into a frustrated wizard’s mind, bridging PoA and GoF.