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Draco Malfoy never knew that when his father died, he'd turn out the way he did. He thought he'd turn out better. And he spent hours, or what seemed like hours, gazing at the bloody stars and wondering what it'd be like if he died tomorrow.

"Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day." ~Thornton Wilder. In the aftermath of the second war, nothing has worked out exactly the way anyone thought that it would. The end that everyone sought never came, and life, as they say, went on for the children of the eighth day. A collection of short stories about the lives that were changed by the second war.

Sometimes, winter brings change. Harry/Cho.

After she accepts Ron Weasley's proposal of marriage, everything Hermione Granger knows and holds dear is challenged as two men she considered as nothing more than friends begin to play startling new roles in her life. [DH compliant, George-Hermione, Ron-Hermione, and Harry-Hermione.]

Starring: a freshly sixteen-year-old Harry Potter and the normal (well, canon-based) wizarding world. Supporting roles: Ginny, the suddenly confident best friend's sister; Ron, the loyal (albeit temperamental) best friend; Hermione, the eerily clever Muggle-born; Draco, Britain's Mr. Sneer runner-up -- and many more. Set after OoTP; modeled loosely after the Rowling book format; child-proof.

A new student comes to Hogwarts but he doesn't appear to be... human.

AU. Lily and James didn't die on Halloween night of 1981. Waking up with scattered memories in a Muggle hospital and presumed dead by the wizarding world, they rebuild their lives as Muggles with no knowledge of magic. What happens when they cross paths with with a post-Voldemort Harry and Ginny? Which world will they choose, if at all? Mentions of L/J, some OCs.

A vampire slayer is hired to teach defense against the dark arts. Severus is furious, a muggle woman hired for such an important task? Tension is high and Severus may have bitten off a little more than he can chew. Will he and the rest of the school be able to handle doing things the slayer’s way?

Ginny Weasley is chosen for one out of four students to raid other students' dorms. But what happens when she's given the dorm of her ex, her arch-enemy, and the very boy she's fancied since she was a little girl? Parody on MTV show Room Raiders.

Telephone calls during the summer after Harry’s fifth year help him get to know Hermione (and himself) better.

When Hogwarts 6th, & 7th years go to NYC for a month, havoc breaks ``out. Hermione and Harry's relationship shatters. He kisses another girl and Malfoy ``tries to get Hermione date him! As Hermione gets tangled up in ballet, and Harry ``and Ron get mixed up in their old band, a mysterious John appears and starts to ``make Hermione rethink Harry. Though the two have startling resemblance. Will Hermione ``and Harry ever reunite and become one? Will John reveal his true identity? Not ``your usual 7th year fic.

By request, the follow-up to Transvestite Night. Now Ron is in the picture and hearts are getting pummeled, pulverized and otherwise harmed.

'Harry just wanted to be normal in at least *one* thing, and really, he didn’t think it was too much to ask.' (HP/SS, slash)

People are rarely, if ever, what they seem. For Parvati Patil, pretty, viviacious and rich, the Yule ball should have been a wonderful night. Instead, it saw the climax of an unrequited love, and the culmination of a personal tragedy. Shrewd, catty, and with an eye for a good outfit, Parvati records her impressions of the fateful night - and how it changed her for good.

You've seen it before: Ron likes Hermione, Hermione likes Harry. Well maybe you haven't. If you have--you've never seen it like this.

Is it possible to love without exclusion? With all his best friends pairing up together, Harry is practically alone. As he explores deeper into the depths of his own heart, he wonders this very question - and wonders if he ever will find an answer.``It's going to take a lot more than a birthday party, an English class, and a game of Parcheesi to find the answers - or perhaps they're right under his nose...

Harry and Draco are in their last year at Hogwarts. Lord Voldemort has become more powerful than ever before, and even created an army which will destroy anyone who goes against him, ultimately starting a war between good and evil. Draco's father, being a Death Eater, is firmly on Voldemort's side. Harry and the Weasleys are firmly on the opposing side. Lucius wants Draco on Voldemort's side, and Draco wants to remain loyal to his father. But when Harry and Draco fall in love, Draco must make a choice: to side either with his lover, or with his parents and Voldemort, who is Harry's worst enemy. This decision will change Draco's life forever.

Through different circumstances, Harry and Ron finally come to realize how much Ginny and Hermione really mean to them.

A new girl moves in down the street from Harry in the summer of his sixth year. Will they get along, or will she hate him like most people of the Muggleworld do?

Second in the 'Follies' sequence, inspired by the songs of Stephen Sondheim. Pansy is Mistress of Malfoy Manor, and luckiest wife in the wizarding world. [Harry/Ron, Draco/Pansy, Harry/Draco]

During that fateful Quidditch match in third year, a certain Gryffindor is forced to reconsider her feelings for Harry.

Edmonds. Morris. Two FictionAlley authors, one incredibly crazy story. What happens when you take Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and mix it with two psychotic Harry Potter fans? You get Twisted! A 10 scene movie script that would eventually be put on film and turned in as an Honors English project now comes to you in two chapters--scenes 1-5 and 6-10.

"I don’t think I could explain it to you. I could try but I doubt you’d understand. It’s not easy to explain unless you’ve done it, you’ve felt it." Hermione explains her descent into madness, murder and the Dark Arts in the final confrontation with Harry. Slash warning.

Harry (all grown up) meets a special someone from his past.

In the fifth year, an ancient magic is revealed that could mean the end of Voldemort - but at what cost?

Draco, who once quivered at his father's insulting tones, now finds himself free of his father and those wretched Death Eaters. Now he has to live with that choice... and some unexcpected consequences.

"To sleep, per chance to dream." Harry spends his nights with the one he loves...

While Charlie and Ginny are outside, Harry and Tonks discover a common ground as orphans in a sea of Weasleys.... (Post-OotP) Parallel piece to "Tossing Apples." Part 2 of The Weasley Family Picnic.

Ginny, the average witch teenager. In love with Harry Potter for his gentle and kind ways. But she soon finds love in the most hated teacher in all Hogwarts, for his mysterious and newfound dangerous tendencies.

Harry’s fifth year has finally rolled around and he’s given up on normalcy, but it’s good thing. This year he meets new people, new teachers, and has to figure out the ramblings of a mad woman. Oh, and finding out a few things about himself along the way.

When someone you care deeply for disappears what would you do to help? How far would you go to find him? Chapter 1: Albus Dumbledore is walking slowly through the quiet hallways of Hogwarts one early morning. He is a dying man with only one more task to complete...

As the Trio begin their quest, Hermione can't shake off an uneasy feeling that there's something very important Harry and Ron aren't telling her. And as it happens -- she's absolutely right. Their problem is that some things, however important, just aren't that easy to tell. Not even to your best friend ... [Set shortly post-HBP. Contains the canon ships.]

Hermione says no one can bring the internet to Hogwarts. Draco disagrees. Includes Hogwarts on livejournal, cool screen names, silliness, and more.

Magic comes in many different forms - that which you can see and that which you can't. In his seventh year, Harry experiences magic that he can't see but is annoying him to great lengths, in the form of Draco Malfoy. Featuring a wartime Wizarding world and two VERY confused boys. Angsty, slashy goodness.

Harry finds out what his life would have been like if his parents had not died, with a little bit of Ron/Hermione for good measure.

Harry is sent by Dumbledore to be watched by Dracula, King of the Vampires. What's wrong with this picture?

A missing scene from OoTP: Harry is spending the night with the Weasleys at the Black house, and he's terrified over what he believes he did in the night. He is glad his godfather is there to comfort him.

Ginny's dying to tell Harry how she feels, and makes the resolution to tell him, but will she go through with her plan? Find out and see! Songfic to Avril Lavigne's Things I'll Never Say.

Harry once again comes across the Mirror or Erised and this time...falls through it. He plunges into a parallel world populated by the worst nightmares and the greatest of fears. There are even some evil twins here. Can he get home?

A post-hogwarts fic (or fic-lit) Harry has always sung Hermione Happy Birthday. He hasn't missed a day in 15 years, but now he is gone. What is she going to do?

Draco reads a quote written by him and tries to prove it right. Harry/Draco

The Friday that Hermione came home through the Floo connection feeling not just tired and put upon, but truly, utterly frazzled, Ginny pounced on her. "You look like someone transfigured you into piano wire and went twang," she said. "We're going clubbing." Then things got weird. Post-war, slash, femslash, het, threesomes, light bondage, alcohol. Consider yourself warned.

Here's just another little funny fic I wrote. Basically, it involves the author (me!) kidnapping several HP characters and forcing them to act out the Matrix. Sound like fun? No worries, it has several ships, considering Harry's such a flirt. Involves Leatherwearing!Hermione, Hero!Harry, Bad Ass!Lucius, and several other favorites.

In which Severus Snape spends the last moments of his life doing what he does best.

He had told her about the prophecy, about how his life was destined for a kill-or-be-killed path. How long would he be with her? He never once thought she might be the one to leave first.

It is three years after the death of Sirius, one year after the end of the wars and Harry is in the maximum security ward of St Mungo’s, with a lot of explaining to do. Irvine Connor, his lawyer, wants to know why the entire wizarding world hates Harry, why most of his friends are dead and why he’s considered the most notorious dark wizard of all time

'Invisible to See' is a swashbuckling tale packed with murder, magic, romance, snark, ghosts, house-elves, friendship, loyalty, love, misunderstandings and treacle pudding. It is a story about growing up and finding that the world is more complicated and less kind than one might have hoped. It also features the decidedly racy consumation of same-sex relationships, so if slash isn't your cup of tea, this may not be the tale for you. It is set in Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts & was WRITTEN PRIOR to the release of 'Order of the Phoenix'. It is therefore AU, set after a fifth year in which the events of OotP did not occur.

Hermione has sunken to the unthinkable: she enjoys killing. No biggie, as it is for the good guys. But she's starting to slip in her morals. And the farther she falls, the more it looks as if she is the next in line to become the Angel of Death. Two guesses as to who the Angel of Life is.... Oh yeah, and Snape is the Angel of Fear. Are we surprised?

Hermione has been having Dreams about someone and can't help but wonder if they have a deeper meaning... but will someone else completely blow her mind away?

Draco finds a distressed Harry, and offers him a place of refuge. Written for an artwork-based challenge at Armchair.

Welcome to my first HP fanfic. This is how I envision the Seventh book. As he bids farewell to the last remnants of his childhood and as he sets out to destroy the multiple fragments of his nemesis' soul, Harry realizes at last what his late Headmaster had meant when he told him to choose between what is Good and what is Easy. Mystery, Adventure, Humor, and Romance Galore! Enjoy!

Harry Potter goes back in time. He doesn't know how it could happen. A time-turner can't bring someone years into the past. What could have caused this event and why is he there?

Harry is back in his fifth year, but all is not well. Features Draco being an ass, Voldemort on the loose, and Harry trying to make sense of it all. H/G and R/Hr ships in this.

Harry never liked rainbows.

After receiving another very upsetting letter from his father, Draco sorts out his tormented feelings in his secret hiding place: the Hogwarts conservatory. And the angels sing. H/D slash.

Ever wonder what would have happened if Harry and Ginny's conversation in the library had never been interrupted by Madam Pince? Albus Dumbledore finds that the answer to that question may prove very important indeed.

Draco Malfoy. Harry Potter. An unlikely pairing, yes. The Slytherin Prince is facing problems with the Royal Court, and The-Boy-Who-Lived is no longer sure of who he is. Through heartbreak, bouts of tears, and utter confusion, the Snake lays eyes on the Lion, while the Lion gives his heart to the Snake.

Draco visits Harry at the hospital, his heart breaking because Harry is fighting a losing battle. Deathfic.

The summer after Cedric's death, and its the new term. Harry's back at Hogwarts and he spots Cho in the Great Hall. What does he do? What does he think?````A short story with words from The Doves song "There Goes The Fear"

Harry's got himself a predicament with the Holiday Ball - He can't find the courage to ask his best friend to the Ball. What will Ron and Lavender come up with to help Harry? *NOT SLASH*

Being a true (for a given value of 'true') account of events preceding breakfast in a (slightly atypical) day in the lives of Luna Lovegood and Harry Potter.

Harry, having survived his Apparation Test and the Durseys for one whole month, is at the Weasleys... but when he gets cornered and starts to hear voices, what will become of the Boy Who Lived?

What would have happened if James hadn't died? Chapter 1 of the Potter Place. Humor, angst (only in the first chapter), and general cuteness. AW! James is being a (good)father!!!

Starting in October, Harry, Ron and Hermione are in their fifth year. Harry and Ron have trouble with Seamus. Something seems odd about him; what could have happened to him over the summer? Seamus' story begins to unravel throughout their year of Hogwarts, with bumps along the way!

Continuation of the one-shot "Obsession": Draco would have been the first to admit that he had a problem. A very large problem, in fact, and it came in the form of the one and only Harry Potter, Boy-Who-Lived, Gryffindor’s Golden Boy. Saint Potter. Draco’s problem wasn’t so much of a problem as it was an obsession.

Harry's come to visit the Weasleys, but where's the Golden Snitch? Only Ginny knows. (Post-OotP)

Draco Malfoy is tired of being bested by Potter. So when it comes to losing the one trophy he can't bear to lose, he takes a stand. Songfic to Lights and Sounds by Yellowcard.

Harry's, Hermione's and Ron's children are ready to go to Hogwarts, safe now that Voldermort is defeated. But the wizarding world is not yet completely at peace. The new heiress of Slytherin is threatening the world, and our heroes, including Emily Potter and Jeffrey Weasley, must use the power of magical elemental crystals to defeat her and save the world.

Once upon a time, there was a boy. Now, this might not surprise you, because there have been many boys in the world, all of whom started their lives at 'once upon a time.' However, this boy happened to be very special. One day, this skinny lad received a letter, which he was not allowed to keep. You, however, know all this, and I will not attempt to lump together seven years of events in a few paragraphs. For now, we shall start from a new 'once upon a time', a time where everything finally seemed to be returning to normal after years of chaos and mayhem. It all started one beautiful October afternoon; Harry Potter was sitting on the porch of Hermione Krum's house, having a cup of tea, when a letter arrived. HP/Susan, HG/VK, NL/Padma, R/D

Harry/Draco Slash. This was a submitted fic for ArmChair_Slash's Christmas 2003 Challenge, to go with the wonderful art image called "Cornered", by LinnPuzzle.

"The first time Bill met Harry Potter he wasn’t overly impressed..." (Harry/Bill, slash)

Harry and Ron venture onto the grounds at night, finding something (or someone) that leaves them both feeling throughly dumbstruck. Something familiar, but appears in a very different light for one of them... and for the other, old feelings of dislike just grow stronger. Harry has slashy thoughts and low self-esteem, Draco is a pest, and Ron is just... himself. One-sided slash.

We had done it. Everyone said we were going to, but we denied it at every mention. And for once, they were right and we were wrong. We had become that which we mocked. A love triangle.

“Avada Kedavra,” they shouted in unison.``A cage of light surrounded them. it was beautiful, in a horrifying way.``I could see their arms shake as the beam of light that connected the spells became closer to each wizard in turn.``It was almost to Harry’s wand. I could see it in his eyes, he was ready to give up, give in to the madman holding the other wand.``“NO!” I shouted. “Harry, don’t give in!”

OneShot, Poem. Harry and Draco decide to make their most dramatic statement in the Great Hall during breakfast. Snogging. Hosiery. Eyeliner. Poetry.

Sequel to "Married Alive," Azazello’s take on the Marriage Law Challenge. Both stories are now AU. Hooboy, are they AU!

Five years since Voldemort rose again and the war still rages. The male occupants of the Attic rooms at number twelve, Grimmauld Place muse on the effects the war is having on their lives and relationships. Lots of jealousy, secrets and angst. POVs include Bill, Harry, Ron and someone else...``Contains some usual and some unusual pairings. WARNING: may squick you. No slash.

A ficlet. Harry has feelings for Hermione. She loves his best friend. A glimpse into the heart-broken and yearning mind of The-Boy-Who-Lived.

Defying death, Harry returns from beyond the veil aside a six-year-old Sirius, maddened by the voices. Lily Potter's true legacy is revealed, in the form of a weapon that may damn her son forever. `` As Azkaban falls prey to Dementors, Harry finds himself haunted by dreams of Tom Marvolo's wretched fall to darkness...dreams that may just turn to his reality.

Stacey Jackson is a fifteen-year-old witch who goes to Hogwarts with her father, the new DADA teacher, as his assistant, and meets Harry and company, along with several other familiar characters. But it's soon discovered that Voldemort has discovered a way to not only gain immortality, but ultimate power as well. So, it's up to Stacey, Harry and company to stop him. But what happens when he needs Stacey to get what he wants? With discoveries, secrets, lies, humor and tons of romance, it's one heck of an adventure.

SLASH. Draco has a hard time dealing with his lover's death

Held firmly together by one he thought was gone forever, Harry struggles to find his place. However, when Harry finds that those closest to him are hiding something, he begins a search for his own answers and unwittingly throws himself into a criminal investigation. Only then does Harry come to understand what happened three years ago. Harry/Draco. Sequel to "Remember You".

Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny set out to find all the horcruxes. Harry and Ginny figure out how they're going to be together. HG with a bit of RHr.

"You know what you are, Granger?" He laughs lightly. "You’re a trophy wife. Potter loves having the smartest witch in school on his arm. It makes for the best publicity since he put my father and his friends into Azkaban. But you don’t really mean anything to him.You don’t mean anything to anyone."

Sometimes the only way to save the world is to destroy it.

After the war Harry begins a new life, hidden in plain sight.

There's a spy in Harry's class and Snape has to find out who before everyone is put in danger. Sometimes it's who you suspect the least. Sometimes it's who you suspect the most.

The sequel to Naked. What was Harry and Ginny's side to the story?

On a dark starless night, love is confessed under a tree. Total and complete Harry/Hermione fluff!

Harry Potter and his friends are back at Hogwarts for their sixth year. New friends and a new mystery to be solved. Harry is continously recieving mail, unsigned, there will be someone who wil betray Gryffindor in ways never thought possible, he/she will betray all that care for him/her in the quest to bring Lord Voldermort back to power.

Harry's deepest, most desperate desire is to have a family. Sirius craves to be free to take care of his godson. Remus has always wanted a child of his own. Can the three of them find happiness together? 5th year. Parental Sirius and Remus.

Harry sees Remus for the first time. Gen.

One of the things that Harry Potter could not fathom was why he had to fall in love with The Little French Veela--la petite Veela française.

Harry's searching for the secrets of his family history and gaining new powers all the while. With Snape and Neville beside him, can he uncover the secrets and destroy Voldemort?

'...Suddenly, he became serious again. "Granger, you must either be entirely naïve or utterly dimwitted to not see that Harry Potter, super hero, do-gooder extraordinaire, is helplessly in love with you," he stated wryly...'

One character professes his love for another only to be confronted by her love for another all leading to some very unexpected endings.

Aiko gets shipped off to England to live with her mother when things get rocky in Japan, resulting in her enrollment in Hogwarts. Befriended by the Trio on sight, they laugh it up on their way through the school year, and life in general. Love blossoms, water fights, and more!

Missing moment/after the last moment of book seven. One-shot

Harry is in dire need of a life, so he takes a teaching job at the Salem Institute in the hopes of finding one. H/D. Written pre-DH, so it's spoiler free and canon compliant only through HBP.

Harry is having a bad summer at the end of his fifth year. A few long walks lead to some interesting discoveries about his past.