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Lily Potter can't stand being at Godric's Hollow for much longer. So, she runs. Set two days before Hallowe'en 1981.

One night will always be remembered in the world of Harry Potter. There was one night that started it all --- a Dark Lord was defeated, a friendship was broken, and a child was left an orphan, yet hailed as a hero at the same time. The night of All Hallow's Eve is recounted once again in this tale.

It's not always safe to trust people you run into in pubs, but sometimes it's better than family. James and Sirius at eight years old.

"Everything they ever did was funny... Except for the things that weren't." [One-Shot] [MWPP-era]

What was it that made Lily Evans stop loathing James in their seventh year? This first-time fic writer takes a stab at it.

Voldemort decides to kill two birds with one stone: get James out of the way and take control of Godric's Hollow -- by framing James for a murdering someone very close to Lily. Can she help him? Or, more importantly.... WILL she?

James and Lily's seventh year at Hogwarts, in their own words.

Follow up to There is a single candle on the table. James and Lily decide on a Secret Keeper at late at night.

Look into the mind of Lily: tormented by James and just wanting some peace and quiet. And how does Peter Pan fit in with all of this?

In February he will be a skeleton lying tangled on stone. Now he is an angel drifting like a white ghost, with a softness which fades quietly among harsh angles and geometry.

Set in the summer after Sirius' death. Perhaps slightly deranged from the tradgedy, Harry sees Sirius in himself, and in a sense, forgets James. HP/DT RL/SB

Philip Shoskey is an ordinary man trying to overcome the loss of the love of his life, Terry Rosier. However, after a surprise meeting with a man long thought dead, some of Terry's secrets are exposed, and hold roots that will change Harry's life forever. (Despite how this summary sounds, the OC's are really, really minor characters in the plot. James, Harry, Remus, Tonks, Dumbledore and Snape really are the main characters.)

When James Potter comes home from his fourth year at Hogwarts, he realises that he loves his classmate, Lily Evans. He attempts to write a letter to her and on receiving it, Lily employs the help of her best friend, Severus, in writing a nasty reply. James is not subdued. Read to find out what happens to Lily and James!

Dreams. By day Snape can sneer at them and push them to the back of his mind. But as he well knows its not so simple to keep such an iron control of the subconscious at night. Unease can become fear, dreams can become nightmares...

Sirius struggles to keep his sanity in Azkaban, but one group of memories in particular wears away at him. Will he win, or will the Dementors break him?

Lily caught James kissing another girl during a Hogsmeade weekend a few weeks before Christmas. She hasn't forgiven him yet, even though James has pleaded with her constantly. James only wants Lily back to him before Christmas arrives. One-shot songfic.

I'm not sure when everything changed. He was just a boy. An arrogant, spoiled, self-absorbed, good for nothing boy.

Lord Voledmort is recruiting werewolves as 'soldiers' for the upcoming war. He now has his sights on Remus. Will Remus change over? Or will Lily, James, Sirius and Emma Gibson lose their best friend forever?

Sirius has spent ten years of his life locked up for crimes he did not committed. Hopelessness and despair seemed to be the only way out for Sirius, who has to face his worst memories everyday. Azkaban would have destroyed him if it hadn't been for James. See what comes of a man who survives Azkaban, and finds a measure of peace along the way.

"If you fool me once, then shame on you. But if you fool me twice, then shame on me." -Slash- Remus Lupin speaks to James Potter one last time before letting him go for good. James-Remus and implied Lily-James.

Fifteen years after he thought he'd left it behind him forever, Remus Lupin is back at Hogwarts. It is all much as he'd left it in 1978, with one notable exception: where once he'd roamed the corridors of the castle alongside Sirius Black, now he hunts him down. And try as he might, he just can't stop thinking about the events that led up to this change.

Why did Sirius decide he couldn't be the Potter's Secret Keeper? Why did he think Remus was the spy? My take on the subject...

A one shot songfic based on the song "Hold On" by Good Charlotte. Lily and James have both built up so many walls around themselves that they can't let anyone in to help. They both have problems, but they have to go on with their fake lives, pretending nothing is wrong. They both don't really want to live their lives anymore...

This is a fun J/L story that starts in First Year. Sarcastic, witty, and humorous, "Reflections" is told form Lily's PoV as she looks back on her memories.

His heart casts no shadow, because it is the shadow. Remus/James. For Fallen, the R/J FQF.

A songfiction based on the events of ORDER OF THE PHOENIX and the lyrics to Garth Brooks' song, STANDING OUTSIDE THE FIRE. Harry reflects on the Mauraders after one of their deaths. SPOILERS

All that remained was a box full of memories. (Remus/Sirius)

Sirius Black has just escaped from the hell that is Azkaban and is on the run. In the strange, twilight world that exists between the Wizard and Muggle worlds, he learns some of the cruel realities of life here in the underworld. Striking up an uneasy friendship with a strange, deadly clair-sentient named Morgan, the two begin the long journey to Hogwarts. Stopping at an inn in the border village of Mangletorn in the Scottish Lowlands, Sirius is jarringly reminded of an episode from his and James Potter's past, and learns another cruel truth about himself.

Lily Evans has got a boy friend! James Potter desperately tries to forget about her with the help of his friends. He gets frustrated as he has trouble concentrating on his studies, his best friend is on cloud nine, Quidditch practice goes crazy, and he can't avoid the red head who he is forced to do Head duties with. Watch as he is put in to funny situations and fails miserably at his mission. There is lots of Quidditch, on the side romances, original characters, a detention, and maybe something big and fancy.

Marauder-era fic. Sirius and Remus being the central couple, they are both pursuing other people in an attempt to hide from their feelings. Quite angsty, actually. SS/RL, RL/SB, SB/LE, LE/JP

Rita Skeeter, Roving Reporter. Yeah right. Rita's ruined, and in the wizard prison Culparrat, all for the little crime of revealing the magical world to the muggles, even if it was only in a fiction book. Now it's the day before she is released, and she is thinking back to years before when Lily and James died, when she had best friends, and when she was free.

Wormtail returns to Godric's Hollow.

'Lily Potter is falling...' What happens after death. Lily thinks back. Lily/James, hints of Remus/Sirius.

Sirius hasn't seen the Potters since they were placed under the Fidelius Charm... it's Halloween, 1981, and what he does not know is he will lose three friends... two by death, and one by betrayal.

Alternative Universe. A stranger muses on his past with Lily Evans, what once was, and what never shall be. One-shot.

A one-shot song fic to "The Lucky One" by Alison Krauss. Peter had never been lukcy. He always needed help. He never had good grades, never got the girls... unlike Sirius. Sirius has always been the lucky one... and to Peter, he always will be.

My take on the events of that fateful October night in 1981. Told through many changing points of view and ranges to include an appearance by the whole lot of redheaded Weasley children, Sirius' escapades and the first indoor Quidditch match at the Potter household.

Non-magic AU. Detective Sirius Black's world is turned upside down when a gruesome murder occurs in the heart of London. At the centre of the investigation, Remus Lupin. While Sirius' instincts say one thing, his heart says another. He just doesn't know how to decide which one's right.

This story focuses on the coming together of two very different worlds via the marriage of James Potter and Narcissa Black. Harry's adjusting well enough, but little Draco would rather eat dirt than love his new daddy. Can the two families become one? And will this change the HP series as we all know it? Harry's still 'The Boy Who Lived' and Draco's still a spoiled brat. Will love and kindness make all the difference?

After receiving a bite from a werewolf, Remus has spent most of his life alone. Hogwarts gives him the chance to discover friends and enemies alike.

The war ended once and for all on October the thirty-first, 1985. An AU exploration of what might have happened if Peter had not turned traitor.

Before they were Harry's eyes, they belonged to Lily. Lily and James contemplate the future on their last night together. One-shot.

I always snatch the Snitch. I'm always a winner, golden and perfectly round and armed with wings, forever meant to fly, because I am

In December 1978 celebrating solstice according to Lily’s idea means waiting for the sunrise and more.

Things that are broken can be mended but the cracks will always remain. What will the pressures of war have on the relationship between Remus and Sirius?

R for some violence to animals. In Hogwarts, during MWPP time, there are secret meetings in the dungeons for upcoming Death Eater trainees. James wants to make the Order and nothing is quite what it seems.

AU. When an illness sweeps the entire world, Sirius must fight to protect the people he cares about as the dead begin to rise. Remus is on the other side of the continent, working desperately to develop a means to put the dead back where they belong. Sirius is trapped in the heart of London with a widower and a group of frightened children. Can they survive until they find one another?

1979 and 1981. Two Halloween nights, two destinies. James and Lily contemplate the meaning of life and death the night of Harry's conception.

James has never understood Muggles, and now, hiding with his family, he has to pretend to be one. He doesn't quite like it.

"No one knew Remus Lupin loved her too." James wasn't the only one to love Lily.

James Potter hasn't been sleeping well for the last few weeks. How will he tell his pregnant wife that their unborn son is marked for death?

"She is my heart's desire and she will realise that I am hers." A JamesLily ficlet from someone else's perspective. Oneshot.

Harry has a twin, non-cliche. Harry, the true boy who lived, is slightly neglected, but only because of a misinterpreted prophecy not the fame going to his parents' heads, and the twins act like twins are supposed to... THEY DON'T HATE EACH OTHER!

Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs growing up through the eyes of an outsider.

Lily Evans and Leslie Miller were best friends. So were James Potter and Sirius Black. But with danger around every corner, and betrayal plaguing them every step of the way, what will they do to restore peace to their world? Rated R to be safe.

Every moment centres around something different. Not every moment fits with the next. Character sketches and drabbles of Lily and James, each is about something.

Voldemort decided one fateful night that Neville Longbottom was the infant whispered of in the prophecy. Unluckily for the wizarding world, Neville and his parents were killed, leaving Voldemort to continue his tyrannical reign over the wizarding world. The story is centred on two victims of his barbaric reign, Desdemona and Antenociticus Snape. Both of them left parentless by the hand of the Dark Lord. Struggling to find sense in this land of hypocrisy and war, they fumble nervously to care for themselves.

James, Sirius, Peter, and Remus make and complete their invention - the Marauder's Map.

Remus at James and Lily’s funeral. Angst. Not funny, not Christmassy. (SB/RL implied)

A year after their murder, many come to the gravesite of Lily and James Potter. Sirius escapes Azkaban, but why does he go back?

Ask Snickers: The Ravenclaw House advice column run by none other than Bella Primro and her best friend Sirrah Mallagen, along with the rest of their gang, the Racketeers, who are trying to rival their Gryffindor counterparts, the Marauders. As they ask each other stupid questions and make enemies, they come across a few surprises.

Harry can't handle the joy of Bill and Fleur's Wedding -- he can only see the futility of it all, with the new war upon them. His own parents lost their lives soon after marriage... so what was the point? Until Voldemort was gone, how could there possibly be room for happiness? His parents' memory haunts him, but can their memories cure him as well? (Featuring the POV of Harry, Lily, and James). A mix of angst, humor and love, but all drama.

James Potter has found himself wandering around Lucius Malfoy's dark manor in an Invisiblity Cloak, spying on Death Eaters and learning Voldemort's plans. It's a bit nerve-wracking. But when he's finally ready to leave, a stupid flutter of cloth gets him captured, alone in the hands Voldemort himself and his inner circle. How will he ever get out with his life?

Short ficlet, where we find out why Peter 'Wormtail' Pettigrew really did those nasty nasty things to poor old Lily and James.

Sirius arrives at James' house after leaving Grimmauld Place.

For James Potter and Lily Evans, the road to love is a long one. (Companion piece to Coming Around.)

When Lily Potter is in isolation under the Fidelius Charm, her thoughts wander.

"Or did you get lost in Amsterdam?" Sirius ran away to Amsterdam after having his soul shattered. Now all James hears are second hand stories through Remus and the letters Sirius sends him. Sirius recieves a shock . . . and then the others do as well. As Sirius puts it, "La dee f-cking dah."

Peter believes that his best friend knows everything about him, even his darkest secrets. Some Peter/James

My name is James Adonijah Potter. I am fifteen years old. I am a wizard. And I have--had--a baby sister named Elisabeth Harriet Potter. This is her story.

It’s 1977, and Hogwarts is putting on Hamlet. Cue rehearsals, romance, pranks, and maybe (with some luck) a successful production. (Version with images and fan art is being uploaded simultaneously on carmenblackfic.tumblr.com.)

Lily's death told through her eyes.

All here life, Petunia listened to people say how special her little sister, Lily, was. And getting that letter and running off to that school only made things worse. So through the years, she sat on the sidelines and watched Lily become more and more amazing. But what about her? A story through Petunia Evans' eyes on the subjects of Lily, Hogwarts, and a war most people don't even know is happening.

On the Hogwarts Express, Lily discovers who has been chosen for Head Boy. Companion piece to Coming Around.(Pre-dating L/J.)

The untold story of Harry's godmother - her hardships growing up, her relationships with Harry's parents and their friends, her qualms with her relationship with Harry once he joins the wizarding world and her ultimate role (or lack thereof) in his life.

James' mother, his only remaining family, is murdered and James decides to join the Order of the Phoenix with his friends. Following the dark episodes they face, with the fear of death always looming over them...

While there is plenty of fanart depicting Snape seeing Lily in the Mirror of Erised, there is also a canon scene in which Snape does, in fact, see Lily in the Mirror of Erised.

The night Lily and James Potter died. Someone arrived before Hagrid. "...he was really sorry he'd done it, sorry they were dead." - Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, by J.K. Rowling

Ch. 1. As an espionage, Lily Evans enters pureblood society. Yet, what's real -- Muggleborn, Order member, the Light Side -- and what's not -- society wife, Death Eater, the Dark Side -- becomes blurred. Will reality prevail or will fiction become reality? WORK-IN-PROGRESS. ALTERNATE UNIVERSE.

This is the story of how a Hogwarts toilet and one particularly soggy pumpkin pastry changed the world.

Based off of Carrie Underwood's song Just A Dream but not really a songfic. Dumbledore sent him on that mission. She just wished it could've been her instead. In the dead silence of their house, one word escaped her lips, "James."

Sirius Black was entangled in more secrets and lies than anybody had a right to be. It wasn't like his Light friends and Dark family had left him any choice, with their utterly opposite expectations of him. All Sirius could do was try to finish Hogwarts without everything crashing down around him first, but he was pretty sure his heart and the brewing war had made that impossible.

James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter. Four boys who formed one of the greatest friendships the world has ever seen. Join them on the beautiful and tragic paths set before them and discover important moments in their lives, told through shades of color.

Meet Sirius - an out-going, seventh year marauder. Meet Adelaide - the new, strong-willed French girl in class. Now what happens when they meet each other? Watch as Sirius puts himself in embarrassing situations for this girl. Find out what happens in this romantic comedy.

Dumbledore has sent Hermione back to James and Lily's seventh year. She is posing as an American Foreign Exchange Student named Jane. Lily meets her as she is exiting the train. Why has Dumbledore sent her back? What will be changed? How long will she be able to keep her cover? LJ SBHG

"No one ever died wishing they'd spent more time at the office." ~Jim Hundley

One-shot. James writes Lily a letter. James' version of "Love, Lillian" by Reina del Noche.

Hermione Granger's last night with James Potter before going back to her own time is not without tears, despair, and love. But it is definitely without regret. One-shot. Song fiction to Jana Stanfield and Craig Morris' "If I Had Only Known", which was sung by Reba Mcentire.