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As Lily watches her child sleep, innocently sucking his thumb, James arrives home with some alarming news. A one-shot, written to show the type of emotions James and Lily must have been experiencing during those tumultuous times with their newborn son.

Glittery account of unrequited love, set at the superficial heights of glam rock. Lily/Narcissa femmeslash. Expect angst and confusion.

The story of Lily and James' last year of Hogwarts. Full of ups and downs throughout the year, alternate partners and challenges.

(completed) The Dark Lord’s reign has begun, and his Death Eaters are spreading terror. Evan Rosier had a rough childhood, but he did have friends. He went to Hogwarts, did well, and began to plan his future; perhaps in the Ministry as an Auror. His father, however, had a very different future planned and Evan was forced down the path that forever changed who he was.

James spots a girl getting on the train. The girl looks back at him. Lily Evans looks at James in a way she won't in a very long time. She looks like she loves him. While they forget their feelings, they can't forget that look. James/Lily

Petunia reflects on a childhood with Lily, remembering the jealousy she felt.

Once, Sirius Black decided to play a very nasty prank on Severus Snape. He told the Slytherin to go down to the Whomping Willow, poke a particular knot, and follow the tunnel where he would undoubtedly find a big surprise. When James Potter heard, he knew exactly how wrong this could go, so he raced down to the Shrieking Shack and saved Snape just before he would have come face-to-face with a feral, merciless, blood-thirsty werewolf. What would have happened if James hadn't made it in time?

James loves Lily, he wants her to love him back desperately. But Lily is involved with someone else. Is there anyone who loves James from afar?

In those quiet moments, when the house on Privet Drive is empty save for ghosts and possibilities, Petunia Dursley sees a completely different image of herself.

The thing he’ll remember most vividly is the leaves. [Sirius/Lily. Plenty of Angst. Part One of "The Heart’s Progress", a series of vignettes]

If you've read The Marauders: Year One, you know they were friends (or at least acquaintances) with the Gryffindor girls of their year. This is some of their stories.

Monologue from the perspective of Draco and/or James reflecting on the loves of their lives. Don't forget a bit of sadness and bitterness from rivalry and hatred. But love does conquer all, however hopeless the future may seem...

Adhara Jocelyn Black has always been torn between her loyalty to James Potter, her cousin Sirius's best mate, and Lily Evans, the sister she has never known. But in her seventh year everything changes. Join Jocelyn, Sirius, Lily, and the rest of the Marauders as they battle for their lives... and loves...

When in a romantic rut, and being devoured by detestably sappy Christmas carols, one can find out the strangest things about themselves with some good, old-fashioned, bartender therapy… a one-shot Lily and James fic

Severus Snape is thirty-five years old and is looking back upon his life. It is with regret he thinks about the one true love of his life and how he lost her to the man he hates the most.

Seventeen years after the death of his parents, Harry returns to Godric's Hollow to exorcise himself of their ghosts. But what he finds there opens the floodgates of memory, and he is forced to remember what happened that night, long ago...

Sequel to The Day Petunia Went Mad. It's the day before MWPP/Lily go back to Hogwarts, and Petunia decides that now is the time to show them what she's made of!

James Potter and Lily Evans: Completely different, but completely in love. Their truimphs and losses, victories and pranks, from first kiss to last.

The night Remus Lupin met Harry Potter was trying one for the new Professor. To ease his pain, he writes letters to Lily and James, knowing that the words will never be read.

Under other circumstances, all of Severus Snape's dreams would be coming true. But in this last year at Hogwart's, he must make a choice that breaks his heart.

In the years before Harry was born, four Marauders, four friends, shared a special bond of friendship. Now one is a traitor, one hero died for his family, one innocent misunderstood man died protecting all he had left, and one still lives, a monster reborn every full moon. This is their story. Join the Marauders through the years of their lives; through laughs and losses, love and tears.

A one-shot from Petunia's point of view, showing her and Lily's relationship at various different points in time. An attempt to try and give a few theories about Petunia's attitude to magic, Harry, etc. Features guest appearances from Vernon, Marge, MWPP (including Punk!Sirius) and is hopefully not overly angsty.

James and Lily on the night of their deaths. Love never dies.

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.

The fifth year for the Marauders is an exciting one: they become animagi, Sirius plays a famous joke on Snape, and Lily and James get together (I know they didn't really get together until seventh year). By the time Harry Potter is 15, two Marauders are dead at the hands of Voldemort and his Death Eaters, and one is Voldemort's right-hand man. The only one that remains (and is still loyal to Dumbledore) is Moony, but he is a werewolf! He can't even get a job. I wrote this fanfic to keep all four Marauders (and Lily Evans) alive forever and loyal to Dumbledore (although Peter is in-between here). Enjoy!

Friends first.

Ever wondered who Harry's namesake is? James is trying desperately to get Lily to go out with him and Peter isn't a death eater yet.

Not all problems are solved by magic! Sirius Black and the Potters face The Boy Who Wouldn't Stop Crying.

Lily and James Potter get a glimpse of the world as it is now. AU.

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.

MWPP-era. Meet Princess Lily with her fiery red hair and a temper to match. Meet James, prince of the elves - also the boy who plays a prank on Lily and gets to see her temper flare. How does James survive and does Lily snap at anyone else?

Marauders Era. Remus Lupin is willing to try anything to unlock the secrets of love and understanding women. A certain type of book might just hold the key...

A conversation between Severus & Lily the summer before their friendship ends evidences his inner conflicts and unresolved feelings for the red-haired witch.

Slash NM/LP. Lily meets Narcissa on the Christmas before Lily's death.

Harry's summer at Privet Drive is cut short, and we find out a lot we never knew before. HP/DM I think eventually, with bits of RW/HG, SB/RL, AD/MM.

CHAPTER 3 POSTED It's Lily and James' 7th year, and Lily won't give James the time of day. But when Slughorn assigns them a project for which they have partners, James sees this as his chance. For things to turn out okay, it's going to take a miracle.

James is getting married. [James/Lily]

Six decades, six couples, six vignettes: one red-haired woman and one black-haired man, together, alone.

Sirius fell through the veil...but where did he go? Who awaits him? Will his heart be heavier than the feather?

After a rather harsh comment made by Peter, Sirius is forced to reconsider his feelings for Lily. A bit angsty, but with a fluffy ending.

Petunia is the sister of Lily Evans. Petunia is the sister that hated Lily Evans. Petunia is the sister that was jealous of Lily Evans, because Petunia could only wish she were Lily Evans.

MWPP. Peter talks about school, couples, magick and life in general. sbxrl, jpxle, ppxoc

It is always a bad idea to forget your best friend's birthday. It is also a bad idea to remember it. James/Lily.

The Marauder's summer break is interrupted when an ancient artifact sends them into the far future. There, Europe is ruled by Emperor Voldemort, and they're thrust into an adventure to stop him before that can happen, finding themselves in the process. But they never realized how challenging it would be, that Voldemort's story is more complicated than they thought possible, and the effect that time has on everything.

One day before class, Snape is listening to the radio when a song catches his ear and reminds him of his past. He travels through his memory and we learn there is more than meets the eye to him.

"If I could have foreseen my death, which I was unable to do, thank God, I would have left a letter..."

Imagine a Hogwarts taken over by some musical lover. Is that all it takes for two people destined for each other to find their love? Friends try to convince the lovers to make their move through songs and choreographed choruses. Hogwarts is a mad house. How fun can this be?

A look into the life of the Order, and the lives involved in the first war. Their love, their losses, and the trials of their youthful union, parenting and friendships. Not Chronological.

James and Lily enjoy a night of fun before the birth of their first child and the Dark times ahead.

Lily brings him home for the summer, and Petunia tries to figure out just why he's there.

James Potter's announcement in his basement kitchen one night causes Sirius Black to reflect on his role in the Order of the Phoenix.

When twelve-year old Harry is locked in his bedroom after the pudding incident, he wishes for one last time for one of his parents. Little does he know that this time it’s going to come true.

Petunia Dursley is just having a normal day, until she sees those bloody green eyes. She then starts thinking back to the little sister she had, and the world that took it all away, and threatens to do so to Harry.

"I think karma has come to visit me. And instead of giving me riches and perhaps a pony, it has decided to beat me to a bloody pulp." What goes around comes around. Especially for Lily Evans in her relationship (or lack thereof) with James Potter. Karma isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Severus Snape sits in his office on Halloween night and thinks of the girl who died fifteen years ago that night. The only girl he'd ever love.

Tomorrow, the doors will open and the people will rise and you will see me standing next to James. And I will look you and smile. And you will walk down that aisle one step at a time. And you will know that this is right. [Sirius/Lily. Part Three of The Heart’s Progress, a series of vignettes]

The first years are taking off, but a troublesome broomstick initiates a disturbing flashback for Sev. He wakens, however, to equally disorienting but astonishing revelations about Lily...

"Apologies. I don't do rhetorical questions. You'll have to check with Pettigrew on that one. Every question's a rhetorical one with him, if you take the strict definition of the word, because he can't answer any of them." James Potter and Sirius Black get up to some fun. Which means anything but for poor beleagued prefect Lily Evans. And who exactly is responsible for those knights on the fourth floor, who don't usually sport pink tutus and peg legs? One-shot.

Did you ever wonder why and when Lily stopped hating Sirius Black?

It started as a mutual attraction that lead to an obsession. Lily Evans and Sirius Black were the perfect couple. James Potter and Sirius Black were closer than brothers. When a forbidden liaison begins between Lily and James they must hide their affair else it destroy the bonds of love and friendship that have taken a lifetime to forge. AU

One-Shot. Snape’s POV. Severus Snape watches over infant Harry after the Potters are attacked. He slowly goes mad as he realizes that he could have Harry as a son.

"You hear them whisper that Cissa Black is breaking down..." Dreams will never be enough to save you, but they are substantial enough to try.

There are things Petunia doesn't think of.

James, Sirius, Peter, Remus, And Lily are in their third year at Hogwarts, and they love it. Pulling pranks, and having a good time all around. But trouble begins when they find an ancient stone. What is it and why has it come to them?

Lily’s impressions of James throughout her years at Hogwarts. (Lily/James)

"The word birthday had grown to be almost synonymous with her name." In his sixth year, Severus remembers how Lily has helped him celebrate his birthdays.

When Lily Potter announces to her sister, Petunia Dursley, that she is pregnant, Petunia reacts in a way that could destroy the wizarding world forever...

One morning Severus Snape receives an unexpected invitation in the mail with an all-too-personal letter. A backstory to Snape's worst memory in fifth year (from OotP) as well as a kind of subtext to Lily and James' later romance. SS/LE.

Regulus has got a secret. And the one person who'd kill to find out - is the one person he'd die to keep it from.

October 31st 1981 was a horrible and great day in the wizarding world. Lily and James Potter are lost, but Voldemort, the most feared wizard for over a century, is gone. The story of that fateful night and the surrounding events.

Lily Evans visits Severus Snape in the Potions classroom and catches him brewing a very special Potion ... One-shot, pre-canon. Companion piece to 'Amoris Infinitas', but can also stand alone. Warning: minor HBP spoilers

It is with a sudden finality that the classroom door shuts, relegating Lily to the stony realm of the authoritarian Minvera McGonagall. “You weren’t really lost, were you?” is all she asks.

The correspondence that may have happened between the Evans sisters.

Eighteen-year-old Petunia Evans wants to marry Vernon Dursley. Will her abnormal family fuin things for her?

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.

What if Voldemort had made Lily a very different kind of offer? How far would she go to protect her child?

Sometimes one must look through the wave of green in order to truly see. Lily's last seconds.

The follow up to my story 'Sunrise,' which told of the first day James and Lily spent with Harry. This story tells of the last.

When he can't sleep, Severus Snape is haunted with memories of a love lost.``SS/LE

A new year is due to start at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and we see the year progress through the eyes of James Potter, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew.

The cold weather crept its icy fingers around Remus as he pulled his threadbare robe tighter around his body. He blew into his hands to try and get some warmth in them. She was late.... She was never late.

Birthday surprises ensue when Lily, Remus and Sirius celebrate their 17th birthday's together at the Black's country home.

Lily and James Potter. The perfect couple. You don't see how she puts on too much makeup when she leaves him at night, or how he drinks a bottle of firewhiskey after she's gone. A look into the anguished mind of James Potter, father and reluctant husband. Slash content.

There is a secret gift exchange at Hogwarts. So, whom will Lily get her gift from?

How Harry Potter got his Invisibility Cloak, and who gave it to him.

Sirius Black never knew that baby-sitting little Harry could be so dangerous, so deadly, so--mortifying. For him, at least. After all, his Animagus was supposed to be a frightening dog, not a cute, cuddly teddy bear.

His mother played piano, his father drew portraits, but Harry writes. Harry separates himself from his parents' legacies.

When Petunia found Harry that cold November morning, she knew that he was more than just a normal baby boy. And she knew that taking him into her home, with her past behind her and his future ahead of him, was more than family helping family.

Harry has a pleasant chat with his mother.

Add together one ladies' man, one Quidditch player, one extremely caring individual and one soon to be traitor. Mix them together with one imaginative idiot, one fiery red head, one scarily intelligent Ravenclaw and one blonde artist. Make sure to stir counterclockwise until trouble occurs and you are dealing with one of the best loved 'gangs' in Hogwarts' History. In Things Aren't Always Black and White we follow the story of four boys, the marauders, and four equally troublesome girls. We see them deal with their first encounters of love, sorrow, heartache and Death Eaters. How will these eight soon to be order members cope with the ordeals that life throws at them?

What really happened the night "You-Know-Who" returned? A short fic from James point of view about his little boy and how he never got to see him grow up to become the "Boy-Who-Lived".

A series of vignettes about Voldemort on his rise to power... Chapter 1 - Learning Patience: Tom Riddle sits in a pub watching a girl on the other side of the room...

'Fate has us divided. There is good or evil.' When the Flower and the Stag return, hope rises in the hearts of the Light. But when a new evil is resurrected, will Harry be willing to sacrifice everything, including himself?

How did Lily and James become a couple? Well..with the help of their friends, of course. And during a Halloween masquerade ball, the pre-destined couple finds out what everyone else already seemed to know...they were meant for one another...

Eleven-year-old Lily Evans has an argument with her sister, Petunia, about whether magic exists.

She was trapped in her own doings. She had chosen to fall in love with the wrong person. And now she will be in Hell's grasp forever... In other words, she's deep inside the world of early Death Eaters, and can't get out. For Lily lovers, not really violent.

The day after his Defence Against the Dark Arts exam and the rather... humiliating incidents thereafter, Severus Snape seeks out Lily Evans in the library.

Lily Evans knows that rules exist for reason, and she attempts to follow school and society's regulations as best as she can. But a growing understanding with James Potter makes her question the rules of friendship and love she has established for herself.

In a time of darkness and uncertainty, the Ministry of Magic is foolishly desperate for answers -- and answers, even if they aren't true. Enter Lucius Malfoy and Severus Snape, who know how to kill two birds with one stone: make themselves look good to Fudge AND help Voldemort get James Potter out of they way. Includes James-angst, Lily-worrying, some cuddles, some gory death, a bit of MWPP humor, and some subtle Snape-glorification.

Lily is now the proud mother of a bubbly baby boy. She has just returned home from the hospital for the first time with him but something seems to be irking her. The man in the kitchen preparing her tea might not be her sons father. Who could Lily Evans have gotten caught up with? How did this happen? What if The-Boy-Who-Lived isn't really the son of James Potter?