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James Potter struggles to learn that marriage means compromise. When you don't, there are consequences.

On the day of Lily and James Potter's demise, one person seeks Dumbledore and forgiveness.

AU ficlet- One stormy night, Liliana Evans, daughter of a prominent pureblood Slytherin family, realizes that there's nothing left to live for. James Potter is looking for a way out of his family's constant planning of his future. What will they find in each other?

A few brief glimpses into James and Lily's last days.

Lily's eleventh birthday, her worst ever... They day she was forced to choose between her sister and her magic within.

Quinnellia Chamberlain, aka Quinn, has come to Hogwarts from the United States to finish her magical education. She is befriended by Lily Evans and her dormmates and for the first time in her life has good friends, is getting good marks, and is staying out of trouble. Until she tries out for the Quidditch team and is told by the Captin, James Potter, that girls don't play Quidditch at Hogwarts. Can Quinn and Lily beat some sense into James? Moreover, can Quinn stop thinking about her own problems long enough to help Lily with her own crisis

Ever since they met, he couldn't stop thinking about her... (James-centered fic)

One day in early December, 1979, a young potions apprentice notices a purchase. The world is in the midst of a terrible, secretive war, and the customer's circumstances lead her to make an important decision. The consequences of her actions are life-altering for many...

One day, somewhere within the last year of the war, Lily finds a photo that makes her remember the days when Petunia was her sister. A short examination of the relationship between the Evans sisters. Not sappy.

Lily was excellent at comforting, but she was horrible at being comforted.

Closed in worlds they cannot contain, Lily and James sit together and the fireworks soon fly....

Femmeslash (Lily/Mrs. Lestrange). It’s not as dark as you might expect.

Although she wishes she could Lily knows that she cannot protect Harry forever.

Before Hogwarts, Lily had a friend, her cousin, named Harry. This story is about them, and who they were and what they did. Slightly bittersweet, but it covers Lily's discovery of magic, her meeting with James, and why she named her son Harry.

Fidelius has been performed already, but on a dark night with a storm rising fast and furious over the home where they were staying, a visitor arrives on a dark bike with an idea that will effect them all. Lily POV. JP/LE.

It was more than love - it was a true meeting of souls. Their bodies were seperated first by marriage and then an infamous death, but a link still remains. Can Narcissa live her life even though she has lost Lily, her first and truest love? ~Sweet, short, fluffy and slightly supernatural femmeslash~

A deceptively typical evening in the Potter household at Godric's Hollow.

Lily, Harry's room and the early morning summer breeze.

Peter Pettigrew is dead by his own hand. Remus Lupin shares the news of Wormtail's death with Sirius Black and the Potters, and ponders how he feels about it.

Why does Petunia have such strong odious feelings towards magic and the wizarding world? A question I hope to answer through this collection of memories that begin in Petunia's early childhood.

James Potter is tired of Lily Evans noticing all of his flaws, until he finds out that maybe her attention isn't such a bad thing after all.

A song can hold so much in its words, as James is about to find out. Songfic to Head Over Feet by Alanis Morissette

Remus Lupin was suspected of giving information to Voldemort by his best friends. He disappeared for days at a time with no explanation. Perhaps he just needed to get away from it all… People do crazy things… when they’re in love. A Songfic to The Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Modern Romance."

Lily goes undercover to get a certain Death Eater to join the Order...

"Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them." ~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe. "The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity." ~Walt Whitman

Lily brings James home on Christmas day and his friends tag along. Petunia isn't pleased.

While Lily is having Harry, James thinks about his son. Then the moment comes, and James has some promises to make to Harry. Does he keep his promise? (Lily/James)

Yes...I'm at it again.... It's time for another go-around at Interruptions! It's time to face the truths.... Does Ron really love Hermione... Will Virginia forgive Remus for being a werewolf... Will Sirius ever understand that talking stomachs are not very funny?! (Besides the fact that he's very dense, he has a brain problem.)

Peter Judas Pettigrew remembers the events which led him to join the Dark Lord, the night he betrayed James as he lives up to his namesakes. Contains slash.

Lily didn't know why or how it started, exactly, but she did know that this horrid ritual had been a part of her life for almost an entire year. [

"She quietly pulled herself together, so that when Vernon walked in demanding dinner, she could smile, and fix dinner, and chatter away without shattering." A vignette of Petunia after Harry leaves for his first year at Hogwarts.

Death prevails in a fatal confrontation between the dark and the light... LJ, Non-Romance, AU, Angsty.

//But don't forget who's taking you home And in whose arms you're gonna be, So, darling, Save the last dance for me.// ~Save the Last Dance for Me, Michael Bulbe

Beatlemania hit the Marauders hard in the form of the lovely Lily Evans, supreme Beatles worshipper! Remembering a better time when all was well and Lily bored James with Beatles trivia. Just goes to show that you can take the girl out of the Muggle world, but you can't take the Muggle world out of the girl...

"They’ve asked me to speak for you. For you. As if you’re still alive and it’s merely another award celebrating your person. I wish with all my heart that was it. But now a path has formed down the center of mourners, red faces and blood-stained eyes all looking to me, as if I am Moses and have come to save them from this sea of agony. How can I save them if I can’t save myself?" -- Lily Potter's funeral from the eyes of a friend.

Regulus fights to protect many things - his brother, his friends, the children whose innocence is shattered by the war around them. He's admired by some, but he has doubts he'd be the way he is without outside help. Written for the Alternate Universe community on LJ, set in the same AU and after "Watching Your Back".

Bridge piece for other fics. Harry hopes to find out about his mother's pasts, but the answers he receives only lead to more questions. He finds information from an unlikely source.

Sometimes, there is more to people than we can see with the eye. Petunia Dursley is much more than she is made out to be, and she has regrets about never saying good-bye to her sister.

Takes place that fateful night when Wormtail betrayed the Potters...

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

Throughout their years at Hogwarts the Marauders have always lived their lives in the same way, making the same choices and decisions over and over without change. Lily has always pushed James away in fear that if she lets her guard down he will let her down. Aurora is positive she's not in love with Remus and won't hear any different because she is ultimately afraid of what will happen if she faces her emotions. Raine is afraid to speak. Peter has always hid in the shadows of his three best mates. Well, this year they all decided that it is time for change. This is the year they never expected to come.

Sometimes James hated Peter.

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 too late"... Remus looks over some memoirs... A story of mourning, grief, unrequited love, and a letter that came 16 years too late.

An alternate look at Petunia.

Inside the house a man and a woman sat close together, staring out of the second floor window, also watching and listening. The woman held a child close in her arms, clutching him as if his life depended on her constant crooning and kisses on the forehead. The man also reached over every few seconds to touch the child's cheek or smooth down his hair. `` “I can't stand this anymore, James,” the woman whispered.

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?

One side of the dark man of the potions world...and his secret love for the Mudblood yet captivating Lily Evans... A look back at all the love that he had had for her while still at Hogwarts years later.

"As I stare, my limbs lifeless, her eyes open. I see nothing but green." Snape reflects on the past and plans for the future. One shot, post HBP.

AU. "The clock was wrong. Lily had observed just how wrong the clock was; it had only just turned three ‘o’ clock. Why did the clock say it was five? James had assured her that yes, it was five ‘o’ clock, but she didn’t believe it. It had to be three. At three ‘o’ clock, he had been there. Smiling, albeit a weak smile, but smiling all the same. Her pride and joy. Her one truest love. The one she had loved more than any other. But now it was five, which meant he was no longer there. He was gone, just like that. Gone."

"You hear them whisper that Cissa Black is breaking..." ``Dreams are not enough to save us, but they're substantial enough to try.

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

The first war - a time of love and betrayal. After the fall of the Dark Lord, Severus Snape prepares to face the consequences of his actions - the funeral of the only woman he ever loved.

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

Sometimes we remember things, even when we don't.

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?

She couldn't remember, as she sat there on the couch with her glass of eggnog held precariously in her hand, what it was that had possessed her to come home for Christmas break. What had made her think that anything would have improved? Surely this was the worst night of her life. ... Lily's Christmas isn't looking very happy, but maybe it can still be saved.

Remus remembers his time spent with Lily...

Lily admires a boy from afar, and she's finally going to tell him on his birthday. But another girl gets in the way, causing Lily to question whether or not she really likes him.

"His lycanthropy was a curse, not a part of him. If it was placed upon him, surely it could be taken off. I had to find a cure. I would devote my whole life to finding a cure if I had to." ``Lily desperately contemplates why Remus would end their relationship...

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!

Why is Petunia Dursley so... well... Dursleyish? Why does she hate the magical word, and prtend that she never even had a sister? Well, once she was a child, you see. And children have dreams... "Petunia wanted magic more than anything in the world, she dreamed of it and she ached for it, for the magic and for the brave, beautiful characters who wielded it in her books and her imagination."

"I don't need help from filthy little Mudbloods like her!" When Harry looked into Professor Snape's Pensieve, there was something he didn't see.

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.

One Christmas Eve, after a particularly unpleasant Occlumency lesson, Severus is visited by a ghost. Lily is furious over how he has treated her son—and determined to make Severus see just how much Harry needs him. Loosely based on "A Christmas Carol".

James Potter is stumped. How can he get the girl of his dreams to go out with him if she refuses to listen? He'll just have to come up with some catchy way to MAKE her listen. . . Based on the lyrics of "Oh! Darling" by the Beatles; and written for the Five-Witch Tournament between myself, lupa_mannera, DarkFaerii, secret_witch, and akeyana on HarryPotterFanfiction.Com.

Have you ever felt lonely because there was romance blossoming all around you but you had no part in it and were scared to tell the one you loved how you truely felt? Lilly Evans feels all that in this fic while James Potter is depressed. The one who is causing the depression is the only one who can bring him out of it and bring him under the safety of their umbrella.

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

Five lessons in Lily Evans' short life.

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?

The green-eyed monster in Petunia Evans has emerged and is ready to lash out at her sister. A oneshot account of the untold grief and envy torturing a very misunderstood person.

Lily Evans never really had a relationship with her sister. Things don't change as she enters Hogwarts and she remembers her first time with magic.

"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.

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...

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...

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.

Do angels only come to tell us how life would have been without us if we will be missed when we are gone? What if each and every one of our actions has accidentally hurt someone in a way that we never intended? Is a life worth saving if it has inflicted pain on hundreds of others? Or is the continuation of that life the punishment that that person deserves? What is the greatest punishment that a guilt-ridden person could face? Bitterly, Severus Snape ruminates.

This fic is a prequel to the

For all we've learned about Snape and his past, we haven't ever seen why it was that he left the Death Eaters. This is one idea.

The real reason why Snape hates Harry before Harry even arrives at Hogwarts is hidden in the three questions that Snape asks Harry in the first Potions class.

Lily's life is perfectly normal, thank you very much. She has a new one, seperate from that snob of a sister. If only that little voice would go away.

On Severus Snape's birthday, two people come together for drunken introspection and might just wind up friends.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Lily grows up and grows away from her sister. "Lily always remembered her sister as a flower. Their mother's flower maidens, they had always been, and she worked hard to remember that now."

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

The complicated relationship between sisters. Lily Evans reflects.

A day in the ordinary life of Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs. Full of laughter, pranks, and James trying to impress Lily. Basically, the usual.

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.

Lily reads some old letters from Petunia and has a change of heart.

The past is another country. Petunia Dursley remembers her childhood.

Snape wakes up after the Shrieking Shack to find himself in Azkaban. DH compliant. One-shot, gen. Written for and winner of harrypotter_las, challenge 3.

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

"If Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs, the four brightest blokes Hogwarts has seen in generations, can't decorate a bloody Christmas tree, there is something very wrong with this world."