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Tom considered that perhaps fifty years of utter isolation and stagnation in a diary was a small price to pay to gain the advantages of being a living Horcrux, even if he was probably a bit mad from the experience. After all, being mad was no impediment to a Dark Lord.

Harry Potter's professors and friends try to regroup and rebuild after the events of 'Order of the Phoenix'. Those events, however, prove to be just the start of much darker times to come.

London in 1943 is a city in the shadow of war. To Albus Dumbledore, however, the War is a Muggle affair – none of his concern. Then by chance, he stumbles upon something that might change everything. Now, in order to prevent the Wizard world from being dragged into the conflict, Dumbledore must search through the underworld of this great Muggle city for an insane German wizard and his Nazi cohorts. Dumbledore’s only allies are the enigmatic British Intelligence agent, Commander Carver, and the feral and dangerous Canadian called Logan. (HP/X-Men AU adventure prequel.) Complete.

Anyone who is interested in Lily will find this interesting. In essence, a biography of Lily from when she is five months old until a few days after her death, with a few generally unexpected twists; a what-if story, in the sense that Lily has three sisters and James a twin brother. Begins and ends in tragedy; the middle is filled with tragic romance.

Harry thought he hated Dudley, then he met Malfoy. He thought Malfoy was as bad as it got, then he met Lara Ryder. Ryder is Malfoy's worst enemy, and she's moved to Hogwarts. At first she's just plain nasty, but it soon becomes more. It starts out with some thinking she's funny, and others being the butt of her jokes. Before long, the school is divided down the middle, and only Malfoy knows why. But he won't say, because it would reveal too much of his own past. People are dying, and only he can stop her.

The Hunter is an unlikely enemy of the Dark Lord. He is a muggle who hunts Wizards and is very sucessful at it. In fact he has been created in very similar circumstances to our young Potter. This story shows the Hunter's creation against the backdrop of the Trio's hunt for a Horcrux in Eastern Europe. A very dark and angsty fic. The story has very violent things happen, but I have tried to avoid being directly graphic in my descriptions. Also has a lot of religious references, particularly concerning the Roman Catholic Church. There is also some (very gently) implied shipping between R/Hr and G/H.

Lucius Malfoy confesses: saying, "Lily, I love you!" Lily is shocked and confused. Not wanting to hurt him, she goes out with him. But when a better offer (James) comes along, Lily leaves him behind. After some rough spots with James, she realizes how she may have felt all along... and now it's her turn to be the one crying the river.

A heart wrenching fic about how tragic events in life can change a person. Hermione Granger suffers abuse at the hands of Lucius Malfoy. Draco Malfoy gets caught in the middle. Severus Snape struggles to save the Hermione he once knew and unwittingly falls in love with her.

Five years after the Downfall of Voldemort and nearly four years after the true start of the Peace, two young veterans meet by accident just north of Amsterdam.

Harry is back for his final year at Hogwarts, while the rest of the magical world strains under the Second War. Harry manages to lose himself in ordinary school troubles, like his N.E.W.T. exams, Quidditch matches, and teenage romances-- but something is always lurking at the back of his mind. Professor Trelawney predicted years ago that a final battle between himself and Lord Voldemort would bring one of them to their demise. And Harry knows it must happen soon. How can Harry prepare himself to face the greatest evil that ever was? What can he possibly do to save himself and everyone he cares about? A gripping, Rowling-esque read and thrilling sequel to the alternate sixth book Harry Potter and the Return to the Riddle House.

Ginny Weasley never understood why they would send her to help him. After all, she wasn't one of his best friends, nor a person he looked up to like Remus Lupin. So why her? But it was the desperate look in her mother's eyes that had really convinced Ginny to do it. Being desperate was not a thing of her mother, and it had startled Ginny to see those tears in her eyes.

A funeral -- whose?

Ginny Weasley is fading from Light to Dark. She thinks no-one notices, but when she and Snape run into each other in Knockturn Alley, her life changes course. Will she be able to betray her family to help keep safe the Wizarding world?

Hermione wakes up one night to something frightening. And dead. But it will spread to others. It is not a joke. Hinting at Ron/Hermione, no slash (er... sorry)

In Hermione's seventh year someone attempts to give her a gift that could change her life; she refuses. Years later she may come to regret her choice.

COMPLETE!!! Harry's mind has been erased. When he regains his senses, he finds that things are different and he doesn't quite understand why....

Snap.

Two years after Hogwarts Hermione finally accepts she is alone, then suddenly Ron finally wakes from a deep, magical coma. Confused when Ginny shows her a letter from a dear friend long dead, Hermione goes back to Hogwarts only to find that she is entrapped in a web of lies and deceit.

Throw It All Away -- A letter arrives at Privet Drive, causing Harry a load of trouble, while Draco stares at the ceiling. Part of the 'Hungryverse.' This is Harry ``and Draco's story. This is the answer to why.

Ginny Weasley is broken. Her loved ones are dead, leaving her with the shattered remains of a home, and a life. She is searching for anything that can put her together again. But when she turns to steel for comfort, the most unlikely of people becomes determined to save her from herself. Warning: Light incest and themes of self injury.

A series of vignettes involving Harry and Draco at Hogwarts.

How Ginny and Sirius became friends.

"Five years ago the snow fell, just as it falls tonight: cold, relentless, and uncaring. Every so often the wind unleashes a frustrated howl and I shiver, huddling closer to the smoking, inadequate fire I’ve lit in our hideout deep within the Forbidden Forest. As shelters go, it’s not much, just a little crack in a hillside that’s unworthy of being called a cave. But it keeps out the worst of the weather and hides us from our enemies." After Harry Potter's death, Hermione Granger works to bring down the Dark Lord and discovers love, hate, trust, betrayal - and magic at its most impenetrable. Completion of the storyline from Led Away Into Captivity To Suffer Shame and A New Beginning, but can be read on its own.

Ever since Hermione entered the world of wizards and witches she has dealt with the ongoing war. Now, she is having a hard time learning to live with the memories of that war, and the changes since the fall of Voldemort. A strange sort of "friend" comes to help her... SS/HG but not a romance. AU.

Silence is deafening, isn't it? Especially with Snape breathing down your neck.

Alphard Black and Remus Lupin - two unlikely friends - help each other through the ups and downs of their lives. Companion/Sequel to Deny Thy Father; references to pre-whatever SB/RL.

After the release of Book Five, many fanwriters have released Sixth Year stories, such as this one. This story follows what I feel is canon. Harry is once again at the Dursleys', as usual, and a few changes in the government occur. The year turns to be better than the last, but again, another upsetting event causes a total turnaround, adding weight to Harry's already burdened shoulders. Main focus is Harry, other main characters are: Severus (list subject to change)

What if one day you woke up and nothing was right yet everything was so familiar? What if you didn’t even know yourself? Who you had been, who you are, and who you were supposed to be? What if the one person that could help you was the unlikeliest of them all... (mild H/D)

Things don't always go as planned. Heroic deeds are not always spectacular. In doing them, however, heroes discover what matters most.

AU: Harry is on his way to Hogwarts... Things are about to get interesting... WARNING: Will contian SLASH in later chapters

War is coming to Wizarding Britain. What are the concequences of preserving innocence too long? The winds of change are here and Harry with the Trio (and a few others as well) have to come to terms with their future fate, and the future of the wizarding world. What they must do to preserve the innocence they love might just break them in the end. Many Ships, H/G R/Hr, N/L Prophecies and new tricks up the sleeve.

...or Harry Potter and the Potions Professor. It's the Fifth Year at Hogwarts, and the war with Voldemort is growing closer, as he seeks ways to increase his powers. Not only do the students have their OWLs to contend with, but Professor Snape is missing, and Hogwarts seems to be filled with spies.

Lord Voldemort, taking advice from the Evil Overlord Guidebook, sends his right-hand man to hire a Muggle professional, who is supposed to take care of the Boy-Who-Lived problem once and for all.

What really happened when Dennis Creevey fell into the lake on his way to Hogwarts?

Muggle librarian Sophie Beresford had no idea that one old parchment could change her life.``Soon she finds out the hard way that spells and wizards not only exist in legends. What's worse: being chased by wand-weaving weirdoes or saved by some cranky Potions master?

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The long-awaited sequel to Switch and its various asides. Ginny lives in a world of dreams, Julia Riddle duels, and, above all: Severus Snape remembers. Contains slash; may the faint of heart be forewarned.

Set in Harry's seventh year. After countless attacks from Voldemort, Harry has given up trying to fight back. He is just waiting for Voldemort to destroy him. Ginny is determined to save him from Voldemort, and from himself, no matter what the cost.

Years after the war has ended, they still gather to celebrate and remember...but no-one has come through unscathed, least of all Draco Malfoy. See Harry's legacy through his eyes, if you're strong enough.

Harry has mysteriously lost most of his powers and is marked for assassination. Hermione is in her apprenticeship, studying to become an FCI - Forensic Criminal Investigator, and Hogwarts has a new Headmaster that seems to butt heads with The Chosen One. One other thing, a deep dark secret is revealed about one of the Maurauders. Welcome to Harry's last year at Hogwarts...erm...one way or another.

Betrayal by those closest to you hurts the most.

During a Hogsmeade weekend, Ginny Weasley and other girls are kidnapped by the Death Eaters. They're led to an unknown location where Voldemort and his servants are holding a party. What will be Ginny and the other girls' role in it? Which fate awaits them?

Harry expects to return to Hogwarts for another ordinary year (well, as ordinary as they get...), but it all changes when a secret that has been kept from him for fourteen years is finally revealed...

People have been keeping secrets from Harry for as long as he can remember. That trend doesn't seem to be stopping. More secrets come into light and Harry finally gets the answers to some of the questions he's been asking. But is he ready to hear them?

When Hogwarts is closed for mysterious reasons, and the students sent to different schools around the world, Harry finds himself in America. In a school, things happen unlike any at Hogwarts, and the people there have their own stories. But will Morgan's story be too much for Harry's godfather Sirius to handle? One person's death can shape another's fate. And one person's fate will shape the destiny of all.

What if one's destiny was fixed before one's birth? A close escape from the Dark Lord left Severus with headaches and to wonder. It's also making Remus see stuff.

In his worst days, Harry seeks solace in an old photo album. However, a picture of Sirius brings questions to his mind. Questions only one man can answer. Post OotP. All the necessary spoilers. One-shot. Sirius/Remus

A twisting tale of love, pain and life. Features many of the characters from the books, plus a few new original characters.

Voldemort is growing stronger, and obsessed with producing an heir. Harry his growing weaker, the wizarding world's only hope is drowning in grief. So, the Order of the Phoenix decides to give Voldemort what he want, hoping he will be distracted, and give Harry enought time reach his full power.

Harry meets a dog that reminds him of Sirius.

Percy Weasley is chosen to be the guinea pig for Voldemort's latest experiment just as his life starts coming apart at the seams.

Having premonitions can sometimes be a good thing, but not always....

Harry has memory loss after the last battle with Voldemort; Ron tries to help him regain it.

"Sit not too proudly on thy throne, Think on thy sisters, them that fell; Not all the hosts of Babylon Could save her from the jaws of hell." How had they come to this, the three Black sisters, so full of promise as they had been that night? How had each of them been so blind, so foolish, to let the others fall? A sequel to

A wizard has disappeared, and the Ministry is refusing to investigate; Albus Potter is in the Hogwarts infirmary, and Ginny and Hermione are arguing over Harry's peculiar behavior. All is not as it should be. HPDH+Epilogue compliant.

The past changes the future, but the present changes everything. When four people come together can they change the past and create a new future for themselves? Or will their previous mistakes come back to haunt them? A Draco/Hermione Tom/Ginny story.

Harry knows that the Dark Lord is planning another attack on him so this time he will be prepared. There is just one thing that is revealed that he wasn't quite prepared for...

A look into the Potions Master's head during his opening-of-term speech.

They like to pretend that they are One big happy Weasley family, but they really are not. H/Hr

Harry is Voldemort's son! Will Harry Potter, the Boy-Who-Lived, still fight for the Light or will he choose to be Lord Voldemort's heir?

“I’m gonna be who I want to be. Not gonna be what you want me to be, not gonna be your star anymore, gonna get what I want.” *Slash warning.*

In a time of darkness, Ginny calls on an old friend for help.

While on vacation, Mac rediscovers powers she once had. However, there's always a catch... (JAG/Harry Potter crossover)

Boy meets girl. Boy and girl grow to hate each other. Boy and girl run into each other on prefect duty and realise that they don’t hate each other as much as they thought… but what would happen if boy’s father and girl’s best friends were to find out that girl and boy don’t hate each other as much as everyone initially thought?

Harry thought that after graduation life would be easier. But when an old enemy shows who he really is and asks for his help, will Harry be willing to give his trust and the love of his life to him? And with Voldemort still at large and searching for revenge, will Harry be able to keep his head, or will his life come crashing down arond him?

Thousands of years ago, there lived an evil vampire named Dracula. He took many victims, but was finally crusified by Dr. Van Helsing. The coffin Dracula's ashes reside in has traveled many miles from Transilvania to a large forest on the edge of Great Britian. The scientists on Dracula's case thought it best for him to be in solitude. So, years later, a boy named Draco Malfoy was running through the forest when he stumbled on the box.

Even the best plan has its flaws.

Harry is back to Dursleys for the summer to find out that the Death Eaters broke out of Azkaban. Snape is coming over to him there to help him learn how to Apparate, and at the end, there is a lot of dead people.

"It's weird sometimes when you love somebody. It makes you do and say things you would've never expected, even though at the beginning you don't even know whether you love that person or not."

It's six years after Hogwarts. Harry and Hermione are married with a daughter. Life is about to take an unexpected turn...

"We dark ones, we lost ones, do not feel less strongly than the others... we feel more intensely. We suffer more intensely, live and die more intensely than they. And when the end comes, it is our torment which is greatest and most enduring." The redemption of Severus Snape begins with the loss of a young life on the field of battle. Set several years after GoF, this is not about the Final Battle, but what happens afterwards...

When Remus Lupin is in danger of being sent to Azkaban, the only person that can help him is the one that he turned his back on years ago. [AU, Remus/Hermione]

His story is familiar; his perspective is not. Tormented by his past, Sirius Black struggles for sanity and pushes onward, seeking justice, vengeance, and the only people he has left to live for.

Voldemort is looking for a new servant and Wormtail doesn't like it. And Harry may just be that servant's sacrifice to Voldemort.

“First, he asked me to marry him. Then he told me he was a wizard.” Can a Muggle learn to cope with the fact that her fiancé has incomprehensible powers, overcome parental misgivings, and still manage to keep everything a secret from her friends?

Fourth in the Time's Riddle AU. A disconcerting visit from Lucius Malfoy and an incident involving a rogue Acromantula and inter-House cooperation lead Tom to set about remedying Slytherin's damaged relations with the other Houses. Via a study group.

AU. What if something unexpected happened when the Weasley Twins were born? Something that left them separated, each not knowing the other existed?

Voldemort's been defeated, but something's not right with the Wizarding World. No matter how hard they try, they can't seem to over come the number of deaths that riddle their world, and the Muggle World. They know the cause, or at least they've seen the evil of the Shadow; but they cannot figure out how it came to be, or how to defeat it.

It's time to take a break from the Hogwarts students and now turn our attention to the less famous but equally important part of the school: the Teachers. Now it's their turn. This is their story, their life and their souls. Every chapter would be about a single individual teacher, portraying their hidden lives and past. And sometimes, what you don't know can shock you.

Ginny Potter has her dream life. She's married to her true love, she has five beautiful children, life is good. That is, until tragedy breaks her happily ever after.

Remus is described as a solitary man by many, and it is a very apt description. This is an exploration of the man's past, when he was only a solitary boy.

His point of view lowered slowly until he looked through the large front windows into what seemed to be the front parlor of the home. Four people stood in the room, a couple in muggle clothing huddled against the far wall; two dark cloaked individuals stood opposite the couple, their wands pointing toward the man and woman.``As Harry concentrated on the scene, he suddenly was in the room behind the attackers. The dark wizard on Harry’s right raised his wand and in a sibilant voice said, “Crucio.” The red beam shot out and held on the older man across the room. ``Horrified, Harry witnessed the man contort and writhe in agony, not screaming until he collapsed on the floor under the spell.

Right before Harry begins his fifth year at Hogwarts, he comes across Draco Malfoy while living on Privet Drive with the Dursleys. When Harry finds a strange stone on the ground and picks it up, Malfoy tries to grab it from him and they magically switch identities! Now Harry is Draco and Draco is Harry. And when they go to Hogwarts, expect the most unexpected.

As Salazar Slytherin had a hidden chamber that only his heir``could find, so did Godric Gryffindor. Inside was his wand, along with a``single spell of his own creation, to be used only as a last recourse.``(TAKES PLACE AFTER THE EVENTS OF HARRY'S FIFTH YEAR)

Our story begins one warm summer day as Hermione awakes from her coma to discover a world gone crazy. Sat by her bedside Ron tells of how, in a desperate attempt to continue his Empire of Darkness after the so called 'Final Battle', Lord Voldemort spread corruption in his wake. The far-reaching consequences have been disastrous for the British Wizarding population in general and for Harry in particular, leaving the Ministry of Magic scrambling in an attempt to halt their world's decent into madness. Will the Order be able to undo Voldemort's damage before a manipulative Draco Malfoy can twist the situation to his own rebellious advantage or is everything doomed to end in blood and darkness?

What if Rookwood hadn't gotten Voldemort onto the right track? What if Voldemort really had kidnapped Sirius and taken him to the Department of Mysteries? Would the outcome of the Battle be the same? Or would Sirius still be alive?

According to his Chocolate Frog card, Albus Dumbledore is "particularly famous for his defeat of the dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945." In this prequel to the Time's Riddle series, we join Albus on the cusp of a fateful decision. But although he seeks aid from Aurors, from Nicolas Flamel, and from the most unlikely of sources, in the end Albus Dumbledore alone must somehow find courage in the absence of hope--for Grindelwald has destiny on his side.

This is a Voldemort POV. Voldemort looks back on his life, at the moment of his death. These are his thoughts.

At his Sorting, Regulus Black weighs his brother's love against his parents' expectations, and makes a choice.

All had thought the two were indifferent; that there wasn't a freckle laid upon their face, or a strand of hair on top their head that was different, that their personalities were exactly the same, and the only real difference was their names. One was Fred. The other was George. The Weasley Twins. Nothing more, nothing less. ``How very wrong they were.

Part of Argus Filch was still Manacle: the inquisitor, the businessman, the terrifying figure that no one really wanted to get on the wrong side of. Part of him still craved the way illegal liqueur had tasted- so much better than even the most expensive wine. Part of him was still in love with that blue-eyed Italian girl. Part of him remained in the past, in a different place, in a whole different world from here. Part of him would never change.

After the war, Harry writes a letter.

When Vernon's life is threatened, he learns that mere death might not be the worst fate awaiting him.

Have you ever done something even though you knew it would end up destroying you?

One summer day, Dudley Dursley becomes curious about his cousin Harry's life. Semi-angst fic from Dudley's POV.

While in Azkaban, Sirius is surprised to recognize a new prisoner - Hagrid.

Juxtaposition= two extremes together. Fred and George struggle to define their feelings for one another. SLASH, TWINCEST, ect. Twoshot.

When the ads in the Daily Prophet don't turn up anyone worth bothering about, Dumbledore and McGonagall make their own decision about who they want teaching DaDA. The problem is, he's nowhere to be found. Has a cast of wolves, owls, elephants with attitude, and one unhappy mouse.

Hermione discovers an unexpected someone with whom to share an unusual hobby.

The past creeps up on everyone, with Snape discovering some things are best left unknown.