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James Potter wakes up early on a Sunday morning and finds himself inspired by his wife to use one of his little known talents...

The trip to Hogwarts that year was an unusually subdued one. Peter sat across from Remus, and Sirius sat next to Remus. James was not making it better, nudging at Sirius' foot subtly and flicking his eyes to the carriage door when he looked up. Each time Sirius surreptitiously shook his head no, just a bare twist. Just enough that Remus started to become suspicious.

A short R/S ficlet written for the DogDaysofSummer August 6, 2005 challenge prompt: White Sand. Remus, Sirius, James and Peter spend a summer day at the beach.

Lily Evans and Remus Lupin meet in the prefects' bathroom and get into a discussion about various forms of monthly ailments.

How James fell in love with Lily, how Lily fell in love with James, how both of them hurt Peter, and how Peter betrayed them in the end.

The one thing that he knew what hurt him the most is the one thing he did. Watching her from afar was the only way he knew to feel close to her. A Severus/Lily fic.

Severus Snape and Lily Evans haven't spoken for months. The Slug Club Christmas Party forces them to.

August 1974. Minerva has a stiff drink and writes a letter to her new prefect.

COMPLETE. After Lily's roommate convinces their Charms class to participate in a friendly Secret Santa gift exchange, Lily starts to receive surprising presents from an anonymous source. One-Shot.

Remus Lupin falls in love. Will he end up with the girl or a glass of whiskey?

Halloween 1975. Fifteen year old James Potter had no idea what the next six years will bring, and he's too busy with his friends to worry about it much. Follow James and his friends as they grow and make the decisions that will lead them to the events of Halloween 1981.

Springtime at Hogwarts. The sun was shining, the birds were singing, the lake was glistening, and Sirius Black was learning how to turn harmless quills into huge, pointy, gruesome spikes of doom. (Mildly Remus/Sirius.)

One-shot. As Lily waits for James to arrive she thinks back to the night that changed her life, the night she discovered the Marauders' secrets, the night she realized that she loved James Potter.

We are teenagers finding ourselves in a steadily darkening world. We are children and adults, confident and conflicted. We are different and we are the same. We are brave, ambitious, loyal and clever, arrogant, selfish, foolish and haughty. We are lovers and fighters and friends. We are Hogwarts, class of 1978.

The Marauders play a prank on Lily. Lily's revenge is sweet. MWPP, third year.

All the ways he lost her, and then found her.

While deciding on who shall be Head Boy for the upcoming year, Albus and Minerva must make a choice.

Before the Dark Days. MWPP First Year. Follow the journey of an ordinary young man, with a not so ordinary furry little problem, through his first year at Hogwarts. Please Read & Review.

James wonders what Lily has done to him, but when they talk, both of them end up confused.

Sirius is terribly clumsy sometimes and awful at keeping his porridge in the bowl where it belongs. The porridge that belonged in his bowl has slipped out, somehow, onto the crisp slacks that cover legs belonging to a certain R.J. Lupin (the embroidery on the pocket told Sirius so), who has a pale face but kind eyes.

When Remus opened the door, he could smell something burning.

Lily comes home to find James behaving in an unexplained manner. Is he polyjuiced or does he have some mysterious plan up his sleeve? One-shot

Every story has a beginning. For the tale of the boy-who-lived, the beginning is not in the prophecy, but in the lives of a generation before him. The same generation James Potter, Lily Evans, Peter Pettigrew, Severus Snape, Sirius Black, and Remus Lupin, among many other figure-heads belonged to.

We enter the life of Kaelie Hunt, a stubborn, passionate, and hilarious seventeen year old girl, who has just entered her final year of Hogwarts. The only thing getting in her way from having the perfect last year? The Marauders, of course. Or rather: one marauder. Sirius Black.

A summer interlude between Lily and Severus after their falling out. Sometimes you don't know what you want until you get it, prepared or not.

Lily Evans is seventeen years old, and she's never been in love. She's a bit worried about that, but resorting to Muggle superstitions? That's a bit drastic, isn't it?

The Marauders are having a pretty boring day during the summer when James announces his parents have recently acquired something called a "television." They watch some, discover golf, and chaos ensues.

Lucius Malfoy is used to getting what he wants, and this night is no different.

Do you know the story of a young girl who messed with Sirius Black and got away with it? It has happened only once in the history of time and is an exceptional tale. Here was how it all happened. Read on and find out. One-shot

It had been going like that for quite a while, when Remus sighed. "It's because you're a dog, isn't it?" ...Sirius gets excited by frogspawn.

Marauders and marijuana. Innuendo. Wacky verbal hijinx (and a weensy bit of angst). Even members of other houses are oddly friendly under the influence! (Sirius/Remus preslash, Sirius/James flirting.)

One shot of LE/SS and SB/SS.

They are sleeping outside. Even though Remus protested quite fervently earlier, he does admit that it is awful nice to sleep out here now, under the stars and the under a canopy of leafy branches that trick him into thinking he is in a rainforest. A bird in the distance sounds like a toucan and Remus pretends that this place is a tropical paradise, complete with a wild river (the still pond) and wild animals (James, Sirius, and Peter).

Boys and ice cream.

Sometimes things can just sneak up on you when you're not really paying attention, which is par for the course for Sirius, who never does anything quite normally.

Choices. It's a part of growing up. They aren't always easy to make and the consequences can bring you down paths you never would have imagined. Can the bonds of friendship survive? Can love continue to grow when each day seems darker with rumors of war on the horizon?

In this response to the Classic Canon Challenge, Jane Austen's EMMA is retold as taking place in Wales in the late 1970s, back in the halceyon days when the Marauders were young. It is an AU from the Harry Potter books.

So what happened when Sirius told Severus about how to get past the Whomping Willow? And what happened once they got caught? "Dumbledore's eyes had lost their customary twinkle as he contemplated the three boys in front of him. Sirius Black sat rigidly, ramrod straight, holding on to the arms of the chair with white-knuckled hands, looking everywhere but into the eyes of the Headmaster. Next to him, his best friend James sat dejectedly, head in hands..."

A simple letter leaves James in complete inner turmoil; he tries to somehow find serenity.

Padfoot suggests to Moony, Wormtail and Prongs that they should form a band and perform at The Three Broomsticks. Based on the Grimm brothers' fairy tale "The Bremen Town Musicians."

Lily and James used to be best friends, hanging out in their neighborhood with each other. But once they were accepted into Hogwarts, they went their separate ways - James, the popular prankster, and Lily, the know-it-all bystander. But will their past be able to bring them back together?

Lily Evans and James Potter begin their 6th year at Hogwarts full of secret resentments against each other. A school announcement and an ancient locket full of mysterious magic turn things upside down and paves the way for Lily and James' journey to their tragic death and the beginning of a baby named Harry.

It had begun. He would lose, Remus would make sure of it. It was to avenge him, it was to avenge Sirius.

His heart stopped. His jaw dropped. He was in love. Though he was only eleven at the time, James Potter knew he would marry that girl, or die trying.

On the day Lily Evans buys her first Hogwarts schoolbooks and her wand, her parents feel proud and delighted. Her sister doesn't.

Amidst secrets and deceptions, James discovers he has a few 'furry little problems' of his own. (Remus/Sirius)

“Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.” A late night stroll to clear the mind leads to an unlikely conversation between two friends, where walls that have spent years being built up are suddenly torn down.

Harry's first Christmas doesn't go exactly the way his mum hoped it would. (Lily/James)

Lily Evans always thought she understood her place in the magical world. She had her ambitions, her friends, her teachers, and the "Persistant Git" - James Potter. Life wasn't perfect, but it made sense. That was until everything changed. Now, Lily has to choose: the expectations of her past or the new, great expectations of the future?

Poor, poor Belladonna has quite a few problems. Her mother is THE Devil-Lady, her father can't stand up for himself, Grandma Dot is losing it, somebody stole her necklace, her brother Jason is being moody, her twin - Nicky - is keeping a secret, Lily and James need a good push, her best friend left her, Margery Butter is still a mystery, everybody thinks she is crazy, she is hearing voices, Remus keeps getting glued to her, she keeps walking into Sirius and Mr Ted, her teddy, lost an eyebrow. Bella doesn't need THAT along with NEWTS, finding a job and keeping her head. Oh, and her therapist is sleeping with the cleaner. Marauder Era. AU-ish.

A witch from a long line of proud purebloods is sorted into Gryffindor upon her arrival at Hogwarts, but is removed by her strict father after only a week, who would rather school her himself than allow a member of his family to stay in Hogwarts in such a formidable house. She manages to escape in the summer of her forth year, but the trouble is far from over - aside from being at war with the school's troublemakers every time she turns around, Katalina Gaunt's nights are plagued by terrible dreams and frequent visits from the mysterious and secretive right-hand of a dark wizard, who is willing to go to any lengths to get what this "Dark Lord" requires, even (or especially, in his case) murder.

While on prefect duty Narcissa Black runs in to some trouble in the form of an invisible James Potter. Could this night somehow make up for the worst summer of her life? Or will it only serve to frazzle her nerves more?

James has asked Sirius to take care of baby Harry for a few hours. This might not have been a good idea. (One-shot) **2008 Quill to Parchment Award Winner - Best Marauder Era and Runner-up: Best Humor

Lily Evans hates James Potter with a passion. So what happens when he finally shows a softer, more mature side? What will she do? Inspired by Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. My first J/L Fic!

After Severus Snape's death, the Hogmeade mortician prepares him for burial. While doing so, he discovers Snape's thirty-year-old diary, telling the story of heart-breaking love and tragic endings that Snape is all too familiar with.

When faced with the discovery of his Secret by his friends, Remus learns the meaning of acceptance and friendship, while Sirius muses about logic, stalking, voyeurism, and the reliability of certain books found in the library of a fanatical, pureblood family.

All Remus wanted to do was relax with a good book. Unfortunately, Harry won't stop crying and Sirius is at his wits end.

At the fifth-year bonding camping trip, everyone tells a story round the compfire. James' is about the future and is very familiar....

Lily Evans has problems; she's flunking Arithmancy, has no boyfriend, eats too much chocolate, has no boyfriend, has strange friends, enjoys dancing on her roof, has no boyfriend, and last but not least, James Potter won't stop asking her out!

It's the week before Christmas, and festive fever has Hogwarts in the grip of a snogging epidemic. After another night prowling the corridors and seeing things they really didn't want to see, Remus and James hatch a plan to rectify the situation.

Sirius Black struggles with what he wants to be when he grows up, with some help from Alastor Moody. This takes place a year after Sirius leaves Hogwarts, around the time that James and Lily are about to be married. (A 'Stag Night' Cookie)

Lily Evans Potter never got the chance to tell Severus Snape the one thing she should have: She was sorry.

Severus Snape was unnerved. He'd never had trouble with a Potions assignment before...

The story of Lily and James' 7th year. Lily, her friends, and the Maruaders find love, feel pain, and most of all rely on their friends.

My own, my precious, my quill, through thick and thin. Rita Skeeter remembers getting her first Quick Quotes Quill. Who was the poisonous pen's first victim? Can you tell me? No, but I can show you.

James decides to hold a party. But Peter sees dead people, Remus has a revelation, Sirius is easily distracted, and Lily seems to speak only in questions. What will their reaction be to the announcement he's about to make?

For nearly a year he has been able to keep this secret. He had even managed to keep it from James. No one needed to know, most especially the object of said secret.

After an initial bad impression of the new year, Lily realizes that maybe it isn't as bad as it seems. (One-shot)

During fifth year, Sirius Black keeps a journal in which he chatters about House-Elf literacy, writes about his friends, and overcomes apostrophe issues.

Lily Evans is

Petunia Evans hadn't opposed her sister becoming a witch...until a visitor made her realize what would happen after Lily learned magic.

Why does Petunia REALLY hate Lily? Could it be due to plans going amiss? And why is Severus involved? Can James dance? A One shot fun piece.

It's enough, Sirius says plaintively. It's more than enough. His hand taps the table. Remus can tell he's afraid that he's said this, afraid that maybe now it's not okay, because the words are out in the open.

A year after leaving Hogwarts, Remus Lupin still can't find a job. He decides to take a holiday and finds much more than he expected (A 'Stag Night' Cookie)

COMPLETE. When trying to decide who might be worse - the Weasley twins or James and Sirius - the Fat Lady retells a story about overhearing James' confession to Lily. One-shot.

Sirius finds out that Remus is in love with him. How will he react? A Marauder fifth-year ficlet.

Remus won't sleep, because Remus keeps the Night Watch. He hopes no one will notice the dark bags under his eyes, because then they will begin to worry, and this isn't about Remus.

Lily felt her heart jump into her throat. In fact, all she heard was her heart beating steadily throughout her body.

It's two days to graduation when the Marauders learn some bad news. The evening graduation ceremony falls on the full moon! Is there a way to fix things so that Moony can attend? Or will fixing the problem only cause more trouble? Read and find out!

James and Sirius complete a quizzie.

Dumbledore decided to throw a masquerade ball. Lily spent the night dancing away with the masked Prince and then returned to the dormitory wondering if she would ever know who he was. Allison wants to know everything, but her friend isn't telling. A staircase, a smile, a waltz, a note, a tiara, a stroke of midnight, and a kiss.

In their 5th year of Hogwarts, the infamous Marauders and the Witches 4 battle it out, literally. After an unforgivable prank that the Marauders play on her and her friends, Lily Evans convinces them to wage a prank war against the Marauders. They accept the challenge, but will James' feelings for Lily stop him from giving his all in this war? How can the Marauder's girl, Jessilyn, prank against the Marauders? And what happens if she ends up falling for one of them? All we know is that both teams won't play fair. But hey, All's Fair in Love and War...right?

A summer's day, and Sirius's senses are alive to everything - especially Remus.

At Hogwarts in her seventh year, Bellatrix Black receives her first ever Valentine's Day cards.

Sirius loves Remus. It's as simple as that.

Lucius Malfoy and Minerva McGonagall. A bunch of red roses and a love letter. Short and rather painful – at least for one of them...

One-Shot. Lily, James, Sirius and Severus appear on Clive Anderson's version of the comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyways? Warning: this story contains lots of laughing and evil glaring.

Remus finally discovers his friends' secret.

Sirius is not jealous of Lily. No, really, he isn't. After all, he's a grown-up... teenager!

James takes Remus, Sirius and Lily on a holiday and notices Sirius acting weird. Can he find out what is happening before the wrath takes Remus too? Will he lose his sanity on the way? Will Lily be able to save the odd group? When this is crossed with sherbet, an obsessive mushroom, an oddball owl, a flooded house, Voldymorto, a confused Dumbledore, a weird bunch of friends and a serious game of truth or dare, what will be the final result?

Everything you(n)ever wanted to know about Severus Snape's father

A companion oneshot to Kelsey Potter's Save the Last Dance. Severus gets one last chance to live a dream, if only for one song... Sevitus. Sev/OC implied.

A one-shot based on the Rascal Flatts song, Make Her Love Me. James and Lily have had enough of hating each other, but will he win her heart?

What do you do when you're in love with your best friend, but you're also attracted to his girlfriend?!

It was an idea that shouldn't have worked. Four boys made it work in the time before their world fell to pieces.

Sirius Black was, in fact, a rather attractive person. From a purely objective standpoint, of course. Because James would never, ever consider Sirius that way...of course he wouldn't.

Salazar Slytherin is said to have shared his bed with a serpent; Lucius settles for this. (LM/SS, LM/SB)

The baffled king composing hallelujah.