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The story behind Harry's absolutely very first broom... whose idea was it really?

War rages in wizard Britain, yet Severus Snape has never been better off. As he rises in the Dark Lord’s inner circle, he seems ever closer to fulfilling his grand ambitions. But he is haunted by memories of his childhood friend Lily Evans, now married to his sworn enemy. As the stakes get higher, Severus must once more decide where his true loyalties lie. Either choice will mean betraying one of his friends – and the consequences could be fatal… [COMPLETE]

Gilderoy Lockhart has been stealing hearts and stealing stories for as long as we've known him. How did he get that way? This is the story of the Harry Potter series' sometimes loveable and usually bumbling peacock. From his childhood and years at Hogwarts to his first literary adventures. Let's see what makes the peacock tick.

Twelve-year-old Barty Crouch meets a stag in a forest.

My family are a strange bunch. Father is an Unspeakable with a clock fetish. Mother is an Italian Opera singer who fences in her spare time. My brother is an excellent student who dabbles in the Dark Arts. My sister is a soppily romantic dancer who is always losing things. Uncle Tristan could talk the hind legs off a hippogriff and persuade it to go for a walk afterwards. As for me, well...

The story of Sirius tricking Snape into venturing under the Whomping Willow during a full moon.

Lily can't belive it. Lily's friends can't believe it. Heck, James's friends can't believe it. Has James really given up on Lily - forever?

Pity poor Peter Pettigrew! All he wants is to be liked and admired. But when Lucius Malfoy gives him an offer he can't refuse – what's a boy to do? Sing and dance, obviously. A parody of the new classic musical "The Producers" by Mel Brooks. Featuring a song by Mr Crabbe!

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

“Moony?” Sirius asks softly, without his usual swagger and confidence. “Do you ever feel like you’re going insane?” Remus considers the question carefully and then answers truthfully. “Everyday.”

Narcissa in invited to Malfoy Manor for dinner on Christmas Eve.

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

Sirius and Remus are very confused. Suddenly, all they can think about is each other. Is it a love potion, or the full-moon, or something else entirely? Could it be love, or just a fleeting surge of hormones? Only time will tell...

Sirius has fallen in love with somebody that he wasn't meant to. But Remus waits for him too; how will he choose?

James and Sirius, despite everything, celebrate a typical 70s' English Christmas.

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?

Does he love her? Love, she remembers, is for lesser mortals. Does she love him? She doesn’t know but no doubt there is chemistry. Lucius/Narcissa.

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...

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

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.

James' emotions get the better of him and Lily is no longer sure how she feels. What happens is an amazing story of love and how sometimes, you just can't wait.

What happens when Sirius Black falls for a girl who makes all his charms and tricks worth nothing? And what happens when that same girl causes turmoil in the close friendship between Sirius and James?

It's April Fool's Day, the Marauders are bored and they haven't teased Snape for days. So they find an empty classroom and gather their supplies...

The Hogwarts Sorting Hat is given three rather... unusual children to Sort one September. Told from the Hat's POV. A light-hearted, quickly read, character-sketchy piece providing background for some of my characters from "Heiress of the Curse" and "The Vale Beyond" (which you can read on Schnoogle).

A short fic of Snape's Worst Memory told in Remus Lupin's POV with an ending that could have been.

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.

“It figures that you two would run off into a girls store to buy make-up and make out. You silly poufs..." A short, fun fic about Moony and Padfoot shopping for make-up, making out, and catching Prongs in the act.

The Marauders were playing a game of truth-or-dare, and Sirius was dared to do something extremely embarrassing during breakfast. What is it, and how will the students and professors react?

Andromeda Black is a fifth year Slytherin who longs for freedom and wishes she were in another house. Ted Tonks is a rude, if not a little dashing, seventh year Gryffindor. What will happen if these two fall in love?

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.

The sun hides secrets that only the moonlight can uncover. Remus reflects on his blossoming relationship with Sirius.

Bellatrix is bored, Severus has been picked on by James and Sirius, and Peter Pettigrew is in the wrong place at the wrong time. He needs to learn who his friends are.

Some things didn't happen the way they were written down. Andromeda Tonks remembers how things were while dealing with the pressures of being a mother-to-be. Sirius/Andromeda.

Disowned by his family, Sirius finds unexpected solace in familiar places.

Sirius ponders a questions about Remus' love life.

Kathryn Black has been plagued by nightmares as far back as she can remember. So what happens when she goes to Hogwarts with her twin brother and meets someone she saw being attacked by a werewolf five years ago?````Marauder era.

Narcissa and Lucius spend a day outside.

The four Marauders decide to congratulate themselves for their OWL year by going to North America on vacation. From the quill of Moony, see in how much trouble four Brits can get!

When Hogwarts embarks on a production of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" during Lucius Malfoy's seventh year, he finds himself unwillingly cast in the title role and drawn to the quiet and clever -- and therefore, boring -- Narcissa Black. Cameos by Bellatrix Black, various teachers, certain members of MWPP, Severus Snape, the Weasleys, and Lucius's future long hair.

When Sirius Black dumps a girl, she cries and begs him to come back. When he humiliates her in front of the whole school, she doesn't seek revenge. Never. Too bad that no one ever said that to Angela Peters. SBOC

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

August 1970. Sirius and Regulus' first trip to Diagon Alley.

Had Remus just kissed him? Why did he bolt like that? And what was Sirius going to do? Companion piece to ‘Easier Done Than Said’.

What do I see when the dementors come near? I see her... (S/N)

"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.

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...

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

"...Sirius thought it would be- er- amusing, to tell Snape all he had to do was prod the knot on the tree trunk with a long stick, and he's be able to get in after me. Well, of course, Snape tried it- if he'd got as far as this house, he'd have met a fully grown werewolf- but your father, who'd heard what Sirius had done, went after Snape and pulled him back, at great risk to his life..." This is just my interpretation at how things might have played out that night.

Severus Snape is 32 years old and dwelling in his past... At 16 years old he struggles to keep a secret that he believes will ruin him forever.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

The title sums it up perfectly, in fact :).

Tonight

Remus is in love with Sirius. What will happen in the future?

"The first time Remus Lupin tried to board the Hogwarts Express, he went to Platform Eight-And-A-Quarter by mistake."

Another year at the premiere social event for purebloods.

James visits Remus over the summer and discovers something about his friend, Lily learns to love, and Remus realises James was right. J/L R/T.

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.

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?

Lucius and Narcissa decide to test out the whole kiss deal, to see what the whole fuss is about.

By the Moonlight is a story about Lily's desicion to keep her friends close, or listen to her heart. Jade, Lily's friend, happens to be going out with Remus while Lily falls for him. The marauders have been planning secrets and Lily has to be in the middle of all the chaos.

On a whim, Sirius joins Remus for a study session at the top of the Astronomy Tower. Under the stars, they discover a connection neither expected. Prequel to The Prank.

The princess is gone, the prince is under a curse, and the knight does not know how to save him. Sirius/Remus.

Slytherin House. It is where his legacy is; his family has always been in the serpentine House, save for an occasional Ravenclaw. He grew up learning about Salazar Slytherin and seeing the green and silver colours of one of Hogwarts' Founders. There was simply no other option for one of his blood. But is that really the truth? Is it possible for there to be a lion in the midst of snakes?

The story of Remus Lupin and Sirius Black, from their Seventh Year at Hogwarts to the night Sirius fell through the veil in the Department of Mysteries.

1971. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. A class dealing with internal demons, external tensions, and whispers from the shadows growing steadily louder. This is a tale of intertwining lives in the midst of danger. A tale of love and laughter, of cauldrons and comrades.

Every first year Hogwarts student learns about potions and spells, but there are a few things that are not on the curriculum. Muggle born Eleanor Howard comes to Hogwarts with more than her trunk, diary, and a wand. She suffers from a seemingly innocent ailment in her eyes, but her parents and new teachers refuse to discuss it with her. How can the magical world cope with a disability that cannot be mended with a spell or potion? Set in the era of Voldemorts first rise to power when tolerance and acceptance were not appreciated.

McGonagall's bloomers, Dungbombs, a house elf called Thundertoes, Underground broom races, and Firewhiskey. What's not to like?

A fifteen year old Severus returns to his ancestral home to carry out one final task.

Ever thought that Severus and Hermione are very similar? Well, this is an AU fic, assuming that Hermione's mum Catherine is actually a witch, and went to school with Severus. They become staunch friends and later more than just friends. But are they fated to be together? How come Catherine has to live pretending to be a dentist (of all things)? All is told, in 'Of Times that are past'.

Sixteen-year-old Sirius Black returns home for Christmas after the infamous Whomping Willow Prank, and realises that the family he has is not the one that he wants to belong to any more. An outtake from From Ashes, but it can be read alone.

It's not easy being Severus Snape. Picked on, invisible to the girl he fancies, and a loner, getting through seven years at Hogwarts is no easy task. But the winds of change are in the air, and with one fateful decision Severus will change not only the course of his own life, but the lives of the entire wizarding world as well.

Songfic about Sirius and Remus. Sirius is in love with Remus, but he's not sure if he returns the feelings. What if he doesn't? We will found out what happens...

Severus Snape is no longer a Hogwarts student, so he's too old for Halloween. Isn't he?

This is the journal or diary of Sirius Black and Nessa Williams. Sirius is friends with James and Nessa is friends with Lily. Find out what they think about the others in their groups, also their point of view. Goes with The Diary within James Potter and Lily Evans.

The Leavers Ball of the 1971-1972 Hogwarts year.

I don't beleive that one long mushy love letter won Lily Evans heart but maybe a few down to Earth notes and kind gestures in a stressful time did, like in this story. Lily/Marauders one shot.

Lily Evans. Watch the ups and downs of her seventh year. Romance, Angst, the usual for a teenager right?? Wrong! The wizarding world is under attack and it's coming nearer and nearer to the Hogwarts gates. Of course the Marauders are always up for an adventure so they will naturally be along for the ride. Some OC's but mostly the characters you know and love!

Sirius and Peter discuss James' latest literary work and come to a conclusion. (This will make NO sense unless you've read

In the Riddle House, Rolophus Lestrange has taken the Dark Mark...

Narcissa gets mad. Lucius kisses another girl.

She couldn't see his face, but there was something forlorn about the lone boy, almost the same age as she, who sat on the opposite bank with his head in his hands.

This is the story of young Severus Snape's very first train ride to Hogwarts. Barely able to escape from his brutal father, Severus is now faced with a different sort of cruelty. How will he handle the situation?

With the full moon falling on Christmas Day, Remus plans to spend the holidays alone at Hogwarts and practise his abysmal potions work, while not--in any way, shape, or form--contemplating his attraction to Sirius. Fortunately, nothing ever goes as planned.

During the summer before her sixth year, Lily Evans created a book that resembled that of a muggle diary but one with a twist. Look into her thoughts and discover what her life was like at Hogwarts, why her feelings changed about a certain Potter and how the war with the dark side affected her.

Lily Evans and Lucas Edwards seem perfect. They have been together for over a year and everyone at Hogwarts is convinced that one day, they will marry and live happily ever after. However, Lily's true feelings and insecurities may upset everything this year, and who should help, but a certain James Potter?

Sirius Black was (in)famous for his outrageous pranks. When he finally crosses the fine line between outrageousness and cruelty, however, Lily Evans is hellbent on exacting revenge. She will make the heir of the Black family become a color he will never forget. . . or be able to live down.

The hand didn't let go but I gradually became aware that the ceiling was moving. How odd. I'd never heard of that before. Stairways, yes, but not the ceilings. But then I didn't usually look at the ceilings. That would change now! From this moment forward, I will always look up to the ceilings. They would be sacred. ...James is stuck to Lily. Literally...

Young Severus Snape travels to Hogwarts for the first time aboard the Hogwarts Express, and is Sorted.

Because of attacks on Muggle-born families, Lily Evans is forced to move away from home. Interning at St. Mungo's she's busy taking care of patients along with the Marauders, and anyone else who needs her, but who will take care of her? This story is about heartache, lost, disappointment, and love. There will be fluff and danger as there is in real life. Enjoy!

Dumbledore tells us that Bellatrix learned the Dark Arts from Voldemort himself. What did she do to prove herself worthy of that honor?

Everyone knows about Remus and Sirius' secret, but Remus is trying his hardest to hide it. Sirius, however, has other plans.

Samantha White: Impatient, cynical, sarcastic, hot-tempered, and pessimistic. Sirius Black: Charming, witty, impulsive, smug, and adored. Sirus Black and Samantha White: Insert Virulent Crashing Noise Here.

Lily Evans just finished her last exam at Hogwarts and contemplates her life. Meanwhile, James Potter is contemplating his own life, with her.

COMPLETE. When nightmares and nightly transformations haunt young Remus Lupin, and he drowns under the deluge of pain, who can help him? Save him? Love him? SBRL Angst, Hurt, Comfort, Romance, and Fluff

Lily's friends organize a small party to celebrate her birthday, and warn James to stay away from it. Which, naturally, means that James will do everything in his power to ruin it.

Andromeda Black and Fabian Prewett are slumming it on their Muggle night out. Only it doesn't end the way either of them expect. Co-winner of FictionAlley's July 2007 Challenge.