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Can we think that Dumbledore was doing nothing but waiting during the ten peaceful years while Harry Potter was growing up at the Dursley’s? How could he protect Harry and prepare the members of the Order of the Phoenix for a new war that he dared not even tell them was coming? And what were Voldemort’s Death Eaters really doing in secret behind their facades of reformed, upstanding citizens? This chronicle begins on the Halloween night when Harry’s parents were killed and shows us the behind-the-scenes operations of Dumbledore and his little band of fighters until J. K. Rowling takes up the story of the Order of the Phoenix in Book Five.

Fred wants a dog more than anything, and he'll do anything to get one. Anything at all.

Luna Lovegood goes in search of Crumple-Horned Snorkacks.

Harry and Sirius decorate for the first Christmas together.

Because of fainting spells, eight year old Harry is taken to Hogwarts. What do the elements have to do with his problem? Completely AU, partly OOC.

Remus Lupin, after Hallowe'en 1981. A birthday fic for Avendya.

Time passes, the world forgets, and one woman is left alone with her grief...and memories...of course, if your husband threw your son in prison for the most shocking crimes imaginable, could you forget?

Eight-year-old Harry is locked in his cupboard listening to the Dursleys having Christmas. What if Fawkes could hear his thoughts to Father Christmas and came to rescue him from the Dursleys? Completely AU, Abuse!Dursleys, sick!Harry. Merry Christmas!

Professor Snape has a problem class... If other teachers could be as lucky!

Sirius and Hagrid's confrontation at Godric's Hollow after the Potters' deaths.

Lauren Arrington, a Muggle, was not supposed to be on platform nine and three-quarters.

Mistakes are always made and many have colossal consequences. One family blindly pledged their allegiance to Lord Voldemort and are facing the penalties that followed his downfall. If only Narcissa Malfoy followed her instincts and didn’t let her sister and husband persuade her into a life of darkness, things wouldn’t have turned out so wrong.

Eight-year-old Harry writes a letter to Father Christmas like every year. Will Father Christmas listen to him for once? Completely AU, partly OOC, Abuse/Neglect!Dursleys, sick!Harry.

Angelina had been looking forward to Hogwarts for years, so it came as a bit of a shock to her that she was so apprehensive about boarding the Hogwarts Express.

When the handsome young man is sentenced to a lifelong stay in Azkaban, without even a trial or a last goodbye, April pulls every string, and is eventually faced with him, for this one last goodbye. A glimpse of our dear Snuffles and that special one that made all the difference.

-- This was Lily the witch, who put magic before her sister. I would never truly bring back the Lily of my childhood. Magic destroyed my life, it took away everything: my friend and my sister and my parents. --.

Bellatrix, in Azkaban, receives a visit from an old schoolfriend seeking answers. (Original Character)

Minerva and Albus have something in common.

"A man stumbles down the road, torn apart with grief and fury. A man with murder in his heart." November 1st, 1981: Voldemort has fallen. James and Lily Potter are dead. But Sirius Black is alive, and he is very, very angry.

"Albus’s life has suffered a great deal of upheaval and Elphias is that constant comforting presence always waiting to take him into his arms." Albus/Elphias, Albus/Gellert.

It's seven years after Lily and James' deaths, and Remus Lupin is barely living. So he pays a short visit to Azkaban... One-shot fic.

"I have information as to the whereabouts of the missing wizard, Caradoc Dearborn. He is alive, but imprisoned, and may be in danger..." So reads the letter Frank Longbottom receives one day at the Ministry. Voldemort has met his doom. It is a time of newfound hope; the wizarding world is safe once again. Isn't it?

He has a gift for words, and...other things. Companion piece to 11 things about Bellatrix Black.

Where Fred and George have a brilliant plan, Ginny is annoying, and Ron quietly has a nervous breakdown. Written for triatha_ron, 2007.

A glimpse into the childhood of Draco Malfoy and Pansy Parkinson, an idea about the beginning of their friendship.

When had a pledge of universal honesty become a practice of universal derision? A look at Severus as a teacher.

It's Halloween, 1987, and Lupin finds himself wandering through the streets of London. As he tries to come to terms with the loss he suffered on this night in 1981, he runs into an old acquaintance for whom Halloween also holds painful significance.

Harry has fallen ill at the primary school and is waiting for someone to take him home. Who cares enough to save him? Completely AU, partly OOC, Neglect!Dursleys, Sick!Harry, childfic.

A set of seven short stories depicting the relationship between Minerva McGonagall and Sirius Black.

A week before the full moon in December 1986 Remus Lupin is not drifting. Someone is leading him through the streets of Thessalonica.

[One-shot] In the Muggle World, prisoners get one telephone call. In the Wizarding World, there's still one piece of parchment and a quill. [Implied Sirius x Remus] Sirius' letter is his plea for help; it's his calls of being innocent and his anger at the man who got him locked up in the first place. Set some time between being locked up in Azkaban and actually being caught, Sirius is angry and desperate, trying to cram as much as he's feeling down on the paper at once...

Narcissa Malfoy and Gilderoy Lockhart and a tale of mirrors, lust, and vanity. Written as part of a "Blame Each Other" challenge by McTabby on LiveJournal. Started as a joke, ended as something much more.

In January 1983 Remus Lupin pursues advanced studies of goblin rebellions and practises not to dream.

At their weekly day together Neville's grandfather contemplates his magicless grandson and considers the future.

Ever wondered about that scar above Dumbledore's left knee (the one that was a "perfect map of the London Underground")? Or why he said scars can be useful? Or why he likes chamber music? This story explores all those things, and also speculates about how Severus Snape spent the summer before Harry Potter started at Hogwarts. Two wizards meet a Muggle woman who learns something about magic, and about her own family.

An Oliver-Percy remorse. All six-year-old Percy Weasley wanted was to learn how to fly. All seventeen-year-old Percy wants is freedom. One-sided Oliver and Percy slash, takes place during PoA. Features a missing Weasley son.

...and took up tenpin bowling instead. In this AU and very silly ficlet, Tom Riddle never becomes a dark lord, but channels his energies on a bowling league.

We all know that Sirius is a klutz...why would James ever ask him to be best man at a wedding?

New Year's Eve in 1990 falls on a full moon. A Lost Years fic.

Hermione's first sign of magic.

What kind of relationship did Petunia have with Lily as a child? How did she really feel about her sister's son being left on her doorstep? This story explores Petunia's feelings on those two issues.

A prisoner reflects as the moon rises.

Child!Draco. Lucius finds his son in the kitchen with the house-elf. Involves a lot of ice cream.

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".

In another life, Regulus and Sirius are friends as well as brothers, watching each other's backs, and fighting to keep each other alive in a world at war. Written for the Alternate Universe 100 community on LJ.

For Dudley's seventh birthday, he wants a puppy. In that puppy, Trouble, Harry finds his first best friend. But life is never fair to Harry as he gets his first taste of having something great ripped away from him.

How Charlie fell in love with his job.

If there's one thing Severus Snape has learnt, it's that not everything is black and white.

Bellatrix Lestrange (Née Black) was sent to Azkaban for the crime of being a Death Eater and the torture of both Muggles and wizards. Gradually, along with all the others in there, she starts to lose her mind; starts to forget. And, of course... No one escapes Azkaban.

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.

Albus Dumbledore. Stephen Strange. Power and wisdom come face to face.

Sirius was arrested on the charge of murdering Peter Pettigrew and a street full of Muggles, just after the murder of James and Lily by Voldemort. But Dumbledore believes Sirius to be innocent, and only Dumbledore could contrive to keep Sirius out of Azkaban. But he needs a place where Sirius can hide out--"out of sight, out of mind"--for a time. And another member of the original Order of the Phoenix has a second cousin who is an accountant and a Muggle and who has a cousin who is also a Muggle and who, being a Muggle, might be glad to have another helper at her stables ...

Learn more about Maxwell Bishop, the mysterious former Auror from Harry Potter and the Final Horcrux. It's almost a necessity to read Harry Potter and the Final Horcrux first, but it's a good story on its own, even if things may be a little confusing.

Overcome by loneliness, Remus decides to visit Sirius in Azkaban.

By the time he was Draco's age, Lucius already knew not to cry in front of his father.

How did the Philosopher's Stone get into the vault at Gringotts? Sinister machinations and manipulations. Runner-up (by one vote) in the FA February 2007 Challenge.

This is a one shot about the accidental meeting of Christopher Jones and Severus Snape, and the bitter-sweet outcome. It is mentioned, in passing, in my story, "What Goes Around...Comes Around--Lost and Found...Love."

Narcissa Malfoy and Remus Lupin call a moratorium to chat like old friends. Problem is, they've never been friends.

Because you guys asked for it. Picking up 2 seconds after "Ginny Weasley and the hands down worst crossover fic ever" ends, Ginny suspects that something very wrong might be going on at camp, and with good reason. Meanwhile, Angela is up to her old tricks. Another Hp/Sleepaway Camp crossover.

This story focuses on the coming together of two very different worlds via the marriage of James Potter and Narcissa Black. Harry's adjusting well enough, but little Draco would rather eat dirt than love his new daddy. Can the two families become one? And will this change the HP series as we all know it? Harry's still 'The Boy Who Lived' and Draco's still a spoiled brat. Will love and kindness make all the difference?

"If there's one thing I'll never understand about my sister, it's her love of messing with people's heads. Making waves, she calls it. I'm more likely to call it making trouble."

April 2007 challenge fic. Prompt: Tom Riddle got lost in the jungle with Captain Kirk. Shore Leave has never been weirder! And what is with Randy Jannie and her heaving bosom?

Frank Longbottom meets Mr. Crouch and his son at the annual Department of Magical Law Enforcement Christmas party and extends a fateful invitation.

The First War is over; Remus must last beyond it. Day to day.

Sirius reflects on the war, and worries about those he's supposed to protect. Part of the "Friends and Brothers" AU, set during the same night as "Protecting the Innocent".

The origin of Harry Potter, told as it could have been.

It was the full moon the night that James and Lily had died, and Remus was alone.

How does one become a Quidditch Hero? Trace the inception of Oliver Wood's dreams of glory by meeting the person who inspired it all: his brother.

Little Neville Longbottom sees his parents for the first time since they were tortured to insanity.

Charlie Weasley's been invited to a girl's birthday party, and it looks like he might just be part of the prize.

Sometimes even Santa needs a little help.

Natalia and Juliette are best friends. Oh, and identical twin sisters as well. Written as two opposing journals of the Tiernan girls, A House Apart tells the story of how they were separated at the infamous Hogwarts Sorting Ceremony and the chaos that ensued. **A collaboration project**

Sirius Black is already in Azkaban, though that doesn't keep him from reminiscing. He's resigned himself to remembering the worst, but one day, something extraordinary happens.

He knows nothing but the sound of his feet on the pavement and the thousand curses on the tip of his tongue. All for his Judas. November 1, 1981.

Remus wakes after a transformation and remembers what he has lost. Set after James' death and the events of the next few days.

Luna Lovegood has for many years been puzzled by the incident which took place shortly after her mother's death. She had come up with a number of possible explanations, none of them very satisfactory, until a visit to Diagon Alley cast a sudden illumination over her past. A short songfic about love, loss and letting go.

Gilderoy Lockhart is used to stealing people's life achievements. But one particular instant is one that truly haunts him, and he doesn't even have a face to associate it with.

Gilderoy Lockhart is five years out of school and still a nobody. He's so worthless that even his best friend, who rules the press, can't seem to make a story out of him. A despicable idea comes to mind, one that he's been resisting... but it's foolproof, and he's starved for attention. She wants a story? He'll give her the story of a lifetime.

Six years after losing his friends Remus Lupin is recovering from another solitary transformation, when he is found by someone who is looking for a teacher. Can the two of them possibly trust each other? (Only a possibility to interpret as implied RL/SB, with Sirius obviously absent.)

This is the last summer when Remus has still not unlearnt to dream.

A friend of mine had the brilliant idea that since Ms. Frizzle is magical, has red hair, and has relatives in the British Isles, the only logical explanation is that she's a Weasley! This story takes place in America and does not have many, if any, characters from the original series. Only the way magic works is the same. Enjoy! In Riddikulus because I don't know where else to put it.

Deanne Jenkins knew what she was for a long time, but she hadn’t planned on ever telling anyone. This secret was going to go with her to the grave. One girl forced her to admit her feelings: Nymphadora Tonks.

A short glimpse back into Ginny Weasley's childhood at the Burrow.

What happens to Remus Lupin after the fall of Voldemort? This story focuses on what he does from the years 1981-1993, which we have very little information about. However, there are some very canon occurences. It is my first long-term fic, but please don't judge it on that. There are no ships (so far) in this fic except some L/J references.