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Barred from becoming an Auror because of his family name, a young man becomes an informant in the Death Eaters for the Ministry, to earn his right to become an Auror. When his idealistic views of the world is shattered; when Death Eaters become his friends, and Aurors are the crueler ones in an endless war, he start to question his loyalty to the Ministry.

It is right before the murder of Lily and James, and Remus is beginning to feel the tensions of being suspected as the spy.

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.

"Late at night, she thinks of her." - Molly and Bellatrix remember.

How can you tell you've found the right person unless you sample a few? Sirius plays the field and Remus tries to forget.

Regulus Black learns there is more to becoming a Death Eater than receiving the Dark Mark.

Most crashes are dramatic and sudden. Then, there are others that are soft and take time, like that of the fall of the House of Nott. After the birth of her son, Theodore, Ella Nott learns of her husband's true work. But that is only the beginning. There on, the Dark Lord vanishes. And then, only time can tell until her time is up. Such a fall will never come around for centuries, as that of Ella Nott and the Nott family.

At the start of Voldemort’s first rise, Minerva McGonagall must come to terms with the reality of being a Hogwarts professor during war.

Peter and Alice are on an Order mission, but will the memory of their night together ruin it all?

Narcissa reflects on what happened the night that changed everything and dreams of what her son will become.

A father's desperate, helpless plea...when there's no one else to turn to, turn to God. Companion piece to So Dear to My Heart.

Nearing the end of his final year at Hogwarts, Lucius Malfoy, the young, aristocratic Slytherin, chooses to embark on a path his father has treaded. Sneaking out of the school under the eyes of that Mudblood-loving headmaster, Lucius goes to join Dumbledore’s enemy — the Dark Lord Voldemort. He believes he has made the right decision in following this path, but will he make it through all of the tests and obstacles that the Dark Lord demands of him? Will he receive the Dark Mark and prove himself worthy of joining the elite group of followers who call themselves the Death Eaters?

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

A story retracing the events before the Potters died to when Sirius Black was sentenced to Azkaban - Remus Lupin, facing challenges, comes forward to the Ministry with certain suspicions of certain friends. It all began during sixth year when....

When Bellatrix Black awoke in the middle of the night, there was only one who would understand and ease her worries. The teenage Bellatrix and Rodolphus have a nightly talk about their dreams for the future.

A sort of stream-of-consciousness short story from Sirius's POV on the night Lily and James were murdered. It was inspired by the combination of Hagrid's and Fudge's stories about that night in PoA, when I started wondering what Sirius was thinking.

A Prewett/Weasley family one-shot set during and after the first war. Before she was a Weasley, Molly was a Prewett with two brothers... brothers she loved... brothers she lost... brothers she remembers...

[One shot. Peter centric] There are two choices that can be made, and both basically amount to 'lose everything'. What do you do; save your own life, or die to protect your friends? Either way, you know you're condemned. This is a version of Peter Pettigrew's joining the Dark Lord - what would make a loyal fellow to betray his friends? He was a Marauder; he must have been decent before his crimes soured everybody's memories of him. He must have had a motivation, and here's an idea of what it could have been.

I can hear people outside. Their footsteps and voices, screams, it all echoes off the wall. And inside my head. I can still remember his manic laughter. That horrible cackle. He thinks I’m dead.

Dumbledore had grown accustomed to hearing news of former pupils being captured and sent to Azkaban, but being Flooed and informed that his own brother had been arrested for performing improper charms on a goat was an entirely different matter.

Remus takes Sirius on an excursion to Muggle England. Naturally, things do not go according to plan.

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

It's the morning after the most unexpected night before for both Aberforth and Severus and it's time to talk. This is set in approximately 1979-1980

Why did it take Remus until just about the end of Prisoner of Azkaban to believe that Sirius was innocent? The story begins on a cold July night a year before the first war... A mystery in two parts. Written for the 2006 hp_holidaygen fic exchange.

Filling in holes on what happened to Severus Snape and Regulus Black during the first Rise to Power.

In December 1978 celebrating solstice according to Lily’s idea means waiting for the sunrise and more.

Things that are broken can be mended but the cracks will always remain. What will the pressures of war have on the relationship between Remus and Sirius?

James has never understood Muggles, and now, hiding with his family, he has to pretend to be one. He doesn't quite like it.

One-shot. Wormtail loved his friends. He didn't want to hurt them. And when the pain had subsided, he was only vaguely aware of the Dark Mark burned into his skin...

Summer 1980. Two young men meet in a pub in Knockturn Alley. For ten days, their lives are entwined. But when the Dark Mark burns, no one can fight the summons. Regulus/Peter.

We all know what happens when a wizard travels through the barrier between platforms nine and ten at King's Cross station. What we don't know, is what happens when a Muggle accidentally stumbles onto platform 9 3/4. How will said Muggle handle the situation when a rambunctious prankster crosses his path?

He wasn't really thinking about it, even as he walked up the pathway to the house.... This part was simple, thoughtless.... Voldemort goes to kill the Potters, never dreaming the fate which awaits him. The first defeat of the Dark Lord, from his point of view.

James Potter hasn't been sleeping well for the last few weeks. How will he tell his pregnant wife that their unborn son is marked for death?

"She is my heart's desire and she will realise that I am hers." A JamesLily ficlet from someone else's perspective. Oneshot.

Remus tries to make sense of an Order mission gone wrong by asking Sirius about it. Bad idea. Very, very bad idea.

There is a motive behind every action, no matter how big or small. What was Peter Pettigrew's the night he betrayed the Potters?

December 1979 has defeated Remus to the point of taking up quarters at Sirius's, whom he can't expect back from an Order mission yet.

What was going through Lily Potter's head when she died? What happened to her after she died? This is a story of Lily Potter's thoughts during, and after her death. Slight JPLE. One-shot. Lily's POV. Thanks to my beta, Eddie.

Sirius is finally done with school, but he as one major thing from Hogwarts that won't leave him alone. The moody Christen Nelson, and her Muggle family.

Hestia Jones shows up for her first Order meeting. Gideon Prewett was expecting someone else. Gen. One-shot. Written for the As Summer Ends challenge on first_order (LJ community).

I was just reading the Prisoner of Azkaban for like the 500th time, and I was wondering how Sirius must have been feeling when he was looking for Wormtail, about to corner him in a "Crowded Muggle Street"

Remus thinks over the worst days of his life just after Sirius is taken to Azkaban. In response to sugarhighz's Quotation Challenge (from HPFF forums): "Thank you for curing me of my ridiculous obsession with Love."

Her name echoed in his mind, expanded in his soul, filled the room and grew until the universe was nothing but the sound of her name and its dismal echo. Onesided Sirius/Lily for the Random Characters Challenge.

Lillies do not a pleasing bouquet make.

Trusting isn't always easy, but sometimes it is of vital importance. (Remus/Sirius) Title courtesy of the Mystery Jets' 'Horsedrawn Cart'.

Lady Luck sometimes needs a helping hand. Remus realises that he's lost sight of who he was for a while.

Life is a series of choices. Severus Snape’s choices have been more difficult than those most people are faced with. Step into his mind and see what he was thinking when he made his most important choices.

She was trapped in that house, the walls suffocating her. But it hadn’t always been like that; there was a time when she was happy there. Yet that time is gone, but can she justify – even to herself, if to no one else – performing the greatest of crimes? Can she justify betrayal?

Sirius and Remus visit Panera Bread one crisp afternoon for a little nourishment.

When Lily Potter is in isolation under the Fidelius Charm, her thoughts wander.

Dorcas didn't think it would be like this. Dorcas Meadowes one-shot. Written for the As Summer Ends First Order challenge on LJ.

Rita Skeeter muses and pities herself. [ response to the Rita Gen challenge ]

The autumn of 1981 was not a kind time. To anyone. He gestures for her to sit down next to him, and she does, heart beating all the faster. "Please, Ted, what - " "They caught the Potters' Secret-Keeper. The one who betrayed them to Voldemort," he says bluntly."

An adaption of Shakespeare's Sonnet 30. A story of how Severus Snape may have reacted just before and after Lily's death.

In Godric's Hollow that fateful night so many years ago, Voldemort thought himself as the only person remembering the event who was alive. But there was another, yet it can never tell us what it saw.

Sirius finds himself in a situation he doesn't quite know how to handle. Written for the 'Thank God You're Here' Challenge at the HPFC forum.

Once, long ago, Remus had a love. As if by a curse, she disappeared without a trace. But when strange memories arise, he begins to ask questions -- is his wife out there somewhere, or is his mind playing a cruel trick?

Sirius and Remus in a coffee shop. Remus wants to move away from London. The same moments told from both perspectives. Free-verse RLSB Slash.

Sirius remembers Marlene. One-shot. Gen-ish. Written for the As Summer Ends challenge on first_order (LJ community).

James' mother, his only remaining family, is murdered and James decides to join the Order of the Phoenix with his friends. Following the dark episodes they face, with the fear of death always looming over them...

The night Lily and James Potter died. Someone arrived before Hagrid. "...he was really sorry he'd done it, sorry they were dead." - Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, by J.K. Rowling

He has feared it all along - for longer than she has, he has feared this day, this argument, this goodbye. In the past months, she has come to fear it too, and all summer they have merely been waiting. Pretending, and waiting. While everyone else had spent the past weeks celebrating that yet another lot of them were out of Hogwarts, ready for the world they had been planning for years now, the two of them had desperately been trying not to see the end. Andromeda leaves the only life she knows behind.

Ch. 1. As an espionage, Lily Evans enters pureblood society. Yet, what's real -- Muggleborn, Order member, the Light Side -- and what's not -- society wife, Death Eater, the Dark Side -- becomes blurred. Will reality prevail or will fiction become reality? WORK-IN-PROGRESS. ALTERNATE UNIVERSE.

A story of the magical world's First War with Voldemort, but told with a different twist. Friends from childhood, Lily Evans and Riona Dyrdra are young women who are led to two completely different sides of the war and must decide what they must sacrifice - including the loves of their lives and their own friendship - to save what's truly important. Then the ancient enigma Swyn Llyfr appears, placing Lily and Riona's fates as well as those of every wizard and magical creature, in the hands of the greatest dark wizard of all time.

The Longbottoms, 1 November, 1981

His missions for the Dark Lord begin to take a toll on Regulus Black.

Marauder’s Moments is a series of one shots that span the time after the Marauders graduate from Hogwarts until the day Lily and James are killed. They can be read as one long story or as individual one shots. This story is the tale of the Marauders' last day. The story includes some romantic James and Lily moments, skinny dipping and secrets. Enjoy!