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AU set after Harry's fifth year. "He knew it was a stupid hope, but he wished, and he hoped, and he hoped to stop hoping all the same."

Sirius and Severus have a shared history that has a lot more than just rivalry--There's love too. But there's more than just the simple problem of one being a Gryffindor and the other a Slytherin. It's a lifelong story, one that certainly has its shares of ups and downs.

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".

The final battle between the Dark Lord and the Boy Who Lived falls on the night of the full moon, striking fear into the hearts of all present. Who shall win on this bloody night of judgment between good and evil? Honorable Mention in HarryPotterFanfiction.Com's 2007 Writer's Duel.

Draco meets Ginny again, four years after Hogwarts. They seem to forget all of their hatred for each other as they enter into a shallow relationship... but what will happen when Draco gets tired of their relationship and Ginny won't let go? Based on the song, 'Creeps Me Out' by Ima Robot.

Ralph and Oliver have never known their father. All they've known is poverty, Voldomort's oppression, and their mother Ginny's periodic breakdowns. Their lives change when rumors circulate that Uncle Percy might still live. So the family is compelled on a quest, however they may not return alive.

One-Shot! Harry has a nightmare. What was so bad that he didn't even want to tell one of his best friends about it? After a little persuasion, she relives it with him. What was he dreaming about? Will their friendship turn into something more because of it? Why is Harry so scared about? He just needs a certain bookworm to reassure him that true love and friendship lasts forever.

When Camille Bridges, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed American exchange student arrives at Hogwarts, it would seem that she had everything going for her. Classic Mary-Sue story? Not even close, when her new classmates' reactions aren't exactly what she had in mind. This 5th year AU fic takes the Mary-Sue cliche and adds a twist, along with some trouble, snogs, and fun. (H/Hr in later chapters).

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.

Tonks is attending Bill and Fleur's wedding. While there she advises Harry on his relationship with Ginny, and then gets a big surprise of her own. Author's Note: This was written prior to DH, so it does not follow canon as it relates to DH. Also the poem written here is not song lyrics as I am a poet at heart, many of my fictions have poetry in them. I can see Remus as a bit of a poet deep down inside, so I also tend to have him write poems to Tonks.

After running out on the woman he loved and the town he'd nearly died to save, a weary traveler returns just as events in the Muggle world threaten to destroy everything the wizarding world has fought for.

Harry Potter's capture ends the war, but it doesn't end the battle; Muggle-borns are rounded up and used as slaves for the ruling Death Eater party, while the rest of the Wizarding World is left in shambles. Hermione Granger turns to some old enemies in order to cope.

First they felt shock. Then embarrassment. Then the overwhelming desire to do it again. A Ron/Harry story.

A sort-of prequel to my HP story arc on FF.net. Voldemort may be down for the count, but Severus Snape and Filius Flitwick aren't satisfied with the cost. Aided by a young Auror whose sister died in an attack by one of the Death Eater factions, they mean to travel back through time to deal with Riddle themselves. And the Big V won't half be surprised when he finds out how...

Ron is not made for waiting around uselessly. Remus/Ron

After Voldemort's defeat, Harry and Hedwig have a run-in with an over-zealous Muggle official for animal rights at King's Cross on the way to back to Hogwarts for their 7th year. An alternate ending showing how things could have been if everything had stayed as simple as it was in the first 3 books.

In which there is a different sort of Death Eater centric plot, two muggles find themselves completely powerless against Wizarding law, and Hermione makes a desperate decision whose consequences everyone must face. "I made the best choice that I could under the circumstances, and now that I need you to support me, you can't do that?!"

Shortly after the summer holidays, Harry comes down with a Muggle disease, passing it over to the whole school. However, even if the house-elves take care of students and teachers, Severus has to brew potions for them, and maybe he needs some help. AU/OOC.

This story begins with Gilderoy Lockhart about to perform a memory charm on Ron and Harry in the Chamber of Secrets. What would have happened if his spell hadn't backfired?

Pansy Parkinson has watched and admired Draco for six years at Hogwarts, and despite Malfoy's continued refusals, she has decided once and for all to make him hers. Fueled by a fleeting glimpse of her dream (Draco escorting her to the Yule Ball their Fourth Year) and the fact Draco's mother still talks to her, she has renewed her resolve and her desire shall not be deterred. But, a new student at Hogwarts catches Draco Malfoy's eye and he wastes no time in claiming what he desires. How will she take the news that Draco is courting another?

Harry and Ginny marry, yet he dies in the Final Battle (no chance for wedding night). Five years go by and she meets a young man very much like Harry...almost too much so...and can't help wondering: had her lost husband been reincarnated?

Harry Potter's sixth year has ended, along with a period in his life in which he knew - or at least could hope - that there would always be someone to help and save him at the last moment should things go wrong. His most trusted shield and provider of confidence has fallen to his death, and now Harry has to seek out Lord Voldemort by himself. Finding and destroying all the remaining shards of the Dark Lord's soul seems an impossible task. Where will he start? How will he find the strength to do it? And who will be there to guide him helpfully on his way?

If Snape hadn't transferred his grudges onto a student, and Harry hadn't hated his professor as a result, they wouldn't have been friends or allies, but perhaps there would have been a grudging respect between them.

Set in the _Slytherin Rising_ AU. Draco Malfoy's in love with Ravenclaw's hardest hard-girl. Can a Slytherin and a Ravenclaw find happiness together---particularly if she tends to think he's rubbish? And what's up with the fencing master and Luna?

"Harry has a girlfriend," Remus says in a hushed voice, but Harry can still hear him from the bottom of the stairs. He shouldn't eavesdrop, but it's about him, so he has a right to know what they're saying. Remus/Sirius. AU. One-shot.

In which the Defender of Stuffed Friends and Bestest Treasures does battle with a Raven. This story is set in my AU Prophecy, and occurs about three years before the Eight start at Hogwarts.

Headmistress Granger has some ideas for modernizing the school's curriculum. Severus Snape is damned if he'll let her get away with it. And the staff is stuck at Hogwarts for the summer until there is an agreement. Pure crackfic written for the Winter 2009 SSHG Exchange on LJ.

Minerva and Severus have to escort the students to Hogsmeade since all of their colleagues are ill. Will they survive the trip? AU, sick!teachers.

A Ministry spokesman holds a press conference to announce the new policies put in place at Azkaban and to answer questions posed by reporters.

This is a story about a Death Eater child who doesn't want to follow her parents path. Snape will adopt her later. But first she tells about her life before the adoption and her friends Draco Malfoy, Millicent Bulstrode, Pansy Parkinson and Ginny Weasley.

One fateful night a decision was made - one that changed the course of life in the wizarding world forever. Our lives are the sum of our choices - change one decision, and life turns out very different than one would think. Enter a different world, one in which Neville Longbottom is The Boy Who Lived.

Harry Potter was unjustifiably tried in August for underage magic, but after successfully appealing, he rightfully returned to Hogwarts for his fifth year. Now, an unbelievable three months later, Harry is wrongly on CRIMINAL trial for a murder charge which could land him an Azkaban life sentence. Ultimately, Harry must defeat this unrighteous injustice before it steals his life away! Thus, with Umbridge as the fierce prosecutor, Dumbledore as his passionate defender, and Bones as the fair-minded judge, A GRANDIOSE SHOWDOWN TRANSPIRES!!!

In a world where Harry Potter failed to vanquish the Dark Lord, Muggle-born Clare Morgan must honor her binding contract as a servant to the Ashwood family. Abuse and struggle were expected when she arrived at the manor, but falling in love with her master's son was not. A story of love, hardship, and the promise that hope brings.

Voldemort survives the battle of Hogwarts but Bellatrix doesn't. To his surprise and slight annoyance he misses her and decides to pay a visit to her mother. The visit affects him more than he could have ever imagined and he discovers what it really means to be a pure blood.

People don't fit into labels, or neat little boxes. Can you ever say someone is really just smart, loyal, cunning, or brave? Never a mixture? Always a definitive line, thick and black, clean cut? No of course not. What happens when the Sorting Hat stops sorting?

"Was he... right?" she asked faintly. "When he said he couldn't have made me do those things if I didn't want to?" Albus waited for her to look up at him. When she did, he held her gaze. "Only you can answer that, Ginny...."

In a tangled web of twists, turns and misunderstandings, Draco's scorn towards Hermione turns into pure hatred. Watch this hatred weave itself on the other side of the thread-- love, in the most dramatic and uncliched manner.

Harry struggles the year after winning the Triwizard Tournament. All his waking and sleeping moments are spent worrying about the Terror that is Lord Voldemort; but what if there was another Horror... behind the veil?

"Kissing him was like kissing snow, it always fades away to nothing, leaving you with only memories and the traces left on your lips."

AU HPDM Pre-slash. In his career as Auror, Harry had never seen such a peculiar case. His job had taught him that evidence was everything to make a fact true and a lie false, but he discovers that evidence isn't everything.

The whole of Harry Potter...retold from the point of view of one Nemo Nightwish Naga, a half-serpent, half-human hybrid...in Gryffindor House! Takes place simultaneously with the HP novels, if you haven't read them, you might not get some of the fic. Some humor, not a lot of romance, heavily based on the books and movies.

After finding the last of the Horcruxes, Harry faces Voldemort in the final battle, then embarks on a whole new path. Can he do it without his friends by his side? AU, crossover with DLM and told in first person from Harry's point of view.

Harry's final year ar Hogwarts, the year he will surely have to face Voldemort for one final time, is fast approaching. This short fic shows a certain person's thoughts as he thinks back over the past few years; watching Harry grow up and, for the first time in many years, he acknowledges to himself the final, fatal event that he knows will come.

Hermione suggests to have a nativity play at Hogwarts on Christmas Eve. Will Harry be able to play a shepherd? "I'm going to play Baby Jesus," Harry mumbled dryly... Completely AU, set in 7th year post war, de-aging, baby fic. Merry Christmas to you all!

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?

The stars in the heavens are issuing a warning: a danger is coming to Hogwarts! Then Harry, Ron and Hermione find a girl, half dead, floating in the lake. What will happen when she wakes up? Is her arrival a coincidence? Can they even trust her, especially when it becomes obvious that she's not being entirely honest? (Harry's 7th year)

Harry destroys Voldemort only to wake up to a hard realization or perhaps it's only irony.

It's Ginny's second year. The Chamber of Secrets still lies closed. Her diary, however, is wide open, and she's been writing in it for the past year. Tom Riddle has her firmly in his grasp.

After the defeat of Voldemort, Harry and Ginny were ready to start their new life together. Yet with the return of Tom Riddle, will Ginny still be able to find her happily ever after with Harry?

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".

Voldemort is gone, the wizarding world is safe, but Harry Potter wakes up one day to find that it's all been ... a dream?

This is a one-shot. In it, there is this new thing called powersnot that Harry and some others want to create; it will fight Voldemort to the death, which says something, since powersnot almost never loses its battles. A bit of light fluff included, nothing serious or big. This is a silly fic, but most people (so far!) like it and find it funny and cute. Read and be the judge!

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

It's graduation day and Draco is lost in his own thoughts. Ginny's the only one that can find him. A bit of angsty D/G fluff : )

"I wish you could do magic!" Janie had shouted in a fit of temper. How exactly should a muggle mother respond to her daughter – especially when she wishes the very same thing?

Devastated by Sirius' death in in final battle, Hermione fled Britain, only to discover six years later that he was not dead at all. When he's recently recaptured by the Ministry, Hermione must confront her past to save the man she loves. HG/SB, HG/CD

In a slightly different Universe, what is Draco Malfoy's life like ahortly after the Final Battle? (AU, if you can't take a hint)

Teddy and Cedric make a vow to reform the Centaur Liaison Office, but the price may be more than they can bear.

Harry has a twin, non-cliche. Harry, the true boy who lived, is slightly neglected, but only because of a misinterpreted prophecy not the fame going to his parents' heads, and the twins act like twins are supposed to... THEY DON'T HATE EACH OTHER!

Voldemort decided one fateful night that Neville Longbottom was the infant whispered of in the prophecy. Unluckily for the wizarding world, Neville and his parents were killed, leaving Voldemort to continue his tyrannical reign over the wizarding world. The story is centred on two victims of his barbaric reign, Desdemona and Antenociticus Snape. Both of them left parentless by the hand of the Dark Lord. Struggling to find sense in this land of hypocrisy and war, they fumble nervously to care for themselves.

AU re-write of the Harry Potter series. What if Voldemort had a daughter? What if she was adopted by Severus Snape? As she gets older and attends Hogwarts, how will she keep her true parentage secret?

Post-DH. AU. When the bad guys think they have finally won, Harry has a little surprise in store.

A one shot AU fic set immediately after the final battle. Starring Sirius Black and my OC, LeAndra Black.

A young man begins a new life, by killing his dreams.

People often become who others expect them to be. When Harry was sorted into Slytherin, he realized he was alone, friendless, and apparently meant to be evil.

Set in Minerva's, Poppy's, and Rolanda's fifth Hogwarts year, when they spend the winter holidays sick at Hogwarts. Completely AU. Written for Healer Pomfrey's writing contest

An Alternative Universe version of how Harry's first trip to Hogwarts could have gone, with some very Muggle-esque influences.

AU fifth year. Harry has an awful day and can't wait for it to be over. Unfortunately, it just keeps repeating itself. Will his tormentor Snape be able to help?

What if Hermione had been the one who confronted Draco Malfoy in the bathroom instead of Harry during

AU Year 6. Takes place instead of the Half-Blood Prince. Novel-length story, sequel also planned for Year 7.

Blaize Zabini tells his tale of bringing together the Houses of Hogwarts, the redheaded girl who helped him, and explains the truth behind his House. Now AU, written pre-HBP.

AU PoA. Tom Riddle had more of an effect on Ginny than her family thought. He taught her many things. Grey!Ginny though her family doesn't know yet. Draco has noticed something about her and is determined to know what it is. Also, what will they do about Sirius Black.

There are only a few things that Draco Malfoy absolutely cannot handle: warm salad forks, house-elf liberation unions, and little children. Apparently Hermione did not read the brochure.

Harry Potter/Twilight Crossover. Some say it can't be done. It was challenged over at The Hidden Tower. I am assuming that Twilight is taking place now, as in the last few years, and that the Cullens made a stop over in London before they headed up to Denali. Please enjoy!

Ginny finally has everything she's ever wanted. The boy of her dreams, top grades, and a way to finally break into the Golden Trio. When perfection turns out to be less than perfect she finds herself seeking solace in another journal. When this journal writes back, she is understandably worried—until she discovers the person writing back is a fellow student. A fellow student who refuses to divulge his identity. Does she want to know who this mystery person is? Or has she already revealed too much of herself?

Nestled within the woods lies a long forgotten village that lives in old history. Its myths and tales still ring true to those who have not forgotten how to listen.

When Ginny stumbles upon Tom Riddle passed out in a remote Hogwarts passageway, she resolves to have nothing to do with him. Of course, life rarely goes as planned, and Ginny is about to discover the difficulties of avoidance. (AU following OotP)

What events led to Lucius Malfoy becoming a Death Eater? Did he ever once believe in love? This is a slightly AU look at Lucius Malfoy's early days of becoming a Death Eater. **Written In Response to FannyPrice's "Potter-fy This" Challenge on HPFF, based off of a plot theme from the Twilight Series...**

Given how events in this story play out, it's hard to say whether it's a sequel or prequel to Erasure. In the course of saving a life, Harry unknowingly creates his worst nemesis - Lord Voldemort.

Years ago, the Dark Lord destroyed Harry's home and family and forced him to live with the dreaded Dursleys. Fourteen years later, life looked better and Harry was able to spend more time with Sirius, his godfather. But there was another family member who wanted to get to know Harry, and she's been waiting a very long time.

Memories are all Ron's got left. AU, Remus/Ron, written for the inaugural fest at remus_ron_slash on LJ. Prompt: Ah me, in that dead Past I love to dwell Whose gladness haunts me ever, day and night! (John Gambril Nicholson, In Absence)

Regulus Black finds himself on the run from fanatics of the newly-established Church of Dumbledore, unable to realize who he is due to a mysterious past involving a hook-nosed headmaster. AU and virtually magic-less. Regulus/Severus/Lily.

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.

What would happen if two Jedi Padawans suddenly ended up at Hogwarts? How did they get there and how would they be able to cope with it? And most importantly could they get back? Harry Potter and Star Wars Jedi Apprentice crossover.

This is the story of how a Hogwarts toilet and one particularly soggy pumpkin pastry changed the world.

Harry Potter has lived with his aunt and uncle for fifteen years and fought the forces of Voldemort on many occasions. As Harry prepares to start his sixth year at Hogwarts he will face truths about himself he didn't know, power he doesn't understand, and training in hopes of destroying the most powerful Dark wizard in history. What will Harry do when he discovers the secrets of his life? Can Harry and his friends overcome the Darkness that is threatening to surround and consume the world they love so dearly?

Melany is the one and only Mary Sue of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. But then, on the very first day of her fifth year, she blows up a potion in class and creates three Mary Sues that are much more pretty, much more clichéd, and much more powerful than her. It's now up to Melany to beat the American exchange students at their own game and take back her crown as reigning Sue.

Hermione has returned for her seventh year at Hogwarts after the war. She is made Head Girl, and Malfoy as Head Boy because Dumbledore requests for her to keep an eye on him. She is determined to find out his secret, even if she must befriend him in the process. Can Hermione break down Malfoy's wall, even when love gets in the way? Disregards the epilogue and some character deaths. (both ways)

: What if Remus's father had saved him on that fateful night? Would his life at Hogwarts be any easier being the son of a known werewolf? Can a werewolf keep custody of his only child? Can Remus help his father stay one step ahead of his mother and the Werewolf Registry?

Olivia has suffered a cruel childhood, that haunts her every nightmare. Severus is the man that she loves, but does he love her back? Severus/OC, Oliver/OC, Remus/Tonks

Tom Riddle was well on his way to becoming one of the darkest wizards in history. His path seemed to be uninterrupted until he met a girl, who just about literally dropped onto the Hogwarts grounds from the sky. Who is Buffy Summers? And will she change history? (Harry Potter/Buffy the Vampire Slayer crossover)

Sirius Black was entangled in more secrets and lies than anybody had a right to be. It wasn't like his Light friends and Dark family had left him any choice, with their utterly opposite expectations of him. All Sirius could do was try to finish Hogwarts without everything crashing down around him first, but he was pretty sure his heart and the brewing war had made that impossible.

Lord Voldemort has achieved the immortality that he has always craved. Harry is about to show him that immortality doesn't have to be good for you.

Enjoy Severus Snape as a father figure, when he discovers that his daughter is on good terms with Potter's son and that his wife had been involved some way or another in this story.

"Al distantly heard the shattering of the glass, sounding like a million tiny bells..." A Time-Turner smashes, throwing the Potter and Weasley children into a time long gone, where they meet the legendary and face the extraordinary.

To speak of the Wizarding World and think only of Britain is the highest manifestation of their chauvinism. There's magic in America, in China, in Spain, magic all around the world. (Slightly AU)

Remus Lupin has always been an outcast, but here in Grimmauld Place he has never felt more accepted. Sirius Black has been in hiding for over a year now, he wants freedom and is stuck in the one place he has always hated. But now that Remus is with him he can't bring himself to be anywhere else. Could they be more than just friends?

While Harry is going through the Tri-Wizard Tournament, Sirius gets it together. When Harry returns from school, Lord Black is ready to claim his rights and obligations, but he and Harry will both have some adjusting to do. Pranks! Parties! Motorcycles! Starts darkish, but gets fun fast.

Harry is the Boy-Who-Lived, but he has a younger twin brother. This is an alternate first year, starting with Harry and Draco's meeting at Madam Malkin's. This time their conversation is a lot friendlier. Slytherin!Harry, no pairings.