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Sequel to "The Last Marauder". After the eventful start of Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts, the following months turned out to be rather eventless. At least concerning Voldemort. The lack of activity from his followers have left the wizarding world in a constant state of insecurity. Due to his incompetence, Cornelius Fudge has finally been removed from his position as the Minister of Magic and has been replaced by Hermes Wielding, a long-time associate of Albus Dumbledore. After the removal of Fudge, Sirius Black has eventually agreed to take up his old job as an Auror again. So far, there has been no indication that Harry's strange bond with Voldemort has once more been activated.

AU- It's been six years since the Potters were killed, and Sirius Black is finally receiving his trial. When it doesn't go quite as well as he might have hoped, he's forced to run for his life before his sentence can be carried out. He knows of only one place to go, one person who might believe him, but on the way, he gets sidetracked in Surrey....

Emperor Voldemort's death places Draco Malfoy to the throne, a mysterious prophecy seating an unlikely empress at his side, but more has passed between the two than most realized. Now they must accept their past to save the future. AU. Spoilers SS-HBP.

What if everything you'd ever known, everything you'd come to believe, was suddenly stood on end? How do you stand right-side-up in an upside-down world? And how do you love your family--the only family you have--family you just met--when you're too afraid of the past to embrace the future?

Still a wrongly-convicted murderer, Sirius Black lives on the coast of Wales in anonymity. From his haven he can begin to rebuild his life, not the life that he has lost, but a new life. Harry too, can find relief in this home. But they cannot hide from themselves, and when Harry’s friends visit, Sirius finds himself re-evaluating his feelings for a young women he knows and watching Harry too become an adult. They all, for various reasons, need a place to hide from the outside world, and perhaps, just perhaps, they can build something beautiful from their shattered lives.

At the end of his sixth year, Harry Potter comes across a way in which he will be able to destroy Voldemort for good. But in order to do so, he must set off on a quest that will lead him to a place both strange and familiar.

Slash. Soon after their Hogwarts graduation, the Marauders go camping. Remus and Sirius share a tent. Slashy things happen.

"And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their own home--these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day." Jude 1:6. Named for a traitor, branded for evil, trained as a spy, damned as a murderer. Jude Elliot must seek redemption through playing the role of savior to a boy hero. Once having fled the magical world for a Muggle life that flies in the face of everything she was taught, she must come back to aid a hero in his quest and to help a fallen angel find his path. The road from Perdition is long and it may cost her all she has to give, but she may find much more than she bargained along the way to grace. A family, a friend and a purpose. An A/U.

What happens when you are pushed unexpectedly into someone's life? This question crossed two minds, Draco Malfoy's and Ginny Weasley's. This story follows their lives and the hopes and dreams they have.

HP/DM.DM/HP - Story inspired by a quote and it will follow the boys through major life events spanning several years as they grow and change and become.

Draco has a knack for working hard to get what he wants. But with Harry, what he wants comes too easy... Does it also come with a price? [Slash]

Barely sixteen years old and fearing for his mother's life, Draco stepped up in his father's absence to take his place amongst the Death Eaters. The following year at Hogwarts School was, without a doubt, the hardest he had ever endured. Now seventeen, the young Malfoy seeks to keep safe all he loves by doing the opposite, and taking the golden advice Albus Dumbledore had left him minutes before his death.

Pain is the price of human imperfection.

Alternate Universe fic in which all Muggles are dead and Muggle-borns are forced into slavery. Draco Malfoy gets a new slave, who turns out to be Hermione Granger.

Two months into his seventh year, Harry’s body is ravaged, his soul debauched, and his will to live worn thin. The strength he has relied on for years abandons him, and he is left torn. Broken. Draco Malfoy is determined to fix him, but if only he knew how...

Post Hogwarts. Hermione works at St. Mungo's. When Draco Malfoy is brought into her ward as an unidentified patient because of a magical accident, she cares for him not knowing his true identity, and romance ensues.

Courage isn't always enough. Timely minutes could have cost Ginny her``life, and restored another's soul. Darkness is rising again, but with it``comes a frail beam of uncertain hope. Can ancient errors be undone on``time, or does this Riddle only have one answer?

The war is over. Harry is empty and Draco is lost in a whirlwind of emotions he can’t handle. Can and will they help each other? Harry/Draco *slash*.

This is a complex yet very simple story about a young girl blessed with gifts in divinations and a boy cursed under the stigma of a dark creature. Yet, one must wonder, who's really blessed, and who's really cursed. Okay. So this is my first fanfic. I hope it works… be patient please!

~OotP spoilers~ Harry's having a miserable summer after his godfather's death. It appears his summer might turn for the better when a former DADA teacher moves in next door and tells him he has two relatives he never knew about.

Sirius and Remus reunite, overcome their fears, and become lovers.

Lily Evans and James Potter are entering their seventh and final year at Hogwarts. James is currently lusting after Lily, who can't stand him. James knows this, but still tries to win her over, without much help from his friends, the Marauders. A Lily/James ship that tells of their last year in Hogwarts, their marriage, and to that Halloween night when they're betrayed by friend...

After Lucius Malfoy’s arrest and subsequent death, Snape becomes a father figure to Draco. Angst with lashings of humor. Also has significant Dumbledore and Neville elements. This story is essentially a very long character study; the plot is episodic and there isn’t much in the way of a climax. A sequel, which will have a stronger plot, is in the works. No slash or romance. PG 13/soft R for language and non-sexual adult themes.

Draco is hopelessly lost between what he is supposed to do, and what he wants to do. As the pressure from his father to follow in Lucius' footsteps grows heavier, and Draco's feelings for Harry grow stronger, Draco finds himself at a fork in the road.

Hermione has a new boyfriend. And you'll never guess who it is.

Hogwarts has been bite by the love bug. But all does not end well...

Draco Malfoy and Ginny Weasley. Two very different people, two very different families, two very different histories, one very similar hobby. A story of an ordinary day in the library that changed their lives forever when Ginny found Draco's sketchbook. A simple event that sparked a chain of events that changed their perspective of each other and their outlook on life and their world forever. A D/G romance.

Who is Avara von Argentum? When the girl with unfathomable green eyes enters Hogwarts directly in fifth year, things start to change at the school of witchcraft and wizardry. By trying to find out more about her, Harry Potter will have to make hard choices and face his own mysterious past. But Dark wizards have forged other plans for him...

Harry left for unknown parts, leaving her lonely and bittter; but Ginny gave him forever anyway. Little did she know the promises she made would come back to haunt her in the worst way when she finds solace in the most unlikely of people in an war-torn world. Keeping a promise has never been this hard. Harry/Ginny/Draco.

Remus and Sirius are fathers! The Ministry has finally given them permission to adopt a baby, but they must race against the clock to rescue their child and save Remus' life after a devious Ministry plan is unearthed. Slash.

When Hermione Granger returns home to find herself with an unexpected house guest there is no way that she could have predicted how her life would change. BZ/HrG, HrG/MF, BZ/HrG/MF, BZ/MF

It's the start of Ginny's sixth year, Draco's seventh. At the beginning of the year, Dumbledore decides to throw a masked party for all the sixth and seventh years. Nothing is meant to happen, except for a little entertainment from the Weird Sisters and some dancing. Except something does happen. Draco and Ginny get drunk and, when they meet each other at the party, they don't recognize each other's voices. One thing leads to another and Ginny ends up pregnant but only Draco knows that he's the father. Ginny doesn't remember who she was with. What will happen when she has the baby and the truth comes out?

Opening the Chamber of Secrets is not the only crime Tom Riddle commits as a Hogwarts student. What lengths will young Minerva McGonagall go to in her quest to prove his guilt?

Against a backdrop of terror and hostility, Lily Evans and James Potter come of age in a world at war. Seventh year is bound to be fraught with difficulties, but it is also a time for both to grow and learn, to rise to the challenges thrown their way, and to find their way to each other. The sequel to From Ashes.

Ron and Hermione's twin boys, Jacob and Anthony, are on their way to Hogwarts! Jacob is set to have as much fun as possible, but Anthony is worried he's not going to be up to par, and even worse, he fears that he will not be Sorted in to Gryffindor! Will Professor Potter be fun? Will Peeves leave them alone? The twins make tons new friends, but because he befriends a mysterious girl, Anthony finds himself in a dangerous situation that will prove that he is truly a Weasley.

After the events of Worser Angels and Better Angels, Snape and Draco face continued difficulties. Draco has a long road to recovery from his torture at the hands of the Death Eaters, and Snape has to learn how to rejoin the human race now that he's no longer Dumbledore's worser angel. Still no romance or slash! Rated for mentions of violence and non-sexual adult themes. If you haven't read my other stories, start with Worser Angels and work your way up to this one--it won't make much sense otherwise.

Sequel to "Change of Hearts." Here we find out how Harry's dealing with the loss of Draco, the knowledge of a new student, and a phone call from Hermione. And we meet Lita. A half-elf whom everyone seems to love. She talks to her Advanced DADA teacher about a foreign exchange trip to Hogwarts, and lets her best friend in on the secret. They squeal, they jump, they talk about Harry Potter.

Dolores Umbridge has many targets, during “Order of the Phoenix.” There is one target that is missed in the book. Eleanor Howard leaves her job babysitting the Department of Magical Law Enforcement over the “spin doctoring” from Tri Wizard fiasco, and the treatment of Harry and Dumbledore. Eleanor is seeking employment elsewhere, but Dolores is stopping any opportunity for her to get on with her life. Dumbledore has written asking her to take the Muggle Studies post, until a replacement can be found. The return to school is marred by a grudge with Severus Snape. Eleanor must deal with epilepsy stealing her quality of life, and the checkered past of mental illness catching up with her.

A pretty dark fic where we get to see Hermione's part in the great war against Voldemort, partly told in Hermione's point of view. Some H/Hr pairing, romance and dark times.

Harry Potter is left as an orphan on the streets of London. Yet when he finds himself in the home of a family of wizards, he finds that he's a wizard. And not just any wizard...

Post OotP, no HBP. After his horrifying fifth year, Harry is struggling to go on. However, a glimpse into the future, where Harry is all alone at the end of the Second War, gives Harry a reason to fight, and to learn to trust again. Helped by a mysterious Visitor, Harry discovers new powers, and fights to save those closest to him, lest the terrifying future he saw comes true.

'Sometimes you have to do something wrong, to do something right. And who knows, maybe two wrongs really do make a right. So, here’s my story of one of those wrong, yet it’s right, things.'

This is a sequel to my other Schnoogle-based fic Heir of Voldemort, where we finished by seeing Xander Harris, Heir of Voldemort, returning to Sunnydale (a year post-book 7 of HP for timelines but in MY world - see HoV). He is no longer the same boy he was. For one thing, he now knows who his father was and must learn who he really is. And he gets help from the most unexpected of people. ``I would seriously recommend reading Heir of Voldemort before reading this, though, simply because so much happened in that story and if you don't know, this one will make no sense whatsoever - just a suggestion though :))

“How truly fitting,” Snape’s sneering voice broke in, “sending the sacrificial lamb to dine with the wolf.”``Hermione's sixth year is ending, yet she finds herself unable to go home. Harry has disappeared and the same fate is awaiting her.

It's the fifth year and the pressure is on! Harry and Hermione are spending time at The Burrow before going to Hogwarts ... Mrs. Weasley catches them sitting together and wonders where the two are headed, relationship-wise -- and what about her youngest children?

Ron and Hermione are returning to Hogwarts for their sixth year. Ginny is returning for her fifth. They are mourning the loss of their friend, Harry Potter, who died as the result of poisoning before their very eyes in Diagon Alley. Or did he? Professor Dumbledore and a select few others are the only people who know that the new transfer student from Durmstrang, Evan Jameson, is really Harry Potter. Harry must continue the deception for his own safety and that of others until Voldemort is no longer a threat. Will he succeed?

Hermione learns one of the worst secrets she could have ever imagined. She soon realises that the only way to save Harry is to do the unthinkable.

Disappointed by the lack of Quirrell fic, I decided to write one myself. This is the story of an intelligent, gifted and cursed young man goes into the Black Forest in search of knowledge and comes out with one simple truth: there is no good nor evil.

The Magical Law Enforcement Squad think that they're the good guys. But that's news to Sirius, especially when one of them sets out with something to prove, and it might cost him his life.

In Draco's seventh year, he and Ginny Weasley shared a wonderful semester surrendering to their lusts and to their passions. At the year's end, everything fell catastrophically to pieces and they erased each other from their lives. Now, nine years later, they are face to face once again, each of them married off and Draco's wife expecting a child. Yet, after all this time, the passion is still there, perhaps had never left; and so after an unexpected reunion, both Draco and Ginny must cope with the past as well as the present while they carry on a full-fledged affair. Written before HBP. AU for multiple, but slightly small, reasons.

It's after Cedric's death, and the beginning of Cho’s sixth year. She is devastated and tells herself she'll never love again. Then again, she never considered the great, the famous Harry Potter, did she?

The death of Sirius Black -- escaped convict, godfather, Marauder -- brings many changes in Harry James Potter, The Boy Who Lived, the one prophesied to kill the Dark Lord Voldemort. As the war escalates to unknown regions, Harry must survive his sixth year at Hogwarts. The world is tossed back into war -- the once-peaceful realms no longer in harmony. The fate of the world rests on the edge of a knife. The Ministry of Magic, led by the incompetent Minister Fudge, falls quickly under the strain of the enemy. Nowhere is safe, not even Hogwarts. Death looms over the whole world -- not even children are spared from its grasp, havoc has claimed its place -- it will not willingly release its hold. Chaos will reign.

Voldemort is gone and everyone (alive) needs to get on with his lives, but it will be hard for some. What happens now? Series to this story will come.

It is Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts. He is struggling to come to terms with what has happened over the last few years, but this year is not going to get any easier! There is someone at Hogwarts who can not be trusted ...

After a brutal attack, Harry loses his memory and ends up trapped in Malfoy Manor. Here, games are everything and you have to keep your wits about you to survive. Can Harry play the Malfoys at their own game? DRACO/HARRY slash, plus LUCIUS/DRACO.

"First tell me the person who lives in disguise; who deals in secret and tells naught but lies..." A new take on the mysterious past of Severus Snape: a story of pain, betrayal, mistakes, and a man driven to hatred by love. Severus Snape is about to embark upon his seventh year at Hogwarts when something happens that changes the direction ``of his life. Forced into decisions that will flip his world upside down, Severus will have to live with consequences that haunt him the rest of his life.

When Draco Malfoy turns in his father, Dumbledore whips up a plan in which he must stay with the Weasley's for the summer. The Weasley children all object, but their parents agree to the plan... The youngest Weasley finds herself drawn to Draco's mysterious ways. She wants to find out who he really is and finds a side of him no one has ever seen. Soon, Draco and Ginny find themselves swept into the middle of Voldemort's latest schemes.

During their seventh year at Hogwarts, Hermione's faith in Draco is relentless even after he has joined Voldemort's side. The light side is rapidly losing hope after last year's student massacre. Now that Harry is afraid, who will save them from evil?

What starts as a harmless dare leads Harry into a place even more frightening than the Forbidden Forest: Draco Malfoy's heart. Seeing himself reflected in some of Draco's most private thoughts sets Harry up for a host of new experiences, the least of which are some very private moments with his so-called enemy.

He didn't respond, and she began to pull away, but he stopped her, his hand wrapping around her wrist. She felt her heart skip a beat. Stop him, she ordered herself. Pull away. But her body wouldn't obey.

In the year following Lucius' arrest and Harry's once again rise to heroism, Draco is alone and full of anger. After a suprising stunt pulled by his beloved and slightly psychotic mother, he finds himself stuck with an enemy. With the help of a mysterious stranger, he masters a new form of magic with which to serve the Dark Lord and wreak vengence against Harry Potter. But Voldemort has something else planned....

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A series of conversations between several characters, in which everyone is in love with everyone else and unrequited love is the order of the day.

It’s been six years since Ginny left Hogwarts, and two years since the defeat of the Dark Lord. War has taken its toll on everyone, and even though everyone has tried to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives and move on, many are still in denial and shock. Ginny’s profession demands that she must remain unaffected, so that she may help anyone else in need. But what happens when the least likely of all people turns to her for help?

Remus Lupin tolerates mischievous friends and lycanthropy, while the prophetic Ariadne MacDougal negotiates a misguided family, and everyone must deal with the Death Eaters. A rather dark coming-of-age story about the death of innocence and the renewal of hope during Voldemort’s first war. Part I of

Draco refuses to become a Death Eater, and ends up dying on Hermione's doorstep. Dumbledore brings him to Hogwarts, leaving Hermione with questions that Draco refuses to answer. As the year goes on, Hermione starts to fall in love with Draco, but is he even capable of love? Can Draco overcome his upbringing? What happens when they leave the country, and Lucius finds out where they are?

Welcome to sixth year at Hogwarts! Remus, James, and Sirius find themselves caught up with three Gryffindor girls. Hidden secrets are revealed, and Remus's relationship is threatened. Not to mention Sirius's competition ...

What would it be like to be a classroom assistant at Hogwarts? One with a dark past? One makes even he who believes love is a frivolity want her? One that will even betray her lover? Severus Snape gets more than classroom help out of his assistant.

Harry has been trying to cope with the events of his fifth year at Hogwarts alone and without much success. One night, when everything becomes too much, he decides to bear all ... but is it going to be something he regrets? Post OotP fic. Draco/Harry slash - eventually. Angst Romance and other stuff.

We all know what happened the night of Dumbledore's death. We know how Harry felt, and what he did. But what about Draco? What happened to Draco that terrible night? This is his story. Follow Draco through his summer as he remembers that horrid night.

Harry and Ron go to a Quidditch convention in Diagon Alley before the start of their fifth year and melodramatic melodies occur. Lupin is accused by the Ministry of killing a human while in werewolf form, and Ginny is a little crazy. A H/Hr fic that might eventually end up with some D/G and who knows what else. There are moderately fluffy parts but also some definite plot.

Completed story. Draco had been dreaming about Ginny all summer, but he doesn't know it. Will the new DADA teacher unwittingly help him with his plan of revenge against our red headed heroine or does she have other motives. OotP spoilers and strong sexual content. First book in The Nymph and The Dragon series.

Harry is not a normal teenager. Most people know that, especially the ones who know him the most. In a tale of despair, grief, guilt, love, and hardships that no one should ever have to bear, he must find the strength to conquer his fears, and kill Voldemort before he himself is conquered. Can he do that when somebody is prodding into his mind, trying to figure out his whereabouts? Can he do that when somebody in the Order is leaking information to the to the media, information that can make Voldemort all the more vengeful in his fight to kill Harry? Sometimes all you have to do is lean on a friend for help.

After Harry's fifth year, he enters a state of depression that Dumbledore is determined to remedy. After a meeting with Harry's closest friends, they determine to not leave him alone until he can leave the Dursleys. Hermione has a plan of her own.

Katie Bell thought she had a normal life. She had parents, a roof over her head, and she went to a great school. But a few weeks before her fifth year at Hogwarts, everything changed. People requested a fleshed out version of "Cry"...here it is.

The Malfoys and Weasleys have been enemies for a long time, but what started it? Seventh year, Draco's leaving school and Ginny thinks up ways to get back at him for all she has endured over the years.

Sometimes we need our friends and even our enemies to help us feel safe and secure...but sometimes it's hard to tell them apart...

Five years after Ginny Weasley graduated from Hogwarts she finds herself in a perilous situation. She will have to come up with a plan to save herself, and her heart, from someone from her past. G/D, Au-fic

Sequel to The Green Flame Torch. Years 4-6: Dancing, parties, jealousy, family histories unveiled, snogging, shagging *winks*, heirs revealed, and the Marauders make a guest appearance.

Draco receives a letter from his father, and with it, a mission involving Harry Potter. This is a story about how even the most carefully considered plans can go wrong sometimes.

Lily Evans is a fourth-year at Hogwarts, a truly exceptional girl who is fated to be singled out. Sixth-year James Potter, who shares her fate, comes into her life, oozing charisma. The decision to dump her boyfriend for James comes easily. But, will sticking with him be that painless? Meanwhile, Voldemort is growing stronger and some of the best and the brightest of Hogwarts are being seduced by his minions.

"It’s easy to hate someone from a distance. When you talk to a person, up close, things can look very, very different." Draco sets Harry up for an ambush, but revenge isn't enough. He wants to see Harry fall for himself, and he wants Harry to know, when it's all over, that Draco Malfoy finally beat him. So, Draco decides to shadow Harry all day... but he gets much more than he bargained for. Never get too close to your enemy; you might mistake him for a human being.

After the last task, Harry has withdrawn into himself and let his defenses down. He almost willingly lets his uncle verbally abuse and scar him. When he thought his life could not possibly get any worse, an ominous group takes him away from the Dursleys and deeper into despair. (violence, implications of rape and slash)

The war is over and many have survived. But there is one left behind who feels as though she's lost more than she's gained. But what happens when her friends investigate her weird behavior?

Enemies, friends, pain, redemption?  Harry must come to terms with the horrors he’s witnessed and experienced – but how?  Reprieves are tempered with added misery, but an unwelcome house guest is the least of Harry’s troubles.  Plotting death eaters, an angry and vengeful dark lord, a swarm of Veela, a godfathers innocence to prove, muggle relatives that just won’t go away and what’s this about a pesky prophesy?!  All this plus Quidditch, new classes and responsibilities, the best Christmas ever and … girls!

Neville has finally stopped the second war of Voldemort, but as the Wizarding World starts to rebuild, the survivors must deal with the fall out of war. Life is tough for a hero who never wanted to be. Between his boyfriend turning on him, his best friend being a temperamental dark``wizard and his comrades going insane, Neville must deal with life as it is, and life as it will be. And with a new Dark Lord rising, life only looks like it's getting more hellish.

Draco Malfoy was never very fortunate when it came to bringing pain and misery to a certain Mr. Potter. His latest plan is no exception. Or is it?

A Defense Against the Dark Arts Project called Know Your Enemy united Harry and Draco in the sixth year. It's bad enough that Draco Malfoy has changed, then Harry finds that their developing friendship turns into something more. But when Draco does something that Harry stands against, can Harry forgive him?

Nothing interesting ever happened to Sindaria Olsen, or if it did, it was very rarely. She went to school; she did her homework, and lived life in the dangerous streets of New York City. Her family was poor and they had barely enough money to put her through school. She helped around the house as well as she could and bagged groceries at a nearby mart to help her struggling family. As she nears her tenth birthday, strange things begin to occur. Then her father got a job offer in London, England and they had to pack up what little they had and move. Little did Sindaria know, her life was about to get very interesting.

Late in 1975, the Potions Mistress gives Severus Snape and Lily Evans a special project. The next year brings an unexpected, complicated relationship, as Lily and those around her work to find her place in the wizarding world. Teachers have their own agendas, students have secrets and the rise of Voldemort is intruding on everyone's lives.

"Chamber of Secrets" according to Ginny. Nobody noticed anything wrong for an entire year; how did she slip so far from her family and friends? Angst and betrayal, but also mysteries, jokes, an enchanted suit of armor, and a guaranteed happy ending. WIP

In his fifth year, Tom Riddle falls into the grasps of an all - consuming darkness. He becomes obsessed with inventing a new spell -- an enchantment that will allow him to see into the future and reassure himself that he will play an important role in life. During his seventh year, he uncovers the spell and instead of his mind being thrown into the future - as does a seers when they make a prophecy - Tom is thrown into another time: mind, body, and soul.

Sequel to "Much Ado About Hermione." Life after Hogwarts is not as tranquil as Harry had hoped, and is made even harder by the resurfacing of a former flame.

When your enemy learns your deepest secret, something that could cost your dearest friends their wands, you have no choice but to submit to his blackmail. But what happens when he awakens parts of you, searing and dangerous, that only leave you wanting more of his torture?

AU fic. Since his early childhood, a mysterious man has been watching over Harry, helping him in ways that no one else can. It's too bad that this guardian happens to be Harry's most hated teacher, Severus Snape. But what happens when Harry finds out the truth, and, in the wake of new threats from Voldemort, feels he can no longer trust Snape? This starts out when Harry is three years old, and then jumps to his fifth year. It is mainly a story of Sev and Harry's (non-slash) relationship, but does have an actual fifth year plot in later chapters.

Snape-centered fic, also contains Harry, Remus Lupin, Dumbledore, and Sirius Black. Takes place in the summer after Year 4. This is a Snape-as-Harry's-father fic. Characters are true to books (So no mushy-Snape). No sex (not even a hint!) or gore, violence and character deaths very minor and will not upset. No non-canon characters.

It starts with Draco at Malfoy Manor, experiencing some very odd dreams that he dreads anyone finding out about. These dreams eventually lead to some embarrassing circumstances and a possible romance.

With the Dark Lord defeated and their time at Hogwarts over, the trio is faced with a new sort of challenge: making it in a world they haven't yet fully grasped. It is even more difficult for the famous Harry Potter. Will he finally attain the closure he has been seeking from all he has lost in long battle against Voldemort? Will old friendships finally progress into something more? Can destiny truly find a way? ...Or will Harry's inherent short-sightedness hinder him once again?

James and Lily are paired together for a Transfiguration assignment that counts for fifty percent of their grade. As they work closely with one another, will Lily realize something? mild lovehate

Nearly a decade post-Hogwarts, Harry's Quidditch career is slipping into oblivion, his marriage to Ginny is failing, and even his friendship with Ron is on the rocks. Lord Voldemort, having lost all his magical powers, has been imprisoned by a Ministry too fearful to kill him and is slowly whiling his years away in bored ignominy. Meanwhile, the magical world itself is losing the ability to perform magic ...