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In an attempt to get onto Platform 9 and 3/4 to start his fifth year at Hogwarts, Harry Potter finds himself in an alternate reality where he is not a celebrity and nobody has ever heard of Lord Voldemort. This wizarding world has been lulled into a sense of complacency by many decades of peace, but shortly after Harry?s arrival, mysterious events begin to take place. Has something evil followed Harry through the barrier, or has it been lurking below the surface in this world for a while now? Will Harry be able to help these people with familiar faces overcome their complacency and save themselves, will he ever be able to get home again, and, most importantly, will he even want to?

Neville Longbottom begins his sixth year at Hogwarts, with self improvement on his mind, vengeance in his heart, and... Romance on the horizon?

Nature is about balance; everything comes in pairs. Good has evil, right has wrong... what's pleasure without pain? She thought her need for balance was fulfilled by Draco. But the wanted pleasure met its match against incurable pain. Balance is rare and often non-exsistent when you're controlled by evil and forced to live in a world where the disgusting fairytale ending really only does happen in little girls' bedtime stories.

As Harry and Ron fall further away from Hermione, her eagerness for knowing is brought to new levels. She goes searching for other things to occupy her time, a near-death accident gradually brings her to terms with non-studious parts of her mind (yes, it is possible). Deciding to do a little investigation of the Malfoy family and why Draco has been acting differently, she gets more involved in the Slytherin’s life than she bargained for.

The Death Eater had pulled his head out of the bell jar. His appearance was utterly bizarre, his tiny baby’s head bawling loudly while his thick arms flailed dangerously in all directions, narrowly missing Harry, who ducked. Harry raised his wand but to his amazement Hermione seized his arm.``“You can’t hurt a baby!”````Even if the baby is Voldemort?````Tom Potter, oldest son of Harry and Ginny, is off to Hogwarts at last. But why was his father so worried that he’d be in Slytherin? Why does the Sorting Hat seem to think that he’d already been sorted? And why does Professor Snape, the most feared teacher at Hogwarts, seem almost… scared… of him?

When Draco Malfoy was nineteen years old, he betrayed everyone and everything that had ever trusted or loved him. After ten years, he has returned to make amends. This is his story.

No one knows how it happened, and even he doesn't fully understand...The mystery of the veil will not go unsolved as long as Sirius has his second chance. Determined to find out the truth, he gears up for a journey back through it. In doing so, he uncovers more than he expected; more than anyone could have expected.

Voldemort discovers that the great Albus Dumbledore has a secret weakness: his family. These are the adventures of Charlotte Richardson, Dumbledore's adult granddaughter. Story takes place at the end of OotP and continues into Harry's sixth year. Snape, the Trio, McGonagall, and Lupin will all be major players, as well.

Harry Potter is 28, and he’s the high earning aide to Matilda``Greymalkin, the Minister for Magic. This ten chapter fic (not including``pro/epilogue) examines ten days in the life of the Chief Aide, his two best``friends, and also, by the way, their nights. Not an average Post-Hogwarts fic!

The Trio's Seventh Year has started, with little Ginny coming around behind them. Draco has revenge in mind, per the usual. However, this year is going to be an eye opener for everyone. Phoenix tears, torture, betrayal, friends and family coming out of the closet, Playwizard centerfolds, and people falling all over the place. This isn't your usual fan fiction. Includes InCharacter!Ron and Human!Draco among others in a full cast. Written with those fellow reader/writers who like to be as historically and canonically accurate as possible while still resisting cliche and capturing originality.

A young blind woman comes to Hogwarts on a secret mission, only to find herself allied with the one man she has been warned not to trust -- Severus Snape. NEW POST-OOTP EDITION!

Sixth year brings with it strange magic, strange people, and strange revelations. It is only by accident that things don’t turn out worse than they do, since Voldemort is back and has some ancient magic at his disposal...

Voldemort wants Harry dead. Lucius wants to stay in the Dark Lord's good graces. So he hatches a deliciously evil scheme to use the Dursleys to do the dirty work for them. If Harry is going to return to Hogwarts for his fifth year, it will take help from an unexpected source. Bank statements from Gringotts, sleeping draughts, and an unknown witch driving a Citroën.

Galatea is the second act in the Mórrígna trilogy. Five years after the events in The Rebirth, Draco Malfoy is finally ready to overthrow the Dark Lord and take his place as the head of the Death Eaters. Ginny Weasley, an Auror disillusioned with the light side, is the last thing he needs to turn his dreams into reality. But Draco has underestimated Harry…and Voldemort. [Sequel to The Rebirth.]

After a steamy night in the prefect's bathroom, Harry finds out that he might actually be in love with a certain Slytherin.

Fred and George fall in love, fight Death Eaters, work with the Order of the Phoenix, try to figure out what Percy is up to and run their joke shop all at the same time. Starts off relatively fluffy and sweet, but don't let that fool you...

Sequel to Destiny of Souls. Kara and Snape found one another and are realizing their destiny, but now they must face enormous challenges in the fight against Voldemort. Will Draco come back to Hogwarts? Is history doomed to repeat itself again? Do Kara and Snape know everything about their destiny, or will Dumbledore reveal more?

Melanie Harver was the picture-perfect American high school student: pretty, popular, and smart. An attack in a dark alley changed all of that, forcing Melanie not only to discover hidden secrets about her family, but of her own abilities. And, just when she thought all of her questions were answered, she must decide how much she is willing to risk to protect her own friends.

Sometimes, life bashes you upside the head with a brick in a sock. Hogwarts is about to get its latest Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, a man cast adrift from his native world- a man named John Constantine.

Go back... Go back a thousand years... Go back to the time when "Hogwarts, A History" was the present, not just a boring textbook. Go through the mists of time and watch the tale as it unfolds in front of your very eyes. A tale of magic. A tale of knights. A tale of love. A tale of a time long gone.

This story tells about Harry, Draco, Hermione, and Ron's 5th year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Romance abounds and they all learn some painful truths about life and love along with their friends. As well as making new friends from old enemies.

A retelling of Prisioner of Azkaban from Remus Lupin's point of view. Contains parts of the Thing1 AU.

They were the original Trio, planning to spend the rest of their lives together. Fate intervened, and one did not get her letter. One tried to keep them together, one tried to keep them apart. And the other turned darker than the rest could have imagined ... all due to the lack of a letter. Had Lily known that Hogwarts would tear her sister away from her, she might never have agreed to go.

Sequel to Sin of Lycaos. Lupin seeks to fulfill a sacred promise, but how far will he go? Werewolves wave the red flag while he fights to get himself heard in the legal circus known as the wizard justice system. New and old characters emerge as a struggle in friendship, a question of loyalty, and a search for love unfolds, leading to one of the most controversial cases in magical history: the trial of Remus Lupin.

By Harry's sixth year, it's clear that if there really is a DADA curse, it's aimed at the students rather than the professors. The threat of Voldemort looms ever larger, but Harry still has to deal with family secrets, old friends, DA, the new junior Order, and a return to Quidditch that may leave him wishing he'd stayed away. (Post-OotP).

Harry Potter decides that he is too dangerous for his friends and leaves the wizarding world, and Voldemort is back.

Ginny is about to begin her 7th year at Hogwarts. She'll be off on her own without Harry, Ron or Hermione for the first time. Instead of the ghost of Tom Riddle, Ginny will have to deal with a new Quidditch team, an annoying classmate, rumours and a pesky Ravenclaw who won't leave her alone.

A series of vignettes each depicting a moment in the past that continues to haunt us all. Tom, Lily, James, Narcissa, Severus, Lucius, Remus, Sirius and Peter all become caught in the fixed tragedy of what must happen.

Shortly before his fifteenth birthday, Harry receives a letter from the past that alters his entire life. Now it is up to him to reveal the truth to the other whom it concerns. But will he find the courage to do so or will he repeat his mother's mistake and wait until its too late? This story is a response to the Severitus challenge.

Harry has made a sacrifice on behalf of the wizarding world---without its consent. Its effects are devastating.

Harry, Ron and Hermione travel to Godric's Hollow in the summer after sixth year, their last stop before the Horcrux hunt begins. But when a wounded Draco Malfoy arrives, everything and everyone changes. No one is quite himself, good melts into evil, and the thin line between love and everything else is crossed more than once.

Harry and Draco soon discover that darkness is needed to see things clearly.

The year after GoF, a new Dark Arts professor comes to Hogwarts and must convince a highly suspicious Snape that she's not walking the same crooked path as the previous Dark Arts professors. However, strange events keep making her job rather difficult...False selves, true forms, lust, lies, betrayal and how being a Death Eater ruins the lives of those around you.

It started off just like the flu, but when Harry Potter becomes the victim of a poison that alters his sense of reality, then it begins to threaten his very life itself. Since when did poisoned dumplings transport you directly into your worst nightmare, a world of opposites that seemed destined to drive you to death and despair? Since now...

" I had almost succeeded in getting over you. I am a Jedi Wizard! Damn life tricks! But it doesn't matter now, because you are my charge, nothing more, nothing less and I'll make sure it stays that way." Harry````"You bastard! You think that after five years you can suddenly come back into my life and pretend that nothing happened? Well, I'll let you know that I am happily over you and I do have a boyfriend who..."````"Just wants you?"````"Screw you Potter! I don't need a Jedi Wizard and if it was for me, you could just rot in your goddamn Jedi temple! You're still a bastard, an humongous prick, and, damn it! I still want you..." Hermione````H/Hr O/F AU

Five years after the downfall and death of Voldemort, the British Wizarding World is still embroiled in a civil war, pitting rival against rival, ``sibling against sibling and friend against friend.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione are reunited after the defeat of Voldemort. Things go well for a while…love starts to bloom. But Harry’s love interest gets kidnapped and the culprit is known to be a dark wizard. Will darkness overcome the wizard world once again? Or will love prevail?

Coming home after their fifth year at Hogwarts Ron, Harry and Hermione find their world turning upside down as their lives are taken over by love triangles and war.

Hermione Granger had it all figured out... she had just graduated at the top of her class from medical school and was going to work at a very presitgious hospital. Then Albus Dumbledore came to her with news that would turn her world upside down. She returns to Hogwarts to find that some things would never change, but others would never be the same. As she finds her place amongst her old professors, a friendship develops with the most unlikely person

Just before Harry's eleventh birthday Severus Snape shows up on the Dursley's doorstep and changes Harry's life forever.

Post Hogwarts. A new evil looms on the horizon and it\'s up to Harry, Ron, and Draco Malfoy to stop it. But if you think their wives are just going to sit idily by, you\'ve got another thing coming. Chock full of mystery, psychotic evil witches, necromancy, hypnosis spells, and much more.

A different take on history -- see the events of Prisoner of Azkaban through the eyes of Remus Lupin, who is not just a teacher at Hogwarts and a friend of Harry's father, but a man falling in love with the unlikeliest of women...

When Harry Potter answered the door of Privet Drive at 10:30 at night, the last thing he was expecting was to see his mother staring back at him - and the only person more surprised than him is her! But is it really his mother? How? And why didn't she know she was dead?

Severus and Hermione are forced to live together, as she's training to be an Unspeakable and he is on the run from the Death Eaters. If Hermione is not happy about it, you haven't seen Severus.``A dark romance, gap-filler; in which Hermione is grown up and different form the bookworm nerd we are used to see her as, Snape is a machiavellian trainer, Dumbledore is not as good and honest as we believe and Harry is even more complex than we knew. Cameos of Arthur Weasley, James and Lily Potter, and several enlightening passages in South America.

Harry survived the Killing Curse once more but the world considers ``him dead. Sirius is missing half his soul and the condition will begin to take ``a toll on Harry. Voldemort is weak and striving to gain power... There's something ``under the school and Harry finds out that Voldemort wants it. Harry needs what's ``there -- and soon for more reasons than he knows at first -- but Dumbledore is...

All alone at Grimmauld Place, things start to happen between Ginny and Sirius. Passion and lust lead them to a point from where there is no return and consequences that might change their lives forever.

Lily's having disturbing dreams about arguing with and- ugh- kissing James Potter of all people. She can't figure out why until one night one of her dreams comes true. Are these premonitions of the future? Will she change fate or allow the inevitable to happen?

When Draco and Ginny get stuck in detention together, the impossible begins. When Draco discovers that a certain object he possesses has unforeseen qualities, the trouble begins. And when Draco is taken by dark forces and has to make the decision of a lifetime, what will he choose?

Harry discovers that his parents' wedding rings might hold answers -- a *couple* of them.

A horrifying experience has been pushed aside, and people try to get on with their normal lives. But that experience soon turns into distant memories. Distant memories soon turn into haunting nightmares. When nightmares turn into reality, what can a certain group of Hogwarts students do to keep a certain redhead from slipping away? D/G story you've never quite seen before. Contains trips to the library, snogging, unexpected romance, and dreaming Gryffindors.

A wizard who was once known as the most powerful wizard of his time has returned to Europe, along with his wife and daughter-a young witch Harry's age. Both Voldemort and Dumbledore realize his importance. How will he affect the Order? How will he affect Harry's world?

What REALLY happened to Lily and James that fateful night? Two lost souls are trying to make their way back to Hogwarts and Harry Potter, but many obstacles stand in their way. Will the Potters get their happily ever after or is this just a cruel manipulation of fate?

Hermione has an idea to help Harry, but needs Snape's approval. Can she convince him to teach her Occlumency? And why is Draco looking at our heroine like that? Eventually HG/SS with OotP spoilers.

Harry Potter finally killed Lord Voldemort, but did the end justify ``the means? In this post-Hogwarts story Harry and his friends encounter new adventures, ``old enemies, and all the changes that come with adulthood. Plenty of romance, ``humor, angst, and red tights?````In this chapter, Harry is in on the run in a foreign country while his friends worry at home.

What ever happened to Gilderoy Lockhart? And who cares? Harry finds out and starts to care ... and winds up falling head over heels in love. (Slash) Run while you still can.

When Hermione finds herself turned into a House-elf by rather irritated wizard in Knockturn Alley, she finds herself bought by and hired to ... who else, but the Malfoys? Involves murderous plots, midnight enchantments, morbid chimneys, mushroom soup, Epic Lucius and Bizarre Narcissa, not necessarily in that order ...

Ron and Hermione are the only ones in Gryffindor Tower over Christmas. Can they find something to do? A sequel to Permission Slip (Riddikulus) and Do I Need This? (Astronomy Tower), with a bit of added angst.

Voldemort is dead. The war is over, but moving on can be harder than expected - especially if you're not sure to which side you belong anymore. Harry and Pansy don't have much in common, yet they find themselves in an uneasy alliance in their attempt to save what's left from everything that was dear to them. (Harry/Pansy, past Harry/Draco and Pansy/Draco)

COMPLETE! Sequel to "My Hypocrisy Knows No Bounds." The aftermath of what happened on the night that Ginny Malfoy's life was forever changed by Harry Potter.

Draco needs it, Ginny can give it... but Lucius requires it. Draco/Ginny, no HBP.

The days of Hogwarts are over. Voldemort has been defeated by Harry Potter. But things are not right. The legendary Trio has parted and paved their owns paths in life. But due to a new rising power, they must put aside their past and mend the breaks in what was and is a once in a life-time friendship.

The Great War is finally over, but things did not turn out the way they should turn out to be. The Malfoy family is the ruler of the wizarding world and the Weasleys are deprived of their remaining diminutive fortune. They are now living in a state of adverse poverty and Ginny is their only hope to survive. Ginny must, at present, swallow all her pride and dignity and serve the only person that she ever hated when she was in Hogwarts: Draco Malfoy. A d/g fic you've probably never seen before.

"In Nomine Amoris" is Latin for "In the Name of Love." Harry Potter embarks on his fateful journey after a certain wedding, and receives some unexpected help from an old mentor. Debts will be repaid, revenge will transpire, emotions will run high, cowards will find courage: all in the name of love. Rated PG-13 for a combination of references, violence, and emotional content. Pairings, though mostly unimportant to the plot of this fan fiction, are in line with canon: HPGW and RWHG.

Meet Ginny Weasley, a girl who alienates herself from her family and house when she becomes friends with two Slytherins. One of them is her best friend, and the other is her family’s enemy; both are in love with her. When the war finally reaches its terrifying end, who will she choose?

When Vernon's abuse goes to far, will Harry be able to live with the effects? (Warning graphic descriptions regarding referring to sexual content and violence.)

The summer after his fifth year, Harry Potter returns to Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place, where he is officially inducted into the Order of the Phoenix and placed under the tutelage of Severus Snape. What seems to be an insufferable arrangement soon provides Harry with a better understanding of his Potions professor and the secrets he hides. Meanwhile, a grieving Remus Lupin discovers a means of communicating with the deceased Sirius Black. But will Remus' inability to let Sirius go interfere with his duties to the Order? (slash: SS/HP, SB/RL)

The sequel to If Love is a Game...! Fifteen years after the best three years of her life and then disaster after disaster, Lorena Fawcett, Chief Prosecutor of the Wizarding Law, lands the case of her "cousin", Lucius Malfoy. Suddenly, she's catapulted back into the lives of people she once knew, especially the life of an old flame she never got over, Remus Lupin. But this is only the beginning of her troubles. And why exactly do teenagers have to be so hard to deal with?

Years after Sirius' death, Harry finds the one thing that can teach him more about his godfather than he ever dreamed, a simple flower. Full of love and loss, the violet's memory runs out before the true tale ends, leaving Harry to find someone to fill in the void. But can those who loved Sirius speak about it?

In Harry's day, Voldemort has risen a second time, but what happened the first time? Join Severus Snape, James Potter, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, Lily Evans, and others as they walk through the first dark days. They will discover friendship, hatred, love, and pain as they find how the ties bind them all.

When Hermione is poisoned by a Leeching Elixir designed to destroy her magical capabilities, Severus Snape is the only one who can help her regain her powers.

Ginny can't help falling for the Slytherin bad boy. But will they really live happily ever after?

Harry must read the compass of his heart to solve the only riddle the wizard of the north cannot fathom. How far must one walk to reach eternity? Chamber of Secrets transformed by H.C. Andersen's "The Snow Queen."

Post HBP. It’s seventh year, and the Slytherins challenge the Gryffindors to a Wizarding version of Russian roulette, one that involves Love Potions and a midnight party. Harry and Draco are very confused, as they begin to grow feelings for one another. Did they both get the Potion? Did only one of them get it? Did neither of them get it? Harry/Draco slash.

When all hope is lost for her time, Susannah Potter, daughter of Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley, returns to the time before her parents were murdered by Voldemort in hopes of changing the future for the better and saving her parents so that she could have the life that she had always wanted.

It's the start of year five at Hogwarts and already something strange is going down. Harry has a painful incident in Divination that he can't explain and Dumbledore  is expecting a new student and wants Harry to show her around. But what Harry doesn't know about her is that she is very powerful, maybe even more powerful than himself.

Harry goes back for his sixth year with a tattoo-like mark burned into him - a new DADA teacher he cannot believe Dumbledore would hire, and an interest in an unlikely girl.

WIP. Post-HBP. Conflicting paths and reconciliation. Different characters. This is my take on what happened and the consequences that followed.

When Draco is given a mysterious dagger by his father, strange things start to happen between Harry Potter and himself. Is the past doomed to repeat? (H/D)

Hermione returns to Grimmauld Place, looking for answers. She does not expect to find Severus Snape. SS/HG; SS/LE; post-HBP.

When evil looms, threatening to rid the world of all that is good, two people find strength, and weakness in each other where they thought there was none.

A story of the love that was. Love that started as a bond as sweet and innocent as a newborn infant, but slowly transformed to an undying passion that was torn apart by the War.

What if, when Sirius Black was framed for murder, there was a witness who'd seen the truth? A Muggle who held the key to Sirius' freedom? Well now it's time for her to speak out. The Unknown Witness is a wanted woman, and it's not just Harry and co. who are trying to track her down...

Laocoon's Children is an alternate-universe fic based on the events of an earlier fic, Stealing Harry. In Stealing Harry, Sirius was never imprisoned in Azkaban and abducted Harry from the Dursleys when he was eight years old. Laocoon's Children takes up the story during Harry's first year at Hogwarts, where he made fast friends with Neville Longbottom, Padma Patil, and Draco Malfoy. Harry's gang also reunited for their second year, where they faced a basilisk, a homicidal diary, and Draco's mother's betrayal. In year three, Harry must face many new problems: protecting Draco from his father, dealing with their new Dark Arts professor, and standing firm against the aura of fear that is pervading the wizarding world.

Set around or before 2010 in Muggle London, a chance encounter between Draco Malfoy and the infamous Harry Potter is on a collision course to disaster. Everything bad you can think of in excess, fraud, deception, generous throwing about of money...

The Wizarding world is still in quite a state – Voldemort is back, and people are torn as to whether or not they believe it. The Order of the Phoenix is still holding meetings to try and prepare for the Dark Lord’s ultimate uprising, but one of their ranks has decided she’s not so sure where her loyalties really lie.

Harry’s 5th year, (ya ya, I know, enough of those, but I had to take a swing at it), a new professor arrives carrying an ancient artifact of Merlin.  The fight with the forces of evil grow darker and Harry slowly finds it consuming his life and forcing himself to admire the strength and courage of the old fighters, (such as Snape). Will he have to pick up their burden?

This is his sister's story. The one that no one knows, because no one knows *her.* She follows him, she always has. They share blood, but only half. They are the same age, but not twins. How did Lily do it? She's trying to find out. How will Harry react when he learns even his family has secrets?

Corielle Griffin is introduced to the magical world after putting her past, affectionately termed It, behind her- or so she thought. Now, in the wizarding world, she is constantly reminded of her former lack of magic, It, and her inconsistancies in the midst of magic. The plot thickens by her strange attraction and repulsion by Snape, her affinity with Lupin, and the odd core of her wand...

A story of Severus Snape before the books - The only solace young Severus Snape has from his abusive parents is the spunky red-headed muggle who lives next door. The friendship follows them through their years at school, but can it survive the choices each will make? (note: NOT a Sevy/Lily ship)

SLASH. Harry has a confession and Ron has some things to sort out... With cameo appearances by Percy and Oliver (of "Unsuspecting Hearts" fame), as well as Sirius Black.

When Hermione suffers a personal tragedy, Snape is unwillingly called upon to help her. Their own difficult pasts, Snape's history with the Death Eaters and Hermione's unusual animagus draw them both into a confrontation with Voldemort that could end in tragedy for both of them. During this time, Hermione finds out the secret's of Snape's shadowy past and Snape discovers there is a great deal more to this 'little-miss-know-it-all' than he ever suspected.

Why is Harry so special? Could it have been something completely out of his power that made him what he was? Explore Harry's fifth year as many things change- his feelings, his relationship with Dumbledore, and even his destiny. Not your usual 5th year fic.

It's the prequel to the sequel of another writer's fic``Of a pairing (Snape and Granger) that still makes some people sick``Dare to visit Snape's strange quarters almost sunk in Hogwarts Lake``Where he patterns out sad days observed by Salomé, his Snake.

It\\\'s many years post-Hogwarts, and the members of the Order are all scattered to the wind. Harry Potter is no longer the most talked about wizard in the world. The magical community has a new hero now: a man named Jack Barnes, more commonly referred to as The Man Who Killed Voldemort. But when he\\\'s kidnapped, it\\\'s up to the disbanded Order of the Phoenix to find him and save the wizarding world once more. Trouble is, they haven\\\'t spoken in seven years and they\\\'re not interested.

This is the first part of a three-part story about the Malfoy family and their entanglement with the Dark Order. 'Ad Mortem Festinamus' deals with the time between Narcissa Black's first day in Hogwarts and Voldemort's disappearance after atacking Harry Potter. When you enjoyed yourself, please also read 'Omnia Mors Perimit' and 'Et Nulli Miseretur'!

Voldemort threatens more than England, he threatens the entire wizarding world. So his defeat should have world-wide repercussions, yes? On the far side of the globe, a doctor has to treat a very unusual patient (she doesn't recognize him, but you'd better), and nurse him back to health against his will. Set post-Hogwarts.

On the night before James's wedding, Sirius wants to make sure that James and his other friends have a good time. Will things ever be the same again? A tale of friendship and of growing up in a time of darkness.

Answer to the Bachelor's Auction Challenge on WIKTT. Severus Snape is entered into a Spring Bachelor's Auction by Dumbledore (no surprise there). What he had not counted on was the fact that Hermione Granger was there as well... and picked him as her lucky match! What will become of their situation now? Rated R for explicit scenes.

Third in the Lily's Charm series. As he makes the choices that define his life, Harry learns exactly what it means to be Severus' son.

It is now ten years after their flight from England. A now-married, albeit estranged, Harry and Hermione return there from America, where they have been living, with their two daughters, twins Lily and Helen, named for their mothers. They have heard from McGonagall, who has offered them teaching positions at Hogwarts. However, they cannot be sure just what kind of reception they're likely to get from those they left behind, mainly because of the way they left.