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Hogwarts, but not as you know it. Harry, but not as you know him.

Draco returns to the Manor to find it quiet - which is so different from when his father was present. What does Potter have to do with it?

The Marauders and the Blood Medallion is the first book in the saga of The Adventures of the Marauders. This saga tells about the adventures of James Potter, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew.

This is my interpretation of what occurs on the other side of the veiled archway in the Ministry of Magic: Department of Mysteries. OotP Spoilers

The Weasley family, Harry and Hemione gather to celebrate Hermione's birthday.

A day in the life of the sixth year Gryffindors. Involves potions disasters, Chocolate Frog cards, and sneaking into the Slytherin dorm.

Remus doesn't make resolutions, not even when the War is finally over. That doesn't stop Ginny from asking.

It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall, and as he did all he could see was the mermaid. He knew she was the mermaid, although her form shifted like the tides, and some numbed part of his brain was telling him about shock and hallucinations, but all he could see was her, and he was still falling.

Harry Potter is all grown up now and has doubts about his various attempts to bring peace to the wizarding world.

Minerva McGonagall reflects on her life, both past and present, and wonders if anyone still cares enough to keep the wizarding world safe. And she wonders if anyone still cares about her. What little joy she has left in her life rides on a thin string, and she struggles everyday to keep that string from breaking.

This fic is my interpretation of what led up to Umbridge's decision to send the Dementors to Little Whinging in the summer before Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts.

Harry's had a lot to think about over the summer before his fifth year, and for the first time, he puts his thoughts on parchment.``"I guess that writing your feelings out does ease the pain a bit after all."

Evil did not begin with Lord Voldemort nor will it end with him. Prophets ranging from an ancient priestess to the current Sybill Trelawney foretell a darkness greater than all others. A final, twelfth prophet holds the key to helping Harry and the Order of Phoenix overcome Voldemort and the new reign of darkness-- but where could this missing prophet be?

Set on September 1st, 1971, this ficlet recounts Sirius and Remus' first arrival at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Read about the fears of a young werewolf who longs for acceptance and a pure-blood boy who just wants to find a place where he belongs.

How does Molly Weasley really feel about her clock? What tortures has it put her through? Set on the night of the battle at the Ministry of Magic

Harry, Ron, and Hermione are on the train after their third year at Hogwarts, and Harry feels that he must have missed something in the movie. How did Professor Lupin know how to use that map?

What's it like for Angelina Johnson to be one of the few black students at Hogwarts? Well, to be honest, she's never given it much thought. After all, there's much more bigotry in the wizarding world against Muggle-borns and half bloods. But after befriending an angry young African American Muggle-born student at the Salem Wizarding Academy in the U.S., Angelina learns an important lesson about her heritage as a black witch.

Severus picks up a little girl after an attack. Is her happiness due to shock, or is there something else involved?

Will Remus ever forgive the perpetually young Flora for breaking his heart?

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

A pantomime version of Harry Potter. Cue bad jokes, silly songs, quotes and puns galore and the obligatory custard pies. The plot - Voldemort plans to take over the world, Draco crossdresses and Ron collects Happy Meal toys. All together now: "Oh no he doesn't!"

On a spring evening, strange light illuminates the sky and Harry sees his mother.

After the events of the Gryffindor v. Slytherin Quidditch match in Draco’s fifth year, things seem different; Ron Weasley has the Slytherins under his thumb, the school dungeons are filled with Muggle born students, and Harry Potter is nowhere to be found. It’s a brave new world, and one in which Draco must learn to be careful what he wishes for.

A sleek white cat stalked the corridors of Hogwarts. Its soft paws made no sound as it padded across the hard flagstone. It knew what it had to do. He would be there. Waiting for her. Master… no! Not master. Friend. Cats have no masters. He is a friend.

Hermione Granger had always been different from all of the other little girls her age. Other girls liked to shop and wear nail polish while Hermione preferred books to dollies. Her father was proud of this and her mother worried, but maybe things were like this for a reason. Perhaps she was supposed to be different. Strange things start happening around Hermione's eleventh birthday and she will soon find out why.

"It was a miracle I had even been aloud into school with my ‘condition’, as my parents had called it, but to have a large tree that attacks you to protect me during the full moon, and for the nurse to look after me in the mornings, that was more than I ever could have expected."``The first time you meet a group of people can influence the rest of your life. Remus was terrified but ecstatic to be starting his first year of Hogwarts, but he had no idea how much a train ride could influence the rest of his life.

"I am a rock / I am an island / And a rock feels no pain / And an island never cries" A Snape songfic inspired by a Freelancer Music Video.

Hermione pauses every time she uses the Time Turner.

This is the story of Remus Lupin, condensed considerably, and to the lyrics of the wonderful song Unwanted by Avril Lavigne.

All Aurors spend at least an hour in Azkaban as part of their training. None of them enjoy it. One of them had better get used to it...

Severus starts regretting a past mistake.

As thoughts about the past and worries about the future start to overwhelm James on his last day at Hogwarts, he decides writing a diary.

An angsty Cho Chang monologue. On why she cries. Mentions tradition, angst, family, confusion, Cedric and Harry. A chance for Cho-fans to read an interpretation of what she went through, and Cho-haters to take a look from her point of view.

Rowena Ravenclaw watches from her portrait and feels a special bond with Penelope Clearwater, whose life she follows in snippets for seven years.

My vision of the last 30-45 min. of Lily and James Potter. She has questions, he answers--again, my vision. Songfic loosely based on the song Moonlight Shadow from the game Dance Dance Revolution.

He wasn't looking forward to sitting in a Muggle club, awaiting the arrival of an informant. But his dull assignment turns into something more when a stranger (whose eyes look so familiar), and a few rounds of double Scotch turn things around. One-shot, poem fic, Snape.

On war and werewolves

A collection of Ron-centric drabbles

What the Hogwarts ghosts get up to while the students and professors ``are away.

Harry and Hermione experience the pros and cons of memory charms.

Sky Monroe has always been alone. Alone with no memory of her past and no friends. Until one day, a stranger comes along and sends her off and her greatest adventure: A quest to find out the truth and a whole lot more including the presence of evil...

Some people suggest it was just selfishness on Snape's part to stop his Occlumency lessons with Harry, but perhaps Snape's reasons run far deeper. A Snape's POV response to the OotP chapter "Snape's Worst Memory."

A sweet one-shot songfic about Harry and his restless three-month-old baby, Liz. Harry sees a women's talk show about babies; he decides to sing her 'Lullaby' by Creed. Implied H/L.

Regulus' thoughts on his way to Hogwarts and during his Sorting.

What happens when a new teacher from Brazil comes to Hogwarts to teach? The new 'Professora' has a vigorous vitality and love for life, and a determination for a certain Potions Master to share in her happiness...

Remus Lupin has seen life and he has seen death. But as he confronts the latest of his griefs, he must come to terms with the duty that has befallen him in the wake of tragedy.

Even though Remus feels that he has been to enough funerals to not be affected by Sirius's death, a visit from Harry right before the funeral shows him he might be wrong.

This is "Bella"--a cold, cruel, calculating shell of a woman. Where Trixie was warm, if a little indifferent and aloof, this stranger is hard and angry; the result of thirteen years in Azkaban and almost thirty with that brand on her arm...

One night Mars is unusually bright. In the Forbidden Forest a centaur struggles with future and fate to follow his conscience.

Eleven years in an orphanage where you're looked down upon as the "weird kid" is enough to drive any middle-school aged preteen mad. The same case is that of Alaina White's. Alaina has found that she can't deal with the others at the orphanage anymore, and just in time. She is visited by someone claiming to be a witch to be given the information that she herself is a witch, and one that Hogwarts spent almost two years tracking down. She finally feels accepted somewhere, but she has no idea of what awaits her over her first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

A very young Severus Snape takes his first steps into the Dark Wizarding world.

"What is your ambition, Miss Lestrange?" "Sir?" "To be worthy of your name, perhaps, or to redeem it in the eyes of men, or maybe to be so ordinary that you will be swept away in the tide of the unfulfilled desires of lesser hearts and beached by the lacklustre dreams around you." Contains references to self-harm. Also contains french poetry.

During his first Quidditch game at Hogwarts, Regulus must balance his loyalties - in true Slytherin fashion.

This takes place right after we see Sirius leave Harry and Dumbledore at the end of Goblet of Fire. Sirius meets up with Remus to call together the Order of the Phoenix.

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

James folded his arms below his chest and met Remus's eyes firmly. "I was thinking about becoming an Animagus." "Why...er... would you want to do that?" Remus queried, trying and failing to sound casual. At this point, James leaned forward. He gave Remus an exasperated look and whispered, "Why do you think?" Then, he stood up and exited the common room without a backward glance. Remus wasn't dim. He was pretty sure what this meant. James knew.

Draco never realizes that he has lost something until after it's lost; after all, they never matter. Then, he loses Blaise, and Draco learns that some things are meant to be kept close to the heart.

Written for Lar's challenge: write a fic about Harry Potter characters attending Wee Wizards camp. You get extra bonus points for mentioning camp-type activities, i.e., crafts and campfires. ``Pansy finds herself with an unlikely partner and is none too happy about it. Then again, neither is he.

Hermione has finally made it to Graduation Day but not without a few bumps along the way. As she prepares to leave she reflects on the past at Hogwarts. Warning:Character Death

A short while after her wedding to Ted Tonks, Andromeda invites Narcissa out to lunch.

"The hardest part about taking care of a person dying inch-by-inch isn't the sleepless nights, the wrenched back from lifting once (or twenty times) too often, or the isolation. The hardest part is afterwards." Gregory Goyle/Millicent Bulstrode (GG/MB) (Sequel to 'Memory Like Old Lace')

This is a light story intended to intoduce a new magical beast. I have decided not to use the dragon in my original story as it is not strong enough to do battle in the way I want it to. There is also a brother who comes to his brother's romantic rescue. A little Ron/Hermione. A gentle, but fun story.

A letter, a girl and a boy. Two schools, three words, four spells and five owls. A great friendship and the story of a young love that would change their lives forever. Set during “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”, this is an Artio/Jeremy romantic ficlet in the Lusitania Universe. And, more important than everything else, there is… an ocean to be crossed by ten wings.

Severus would have never thought a time would come when they, when he, would need Neville.

Lily invites her boyfriend Severus to meet her family. Lily/Severus.

A little song- ficlet very loosely based on Norah Jones' "Seven Years." You'll get the idea if you've heard the song. **Pretty sad...**

Voldemort attempts a spell, which backfires and robs him of his powers, forcing him to live a Muggle lifestyle, aided by his faithful servants, Bellatrix and Wormtail.

Ginny, Luna, Bellatrix, and a dungeon. Genfic, dark.

While on vacation with Sirius, Remus has to learn how to live in the moment for the dark days ahead.

There will be early animagi. Not a Mary Sue. The Neo Marauders may make an appearance. Original Characters. Slightly AU. No Slash pairings yet. New creatures. New teachers. New Dangers.

"It is time, I can feel it, Pettigrew is near him, I saw it, he’s at Hogwarts, they both are. He’s in danger, Harry’s in danger. I must stop it! He’s gotta live! He’s gotta live! I must go to Harry! I must save him! I must warn him! Pettigrew is so near! I gotta get out."

A short ''personal narrative''... from someone you DO NOT suspect...

The cruel repercussion of war to one who deserves it most. A look inside a madman's mind, and what becomes of them in the end.

"The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on." ~Samuel Coleridge, The Friend When you're the middle in a large family, it's easy to get lost in the shuffle. But what if all your siblings are special--and you're not good at anything?

Neville is keeping a secret from his classmates. When his DADA teacher covers the Unforgivable curses, he reflects on his parents and the journey that took them to where they are now. A lost moment from GoF.

Voldemort Transfigures Harry into a donkey. It's a pity he didn't take Ali Bashir a bit more seriously.

Dear Father, his hand wrote, then stopped. He stared at it, eyes widening slightly, then at his hand, which remained still, as if waiting for him to finish. He looked around him, eyes wide with sudden fear of the chance of being caught doing something incredibly wrong.

During Voldemort's first attempt at power, two old friends meet in Granada. But something isn't quite right.

Hermione makes an entry in her diary about some strange happenings at Hogwarts. Muggles have arrived, and it's all her fault!

Reflections from the mind of Narcissa Malfoy, on her life, her husband, her son and the world in general. One shot.

An innocent Muggle meets the Death Eaters.

Seems like all the kids with the great brains have the disadvantage when it comes to Apparating, so it's no surprise that the goof-ball, James Potter, does it better than the smart girl, Lily Evans.

Everyone remembers their first kiss, don’t they? Not Regulus Black. Oh, he knows it happened. He just can’t remember it.

Death brings out something new in Pansy. A one-shot character piece.

He's not entirely sure why he's here, at her funeral. They haven't been in contact for years. He simply saw the obituary and, on a whim, jotted the date down on his calendar — and now here he is, standing awkwardly at the outskirts of the crowd of mourners, not sure why he's here at all and watching the red-haired man approach.

Mark Evans likes reading stories about fantastic creatures, about wizards and witches. Just like most kids, he loves those stories, but he doesn?t expect them to be real. Then, on his eleventh birthday, he receives a letter that might change his life forever. But, times being what they are, will he get this chance? (Oneshot, slightly AU)

A hypothetical followed by a serious conversation between Severus Snape and Albus Dumbledore. Dumbledore suspects that Snape wants to tell him something, and when Dumbledore presses for information, he gets more than he bargined for. The reasons Severus Snape betrayed Voldemort. For all those who can't stand a sobbing Snape story of redemption. Sometimes we just need to accept that we only need justification to follow the course of actions we are willing to perform.

We know what happened to Harry, Hermione, and Neville at the Ministry, but what happened to Ron? Blowing up planets and being strangled isn't anything to what he finds out....

I have seen them grow, change, and bond from a distance. They have never ceased to amaze me. What they have accomplished throughout the years is incredible, and I envy them. But with accomplishment also comes pain. How do they live when pain is preying on them? How do they go on when death is calling their names? They have suffered greatly, and that I do not envy…

A one shot look at Blaise's birth, from her mother's perspective. This is a prequel to The Life and Times of a Girl Named Blaise Zabini. Death, Delirium and Destiny abound. But mostly Death. And not in the way she does in most stories, either.

Severus Snape has long held that history is best left forgotten. It takes a confrontation with Luna Lovegood to teach him that sometimes, forgetting history can be fatal.

Harry, while on assignment for the Order post-Hogwarts, stumbles across a meeting of the Society for Creative Anachronism.

How could the man that had saved them all, that was a Gryffindor, pure of heart, and brave... be so deceitful? How could he possibly be capable of hurting one person as much as he did?

Battle of the twins! When a new set of twins open a joke shop directly across from Fred and George, what happens? Prank Wars Abound!

Stories can fade and die, like the friendships that created them; one story is passed from one era to another.

An out-take, showing exactly how MWPP learnt to do the reversal spell in the shrieking shack.

When Charlie was young, Ollivander captivated him with wands. As Charlie grew, so did his love of wands. Dragons got in the way. Charlie-centric one-shot, explaining why Charlie gave Ron a wand with its core sticking out.

"So we know that, near the end of her pregnancy, Merope was alone in London and in desperate need of gold, desperate enough to sell her one and only valuable possession, the locket that was one of Marvolo's treasured family heirlooms." What really happened there?

Just a series of interesting stories. One every week!

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