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Or, Traditional Wizarding Holidays. Being a Fanfic of most Wonderous and Strange kind; in which may be Found a Tale of such High Adventures as are Fitting and Proper to Wizards, Wizzards, and Witches.``The rating be of R; the warnings be of mpreg; and the footnotes be forged of pure insanity.

This story starts at the exact instant Goblet Of Fire ends. No human being could endure the agony Harry went through without developing deep emotional scars, but hardship can also challenge one to improve and grow. This story is an attempt to explore the changes both positive and negative surviving a brush with hell can bring.

Madeline Philips is taught magic by her mother by night and goes to public school for her Muggle education by day. Then, her mother suddenly dies and her father manages to temporarily blind her before she is taken away and introduced into the wizarding world. Madeline Philips has a lot to learn about her past, her present, and her future.

‘Hermione! Hermione, I’m so sorry! I didn’t know!’ Ron cried out. He sat up in bed, sweating and breathing heavily. The vision of Hermione’s final moments of life never left him. Sequel to Her Eyes. Ron is tormented by the memory of Hermione's death.

Everyone knows we all screamed and shouted and stomped our feet when Peter got away. And more importantly when Sirius was almost killed. So here's my version of that night in the Shrieking Shack. Here's what should have happened...

Hermione is being ignored by everyone, including her husband! Not to mention the fact that her "best" friend is trying to steal him away from her! She is fed up and all alone. Dramatic and angst Hermione. Surprising plot!

Death has the power to take lives or to save them. He's about to do both.

Professor Trelawney finally predicted something right, but Hogwarts will never be the same again.

"I should have done something. Anything. I have told myself this a thousand times. Dumbledore tells me not to dwell on regrets. But how is it possible not to? This is a new feeling for me, this guilt. I think she is perhaps the first person to have ever made me feel it. I don’t like it at all. Yet I am flooded with it. She deserved to live. Not I. But it seems that life and death have no capacity for fairness. That is one thing that all the money and power in the world cannot change." A second chance is offered. A mistake can be corrected. But nothing comes without a price. Sequel To Broken

Ron learns that Harry has made a decision.

How far will you go to keep someone alive... even though they aren't?

In 1982, shortly after the Ministry "took advantage of a fortuitous accident to crow about victory" a young man who has carried for much of his life the burden of a dark secret drops into the Leaky Cauldron for a couple of beers. There he will meet a girl whose secrets may be even darker than his. He will be offered a choice: stay true to his blood-kin, or to humanity.

Harry Potter is starting his fifth year, but he, Ron, and Hermione aren't the only students at Hogwarts school. Others are having to deal with the return of You-Know-Who and the changes this means for the wizarding world as well.

For twenty years Narcissa has been the loyal wife of a Death Eater, keeping her opinion to herself. Now, this is all about to change...

The book Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has been published; but in Thursday Next's experience publication does not mean a story cannot be changed. In her world fictional characters have been known to leave their books if they are dissatisfied with anything in the plot. Thursday herself bookjumped into Jane Eyre, where she changed the ending for Rochester and Miss Eyre. Thursday has no experience within magical books ... until two well-known wizards ask for her help. These two wizards have been approached by a third, who is not merely dissatisfied with the last four chapters of HBP but is distraught over the part he played in those chapters. Now, Thursday has arrived in a magical book, to meet with him ...

Two young witches find and rescue a lost father. Harry wakes from a strange dream, travels, then asks alot of questions and has only a few answered.

Severus Snape contemplates the events of the HBP and relives the memories of several key events not yet in canon such as the meeting with Voldemort after GOF, the nature of the mysterious relationship between Snape and the Malfoys, and the events on the tower with Dumbledore in this author's attempt to explore a duty bound Snape.

Ginny tries, desperately, to break the infamous shell of Draco Malfoy. Flames flicker, but are in the end squashed by the cold finality of death.

"It was just a joke. Really. We didn't intend for anyone to get hurt. If we'd known... well, we wouldn't have done it. But it's too late for that now. And the blame is as much mine as it is his. It was his idea, but I went along with it. God, how could I have been so careless? Mom always said our pranks would get us into trouble one day."

What happens when a 16-year-old Ginny Weasley finds Tom Riddle's diary all over again?

This is the third and last part of this three-part story about the Malfoys. It is the sequel to 'Ad Mortem Festinamus' and 'Omnia Mors Perimit', and deals with the time between Dumbledore's death and the final resolution.

After the return of Voldemort, Amelia Fudge, Daughter of the Minister of Magic, became determined to take him on single-handedly- and reached the point where she could. Voldemort learned of this and captured her, and then he finally succeeded in capturing Hermione, as well... Now Harry Potter must make the biggest choice of his life... Save one, or millions without Hermione... (Follows "Harry Potter and the Psychic Serpent" by BarbLP)

What do you want? [Diary-fic, set during CoS.]

Who is the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher? What does Ron know that no-one else does? And whatever did happen to Norbert?

A series of graveside confessions.

Lisa Turpin is a girl who has grown up living a life of orders by her father, an important figure in the Ministry of Magic. She has been forbidden to do anything but study. Her father seeks perfection and she realizes at an early age that perfection is a figment of the imagination. When she finds a secret room at Hogwarts, she can't help but do the forbidden... dance.

"Everyone thinks we hate each other... I don't think I can play this game any longer..." As the war comes closer, people realize that they don't really know Hermione Granger or Draco Malfoy. Rated R for violence in later chapters and language. DM/HG fic.

A familiar and not-entirely-welcome presence returns and counsels a fourteen-year-old, still lovestruck, Ginny Weasley. But how much does she truly want to be rid of him?

“...'cause sometimes, I said sometimes, I hear my voice and it's been here, silent all these years.” Is there more to Petunia Dursley beneath that icy exterior?

Adriana Bloom comes to Hogwarts as a new teacher, but will her courage hold her strong in Harry Potter's sixth year and will she be true to herself?

As Voldemort and his supporters grow more and more powerful during Harry's fifth year, Harry must run from his wrath. Others are put in danger, and Harry and his friends are made to learn the hard way about loss, fear, and pain.

Having failed his NEWTs, Marcus Flint takes a summer job in the Daily Prophet’s owl room before returning to Hogwarts yet again. The job has more to offer than just Galleons, however.

'The butterfly kisses never came. I opened my eyes to find, disappointed, that it was all a dream. A memory with him that I could never have...'

AU. In the aftermath of 1981, the Death Eaters find ways to avenge their master. An attack on the Dursleys to get Harry leaves Remus Lupin with a trace of the past in his hands.

"If Voldemort had never heard of the prophecy, would it have been fulfilled? Would it have meant anything? Of course not! Do you think every prophecy in the Hall of Prophecy has been fulfilled?" -Dumbledore, HBP AU, conceived pre-DH.

It's all over. But there's a surprise in it for Harry.

When Bellatrix Black, newly graduated from Hogwarts, cornered her younger sister Andromeda and dragged her out of their home and into Diagon Alley, Andromeda expected danger, excitement, and trouble - all part and parcel to dealings with Bellatrix. Nothing, however, could prepare her for the nightmarish ordeal that ended with her coming face to face with Lord Voldemort.

The Malfoy Code says that each Malfoy family should have at least one Death Eater per generation. This code has been around since the time of Grindelwald, the former Dark wizard. However, Voldemort rejects Draco Malfoy when he is recruited for the Death Eaters. With this act, Draco must suffer the fate of an ousted Malfoy, a fate that has not occurred for several generations.

Parvati and Hermione have never been the greatest of friends. But when it comes to Lavender and Ron's relationship, they'll become unlikely allies in the game of revenge.

After she has an accident in the Muggle world, Ginny Weasley is taken to a Muggle hospital. How will she be saved from the barbarities of Muggle surgery?

"He's nothing but a coward, a simple coward through and through! He's locked up in his past, harboring ill will to anyone with half a brain because he envies them! He envies us all our freedoms. For he has none." Severus Snape finally snaps, seeking power in a sacred place--Hermione Granger. Somewhat romance, violence, some sexual situations. SS/HG, DM/HG noncon.

A new girl joins the Weasley family after losing her brother. Harry has experienced her pain first-hand, which creates a bond between them, and she joins the gang at Hogwarts for their sixth year. (post-OotP)

On the Halloween night of her sixth year at Hogwarts, Mandy Brocklehurst finds herself wandering alone through the corridors and discovering Nearly Headless Nick's deathday party. There she meets Patrick, the ghost of a Ravenclaw student who died while still at Hogwarts over a hundred years ago. They become fast friends, and fall in love almost as quickly, but the more she comes to know him, the more she learns about his past...and that the very thing that killed him may be coming back with a vengeance.

Ginny made a promise to protect the memories of a dear friend, but will her relationship with Draco put those memories at risk?

Everyone has secrets. Things they will never tell another soul, but that eat away at them like acid, from the inside out. These are a few of those secrets. Warning: Themes of incest, rape, drug abuse, suicide, murder.

Harry is having the most odd year; will he able to get through it?

Albus Potter sets off on the Hogwarts Express with his cousin Rose Weasley for his first year at Hogwarts. What adventures and new friends await him? How will he cope with being the famous Harry Potter's son, and all the expectation that comes with it?

Lucius decides to have his evil way with Hermione, in pursuit of an evil plot. So he does, but she gets her revenge... a dish best taken cold. Rated R for explicit non-consensual sex. **Be Warned!!**

Sirius Black had never seen a head of hair quite as unique as James Potter’s. It vaguely reminded him of the time when he’d accidentally run his mother’s cat, Sooty, through the tumble-dryer when he was seven. Black on blue-black, refusing to lie flat, as if clumps were attached to the strings of invisible balloons floating above the other boy’s head. Sirius wondered if he’d purposely styled it like that, or if James Potter had been in a freak potions explosion earlier that day. Either way, it was intriguing.

“I’ll make you scream,” Potter whispers, and Draco can think of a thousand other things Potter could make him do, but he doesn’t think any of them will feel this good.

Remus and Tonks sit on the back stairs of Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place and discuss Patroni and family resemblances. (Guaranteed 100% romance-free.)

Lily and her husband are two of the highest qualified Aurors in their department. The Queer Sycamore is a hotel during daytime and a brothel at night. It is also a place where Death Eaters come to rest after full days of intensive work for their Master. Lily must do the necessary to wipe out these crooks and put them behind bars.

It was one of those days, you know the kind that start out like any other and you’d never guess that they could in any way be special but they are just the same.

After a court battle, the house at Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place, is awarded to Narcissa Malfoy. Not needing the house, she signs it over to Draco, who decides to use it to strike a bargain with Harry Potter. Every bargain, however, has hidden consequences.

Snape shirks parental responsibilities he just learned about while Harry fights the pain inside caused by the death of Cedric and his godfather and the abuse of the Dursleys. ``Warning: Major abuse content.

The tattered tapestry depicting the descent of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black has burn marks in every generation; they represent the disowned members of the family. Three vignettes show how Isla, Phineas, and Marius Black achieved this honor.

Harry takes a seemingly useful field trip to the 1940s, but within hours of arriving is distracted by something he did not expect. Tom Riddle has his eye on a sixteen-year-old Minerva McGonagall and she's not doing a lot to stop his advances. How can Harry stop the impending disaster without completely messing up history? He can't ...

The War is over, and Draco Malfoy has lost more than most. On his way to certain death, he reflects on family secrets and the price of a promise that must be kept.

Harry and Ginny try to put a guest list together for their wedding.

The last hour of Draco Malfoy.

Hermione uses her Time Turner in a desperate attempt to escape from an attack in Hogsmeade. As a result, she accidentally ends up in the past when Voldemort is still rising. What happens when nobody believes her story and she is taken for a possible Death Eater. Lucius/Hermione

Five things that never happened to Ginny, Percy, Hermione, Ron, Tom or Harry.

Ron knows what he's fighting for, even if no one else does.

Throughout the Harry Potter Series Ginny has had very little say. What does she really think? What are her desires? Would you follow her path? In this fic she shows all. To love dark men, dark power, and dark morals isn't so easy for a Gryffindor. Follow Ginny Weasley as she climbs her way up the dark ladder to her ultimate goal, and let no man stay her way...

Beginning of 6th year, Harry deals with the Dark Lord, the Dursleys, and learns that sometimes even someone you hate can be your means to salvation.

Harry Potter is dead. How will Ron and Hermione react? How far into her depression will Hermione go? And can she be saved in time?

The story of how Severus Snape and Nathanyel Page met and spent their years at school together. On the way they encounter, among other things, schizophrenics, multiple personalities, tons of drugs, illegal activities galore, murder in both the first and second degree... And... (aww) boyhood fancies. Part of the SSS universe.

AU. James gets a life sentence in Azkaban for betraying the Pettigrews to Voldemort, as well as for killing Sirius and seven Muggles. Almost nine years later, he returns. Remus and Severus, who have been caring for little Harry Pettigrew, are ready to fight the man who was once their friend, and, to Remus, a husband and a lover. However, not everything is what it looks like...``Past and current SLASH RL/JP, SS/SB, RL/SS, implied MPREG.

Draco and Hermione have been enemies from day one. When Hermione finally gets what she wished for from Draco, the result is not what she expected at all.

He would let his followers murder at leisure. Then...

Harry Potters speaks a eulogy for Severus Snape. No need to be afraid of sentimentalism. Late post-Hogwarts story.

Harry, Ron and Hermione are entering their fifth year of magical schooling, and they are in for quite a few big surprises. They get transferred to an American school of magic, meet new people, find out they are more powerful than they had thought, and learn that united they present a formidable front to Voldemort.

This is an AU and a response to Severitus' challenge. The Severitus' Challenge is where Snape is Harry's dad.

Sirius never felt that he fitted in with the rest of the Blacks. He has experienced some of his worst memories at no. 12 Grimmauld Place and feels nothing but hatred towards his parents and brother. One evening, it all becomes too much for him to handle, and he decides to leave it all behind.

Hermione has always worked in the background. This has made her a very effective spy. While tracking Malfoy, she is kidnapped and raped against Voldemort's wishes. Her retribution has unforseen benefits.

When a seemingly normal Potions class goes wrong, Hermione, Harry, Ron, and Draco are turned into six-year olds. Oh, the horror!

Is it love that is cruel and twisted, a dark and all-comsuming passion of those who feel it's bite too deeply? Does a young man's obsession with another bring redemption, or is his life destroyed by what his feels force him to undertake? Only Severus can answer that... m/m

Harry and Draco have a perfectly normal secret relationship. And then someone finds out...

Even people like Millicent have stories to tell. Sometimes, they're not very pretty stories.

In Harry Potter’s summer before his fifth year, Harry is miserable. His uncle beats him, he blames himself for Cedric’s death, and everyone but his best friends believes he is a murderer. But when he finds a potion called “Jax Potion”, his world goes upside down.

Tom considered that perhaps fifty years of utter isolation and stagnation in a diary was a small price to pay to gain the advantages of being a living Horcrux, even if he was probably a bit mad from the experience. After all, being mad was no impediment to a Dark Lord.

Harry Potter's professors and friends try to regroup and rebuild after the events of 'Order of the Phoenix'. Those events, however, prove to be just the start of much darker times to come.

London in 1943 is a city in the shadow of war. To Albus Dumbledore, however, the War is a Muggle affair – none of his concern. Then by chance, he stumbles upon something that might change everything. Now, in order to prevent the Wizard world from being dragged into the conflict, Dumbledore must search through the underworld of this great Muggle city for an insane German wizard and his Nazi cohorts. Dumbledore’s only allies are the enigmatic British Intelligence agent, Commander Carver, and the feral and dangerous Canadian called Logan. (HP/X-Men AU adventure prequel.) Complete.

Harry thought he hated Dudley, then he met Malfoy. He thought Malfoy was as bad as it got, then he met Lara Ryder. Ryder is Malfoy's worst enemy, and she's moved to Hogwarts. At first she's just plain nasty, but it soon becomes more. It starts out with some thinking she's funny, and others being the butt of her jokes. Before long, the school is divided down the middle, and only Malfoy knows why. But he won't say, because it would reveal too much of his own past. People are dying, and only he can stop her.

Anyone who is interested in Lily will find this interesting. In essence, a biography of Lily from when she is five months old until a few days after her death, with a few generally unexpected twists; a what-if story, in the sense that Lily has three sisters and James a twin brother. Begins and ends in tragedy; the middle is filled with tragic romance.

The Hunter is an unlikely enemy of the Dark Lord. He is a muggle who hunts Wizards and is very sucessful at it. In fact he has been created in very similar circumstances to our young Potter. This story shows the Hunter's creation against the backdrop of the Trio's hunt for a Horcrux in Eastern Europe. A very dark and angsty fic. The story has very violent things happen, but I have tried to avoid being directly graphic in my descriptions. Also has a lot of religious references, particularly concerning the Roman Catholic Church. There is also some (very gently) implied shipping between R/Hr and G/H.

Five years after the Downfall of Voldemort and nearly four years after the true start of the Peace, two young veterans meet by accident just north of Amsterdam.

Lucius Malfoy confesses: saying, "Lily, I love you!" Lily is shocked and confused. Not wanting to hurt him, she goes out with him. But when a better offer (James) comes along, Lily leaves him behind. After some rough spots with James, she realizes how she may have felt all along... and now it's her turn to be the one crying the river.

A heart wrenching fic about how tragic events in life can change a person. Hermione Granger suffers abuse at the hands of Lucius Malfoy. Draco Malfoy gets caught in the middle. Severus Snape struggles to save the Hermione he once knew and unwittingly falls in love with her.

Harry is back for his final year at Hogwarts, while the rest of the magical world strains under the Second War. Harry manages to lose himself in ordinary school troubles, like his N.E.W.T. exams, Quidditch matches, and teenage romances-- but something is always lurking at the back of his mind. Professor Trelawney predicted years ago that a final battle between himself and Lord Voldemort would bring one of them to their demise. And Harry knows it must happen soon. How can Harry prepare himself to face the greatest evil that ever was? What can he possibly do to save himself and everyone he cares about? A gripping, Rowling-esque read and thrilling sequel to the alternate sixth book Harry Potter and the Return to the Riddle House.

Ginny Weasley never understood why they would send her to help him. After all, she wasn't one of his best friends, nor a person he looked up to like Remus Lupin. So why her? But it was the desperate look in her mother's eyes that had really convinced Ginny to do it. Being desperate was not a thing of her mother, and it had startled Ginny to see those tears in her eyes.

A funeral -- whose?

Ginny Weasley is fading from Light to Dark. She thinks no-one notices, but when she and Snape run into each other in Knockturn Alley, her life changes course. Will she be able to betray her family to help keep safe the Wizarding world?

Hermione wakes up one night to something frightening. And dead. But it will spread to others. It is not a joke. Hinting at Ron/Hermione, no slash (er... sorry)

In Hermione's seventh year someone attempts to give her a gift that could change her life; she refuses. Years later she may come to regret her choice.

COMPLETE!!! Harry's mind has been erased. When he regains his senses, he finds that things are different and he doesn't quite understand why....

Snap.

Two years after Hogwarts Hermione finally accepts she is alone, then suddenly Ron finally wakes from a deep, magical coma. Confused when Ginny shows her a letter from a dear friend long dead, Hermione goes back to Hogwarts only to find that she is entrapped in a web of lies and deceit.

Throw It All Away -- A letter arrives at Privet Drive, causing Harry a load of trouble, while Draco stares at the ceiling. Part of the 'Hungryverse.' This is Harry ``and Draco's story. This is the answer to why.

Ginny Weasley is broken. Her loved ones are dead, leaving her with the shattered remains of a home, and a life. She is searching for anything that can put her together again. But when she turns to steel for comfort, the most unlikely of people becomes determined to save her from herself. Warning: Light incest and themes of self injury.