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When James gets his hands on a rather colorful romance novel, owned by a certain Miss Lily Evans, can he survive the ensuing storm and get his Lily too?

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Chapters: 1
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Lily is horrified when she discovers who the Head Boy is, but even more so when she sees into the future and discovers the state of her romantic life, recognizing a few changes in James Potter in the process. One-shot.

Words: 4,892
Chapters: 1
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It's the best feeling in the world, our palms sweaty, your breathing erratic, but then you pick up that black and white electric guitar and nothing else seems to matter.

Words: 3,017
Chapters: 2
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A quiet autumn morning in Godric's Hollow before October 31. One-shot.

Words: 993
Chapters: 1
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L/J One-shot. She could hardly look at Harry anymore. His little wisps of black hair, now fuller and messier than when he was a newborn, reminded Lily too much of James. Where was James?

Words: 3,106
Chapters: 1
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In which James and Lily get married, Sirius gets maudlin, Remus gets put-upon and everyone gets drunk.

Words: 6,360
Chapters: 1
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My version of how Lily and James finally got together.

Words: 2,456
Chapters: 1
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"A baby is inside her, and she's afraid. Sometimes she wonders if she'll survive the war." One-shot, set a few days before Harry's birth.

Words: 1,142
Chapters: 1
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Nursing baby Harry makes it hard for Lily to pay attention to Remus.

Words: 733
Chapters: 1
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Maternal Instinct by Calliope
03/21/2005

What is it like to bring a baby into the world with a potential death sentence in his future? Lily Potter knows.

Words: 3,416
Chapters: 1
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A day during the James's, Remus's, and Sirius's life at Hogwarts. Full of fighting, falling, and raging hormones.

Words: 1,152
Chapters: 1
Hits: 1,142
Diamond Dogs by NewDevilry9
02/23/2006

The Marauders attend a fancy dress/costume party at the end of their seventh year. Our intrepid heroes wear feather boas and eyeliner, and do quite a bit of snogging. All in all, it makes for much fun.

Words: 4,878
Chapters: 1
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Oh... just one of the many antics of James Potter to win Lily over... who answers, "Aren’t you supposed to be in detention? Clearing up blocked toilets or something."

Words: 1,568
Chapters: 1
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AU- What if Peter was a loyal Death Eater, but found a way to protect James and Lily from being hunted by Voldemort? When Peter sees to it that Harry Potter is born on July 15, 1980, the world changes.

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Chapters: 1
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James is getting married, but it's not to Lily. Back in their seventh year when he asked her to marry him, Lily was just a young girl, but now she's grown up... Ships: J/OC, J/L

Words: 2,507
Chapters: 1
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Why Potter? by JaneA
04/10/2006

As the Marauders enter their last year at Hogwarts, James sets out to do one thing: to get Lily Evans, the girl of his dreams. Lily is just trying to stay away from him. Sirius and Remus are coming up with a plan. What happens when Lily and James become Heads?

Words: 1,724
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They're normal kids, and they make mistakes just like we do. And just like us, they're not perfect. But we all crave a happy ending. Getting it is a lot harder than everyone imagines...

Words: 11,385
Chapters: 2
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A Piece of Sun by ms_metaphor
02/28/2006

"Sirius, I want you to be Harry's godfather." [SiriusLily, LilyJames, Major Angst]

Words: 3,402
Chapters: 1
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Join four friends who later become known as the Marauders for their eventful fifth year at Hogwarts. Love and loss await them, among other things. Sirius learns that there's more to family than just blood. His friends are what truly matter, for they are the ones who grow with him from being friends to being brothers.

Words: 9,942
Chapters: 2
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Ever wondered what happened between Snape and Lily? Curious about the depth and secrecy behind their tender friendship? What separated them? What held them together? What begame of their mysterious bond? This novella tells their story through their seven years at Hogwarts together, most taking place during their last four years. Now you can finally hear the answers to each and every question you once had regarding the pair.

Words: 2,321
Chapters: 1
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Elemental Magic by Lord Baal
12/28/2005

Snape turns to the dark side. He gets what he wants, power, saisfaction and the ability to cause pain. But everything changes when he realises his mistakes. When he sees himself as he really is for the first time. A story of choices, betrayals and truth..

Words: 5,617
Chapters: 3
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Is a certain redhead going nuts? James sends Lily a diary for her birthday. The diary documents how Lily's feelings towards James change from hate, to confusion, to love. Friendship, secrets, feelings and pranks abound!

Words: 1,510
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After the humiliating day by the lake, Snape's housemates try to help him -- and only make things worse.

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Chapters: 1
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Severus Snape is on the run; he decides, however, that it is time he tells the story of how he got to where he is, running from a crime he was ordered to commit.

Words: 9,126
Chapters: 5
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Originally named "The Four Marauders". It's the Marauders' fifth year at Hogwarts--Remus suffers from PMS (Pre-Moon Sickness) and Moonopause--James struggles to kiss Lily--Sirius flirts and attempts to get a girlfriend--and Peter...well, he tries not to explode from eating so much! Join the Marauders as they get high (off Sharpies that Remus stole from his Muggle step-dad), go on panty raids, and, most important of all, harrass Snivellus!

Words: 3,905
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Casting Grouch by remus R us
09/13/2006

What if, all the world's a stage, and the characters of HP fan fiction are actors? This is the story of what happened between 'gigs', when characters meet in the Great Hall to share their complaints about how they're portrayed. Dumbledore has been rooted out of retirement after 'dying', James has doubts about Harry's paternity, Remus rants, and Voldemort does a Gilderoy. In short, mayhem ensues. These are not Jo's sterling characters. This group of players has been forced to enact some of the most atrocious parts in fan fiction-dom, and they're all primed and ready for the casting grouch.

Words: 4,211
Chapters: 1
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Morning by LadyElendil
12/14/2006

Lily wakes up next to James and contemplates the night before. Limes but no Lemons...

Words: 1,416
Chapters: 1
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"I'm fine. We're fine." The Potters at the brink of the abyss.

Words: 2,553
Chapters: 1
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The Photograph by Chonny
02/04/2006

The seventh year for the class of 1978 was unforgettable, it was a year of change and a year when boundaries were forgotten, indeed with the explosive Lily and James as heads how could it be anything short of eventful?

Words: 1,531
Chapters: 1
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"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." -Tennyson *~* As her husband battles Voldemort, a concerned mother tells her young son the story of her relationship with his father. She hopes that he'll understand, someday, her story, which she tells him while talking to him for the last time.

Words: 1,627
Chapters: 1
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Just what are the employment options for a teenage werewolf just leaving Hogwarts? Suddenly a desperate Remus Lupin is faced with that question, and his daring friends, James Potter and Sirius Black, are going to make sure he takes whatever opportunity he's given--even if it leads to danger...

Words: 25,732
Chapters: 3
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Sunday Morning by misscharms
06/27/2007

James Potter wakes up early on a Sunday morning and finds himself inspired by his wife to use one of his little known talents...

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Chapters: 1
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Behold... The world of Hogwarts through the yellow eyes of a Cornish pixie, who takes up the onerous task of matchmaking... Matchmaking for his beloved mistress, Lily Evans. Much madness ensues [and James Potter may die a thousand painful deaths in the process].

Words: 7,320
Chapters: 2
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I Don't by Elissy
04/06/2007

The one thing that he knew what hurt him the most is the one thing he did. Watching her from afar was the only way he knew to feel close to her. A Severus/Lily fic.

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Chapters: 1
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We all know what happened that fateful night in Godric's Hollow... but have we all seen it through Lily's eyes? Written as half narrative, half stream-of-consciousness, this fic offers a new look at the pain, fear, and ultimately, love that Lily Potter felt on October 31, 1981. Inspired by Billy Joel's "Lullaby"

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Chapters: 1
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COMPLETE. After Lily's roommate convinces their Charms class to participate in a friendly Secret Santa gift exchange, Lily starts to receive surprising presents from an anonymous source. One-Shot.

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Remus Lupin falls in love. Will he end up with the girl or a glass of whiskey?

Words: 1,960
Chapters: 1
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A Flash of Green by argyle
08/24/2006

Halloween 1975. Fifteen year old James Potter had no idea what the next six years will bring, and he's too busy with his friends to worry about it much. Follow James and his friends as they grow and make the decisions that will lead them to the events of Halloween 1981.

Words: 5,920
Chapters: 2
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The Prophecy by PlaidPhoenix
11/30/2003

James and Lily return home after finding out about the prophecy and deal with their reactions.

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One-shot. As Lily waits for James to arrive she thinks back to the night that changed her life, the night she discovered the Marauders' secrets, the night she realized that she loved James Potter.

Words: 2,335
Chapters: 1
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We Are by LilyLunaPotter
04/08/2009

We are teenagers finding ourselves in a steadily darkening world. We are children and adults, confident and conflicted. We are different and we are the same. We are brave, ambitious, loyal and clever, arrogant, selfish, foolish and haughty. We are lovers and fighters and friends. We are Hogwarts, class of 1978.

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Chapters: 3
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Harry is at school, James is dead, Remus is off with Tonks, Sirius isn’t home; it’s just Lily, all alone at 12 Grimmauld Place. She looks through her closet in the room she used to live in as a teenager, only to re-vist old memories and re-open old wounds. Very A/U.

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Chapters: 1
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While looking through Snape's posessions after the war, Harry finds something that will once more radically alter his view of the man that loved his mother. But also to be altered is how he views the story of the marauders, the story of the betrayal. For from the other side of the grave echoes an unheard voice, telling a story of trust that was destroyed and of blind, furious revenge.

Words: 7,706
Chapters: 2
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James wonders what Lily has done to him, but when they talk, both of them end up confused.

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Lily comes home to find James behaving in an unexplained manner. Is he polyjuiced or does he have some mysterious plan up his sleeve? One-shot

Words: 1,730
Chapters: 1
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Imagine a Life by evil_wench
09/28/2006

We enter the life of Kaelie Hunt, a stubborn, passionate, and hilarious seventeen year old girl, who has just entered her final year of Hogwarts. The only thing getting in her way from having the perfect last year? The Marauders, of course. Or rather: one marauder. Sirius Black.

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Chapters: 2
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Lily and James lived in time of war, but their lives were always defined by love and laughter, not death. The story of Harry's parents and their friends, from their days at Hogwarts to their final confrontation with Voldemort.

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Chapters: 1
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All Hallows Eve in Godric's Hollow, and Lily takes a moment to reflect upon her son and huband. Surely, they've taken every care and have earned a moment to bask in the comfort of this moment and their plans for the future, haven't they?

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Molly Weasley looks back on the road she's taken, the lives that she has changed and the peoples who lives have changed hers.

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There’s no escaping the inevitable. Call it fate, or fortune, or force of will, but there’s no escaping it. Because Sirius fell in love with his best mate’s girl, and, though he didn’t mean for it to happen, she fell in love with him. [Fourth and Final Part of The Heart’s Progress, a series of vignettes inspired by the poetry of Pablo Neruda]

Words: 3,593
Chapters: 1
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Choices. It's a part of growing up. They aren't always easy to make and the consequences can bring you down paths you never would have imagined. Can the bonds of friendship survive? Can love continue to grow when each day seems darker with rumors of war on the horizon?

Words: 3,889
Chapters: 3
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Guileless by Heidi
03/11/2004

In this response to the Classic Canon Challenge, Jane Austen's EMMA is retold as taking place in Wales in the late 1970s, back in the halceyon days when the Marauders were young. It is an AU from the Harry Potter books.

Words: 2,265
Chapters: 1
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A simple letter leaves James in complete inner turmoil; he tries to somehow find serenity.

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Up To Speed by Amelia Bedelia
11/29/2006

Lily and James used to be best friends, hanging out in their neighborhood with each other. But once they were accepted into Hogwarts, they went their separate ways - James, the popular prankster, and Lily, the know-it-all bystander. But will their past be able to bring them back together?

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Lily Evans and James Potter begin their 6th year at Hogwarts full of secret resentments against each other. A school announcement and an ancient locket full of mysterious magic turn things upside down and paves the way for Lily and James' journey to their tragic death and the beginning of a baby named Harry.

Words: 3,844
Chapters: 2
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The Hunt by Kali Rhian
02/04/2006

It had begun. He would lose, Remus would make sure of it. It was to avenge him, it was to avenge Sirius.

Words: 2,666
Chapters: 2
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His heart stopped. His jaw dropped. He was in love. Though he was only eleven at the time, James Potter knew he would marry that girl, or die trying.

Words: 587
Chapters: 1
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Christmas, 1980 by Ignipes
05/26/2005

Harry's first Christmas doesn't go exactly the way his mum hoped it would. (Lily/James)

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Chapters: 1
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“Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.” A late night stroll to clear the mind leads to an unlikely conversation between two friends, where walls that have spent years being built up are suddenly torn down.

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Lily Evans always thought she understood her place in the magical world. She had her ambitions, her friends, her teachers, and the "Persistant Git" - James Potter. Life wasn't perfect, but it made sense. That was until everything changed. Now, Lily has to choose: the expectations of her past or the new, great expectations of the future?

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Poor, poor Belladonna has quite a few problems. Her mother is THE Devil-Lady, her father can't stand up for himself, Grandma Dot is losing it, somebody stole her necklace, her brother Jason is being moody, her twin - Nicky - is keeping a secret, Lily and James need a good push, her best friend left her, Margery Butter is still a mystery, everybody thinks she is crazy, she is hearing voices, Remus keeps getting glued to her, she keeps walking into Sirius and Mr Ted, her teddy, lost an eyebrow. Bella doesn't need THAT along with NEWTS, finding a job and keeping her head. Oh, and her therapist is sleeping with the cleaner. Marauder Era. AU-ish.

Words: 9,295
Chapters: 4
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A Gaunt Tale by Comma
11/02/2008

A witch from a long line of proud purebloods is sorted into Gryffindor upon her arrival at Hogwarts, but is removed by her strict father after only a week, who would rather school her himself than allow a member of his family to stay in Hogwarts in such a formidable house. She manages to escape in the summer of her forth year, but the trouble is far from over - aside from being at war with the school's troublemakers every time she turns around, Katalina Gaunt's nights are plagued by terrible dreams and frequent visits from the mysterious and secretive right-hand of a dark wizard, who is willing to go to any lengths to get what this "Dark Lord" requires, even (or especially, in his case) murder.

Words: 22,035
Chapters: 6
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It was a time of terror, a time of panic and confusion. It was a time when death and pain ran rampant, and shadows sought to destroy the Light. It was a time when friends and family feared for themselves and for others. It was a time when Darkness threatened to overcome the Wizarding World. It was a time of death ... but also a time of life. It was the time of the First War.

Words: 12,431
Chapters: 4
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Lily Evans hates James Potter with a passion. So what happens when he finally shows a softer, more mature side? What will she do? Inspired by Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. My first J/L Fic!

Words: 4,523
Chapters: 1
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Petunia's PoV. Sisterly love is a strange thing, it breeds rivalry, jealously and anger, yet the love that is given, is given with question. Set after Lily's death, with flashbacks.

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Chapters: 3
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The train is waiting to take Remus Lupin on... but where will it take him? Lupin struggles between wanting to be returned to Sirius and his duty to his wife, Tonks.

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Lily Evans has problems; she's flunking Arithmancy, has no boyfriend, eats too much chocolate, has no boyfriend, has strange friends, enjoys dancing on her roof, has no boyfriend, and last but not least, James Potter won't stop asking her out!

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It's been two years since they graduated from Hogwarts, but Lily Evans has yet to go out with one James Potter. One shot

Words: 1,054
Chapters: 1
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Nineteen by GreenLily
05/31/2009

What happens: Nineteen Minutes, Nineteen Hours, Nineteen Days, Nineteen Weeks, Nineteen Months Later.... Well, to name a thing, Harry and Ginny rekindle their romance, Dolores Umbridge goes on trial, Lily and Snape talk in the Afterlife, Andromeda and Narcissa end their estrangement, and Harry decides to tell the world the truth about Snape, Regulus, and everything else.

Words: 3,439
Chapters: 1
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The Sacrifice by DarkFlame
03/06/2006

It is James and Lily's wedding, the happiest night of their lives. But on the sidelines with a genuine smile and a heavy heart lies Sirius. He is weighed down with the sacrifice he had to make for both of his best friends' happiness...and the knowledge that the price he has paid for it will never stop hurting.

Words: 540
Chapters: 1
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Absolution by hgseeker
07/26/2007

This is a post-HPDH fic involving one of Harry's numerous nightmares, this one born of guilt over his supposedly causing more deaths of friends and loved ones, prompting some of them to visit him in the dream and set him straight once and for all.

Words: 4,156
Chapters: 1
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Falling For You by TaraLynn
11/23/2006

The story of Lily and James' 7th year. Lily, her friends, and the Maruaders find love, feel pain, and most of all rely on their friends.

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Chapters: 1
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James decides to hold a party. But Peter sees dead people, Remus has a revelation, Sirius is easily distracted, and Lily seems to speak only in questions. What will their reaction be to the announcement he's about to make?

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After an initial bad impression of the new year, Lily realizes that maybe it isn't as bad as it seems. (One-shot)

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Regulus watches his older brother pack for school and worries about what he'll do when tomorrow night comes and he wakes up in the middle of the night with no one there to comfort him.

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Chapters: 2
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Why does Petunia REALLY hate Lily? Could it be due to plans going amiss? And why is Severus involved? Can James dance? A One shot fun piece.

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During the middle of the first war with Voldemort, the original Order of the Phoenix discovers a map to the Death Eaters' secret headquarters and plans a raid. In the face of the pain, loss, and betrayal that threatens to destroy everything, the love of newlyweds James and Lily Potter is given new dimension as the Order struggles to live to face another day.

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This is the real story of what happened to Harry Potter. Peter decided was able to stop Voldemort from killing the Potters, allowing them to have a long and happy life. Until, Harry's first year at Hogwarts, when something worse than the rise of a Dark Lord brings the lives of James, Lily, and Harry into turmoil. Will everything turn out all right in the end?

Words: 10,629
Chapters: 3
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Taken by Amelia Bedelia
11/29/2006

Lily felt her heart jump into her throat. In fact, all she heard was her heart beating steadily throughout her body.

Words: 4,921
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Final Moments by BlackOpal
07/03/2006

In the last moments of James Potter's life, he recalls the beauty of his wife, the potential of his son... and the irony of his death.

Words: 1,124
Chapters: 1
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The Trial by blonde goldfish
04/17/2006

After Remus's world fell apart, he had to slowly put the pieces back together.

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Dumbledore decided to throw a masquerade ball. Lily spent the night dancing away with the masked Prince and then returned to the dormitory wondering if she would ever know who he was. Allison wants to know everything, but her friend isn't telling. A staircase, a smile, a waltz, a note, a tiara, a stroke of midnight, and a kiss.

Words: 3,235
Chapters: 1
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During the summer after his 5th year at school, Harry Potter is attacked by Death Eaters. He is hit by a spell and sent through a window to the time of the Marauders.

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What would life be like if Harry's parents hadn't died? Join Jillian Anders as she tells the story of romance, drama, angst, and most of all-humor.

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