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One year after the War is over, George still hasn't gotten over Fred's death. Ron swears George needs a distraction to get away from "last year." Then, George meets Kaitlyn Thompson. Kaitlyn is loyal - to a fault. After all, that's what made her a great Hufflepuff. Her older brother (who has problems of his own, mind you) swears she needs to get out more, and break up with her awful boyfriend. Kaitlyn disagrees. Then, she meets George Weasley.

The war is over, but its repercussions are still being felt more than a decade after the fact. George Weasley finds himself drawn into the latest machinations of a former Death Eater: one who just happens to be an old family nemesis. Short companion piece to "George & Annie: an Unofficial Biography"

Lucius no longer matters. (Set during the first half of DH.)

Love isn't what it's cracked up to be. Ginny, Draco, Harry, Hermione, and Ron all discover that very quickly in this story.

Deathly Hallows spoilers ensue. This story is being written as a response to JKR's comment in an interview where she said if Snape could choose to live his life over, he would choose Lily over the Death Eaters. So, that said, this is obviously AU.

They say that when someone is on the brink of death, his life flashes through his eyes one last time. Who but the Marauders had experienced so much of life... and death?

A series of vignettes which chronicle the heartbreak and romance of various members of the Order of the Phoenix, during the Christmas season of the First War.

Harry receives a very special gift for his 16th birthday, which quickly comes in handy when things get really bad at Privet Drive this summer. But when he finds refuge at Snape's, everything starts to get complicated... This is NOT a slash fiction, but an adoption/guardian one !

While Harry and company are off hunting horcruxes, it's up to Luna and the rest of the DA to hold down the fort at Hogwarts. But, that's not as easy as it may seem.

Two days after the final battle, George reflects on what happened and attempts to cope with the results. Can he find the strength to carry on? Contains spoilers for "Deathly Hallows".

Remus is scared, and for the life of him cannot figure out why...

Ron and Hermione are to be married on this happiest of days. The twins would rather not be there when it happens.

And so Harry Potter lived to a ripe old age, became Minister for Magic and had twelve children. What if at least one of Trelawney's prophecies actually came true?

Guilt, grief, and obligation haunt Severus Snape, and he is forced to deal with the feelings they leave behind.

When Harry Potter dies, the Wizarding World is shocked. But death is yet another adventure, and as Harry finds out, a big one.

The afterlife bears a surprising resemblance to a railway station...

Even though Ron's cunning plans didn't have the intended result, he still planned on taking full credit. (Percy/Oliver, Harry/Draco) Features meddling!Ron, oblivious!Percy, shy!Oliver, unabashed feel-good happy-end, frequent mentions of drunkenness.

The story behind Harry's absolutely very first broom... whose idea was it really?

War rages in wizard Britain, yet Severus Snape has never been better off. As he rises in the Dark Lord’s inner circle, he seems ever closer to fulfilling his grand ambitions. But he is haunted by memories of his childhood friend Lily Evans, now married to his sworn enemy. As the stakes get higher, Severus must once more decide where his true loyalties lie. Either choice will mean betraying one of his friends – and the consequences could be fatal… [COMPLETE]

You never hated him. If anything you loved him as much as your own son. But that was why you had to force it out of him. Because it would kill him. Just like it killed Lily.

Hermione Granger decides to transfer to the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. There, she learns that they not only make and enforce laws, but they also study magical criminology and forensics. As a joke, Blaise Zabini assigned school rival Draco Malfoy to train Hermione in the field...but he forgot one crucial thing that Draco remembered, and now he's stuck with her too. Bargains are made between the three, and strange things keep occurring as they attempt to solve a cold case that happened 20 years ago. It's a Draco/Hermione/Blaise and ALL combinations of the pairing.

After Dumbledore's death, things change ... sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worst. After HBP, before DH. RLNT.

"Harry was back with the Mirror of Erised, his back turned to it. He stared down his enemy with a look of hate, all of these memories rushing through his mind. He wished that he didn't have to be there, that he didn't have to have his friends hurt, that he didn't have to battle, and the he didn't have to be the Boy Who Lived. It was too much for him." A oneshot of what Harry now sees in the Mirror of Erised.

Albus Severus Potter has just entered his first year of schooling, with the help of his friends can he survive the pranks, work, and secrets of which being a Potter includes?

When Lily Evans attended school at Hogwarts, she made a choice that affected the magical world as we know it. This is the first part of her daughter's story.

A healer assigned to assist Snape in his efforts for the Order gives her side of the story.

One-shot: Snape has come back into Harry's life after 16 years, and Ginny doesn't know what to do to save her family. Epilogue compliant. 10427 words.

It was insane. It was stupid. But he had to do it. Severus Snape knew he would never be able to live without knowing. It all came down to her. Lily.

Hermione's disastrous attempt to brew a complex and forbidden potion backfires. As a result, Harry's world is turned upside down and he discovers a disturbing plot by Voldemort to use Harry once again in his cruel schemes.

This essay follows Draco Malfoy through his experiences in Deathly Hallows and attempts to speculate as to his motivations and virtues, or lack thereof.

AU. DH Spoilers. Snape is the post-DH headmaster of Hogwarts, and not all the students want to return. Especially a certain bushy-haired Muggleborn. One-shot.

Severus Snape is thirty-five years old and is looking back upon his life. It is with regret he thinks about the one true love of his life and how he lost her to the man he hates the most.

Most of the time, I can live with it.

Take a deep breath, count backwards from ten... and above all else ... don't worry! It will all be over soon. The world, that is. Yet for Harry Potter, the end is just the beginning. Enemies close in on all sides, and Harry faces the greatest challenge of all... Time. The Boy Who Lived will do so again, as an ancient legend will rise from the dark, murky depths of time, screaming with enough power to shatter the world.

Under other circumstances, all of Severus Snape's dreams would be coming true. But in this last year at Hogwart's, he must make a choice that breaks his heart.

What happens when Sirius Black falls for a girl who makes all his charms and tricks worth nothing? And what happens when that same girl causes turmoil in the close friendship between Sirius and James?

Fred survives the Battle of Hogwarts, but at a price: he is blinded. A guilty Percy declares himself his helper. Fred could barely stand Percy being a git, but this helpful, overtly friendly Percy is driving him mad.

“Luna, where are your shoes?” Luna x Dean

Hermione Weasley thinks of another as her husband is laid to his final rest...

After this was all over, they would have plenty of time to begin. Two students thrown together amidst the madness of the Ministry's fall find comfort in each other. A year in the life of Dean Thomas.

Ginny Weasley, newest member of the Holyhead Harpies, attends a charity function. Ginny Weasley x Viktor Krum

There is always a next battle. (DH Spoilers!)

A Dark artefact falls into the hands of a Muggle cricketer ... and the trail leads Harry and his picked band of Aurors through Spinner's End and the Hangletons, to a final confrontation on a village cricket pitch, where they hit the Forces of Evil for six. (All Kingsley wants is for the forms to be filed correctly.)

Some familiar characters exercise their magical powers for the first time.

Sequel to A Pale Shade of Night. Lord Voldemort throws Britain into chaos and courts madness in his desire for immortality. With the Order crumbling and Darkness swelling on the Continent, a bitter soul hunter takes matters in her own clawed hands.

A month has passed since the death of Lord Voldemort. A chance meeting on the street forces Remus Lupin to confront questions he cannot answer.

Being married was never going to be a cake-walk for Tonks and Lupin, but the battle after Bill and Fleur's wedding proves to them that it might be worse than they thought. A bit of what happens in the wedding day battle after Harry, Ron, and Hermione Disapparate and as the Lupins struggle forward in their marriage.

It has been decades since the last Ghost Revue, and since then, three more ghosts have joined the school's gang. Come meet them!

Hermione will do anything to be with her beloved again, even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice. (TR/HG)

For Harry Potter's twenty-eighth birthday, he received three pairs of socks, two ties, and a summons to his bosses' office. What happened next could only be expected of Harry Potter.

For several long seconds, George's mind refused to comprehend what his eyes were telling it.

Hermione thinks on Christmases past, present and future. H/Hr fluff.

Midsummer; a Ministry ball. Politics leads Lucius to approach Hermione. Politics obliges her to accept. But it's music that compels them to dance.

Disowned by his family, Sirius finds unexpected solace in familiar places.

Hermione finds herself having an odd conversation with a dead man. Post Deathly Hallows

Neville is a little wary about Luna's plans for attire at their wedding. (Alternate title: Proper Wedding Attire)

It's Ron's first disastrous day working at Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes. If things weren't bad enough, a very peculiar customer shows up.... post-DH, pre-Epilogue.

Angelina married George, instead of Fred.

A Founders story, casting Salazar, Rowena, Godric and Helga into the real events around the turn of the last millenium. Salazar plays a monk expelled from his monastery for his ability to speak Parseltongue, Godric is a wizard from the Danelaw, a dangerous person at a dangerous time, Helga is a witch captured in the north and sold into slavery far to the south, while Rowena is the wife of the powerful but Dark wizard who draws them all together. The founding of Hogwarts!

A one-shot about Albus Dumbledore and his impossible love for an impossible man.

Years after a wartime fling, Dean and Luna meet in China, and a long-forgotten flame is reignited.

They reminded each other of the seasons. A look at Draco and Ginny's relationship.

Nineteen years after the deathly hallows, Harry and Ginny are married, but their eldest son is only 12 yrs old. This story is about those missing 7 yrs; 6 of which Ginny spent slapping, snogging and falling in love with Draco Malfoy.

It hasn't been a very good year at all for the Malfoy family, but Narcissa is determined to put her best foot forward and keep up appearances in her annual Christmas letter. Warning: contains high quantities of self-delusion, and far more underlining than necessary.

Harry will keep his promise to deliver Snape's portrait to the Headmaster's office--but only after enlisting its help with an important assignment. Even Snape's image can be a handful, but Harry isn't worried. There are so many ways to dispose of an obstreperous portrait . . .

It's 1981 and Barty Crouch Jr. is desperate for word from or about Regulus Black. Hint of Barty/Regulus.

Love and Wheezes in a time of war. Fred/Angelina, possible side of George/Angelina if you squint and tilt your head. No relation to Hermione, despite the name.

A look into the life of the Order, and the lives involved in the first war. Their love, their losses, and the trials of their youthful union, parenting and friendships. Not Chronological.

Harry and Hermione are out running from Voldemort in their tent. Harry can't hide his feelings for very long...

Helena--the Gray Lady--was shaped in many ways by her parents and their crumbling relationship with each other. She considers their combined temperaments and the way this lead to her jealousy and eventual betrayal.

With the wizarding world in chaos as the Dark Lord executes his final plans, one girl has trained her entire life learning ancient magic for guardianship. Now she has been charged to protect one of Harry Potter's most iniquitous enemies, Draco Malfoy.

In which Harry returns Draco's wand and a tentative friendship is formed.

The first years are taking off, but a troublesome broomstick initiates a disturbing flashback for Sev. He wakens, however, to equally disorienting but astonishing revelations about Lily...

When Harry left her to do the last thing Dumbledore asked of him, all Ginny had left was the hope he would return. That, and an old jersey.

After the Battle of Hogwarts, Ron isn't sure what he should be feeling or doing about a lot of things, especially Hermione.

The war is over. As everyone tries to return to their normal lives, Harry makes the curious decision to return to his roots. Little does he know he’s about to receive a very unusual surprise.

Today is Ginny's nineteenth birthday, August 11, 2000. Later, there is going to be a party at the Burrow. But for now, Ginny is alone, sitting outside Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor, eating a blueberry ice cream cone under the shade of a pink umbrella. A chance encounter with an old friend makes Ginny feel for the first time since the war.

Harry reflects on the events that lead him to his personal hell, and why he has given up hope.

It was a complete and utter shock when Lily laid down her fork in the middle of the meal and announced that she was in love." Lily II/Teddy for the Father-Daughter/ Weather Challenge on HPFC.

"The word birthday had grown to be almost synonymous with her name." In his sixth year, Severus remembers how Lily has helped him celebrate his birthdays.

Regulus has got a secret. And the one person who'd kill to find out - is the one person he'd die to keep it from.

Severus Snape has bad hygiene -- in the opinion of Sirius Black. Who pointedly tells him so. Severus Snape has dirty blood -- in the opinion of Regulus Black, who unwittingly tells him so. One telling leads to the other -- and both have surprising repercussions once they all start school.

Well, now we know that Albus was in love with Gellert as a teen. See how he pines...

Neville and Luna find themselves stranded on the way to Hogsmeade Station. A seventh year might-have-been. Written for the Wild Weather Challenge on The Quidditch Pitch.

Wouldn't it figure that on one of the worst days of George's life, the weather would be unrelentingly cheerful?

Minister Kingsley Shacklebolt has to learn on the job, fast, and painfully. Everyone thinks they have a claim on him; everyone has demands; and no one is willing to listen. And the sinister Black clan seems to have plans of its own.

Wars make people do mad things. But if Seamus ever finds out about this, he’s dead. Dean/Luna, throughout Deathly Hallows. Charcoal, driftwood and fishfingers abound. Oneshot.

Ginny is trapped in a state of romantic denial. Harry is ignoring any memories of romance. Neither wants to admit any feelings for the other. But when a locked door and and a writer's imagination force them together, who knows what can happen? Sort of written for SIYE's "Baby, It's Cold Outside Challenge," but not really.

The war has ended, and now life will try and return to normal for Harry and his friends.

James visits Remus over the summer and discovers something about his friend, Lily learns to love, and Remus realises James was right. J/L R/T.

Harry and Sirius decorate for the first Christmas together.

Following Voldemort's rebirth, Severus returns to his Master's side, while a scandal in the Ministry throws the future into even greater uncertainty. Severus must push aside his own doubts and misgivings as he fights to protect all he holds dear. (Post GoF and AU)

Bellatrix tapped her long fingernails on the arm of her chair like heartbeats. (Lucius Malfoy, Bellatrix Lestrange gen)

Life. Death. Love. Loss. Percy. Marriage. Whiskey. The Wheeze. Rolf. Romanians. Sex-Education. Snorkack-Catchers. Malaysian Battle Spatulas. Dead Siblings Talking From Beyond the Grave. All as seen by his Holeyness, George Weasley.

After dating for a year and a half, Dean takes Luna to his West Ham home to meet his family. It's the first time he's ever seen her nervous, and he's not feeling too great about the whole thing either...

The Whomping Willow is home to a troubled soul, the result of dark and dangerous secret. Luna's love and need for a home can free Willow of its pain. But then Draco Malfoy appears, more confused than ever. Draco x Luna. Luna x Whomping Willow. Warning: Contains slight Nigel.

Ten Weasleys. One hundred words each. A family like no other.

Sirius waits for James in the Hog's Head, and James has just discovered something incredible.

Lily is now the proud mother of a bubbly baby boy. She has just returned home from the hospital for the first time with him but something seems to be irking her. The man in the kitchen preparing her tea might not be her sons father. Who could Lily Evans have gotten caught up with? How did this happen? What if The-Boy-Who-Lived isn't really the son of James Potter?