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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?

Luna is desperate, and needs the help of her best friend. Who knew that the youngest Weasley could carry a tune, anyway?

Single Shot of a brief moment missing from The Deathly Hallows

Inspired by DH and REM's Everybody Hurts. Severus fixes his gaze on those green eyes and finds what it is to live. My tribute to my favourite and most loved character.

Various scenes from "Half-Blood Prince" from Severus Snape's perspective.

"You are one lucky girl. You leave home to spend some time with your fiancée and you come back future mother to the heir of an ex-convict, and empowered with unknown magical powers." "I like those kinds of holidays. But you forgot to mention that I got to wear lace garnet." He laughed, throwing his head back. "And you also forget the part where there's a lot of money. That alone would suffice to make my choice." "You're marrying me for the money?" I laughed. "Of course, dear. For the money and for the sex. Both are pretty abundant here." May or may not be AU. It depends on how you look at it.

Ruled by a muggle's wants, this story takes place with our dear wizard and witch friends and foes. It twists romance and humor together like no other. Be prepared to face an explosion of laughs, shocked faces, steamy imagery, chickens, and many cliff hangers.

From the outset you would not believe that such a dirty, hole in the wall junk shop would have such importance in the Harry Potter series, but it does. We know that it is essentially a wizarding junk shop that caters to the darker elements of wizarding society. Items keep showing up from the shop and are used later on in the series. I believe that there are further items of importance that reside there, which have yet to be discovered.

“You must really think you’re something, Nott,” she remarked, her tone daring to be airy, “but you are a Slytherin, all one in the same, what separates you, might I ask?”

[GeorgeHermione][oneshot] George is easy with his grief. Hermione knows it's not as perfect as it seems.

The battle is won, and Tom Riddle is dead. But how will life continue, with so much grief and loss? A story of the wizarding community's struggle to rise from the ashes of war and to start their lives again.

Or did they? An alternative ending to Deathly Hallows and the epilogue. Fred survives. Voldermort can't bring himself to kill Snape. Teddy Lupin isn't an orphan. Expect Marriage, Infidelity, Divorce, Arguing, Pain, Anger, Kids...and that's just the Weasley twins! Maybe the original ending wasn't so bad after all? A random fic, with multiple ships. Mainly Harry, but with other characters thrown in here and there...

Severus can't distinguish between whether it's a nightmare or simply a dream. Lily is there to comfort him, whatever he decides.

Luna Lovegood and Neville Longbottom are determined to share the world together, but will Neville stop procrastinating his proposal to her? Cute, fluffy, and thoughtful ficlets about a favorite fanon pairing. Severus Snape subplot.

If working with Draco Malfoy was the last thing Hermione ever wanted... Falling in love was the least expected. A dangerous quest to thwart a magical weapon of mass destruction has devastating personal consequences, when a race to save the world, becomes a race to save themselves...

A simple gift can lead to the restoration of many things. Short one-shot.

Sequel to Cauldron of Secrets. Ever since his experiment with Felix Felicis, things have been going Horace's way. He's got the man of his dreams, and a long summer in France to look forward to. Instead of a holiday in the country, however, he and Leonide find a mystery when a local researcher is murdered. With ancient secrets, mysterious runes and the magical mafia, Horace's luck just might be running out.

We all know Harry wished he had his parents back. But do you know what Lily and James felt like? How would you feel if you suddenly died? [Did very well on other sites]

The night before Hogwarts, Albus worries that he might not fit into any House at all. Snippets from Albus' life at school - and where does Scorpius fit into it all?

This is meant to be an added chapter to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - a final chapter to tie up all the loose ends left by Rowling. Chapter 37 - Back to the Burrow.

AU: Harry and Ron visit the Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor's office to tell him where the Chamber of Secrets is. Everything Gilderoy Lockhart writes about himself is actually true.

A short one-shot from Ron's POV about how Hermione wishes they had more in common. R/Hr

The tragic fall of one boy becomes the burden of Harry Potter. Follow him on a journey of betrayal and heartbreak into the very heart of the darkness that threatens his world, as he seeks for the answer of what makes a monster and what makes a man.

Seven moments in Severus Snape's life explored through drabbles focusing on seven spells and seven interactions with Lily Evans.

There's a great deal that wants doing in the first hours after the Great Victory. Perhaps the most important thing, at the end of the day, is the work of the Magical War Graves Commission.

Rose Weasley embarks on her first year at Hogwarts...but all she really wants to do is play one of the most wonderful sports ever invented: Quidditch. Too bad life gets in the way in the form of school stress, family spats and a seeker named Scorpius.

Many years after the War, Harry is chivvied into seeking out the last of the elder Potters, with some unlikely companions. Of course, the Fates have inventive ways of buggering up his life, particularly on mysterious Dartmoor.

Cho runs into an old friend and comes to an understanding with him. [Set during HBP.]

Emotion is such a fickle thing, and so easily repressed. Femmeslash and character sketch.

Snape finds himself in the afterlife with the person he least wishes to see.

Albus went to the concert to make Rose happy. He didn't expect to enjoy himself. He didn't expect to find entertainment. Most importantly, he didn't expect to find love.

An analysis of Gringotts and the Wizarding economy and monetary system, from a Vienna-Chicago-Virginia school monetarist perspective

"Don't you get it, Tom? Love isn't fighting for immortality it is one of those that administer it!" Sometimes the dreams will show you the truth, sometimes dreams are only the truth we've accepted.

A moment in the library, post-DH. Harry and Hermione.

The past and future are nothing more than points on a path we all must tread. Through memories and choices everyone has the ability to walk his or her own path whenever they choose. However, what if you were cursed to see the paths of others? To see where they have been and where they have yet to go? Do you believe you could handle all the things you might see? Do you really believe you could fulfill such a Destiny? One woman believed she was capable... she was wrong.

Christmas fic. After much confusion, Ron finds the absolute perfect Christmas present for Hermione. During 19 years between DH and Epilogue. (Involves Grags and Mags).

The Auror Corps provides Harry with a profession that's highly dangerous, demanding, and glamorous. Except when it's not.

The war is over, but the Wizarding world and the Weasley family are thoroughly shaken in its wake. Harry is looking for signs that things will be good again wherever he can. Then Ron, suddenly, does something that shifts things and transforms the way they will be from now on.

Percy is understandably leery at the prospect of a bachelor party planned by George. The latest of the Weasley brothers to marry, Percy asks them all a question burning in his mind during a serious moment: how did you know she was "the one"? A one-shot companion to George & Annie: an Unofficial Biography. George/OC, all other ships canon compliant.

Death is only the beginning.

[TRxGW] "...be a man... try... try for some remorse..." Dark Lords did not feel remorse ... but if he had, if Tom Riddle had felt even one second of regret, it would have been for her. Twoshot.

Sirius loves London, loves visiting Harry and dropping by the shops and playing Quidditch in the backyard, but he's still waiting for one last piece to fall into place.

With apologies to George Lucas: "Who's the more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him?" Written for hd_worldcup 2008, Team Epilogue, Prompt "The Fool."

Remus and Tonks in their final moments before the end. RL/NT missing scene.

He'd give her everything she wanted, he'd love her forever... But he could never share her.

Because of attacks on Muggle-born families, Lily Evans is forced to move away from home. Interning at St. Mungo's she's busy taking care of patients along with the Marauders, and anyone else who needs her, but who will take care of her? This story is about heartache, lost, disappointment, and love. There will be fluff and danger as there is in real life. Enjoy!

When Severus Snape woke up from his traumatic encounter with Nagini, he found himself back at his favourite spot...his childhood playground.

No one mentioned Theodore Nott anymore. No one liked to think about how he died.

Three years after the events of "Golden Snitch," the Snape-Potter household finds itself facing an unexpected challenge involving the next generation. Many of their comfortable assumptions are shaken, and the strength of their bonds tested. Will the safe nest they've built survive the winds of change?

It seems to be a general belief that there are other worlds, and that death can be a doorway into these. It is in such a world, a world for which death is often a doorway, that Severus Snape finds himself in after he is killed. Crossover with Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series, which is based on Robert Browning's "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came".

Red. Nothing else describes her life as good as this colour. Nothing else would be fitting to describe a life, in which happiness and tragedy come as close as it gets. Post-Deathly Hollows. One-Shot. Molly Weasley mourns.

In the Christmas holidays Draco discovers a fellow student held captive in his home.

Moravius Krubb's first year is off to a rocky start. It would help if Potter and Longbottom didn't make fun of his accent (and everything else). It would help if his head of house didn't hate him. It would help if he somehow hadn't himself to weird Horace Slughorn or tomboyish Serena Yaxley. Unfortunately for Moravius, he'll have to make do with what he's got. Fortunately for Moravius, he has a lot more cunning than some people give him credit for!

She’s a whisper in water, a secret for him to hear. He’s the one who grows distant when she beckons him near.

Hannah fancies Neville, Neville fancies Hannah - but they're both too shy to make the first move. Drastic measures may be called for . . .

Ted was a Muggle-born. Andromeda was a pure-blood from one of the greatest Wizarding families in history. Until she married him. We know them as the parents of Nymphadora Tonks. This is their story. And just wait until you find out who’s telling it!

A moment can change everything. And for one boy life is going to change forever. Transform. And things will never, ever be the same again.

When Hermione Granger is assigned Severus Snape's old quarters, she never expects to find his ghost haunting them. But is everything really as it appears? SS/HG.

Canon-compliant. Lily and Snape's relationship, in retrospect. One shot.

It's after Ginny's seventh year and life really begins! Ginny becomes a Quidditch player for the Holyhead Harpies and there's much more unexpected things that occur. Harry, Ron, and Hermione go on with life and life becomes much more interesting. Little to the knowledge of Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny, enough trouble for a lifetime was a unknown lie.

This story originated four years ago, when I was still reeling from the death of Sirius Black and did not want to let go of him just yet. I therefore created a past for him, but soon I had left him behind and explored on my own. Minstrel Lehman finds out she is adopted. She goes to Hogwarts, where she meets her two-years-older blood cousin Severus Snape. During the course of her stay in Hogwarts, she has a love-hate relationship with Severus and with two of the Marauders (Remus and Sirius). What happens when Sirius is arrested and sent to Azkaban? In fact, what happens after, during the Second War? This story is told from Minstrel's experience, and spans from her birth in 1962 to past the Epilogue in 2017.

Lily Evans just finished her last exam at Hogwarts and contemplates her life. Meanwhile, James Potter is contemplating his own life, with her.

Ginny grieves over Fred's death. Harry ponders their relationship. Is it only a good time he wants from her? Can he overcome his aversion to weepy females for her sake? More importantly, does he want to?

Minerva and Albus have something in common.

Memories are a special kind of torture.

Somehow, two pranksters' actions can cause the ties of friendship to loosen, and the love of a certain female to change from a good friend to an arrogant toerag.

"A man stumbles down the road, torn apart with grief and fury. A man with murder in his heart." November 1st, 1981: Voldemort has fallen. James and Lily Potter are dead. But Sirius Black is alive, and he is very, very angry.

"Albus’s life has suffered a great deal of upheaval and Elphias is that constant comforting presence always waiting to take him into his arms." Albus/Elphias, Albus/Gellert.

Regulus never expected things to turn out this way. Neither did a certain redheaded girl. And yet, what you don't expect can sometimes be exactly what you're looking for. Sounds almost drabble-ish.

For Colin, it had never stopped being an adventure.

Ever wonder how Bellatrix Lestrange came to be such a wicked witch? The thoughts that went on in her mind? She left behind a letter that tells all...

"It's been coming on for a while," said Percy ... "But I had to find a way out and it's not so easy at the Ministry, they're imprisoning traitors all the time." (DH, ch30). This is Percy's journey to that point.

Almost a year after the Battle of Hogwarts, George was surprised when his wife Annie told him Harry Potter at their door, asking to speak with him. Whatever it is Harry wants to tell him, it doesn't promise to be pleasant, judging by his old friend's level of discomfort. When will the Chosen One realize everything isn't his fault? A friend is about to explain it to him. A one-shot companion to George & Annie: an Unofficial Biography. No slash.

Kingsley Shacklebolt had never expected his habit of solving the Daily Prophet crosswords to uncover a security leak. But when the Potterwatch passwords started to appear in them as answers to clues, he had little choice but to investigate who was behind it ...

HP version of Hammett's film noir classic: "The Maltese Falcon". Five years after Hogwarts, the war is raging and Harry Potter, a jaded unspeakable, is approached by Ginny Weasley, who had long been thought to have been lost to the dark side. GW/HP

A Ravenclaw student explains to his housemate why the Potions textbook contains no mention of Golpalott's Fourth Law.

A glimpse into the childhood of Draco Malfoy and Pansy Parkinson, an idea about the beginning of their friendship.

The night before he is to break into Gringotts, Harry can't sleep. Luna provides some unexpected comfort.

She cried, never going to hold the hand of another guy. Too young for him he told her waiting for the love of her traveling soilder.

There was once a little girl, and looking back, lying in the hospital wing following the battle in the Ministry, Hermione feels like she scarcely has anything in common with her former self any more. Oneshot.