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Sirius tells Harry about the day he was born.

What is love? Sirius was barely sixteen when he had his first idea of what love was. He had just been convicted for murdering thirteen people, when he realised what love was. He had thirteen years to ponder love, but it took him fifteen to realise it: The tenderest part of love is to forgive each other. Will Sirius be able to forgive the one he loved and more importantly: Will Sirius be able to forgive himself?

The Founders decide that they need a way to pass their values on when they are gone. Written for The Sky Is Falling festival at Sycophant Hex.

One boy lost, another one saved. A son of a Death Eater must make a decision.

Draco has been abused by his father for as long as he can remember. The marks are usually gone by the time he has to go back to school. But not this time. He couldn't leave soon enough, & now he has to find out how to keep his home life a secret. Most people don't think twice about it (this IS Draco Malfoy), but one red-headed girl can't stomp on her curiosity. She has to know.... The relationship that blossoms drags Draco out of his ongoing deep depression, & puts Ginny at the forefront of her family's conversations - & not in a good way. But how long can this relationship last? How long will everyone let it? Soon, Draco will have to choose between his love for his mother, & his new-found-love, for he fears he won't be able to have both.

There are only a few people capable of telling centuries worth of historical knowledge. Fortune is one of them. Since the dawn of time, she has watched people make decisions regarding destinies and fate, and in all of her watching, Fortune has chosen her favourites. They are different, yet at the same time alike, and only one word can describe them all --- They are all brave.

Regulus Black faced death in order to bring about the Dark Lord's demise, but a house-elf's disobedience creates a world very different from the one we know. The First War continues and the Order must defeat Voldemort without the help of a chosen one. AU

The Death Eaters are in the school. . . the students are dying. . . and Hogwarts is falling. A couple has one last talk in the library before the end. Argus/Irma

What do you get if you start with a very moody Ginny, you add a rampant Bludger and then you go and mix in a little Harry Potter? Mild profanity, some H/G fluff.

After defeating Voldemort, Harry spends the next year in hiding, unsure of how to go about living in a world where he no longer has that burden on his shoulders. Just when he is about to reconsider joining society, he is blamed for a devastating murder. Those who hear from him are the only ones surely-rooted in their belief that Harry is innocent. It turns out, that the first murder is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what someone has plotted to try and bring down the world's hero--Harry. Never knowing just who to trust, or what to do next, Harry must thrust himself back into the world he hid from, avoid capture at all costs, and prove his innocence to everyone.

After the war, Dean finds himself obsessed.

A surprise Death Eater attack brings Harry, Ron, and Hermione to Neva Underhill's front door. An ancient song sends the four wizards and witches back to a time when a great evil was rising for world domination--when the world was better known as Middle-earth. As the foursome struggle to survive in the War of the Ring, they learn how to win their own war against Voldemort. HP/LOTR crossover.

About two of the characters dying. The title is kinda bad but hopefully the story is better. Rating is just to be safe.

A Holiday-Fic. It was a lovely day at the snow-filled park...

Harry's first night at 12 Grimmauld Place after a month with the Dursleys and a Dementor attack. After a troubling month of isolation from the wizarding world, Harry finds a bit of solace and comfort.

Hannah Abbott is a typical Hufflepuff, isn't she? She's safe, loyal and boring.

"You know, Potter, we'll never be friends."

The much-anticipated companion piece to The Wound Dresser, told in quick glimpses. The morning after Bill's wedding, Harry, Ron and Hermione set out in search of Voldemort's soul, leaving Ginny - and a piece of Harry's heart - behind. As the many horrors of Voldemort's reign besiege the Wizarding world, the trio soldiers on, and eventually find help from the least likely of sources. As the final confrontation spirals ever nearer, Harry wonders if he'll ever see Ginny again, or if there is even anything left to the world worth saving. A long story told short...

Lily's eleventh birthday, her worst ever... They day she was forced to choose between her sister and her magic within.

Harry didn't know it, but Neville and Luna weren't the only ones who answered Hermione's summons the night Dumbledore died. This is Susan's story.

From fanfiction.net. What happens when two minor characters are selected to change the past and therefore change the future? One little detail can mean a lot. AU. Year of HBP.

AU. Voldemort accidentally turned Harry into a Horcrux on Halloween, 1981. That action further destabilized his already fragmented soul - creating yet another Horcrux, larger then the norm. This soul fragment successfully possesses a dying toddler abandoned at an orphanage, but fails to fully transfer Voldemort's memories. Tom gains his memories back as he grows older, but he is not content to simply remain Riddle's mirror image. And befriending Harry Potter seems a good start to finding his own path.

Quinnellia Chamberlain, aka Quinn, has come to Hogwarts from the United States to finish her magical education. She is befriended by Lily Evans and her dormmates and for the first time in her life has good friends, is getting good marks, and is staying out of trouble. Until she tries out for the Quidditch team and is told by the Captin, James Potter, that girls don't play Quidditch at Hogwarts. Can Quinn and Lily beat some sense into James? Moreover, can Quinn stop thinking about her own problems long enough to help Lily with her own crisis

Time does not heal all wounds. Time digs the wounds deeper into the heart, forcing the salt of pain to worsen everything until it breaks the soul. Time is murder in a new form.

I have lived my whole life with Kolen and the rest of the vampire clan. We're constantly migrating; fleeing from sunlight and those dreaded, mortal humans who have for centuries been hunting down and slaughtering our kind. I was one of the few, lucky survivors. One day, Kolen came to me in and put me on a dangerous mission to recreate our clan. My name is Katrina Sillane, and this is the story of my fateful mission...

A young woman sits alone at a small table outside a Parisian cafe. Her life has left her bitter and lonely, until a stranger changes it forever. Based on the beautiful song "La Vie En Rose" by the brilliant Edith Piaf.

The air is thick with the dreams of dreamers, Hogwarts students past and present. In the darkest part of the night, guards are let down, truths are faced and sweet denial is bliss. Desperation, fear, hate, lust, love and what might have been are rampant at the midnight hour.

One-shot sequel to Confession Is Good For the Soul. First-date jitters.

During her fifth year, Luna receives an unexpected summons to visit Dumbledore in his office. There, he confides vital information and makes four key requests of her. This meeting lays down the path ahead of Luna -- and could shape the very conflict with Lord Voldemort, as she struggles to act from the shadows and maintain her trust in both Dumbledore and her friends. Attempting to overcome some of her darkest fears, Luna finds refuge in a variety of places, and she views the demise of Voldemort from a unique angle, contributing more than anyone can know, and sacrificing an enormous amount.

"If you squint hard enough, you can still see Harry – or at least a faded Harry, but with his still vibrant green eyes." Being insane is one thing. Coming out of insanity with a mixing of memories is another. Ron takes that confusing journey post-Final Battle and struggles to make sense of what is real and what is not. Insanity is rarely ever a clear picture.

“I need to leave,” he whispers, but the words ring out clearly in the silent house and the girls’ eyes widen just slightly. One-shot

The world changes but Hogwarts does not, its traditions ever isolated, ever preserved. Harry gen.

Circe, an avid Harry Potter fan, traverses time and space to arrive at Hogwarts during Harry's first year. She in a quandary as how to carry on as an outsider in a storyline she knows all too well. Can she manage to realize her dreams about magic while not affecting those destinies inherent to the success of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone?

Requirement. She was required to treat him respectably ... to like him even. She was required to listen to him, day in and day out. It was a requirement. It was NOT, under any circumstances, a choice. PP/DM

She watched him turn his back. She watched him walk away. Into the unknown. Into danger. Away from her.

"Isn't it weird how joy can have you almost come apart just when things are at their most perfect?"

It's not easy to let go of the past, especially the good times. (Ron/Hermione, Ron/Remus)

It seemed only to be a blink of the eye in memory, but in actual fact it had been time enough for entire worlds to change. As a mother, Hermione finds her life to be nothing quite like what she could ever have imagined. Unspoken words held as much weight as those said aloud. Rationality in an irrational world created ramifications she could not have forseen.

This is a post HBP, pre-DH story from Severus' point of view. It's all about the mistakes he's made. This is an SS/HG fic, inspired by the song "Evaporated" by Ben Folds Five.

Post-HBP AU. Dumbledore is dead. Draco thinks that things can't get any worse. He's wrong.

Sirius and Regulus need each other, they're brothers after all. But Regulus can't remain the boy Sirius loves, and change is bound to happen.

He had plans for them all, but underestimating one Terry Boot will get you killed. Story in the form of a series of long drabbles.

Harry falls into another reality. One where his parents are alive, his arch-enemy is his best friend, and he is Voldemort's right hand man. Will going to see his parents solve anything and what does Dumbledore have to say about it?

When her father is captured by Voldemort, Luna, whose life hasn't been easy, tells Harry the story of her deceased mother. Friendship pairing.

The Lestranges would do anything for Lord Voldemort. Anything at all. Bellatrix/Rodolphus, disturbing.

Hermione and Ron have another of their famous rows, though maybe he has gone too far this time. She wanders through the school corridors in tears, till she finds an unexpected source of comfort.

‘Under a dictatorship, active resistance can only be practised by those who pretend to collaborate with the regime.’ Werner Heisenberg, 1901-1976

Hermione sighed softly as she thought of the dozens of other cemeteries they had visited in the past week. It seemed that the entombment of the revered war dead would never end. "And now it's Fred's turn," she thought with a cringe. Fred's funeral from Hermione's POV.

It's almost Christmas, and Ginny is remembering Harry's promise to be home for Christmas and thinking about what the past has held and what the future may bring. Author's Note: This was written prior to DH so I did not know what would happen at the holidays. Therefore it is AU due to what occurred in DH.

Peter Pettigrew is dead by his own hand. Remus Lupin shares the news of Wormtail's death with Sirius Black and the Potters, and ponders how he feels about it.

What has a day in Ginny's life been like since her Fifth year? She sits down one stormy night to reflect on the trying emotions of the past year: from Dumbledore, to Bill's upcoming wedding... and of course, to Harry and the second war with Voldemort.

Narcissa does not let her facade crack, because the appearance of disinterest in what others are saying is the only mask left for her.

Albus Potter's first year at Hogwarts. Mysterious attacks, an inept headmaster, and a Sorting Hat that's coming apart at the seams make it an interesting experience.

What's a Dark Lord to do when things don't go your way? Write a letter and complain to the author, of course.

Before his final battle with Voldemort, Harry sends a last letter to Ginny, just in case he never comes back.

It's the GoF movie's turn to be made fun of, with Harry wondering why Moody's a pirate, what exactly Dumbledore's on, and where all these crazy Twilight fans are coming from!

Percy Weasley is doing what he must to protect what is left of his family, even if it means betraying Harry Potter

A traitor reflects on his choices and actions after the final battle at Hogwarts.

It's the seventh year at Hogwarts. Several students are missing, but there are others that will pick up the slack. Particularly in Slytherin.

Every head in the Slytherin common room turned when they heard the tell-tale crack of knuckle against bone. Draco stood before the entrance portal that led to the hall, a bloody fist clenched, arm shaking as he stared down at Blaise Zabini. The boy was on the floor, trying to hold back the blood dripping from his nose.

Snowflakes land against his cheeks and melt there. He can feel them in his eyelashes and against his mouth like tears. Harry lies very still and hopes for nothing at all.

Draco had not quite believed his parents when they told him marriage was hard. It was not until his second marriage started to fall apart that he realized they might be right.

AU based on David Klass' book 'You Don't Know Me' No one knows Harry Potter. Who's the Lasasha Palulu? Only Harry knows. Why does no one know him? Only Harry knows.

"Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them." ~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe. "The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity." ~Walt Whitman

[Silmarillion/HP] Escaping from the Doors of Night, Severus Snape must undertake a quest before regaining his wand. Fortunately for Severus, Glorfindel decides to accompany him and try to keep him alive long enough to complete it.

Ron and Hermione have been dating for two years. Can Ron live without her? SONGFIC based on Billy Joel's She's Got A Way.

Sixth Year, they've become Animagi. They are the most well known trouble makers that Hogwarts has seen. What to do this year? Messrs. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs, Purveyors of Aids to Magical Mischief-Makers are proud to present THE MARAUDER'S MAP. What a brillant idea!

Sirius Black grew up in a house which taught him that he was superior to other people, who were heartless, and showed little or no emotion. And when a person lived his first eleven years like this, one would easily expect him to turn into a pureblood maniac, a dark arts addict, and an immediate Slytherin. But when Sirius Black was the first of his kind to defy that rule, things changed.

ONE-SHOT "There are many things that I/ Would like to say to you/ But I don't know how..." As Ginny lies in St. Mungo's on the verge of death, Draco gathers the courage to tell Ginny how he really feels about her. D/G

Pure-blooded, clever, gentlemanly, kind-hearted and rather witty, Healer and swing music-enthusiast Nihil Puro (1928-1994) had always been quite well-regarded in the upper middle of the wizarding society. Politics of blood, however, is not his cup of tea, at least not until forces beyond himself and beyond his comprehension draws him into the fight for his daughter's life, when her bloodline fetches the interest of one Tom Riddle.

Songfic to the song "Who is that Man?". The final battle.

Who would have thought that a sleepless night would spawn an adventure that includes Dark magic, giants, Diagon Alley, secret societies, and ancient prophecies? Certainly not Sirius Black.

The final battle is over between Harry and Lord Voldemort, and nothing has gone as expected. When all hope seems to be lost, one last option makes itself known. But it's up to Harry whether or not any good can come out of it.

Hermione Granger is a sane, rational human being. Except for when she loses control. Gen, with a mention of Ron/Hermione. Oneshot.

It's been over three hundred years, and the Wizards have no recollection of their ancestors' past. The have been rumors of people crossing over from the mythical realm of Haz Dohl. But is it really a myth as everyone says? More rumors of Lord Voldemort rising to power have been released, even some of him crossing to Haz Dohl and taking creautres and people with him! Can Harry end this war once and for all, aside from his painful return to Hogwarts and the absence of Dumbledore? It's time to end this once and for all.

They tormented each other from the moment they met, but it's still a good way from bullying to attempted murder. One possible stop along the road: the introduction of a new spell to the Hogwarts lexicon, and the unexpected use of an old one. [Marauders-era]

It's Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts, there is a new teacher for DADA. This teacher brings certain feelings to the surface, by Harry and his friends but also by Prof. Snape and Dumbledore. I've started this fanfic before HBP when Snape is just mean, I'd like to keep it that way.

Dean struggles to cope following Luna's death.

Remus Lupin looks in the mirror and wonders when the life he once knew became the life he now lives, and whether living is still worth the effort. Set just before the events of Prisoner of Azkaban; contains implied (non-explicit) Remus/Sirius.

A special Family Dinner at the Burrow. Remus/Ron, post-DH AU. Written for rarepair_shorts on LJ. Prompt: mum's the word.

Draco, running for his life, wants it all to stop.

Four months after the final battle, he's running for his life.

Harry's intuition led him to the cavern where Dumbledore and he ventured before, only to find a choice too hard to make, an utter depression soon to come, and the biggest mistakes of his life.

Sirius and Severus have a shared history that has a lot more than just rivalry--There's love too. But there's more than just the simple problem of one being a Gryffindor and the other a Slytherin. It's a lifelong story, one that certainly has its shares of ups and downs.

SHMILY. See How Much I Love You. It's a game. You hide it. And the goal is for the other player to find it. And when they do, no matter what, they'll think of you and how much you love them. Molly/Arthur

Harry is at his seventh year of Hogwarts. Some weird things begin to occur. There is someone wanting Harry. Follow Harry through his last year as he finds out the revenge of someone of great importance to Hermione!

He felt like if George Weasley could not laugh, tell jokes, and be happy, then maybe no one could.

Six moments where Neville was there when Ginny needed him.

Severus shares a sad moment with his lover before the end. Very sad, you will need tissues folks.

Perhaps you have come to tell me why my son is dead.

It started with a boy who wanted another boy to like him.

One-Shot! Harry has a nightmare. What was so bad that he didn't even want to tell one of his best friends about it? After a little persuasion, she relives it with him. What was he dreaming about? Will their friendship turn into something more because of it? Why is Harry so scared about? He just needs a certain bookworm to reassure him that true love and friendship lasts forever.

"So, Granger, how's the afterlife?" Malfoy said, deciding that he had nothing better to do than converse with his own annoying hallucinations. "Boring," she replied, studying her nails nonchalantly. "You'd hate it." "Want to bet?"

One night will always be remembered in the world of Harry Potter. There was one night that started it all --- a Dark Lord was defeated, a friendship was broken, and a child was left an orphan, yet hailed as a hero at the same time. The night of All Hallow's Eve is recounted once again in this tale.

Madeline Aborath is a direct descendant of Godric Gryffindor who wants no part in the war against Voldemort. Instead, she is out to obtain what she believes is hers. The Treasures of the Founders. However, will her quest interrupt that of the Trio's?

When George is confronted by Fred (the Second) about certain...Facts of Life...he immediately thinks of another talk with another Fred from a lifetime ago. Bolstered by his memories, he embarks on his treacherous quest to enlighten his son with the Talk. A story of memories, awkward conversation, mouldy magazines and rear ends set on fire, this, is From Fred to Fred

When a new professor from Beauxbatons captures Horace's attention, he realizes that desperate times call for desperate measures. Set in 1924. SLASH Horace/OMC (Written for the PFW Halloween Ball One-Shot Contest. Winner of Most Humorous and Runner-Up.)

So. London. A town full of people and life and a thousand strange tales, and a place to be when days suddenly became too empty. With Hogwarts closed and without even the pretence of friendship that was offered there, Luna left for the capital with few hopes and fewer expectations. But it was a little bit closer to everything, and there was a slightly bigger chance of having news of Ronald, Hermione and Harry. Most importantly, it was less lonely when there was something she could open her window to.

Harry looks into a Pensieve and discovers Luna was tortured during her stay at Malfoy Manor. He decides to make it up to her.