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Three years after the war, McGonagall stands on the brink of retirement with nobody placed to succeed her as headmistress of Hogwarts. Meanwhile, Ron Weasley attempts to juggle his work as an Auror, the pending nuptials of his best friend and sister, his rapidly deteriorating relationship with the love of his life, and the fact that he's starting to have vivid dreams about the life of Godric Gryffindor.. So when McGonagall asks him to investigate, of all things, the theft of the Sorting Hat, one would think he had bigger problems. Right?

It's the summer before Harry's fifth year and the war has started. When he is rescued from Privet Drive by Sirius and Rebecca Black, things get interesting because Rebecca had a past few speak of and she has a plan to teach Harry exactly what he needs to defeat the Dark Lord.

Post-HBP. Draco needs a place he can be safe. So does Harry. [SLASH H/D]

Few men manage to go bald with dignity. A Harry/Draco future ficlet.

What if silver was a Gryffindor color, not a Slytherin? What if silver were more valuable then gold? What if someone understood the true meaning of silver?

When Luna invites Harry to a party, he accepts and decides to go. He wouldn't have had he known who he would find there...an ex of his who has no intention of sparking any interest, but does so anyway. AU, H/B!B, Post-Hogwarts.

"I can’t see her – Her! – in the next bed, not through the hangings – but I can hear her ... She's lying there peacefully, not a care in the world, while I'm lying here crying on my pillow ... After all, it seems she's the one Ron wants." (Hermione/Ron/Lavender triangulation, set during HBP.)

Set just after the final chapter of HBP: Hermione boards the Hogwarts Express, and Ron finds her. What should happen when those two are left alone? Love, that's what.

"You know me, Granger. I don't do such somber things as depression. That's not the way a Weasley twin goes about life." [George-Hermione, post DH]

Ginny's knack for getting into trouble follows her as she goes away for college, forcing her into a dangerous situation. Ginny's POV.

Dear Mr. Diary, Forgive me, for I have sinned. Oh, you know my sins. I had temptations. So how do I thwart these temptations? I go gallivanting off on an adventure with James Potter in the middle of the night to a place where I'm not supposed to be. Oh, and it gets worse.

Ginny's fifth year wasn't starting at all as she'd hoped. (Missing moment from HBP)

It's Harry, Ron, and Hermione's final and seventh year of Hogwarts. The trio's hopes for a peaceful year are dashed when the new headmaster is announced: Gilderoy Lockhart! When Lockhart's mission to bring love to the wizarding world at Hogwarts with the help of his enthusiastic if not eye-pleasing partner gnome-turned-Cupid Wubi spectacularly backfires, it's up to Hermione and Sirius (returned from the Veil) to save the day. The problem: Under the influence of magically tainted arrows and a few drinks, Ron discovers he is madly in love with Lockhart, while Draco discovers his deep infatuation with Hermione. Meanwhile, Harry has the disturbing sensation that he is being stalked...

Hermione is captured, and in the dark cellar she finds something she could never have found out in the real world.

Earlier this month the Live journal community, Romancing the Wizard, hosted a holiday drabble challenge. The first four entries were my contribution to the challenge. By then I was completely and shamelessly addicted, so I decided to keep going. Now I'm sharing with all of you. In this you will find a little bit of everything--romance, humor and even some fluff. Well, actually there is a lot of fluff. I know, I've never done fluff before, and I was a bit shocked at myself.

Communication doesn't always require words. Tonks joins Remus one full moon...

Albus has finally reached Hogwarts, among excitement within his family. Joining the quite wealthy ranks of the Weasley and Potter family in the school, he is quick to learn the ropes and meet new friends. However, what at first seems normal isn't exactly how it appears, and Albus finds himself smack dab in the middle of the issue. Filled with betrayal, mystery, judgement, and a "war" of sorts, this is one Post-DH epic you will surely not want to miss!

Tracey Davies wants nothing to do with her brother Roger or Ravenclaw House. But will she survive in Slytherin? And is survival even what matters?

It's New Year's Eve, and everyone needs to forget the war for a short time.

The Boy-Who-Lived faces his last year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The War is getting worse as more people die. In order to survive, Harry must destroy the Dark Lord, whom is the Most Feared. Action/Romance (H/Hr, R/L) Warnings: Spoiler books 1-6 PG-13 for violence

Hogwarts-era AU, eventual H/D. You may think you can't change the world, but even the act of making friends can change the course of a war.

"Ronald Weasley, what on earth-" "But you see, I've got everything figured out now. I've worked out all the problems! I know what I'm doing this time. I know what I'm saying." Well I don't, Hermione thought.

Throughout OotP and HBP, Remus and Tonks eat far too much takeaway food from the Chang Family's Mo Shu Magical Kitchen. Fortune cookies are a bit different in the Wizarding world, but are the tiny slips of paper capable of reading minds? Find out.

Written for this prompt: After a drunken one night stand, Minerva tells Tom that she's pregnant. Plans for world domination are derailed somewhat.

Harry is returning to Hogwarts for his seventh year, looking for the horcruxes Dumbledore couldn't find. Along the way, he'll discover a secret he never thought possible-- a possibility he never imagined. This secret will change Harry's life and his outlook on being 'The Chosen One'. He will have to find the horcruxes... But he'll have a little bit of help.

Speculation about who the married teacher is.

Harry makes a impulsive trip to visit a certain someone. Written for the HP/GW OTP One Magical Year Challenge.

Post-Hogwarts. Ginny reflects on the changes Harry goes through. Implied R/Hr and H/G.

AU HBP, HPDM slash. Harry decided to visit Draco in the hospital after the Sectumsempra incident, and finds an unexpected side of the young Slytherin. Realization hits the two of them as they became friends and something more. But time is running out.

The Marauders and beyond: How simple adventures in Hogwarts revealed special feelings for Sirius and Remus and how their relationship survived beyond school. Sirius Black X Remus Lupin Padfoot X Moony Rated M for later chapters. Regulus X Severus Snape

After the war has ended, the trio return to Hogwarts to finish their seventh year. While Ron and Harry welcome the return to normalcy, Hermione misses the excitement of their old life. She decides to pursue a career as an Auror, and during her training she realizes that it begins to change everything about her...

After the war there were graves. There were relationships. There had to be relationships.

One-shot. Remus contemplates his suspicions about Sirius, and tries to prompt himself to act on them. Remus/Sirius.

Sirius Black knows only the house he's lived in all his life. Virtually unaware of the outside world, he just wants to feel loved. First in a series.

Why there are no excuses for how MWPP behaved during SWM

Remus spends a night looking through a photo album from his school days. It brings back lots of memories, both good and bad, and causes a lot of life reflection. Sort of implied Sirius/Remus where nothing happens, Lily/James, Peter/OC, Sirius/many OC's.

Harry discovers he has a twin sister who's back from the dead. And things don't go the way he expects. She falls for the wrong person and Harry disapproves. His sister is hiding a deep dark secret about her life. She is not willing to tell him, but what she hides may destroy her relationship with her brother. Dark secrets from her past haunt her.

The war has begun. Allies are scarce and enemies everywhere. There are few people you can trust and even they have their own hidden agenda. With the Trio in search of that which can destroy Voldemort, Hogwarts in shambles, and the Malfoys reported missing, it should be an interesting year indeed. Deadly secrets, deception, and lust abound. Sacrifices must be made to ensure victory, but who's victory? And, will it all be worth it or will the repercussions destroy them all? The final year has come.

It's Christmas time once more at Malfoy Manor and Draco explains how Hermione went crazy and that he's drowning in decorations.

Harry and Draco's relationship from end to beginning.

A series of ficlets, detailing days in the lives of our favorite HP characters: Harry, Remus, Severus, Hermione, and so on. Read to find out more!

In the sonic stillness of the night and the comfort of the rain, Harry and Hermione share a moment.

A canon-compliant retelling of book 7, mostly from Draco's point of view. There's a good reason the Malfoys weren't immediately arrested after V was defeated, but Harry Potter can never find out. Canon compliant, canon ships. Behind-the-scenes, lots of teachers, Neville, Luna. Draco has more help than he knows what to do with.

Sequel to "Harry Potter and the Half-Witted Prince." A spoof of Deathly Hallows. Harry is retarded, Ron likes dancing, Hermione is hot. What more needs to be said?

Voldemort has united the Death Eaters with the mighty Neville Longbottom in an attempt to force the Ministry to legalize Marijuana. Meanwhile, Draco and Hermione are arrested and Snape is the victim of some good one-liners. Features many high characters, beanbag chairs, bitchy policewomen, and Lucius reminiscing about good times. Ahh, good times.

When a fight between Draco and Harry results in a broken neck and hallucinations, it's up to Luna Lovegood to help convince them and herself where they belong - otherwise, Harry might just lose his mind.

When Hermione Granger is kidnapped by Lucius Malfoy and Severus Snape, the last thing she expects is to become friends with one of her Captors who, as she slowly comes to realise, isn't what she first thought him to be. Now she must join heads with her new friend to escape the evil, whilst coming to terms with a new found darkness within herself.

George offers Ron some advice.

A look inside the insecurities of Ron and Hermione as they prepare for Bill's wedding.

Read about Snape's time at Hogwarts. School influences everybody to becoming different people so where was the final straw that drove Snape into the arms of Voldemort. Was it pure evilness? Was it his parents? Or did it have something to do with a certain pretty red-haired witch?

Hermione is still furious about Ron's fling with Lavender. Ron, afraid that he's ruined his chances with Hermione and finally realizing that his actions had been uncalled for, tries to talk to to her.

Harry Potter and Susan Bones are Aurors on a stakeout. Following a successful DE raid and arrest, they, um, celebrate their victory.

"Every woman, whether born a Black or simply marrying into the family (sometimes both), has worn them on her wedding day."

Sequel to "A Touch of Pink". It is one month after the pink nightgown incident. Ron Weasley anticipates new girlfriend Hermione's arrival at the Burrow, and also ponders the complexities of wearing men's cologne.

After the war, Severus goes looking for peace. Harry goes looking for Severus. Severus finds strength in himself, but will he also learn to bend?

The Headmaster of Durmstrang Institute dies under suspicious circumstances, and a foreigner named Karkaroff takes over the school. A young woman is sent by the Russian Ministry to investigate, posing as an apprentice to the Dark Arts teacher. Against her stand a web of secrets old and new, the rebirth of Necromancy and a murderer who will stop at nothing to reach his goal ...

Severus Snape was fully prepared to hate Lily Potter's child. That was, until the Sorting Hat cast them into a nightmare. Alternate Universe, Slytherin!Harry, Sevitus

An interpretation of Lily and James Potter's lives, from their first bits of magic to their last.

Hermione, meeting Tom Riddle for the first time, falls strangely in love. Will she continue to help Harry find the horcruxes to kill her new love?

While meeting before work, Ron, Harry, and Hermione discover that their least favourite reporter has posted a new article.

Teenagers often don't tell anyone around them what is going on in their crazy minds, but they often write them down on paper to express what is wrong with them. Dumbledore has an idea to fix the problem. Why not send the entries to each other? You will see what happens in this story of James and Lily.

Wizards fall in love. Wizards fall out of love. Some enter the world while others leave. Friendships are formed, minds are changed, and some discover that their family is larger than they ever imagined. A lot can happen in nineteen years...

Draco just found out something that his father has been keeping secret and it changes his view on himself. With a new task set ahead of him, he goes back to school in his 7th year a colder person, caught between betrayal and deceit. His path seems decided until he finds her and learns innocence corrupts more than evil.

Written in response to the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in 10 Pages or Less challenge!

Sometimes you have to make a choice. For Tonks it was whether to defy the Ministry or not. Now she faces a divided workplace and a disciplinary hearing that will decide her future.

ONESHOT. PostHBP. "By the time you recieve this letter, I will be either dead or far away from here. If I had a choice in this situation, please know that I would never do anything to hurt someone, especially you..."

A missing moment from "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" - Severus Snape returns to Hogwarts as Headmaster.

Luna needs an important story to save the Quibbler. Harry agrees to help, but the story gets bigger when Harry is arrested for murder.

He was the sly, rambunctious troublemaker. She was the smart, fiery redhead. He loved her; she denied loving him. James Potter just can't seem to say the right thing. Lily Evans can't keep her mouth shut. The first war is raging and neither of them know just how much it'll affect their lives. They were just fifteen-year-olds trying to survive Hogwarts. When dark times lie ahead, they are thrown off course and find themselves places they never would have imagined.

“Shoes tell a lot about a person,” Tonks said, hopping on one foot. "Where they’ve been; where they’re going.” Remus needs to learn that new relationships are like new shoes: everyone deserves them, and they just take a little getting used to. RL/NT oneshot.

Harry ponders the state of things, and comes to realize what it means to be a true friend. Missing scene from HBP; hints at R/Hr.

Hermione have a dream but, will she be able to make it come true?

She wore a red bracelet and needed to be free from the pain it had caused...

Suppose Wormtail had been caught that fateful night in 1993? Suppose that Harry had been allowed to live with Sirius? What would have happened? Warning: Alternate Universe

Deathly Hallows. The final battle and beyond. Tonks's POV.

In the aftermath of battle, Hermione searches for him, and remembers...

Rose Weasley has had a rather unremarkable first four years at Hogwarts. Apart from the agony of being the very average daughter of a very extraordinary mother, Hermione Granger, Rose has never had much to complain about, being content to sleep through lessons and sketch in her free time. Life has settled into a comfortable routine when an evening walk in Hogsmeade reveals a danger that may prove too much even for her Uncle Harry to deal with. An experiment gone horribly right and a mission gone horribly wrong thrusts her right into the vortex of the gathering maelstrom ... and Rose is now left with some tough choices to make to save herself and the rest of the wizarding world from the mystic eastern power that threatens them all.

In the tumultuous years that follow Harry Potter's defeat of Lord Voldemort, Nymphadora Tonks is sent to live with family friends at The Burrow. It is there that she meets and befriends Charlie Weasley, creating a bond that will last throughout her life....

The aftermath of the war has left Snape empty and broken. How will hope rebuild him? Through Hermione.

Remus manages to rob Tonks of her Christmas spirit, but helping her to get it back proves the catalyst for something a tad more lasting than a kiss under the mistletoe. Remus/Tonks romance through OoTP and HBP.

Two years after the War with Voldemort has ended, the Wizarding world is struggling to pull itself back together. Draco Malfoy is paying the bills for the bankrupt Ministry, but that certainly doesn't mean they trust him. They set one of their best Aurors to monitor him, but the only way to grant her full access to all his activities is to arrange for them to be legally married. Now, Ginny Weasley must decide who she trusts - the Ministry, her fellow Aurors, Malfoy, or even herself - and if her new 'husband' is behind any of the threats now growing in the Wizarding world.

Harry Potter has finally come of age and so too have his desires to finish Lord Voldemort once and for all. Enter Draco Malfoy- pawn of the Dark Lord, but where do the Slytherin's true loyalties lie? Can Harry persuade him to choose destiny over duty? Slash fiction. DM/HP.

They say that the eyes are the window to the soul. Follow Harry's sixth year as a pair of green eyes and a pair of brown eyes look everywhere except where they're supposed to. A five chapter story of hilarity and heartache follows the misadventures of Mr. Potter and Ms. Weasley. As long as they avoid each other's eyes, everything's fine. But a cantankerous suit of armor, a killer bludger, suicidal mistletoe, and the twin's secret concoctions, make it near impossible not to sit up and take notice. But who's going to blink first?

We all know Ron's a mess of a person, and Hermione can mention several arguments to prove the point. So why does she love him? Harry and Ginny want to know... What one has to do when two stubborn heads refuse to give in....

Alchemy is not officially taught at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. But when the two brightest potions students in a generation, Severus Snape and Lily Evans, each take up the subject out of curiosity, they find themselves at the center of events set in motion by a certain Dark Lord...one that died nearly three hundred years before they were born.

One-shot. First SS/HG (implied). Post-HBP. Just Snape and Hermione's reflections on the aftermath, finding their hearts think as one.

Ted Tonks realizes that his little girl is all grown up. An R/T fic.

Follow James Potter through his years at Hogwarts, the friends, the girls, the laughter and the heartache. But as a first year, mostly just the laughter. Remus Lupin in a dress? It just doesn't get any better.

Afterwards, Sirius could never forgive himself for not noticing sooner that he was being distracted...

Five times everything might have changed.

A crossover with "Sister Princess" and including the concepts from "Mahou Sensei Negima." An AU where there is a separate magical power beyond the Ministry -- and right from that night at Godric's Hollow, Harry and his sister Rose are drawn into it.

Ginny reflects on the last time she saw Harry. And when Ron returns home briefly, Ginny sends him away with a message. ONE SHOT

It's March 1981 and the war against Voldemort is raging. Heroes are needed but often the best heroes are those no one knows about. The Unspeakables often take this role and have succeeded in capturing and killing several Death Eaters. Danyelle Potter and Regulus Black, the two most effective Unspeakables, are faced with a bigger challenge; a spy within their ranks who will stop at nothing to destroy the Department of Mysteries. Meanwhile, James and Lily find out about the prophecy and decide to go into hiding with Harry but who will they choose to be their Secret Keeper? Severus Snape wants his Lord's favor for more than being a potions master. The Dark Lord wants the Potters and Severus gets an idea to use Dany to get to her brother.

"Being in love with Remus Lupin is nothing like what she expected...there are so many times when she has no idea what is going through his head." Tonks struggles to make her relationship with Remus work, and befriends an outsider in the Order. An OotP-era sequel to "The Rookie."

" - Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder," said Ron bitterly. "Fred and George's. I'm going to be having a word with them about who they let buy their products." (HBP)

A Christmas story about love, acceptance, and the many uses of rubber bands.

This is a one-shot story set after Hogwarts. It spans the time before and after the Final Battle. Our favorite hero and heroine find each other and then lose each other. What happens when they find each other again?

A sequel to Something in the Punch! Sasha and Harry have erred on the side of dangerousness, and have continued their relationship, despite growing worries that their significant others will discover their actions.

A prophetic dream leaves Hemione tantalizing answers to the questions she never thought to ask. WIKTT Wonderland Challenge. (Post-HBP)

(Not really angsty. More...reflective. And maybe a little funny.) It's Christmas, a day Harry's never had before. Not like this. "Just me and...and you. Just me and you, laying down together and just...looking up from under a Christmas tree. I've never done that. I've never had...this kind of quiet."