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Lily Evans knows that rules exist for reason, and she attempts to follow school and society's regulations as best as she can. But a growing understanding with James Potter makes her question the rules of friendship and love she has established for herself.

The blue line changed everything. Hermione character piece.

Regulus Black, some snippets from his too short life.

What's a wizard to do if he needs to break into a Muggle high-security area without leaving a trace? Why, call in expert help, of course! Advice and assistance are especially vital when the security measures to be evaded are in the Tower of London, and the target is the Crown Jewels. Unfortunately, when Mundungus Fletcher is the expert in question, there's no guarantee things will go smoothly ... [Written for the

On Sirius, in wartime. Five very different careers.

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

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

Successful young entrepreneurs Fred and George Weasley -- whose products sometimes seem almost magical! -- are interviewed by the 'Sunday Times Magazine'.

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

Lucius and Narcissa decide to test out the whole kiss deal, to see what the whole fuss is about.

"I'm a Dursley now, not an Evans." Petunia goes through love, life, and death. A tracing of her evolution from her wedding day to the morning that Harry arrives on her doorstep. L/J, Vernon/Petunia, coarse language. Can be read with 'Enharmonic' or as a standalone.

Two "heavy" characters from the Harry Potter world decide to seek a professional, muggle style. They discuss their concerns, problems, and anguish. It's a venting session. You find out some "dark" secrets. You can probably figure who these characters are from the beggining, but why not find out if it's a fun and interesting session.

[ The Tightrope Fictionally Yours Challenge 2007/08 - Hanson/

Lucius finds them in the hall that has become the testimony to Lord Voldemort's last stand...

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

Harry finds Sirius asleep and dreaming when he returns from Diagon Alley. What Sirius is dreaming could change Harry's life forever, and his view of Severus Snape. Leaves you waiting for the next part!

Tonks is struggling with the death of Sirius. Can she get through it alone or does she need Remus?

"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.

Lavender spills the beans about the quidditch party that hooked up her and Ron Weasley to Dennis Creevey, but will this little hole in the dyke expand into a massive waterfall of shame???

Through a nasty prank, through dark times, and tough times, through full moons, through twelve years of hate, and through death. Out love has conquered all... Follows Remus and Sirius' love from their sixth year, to when Sirius dies.

One (1) Snape Redemption story: no sugar, as close to canon as I can manage, and incorporating as many of my projections for Book 7 as I can reasonably fit. This story may be redeemed for one (1) Snape. No retail value. Can be exchanged, at our discretion, for a character of equal or lesser value.

Harry Potter has always been unusual. But how unusual will he become when a brutal massacre at Bill and Fleur's wedding leaves him simmering with rage and revenge? Confronted with a darker side of him self and with unlikely allies, what's going to be next? How will he deal with the ever growing threat of a world full of despair and darkness?

An End and a Beginning. Harry has lost much in his journey but, perhaps, gained more. A short story after the end of the war and the beginning of the journey that follows.

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.

Time is precious when fighting deadly curses. Missing moment from HBP.

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.

Tom Riddle is the epitome of everything Merope Gaunt wants. Merope is everything that Tom scorns.

Prompt 27 of the two_broomsticks fall fic-a-thon: Draco/Percy. "Appearances really aren't everything, are they?" Post-war: Draco & Percy both manage to survive the war, but Draco thinks he should do some damage control to his social image and decides to seduce/form an alliance with a Weasley.

First Ron, then Harry... what's Hermione to do?

Hermione wants to be happy. She just wants to be happy.

“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?”

Vignettes from Remus' life with, and without, Sirius.

Slytherin House. It is where his legacy is; his family has always been in the serpentine House, save for an occasional Ravenclaw. He grew up learning about Salazar Slytherin and seeing the green and silver colours of one of Hogwarts' Founders. There was simply no other option for one of his blood. But is that really the truth? Is it possible for there to be a lion in the midst of snakes?

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

The year of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" was a mixed one for the Malfoy family, but Narcissa is determined to put the best possible spin on events in her annual Christmas letter. Warning: Contains smugness, delusions of grandeur and far too much underlining.

Six hours ago Draco did the unthinkable and let Death Eaters into Hogwarts. Even more unthinkable, he failed...

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.

1971. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. A class dealing with internal demons, external tensions, and whispers from the shadows growing steadily louder. This is a tale of intertwining lives in the midst of danger. A tale of love and laughter, of cauldrons and comrades.

What would Hogwarts be like if you combined Home and Away, Neighbors, Days of Our Lives and any other over-dramatic TV show you can think of? Well, I think it would go something like this...

Professional Quidditch player Marcus Flint is at home with his pregnant wife when he receives some unwelcome news.

(AU) A vampiric Draco, who finds himself with a new blood donor in Harry Potter, must now face the challenges of Hogwarts anew and this time he has more than just himself to worry about.

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

She has nothing save a weariness that rests on her shoulders from hours of work and little sleep, and a sour taste in the back of her mouth, a bitterness she has never tasted before. January - June 1997 in the life of Nymphadora Tonks.

When Death Eaters were defeated by Harry Potter one year ago, Draco Malfoy expected he was about to go through rather difficult times, to say the least. As it turns out things are not going quite the way he would have thought...

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.

The prequel to Glow of Sunrise and The Wound Dresser, this story tells of Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley's tumultuous reunion at the Burrow a week before Bill's wedding - a week before Harry, Ron and Hermione disappear.

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

Who has been leaving candy at the white tomb? Minerva stumbles upon the solution to a mystery. Can she bring a lost soul home? A response to the Third Floor Corridor Fanfiction #3 challenge: "Write about something that either occurs in or starts in the staff room, between staff members or grown up characters." Takes place five years after HBP. ONE-SHOT. [rated PG-13 just to be safe]

Draco released Hermione from her captivity. Now it's time for her to return the favour. DM/HG

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...

After Dumbledore's death, Remus hasn't lost faith in Severus. Now he has a problem, and only Severus can help.

Being in charge of caring for an injured Muggle girl causes Ginny Weasley to reflect on the events of the Second Voldemort War, and honour the memories of those who have died in it.

With Dumbledore dead and two new teachers at school, it seems that students can't trust anyone their own problems. But, behold! A new advice column has opened, to give advice and support for...Oh, nevermind, it's Smith from Hufflepuff who's writing it.

The dog and the wolf. Animals so similar that they are the same species. Can a wolf find love in a dog? Looking up into the sky, the dog star was shining bright, waiting for his one true love on the most important day, Christmas. A drabble of Christmases, from Remus's point of view.

Someone makes observations about certain people at a party. Have fun guessing who the narrator is!

"During moments like these, I would reach out and touch his hand. The palm of my hand is pressed against his cold dry skin of his. Our fingers will entwine..." Harry/Ron slash

A young Tom Riddle encounters the only son of Grindelwald. In the course of their short acquaintance, Tom learns several lessons about pain, torment and death.

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.

Draco used to know Harry Potter. The Harry he knew kissed people in the middle of ministy balls and spouted off nonsense about family. But he ruined that Harry Potter and now he was The-Boy-Who-Was-Soon-to-Be-Wed-To-Someone-That-Was-Not-Him. H/D

Department of Magical Law Enforcement official Andrew Ketterly hoped to avoid the war against the Death Eaters, but Voldemort had other plans. The first story in a murder mystery series set during the first Voldemort War.

Severus Snape: Good? Bad? Neither. He's in it for himself.

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?

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.

It's 1979 and Bellatrix waits for Regulus.

Sixteen-year-old Sirius Black returns home for Christmas after the infamous Whomping Willow Prank, and realises that the family he has is not the one that he wants to belong to any more. An outtake from From Ashes, but it can be read alone.

It's not easy being Severus Snape. Picked on, invisible to the girl he fancies, and a loner, getting through seven years at Hogwarts is no easy task. But the winds of change are in the air, and with one fateful decision Severus will change not only the course of his own life, but the lives of the entire wizarding world as well.

This is the journal or diary of Sirius Black and Nessa Williams. Sirius is friends with James and Nessa is friends with Lily. Find out what they think about the others in their groups, also their point of view. Goes with The Diary within James Potter and Lily Evans.

Written for the "What's your OTP" 2006 Valentine's Day challenge. Eloise Midgen worships Petunia Dursley. Personally, I found this an odd topic to write on...

Draco hates his life. He has been writing in his diary for a while now; all his dark and secret thoughts, the thoughts he doesn’t want anyone else knowing. One night he realises that he no longer wants to live. What will happen when Harry finds Draco's diary on his bed? Will he save the young Slytherin, or let him die? What are their feelings regarding one another? Slash. DracoHarry.

Everyone knows the story of the Four Founders of Hogwarts; the tales of Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin are legendary. But did everything happen in the same way that it has always been told? Did Salazar Slytherin leave strictly because of differences concerning the purity of blood? Did friendships suffer and fail because of arguments concerning the running and ruling of Hogwarts? Or was there another reason? Could the story of a romantic relationship between two of the four friends have been lost to time? And did such an event cause more damage to the school than the beliefs in blood?

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.

Written for the Second Gen Ficathon. My assignment, from lostlikealice, was Trio-era. Parvati and Lavender (and anyone else) after the end of Lavender/Ron.

The Leavers Ball of the 1971-1972 Hogwarts year.

Kyria Evangeline is lost. Harry, Ron and Hermione are off fighting Voldemort, her parents are dead and she's forbidden to do magic. Draco Malfoy is the Dark Lord's best man. He thinks "Rea" is a filthy halfbreed, capturing her as his slave until a mysterious letter arrives, changing everything...

Mark Evans's first class at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry is History of Magic. They have a special guest instructor.

Death really does turn out be the next great adventure for Albus Dumbledore. Maybe not quite the one he envisioned, but he had to admit that it was probably his own fault.

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.

What would you do if you had powers more extreme than any other witch or wizard and Lord Voldemort was holding you hostage for it? Why not get rescued by Harry Potter, go to Hogwarts and fall in love along the way!

Former Hogwarts students think back to their school days while they are now in the midst of a war. Dialogue is lyrics from a filk of Avenue Q's "I Wish I Could Go Back to College".

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.

Percy makes a decision that affects his life forever.

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.

Draco Malfoy was raised with a Death Eater Legacy. He knew when he reached Hogwarts he would be sorted into Slytherin. He also knew he would become a Death Eater, like his father before him. When the Dark Lord visits Malfoy Manor shortly after Lucius Malfoy's arrest, Draco realizes that, due to family legacy, he's in deeper than he bargained for.

Can be read in conjunction with my other two Remus/Hermione one-acts, "Fearless," and "A Woman's Touch." Lupin seeks Harry out after the funeral in HBP, but finds Hermione instead. Third in my Remus/Hermione arc.

Lily Evans. Watch the ups and downs of her seventh year. Romance, Angst, the usual for a teenager right?? Wrong! The wizarding world is under attack and it's coming nearer and nearer to the Hogwarts gates. Of course the Marauders are always up for an adventure so they will naturally be along for the ride. Some OC's but mostly the characters you know and love!

Ginny stood up and walked over to Draco. She placed his arms around her waist and threw her arms around his neck. She leaned in close to his ear and whispered, "What do think I want?"

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

Ginny is an immortal vampire desperate to see her friends again, only problem is they died thousands of years ago. So with nothing left to live for she goes back to the time that she did.

He was Harry Potter and he was tainted. Post War darkfic. Warning: character death.

Sirius and Peter discuss James' latest literary work and come to a conclusion. (This will make NO sense unless you've read

And Cho, with her glassy eyes, stared up at the cobwebs crisscrossing the ceiling and wondered again how it had come to this.

Stan Shunpike showers Tonks with presents and (bad) poetry after she saves his life one cold, December evening. In an attempt to get him to stop, Tonks visits Stan at home on New Year's Eve and is pleasantly surprised by the events that follow.

Narcissa gets mad. Lucius kisses another girl.

Written for the Ron/Hermione Quote!Fic Challenge on Checkmated. "Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible." -- W. Stanley Mooneyham. It's the final battle, and some people will do anything necessary to save the one that they love.

Romilda Vane: girly, flippant, and catty. What happens when she needs a favour from Luna Lovegood? Certainly, Romilda never expected to get her come-uppance for tormenting the school's infamous Loony! Set during HBP, and written for the Broken Quill challenge.

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

It seems that Harry has gotten over Sirius's death. But what about Buckbeak, the hippogriff that spent the last two years of the man's life with him? Read and find out!