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A character study of Harry and Snape to Damhnait Doyle’s song “Tattooed,” from her album “Hyperdramatic.” Very short and a one shot.

One-Shot. This is a short fic about Remus Lupin, as he looks at the grave of his oldest and most loved friend. Non-Slash.

Cho had enjoyed her visits to Guangzhou. She wasn't at all sure she wanted to live there. But when her parents moved their family away because of the war, she found herself trying to build a new life in China -- and struggling to reconcile it with her unfinished business in Britain.

The first installment of a triology finds Harry, Ron, and Hermione on the hunt for Voldemort's Horcruxes, a disenchanted Ginny dropping out of school and joined by a myriad of new enemies and allies, and one very cold MI-6 agent.

Moments in passing. Disjointed thoughts, where Remus and Sirius screw and fight and flirt and love and leave. Remus alone.

Buckbeak\'s arrival and departure from Grimmauld Place. Pre-RLNT, starts at beginning of OotP.

Eleven-year-old Bellatrix Black has just met her future husband. The only problem is he doesn't know it yet.... **Written in response to RoxiMalfoy's "The First Time We Met" Challenge on HPFF, and as a companion piece to "Becoming My Sisters' Enemy"**

The untold story of Harry's godmother - her hardships growing up, her relationships with Harry's parents and their friends, her qualms with her relationship with Harry once he joins the wizarding world and her ultimate role (or lack thereof) in his life.

What events led to Lucius Malfoy becoming a Death Eater? Did he ever once believe in love? This is a slightly AU look at Lucius Malfoy's early days of becoming a Death Eater. **Written In Response to FannyPrice's "Potter-fy This" Challenge on HPFF, based off of a plot theme from the Twilight Series...**

Fed up with constant nightmares about Voldemort, Harry embarks on an ambitious plan to eradicate Voldemort once and for all. In his quest, he enlists the help of a most unlikely candidate: Sixteen year-old Tom Riddle.

Harry is back to number Four, Privet Drive once again. Sirius has just died and Harry is still feeling the effects of his loss and discovers that he is not alone in the grief department as he witnesses the death of another family at the hands of Voldemort. As the war between Light and Dark escalates, Harry finds that the rules have changed when the appearance of a stranger brings with him the reappearance of new allies, known as The Elder Ones.

The Creevey brothers are in hiding, helping their father deliver milk. One day, Colin has to make the decision between saving many people or saving his family. His choice may come back to haunt him. One-shot.

Percy Weasley believed in the Ministry until he met American Meka Durham. Meka Durham thought she would never belong until she met Percy Weasley.

Sirius remembers Marlene. One-shot. Gen-ish. Written for the As Summer Ends challenge on first_order (LJ community).

“Severus, you’re home.” “Indeed.” Just a little Snape piece.

Harry does what he must do. The ever cliched final battle takes place. But what happens after the battle? Harry falls into a deep coma, and mysterious things take place to other members of the Order. It's up to the normal people now, to become heroes in a world where nothing is right. Told partly in Voldemorts PoV. Post-HBP, not too shippy.

Eighteen-year-old Harry Potter, despite being the celebrated "Chosen One" who'd recently vanquished He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named at last (not to mention his preceded glory as the "Boy Who Lived"), suffers greatly in the aftermath. Over a month has so far passed since that final showdown at Hogwarts, yet STILL — the young adult wizard cannot sleep, cannot close his eyes without seeing vivid images of that horrific night jog hauntingly across his mind without end. Nevertheless, as Harry now returns to Hogwarts for his rather "belated" seventh year (if one could call it), an unexpected person shockingly spotlights into Harry's traumatized life, even proving to be the beginning of a new, unimaginable attraction and interest: Draco Malfoy!

After a while of practising, Draco Malfoy never feels anything unless he wants to.

"Draco Malfoy sighed and turned the doorknob to his bedroom. There, his eyes met an unexpected sight." - summer after HBP. I'm trying to get all the Draco/Ginny out of my head before book 7 - I'm a H/G shipper at heart! I always appreciate feedback.

Could one lost love really have been the only thing that turned Severus into the angry, cruel, and sneering Potions Master that Harry met his first year? Starting in 1970 and continuing through the 80s, this story paints the lovely and often harrowing picture of Severus' life before he met Harry Potter. You’ll meet Severus’s most loyal companion, Marcella Lynch, from the beautiful beginning of their relationship first year, to the tragic end well after the wizarding world thought they were rid of the Dark Lord forever. This story is not an AU; it will work out to fit canon.

Two and a half years after first coming to stay with the Potters, Sirius thinks he might finally be ready to be completely honest with them. Remus/Sirius. One-shot.

"The glass didn't just separate her from the weather." One minute, Hermione is sitting at her window watching the thunderstorm outside, wondering when she would see Harry and Ron. The next, she's sent off to Ron's house by an unexpected Death Eater. When she tries to help the Death Eater make the right decision, it ends in a way she never thought it would. Draco/Hermione. One-shot.

Mystique Montague, only at the age of 15, has been forced to marry a certain Draco Malfoy. Her parents have moved her from her hometown of Paris, France and enrolled her into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Like her mother before her, and all the females in her mother's ancestry, Mystique has a deadly secret-she isn't full human. Though to the eye you can hardly tell. As she tries to acclimate herself to her new surroundings and her fiance, Mystique slowly starts to loose hold of her instincts. Meanwhile, she starts to fall in love with one who isn't her betrothed and Hogwarts is under the tyranny of Dolores Umbridge. Will instinct or morals guide her, destroy her or destroy those around her?

Given how events in this story play out, it's hard to say whether it's a sequel or prequel to Erasure. In the course of saving a life, Harry unknowingly creates his worst nemesis - Lord Voldemort.

This important question needs to be answered. Reputations are at stake.

Hermione loves roses.

Luna Lovegood has for many years been puzzled by the incident which took place shortly after her mother's death. She had come up with a number of possible explanations, none of them very satisfactory, until a visit to Diagon Alley cast a sudden illumination over her past. A short songfic about love, loss and letting go.

Years ago, the Dark Lord destroyed Harry's home and family and forced him to live with the dreaded Dursleys. Fourteen years later, life looked better and Harry was able to spend more time with Sirius, his godfather. But there was another family member who wanted to get to know Harry, and she's been waiting a very long time.

"Quite the double act, Sirius Black and James Potter!" Sirius Black is dying but has an important discovery to make before he can be left to rest in peace... A story about love, but mainly about friendship.

Nymphadora Tonks was raised by a mother, who always insisted upon the innocence of Sirius Black. It makes sense that one day Nymphadora would choose to join the Order of the Phoenix... Written as a combined response to AmeliaBlack's "The Life of the Phoenix" Challenge, and MagicMuggle12's "One Line of Dialogue" Challenge on HPFF.

Monday morning at Hogwarts. A disagreement on a professional matter, a flaring of the tempers, two incompatible spells. As the cloud evaporates, Professors McGonagall and Umbridge find themselves unharmed. Alas, not in their own bodies.

"We are not putting him down like a sick puppy, werewolf or not!" the other voice shouted, surreptitiousness forgotten. "He is our son!"

Memories are all Ron's got left. AU, Remus/Ron, written for the inaugural fest at remus_ron_slash on LJ. Prompt: Ah me, in that dead Past I love to dwell Whose gladness haunts me ever, day and night! (John Gambril Nicholson, In Absence)

Remus dreams of Sirius, but does Sirius dream of him? Very short ficlet.

This story follows the Bleekers, a family who went into hiding when the war started and now that it's finally over, try to go back to their normal lives. Unfortunately, the world and people they left behind are torn and broken and putting it back together might be more painful than anyone may have expected. Our favourite canon characters also appear. All thanks to Catnip at ff.net for beta reading!

Voldemort has started a diversity campaign to pull the wool over the eyes of Wizarding public. Draco does his part by starting a Gay Straight Alliance at Hogwarts. So Harry decides to seduce Draco to discover the secret plans of the Dark Side. This should all go as planned, unless Harry gets too romantic and catches feelings for Draco… H/D

James' mother, his only remaining family, is murdered and James decides to join the Order of the Phoenix with his friends. Following the dark episodes they face, with the fear of death always looming over them...

Neville and Ginny try to guess Dobby's age during the hardships of the war.

An attention-seeking prank goes horribly wrong, and two brothers must decide where their loyalties lie. Genfic, Sirius and Regulus.

'Then I will laugh because I will always be that Slytherin. I will forever be the Slytherin.' Written for The Minor Character Challenge at the HPFC forum.

“When I look at you, or hear your voice or name, or even think about you, everything spins and it’s like my whole world has been turned upside down." Written for The "Inspiration of a Title" Challenge at the HPFC forum.

While there is plenty of fanart depicting Snape seeing Lily in the Mirror of Erised, there is also a canon scene in which Snape does, in fact, see Lily in the Mirror of Erised.

He has feared it all along - for longer than she has, he has feared this day, this argument, this goodbye. In the past months, she has come to fear it too, and all summer they have merely been waiting. Pretending, and waiting. While everyone else had spent the past weeks celebrating that yet another lot of them were out of Hogwarts, ready for the world they had been planning for years now, the two of them had desperately been trying not to see the end. Andromeda leaves the only life she knows behind.

Ch. 1. As an espionage, Lily Evans enters pureblood society. Yet, what's real -- Muggleborn, Order member, the Light Side -- and what's not -- society wife, Death Eater, the Dark Side -- becomes blurred. Will reality prevail or will fiction become reality? WORK-IN-PROGRESS. ALTERNATE UNIVERSE.

Harry finds that one year is not long enough for him to forget. It's just a day. But Sirius is still dead.

PREQUEL TO "BLOSSOMING". Narcissa basks in her happiness and new found love, before it all goes tragically wrong. Very short ficlet, a little sappy.

Struggling to deal with the events of his fifth year, Harry is at a loss to explain why his friends haven't written. An isolated Harry wrestles with guilt and depression, unaware that a more sinister plot is playing itself out. An AU one-shot following the events of OotP. Heavy Angst.

What would happen if two Jedi Padawans suddenly ended up at Hogwarts? How did they get there and how would they be able to cope with it? And most importantly could they get back? Harry Potter and Star Wars Jedi Apprentice crossover.

A holiday shopping trip reveals to Draco that all may not be lost after all. Immediately precedes "A Change of Opinion".

Cedrella Black has a very important choice to make: follow her heart and be disowned, or follow family tradition and turn her back on the love of her life? **Written for Magravine's "Slytherin Challenge" on HPFF**

A bumbling Death Eater's botched spell drags him - and a kidnapped Ginny - into a series of alternate cinematic dimensions. Naturally, Harry's saving-people-thing kicks in, and he follows them in to bring her back. Rated for innuendo, some violence and mostly mild language.

A freak confluence of events traps - traps, I tells ya! - Harry and Ginny together at - conveniently - Ginny's romantic little cottage in the Highlands. Coincidence, or something far more sinister? (Written for the SIYE Cold Outside challenge.)

Harry dreams in colour, even if it's been said that dreams are only in black and white.

This is the story of how a Hogwarts toilet and one particularly soggy pumpkin pastry changed the world.

Laura Finch was just your average Slytherin: prideful, ambitious, and eager to make her way in the world. She didn't know her true identity. She didn't know the role fate would have her play. She didn't know what the strange dagger in Professor Smith's office was, or how evil an object can truly be.

Post-war: Draco is blinded by some fellow Death Eaters and flees to the safest place in the wizarding world: Hogwarts. He doesn't know that Harry Potter is there as well. As a teacher.

Arthur Kirkland (England) receives his Hogwarts letter. Sorted into Slytherin and facing the rise of Voldemort, he must choose either to face death with the Order of the Phoenix or to stand aside and face his own destruction. (Crossover with Hetalia)

One Hogwarts evening, Potions Master Severus Snape is paid a visit by a rather enigmatic relative, Silky Soot. Only house-elves could possibly know what she's up to...

When Harry's world is shattered, Draco is there to help pick up the pieces.

Nevertheless, they both knew as long as they had a hand to hold everything would work out in the end, no matter what the road getting there might be like.

Ron and Hermione don't realize that they both want the same thing.

Chasing Bellatrix was exactly what Neville expected it to be. Catching her was not. AU in which Bellatrix survived the Battle of Hogwarts and escaped capture.

When Kingsley Shacklebolt launches a plan to rebuild Hogwarts, he must negotiate a maze of obstacles, not least of which is his Permanent Secretary, Sir Algernon Chumbleforth-Smythe. But then he has an idea to bypass the bureaucratic cauldron-measurers... (Written for the SIYE Reconstruction challenge.)

You go back to the woods, hoping she'll be waiting for you in the depressing shadows, in the fume of the fog. She's not.

When someone has been misfortunate enough to witness the unforgivable...they have only two options. One option is to continue living life with the memory forever haunting them until the day they die. The second option is to risk the possibility of obtaining severe or fatal brain damage, having all remaining traces of memory destroyed, and extreme absentmindedness by having the memory suppressed with the aide of a memory charm. Everything comes with a certain price...and nothing lasts forever. When a memory charm loses its effect...unforgettable things will happen...and demons will be released... ``***``"Neville IS going to be alright isn't he?"``"I should hope so, Harry."

Severus Snape considers the request Dumbledore has made of him. Set in the summer between OotP and HBP. One-shot.

Hermione and Severus connect a decade after the war.

Christmas Eve just isn't the same for Remus and the boys when Sirius can't get away from work - but early Christmas morning, he does his best to make it up to Remus. Remus/Sirius. AU. One-shot.

Draco refuses to accept his parents' fate in Azkaban as his own and finds himself on a journey to clear his name with the help of an old classmate, Hermione Granger, who has taken a job at the Ministry as an attorney.

Sirius Black has been trying to break into the music business for nearly twenty years. Remus Lupin sings drunken karaoke. Now a television talent competition is about to change both of their lives forever. Remus/Sirius. One-shot. Non-magical AU.

'When it happens, it comes fast and hard and it hurts like you wouldn't believe. The air leaves my lungs and my muscles tense and lock and there I am.' Implied slash. Written for the "I'm about to die!"-competition at the HPFC forum.

School and upcoming examinations have left Lily jaded, and she can't figure out why she's in Hogsmeade either. Inspired by Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World, it's a story about rediscovering happiness in the simplest things in life.

While Harry and Co. are searching for Horcruxes, the DA rises again at Hogwarts. How do the other students fare, though, during those dark times, and where exactly do Slytherin's loyalties lie?

As Valentine's Day approaches, love is in the air at Hogwarts - but it might be getting a bit whiffy. (Written for the SIYE Angst Valentine challenge. Didn't get very angsty.)

The first things he sees are the scars.

Nine years after the Battle of Hogwarts, the Malfoy family are still shamed by society for their part in the war. But, when Narcissa Malfoy devises a new plan for her son to win back public opinion by joining the respectable staff of Hogwarts, how far is he willing to go to succeed and return his family to their once great position?

Everyone always complimented Bellatrix's brilliance. No one even considered that her little sister could be just as cunning at getting what she wanted.

Tom Riddle was well on his way to becoming one of the darkest wizards in history. His path seemed to be uninterrupted until he met a girl, who just about literally dropped onto the Hogwarts grounds from the sky. Who is Buffy Summers? And will she change history? (Harry Potter/Buffy the Vampire Slayer crossover)

They were supposed to die. All they wanted was to be at peace finally after their short, but eventful lives. For Regulus Black and Samantha Mulder, things didn't quite work out as they had intended. A Harry Potter/The X-Files crossover, set in a universe defined by Good Omens, Life on Mars, and Ashes to Ashes. Definitely a bit crack, and the sequel to "The Consequences of Bloody Manchester."

Lumbered with kids that will be their own in a mere ten or twenty years, Harry and Ginny face the hardest babysitting gig ever... (Written for the SIYE Twin Travel challenge.)

On the first Christmas after his brother's death, George is all Scrooged up. Luckily, Fred isn't having any of that.

When a corpse is found on the Hogwarts Express, it's up to Harry to solve the murder... (Challengefic for the SIYE Hogwarts Express challenge.)

A cautionary tale of four intrepid fifth-years and their quest to capture Hogwarts on parchment

Sirius Black was entangled in more secrets and lies than anybody had a right to be. It wasn't like his Light friends and Dark family had left him any choice, with their utterly opposite expectations of him. All Sirius could do was try to finish Hogwarts without everything crashing down around him first, but he was pretty sure his heart and the brewing war had made that impossible.

Some days Harry Potter wonders if life is worth something now that he's purposeless. Some days Draco laments the idiocy of Gryffindors. Some days Hermione wonders if the impossibility of her friends will drive her mad. Everyone has their 'some days'.

In a world where Voldemort has assumed a dictatorship across Wizarding Britain and Harry has died, his remaining allies struggle to survive. Five years later, Ginny Weasley finds herself facing new struggles in the form of an exiled Draco Malfoy. What she doesn't realise is these struggles could lead to something so much more...

Marauder’s Moments is a series of one shots that span the time after the Marauders graduate from Hogwarts until the day Lily and James are killed. They can be read as one long story or as individual one shots. This story is the tale of the Marauders' last day. The story includes some romantic James and Lily moments, skinny dipping and secrets. Enjoy!

Harry and Ginny set off to find Potter Manor. It's not a long walk, but they still manage to get snowed in... (Written for the SIYE Cold Outside challenge.)

Blaise Zabini comes to terms with his pride, and he finally learns why Daphne Greengrass has ignored him all these years.

James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter. Four boys who formed one of the greatest friendships the world has ever seen. Join them on the beautiful and tragic paths set before them and discover important moments in their lives, told through shades of color.

Sequel to Fury. Cate and George's daughter wonders if she made the right decision, leaving her daughter to be on stage.

Five years after Voldemort's defeat, a hostage situation threatens the anniversary celebrations - and the only ones who can save the day are Harry, Ginny, and a large black dog. (Written for the SIYE Marauders' Map challenge.)

In Harry's 6th year, a duel with Draco results in unexpected consequences. Sent back in time to 1944 with no memories, Harry learns a new view of the Dark side. Conflicts arise on return to his own time with his old memories. Which side will he choose?

Draco loses a bet to Hermione, so she gets to pick out his ensemble for Potter's costume party. What happens when Draco shows up at Potter's party after Pansy gives him a bit of a makeover? A bit of Slytherin mayhem, of course. DM/HG, PP/BZ

Set after the tragic affairs of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Harry begins his final quest to stop Voldemort with help from Hermione, Ron, and a few beings from beyond this realm.

Harry Potter was known to be the ultimate Gryffindor: brave, daring and self-sacrificing. He would do anything to protect his friends -- even if this meant consorting with those he once hated and testing his very integrity. And in one fateful moment, this idea is tested, pushed to the limit...

Dumbledore has sent Hermione back to James and Lily's seventh year. She is posing as an American Foreign Exchange Student named Jane. Lily meets her as she is exiting the train. Why has Dumbledore sent her back? What will be changed? How long will she be able to keep her cover? LJ SBHG

A short story in two parts - Harry attends Bill's wedding, loses Ginny again, then finds her again. But the next morning she has disappeared ...

The Fellowship, the Charlie Bone Quartet, and the Trio read Alice in Wonderland and fall down the rabbit hole.

Harry goes on a trip to Diagon Alley that will forever change his life. He draws the line on just how much Dumbledore influences him, and he distances himself from Ron and Hermione. HarryOC