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"Only a true Gryffindor could have pulled that out of the hat." Why Godric Gryffindor put a sword in his hat and why Salazar Slytherin could not pull it out.

A story about friendship, about faith, and about what happens when everything between is blasted sky-high by Evil... Sirius and James and the bond they've shared since childhood, set to 3 Doors Down's Kryptonite.

A cute H/G fic...When Harry and Ginny are forced to hide away in order to be safe from Voldemort, a relationship grows... Will it last?

After Hogwarts, Ginny and Harry are married and have a child. Ginny works at Madam Malkin's and Harry is an Auror. They have a good life...most of the time. Then, a chance encounter shows Ginny the life she could be living, and a tragedy sends her flying into the arms of another man - only he's not what she thinks he is.

Crop-circles, henges, Buckingham Palace encased (only by a third) ``in a briar patch, and the whole of London painted red. The Apocalypse? No, no, ``something more sinister. Such as the dread Hogwarts Seventh Year Pranks.

Excerpts from the lives of the Founders, originally conceived as backstory to be brought up in the Time's Riddle universe. From apprentice-years and fast friendships that get off on entirely the wrong foot to "Music, a magic beyond any we do here." May contain a plot.

It's Halloween, 1987, and Lupin finds himself wandering through the streets of London. As he tries to come to terms with the loss he suffered on this night in 1981, he runs into an old acquaintance for whom Halloween also holds painful significance.

Harry is thinking about his depression in the most cynical of ways when Draco Malfoy comes across him in an empty classroom. WARNING contains slash (H/D) and self mutilation

Neville ponders a box and angsts ... Based on the sweet wrapper that Neville's mother gives in in OotP and what they could imply. I like to call it a short insight into Neville's mind.

Remus contemplates his non-existent relationship with Sirius. Sirius makes a move. Set in MWPP era. Sirius/Remus slash.

Draco finds himself alone on Christmas and desperately craving for forgiveness. Then he stumbles upon an old friend. How will she react when he asks for what he wants?

'What a joke this all was, her life, what an utter and stupid twist of fate, pulled together just to amuse the gods. If anyone had told her twelve years ago that she would be married to a cold-hearted Death Eater, she would have laughed in their face.' Narcissa Malfoy reflects.

Songfic: Based around the Nine Inch Nails' song of the same name, this is a dark, near-poetic look at Sirius Black's experience in Azkaban. Arguably part of the 'Alfdom'.

Every second someone dies. War increases those numbers twofold. People lament, people fight, and people die. Monuments are built and memories of days past come alive again. And sometimes, no matter how much it hurts, remembering is all you can do.

The Potters and Peter are dead and Sirius is off to Azkaban. Where does this leave one Remus Lupin? sbxrl

It's been four years since the chess game and the cracks between the Founding Four are starting to show. The sequel to "Tension".

During Harry Potter's seventh year at Hogwarts, extreme changes erupt: A new Triwizard Tournament has been announced, and the Gryffindors encourage Harry to enter. Hogwarts also gets a new Defense teacher, Harry and pals prepare for the N.E.W.T.s exams, and a new student arrives, who becomes a bit of a challenge to Harry. Meanwhile, a huge war between Lord Voldemort and the Ministry is brewing up, and Harry must deal with an important death of a close friend, as well as strong, passionate feelings for a special someone in his life.

Based on a real story. One-shot deal. Hermione is coming to terms with life and it’s up and down. Will her friends be there for her?

Hermione's angsty last testament. A one shot from her POV. Shows her views on how people regard her, and her love that could never be. Rated for femmeslash, and suicide. HG/GW

In the moonlight reflected from the lake two shadows are cast. D/G

Connor’s new family isn’t quite as odd as his old one but it’s pretty darn close.

Divination- The Art of fortune telling. Well, there wouldn't be any Divination if there weren't any fortunes to be told, right? So who decides all these fortunes, who decides the life of our unexpected heroes? No, I'm not talking about a cookie. Join our dear friends Harry, Ron, Hermione, and other people who shouldn't have been there but have been dragged along anyway as they accidentally take a surprising and comical journey to find out.

By a chance encounter Buffy and Company learn of a whole new magical world they never knew existed and all the problems this world is having. Will the Scoobies help the wizarding world? Will the wizarding world want there help? What will happen when the Scoobies pasts are revealed? Can some things be forgiven? A/N- I know there are a lot of OC's, but these are all Buffy people. I only made up a couple characters. All other OC character are established in either the Buffy-verse and Harry Potter-verse.

“You would look far more dangerous had you not dipped your hair into your breakfast, Padfoot,” said Remus, propping himself on his elbows. ``Sirius slowly brought his hand to his head, and touched the ends, the sticky bits clinging to his hand. He let out a howl, and met Remus’s eyes, horrified. ``“My HAIR!”

A Lily/James like no other. Elizabeth (Lilibet) is the second youngest in a family of Death Eaters and is starting Hogwarts this year. Lilibet is graceful, elegant and can speak twelve different languages, but will the Potter boys change her well-behaviour? (Slightly AU)

People live and people die. Those who remain remember those who have gone before. Hermione has never told anyone at school about the summer before her third year, but she has not forgotten. One July afternoon during the summer after her fifth year, Hermione finds herself overcome by memories of the loss she never spoke about. Once again she relives the fifteen minutes she couldn’t escape.

It's been two years since Harry died and Ginny is left raising their daughter alone. Life has moved on for the both of them, but Ginny sits and remembers what did happen those first few weeks after Harry's death, how her daughter saved her life at such a young age. Song-fic to LeeAnn Womak's "Stronger Than I Am"

Harry Ron and Hermione are up to everything this year. Getting in trouble is normal for them but not in this much trouble. Four surprises await the Trio and some of them may not come quietly.

The product of an overwrought 16 year old. A songfic to Wherever You Will Go by The Calling. Harry's last day on earth and how he copes with the fact that most of his friends are dead, or traitorous and how he copes with the knowledge that to defeat the Dark Lord he has to leave his wife and son behind.

Other prophecies are abroad. Voldemort still plans to destroy the prophecy, bend it to his will. Harry Potter realises with the arrival of a transfer student that the Dark Lord affects all, not just England.

While on a mission for the Order, Ginny Weasley is captured by an unknown nemesis. She is taken to the Velamentum, an order shrouded in mystery. A proposition is given to her. She accepts, and her world is turned upside down. Concepts she firmly believed in are challenged. Friends become enemies, enemies become allies. Trust is non-existent, danger abounds. And in the midst of this, Ginevra Weasley manages to fall in love. But does she love a friend? Or a dangerous enemy?

A vivid description of the events on October 31, 1981 in Godric's Hollow.

Draco and Harry, alone in a dark alley after Hogwarts and the rise of Lord Voldemort, catch up and chat a bit. Of course, this isn't exactly teatime at Buckingham Palace, especially due to Voldemort's consolidation of power. Resistance falters, and it seems there's nothing left for the two.

When Lupin left to join the werewolves on his mission from Dumbledore, his life started spiralling slowly downwards. Because the danger of life in the pack isn't only the suspicion and brutality of other werewolves - it's what slumbers inside, waiting to take hold. The longing to be wild, and free. And once woken up, it won't be silenced again...

Mrs Norris is a singularly improbable name for a cat. Unless one happens to be a Jane Austen fan...

This song-fic takes place during POA. The dementors are attacking Harry and Hermione. What was Harry thinking? Song is property of the Pat Mcgee band, from the album "Save Me."

Do you remember in the First Year when Hagrid compiled a photo album for Harry? Well, Remus Lupin was one of the people he wrote to for pictures of Lily and James. This brings back a wealth of memories he has tried hard to forget....````Pre- OotP Marauder story.

After her death, Draco receives Laura's journal from seventh year. There's not much written in it, but he relives some of the oh-so-sweet moments of their relationship and read a sad ending. (I also have a songfic that has more details of the last days' of Laura Dorsky)

How much of the past can excuse the choices a person makes in the present? This is the story of a young boy...and the monster he became.

I think back to those days, the ones where I made the life changing decisions. And I play my favourite game, and wonder what if...?

After Sirius dies, Harry becomes distant with everybody. Except somebody. 'But I must admit, I'll miss them. I'll miss Her- Hermione's bossy attitude, and Ron's stubbornness. I'll miss their constant flirtatious fighting. I'll even miss fighting with Malfoy or any other Slytherin. But most of all, I'll miss her.' Ginny has a hard time with Harry, but everything with them is fine. It seems like right now, she's the only person he'll talk to. ' "I want to talk to him," I had whispered to nobody in particular. Ron looked up at me and smiled sadly. "He won't listen to you, Ginny," Ron whispered. "He won't listen to anybody." I don't believe him for I have talked to Harry before when he refused to talk to anybody.'

Did you ever wonder what Sirius was thinking when he returned to his boyhood home? I did, and this is what I came up with.

While sitting in a chamber in Azkaban, Sirius Black tells the story of the Potters death.

Harry is quite fed up with how J.K. Rowling writes his life story. The only solution can be to fire her, but when he starts writing his memoirs, he finds it isn't easy to tell his story from his own eyes... Especially when he lets his friends edit it... (Co-author: Marrietta Malfoy.)

Martha Green has rented out the studio behind her house to an old Mr. Riddle yet can not seem to figure him out. This is her view of his life. Post-Hogwarts.

The Blacks are strong - together. Fate seems to be picking them off, one by one. How did Narcissa see her cousin, Sirius Black? Was he a cousin, an enemy, a criminal, a mad-man, a shame to the family? Narcissa's view on the crumbling Most Ancient and Noble House of Black

What's a poor Ravenclaw to do when he falls for the most oblivious girl in school?

Once upon a full moon night, two werewolves gaze at the the sky, finding peace in a time of great fear.

Some weeks after the events in the HBP, Remus Lupin is captured by Death Eaters. He wakes up after the full moon in an unknown cell, bruised and hurting, when his former lover comes to heal him. RL/SS

Draco has been visiting Harry's grave since he died. He is sorry, so sorry that it wasn't he who died instead. ````Can Harry comfort him from beyond?

Department of Mysteries. From detached thoughts, odd memories, and obscure facts, a strange picture is forming: a picture of something completely different... Can it be a key to that ‘kind of the heart of it all’ J.K.Rowling mentioned? Centres on Sirius' falling through the archway; though, is not truly about it.

Snape is settled at Hogwarts, teaching Potions. The war is over and Lupin will never come back.

She screams. She rants. He listens and consoles. He gives, she takes. This is the way it has been for some time now. Enter Harry's world after the war, he is, oh, so alone, see who torments his dreams and nightmares.

When there is``Pain everywhere,``When hope had died``And virtue faded,``Will you brave the odds``Or will you stay and``Hide?``Will you know how not to``Lose,``Or will you fear the truth?``When hope has died``And virtue faded,``Will you know``How``Not to``Lose?

Harry has returned to Hogwarts with more than a lot on his mind. To start with, he's just received a gift from Hermione, and that with the combined effects of last year draws them together. But will Harry realize his feeling for her before it's too late? Ron explains his distance the previous year, but how did he end up with so much money?

He watches them come in, he gives them their drinks, he takes their tips. They all seem to be perfectly normal, and he will never know they're not. POV piece, rated for drinking.

Zacharias Smith liked people who were straight talkers and gave straight answers. And Luna Lovegood was, and did, neither. So why the attraction? Set in the Golden Trio's sixth year, but written prior to HBP.

Inspired by the 1990 game "Alone in the Dark" and its soundtrack... A certain Slytherin sees to the fact of Lavender Brown and Seamus Finnigan taking a one-way trip to a haunted house... Will they make it out or be added to the long list of souls it already claimed?

Narcissa Kent-Malfoy has met many angels in her life. This is her story.

Remus spends some time in the company of old friends and remembers the good old days as he comes to terms with the present.

Minerva McGonagall watches the Sorting of 1971, and sees choices. AU.

Sirius faced me, placing his hand on my shoulder. “I’m leaving for a very long time. And I don’t plan on coming back to see that miserable old hag that calls herself our mother ever again.” The story of the day Sirius Black left number twelve Grimmauld Place through the eyes of Regulus Black. One shot.

The last person you would expect in Azkaban muses. Based on Oscar Wilde's poem of the same name.

Draco and Ginny meet up in a chilly courtyard and Ginny swoons... over his scarf. G/D

Things arn't always what they seem, from a certain point of view. Alt. POV, GoF.

Regulus finds that Hogwarts is not nearly so great as he'd been lead to believe. He spends most of his time alone and listless, until a chance encounter changes everything.

It had all pretty much gone downhill since he'd graduated from Hogwarts. Who would really want to spend their life with a poor old werewolf? It didn't matter anymore... nothing did... there was nothing that would change. Remus/Lily. Songfic to 'Paradise'

What if you've spent most of your life fighting something, and you finally win? Ginny offers words of wisdom, and Harry discovers that there's more to life than Voldemort.

Just a couple of weeks after so-and-so's death, Harry is back living with the Dursleys, and thoughts of what have happened since his time at Hogwarts begin to sink in before he begins his sixth year.

Carry Smith thinks she is an ordinary girl, until one day she discovers she is a witch. This story is the journey trough her first year, all her trials and tribulations, and the prophecy that will change her life.

Hermione learns the concequences of wandering around 12 Grimmauld Place. Implied Regulus/Hermione.

Hogwarts, but not as you know it. Harry, but not as you know him.

On the eve of the final battle, Peter Pettigrew reflects on how things came to this.

Have you ever wondered if Ron has any other family that live in America? Well here is his cousin fourteen year old Gia Weasly who has a life that most witches and wizards would dream of. She was attending Salem's Institute of Magic and Witchcraft for young witches and wizards. She was beautiful, popular, top of her class and the best chaser on her school team. But what will a certain cousin and his two friends and Lord Voldemort have in part of this story? In this story you will learn that when disaster strikes, you will be surprised about how well you are connected with those who have gone through the same situations and how wonderful friendships and family really are.

A married Ginny recieves a letter from Harry, who everyone had thought lost forever. He wants to meet with her, but she's happily married to Neville, with children. Should she follow her heart or stay true to her wedding vows? Neville/Ginny

Whatever Remus may tell himself, he has always belonged to Sirius. A study of love that surpasses romance.

It's time for the Hogwarts Talent Show for a new year. Acts include 'Return of the Dead' and 'Harry and the Prefects'. A must-read for slash fans! H/G, H/D. Character death!

Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban, Remus Lupin has been hired to teach Defence Against the Dark Arts, and Severus Snape is having some thoughts during the first staff meeting of the autumn term.

"He can’t come back, Harry." I was choking on the words even as I said them. Not wanting to believe them any more than Harry, and hating them for being true. But I had to say them. “He can’t come back because he’s dead.”

When Draco Joined the side of good no one wanted to know him, especially Potter inc. But when they finally started to warm to him, one particular member warmed a little too much. Feeling neglected, Draco has turned back to the side of evil and Harry has gone to get him back, but is he too late?

“Was it not enough Albus? Was our service to this world not enough for you?” She shrieked. “You have betrayed me Dumbledore and you have betrayed that boy…you have betrayed those who were most loyal to you, curse you!” Minerva McGonagall's voice shook.

Sirius hasn't been himself since reaching Grimmauld Place. Remus decides to do something about it. Hilarity ensues.

Minerva McGonagall has led an amazing life and had several amazing loves. This story is told in her journals of who and how she loved and then lost those loves. Of how, she saw red blood stream from all her loves.

One-shot, intended as a supplement to OotP, a "missing scene" if you will. Years after their affair, Bellatrix finally exacts her revenge on Remus in the Department of Mysteries.

"Patta cake, patta cake, baker’s man, bake me a squib as fast as you can. Pat it and prick it and mark it with V..."

Remus thinks about letters from his past and writes one of his own to Sirius.

It doesn't matter if it's real or not, because either way, she believes it, and then the possibility is there. Neville/Luna.

"Tragic romance is no new thing to the world...The story is so old, no one can remember exactly how it started. But these two, they have decided to write another chapter." Not all love stories have a happy ending... NOT a song fic. D/Hr.

"It's a ritual they generally don't talk about. Both of them think about it a great deal, whether upon waking the next day or at dinner some weeks later, but they most assuredly do not talk about it. Remus fears bringing it out in the open will breathe life into it, somehow, make it completely unavoidable and utterly final. Sirius simply doesn't know what to say."

Minerva McGonagall reflects on her life, both past and present, and wonders if anyone still cares enough to keep the wizarding world safe. And she wonders if anyone still cares about her. What little joy she has left in her life rides on a thin string, and she struggles everyday to keep that string from breaking.

Harry is missing, Hermione is worried, Draco is being insufferable and Ron’s got a theory.... It’s just another day at Hogwarts.

Draco, for no discernible reason, has decided to walk to San Francisco. Yes, we're pretty sure he's crazy. Harry joins him, thus proving himself doubly insane. Much bickering, hitch hiking, and general slashiness to ensue.

Mrs. Granger takes her daughter for tea the weekend after she returns home from her fifth year of school. Hermione finally lets her parents know what's really going on in the wizarding world.

It’s the irony of it all that just really gets me. The irony of the book of life, written by someone long dead; the irony of writing about something beautiful, when there is ugliness all around; the irony of writing about sight, when you are blind. The irony of writing about love, when you can love no more, oh, that’s the greatest of them all, that it is. R/Hr

Parody of songfics and weird pairings. Set to "My Beloved Monster" by the Eels. It's weird and disturbing, just to warn you.

Hermione receives a letter asking her to volunteer for war. She reluctantly agrees even though she is terrified that she'll never see her family, friends or love again. One-shot. Hermione/Draco.

How does Molly Weasley really feel about her clock? What tortures has it put her through? Set on the night of the battle at the Ministry of Magic

After the final battle at Hogwarts, Neville reflects on the events of the past and begins to lose himself... until someone unexpected is able to pull him back. Short and sweet.

Sirius Black put up with his family for sixteen years. But one day he ran away. It was freedom, it was liberation, but in a way it hurt. Because some things are painful, even to a sixteen-year-old boy.

Sequel to A Moment in Time. Whatever happened to Draco after that moment? And what about Hermione?