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What would have happened if Sirius was the Potters' Secret-Keeper instead of Peter? A predictable yet interesting first attempt at fan-fiction.

A supposed figment of Draco Malfoy's imagination runs loose...and reveals herself only to Ginny. Not really a slash, but some scenes beg to differ. Oh yeah, Harry's missing.

Just what steps did Lord Voldemort take in his quest for immortality? Why did the most powerful wizard in the world feel compelled to take them? This tale, set in 1980, follows Remus Lupin and Sirius Black on a mission for the original Order of the Phoenix. Their goal – to prevent Lord Voldemort from obtaining the one thing that will guarantee him immortality.

When Hermione's parents are suddenly kidnapped and killed by Dark Wizards, it's up to Harry, Ron and Hermione to find out what happened. But what happens when Draco gets involved and Hermione's world gets turned upside down? Full of action, adventure and romance, read to find out what happens to them as they learn more and more about each other on the way.

Post HBP and sequel to "What is Left When All is Said and Done". Snape disappears after Ron's funeral, and Hermione's the only one that knows why.

A Seer named Spike from a demonic law firm has had a vision of Hogwarts – one of the residents dying a violent death at the hands of Master Vampire named Drusilla. While trying to prevent the vision, the true extent Second War is revealed. The wizarding world’s war has spilt into another world – the Supernatural. For the Supernatural to survive, sides must be chosen or the war will trample them all. With Harry Potter dreaming someone else’s dreams, along with Malfoy and Weasley trying to kill each other daily, its life as usual for the students. At least, until their world, too, is ruined. The Second War has wrought this new world; it is time to reap what has been sown.

Remember in the second year how the Marauder's map insults Snape? Ever since then, Harry has been thinking about what the implications of it are. Does it mean that the Marauders' personalities are embedded in the map? And could he bring back his Dad?

Life may turn out to be not so easy, if your father is a loyal servant to Lord Voldemort and you have a crush on two girls who happen to be your enemies. Adventurous fic, full of my own unique humor and situations that even Rowling would be proud to have created

During the summer, Harry is chosen by a special stone. Once at Hogwarts, he learns about the currents of magic. Will this help him defeat Voldemort or will it lead to his own destruction?

Two hogwarts students start receiving strange dreams that could mean a whole lot more than they appear too. Old magics, enchanted swords, travels in death, disgruntled princes, prissy Queens. A sabriel/lirael (written by Garth Nix) crossover.

Ginny has dramatically changed. She is 21 now, and she has a vengeful hate that will not go away. The only way to get rid of it... hurt the one person she ever loved... Harry Potter.

Takes place after the series ends. A new dark wizard wants to take over the world, and he wants Rose and her friend to help.

You’ve read the Harry Potter books and you know the story of Harry Potter, the boy who lived. You’ve seen the side of Gryffindor, with Harry, Ron, and Hermione, but what about the other side? Draco Malfoy is a mysterious character and there is not much mentioned about him in the books. This is his story about his years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and his version of what happened.

How can some some muggles, a bunch of first-years, a couple of Hogwarts misfits, a redheaded nerd, old enemies, ex-wives, a werewolf, a few Death Eaters, lots of dead people, and a witch that knows nothing about Quiddich save the day?

Hermione Granger is a pacifist, a girl who believes in reason and in arguing things out. In this fic, she bears courageous witness to her beliefs in conditions of terrible danger. But can she succeed?

After seven years of war, there is nothing the wizarding world wants more than to just forget. Lucius/Hermione

A war lurks on the horizon as Mars comes in close proximity to the Earth... Meanwhile, a nefarious scheme and plenty of assassination attempts riddle an adventure like no other -- Harry must end an impending war with the Muggles before it begins, except it seems as if a war is inevitable as a prophecy is revealed, foretelling this same war. With a war within Hogwarts inevitable, two wizards of new importance must rise beyond the shadows and bring an end to the House war... Meanwhile, Ron is experiencing pangs of something hard to describe as something available to him closes its doors.

Voldemort is up and about, and for the students and teachers at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, things are going to be hectic. Old prophecies, buried powers, secret books, horrible Potions lessons and various Dark Creatures will follow our Heroines- Millicent, Lisa, Susan and Ginny- through their newly started term. With regular hints of a war somewhere in the cosiest place of reality, life is rather complicated. If you happen to be Severus Snape, it's even worse...

In the summer after the fourth year Harry's dreams start to make trouble and he gets expelled from Hogwarts. Learn what Harry did and why! Will he be able to return to Hogwarts?

It is Harry's fifth year and weird things are afoot. Could someone close to the trio be working against them? And could their be another Potter running around? A free Sirius, Magical Familiars, a Phoenix named Blaze, a Hogwarts-wide dueling tournament, an Animagus, a new Minister of Magic and plenty more. Features Harry/Hermione, some Draco/Ginny and Ron and..well himself. OUCH!``ENJOY!

Take canon, feed it to a cow, then serve it up at McDonalds, and you have The Upbringing of Harry Black. What have happened if Hagrid had given Harry up to Sirius the night Voldemort killed the Potters? Sirius would flee to America and own a coffee shop in Manhattan, Harry would attend the Cunningham Institute for young Witches and Wizards and wear (gasp!) Gap clothing, and Remus would be the writer of bodice-ripper werewolf stories. But some things are still the same. Voldemort is still out there, gaining strength and waiting to find the baby that everyone thinks is dead.

Magical amulets, seances, daring rescues, cunning plans, apple-green blouses and rampaging Latin students.

Fleur pays Harry a visit soon after Cedric's death. Unfortunately, Ron and Hermione aren't too happy to see her, though for slightly different reasons. When Fleur's sister Gabrielle vanishes, Harry vows to help her find the child, leading to more than either of them bargained for, and plenty of danger...

It's Harry's fifth year at school. Why is Voldemort so quiet? And what connection does Shalimar have with him? Who is she, anyway?

During Harry Potter’s fifth year, Dumbledore sends him on a quest: to find an ancient race of shape shifters and restore them to their rightful place in the magical world. But Voldemort doesn’t plan to make it easy for him. He unleashes a horror, as old as time itself to stop Harry even if it means giving up his right to kill The-Boy-Who-Lived. Now Harry must run for his life while his nemesis plots to take over Hogwarts Castle while its hero is away, and all because of an age old prophecy that could mean the salvation of the magical and Muggle worlds or their enslavement under an evil greater than ever before. It’s going to be a busy year for Harry.

From the moment he entered the wizarding world, Harry has been told he is special. Now he's about to find out why.

It's Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts and things aren't going so great. The Dementors and Giants have sided with Voldemort but, as usual, it doesn't stop there. Harry's the subject of a prophecy, inches away from being kicked off the Quidditch team, and buckling under the pressure of double homework... and then there's the new girl.

Harry has graduated from Hogwarts, and Voldemort hasn't been seen since. One year later, as Harry struggles to complete his first year of Auror training, he has a vision of a friend in trouble. What does it mean? And more importantly, where will it lead him? Every decision he makes will take him closer to the truth, with suprising confrontations along the way, and a shocking betrayal. Written as a screenplay. H/G, R/Hr, N/L

Absconditus collapsed in 372 A.D. History passed into legend except for the visions that haunt Ron Weasley's dreams. The past has a strange way of repeating itself.

Harry Potter's fifth year was a bad one, and the time after it isn't shaping up to be so great, either. Voldemort is after Harry more than ever, and he isn't safe anywhere on earth. Dumbledore, ever Harry's protector, seeks to put into action a plan that would send Harry far beyond Voldemort's reach. Now Harry has to deal with the cards that he’s been dealt, and hope that he can beat the Dark Lord. However, a much more sinister evil lurks in the shadows, waiting, biding its time...

As Harry Potter enters his sixth year at Hogwarts with his friends Ron and Hermione he knows that this year is going to be different than all the others. And it is. Filled with action, snogging, suspense, and humor!

Harry Potter, the boy who never knew his mother, must now fight a mother, save a mother and kill a mother. ````WARNING: This story contains Fred and George Weasley, a Veela Love Potion, Quidditch, an evil toad, Weasley Christmas jumpers, a Yule Ball, Fleur Delacour, St. Mungo's, Mrs. Lestrange, Voldemort and Blaise Zabini. Consume at your own risk!

Sixth year is here, and Harry hasn't gotten over the deaths that have been suffered at what he still says are in his hands. Mysterious ongoings at Hogsmeade, and a big birthday surprise.

Young Sev Snape has just gotten his Hogwarts letter, and run away from his squib parents to attend the school he's dreamed about for eleven years. But when he takes some advice from a man named Anac on the Hogwarts train, he's sorted into Ravenclaw and befriends a trio of troublemakers named Potter, Black, and Lupin. History is about to suffer some drastic changes...

Harry enters his sixth year, makes some mistakes, learns a lot of new things, and begins to discover what "The Power The Dark Lord Knows Not" is.

Harry decides that in order to survive, he must live. With the help of an unexpected person, he will take control of his life. Warnings: nonexplicit rape and violence, semiexplicit cutting. Independent!eventuallyPolitical!Harry, PRE HB AU! No Slash!

After Ginny finally gets a vacation, she hits her worst enemy with her car. But once she gets a premonition, she has to do whatever she can to stop him from leaving.

It's Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts, and Voldermort's powers are more powerful than ever. Terror is flowing all over the magical world and Harry is missing Sirius. After all the pain and hurt he suffered fifth year, Harry doesn't know if he can go on. But when Ginny begins to play a big role, Harry finds out what he's really fighting for. H/G eventually R/Hr

Lily Evans is mysterious, brilliant and destined to become the most famous mother in history. But why do we know nothing about her? What was in her story that the world isn't ready to know?

In the summer before Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts he is rescued from the Dursleys and the Ministry of Magic by a strange woman who can heal wounds with just a touch. At Hogwarts, she and two other strange Professors seem to know more about Voldemort's actions than everyone, including Dumbledore. Given little choice, Harry teams up with them as they chase Voldemort, learning the secrets of his past along the way. In the end Harry will be forced to choose between his friends...and his parents.

A fifth year fic. Ron and Hermione are clueless, Harry discovers his love of knitting, Sirius and Remus get chased by rabid carrots, and the Death Eaters learn how to bake. Why has Voldemort started wearing a pink, frilly apron? Who the heck IS Elba Mafinki-Phurphenblossom? And what does herring have to do with anything? Includes much gratuitous insulting of Snape, Lucius Malfoy getting in touch with his inner child, bizarre cake recipes, a pure white herring, and general weirdness. Enjoy!

Harry returns to Hogwarts after a strange summer. But school is not a safe haven, as slowly evil bad guys rip his world apart. Also relationships appear and new players arrive to make the world Harry calls home become even weirder.

We have all heard the story of Harry Potter's first year at Hogwarts; we saw it through his eyes. But what about his best friend? What was Ron Weasley thinking the entire time? What was it like meeting Harry Potter? How on earth did he get through all of his homework before becoming friends with Hermione? This is the story of a boy who feels overshadowed, who desperately struggles to find who he is and how he fits in his family. and who discovers the real meaning of friendship and finding those people who will change his life forever.

Hermione is home for the summer holidays, but these past weeks have not been all that pleasant. Terrible things are happening in the magical world and she can't help in any possible way. All her hopes rely now on a letter which should arrive to her in any minute.

"Do you think I like being evil?" This is Draco Malfoy's story. It's four years after graduation, and all predictions have come true. Only Dumbledore's dead. Voldemort lives on. But Draco's still a Death Eater. Or is he? The story of the truth, and the fall of Voldemort.

Blaise Zabini has perfected the fine art of being invisible. No one knows who she is, and she likes it that way. Blaise watches people, and knows more about the students of Hogwarts than they do themselves. When her interest is caught by a lively Irish lad by the name of Seamus Finnigan, her entire life threatens to turn upside down, spin on it's head, and maybe even dance the Can-Can.

By popular demand, my version of how the War Against Voldemort should be.

Harry and the gang return for another year of School at Hogwarts. Unknowingly to all, a new chapter of Harry's past will be uncovered, revealing new allies and enemies alike.

In Harry's fifth year he and three others discover an ancient ``power. The four of them will have to use this power to fight a huge battle. But ``through all this mess will there be time for romance?

Draco and Harry have hated each other almost since they first spoke (no big surprise). But what do you do when you're stuck in an alternate dimension with your arch rival? And what is the catch in Professor Trelawney's prophecy?

Hermione lost something very important to her and it draws her into the depths of magic, the Mystic Triangle. Too soon, Hermione learns about evil, light, happiness and Draco Malfoy. Rated R for inappropriate words and suggestive scenes.

As the summer before Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts begins, he has no time to deal with the loss of his godfather. Voldemort is planning something sinister, and only Harry has any chance of discovering what it is. What is Voldemort planning, and what part do his dreams play in what is coming?

It’s their seventh year at Hogwarts, and Ron has only twelve weeks left to convince Hermione that they are meant to be together. Meanwhile Harry receives a mysterious letter from his aunt that will take him and Ginny ``on a dangerous adventure into the Muggle world.

Harry sees a suspicious-looking bruise on a young boy's back and believes the child is being abused. He decided to investigate and runs into a problem. The boy's father has Diplomatic Immunity. In spite of this Harry is still determined to get the child into a loving home.

Set in the sixth year after the events of OotP, Draco Malfoy witnesses a shocking event one week before the holiday end causing him to flee his family home for the safety of Hogwarts. Cursed with amnesia upon his arrival, he spends his days in turmoil trying to recall what he has forgotten. It’s up to Harry Potter to help him remember and fight the consequences thereof. H/D slash.

When a Polyjuice Potion goes terribly wrong, Harry and Draco are stuck in each others' body with no way out. But even though this situation seems bad enough, hold on because the worst has yet to come.

When Bill Weasley does not return from a simple curse-breaking job, Ginny gets worried. Brushed off by her family as an over-concerned younger sister, Ginny sets off alone to find Bill, unaware of the dangers she'll encounter on the way. It soon becomes clear that she can’t find her brother on her own and she strikes up an unlikely partnership with Draco Malfoy. They journey to Mesopotamia, with an ancient tablet as their only clue to Bill’s whereabouts. Can they find Bill in time? Or will they too become victims of a magic that is older the time itself?

Harry is home after the Tri-Wizard Tournment. Things are back to `normal’ at Number Four, Privet Drive, or are they? Harry finds new wizards, new powers, new love and a new order. This fanfic was started before OotP was released and is now AU.

*SEQUEL* to It\'s So Difficult to be Mature. Lily Potter, the daughter of the Boy Who Lived, is in her seventh and final year at Hogwarts. But how can she have a normal year with creepy midnight visitors, students disappearing mysteriously, a crazy murderess who’s out for revenge, and the fact that she’s falling for her best friend? Sometimes it isn’t easy to be a teenage witch. (Permanent WIP)

What happens when a gender swapping spell turnd Hogwarts upside down? Join Harrietta Potter, Rhonda Weasley and Herman Granger as they, as well as their peers and professors, attempt to deal with the repercussions. Hilarity ensues as they struggle to uncover the mysteries of the opposite sex (what exactly is a tampon for? why are there flaps in boxers? is a bra supposed to feel this uncomfortable?).

Ron and Hermione take to a new student transferred in from Beauxbatons, but Harry suspects that there is more to young Wesley than meets the eye.

The war is over, and the repercussions are a weight to bear. They weren't supposed to fall, it wasn't part of Fate's master plan, and in return for going against her rules, Fate is making it awfully hard for them to get along. And when that doesn't work, Fate slings ever growing darkness in their general direction.

The Dark Lord has just been defeated by baby Harry Potter. All over the wizarding world, people are celebrating their new-found freedom. However, something might disrupt this moment of happiness. Lusitania Magical Academy of Sorcery and Magecraft is the target of the Aurors, the Dark School hides too many secrets on the Dark Arts. The Light side. Adventures with Dragons. Quidditch games. And, oh yes, Love.

Hogwarts 1997/1998: After the last battle, the whole world seems a warzone. Every side is plotting revenge - and yes, there are more than two sides. However, certain students still have to mature a little more before they can face the final fight - and the same may be said for certain teachers. Sequel to 'Subplot' and 'Unplottable'; multi-POV, multi-ship; AU to OotP and everything that comes after.

Betrayal is an ugly thing, vengeance equally so. However, the two go hand in glove when Draco turns Judas on the trio after gaining their trust. A story about the price of vengeance.

Annie-Elizabeth Howard doesn’t take it all too kindly when her mother starts to date again, only about six months after the death of her father. So Annie and her best friend Patsy decide to scare every single guy away. They turn into regular Marauders against the threat of each new boyfriend. They don’t have much trouble; their beloved Harry Potter books give them plenty of ideas. But what happens when Annie’s mother brings home Sirus Blake? To put it simply: pure chaos. AU fic. Read at your own risk.

Blaise Zabini was drawing his Divination chart when a cat appeared from thin air. She turned out to be a Princess from another world, who was trapped in ours and wanted help...

A Hufflepuff girl starts having visions of a horrifying future and Snape is involved. ````Mentally she screamed. She felt as if she was breaking into a thousand shattering pieces of a fragmented mirror, with each piece reflecting back distorted half images.

After a quiet 5th year at Hogwarts, the students return to find a new challenge has been set up for them - The Defence Against the Dark Arts Mansion - a mansion on a part of the Hogwarts grounds, filled with Dark Arts creatures and curses. The students are to spend a week/weekend in the mansion, tackling the obstacles that have been put there to test them. Many problems come up that the students have to deal with. Lots of drama, mystery, tension and some romance make this an interesting adventure.

It's Harry and Hermione's fifth year at Hogwarts, but a new student is commanding a mission to make it their most memorable year as well.

Harry is about to begin his 6th year at Hogwarts, and Lord``Voldemort is wreaking havoc once more, killing Muggles and wizards``alike. However, it soon becomes apparent that these murders aren't just``random but in fact follow a precise pattern. As Harry and his friends``try to work out what the pattern means, it soon becomes clear that``Harry is yet again in the center of Lord Voldemort's plans...

Taking place after GoF, Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny discover something about themselves which leads to many adventures, lives lost and loves found. The weight of the wizarding world rests on four very young shoulders.

Harry is finally away from the Dursleys and lives with his new family. A sudden decision to adventure into Knockturn Alley takes him on a dangerous adventure where he meets someone unexpected.

A modern fairytale. One werewolf, three animagi, a redhead, a potions prodigy, blue blood, foreshadowing, a dark lord coming into full power, love lost, and a future that eventually eclipses the past.

Harry's fifth year turns out to be really odd indeed with dreams, Voldemort, and new powers. Includes Dumbledore being a jerk, Sirius being astonished, and Ginny being seductive. Enjoy!

Draco Malfoy is twenty years old, single and unemployed. When he’s forced to move out of the Manor and get a job, Draco signs up with the Ministry and creates his own hell. Misery loves company, and Draco Malfoy is inviting everyone in for a drink.

Fifth year starts, but more than one boy feels that this year could be more of a challenge. Where is Voldemort?What is he planning? Harry discovers a new world, and power beyond his wildest dreams. New alliances and old grudges abound in Harry Potter and The Spirit of Death.

Harry Potter begins a seemingly normal (at Hogwarts) 5th year, complete with spectacular Quidditch matches, comic Arithmancy classes, and tangled romances. However, these events are overshadowed with the knowledge that Voldemort has now regained his lost powers and in the background, is busy gathering yet more forces to prepare for open war with the Ministry and Hogwarts. Harry's fears becomes true as terrifying hybrid beasts, either overtly or covertly, assault Hogwarts School.

When Spike gets an invitation to teach Defence at Hogwarts and leaves for Hogwarts, Giles is left with the choice to continue lying to the Scoobies or to tell the truth as Angel advises him. Giles decides to tell the truth, and many old secrets resurface.``Voldemort is back, although the Death-Eaters are careful not to alarm the Wizarding World of their return until they’re strong enough.``Then there’s the other problem: comatose people are turning up in LA, Sunnydale and the ring of small cities around Sunnydale after Halloween – where, during the party at the Bronze, a new Big Bad makes its presence known.``Finally, to make matters even worse, the return of Angelus is hanging in the air.

Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts, a followup to where JKR had left us at GOF, as what I think would be or should be, well, at least in my head. Ventured into most of the hints that we got from JKR about OOTP, including a female DADA teacher and a bad death.

Sixth year, and Harry's back at Hogwarts, but how can it be like it was? NEWTs and even Quidditch pale into insignificance, with Sirius gone and the horizon dark with war. Familiar faces turn up in unexpected places, and then there's the small matter of Malfoy... Drama a-plenty, and maybe an apocalypse or two to come.

GWP Investigations’ newest case involves a global crime network, and their only clue leads Harry, Hermione, and Ron to mysterious postwar Venice. There, while Ron falls under the spell of beautiful, enigmatic Gabrielle Delacour, a raging storm forces Harry to acknowledge his love for Hermione before it’s too late. Meanwhile, Ginny Weasley, kidnapped by terrorists and held hostage on the French Riviera, is plunged into unimaginable horror - and possessed by an unthinkable love for her captor, Draco Malfoy. As time runs out, the lives of the six collide in a violent web of passion and intrigue that brings them from glittering Paris to Egyptian deserts, where it all explodes in a smashing climax by the sun-drenched banks of the Nile.

When Draco tries to become friends with Harry in their sixth year neither of them has any idea about how much their friendship will affect their lives. Plus: drinking, secrets, a Spring Ball, girls and, of course, Voldemort, who just can’t seem to leave Harry alone. (Blaise Zabini is a girl in this fic since I started writing it before it became clear that he is, in fact, a boy. The story is not A.U. in any other way.)

Seventeen-year old Hermione reflects on the months and their events after she turned fifteen and how one ring-a gift for her fifteenth birthday-protected her and also nearly destroyed her.

Continuing the saga of Harry's twelve children, his daughter Kay discovers she is not quite a witch; she's something else!

Leaena Rafferty is an eleven-year-old loner off to Hogwarts with a stomach filled with fear and a head filled with expectations. But her expectations don’t tend to include a vicious dead girl, disappearing students, and two hundred and seventy-eight point five enemies. What a way to start off at a new school!

When Harry was 8, Mrs. Figg moved out of the neighbourhood. One of her friends named Severus Snape moved in to continue what she was doing. Will Snape be able to protect the Boy-Who-Lived from a certain killer?

Harry has only been at the Dursleys for half of his break, and already things are bad. Voldemort, Harry, New Teachers, and several weddings. Enjoy! H/R H/? G/? D/P

Severitus after HBP.... I thought it\'d be interesting, since Harry hates Snape as much as Voldemort...

This is the backstory behind the Founders of Hogwarts. As it turns out, Salazar Slytherin is an ex-clergyman with intimacy issues, which are not helped by the fact that the voluptuous Seer, Rowena Ravenclaw, keeps tempting him. The old 1-dimensional portrayals seem to be inaccurate, as perhaps Slytherin was not the most cunning, nor was Gryffindor always brave and courageous. Prophecies, demons, magical politics, and a war that must be averted at all costs.

Ginny, Hermione, Ron, and Harry all face a new form of evil that will force them into a truce with Draco Malfoy and... Lord Voldemort. They start off on a journey in which they must learn to trust each other, finding romance along the way.

After graduating Hogwarts, being rejected by Harry, Ginny goes to the only person that she feels loved by, and in turn discovers something even more rewarding. Dark Fic! Draco-Ginny

This is a fith year fic. Something terrible happens. Harry goes mad for revenge and goes directly to Voldemort. A final confrontation. But it won't be as you expect. Voldemort's secret is revealed...surprise....

The sequel to The Redemption of Draco Malfoy. The Christmas holidays are upong Hogwarts and a delicate truce exists between the Gryffindor foursome and Draco, but other forces are at work in the world around them. Voldemort still lurks in the shadows and Harry's dreams serve as chilling portents to his grand design. Action, adventure, romance and a great deal of fighting-evil abound, as well as Sirius, Lupin, Snape, Dumbledore, Lucius, Wormatil, the Dark Lord, original characters, The Burrow, The Leaky Cauldron, revisited locations, vampires, dragons, mysterious landscapes, enchanted weapons, an ancient evil and, yes, some kissing.

When the Goddess Athena chose to be born as a human girl, she never ``guessed her enemies among her fellow Gods were moving to block her power and destroy her. ``Fifteen years later, a human witch named Hermione Granger reawakens to her true identity ``- to find herself in more danger than she thought possible! Hermione Athena's one ``defense - and hope - lies in finding her five reborn Knights before her enemies do. But ``nobody ever said they'd be on her side....

Voldemort was defeated and a heavy price was paid, but the future was not secured. Threats to the world sprung again and again. The nights were secured only because of the efforts of invisible defenders. But something much more sinister looms. A crossing of worlds that will surely end in destruction.

AU & sequel to 'Beyond the Darkness: The Early Years'. After growing up in hiding with supposed Death Eater and mass-murderer Sirius Black, Harry is now eleven and ready to start his first year at Hogwarts... and heaven help that school.

In 1859, Alchemist Grindelwald has set his reign of chaos. And as old tales and secrets return to haunt him, one Black heir learns this may hold dreaded consequences upon his lineage more than any other...

Still unable to process the events of fifth year, Harry is roused from complete inactivity by a request for help from the most unlikely person in the world. After a tense summer, Draco Malfoy's gotten himself into enough trouble to have to request the help. Meanwhile, Ginny is restless and volatile, Narcissa is the world's most useless spy, and Remus Lupin has to shepherd everyone on a cross-country chase from someone hellbent on revenge, while Draco and Harry, thrust into close circumstance, learn how not to kill each other.

What might have happened if someone else had found the Potters' front door on Halloween day, if Lily and James had survived Voldemort's final attack, if Harry grew up in a close-knit family far away from the wizarding world, if it was now Harry's eleventh birthday and there was a whisper of trouble in the air... R/S, L/J, AU