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"You must conquer your fears, lest they conquer you." But what to do when your greatest fear is five-foot-two, wears petticoats and slippers, smiles sweetly...and makes your life a living hell? There's really only one thing to do. You bring her down.

Alone and friendless for most of his eleven years, Severus starts at a new school with pessimistic expectations, until Remus, an open, soft-spoken boy, befriends him. With the odds piling up against them, Severus needs to understand the intricacies of human``relationships, or risk driving Remus away. Follow Severus and Remus on their journey through butterflies, missing cats, chocolates, bully-boys and a friendship that seems doomed to fail from the start.

"One by one, my leaves will fall. One by one, my tales are told." Severus Snape is given an assignment by his father to brush up on his grammar and writing in general: he is given a journal. It turns into a book of his young life.

'...Suddenly, he became serious again. "Granger, you must either be entirely naïve or utterly dimwitted to not see that Harry Potter, super hero, do-gooder extraordinaire, is helplessly in love with you," he stated wryly...'

Harry is in dire need of a life, so he takes a teaching job at the Salem Institute in the hopes of finding one. H/D. Written pre-DH, so it's spoiler free and canon compliant only through HBP.

Hermione has been kidnapped. She has been violated, beaten and tortured. Will she bounce back? Can she move on from what happened to her? Will she ever look at a man the same again?

A short story of when Ginny is twenty-one and life has changed, a lot. Then suddenly, at a party, she feels stress get the better of her, and the only person there to comfort her is... (Drum roll please) Draco Malfoy. A little fluffy, a bit of D/G...

Harry is having a bad summer at the end of his fifth year. A few long walks lead to some interesting discoveries about his past.

After the events of Harry's fifth year, he must come to terms with his loss and what he now knows his future to hold. Unbeknownst to him, however, on the night his godfather fell, Harry was lied to: Sirius has yet to truly fall through the veil. He survived.

Wizard's chess in the Slytherin dungeons. Ron and Draco, both with an axe to grind. High stakes, dubious rules and psychological warfare. Painful consequences and strange encounters. If you've ever wondered whether it is a good idea to play games with Slytherins, this is the answer.

The Evans' were just your normal parents and two child family, right? Was there something that could change that? Something that would change the whole family forever?

If it's the time for confessions, I will proudly admit that I am a jackass. I am a loud, opinionated, b*tch. For the longest time everything was fun, everything needed my sarcastic input. Life was just a game to me; something I had to, shall we say, “liven up”. But now the irony in that makes me sick. I’ve read Romeo and Juliet; I should have seen it coming. I always hope that it’s just some sort of nightmare and I’ll just wake up, but it’s never so. Not for me, Cait Black, the Mercutio.

Right after GoF, Draco's parents are killed by Voldemort after Lucius gives a powerful amulet to Draco. Voldemort is now after Draco and and he must stay with Hermione over the summer for protection. An exciting, romantic, humorous fic complete with a plot! Read it!

Death is something that Draco Malfoy has had to deal with for the majority of his life. After his own father dies, Draco begins to wonder if he will ever feel true joy. Snide, witty, brilliant, and gorgeous, Draco has the rest of his life ahead of him. But will he experience it to the fullest? Or will he always remind himself to remember to die in honor? Hermione finds herself drawn to being Draco's nurse. She struggles with her problems, desperately trying to heal Draco of his own. Will it all work out?

This story takes place shortly after Harry, Ron and Hermione's graduation from Hogwarts. They have to join forces with an old enemy and some new friends and support Dumbledore in his fight agianst Voldemort.

A twisted tale in which Voldemort (who else?) tries to take over the world by using a concoction of spells to turn him into Barney the dinosaur. If this seems twisted and dumb to you, read the authors note in the first chapter where I try to explain everything. Mainly a fictional (supposedly) account on the Purple One's rise to power in the first chapter, it gradually becomes more and more HP oriented. Totally HP in the third chapter.

Nobody expected the year after Fred's death would be easy. But nobody expected George would have to lose so much, just to live through it. Or: George is doing his best to make his way after the war and Fred's death. Everyone is trying to help, and he wishes they would just stop. Especially Fred.

A more adult sequel to Draco's Diary (It's Secret, Ya Know) on Riddikulus. Eight years on, Draco has grown up a lot. His adventures led him to his first love, Virginia Weasley, and as the years went by she became his true love. But he's pushed her too far, and perhaps she will never return to his arms. He wants to be free from the past, and finally be worthy of her. And so, he starts with this letter, and promises to send her each chapter of his cathartic journey as it is written. An around the world trip to some of the most inspiring and humbling places on Earth, all in an attempt to win back the woman he loves above everything else. Rated for drug use, sexual references, language, intense scenes and the author's fragile mind.

Alternate Universe. It had been a given that Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, and James Potter had been unstoppable in school. A lesser known fact is the fact that they were lovers until the latter met with Lily Evans. However, what happens when it's discovered that Snape was working against the Order, even while providing them with information, and because he had been given the perfect reward. What happens when they stumble upon that perfect reward and it's the last thing they expect?

How can James convince Lily Evans to go out with him? Over Christmas break, James get a good idea from an ancient Hindu scripture. Lily/James, seventh year.

She's a seventh year prodigy, the inventor of the MedSeven, a year older than Harry Potter and the rest of the gang. Kaida Ryu is only interested in making lives easier and incorporating muggle ideas into the wizarding world, one magical device at a time. The Dark Angel with black wings has a darker secret, however, one that involves losing innocence to an elder as a family rite of passage. She chooses someone who would rather rejoin the Dark Lord. (Revamped for inclusion of Half-Blood Prince, obvious AU)

Updated to comply with Half Blood Prince. “'You do not seek to kill me, Dumbledore.' 'We both know that there are other ways of destroying a man, Tom,' Dumbledore said calmly." What are those ways, and what does candy have to do with anything?

James reflects on his best friends' relationship and his own feelings for Lily Evans. Then something happens that renders all his doubts and uncertainties irrelevant.

The Triwizard Tournament comes to Hogwarts bring excitement to Jubilee's otherwise boring fourth year. What she doesn't realize is that the end of it will change everything.

Harry is faced with the terrible reality that he alone can defeat Voldemort, a responsibility he shoulders courageously. What happens when startling events begin to take place and new faces appear possessing secrets that hold the key to not only Voldemort’s weaknesses, but to Harry’s future? Coming of age has more in store for Harry than he ever thought possible. Things become more overwhelming than he could ever imagine as secrets begin to unravel, new and old enemies are met, and loyalties are tied. While his fate grows foggier, his choices become increasingly more difficult to make. He realizes that everyone around him is faced with the same decision, to choose between what is right, and what is easy. What will Harry choose?

Draco gets abused and is left to die by Lucius. An angel finds him and takes him into his home and into his heart. The only problem is, Draco wont let anyone near him, apart from his saviour. Will he get through it? Or will he crash and burn? HP/DM

Peter Pettigrew blew up twelve Muggles in 1981, prior to his escape and Sirius Black's incarceration. Because everyone's story deserves to be told, this is theirs.

When Harry returns to Grimmauld Place, what will he find waiting for him this time? Did a dream about an infamous Voldemort really happen? And why is Harry once again seeing and hearing things that no one else can? What will it take to pull Harry out of the emotional torture being placed on him, and how far will they go to save him? Begins summer after fifth year and continues into sixth year.

What led up to the decision to create the map in the first place? How exactly did they do it? What did they do with it? How did it end up in Filch's drawer?

There's a new girl at Hogwarts and Draco can't decide if he wants to punch her or kiss her. The feeling's mutual. Blood and hormones run high!

Harry Potter is in sixth year. He has his friends and is excelling at Hogwarts. But other forces have different plans for him. Soon, Harry is plunged into a world of darkness that even he may not be able to survive.

It is a mother's role to calm and soothe and make the peace. Not everyone is going to succeed and some may not even try.

Set directly after the last chapter of Half-Blood Prince and takes it a little further. While Harry stays behind next to Dumbledore's tomb, he meets someone and realises some things concerning the night the professor died. But how does his new acquaintance fit into all this and what is her purpose in meeting him?

I dedicate this to anyone who is falling in love, has been in love, and wants to fall in love. Ron/Hermione.

First in a post-DH series which attempts to bridge the gap between the end of Chapter 36 and the Epilogue. This one covers the time between Harry and company leaving the Headmaster's office and Ginny seeing him again. (Actually, even though it was posted first, 'Wind Beneath My Wings' is actually the second in the series. I'm writing as the inspiration hits me, not in order. Sorry for any confusion.)

Just before Second Year, Lucius gives his son a present for his birthday: a battered old diary. What does Draco find within the pages? [Tom/Draco, Draco/Harry.] Set between Bohemian Rhapsody (at The Dark Arts) and Playing The Game, Living The Lie (at Schnoogle.)

Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy have been rivals forever. But in their sixth year, that's about to change. These two realize the have a hidden past together. ````What starts out as a simple nightmare, leads to danger and death for Draco and Hermione. Will they live through sixth year?````New characters, and adventures lie ahead - including Draco's sister?

Knowing too much can be suicide...

Harry has nightmares, he's had nightmares for a long time, but they used to be about Voldemort. Now they are about never ending darkness.

When Ron is captured by Death Eaters, Hermione, now an auror, must go undercover with her partner, Seamus Finnigan, to the United States. Is this mission really impossible, as Sirius Black thinks, or will Hermione find a way to pull it off?

"Remus sometimes says how frightening it is that all it takes is one bad week to utterly destroy your world, but I think that he knows better than that. He knows that the events of that week had been in the works for years, had their beginning as far back as our fourth year. It's not even surprising that everything came to a head at once. The events of that week could never have happened one by one. Our lives were too tightly intertwined for isolated tragedies, much less deaths. We couldn't have stopped it then. We were already too different from the way than we looked through the eyes of those that we loved best. What happened was inescapable."

Set after GoF, Harry starts the summer with a new job, many feelings of guilt about Cedric's death, and some hard questions for Dumbledore. He also has a sneaking suspicion that he is being watched.

In a time before Voldemort, he has everything...breeding, money, looks. So what made Lucius Malfoy fall from grace? And why does Arthur Weasley hate him so? Slight AU from OotP.

July, 1985. Remus spends the full moon at a very unusual monastery and remembers an encounter with a very unusual Death Eater.

At first all he only saw her as Weasley\'s little sister. When he realized how he felt, he realized it might be too late. A short D/G ficlet.

Children who manage to grow up well-adjusted and healthy in spite of a terrible upbringing are known as 'Dandelion children'. In this story, Draco Malfoy befriends the trio post-Hogwarts, and comes to understand that this is the best way to understand Harry Potter.

Someone is hiding something from his girlfriend. A secret that will ruin their relationship. Here is his letter to her. Inspired by the song, "Let Me Go" by 3 Doors Down.

"From Ashes to Ashes, from Dust to Dust..." This is the accepted cycle of life. But what of the Phoenix? Can humans decide to cheat death by following the way of the Phoenix? And what of life after death? As Harry finds himself in the middle of the war between good and evil, light and dark, he feels alone. But he is not alone. His friends Ron and Hermione are with him, along with the Order of the Phoenix... but could there be someone else as well?

(Prequel to "Interrogator") Hermione comes back after years away from everyone she knows, to find Harry lying in a hospital bed. What got him there, and why did Hermione leave in the first place?

The Malfoy's - The fallen angels of the Wizarding World. But what if they once fell from grace in the eyes of the Dark Lord also? And what would they be prepared to sacrifice to return?

An irreversible dark charm is placed on Severus Snape. But without his memory, how will he survive? A Snape-Hermione friendship story, with Harry thrown in along the way.

When Hermione accepts an invitation to study Alchemy at Hogwarts during the summer, she becomes entangled in much larger affairs -- including Professor Snape's painful and dangerous return to Voldemort. A Snape-Hermione mentorship story, post-GoF.

Harry struggles through his sixth year at Hogwarts, Ginny by his side, and soon discovers that in this day and time, not everyone can live... no matter how hard he tries to save them.

Even the Dark Lord was amazed upon watching the effects of an atom bomb. The vast power displayed before him held a beauty so incredible, so horrifyingly marvellous, it made his chest hurt and his eyes water – as he wiped the moisture from his eyes, he realised with astonishment that he was crying.

Growing up with two stepfamilies, Sally-Anne Perks has all the usual family problems in triplicate. Now her stepmother wants to prevent her attending the Yule Ball. Will this ruin Sally-Anne’s chances of winning her prince? And who has stolen her magic shoe? This is a response to a challenge to retell a traditional fairy tale with a Hogwarts setting. You might consider that I put a twist in the ending… or you might not.

Meet the second generation of the Malfoy's - Draco's only child and daughter Elisabette, currently attending Hogwarts with none other than Harry Potter's son James. An accident pushes them together, and they find themselves bonding in an uncomfortable way. A greater friendship and love that neither had ever experienced before is born, one that can leap easily over all obstacles - except the one their fathers put up.

Much to his delight, Draco Malfoy comes across the means to blackmail Harry Potter... but he ends up getting back way more than he expected.

Because all stories have an ending, and every myth has some truth to it. A HP crossover with the Arthurian myth.

Someone's confessing about her secret love! Who is it? Will their love be unrequited? Please read and find out!

In a world where the Dark Lord has won, and Muggles are treated as less than livestock, Dudley Dursley has seen his share of horrors. But he's not about to let that stop him from doing what it takes to get by. (Adult!Dudley/Adult!Ginny)

Hermione likes Ron, Parvati likes Harry, but the trouble is: the boys already have girlfriends and seem happy. Together, Parvati and Hermione join forces to get exactly what they want, but instead of getting their desire will they cause chaos or angst?

This is the story of Draco Malfoy. It's his sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and he feels like the Prince of Slytherin. He is weary and troubled though. Something wicked his way comes!

James Potter has always lived in a world of obedience and directions but when he goes to Hogwarts, he decides to change all that. But his friends know that he's not quite what he seems. Can they help him realize who he is or is he really just an empty shell? Will he be stuck in a world of disillusionment ``forever or can they help him win back his courage and fly alone?

Harry returns to Hogwarts only to learn that nobody remembers anything about his fourth year!

Harry Potter is not the hero he once was. An event at Hogwarts that happened three years ago still plagues him, making him lose interest in being a hero. Can someone make him believe in himself again? Or will that person destroy the fragile world Harry has built for himself? This fic will not turn out with a happy ending. H/D, Post-Hogwarts.

Is life worth living? Through the eyes of Hermione Granger, we see a world much different from our own, and we meet a young girl who must find that passion, revolution, and liberty are essential if she is to survive.

In some ways it's easier for Sirius being a dog.

Draco and Hermione have been chosen as head boy and girl for their final year at Hogwarts, but if they think that having to work together is the worst thing that will happen to them this year, then they should think again! This story is written in the form of a diary which relates the sequence of events from the point of view of the characters.

Speculative biography for Severus Snape: family, character, skills.... The first 2/3 of The Potions Master's Life may be read as a work to itself although it was written in response to the author's Brave New World (at Schnoogle) or at the author's web site. ````As we have little info on Snape's background to date -- and the factual info I have included does not contradict canon -- I am labelling this as "speculative" rather than AU.````Chapter 1 Summary: In which we meet young Severus Snape and some of his family.

Hogwarts has a new tournament...

In Seventh Year, the Gryffindor Gang decide to add to their yearbook, with silly predictions. Four years later, Ginny comes home from living in Egypt with Bill. Soon, the others are curious, because their predictions are coming true in some way, and Ginny is soon fighting for her life, and the life of those around her...

Soarin Skyler is a Vampire Slayer and a Dream Seer. He attends a wizarding school just outside San Francisco. He spends his days as a student and his nights hunting vampires and the dark forces. This story begins during the events of the fourth book, but Soarin has no idea what Hogwarts is or who Harry Potter is. But a mysterious vampire tells him of the rising of a Dark Lord and Soarin's dreams have begun to show him a strange boy. A boy with a lightning bolt shaped scar.

This is the story of Harry's murder. Yes. Harry Potter was murdered. No one knows who did it, but there are many suspects. Much like the board game Clue, this is a fic of mystery.

It's the trio's seventh year. It's Ginny's sixth. Harry and Hermione are together. Ginny wants to be with Harry, but her heart's broken. Who will pick up the pieces? Do miracles really happen? P.O.V. Ginny

Hogwarts in an alternate universe, where everyone is present, but not quite the same....

Harry recieves letters from no one: "My name is Harry Potter and I attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. When I was eleven, I found out that I was no ordinary boy. I am a wizard. I am, the Boy Who Lived.." Confused and lost, Harry replies... He's lost all memory of the wizarding world and little does he know there are greater forces at work. Voldemort's intentions seemed to have changed... along with his target.

It's Ron, Harry, and Hermione's final term in seventh year, and Hermione privately resolves to make it everything it can be. However, she discovers the danger of getting what one wishes for between Ron's new apparating license and accompanying gloating, and the emotional and magical effects of the Harry's final encounter with Voldemort. Can she and Ron stop their increasingly-biting arguments long enough to help their friend. . .and themselves?

Hermione is doing her homework, but is having trouble concentrating. A certain someone keeps slipping into her mind. Will she ever tell him how she feels or will he stay completely oblivious. Songfic by Christina Aguilera.

This is a fic all about our favorite mapmakers of Hogwarts. This will eventually span all the way up until Haloween, 1981. Enjoy!

Set during GoF, before the second task. Harry is stressed out and decides to allow himself the pleasure of another bath.

Draco Malfoy has been missing for five years now, and almost everyone has forgotten. Everyone, that is, except Hermione Granger. She’s determined to find him and prove his innocence, which she believes in so strongly she would give up everything just to prove it. Now, she has to figure out how to leave the man she loves behind. Can she find Draco before he falls into the wrong hands? Is one wizard’s life worth everything she’s given up? (H/Hr – Post Hogwarts)

It's Harry's sixteenth birthday, and he gets some interesting presents. Also, who is Mrs. Norris really? Find out! Harry gets invited to Hermione's house, but Ron wants Harry to wait a day so Ron can have time with Hermione, but why? (Rated PG-13 for mild language)

Draco and Hermione's daughter asks Professor Snape a few questions about why her parents are always together. She learns what really happened during their time at Hogwarts.

Everything has to balance out; in order to get something, you have to sacrifice ``something else.

There is a reason why Professor Binns is so bored: He's seen it all before and he knows how it will end. This has all happened before. ``Harold of Yanworth doesn't know who he is. He lives with his uncle, a clerk for the Sherrif of Surrishyre. They told him that his parents were potters and died in the plague. They told him that his scar is just a reminder not to play his cousin's sword. People recognise him because he's common. So common and ordinary and normal that strangers think they know him. ``And that all those people he's outliving died because of bloody flux or red plague or ague or common cold.``The year is 1182. And Harry is about to find out.

Ginny's always been the quiet, shy girl at school who hates attention. So what does she do when Draco Malfoy begins to notice her? Could he be the soulmate she's been waiting for? And what will happen when Fate seems to want to keep them apart?

Harry and Hermione are in their seventh year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and they find themselves in a rather peculiar predicament. The two seventeen-year-olds end up sharing a cabin on a class trip that is supposed to act as a temporary escape from the wizarding world. However, they soon discover that it is much more than they bargained for.

At the beginning of his fifth year at Hogwarts, Harry gets a shock of his life when he learns the identity of the newest Defense Against Dark Arts teacher. But soon, Harry begins to wonder if there was more to this then even Dumbledore cares to admit. Meanwhile, a man with a dark past comes to Hogwarts hoping to find redemption and in the process, take revenge on a man who murdered his wife eighteen years ago. His very existence threatens to expose a dark secret that challenges everything there is to know about the Dark Lord. As the war between Good and Evil draws near, can our heroes figure out which one is which?

Severus Snape didn't trust Sirius Black, yet he entered the Shrieking Shack all the same. What was it that Black said that made Snape enter the tunnel? The Headmaster interviews those involved and discovers some uncomfortable truths during his investigation of the incident.

Stranded in post-apocalyptic Arizona, Minerva McGonagall learns to adjust to life without Hogwarts…and without magic.

She watched me with a mixture of fear, loathing, and some odd emotion I could not define, in her eyes as I entered the cell.

AU. Remus saves Harry from the Dursleys when he is two. Features Harry growing up with a werewolf.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from the 'Prince's' point of view. Snape has a hang-over, an unwelcome task and a new job.

The sequel to "To Dwell On Dreams". It has been months since Harry Potter accidentally transported himself to an alternate universe, where his family were alive and Voldemort was still very much in power. Even though, with the help of Hermione, and (oddly enough) Draco Malfoy, he was able to travel back to the world he knew, things are not all they seem. The boundaries between realities are weakening and emotions are running high. Unfinished business is being picked up where others left off, which will trigger a chain of events with unprecedented results. The second instalment of the Dream Trilogy: Those who dare, dream...

Canon to OotP. Eight years after his time at Hogwarts Harry Potter came to realize his adventures had scarcely begun. In aftermath of Lord Voldemort's defeat, the majority of wizarding world has fallen into a false sense of security. But even in the wake of dark times, all is fair in love and war. H/G.

Harry and Hermione are both Aurors, but they haven't been in touch for the past three years. Feelings are strong, are they strong enough for this next assignment?

The night is *full* of surprises!``Severus takes a walk after a long day seeking comfort... but gets a surprise he had never expected. Implied/shocking romance, as well as some interesting twists.

Ron finally gets the courage to ask Hermione out, but with Malfoy wanting her there could be trouble!

Draco breaks up with Harry over a cup of coffee.

Harry asked one thing from his friends after they decided to go after the Horcruxes and through all this war together, but now that it's over, he finds his priorities and points of view aren't as clear as they were back then.