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“I’m going to tell you what you might call a fairy tale, but it’s a real story, my life story … so far.”

It is with a sudden finality that the classroom door shuts, relegating Lily to the stony realm of the authoritarian Minvera McGonagall. “You weren’t really lost, were you?” is all she asks.

Watch the transformation of shy, innocent Minerva Duncan into the formidable Professor McGonagall. Her story so far!

As irritating to his students as always, Professor Slugborn - who is really far too jovial to be the head of Slytherin - has instigated a ball for his new house. Problem is, they have to invite dates from [I]other[/I] houses. When it's pointed out to one Millicent Bulstrode in a less-than-flattering manner that she's far too intimidating for anyone to ask her to the ball, yet too traditional to ask someone herself, she vows to take manners into her own hands. Ernie/Millicent one-shot, featuring joint Blaise-Pansy snark.

“I am She-Who-No-One-Remembers-To-Name. I live in the shadows.” A few days before the unfortunate deaths of James and Lily Potter, Dumbledore acquires an unexpected responsibility. An infant appears in the great hall, and suddenly, Harry Potter is not the only child from whom “we can expect great things.” Now a young woman tries desperately to explain that dark is not always evil, and that power does not always corrupt. This fic is AU and covers from the year that baby Harry defeats Voldemort to the end of OotP.

Forty-two nights in eighteen scenes. R/S slash.

There is one standard definition for murderer: a person who kills a person or people. That is what he did. Now he's trapped in a prison, known as a traitor; now he's trapped because he's a murderer.

What if Voldemort had made Lily a very different kind of offer? How far would she go to protect her child?

What would happen if Sirius had decided to stay Lily and James' Secret Keeper? Would anything be different? Would Lily and James still die? A story on what happens when a group of friends are betrayed, and left to face a fear they never thought would haunt them.

The full moon will soon rob Remus Lupin of his ability to speak--and there is something he has made up his mind to tell Severus Snape. He finally has the courage to confess; will Snape be man enough to listen?

Twelve years of solitary confinement is a long time…

H/G one-shot. Harry was about to leave London behind for Sydney. At his farewell party, Ginny has the perfect opportunity to make him stay. Will she grab that chance or let it slip away?

There are few things worth dying for. One of them is immortality.

When hope is lost, trust are found. when lives are wasted, romances begin. this is the story of how to unlikely people set aside their differences and took comfort in each other. D/Hr.

Christmas is a time of peace and for them, it had finally come on a field on the Night Most Divine. DHr, HG, Oneshot.

Harry Potter has gone through so much in the 4 years he's been at Hogwarts. He's never had a chance (or been allowed) to grieve, but what if he finally had to?

The summer changed everything. One day he thought that she was just his best friend, just like Harry was. But the next day, he found himself in love with her. Written WAY before HBP!

Sometimes one must look through the wave of green in order to truly see. Lily's last seconds.

A life is forever altered and another life is taken.

A short one-shot from Lucius's point of view about Little Ginny, corresponding to my fic Ashes to Ashes. Lucius is a disturbed man, and it only gets worse with age...

How could Draco get back the only girl that would truly love him? D/Hr

Sequel to Red and Gold. Hermione and Harry's relationship is crumbling. Can it be saved?

Hermione visits Draco after the war. Thoughts on war, politics, religion, and the prices some people are willing to pay to save everything they know. A follow-up to "Hero, Anti-Hero".

Sequel to "Aqueous Transmission". Another songfic when Draco had to leave his Hermione.

Hermione does what she must.

Blaise and Mr Zabini, while in Knockturn Alley, talk about Blaise\\\'s permission slip, hobbies and love.

One-shot AU. Harry, from ages 5 through 17 - every year he learns something new about life.

Molly Weasley has no secrets to hide, right? Wrong. Long ago, just a girl out of Hogwarts, just broken up with a sweet, lovable boyfriend Arthur, she is working in a pub when she meets a strange man with a charming smile. He seems... great. Little does she know how dangerous he really is. *T/M*

'He was always the heir.````And I?````I was always just the spare.'````Regulus struggles with living in his brother's shadow.

Voldemort's chamber - the hallowed ground of evil, and the secret meeting place for his fervent followers. For it is here where the young boy Severus Snape first gives himself to his master. It is his first step onto a path he will spend his whole life trying to turn away from.

It's the last funeral in the White Tomb where all the greatest Order Members have been laid to rest. A one-shot songfic. Told through Ron's eyes in flashbacks. Very sad, you may need your tissues. R/Hrm

After an incident at work, Draco is forced to see a therapist or risk losing his job. To say he's angry is putting it lightly. But when he gets to the office and sees the name Ginevra M. Weasley on the door... well... it only adds fuel to the flame. But Ginny isn't exactly ready to embrace Draco with open arms, either....

The day before graduation is at hand, and Tom Riddle counts the seconds before he is free of Hogwarts, free to fulfill his terrible destiny. Before his departure, one professor has one important final lesson to teach him.

'Go east, young man,' says Dumbledore. 'Come back broken, young man,' says Voldemort. 'Drat,' says Quirrell. A brief study of the most-neglected DADA teacher, the ghost that haunts him, and the blood of a unicorn.

A virtual season of Harry Potter. In which there are final battles, Dark Lords in training, evil plots, and old arch-nemeses. Also, Harry Potter starts university.

"Ginny sat slumped against the wall of a dark and barren corridor, her head lolling on her knees and a half-empty bottle of Firewhisky slipping from her grip." Unable to handle her memories, Ginny seeks condolence elsewhere. Viscous memories remind her why she is how she is. "...A wave of pain, the scent of you is bliss."

The cold weather crept its icy fingers around Remus as he pulled his threadbare robe tighter around his body. He blew into his hands to try and get some warmth in them. She was late.... She was never late.

One day, Sirius comes back to his flat to find the protective wards removed, blood on the carpet and his family nowhere in sight. He has to choose whether to be James Potter's friend first, or his wife's husband and his son's father. SBOC. A sequel to Till Life Do Us Part.

On her first inspection of Azkaban since the downfall of Voldemort, Minister Bagnold learns more than she bargained for.

Voldemort is back, and thirsty for revenge upon The Boy Who Lived. But how does he get to him without anyone realising what he is doing? And how would an old, lowly caretaker squib help him in his quest?

The title sums it up perfectly, in fact :).

Harry is back at Hogwarts, and he finds himself fighting for a girl with none other than... Draco Malfoy! New relationships form and Harry is recovering slower than expected from the death of his late godfather. Voldemort returns, and there is some Star Wars action!

Ginny reflects on her life. Thinking of things she wants, and what she'd to to attain it. Will it cost her dignity, or family though?

Harry remembers his life and the impact that Quidditch had on it. Does fame and glory have a price?

“I’m okay…”``No matter how much she remembered about that night…it had been her fault. Dead.``For her. She couldn’t drive the memory out of her head. She was scared to sleep,``because the same nightmare kept coming back to her, night after night. The final``battle; her worst fears come true.````Hermione has come face to face with her worst nightmare and survived. Now she``wishes that she hadn’t lived at all.

The summer is nearing its end, as Harry and friends enjoy the last few days of hot summer days. In the mean time... Lucius recieves the request to perform a certain deed by the Dark Lord himself. Draco is clueless, but he also has a life that he is forced to live. How will he be affected? Or better yet... Provoked.

It is Remus Lupin's sixth year. Following a joke played on Snape by Sirius, a joke that almost got both Snape and James killed, Remus is on trial. Locked in a cage at the end of the hall, watching his little sister and his best friends struggling not to cry, he reflects on his family life, how he became a werewolf... and the painful memory of the last time he was here, on the other side of the cage, watching his sister struggle with herself as she awaits her fate. Told first person from Remus Lupin's point of view.

Harry still dreams of the Department of Mysteries—only this time he’s not alone. For in that sleep of death what dreams may come… A short piece of fiction set after Order of the Phoenix.

Cloning, Death Eater parents, secret brothers and murder - all included in the very disturbing childhood of Draco Malfoy. Also, the explanation why Draco's so pale...

Many history books speak of Slytherin House and its members as though all they are is evil. Now it is time to look past that prejudice, to uncover the true story behind the legend… and to follow within the footsteps of three generations. One of them existed at the very beginning; another came into being at a turning point in the history of its House, while yet another lived on in the Dark Ages. Three generations with three stories to be told, revealing exactly that which history did not tell… [Stand-alone prequel to the Slytherin Forever! Series.]

Bellatrix worships her Devil.

It is said that the best way to deal with your grief is to talk about it. Harry has no one during the summer after his fifth year.

There but for the grace of God go we. [Harry/Draco, the sequel to arcadia.]

An unknown young man wakes from a coma into amnesia. Luckily, his lover is there to take him home.

The mutilated corpse of the charming Fleur Delacour leads to a grisly trail of murders centered around one Ginny Weasley. *Warning* This is not for the faint of heart.

Lily and James Potter. The perfect couple. You don't see how she puts on too much makeup when she leaves him at night, or how he drinks a bottle of firewhiskey after she's gone. A look into the anguished mind of James Potter, father and reluctant husband. Slash content.

My name is Draco and I was told writing was therapeutic. I guess they didn't take some things into account.

Two souls have been reborn. Two souls who must carry the weight of the wizarding world on unknowing shoulders. Will they overcome fate this time around, or crash and burn once more? AU, H/D, slash

When Sirius Black challenges Severus Snape over a woman, the Potions master sharpens his claws - and his tongue, of course. Taunts, acidity, sarcasm and the shards of three lives...

"We had nothing to worry about back then, except who was friends with who. We were innocent and knew nothing of bloodshed and eternal damnation..." - Remus Lupin

"Nothing felt the same after the war." Snape is haunted by his past and present memories of Harry. (Snape/Harry slash)

"I always wake up and reach for you. But I only see Harry, pale and cold in the moonlight. Body clenched tight into a ball, his backbone a rigged curve, afraid to feel, to be felt. He thinks I hate to touch him." Implied H/Hr/R.

Is Ginny really over Harry? She struggles as she fights loneliness and sadness. Why can't anyone understand her, and those damn O.W.L.s!

All is not as it seems, and love has grown cold in a world turned upside down by madness. Severus would do anything to gain Minerva's forgiveness, but will her pardon come to late to save him?

The story of Narcissa Black, and how she came to be the wife of Lucius Malfoy and mother of Draco. This will take us back to her days at Hogwarts, and all that in between then and now, and who she really is behind the guise of a Pureblood socialite with a cold front.

Weird and pointless little one-shot fic about Ginny's life crumbled into two trashy pieces of printing paper. A little funny, somewhat morbid, about the transformation from Innocent Curious Freckled Ginny - to - Bad Punk Ginny.

It didn't matter that they tried to break his body, it didn't matter that they tried to kill him.... What do you do when they take away your heart?

Someone is seeking closure after the death of their hero.

Minister Kingsley Shacklebolt has to learn on the job, fast, and painfully. Everyone thinks they have a claim on him; everyone has demands; and no one is willing to listen. And the sinister Black clan seems to have plans of its own.

"In reality, it is not Save the World, Harry. It’s Harry, save Harry- save everyone Harry loves so Harry’s world can keep going on, even without Harry. Because Harry will live on forever, in the ones he loves."``Harry thinks about Voldemort, his fate, and everyone he loves.

Hate is what turned Voldemort evil, will it do the same to Harry? Or will he be saved? What about Draco, why did he go to the dark side? Is he being controlled? Harry/Draco Slash

The war is over, the peril is gone. What happens next in Harry's life? Why is the Boy Who Lived feeling as if he shouldn’t?

It is the eve of the final battle against Voldemort, and two lone figures stand beside the side of Light's first great casualty. But who is it that has passed on? One shot.

Five years ago the Dark Lord Voldemort was defeated in battle by Harry Potter. Harry lived. However, one should remember that sometimes, there are fates worse than death.

One shot about Harry remembering his and Draco's relationship, which has been over for one year. Songfic to Boyz II Men's "Four Seasons of Loneliness." The first part of a trilogy.

Harry is severely injured during the hunt for the Horcruxes. In three parts, from each member of the trio's point of view.

When your life isn't all that great, you sometimes get very determined to prove yourself. One girl wants to prove herself on the Quidditch pitch. Here is her story.

The war is over; they have won, but the price was high. All the graves are visited frequently, except one. Only he remembers what his loyal companion did.

It has been three years since Dumbledore died, Harry has long since gone into hiding. Voldemort rules supreme, whilst Ginny Weasley works as part of the insurgency against him and his Death Eaters - one of whom just happens to be Draco Malfoy ...

Two people meet one night before The Final Battle. One is the light, the other is apart of the darkness. But for this one night, they will forget their places and live the way they would have if evil never existed. But in the morning all will end, and they will have to move on.

Catherine Emrys is an American teenager who is trying to put her life back together after her father died five years ago, but its not easy while she also has to deal with high school. But there is more to her little world than she ever believed possible. After an event that shatters her life, she is ushered away to be in the middle of a war she had no clue existed. A prophecy is discovered and she finds herself in a mysterious world where anything is possible.

The war against Voldemort has taken a little something from everyone. But for her... it’s taken her soul. And now the only things she has left are smudges of lipstick and fading bruises.

Snape gets an unpleasant blast from the past.... Can he accept things and move on?

An impostor has infiltrated Hogwarts, and Harry finds he is helpless to prevent this slightly slashy psychopath from igniting chaos and devastation. With the whole gang caught up in her trickery, it looks as though no one will emerge unscathed when the smoke clears. H/G, R/Hr.

The Secret. Draco knew.

An August night just like any other, and yet not the same. A sister’s choice. A sister's fight. A sister's farewell. Because some things are better left unsaid.

At first glance, you would think they had nothing in common. But really, they were both engulfed by shadows and struggling to break free.

He was alone again. He didn't mind, really. His friends were happy with the girls, throwing snow at each other, and he wasn't, but he wasn't bitter.``He didn't yet realise he'd always be the one left behind, always on the outside looking in. Maybe he'd have felt differently if he realised what was to come. ``He didn't however, and stayed in the snow, tracing patterns with his blue tinged fingers.

A missing moment from HBP. Bill and Fleur in the hospital wing after Bill is attacked.

Pain isn't a single thing. It spreads like the plague and the suffering doesn't end with just a single person. It eats you up inside until you can't take it anymore, until you want to cry and scream. But what if you can't?

When Petunia found Harry that cold November morning, she knew that he was more than just a normal baby boy. And she knew that taking him into her home, with her past behind her and his future ahead of him, was more than family helping family.

Maybe Harry Potter is merely fulfilling his duty as an Auror to the best of his abilities, but maybe his friends are right to worry about him. Catching the last Death Eater still alive is more than just work to Harry, and everyone knows it.

As Halloween of 1981 draws near, the Potters must go into hiding, but first they must choose a Secret Keeper. Told from Remus Lupin's point of view, this is a companion piece to Secrets Kept.

Harry has a pleasant chat with his mother.

This is the sequel to "The Return of Sirius Black". Harry receives a letter from his godfather detailing several important things, the most important being a clue about R.A.B. One shot, though there may be possible sequels. Author suggests that you read "The Return of Sirius Black" first because this story takes place the next day.

What happens to a person when they feel the world is crumbling around them, but are powerless to stop it? Is there ever such a thing as true happiness, uncontaminated by melancholy memories and grief? This is Harry's tale of friendship, uncertainty, love, adventure and tragedy. And index of misery just trying to find hope among the darkness... Implied Harry/Hermione

After a particuarly bloody murder, Severus Snape, Mordred and Alison Lestrange, Kenneth Avery, Rolly Wilkes, Evan Rosier, and Florence Jorkins try to deal with what they've done.

Our story follows two very complicated young people, trying, for once, to do the right thing. Trying to redeem themselves and find forgiveness. Trying to learn who and what they really are and being forced to deal with those startling and sometimes devastating revelations. Fate’s road has many twists and turns and more often than not, the path ahead cannot be seen clearly. The wizarding population has placed their faith and hope in two great wizards, Headmaster Albus Dumbledore and Auror Harry Potter, the pair destined to save the world from this most awful fate. But perhaps, they aren’t the only ones to whom this task will be given?

Harry speaks at Remus's funeral. Later on, The Six congregate at Harry's flat for a private farewell to their dear friend.

Regulus inherits an heirloom dagger on the eve of joining the Death Eaters.