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A 20 year-old James Potter muses on how his life has turned out for the worst when a certain redhead re-enters his life and reminds him of the wizarding world he thought he left behind long ago. Pieces of his past finally click together and at long last, he finds out the truth that he was secretly searching for.

How Ginny and Sirius became friends.

"Five years ago the snow fell, just as it falls tonight: cold, relentless, and uncaring. Every so often the wind unleashes a frustrated howl and I shiver, huddling closer to the smoking, inadequate fire I’ve lit in our hideout deep within the Forbidden Forest. As shelters go, it’s not much, just a little crack in a hillside that’s unworthy of being called a cave. But it keeps out the worst of the weather and hides us from our enemies." After Harry Potter's death, Hermione Granger works to bring down the Dark Lord and discovers love, hate, trust, betrayal - and magic at its most impenetrable. Completion of the storyline from Led Away Into Captivity To Suffer Shame and A New Beginning, but can be read on its own.

Ever since Hermione entered the world of wizards and witches she has dealt with the ongoing war. Now, she is having a hard time learning to live with the memories of that war, and the changes since the fall of Voldemort. A strange sort of "friend" comes to help her... SS/HG but not a romance. AU.

After fifth year Harry loses his memories and is found by Charlie Weasley. Why doesn't he return Harry to the Burrow or Hogwarts?

Silence is deafening, isn't it? Especially with Snape breathing down your neck.

“Sometimes, things happen, and you don't really know why it happens.” What do you do when the one person who can save you is the one you thought you've forgotten?

What if one day you woke up and nothing was right yet everything was so familiar? What if you didn’t even know yourself? Who you had been, who you are, and who you were supposed to be? What if the one person that could help you was the unlikeliest of them all... (mild H/D)

Ten years after graduation, Ginny and Hermione find themselves on opposite sides of a losing battle. Leading up to their predicament is an intricate tale of love, power, and defeat. This story follows these two women as they fulfill their fatal destinies and forge a friendship that just might save the world.

Things don't always go as planned. Heroic deeds are not always spectacular. In doing them, however, heroes discover what matters most.

The war is over, and Hermione continues the final phases of her research on the English Coast. Her research causes an unexpected twist, which requires the assistance of a certain jaded war hero whose memory has haunted her ... first fanfic, critiques welcome!

A father and son are torn from each other because of forces they have no control over. To protect his wife and son from Voldemort and his Death Eaters, Severus Snape had to hide the fact that he was married and had a child. Now that his wife has been killed by the most feared and powerful wizard in modern times, he's had to go to even greater lengths to protect his child. Will his son ever know who his father is?

Will everything be left unsaid and undone, or will there be closure? In the first place, is there such a thing as a complete closure? Will people always end up pondering over what-ifs? For devoted D/H fans, who won’t give up hope that Draco and Hermione could get together somehow, in some way.

In war, the worst casualties are not deaths.``They are the fragile remains of the living.````Hermione Granger and Severus Snape were two such casualties. When Hermione goes missing, it falls to Alastor Moody and his comical sidekick Seamus Finnigan to go after her - and even play matchmaker. A post-Hogwarts story that may not be what you - or Alastor - expect.

Helga Hufflepuff makes a startling discovery that will forever change her relationship with the other three Founders. Recommended pre-reading: "That Was Just A Dream" and "Sky Streaked With Sunrise".

Ginny and Draco have a fight that gets a little heated.

A fic about when the Marauders become friends with Lily. Some humour, some adventure, some nakedness! (but quite mild)

Three children are settling down to bed and request a story. The tale is a familiar one.

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Ten years have passed since the Trio left Hogwarts. Dumbledore has organised a reunion for them at the Leaky Cauldron, but the Dream Team haven't spoken in years.``In this chapter: Dumbledore writes invitations and thinks about four of his past students...``D/Hr H/Hr R/?

Come night, they came to terms with the changes. [H/D]

Set in Harry's seventh year. After countless attacks from Voldemort, Harry has given up trying to fight back. He is just waiting for Voldemort to destroy him. Ginny is determined to save him from Voldemort, and from himself, no matter what the cost.

Draco is swept away by a foreign beauty because in her eyes is where his destiny lies.

Years after the war has ended, they still gather to celebrate and remember...but no-one has come through unscathed, least of all Draco Malfoy. See Harry's legacy through his eyes, if you're strong enough.

Featuring Evil plans and interference, inept Ministry activities, a very tangled "Hogwarts Love Polygon", bad poetry, and someone who finally realizes that Hogwarts is a boarding school without nearly enough parties.

When Harry died, he thought that it was all over. But in a war-torn future, Harry finds himself dragged back into the realm of the living without any friends or anyway home. Can he fight the good fight just one more time before he fades away again? Or is this a journey he take for far longer than that?

Mindy thought being a transfer to Hogwarts as a fifth year would be hard, but then she met Draco. Now, she is slowly falling in love with him, finding she would do anything with or for him.. and then Harry steps in. Mindy is suddenly torn between real love and a strange new attraction that means barely anything but yet is still.. there. And what's up with Draco and his longing stares at Hermione Granger?

People have been keeping secrets from Harry for as long as he can remember. That trend doesn't seem to be stopping. More secrets come into light and Harry finally gets the answers to some of the questions he's been asking. But is he ready to hear them?

A twisting tale of love, pain and life. Features many of the characters from the books, plus a few new original characters.

Harry Potter & Draco Malfoy have both had their lives turned upside down by recent events. When they find themselves on the same side, will they learn to get along? Or will something more than friendship develop?

Devastated by the deaths of her parents, Lily finds herself struggling to come to terms with the massive uncertainty inherent in a war-torn wizarding world. However, when Sirius flirts with Divination in an attempt to tease a smile to Lily's lips, he, Lily and James become trapped in another reality posing as the future. A spell cast to reveal the closest blood relative to Sirius should offer some chance of escape, but when it leads them directly to Draco Malfoy Lily finds herself asking whether morals are more important than happiness and whether a sense of right and wrong is ever worth sacrificing peace for. Ultimately, will Lily set her soul to rest, or only learn that the future never does the expected? Warnings: slash, language.

When Draco Malfoy's 18th birthday kicks off with having a random girl faint on top of him in a bar, he never dreamed that her half-crazed babblings were the key to a past buried so deeply that the he had never suspected its existance. But then, with names like Adrian Baddock ringing a bell, half-crazed Death Eaters refusing to cut their losses, and a bit of an identity closing in, the Slytherin dragon never assumed life would be easy. Co-produced by Emgee.

An age reversal spell brings a sixteen year old Tom Riddle to Hogwarts. A very suspicious Harry Potter returns to school, scarred in more ways than one. Can the creation of the Dark Lord be stopped this time? Will the two enemies reconcile, or is Harry doomed to burn in his hatred forever? Slash.

Having premonitions can sometimes be a good thing, but not always....

Harry enters a contest to sing...a rap song by Eminem, star Muggle rap artist. He finds out about other surprising entries, too. Lots of fun.

Hermione is in her seventh year. When something is taken away from her, will she learn to live again or will life seep out of her? Will Harry be able to awaken her? Begins Draco/Hermione, ends Harry/Hermione.

About fifteen years ago boy of seventeen was found on a Maine beach. He only remembered one name and that is James, but who is he really? After an ordeal at work, James and his family move to Surrey. Fiona, James's oldest ``daughter is accepted to Hogwarts, and they are thrown into the wizarding world head-first. Who is this Harry Potter they speak so fondly of? And how is James and his family connected?

Harry has memory loss after the last battle with Voldemort; Ron tries to help him regain it.

"Sit not too proudly on thy throne, Think on thy sisters, them that fell; Not all the hosts of Babylon Could save her from the jaws of hell." How had they come to this, the three Black sisters, so full of promise as they had been that night? How had each of them been so blind, so foolish, to let the others fall? A sequel to

Draco and Hermione are inexplicably drawn towards each other and soon they start to fall for one another in a forbidden love. Meanwhile Lucius is helping the Dark Lord in regaining power, and not to mention, Muggle and Mudblood torture... Rated R for language, and some sex related humour-later chapters will have violence and sex...

The past changes the future, but the present changes everything. When four people come together can they change the past and create a new future for themselves? Or will their previous mistakes come back to haunt them? A Draco/Hermione Tom/Ginny story.

Recently leaving Hogwarts, Pansy proposes to Draco, however, seeing ``greener pastures Pansy refuses... Believing he lost the love of his life, Draco drinks, and the same night sleeps and marries unsuspecting Ginny Weasley. A couple of years later, noticing an announcement in the papers of a wedding between Draco and Pansy, Ginny confronts Draco with his child. Soon after, Blaise comes up in the show, hence the plot thickens. There's revenge, deception, jealousy and of ``course, love. R/r

From the age of five, Remus J. Lupin was feared by some and despised by the rest. He had only his immediate family--until he was accepted into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. This is the story of a young werewolf, trying to grow up in a world that is already beginning to darken with the shadow of Voldemort, and the friends who stand by him through the journey.

They were totally wrong for each other. I mean totally. Different houses, families that hate each other, different in personality....everything.``Then the both of them start having dreams. Dreams about the other. ``They are in a room. Misty. You cant see anything. Until the other shows up.``pain....``They dont know whats going on, so they keep trying to hate each other. But love has a very different path for them.

The prophecy gone, Voldemort turns his attention back to his original goal: kill Harry Potter! ``If that wasn't enough, Harry must also deal with NEWT level classes, weapon dueling lessons, and a sneaky Slytherin. ``Then there's the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Ron and Hermione's escalating feuds, and his new girlfriend!

Witness the magic in the birthing room of Malfoy Manor as Narcissa's first grandchild is born.

The dream team are done at Hogwarts, and are out in the real world. With Same-as-always!Harry, exasperated!Hermione, lovesick!Ron, and of course cameos from all our other fav HP characters! Harry and Ron are sharing a flat in London, Hermione is in her own not to far away. We'll follow them through failed dating attempts, their new jobs, and find out how well their friendship really has stood up to time. Centering mostly around the boy who lived and his brainiac best friend, we watch them try to cope with things they've known for a long time- things that scare the **** out of them! And on top of everything else... Voldemort's evil deeds have been non existent for months- but has he really gone away?

Remus is looking forward to his last year at Hogwarts, and even though he knows it'll be no easier than the previous years, some facts are going to make this the toughest. Slight AU (though not really, as we'll never really know what actually happened).

Hermione receives a startling letter from Viktor Krum in her seventh year at Hogwarts. When his old school, Durmstrang, suddenly turns horribly wrong, she, Harry, Ron, Viktor, and his friends must combat the entire horde of well trained dark wizards from Bulgaria...but as they do so, Hermione finds out some things about love, friendship, loyalty, and herself.

The twisted story of a God and a Worshipper, but who fits what role? Voldemort and Bellatrix each tell their side of the story, mingling past with present, love with death and destruction with hope. ``Rated for incest and sexual violence.

While on vacation, Mac rediscovers powers she once had. However, there's always a catch... (JAG/Harry Potter crossover)

A Partner Story. To be read following The Progeny of the Pure-Blood: She was only here because Draco needed her. If she'd known what was in store, she might have reconsidered. Surprises, danger, drama, tragedy, and The Boy Who Lived - Would she be sorry that she'd come?

Mostly a Penelope story, also starring Ron (yes, this is Penny-n-Ron) and Percy and Oliver...cameos by Neville and Harry and Hermione, of course.

Boy meets girl. Boy and girl grow to hate each other. Boy and girl run into each other on prefect duty and realise that they don’t hate each other as much as they thought… but what would happen if boy’s father and girl’s best friends were to find out that girl and boy don’t hate each other as much as everyone initially thought?

Riddled as he is with guilt concerning Cedric's death and his constant, gnawing fear since Voldemort's return, Harry's life has taken a turn for the worse. Ginny Weasley is forced to watch from afar as her brother's best friend wastes away before her eyes, powerless to stop it. But Harry's silent cries have been heard. Another shares his anguish and his only wish is to relieve Harry of it. This is a story of love, compassion and most importantly, forgiveness. Life, is just the beginning.

After finding a hidden lake, Hermione is driven into the hands of her true love. Many ships, heartbreak, romance, and betrayal.

Lorelei Hayes and Remus Lupin fell in love at Hogwarts. Ministry laws prevented them from getting married or having any children, but Fate had other plans.``Each chapter either takes place in the present (PoA-centric), or the past (Marauder-era).

After failing his Death Eater initiation in the summer between his fourth and fifth years, Draco Malfoy lost everything. His only refuge is Hogwarts, but he'll have to forge a new path if he wants to survive. There's a lot of ground to cover, and he's already burned many of his bridges. Can Draco stand on his own, without money, status, family, or former friends to back him up?

Harry is back to Dursleys for the summer to find out that the Death Eaters broke out of Azkaban. Snape is coming over to him there to help him learn how to Apparate, and at the end, there is a lot of dead people.

"It's weird sometimes when you love somebody. It makes you do and say things you would've never expected, even though at the beginning you don't even know whether you love that person or not."

This is my tale of love, family, happiness, and what happens by the light of the moon. This is a tale about Remus, the woman he loves, and their life together - spanning from their years at school to the age of "The Boy that Lived."

It's six years after Hogwarts. Harry and Hermione are married with a daughter. Life is about to take an unexpected turn...

Hermione gets the opportunity of a lifetime when she is chosen for studies in America. Harry has a secret love for her. She falls in love with someone during her travels. What will happen?

A spin off of Dethryl's "They Shook Hands" series. Percy Weasley always wanted to be the best at everything. If it wasn't for his impoverished family, impossible siblings, and that arrogant Malfoy family, perhaps he would be. But on Halloween night, he loses everything he thought he had. Outcast, reviled, Percy must now face the world alone and make his own place in it. Along the way, he finds new allies and encounters old prejudices. A monster may be loose at Hogwarts, but so is a storm of hatred. Percy will learn that amazing things happen when you are green with envy.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was a great finish to a fabulous series, but didn't it make you wonder what happened right after Harry defeated Voldemort? This fic is about the days following Voldemort's downfall, showing how Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny and everyone else is dealing with the aftermath of the Battle at Hogwarts.

Draco was looking at her again. What he and Granger had was an unspoken rivalry. It was a fight to see who was the weak, and who was the powerful. And in the end, it could end all wars. "You're filthy," he drawled. "But you're beautiful."

"We dark ones, we lost ones, do not feel less strongly than the others... we feel more intensely. We suffer more intensely, live and die more intensely than they. And when the end comes, it is our torment which is greatest and most enduring." The redemption of Severus Snape begins with the loss of a young life on the field of battle. Set several years after GoF, this is not about the Final Battle, but what happens afterwards...

His story is familiar; his perspective is not. Tormented by his past, Sirius Black struggles for sanity and pushes onward, seeking justice, vengeance, and the only people he has left to live for.

Tracey Davis, fifth year Slytherin encompassing none of its finer attributes and all of its nonsensical ones, is the invisible damsel in distress trying to make it through just one more day of her housemates' irksome competitions. A story where Blaise steals butterbeer and more besides, Pansy's busy attempting to flirt with Draco (presently, it's quite one-sided) and everyone's in love with Daphne Greengrass. A slow but un-fluffy romance about the difficulties of being unconventional in the traditionalistic society that is the Slytherin Common Room. Just because you're a Slytherin doesn't make surviving your fellow housemates any easier.

Detention sparks a new interest in two teenagers of the MWPP era. SLASH (James/Severus)

The war is over, but some things never change. Hermione attends a muggle magic show, and encounters Remus Lupin, who's been in hiding from the Ministry for three years, trying to make a living away from anti-werewolf legislation. But that isn't the only thing bothering Hermione. Ginny and Harry seem to be having marital troubles, and there's something more than love lost behind that...

“First, he asked me to marry him. Then he told me he was a wizard.” Can a Muggle learn to cope with the fact that her fiancé has incomprehensible powers, overcome parental misgivings, and still manage to keep everything a secret from her friends?

Fourth in the Time's Riddle AU. A disconcerting visit from Lucius Malfoy and an incident involving a rogue Acromantula and inter-House cooperation lead Tom to set about remedying Slytherin's damaged relations with the other Houses. Via a study group.

The fall of 1995, after Harry and his friends begin their fifth year at Hogwarts. An old friend finally begins to say goodbye, and start life anew.

Hermione writes in her diary about her past experiences with Draco Malfoy, the project they had together, and what they discovered. Her entries include learning to love, and fighting her feelings, friends, and the odds to keep what she has.

AU. What if something unexpected happened when the Weasley Twins were born? Something that left them separated, each not knowing the other existed?

Voldemort's been defeated, but something's not right with the Wizarding World. No matter how hard they try, they can't seem to over come the number of deaths that riddle their world, and the Muggle World. They know the cause, or at least they've seen the evil of the Shadow; but they cannot figure out how it came to be, or how to defeat it.

It's almost impossible to write about Lily and James' entire Hogwarts career in one story that isn't monotonously long. And who wants to read about just one year of the much loved Potters? No one! That's who!``Well surprise! Allow me to present the Flashing of a Lifetime! What happens every time people die? Their lives flash before their eyes! Set into 2 Parts, the James part and the Lily part, the two relive their lives and memories in flashes both long and short. Hopefully accurate to your tastes.``Oooh boy, this is going to be fun!

A MWPP/L pre-Hogwarts. As told through everyone's minds. Remus's doubts about himself, Peter's insecurety's, a scary trip into Sirius's mind, James's animosity towards female's, the beginning of Lily's entrance into magick, and the introduction of Remus's golden-eyed twin: Gwyn.

It's time to take a break from the Hogwarts students and now turn our attention to the less famous but equally important part of the school: the Teachers. Now it's their turn. This is their story, their life and their souls. Every chapter would be about a single individual teacher, portraying their hidden lives and past. And sometimes, what you don't know can shock you.

Starting after The Order of the Phoenix in Harry Potter's 6th year. A year full of unanswered questions, betrayal, mystery, and adventure. What happens when you know something is coming that will affect everything? Will you try to prevent the happening? Or will you accept destiny? Many questions abound as prophecies reveal and fulfill, is it all a coincidence? Will the worst come forward?

Voldemort sends a hunter out for more unicorn blood only to be foiled by our favorite DE spy Severus Snape. Unfortunately, severe consequences arise and the Order, and more importantly the Dream Team will have to deal with the fallout.

His point of view lowered slowly until he looked through the large front windows into what seemed to be the front parlor of the home. Four people stood in the room, a couple in muggle clothing huddled against the far wall; two dark cloaked individuals stood opposite the couple, their wands pointing toward the man and woman.``As Harry concentrated on the scene, he suddenly was in the room behind the attackers. The dark wizard on Harry’s right raised his wand and in a sibilant voice said, “Crucio.” The red beam shot out and held on the older man across the room. ``Horrified, Harry witnessed the man contort and writhe in agony, not screaming until he collapsed on the floor under the spell.

Sometimes life throws a hard ball. There’s nothing you can do except aim and hope for the best. Well, hoping was and never shall be a part of me, and if it were, it would never be something I would be proud of doing. Hope is for the weak and vulnerable, and me… I am anything but.````My meaning: to serve. My name: Draco Malfoy.````My father is plotting the demise of one Albus Dumbeldore so he and the Dark Lord may fulfill their design that they have upon the world. Little do they know, their faithful spy is having second thoughts. And all because of one irate little redhead.

There are defining moments in every life, moments when the world comes crashing down around you or when a new thought opens in an epiphany of blazing obviousness. These moments will always stick out in the memory of the partaker, changing a life and mind. ````But what about the times when these are shared moments? When something cataclysmic happens to the ordinary and mundane in a way where the world must stop and take notice. What do you do when the grief is shared and no one struggle stands out more than any other? What happens when the dust finally settles and you are left to deal with the consequences? ````Of Love and War, a seventh year fic.

Our story begins one warm summer day as Hermione awakes from her coma to discover a world gone crazy. Sat by her bedside Ron tells of how, in a desperate attempt to continue his Empire of Darkness after the so called 'Final Battle', Lord Voldemort spread corruption in his wake. The far-reaching consequences have been disastrous for the British Wizarding population in general and for Harry in particular, leaving the Ministry of Magic scrambling in an attempt to halt their world's decent into madness. Will the Order be able to undo Voldemort's damage before a manipulative Draco Malfoy can twist the situation to his own rebellious advantage or is everything doomed to end in blood and darkness?

What's the worst mistake you ever made and how did you handle it? Harry and company each face down a threat of their own making. Some face losing things they will never get back, some face rebuilding things they thought they could never lose. Hearts are broken, homes are lost, but if they work together they may build a new world where Voldemort no longer steals their dreams.

A companion piece to "The Fire You Touch." While we received the story from Aeryn Blake's point of view, never were we permitted to glimpse into the Potion master's psyche. Here, through explorations of TFYT's key chapters, we are finally able to hear Severus Snape's side of the story.

Before: Peter. Shy, retiring boy trying to find his niche. After: Worm(tail). Cringing minion. Hands-down winner of Scum of the Earth Award, 1981. What went wrong?

What if Rookwood hadn't gotten Voldemort onto the right track? What if Voldemort really had kidnapped Sirius and taken him to the Department of Mysteries? Would the outcome of the Battle be the same? Or would Sirius still be alive?

At his Sorting, Regulus Black weighs his brother's love against his parents' expectations, and makes a choice.

We join Severus Snape on platform nine and three-quarters, ready to start his first year at Hogwarts. Join him as he meets the other first years, James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew, and falls under the influence of fourth year Lucius Malfoy.

When Vernon's life is threatened, he learns that mere death might not be the worst fate awaiting him.

After the war, Harry writes a letter.

Ginny wants to become a Deatheater because she is sick and tired of being poor and everyone judging her just based on that factor. Draco is the lucky one who gets to train her.

Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Draco are in their fifth year at Hogwarts and their relationships are changing rapidly. Will Ron and Hermione work out their complex issues? Will Draco surprize even himself when the least expected person has a large effect on him? Will Harry get his first real kiss before Ron? The hormones are raging and these teenagers are not children anymore.

Hermione comes back for 5th year, having realized her true feelings for Ron over the summer. She doesn't know how to tell him how she feels, and even starts to go a little nuts, acting completely unlike herself and talking to herself. Not until a turnaround ball, where the girls ask the boys to be their dance partners, is announced does Hermione finally realize the right way to tell Ron about her feelings for him. Meanwhile, Harry is pining after Ginny who has left the poor raven-haired hero in the dust for a certain blond Slytherin. How does Hermione react when she finds out who Ginny's dance partner for the ball is? All R/Hr shippers just looking for a good fluffy story, read ahead!

Lately Hermione has been getting visits from a boy during the night. Not *that* kind of visit, perverts! This visit is from a vision. A vision Hermione knows in her heart is trying to tell her something dire. But this conclusion goes beyond rationality! Ron thinks she's crazy, even Hermione thinks she crazy. Can she listen to this irrational feeling? If she wants to keep certain people safe, she must. It's up to her. (angsty/fluff n' stuff, humor, Hr/R )

One summer day, Dudley Dursley becomes curious about his cousin Harry's life. Semi-angst fic from Dudley's POV.

While in Azkaban, Sirius is surprised to recognize a new prisoner - Hagrid.