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"Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day." ~Thornton Wilder. In the aftermath of the second war, nothing has worked out exactly the way anyone thought that it would. The end that everyone sought never came, and life, as they say, went on for the children of the eighth day. A collection of short stories about the lives that were changed by the second war.

A new student comes to Hogwarts but he doesn't appear to be... human.

Third in the Allura saga. Tom Riddle's sister has finally been found, though she seems to be more for the side of light than for the dark. What path will she choose and will Tom kill her before she can turn him away from evil?

A vampire slayer is hired to teach defense against the dark arts. Severus is furious, a muggle woman hired for such an important task? Tension is high and Severus may have bitten off a little more than he can chew. Will he and the rest of the school be able to handle doing things the slayer’s way?

Harry Potter comes to terms with who he is.

It's been decades since the trio finished Hogwarts, and Harry has been missing for thirty years.

Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks are trapped in a room as the moon moves through its phases.

Imagine if Severus Snape were half dementor. It would certainly explain the sallow skin. Then, imagine he were to fall in love with one Sirius Black. This is the story of his life, from birth to middle age.

Despite what Severus thinks, Sirius got punished extremely badly after the Willow Incident. Now, after Sirius's death, Remus decides to correct Severus's assumptions by showing him his memories of that time.``SLASH SB/RL (and maybe RL/SS).

What are the Dark Arts? Where did they come from? Hermione Granger does some research for DADA. For those of you who wonder where exactly religion fits into the HP world, read this.

Severus' forbidden love was Lily. She got pregnant while they were still in school, and they decided to send the child to an orphanage where he would be safe. When Lily got pregnant again in her seventh year, she left Severus, unable to give up another child. She lengthened her pregnancy and seduced James Potter. Harry was born; James ignorant that he isn't the father. Harry becomes the Boy-Who-Lived. The Dursleys took him in reluctantly, but financial problems lead them to sell the five year old. He is taken to the black-market in America. Barely surviving, Harry escapes the black-market with no memory of what happened to him, two new personalities, and a protective older brother.

"I don’t think I could explain it to you. I could try but I doubt you’d understand. It’s not easy to explain unless you’ve done it, you’ve felt it." Hermione explains her descent into madness, murder and the Dark Arts in the final confrontation with Harry. Slash warning.

The Founders of Hogwarts were Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin. Two great witches and two great wizards, who, together, did great things. Terrible…...yes. But great.``This is their story... what you won't find in Hogwarts, A History.

In the fifth year, an ancient magic is revealed that could mean the end of Voldemort - but at what cost?

For ten years, Voldemort was missing, before Harry's first year at Hogwarts. No one honestly knew where he was, but maybe he was somewhere no one chanced to search... in the past. `` Tom Riddle, doesn't know who this creature is who attacked him at the orphanage, he doesn't know why he was thrown into the future by it, he doesn't understand why his name is treated with such worry, and he definitely has never heard the name Voldermort. He is just a young boy, 16 years old, who will one day in the past be the most feared Dark wizard in the world... unless he can stop it.

When someone you care deeply for disappears what would you do to help? How far would you go to find him? Chapter 1: Albus Dumbledore is walking slowly through the quiet hallways of Hogwarts one early morning. He is a dying man with only one more task to complete...

As the Trio begin their quest, Hermione can't shake off an uneasy feeling that there's something very important Harry and Ron aren't telling her. And as it happens -- she's absolutely right. Their problem is that some things, however important, just aren't that easy to tell. Not even to your best friend ... [Set shortly post-HBP. Contains the canon ships.]

It is their 6th year at Hogwarts and things got out of control between Harry, Ron, and Hermione. With just one fight, everything changed between the three of them. Nothing became pleasant anymore. Nothing became unbearable. And to add to that, unexpected dreadful news came, mysterious things happened, catching them unaware of what to do and who to trust. It is time for their sacred pact to be tested by the ill-natured Fate. But the question is, will they survive?

A nine-year-old girl is abused by her stepfather. One morning she manages to escape the house with her life just intact. Running all day, she finally collapses in someone's yard. Waking up, she finds that everything he ever told her about people and the world around her was a lie. Will the young girl be able to trust the new people?

The young shop assistant is really annoyed by now - why is he always being pushed aside by his employer whenever the blond man enters the shop? Perhaps an old lady can enlighten him today...

Is it possible for one single letter to change the lives of a man and his family forever? A letter from a past lover turns Harry's world upside down, and life will never be the same again. Based on an Urban Legend and the song "You Oughta Know".

Remnants from the last war pass over into the next, shifting the outcome. An A/U fic.

During their school days, Sirius became an Animagus for Remus’ sake. But now years have passed and Remus has started taking the Wolfsbane Potion, which helps him keep his own mind (if not his own body) at the full moon. Over the summer of 1995, Padfoot sees Moony under the influence of the Potion for the first time, and Sirius realizes how much Remus has changed over the last fourteen years....

A missing scene from OoTP: Harry is spending the night with the Weasleys at the Black house, and he's terrified over what he believes he did in the night. He is glad his godfather is there to comfort him.

A haunting one-day glimpse into Snape's life- he is not all that he seems.

This is description of what Albus Dumbledore really sees when he looks into the Mirror of Erised. It focuses on his past.

Angelina Johnson thinks back on her life with Fred Weasley.

During Goblet of Fire, Author Weasley gives a vivid, almost personal description of the terror of finding the Dark Mark hovering above you house. Was he telling from experience? Are the Weasleys not the perfect happy family we thought they were? Does a terrible sadness haunt they're past? Maybe they were effected by Voldemort, and what about the mysterious nine-year age gap between Charlie and Percy? This fic revels the Weasleys deep dark secret and how it affected them.

Harry once again comes across the Mirror or Erised and this time...falls through it. He plunges into a parallel world populated by the worst nightmares and the greatest of fears. There are even some evil twins here. Can he get home?

He's fourteen years old, living in an orphanage in War London and for the first time in his life, Tom Riddle is happy. The story of how his last high opinion of Muggle society was shattered. A WWII fic.

What if your death day was fast approaching? And what if you remembered exactly what happened? How you died, where you died and why you died.

One fateful night, in his sixth year at Hogwarts, Sirius Black sets off a chain of events that could destroy himself and those closest to him. Learn what happened the night of the prank through the eyes of the witches and wizards most intimately involved. L/J, R/S

Hermione reflects on a little problem that really shouldn't matter, but it's what made her what she is. Maybe there's a reason for her trying so hard to know it all.

Bellatrix, Andromeda, and Narcissa Black, as explained by Isaac Newton.

...a heartwrenching exposition of one man's pain and all of the consequences that follow...

When Ginny comes to Privet Drive to fetch Harry, their return to The Burrow is thwarted by an evil plot that takes them through Europe. From the U.K. to France, Poland, Russia and even Latvia, the journey's going to be a bumpy ride.``Now it's up to Ron and Hermione to chase them over Europe and rescue them from Voldemort's clutches. But along the way, the intrepid adventurers discover things they didn't know about themselves... or about each other.

In which Severus Snape spends the last moments of his life doing what he does best.

Harry would have liked a little peace and quiet after the Battle of Hogwarts to decide what he wanted to do next (although rebuilding his relationship with Ginny was definitely high on the list). But any such hopes were dashed by unexpected threats to his godson and to Kingsley's position as Minister, and once again, he and his friends found themselves in a courtroom taking on an old enemy ... (Gen central plot with a side helping of H/G and R/Hr.)

'Invisible to See' is a swashbuckling tale packed with murder, magic, romance, snark, ghosts, house-elves, friendship, loyalty, love, misunderstandings and treacle pudding. It is a story about growing up and finding that the world is more complicated and less kind than one might have hoped. It also features the decidedly racy consumation of same-sex relationships, so if slash isn't your cup of tea, this may not be the tale for you. It is set in Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts & was WRITTEN PRIOR to the release of 'Order of the Phoenix'. It is therefore AU, set after a fifth year in which the events of OotP did not occur.

There is darkness that envelopes the world. It shrouds us and keeps us from ever seeing even what's in front of our noses. But for every Hitler, Grindelwald, Attila the Hun and Voldemort, Fate gives us a person to light a candle to shatter the darkness. Hermione Granger knows a hero when she sees one. Sometimes, you just have to look a little deeper.

There's another boy in Gryffindor Tower with his own scars, and Remus is suddenly no longer alone. Warning for descriptions of child abuse.

When the young Severus Snape is caught with a secret, experimental potion, he is obliged to make a deal with James Potter that he will later come to regret...

What if Harry and Hermione failed at the end of The Prisoner of Azkaban...?

Hogwarts is having a difficult time adjusting to the new Muggle English teacher Daniel Deschamps. Everyone that is, save Severus Snape.

"That photograph, her face, kept haunting me on the nights when I dared to stray my eyes onto it. When I dared to remember the girl who had been my life." Draco Malfoy, now a notorious Death-Eater, thinks about the only woman he has truly loved, and how he had ruined her life in one short moment.

Hermione has sunken to the unthinkable: she enjoys killing. No biggie, as it is for the good guys. But she's starting to slip in her morals. And the farther she falls, the more it looks as if she is the next in line to become the Angel of Death. Two guesses as to who the Angel of Life is.... Oh yeah, and Snape is the Angel of Fear. Are we surprised?

Harry Potter goes back in time. He doesn't know how it could happen. A time-turner can't bring someone years into the past. What could have caused this event and why is he there?

A strange room takes the Marauders back into a past that they find themselves trapped in. Now, they're running for their lives. Includes a bunch laughs, Salazar Slytherin and also quite a few snakes.

Harry never liked rainbows.

Hurricane Ivan has knocked out Muggle "power" in Alabama. Severus Snape has a cousin who lives in Kentucky with a Muggle-born friend who has parents in BirmingHAM. Blood is thicker than pumpkin juice, and Snape is a powerful wizard with experience going undercover and seeming to be what he possibly is not.

Harry's fifth year. He's plagued by something more than dreams and the daughter of the new DADA professor is the only one who can help. But when she is also the key to You-Know-Who's rise, what is Harry willing to sacrifice?

I was five and he was six / We rode on horses made of sticks / He wore black and I wore white / He would always win the fight.

Draco visits Harry at the hospital, his heart breaking because Harry is fighting a losing battle. Deathfic.

Lupin would have recognized Snape anywhere, but it was still a shock to see him in the Muggle hospital tent.

Seventeen year old Lainey Potter is told by Professor McGonagall that she's the girl who helps her father, Harry, defeat Voldemort. Can Lainey take the job, save the day-and survive so she can come home to her mom and dad?

Harry, having survived his Apparation Test and the Durseys for one whole month, is at the Weasleys... but when he gets cornered and starts to hear voices, what will become of the Boy Who Lived?

Harry and his friends must find out who or what is in charge of creating the horrifically disastrous wind that is out to get Harry. A “dark, stormy night” fiction where another truth about Harry’s past, present and future is to be revealed.

Starting in October, Harry, Ron and Hermione are in their fifth year. Harry and Ron have trouble with Seamus. Something seems odd about him; what could have happened to him over the summer? Seamus' story begins to unravel throughout their year of Hogwarts, with bumps along the way!

Continuation of the one-shot "Obsession": Draco would have been the first to admit that he had a problem. A very large problem, in fact, and it came in the form of the one and only Harry Potter, Boy-Who-Lived, Gryffindor’s Golden Boy. Saint Potter. Draco’s problem wasn’t so much of a problem as it was an obsession.

In their final year at Hogwarts, Sirius thinks Remus should loosen up and have a little fun. A short tale featuring girls, hormones, a motorcycle, and a surprise ending.

Something is at Hogwarts and it isn't human....

Draco Malfoy. Boy genius, nemesis to Harry Potter, and the offspring of a Death Eater. This is a story about his life, about his conquests, and downfalls, about love, and hate, and about the small realizations that add up to one big one. But most of all, it's about why he is, the way he is.

Paige's parents are killed by mysterious people during her fifth year at Salem Institution. She has to move in with her Aunt and Uncle in England. She will be going to Hogwarts for her last two years. She will find out something that she wished she hadn�t.

Once upon a time, there was a boy. Now, this might not surprise you, because there have been many boys in the world, all of whom started their lives at 'once upon a time.' However, this boy happened to be very special. One day, this skinny lad received a letter, which he was not allowed to keep. You, however, know all this, and I will not attempt to lump together seven years of events in a few paragraphs. For now, we shall start from a new 'once upon a time', a time where everything finally seemed to be returning to normal after years of chaos and mayhem. It all started one beautiful October afternoon; Harry Potter was sitting on the porch of Hermione Krum's house, having a cup of tea, when a letter arrived. HP/Susan, HG/VK, NL/Padma, R/D

In this story you meet Rebecca, an American. She meets Harry, Ron and Hermione in their first year on the train. Suddenly the plot thickens as our terrific three become the fantastic four.

She's dead. He killed her. Indeed it would not solve my problems if I would kill him. On the contrary, it would actually make my problems worse, but still I've got this burning desire to see him pay for his crime, I want to avenge my sister's death!

Lucius wrenched at the ropes binding his wrists. Bellatrix was smiling again. "No, no, Lucius, you'll only spoil your beautiful skin. You wouldn't want to do that, would you? I've lost my own beauty, oh yes, I know that. Don't deny me the pleasure of yours."

Sequel to "Married Alive," Azazello’s take on the Marriage Law Challenge. Both stories are now AU. Hooboy, are they AU!

A shorty, angst little piece that contains mpreg, captured Harry, bastard Lucius and heroic Draco. And a happy ending.

Sirius Black ponders his existance. This is a dark story with..questionable subthemes. The overriding moral of the fic is: 'No one can escape a place like Azkaban and not have a few psychological problems'

Five years since Voldemort rose again and the war still rages. The male occupants of the Attic rooms at number twelve, Grimmauld Place muse on the effects the war is having on their lives and relationships. Lots of jealousy, secrets and angst. POVs include Bill, Harry, Ron and someone else...``Contains some usual and some unusual pairings. WARNING: may squick you. No slash.

Severus Snape saved Hermione Granger from the desolation of the battlefield after the final fight with Voldemort. Now, five years later, Hermione wants to know why and she is determined to find out.

What would have happened if Sirius Black had made a different choice on that dark night of October 31st, 1981? How different would his life be now? How different would

SLASH. Draco has a hard time dealing with his lover's death

Luke and Han meet a girl from a planet far, far away with a past that can either help them or harm them. Will they join forces with her to stop the new wizard menace in space or will they forsake her?

When Ron returns from Egypt, holiday memories and the upcoming Quidditch season push his sister's recent ordeal to the back of his mind ... until he comes face to face with Lucius Malfoy.

There's a spy in Harry's class and Snape has to find out who before everyone is put in danger. Sometimes it's who you suspect the least. Sometimes it's who you suspect the most.

Morgana Green is in her seventh year at Hogwarts. Join her as she deals with everything from homework and the NEWTs to her friends and the Slytherins. Throw in a couple of old rumors and an old crush and that's a recipe for an unforgettable year. Set during PoA.

Harry sees Remus for the first time. Gen.

"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.

Little Mallory Weasley-Potter is attending Daddy's day at her Wizarding Primary School. She has to explain to the whole class why her Daddy could not be there. Inspired by "A Dad's Poem" written anonymously about the World Trade Center.

What Professor McGonagall saw when Minister Cornelius Fudge asked her to visit a place in California called Sunnydale...

"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...'

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?

Lanae and Louis Juneau, the grandchildren of the Great Albus Dumbledore. They're Goth, punk, twins, and gay. Spending a year in Hogwarts they find out the truth of why they are there and why Voldie seems to be after them. In one short year they go through love, lust, rejection, death, and other perils. Finding compassion in the most unlikely pair this year seems to be one of eventful proportions. Come read and see Hogwarts through their eyes.

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.

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.

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?

You tell yourself that you really should have gone to Hogwarts. You tell yourself that you're really as magical as Harry or Ron or Hermione. You think you're joking. You're not.

Harry Potter is imprisoned in Azkaban. Twice. His second getaway leads to a dramatic confrontation with Voldemort, resulting in the destruction of the infamous wizard prison.

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.

Terra Delain is a new student at Hogwarts during Harry and co.’s 5th year. Coming from Durmstrang, some happenings in her family cause her to be sent to the new school where she is quickly taken in by the Slytherins. A relationship flourishes between her and our favorite character, Draco Malfoy, but that doesn’t happen really until they graduate from Hogwarts. Using trickery and deceit, she is the downfall of Harry Potter.

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.

Someone reminisces, and they aren't happy memories. Rated for violence, rape, child abuse, murder and 2nd-person present-tense narrative.

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.

To keep her job -- sort of -- Marisa Saldivar has to determine why Salem's exchange students keep going native. What's so attractive about a draughty old castle, anyway? Will she figure it out?

"All she wanted was to be wanted." Someone to fill the void left by Tom, the unavoidable void for a friend. Ginny battles inner demons and learns a little bit more about herself. Draco's just there.

What if only Tonks had died in the final battle at Hogwarts? Remus looks back at the last moments of his wife's life. Alternate Universe.