22,481 - 22,500 of 29,922 Stories

"I cannot flee from your shadow – from the spell you have cast over me. It is omnipotent, omnipresent."````The fairytale that wasn't. The result of reminiscing - and regret. Bellatrix PoV.

Aberforth Dumbledore has been misunderstood for too long. Discover the story behind the man as he encounters true love, a ravening boar, and a very mean billy goat.

It's April Fool's Day... How many times can you get Malfoy to scream like a girl??

“You feel it, don’t you?” he whispered. “The colours, the sensations, the vibrations of the magic.”````This is the third part of the Latin 'one shots'. It would be advised to read 'Cantus Inaequalis' and 'Hinc Navis a Sceleris' before this. Dark fic.

“They should have known better… It was happening and no one knew how to stop it.” Seamus starts something one night, something that quickly overtakes the whole school. Will anything ever be the same again?

Written for the Ron/Hermione Quote!Fic Challenge on Checkmated. "Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible." -- W. Stanley Mooneyham. It's the final battle, and some people will do anything necessary to save the one that they love.

And Cho, with her glassy eyes, stared up at the cobwebs crisscrossing the ceiling and wondered again how it had come to this.

Mrs. Black's life from behind her curtain. OotP setting.

The world as they know it has come to an end. Draco has long renounced his ideals that the dark side will triumph, and may end up regretting that decision. Neville is miserable, and has no one to comfort him. Join these two as they face seventh year. Learn what has happened to upset the balance in Voldemort's favor, and put together the pieces to find out who the traitor's identity is.

Neville finds someone, not just a girl, but also himself.

Something strange is going on at Hogwarts. Something very strange, Harry knows. He thinks it has something to do with Voldemort, but every time he tries voicing his opinions to his friends, they prove quite counterproductive. Pairings include Harry/Snape, Draco/Ginny, Ron/Hermione, Harry/Draco, Harry/Hermione, Harry/Ron plus implied Harry/Ginny, Draco/Hermione, Ron/Draco, Remus/Sirius, Hermione/Snape and Remus/Tonks.

A look at the ways authors strive to make fanfiction "real" so that readers can feel a fic actually "happened" on some level of reality.

Harry and Draco find a little hope together. Short, romantic slash songfic.

Voldemort has risen once more, and it is Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts. As Harry spends more time with Cho, providing her comfort from Cedric's death, he begins to drift from some of the friends he used to have. One day, however, an old friend of the Granger family is sent to Hogwarts, and is said to be the key to deafeating the Dark Lord once and for all.

Hermione had sensed it, that night, in Godric’s Hollow, that it was meant to happen. Years later, when Rose Weasley-Granger ventures into the Muggle world to try to make a name for herself outside her parents' legacy, she stumbles upon a dangerous secret.

Ron and Harry must find a way to go on after Hermione dies in childbirth. Trio (H/H/R) relationship.

“And He said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you. Go in peace." Luke 7:50

In the Riddle House, Rolophus Lestrange has taken the Dark Mark...

A tribute to Sirius/Original Character. He didn't tell her. She never knew.

Harry is Dead. so is Dumbledore. And who's in control? voldemort, of course! Except, is whole world, is in disorder

Hermione tells her diary about her love problems: stay with the man who was her rebound or go back to her first love?

Stan Shunpike showers Tonks with presents and (bad) poetry after she saves his life one cold, December evening. In an attempt to get him to stop, Tonks visits Stan at home on New Year's Eve and is pleasantly surprised by the events that follow.

Tom Riddle/Voldemort reflecting on the events that occured during second year.

She is running away from a cloaked figure and doesn't seem to have any energy left. So tired and so exhausted she can only stumble on. Can she find help before he finds her? And what does he want with her?

A train journey. Crossover with BtVS

What's a girl supposed to do?

Emotion is such a fickle thing, and so easily repressed. Femmeslash and character sketch.

What if you had one day to live? One last chance to tell your friends what you thought of them, to tell your family you love them. What would you do with that last day? Would you finally have the courage you always needed?

"Just as she was about to scream from the mounting terror inside of her, the door was flung open. Severus Snape strode into her dorm, anxiety showing plainly on his cold face. She pulled herself up slowly from the floor and then flung herself into his arms. A large sob threatened to escape. She bit her lip. Blood trickled down her chin."

Percy Weasley. Perfect Percy, that's what they all thought. But they thought wrong. Inside the "perfect" Weasley was just a little boy in pain. ``NOTE: This was written Pre- Order of the Phoenix

Hit hard by his godfather's death, Harry Potter must find a way to cope. Though, with the appearance of an unexpected visitor, it might just be a little easier than he thought. (Just after OotP, follow-up to "Unexpected Visitor.")

Narcissa gets mad. Lucius kisses another girl.

Harry watches Draco, sticks his fingers in the paint, and pretends the canvas is a bed. H/D slash.

Poor Draco Malfoy receives temporary amnesia when he meets Potter in the corridor. When Snape comes across him later on, he is in an odd predicament.

Somewhere amidst the Order, Death Eaters and O.W.L.s, Remus Lupin worked behind the scene – only to have his Sirius taken away from him yet again. sbxrl, hp+rw (post ootp!)

Because sometimes a sword really is just a sword.

Because Draco will always be second to Harry. (Post-Hogwarts fic).

Snape finds himself in the afterlife with the person he least wishes to see.

Draco suffers unjustly.

Follow the young Draco Malfoy during his first year at Hogwarts. Follow him through his adventures, through his matchmaking and his cunning slytherin plans. See the year though his eyes, see the things no one else saw because they where to busy looking at that Potter. Warning! Should not be read by sane people. We wrote this only for the sake of our madness, and if you expect just the slightest trace of reason in it, you will be disappointed. You have been warned.

Flashbacks and a Halloween Masquerade. What will Ginny do when she is convinced she is unrecognizable?

Remus Lupin, after Hallowe'en 1981. A birthday fic for Avendya.

The price of war for Ron and Hermione. Short angsty-fluff.

Harry Potter is going into the sixth year. Sirius is dead. Death Eaters and Lord Voldemort are after him. And the year he has been dreading has come.

Romilda Vane: girly, flippant, and catty. What happens when she needs a favour from Luna Lovegood? Certainly, Romilda never expected to get her come-uppance for tormenting the school's infamous Loony! Set during HBP, and written for the Broken Quill challenge.

Hermione's thoughts as she goes to the furneral of someone she loves. H/H.

Albus went to the concert to make Rose happy. He didn't expect to enjoy himself. He didn't expect to find entertainment. Most importantly, he didn't expect to find love.

Excerpt: "Eskimo girl, won't you come out tonight, come out tonight, come out tonight?" Ron sang to himself as he made his way outside into the two foot deep snow (and it was still snowing). "Wohoo!" Ron rolled around in the bitter cold for maybe three minutes before he had to come back in to get some more clothes on. "I almost forgot to put on my lucky underwear!" he shouted as he came back in and ran up the Grand Staircase to the Gryffindor Tower...

Sirius is an arrogant berk and Remus is complete pants at Potions.

A idle conversation between two Death Eaters. Slash warning--precisely what would give away the ending. (Poor Lucius.)

Percy just wants to set the record straight and for no one else to fall down that road.

Justine March always knew she was different from the other kids. This is the story of her journey from awkward preteen to confident, powerful adult witch. Friendships abound, enemies are made, and life just happens.

Red was always his favorite color.

Pre-Azkaban; Remus has a work now. But it is an illegal one, because he's a werewolf; he works in "club", trades money for sex. The only way for him to earn money. He doesn't like doing it, but it's his only choice. Sirius notices and foils Remus; so Remus has no idea whatever to think of Sirius. He likes to ignore the fact that he's still in love with him. But Sirius only uses him. Or does he?

How did a brilliant little boy become the Dark Lord Voldemort? What motivated this young man to make the decisions he did? What went through Tom Riddle's mind as he killed his father and grandparents that night? Who is Tom Riddle really? Simply "evil" is not satisfactory. How did he become the way he is?

Just how did Severus Snape earn the nickname 'Snivellus'? Here's my take on it.

Remus Lupin at times lives in doubt and regret, but a song sung from the shodows of the trees enters his life and promises to care for him, love him. Protect him from his self-anger. But someone else also has his eye on her. Will he admit to his real feelings before he falls into the darkness of the dreams that haunt him? Will her love and devotion be enough? RL/OC, JP/LE, SS/OC

Harry tries to convince himself he doesn't love Ron.

Post-war fic. Percy's life is disrupted when a chance meeting with Hermione sets off a shaky friendship. Percy drinks Earl Gray tea, falls in love by firelight, and begins to understand patience and despair.

“We have something to tell you,” said Dumbledore, very gravely. “The Potters are dead.”

How did the lamp-like eyes on the skeletal dusty cat come to roam the halls of Hogwarts? Not a romance in the traditional sense, a look at Mrs. Norris.

James Potter is a person who everyone thinks they know.``But does anyone really? Lily Evans is about to get a glimpse of who he``really is.

The new year at Hogwarts is supposed to be a normal one for Harry and his friends, but two new fifth years change that all. With a secret rivalry brewing between the two of them, and a deep dark secret that not even Dumbledore knows will keep all the students on their toes. That is if they find out...

The year is 1996, and the Second War is starting to pick up speed. In a twisted series of events, Remus Lupin embarks on a mission to gain the support of powerful Eastern European werewolf clans. Traveling beyond the borders of his country, Remus is confronted with far more than he bargained for. As the stakes are raised and the fate of the werewolf community is hanging by a thread, he must find a way to answer the persistent questions that continue to hound him, for time is running out. And only Remus can avoid a certain path to destruction.

Letters to no one, from two love sick people through the years, with an ending that only a dead man's tale could leave behind.

A man comes back to a deserted Hogwarts in order to end the war.

A few years ago, I met a young woman in Knockturn Alley. Leaning against the cold stone wall outside the pub, she looked alien, like a colourful exotic bird suddenly appearing in the shadows.

Make no deals with the Devil, child, and the Devil will have no power over you. Susan Bones knows that someone in her House is abusing a student in another. How does she react?

Ginny Weasley was there when Sirius Black fell through the Veil in the Department of Mysteries. She knows he's dead. But when she starts having unsettling and increasingly vivid visions of him, everything she knows is called into question. Now she's on a desperate journey to the depths of Hell to free an innocent man from eternal torment. To save him, she will have to undergo dangerous changes and join forces with questionable allies. But will these seven Sundays bring Sirius back?

The boy who lived - but doesn't anymore. BE WARNED- strongly implied necrophilia, dark fic. Not for the easily squicked.

Sitting on a cliff, waiting to kill myself, I try to force myself to think of all the things I fear...

--I looked you in the eye once a day, slipping glances between potion ingredients and magical beasts. Waiting for the instant when the spark would reappear and your spells would turn into caresses.--

Harry didn't expect it to happen, but it did: he survived the confrontation with Lord Voldemort. Though the wizarding community is quick to leave (though not forget) the event in the past, the war has left deep marks and challenging obstacles in the recovery effort. While Harry tries to reintegrate himself to homework and school intrigue, a sinister and virtually undetectable enemy threatens to infiltrate Hogwarts -- and if it's not stopped, what remains of the magical community.

With Albus Dumbledore dead, you make the final decision that life is unbearable.

It's in a decadent world of black moons, white roses, and siren's songs that Harry finds her, and he can't believe his eyes.

An analysis of Gringotts and the Wizarding economy and monetary system, from a Vienna-Chicago-Virginia school monetarist perspective

Harry has been captured and is being tortured by Draco, or is he?

How can such a book series ever have a conclusion? What motives does J. K. Rowling have in ensnaring us all in her books on the wizarding world? When everything is over and done with, what lies at the very end of the Harry Potter series? A rather unconventional fan fiction, which is what I hope the final ending will be.

In this AU ficlet set in 7th year, Harry and Hermione must learn to cope with a life without Ron. Harry blames himself; Hermione wishes she could help him fight his demons. Slight H/Hr overtones.

Dumbledore has sent him on a mission -- one that could mean life or death. (In tandem with Into the Terrible Night)

It seems that Harry has gotten over Sirius's death. But what about Buckbeak, the hippogriff that spent the last two years of the man's life with him? Read and find out!

"There are no more statues of heroes with chivalry in mind, no more heroes with a kind smile and a brave hand. The only heroes in this world are those willing to live long enough to die."

He's finally snapped.

This is my take on how the FINAL showdown between our hero Harry and that evil serpent Voldemort will happen! I've been told it's funny... but then again, I'm justifiably insane, so don't hold anything you read against me!

Dean experiments with his art, and Seamus experiments with frustration and aggrivation. How can they be happy when they don't understand each other?

Crazy random things! In the form of a note-to-self tape, this 'day in the life' extends to really encompasing all of Hedwig's deepest and darkest moments. Overall, a touching story, and a real tear jerker. Damn pigeons...

Ron finally loses at chess, and against a most unusual opponent.

Draco and Hermione as discuss their last night at Hogwarts and the passion they shared through letters.

"Narcissa stares at the child lying in his cot." The light that once illuminated Narcissa's life has gone out. It was flickering for the longest time.

Peeves the Poltergeist gives us a brief history and explanation about who he is, and why he does his job so well.

Luna sees things that others do not. (Hints of Harry/Luna. Eventual Ginny/Luna.)

"Don't you get it, Tom? Love isn't fighting for immortality it is one of those that administer it!" Sometimes the dreams will show you the truth, sometimes dreams are only the truth we've accepted.

What would Draco have faced if he had had the chance to face the boggart in POA? You know what they say, Your worst fear is.....

Ron Weasley is dying. But his deepest wishes haven't been fulfilled. With time running out, will he survive? And will his wishes be fulfilled?

It's Hermione's birthday and she has got some really thoughtful gifts - or so she thinks! Soon, the gifts show their true colors and, well, you've got to read the rest!

A one-shot response to the Fallen FQF. Remus is afraid of flying. James wants to teach him to enjoy it. However, there are some fears that you cannot just forget -- especially if those fears are not your own. Mild SLASH RL/JP.

There are several different types of drunk person. Sirius is a Philosopher. He sits in a bar and, in between drinks and coming up with an innovative new towel rail design, contemplates Love. (Post-Hogwarts Marauderfic), Remus/Sirius, James/Lily

She's gone back to fix what she did wrong. Unfortunately, she doesn't have a fondness for following the rules. She'll do her best to stick to the plan, but did the Founders do what was best when they chose to do their work through her?

Sirius drops in to visit Harry. They talk about a lot of random stuff, from Muggle television to anime to Being Gay. This is a good example of why never to obey the impulse to jump up and scribble down half-dreams at three a.m.