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A prequel to the rest of the Best Laid Plans stories. Hermione's last Easter holiday at Hogwarts is starting out as nothing short of depressing. She lost her parents the year before and the war is most definitely brewing in the rest of the world. On top of that, the Order is trying to gear up for the battle to come, so not only is Viktor away for weeks at a time, she has no idea where he is or what he's doing. But on the Saturday before Easter, someone arranges for her to ponder on something a little more practical, magical and mystical than her own problems. The incredible.. egg? When Dobby delivers an Easter basket and refuses to tell her who the sender is, Hermione tackles one of her favorite things. A puzzle that needs solving.

This is a story of Harry Potter's unusual seventh year, which starts out well; but sooner than they like, both he and Ginny will face challenges to their lives and love. This story is ``also about how a mother's love can make a difference. Of course, Voldemort doesn't make it easy as he strives to slay Harry, steal Ginny and conquer the wizarding world. Snape doesn't make it easy on Harry either, and Poppy may drive Harry mad this year. Will Harry and Ginny survive or will Death take all? Don't forget Ron and Hermione, either. I didn't.

HBP Missing Moment. What happened between Harry and Ginny after they left the common room after their first kiss? This is my interpretation of their walk around the lake.

It all seemed so simple when he proposed. They'd elope, of course, and no-one would be able to stop them. Malfoy and Hermione are finding out exactly how fast simple things can get very complicated... especially when you factor in abandoned ex-fiances, a reporter out for blood, quite a bit of drunken idiocy, a seventeen-year-old muggle without a clue, time spent in Jamaica, runny mascara, general dissatisfaction all around, sexy lies, puking pastilles, quidditch half-time sabotage, highly acidic hair-products, murderous grandmas, and a kind-of-but-not-quite pregnant bride... A three-week engagement never felt so long.

There were rumors about the reclusive potion-makers who lived at the outskirts of Glastonbury.

Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts for his sixth year. He longs for Sirius to come back, but knows that it's too late. He soon realizes that some things are not what they seem. He finds that he has feelings for Ginny Weasley, that Hermione has been hiding something from him and Ron, and most important of all: he discovers something in the Forbidden Forest that will change all of their lives forever.

Imaginations are wonderful things, but what if one day you discovered that a world you thought you had been imagining, really existed? What if they needed your help?

Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny try to come to terms with the events at the Ministry of Magic. One-shot. Missing moment told from Hermione and Ginny's perspective.

During the summer after his tumultuous sixth year, Harry embarks on a quest to learn everything he can about Horcruxes, knowing that he will need all the information he can get in order to survive the impending conflict with Lord Voldemort. A trio of new Muggle friends throws a wrench in the works--and the discovery of an arcane, long-forgotten spell leads to a series of revelations, adventures, and tragedies. Are the bonds of friendship and family enough to save the MacTavishes when Voldemort discovers their secret? And can Harry save them without dooming himself, and the entire magical community with him?

A sixth year fic which concentrates on the wizarding world at war, and the Boy Who Lived, who is mourning the death of his godfather. After Voldemort revealed himself in the Ministry, he further reveals what he has been doing lying low for an year... On a lighter side, how do Ginny and Hermione, who have hopelessly fallen in love with the two most thickheaded boys make themselves be noticed?

Christmas 1991. All Charlie and Tonks want to do is spend the holidays together. What happens when Molly and Arthur decide to pop in for a surprise visit on Christmas Eve... CW/NT

H/D. Harry and the gang are studying unicorns when he makes several stunning revelations. One Ingenious Plan later, and Harry is beginning to wonder if perhaps he should just give up on Draco Malfoy. But the unicorns have a surprise of their own, and it might just bring these two unlikely characters together for good!

Takes place immediately after The Prophecy and goes through to Harry’s seventh year. As Dumbledore watches Harry leave, he realizes how alike they are. Memories of the defeat of Grindelwald and painful revelations with the other Potters resurface. Bits of AD/MM, J/L, and H/Hr.

It is bedtime in the hospital wing, on the evening of the day following the events in the Department of Mysteries at the end of OotP. Ron and Hermione are the only ones who remain in the hospital wing, and Hermione asks Ron to help her understand what she missed while she was unconscious.

When Remus Lupin comes to Hogwarts Severus Snape's life turns upside-down. Though he tries to deny it Severus's emotions are out of his control and in Lupin's hands. Soon Severus finds that there is more to him than he thought, and that even a Slytherin and Death Eater can be very easily understood by a Gryffindor and a werewolf. And maybe only by him. Lupin gradually breaks Severus's defences. If only there weren't the suspicions and the mistrust, the insecurity in every fibre of Severus's body. If only there weren't Lupin's suspicious behaviour, his lies and secrets. Will their bond be strong enough to withstand all doubts, disappointments and pain they are confronted with? This shows PoA through Snape's eyes.

The events following the attack in the Department of Mysteries from Minerva McGonagall's point of view. Chronicles from her return to Hogwarts to the end of term. Featuring Albus Dumbledore with cameos by Harry Potter, Severus Snape, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, and Poppy Pomfrey. Minor appearances by Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you to. A tragic story. H/Hr D/Hr. "What if you were the cause of somebody else's fate? What if that cause ended with death? Could you live with yourself? Was it meant to happen? Or was it simply your destiny" Based on the movie Bounce.

In which Remus dreams, Sirius understands, James snores, and Peter is a sodding rat.

Hogwarts has a Christmas Ball coming up and Harry knows who he'd like to ask. But will he be too late in asking her? Or will he find his love on a fateful Christmas Eve? H/Hr

Percy wakes to find someone weeping in his bedroom. Oh, bother. (Percy and Fleur: Percy/Penelope, Bill/Fleur, H/G implied, R/Hr implied, Tonks/Charlie implied.) Fourth story in The Weasley Family Picnic series.

Sirius reflects on the events leading up to his near-fatal Prank on Snape, and all he's done since then to win Remus' forgiveness. (S/R)

In his sixth year Harry will gain the powers and the skills he needs to defeat Tom Riddle once and for all. Join him in his journey of knowledge, power and self discovery. RH HG

As Ravenclaw Julie Fawcett enters her sixth year at Hogwarts, she can't help but become increasingly aware of the gap between Ravenclaw and the rest of the school, not to mention the culture clash created when Muggles are sent into a magical world, a situation only made worse by Professor Umbridge's arrival and the politicizing of the school. Is Hogwarts' traditionalism really the ideal way of running a school? A very different look at HP, featuring mostly OCs and minor characters.

Harry and Draco get locked in a Broom Closet. Somehow, somebody rescues them and they're free. But what happens in the aftermath?

Prior to the outbreak of the first War, Aisa Galbraith begins her life at Hogwarts. She is excited about joining the school - but it does not last. Unexpected and unwelcome events at the sorting mean her life will change forever. How will it affect her future and, more importantly, the events of the next war?

The House-Elf Liberation Front strikes back...

Hermione is getting letters from an unknown some one. who is it? Femslash.

Why have the Angels Never Sang? The answer is different for every person, and each chapter will be told from a different point of view, giving them a chance go in-depth about why the angels never sang. In this chapter: Ron looks at the different ways the angels have slighted his best friend.

It is June 2005. "Recent Events" are mutating into ancient history. Draco takes Neville, following a dangerous illness, on a convalescing cruise of the Greek islands. But locally Voldemort has stirred up archaic and terrifying powers too powerful to be subdued even by his fall; and Neville, too, has ghosts from his past to confront. Across a brilliantly sun-lit landscape a shadow falls...``This story was written for St Valentine's Day. However, it commemorates not St Valentine the Fluffy of Hallmark, but the orginal martyr,beheaded for being in the wrong place, proclaiming the wrong message, at the wrong time.``A further story in the Lust Over Pendle arc.

Sixth-year James Potter is still in hot pursuit of Lily Evans, and despite her constant rejections, he just can't seem to leave her alone. His efforts to pretend her dislike doesn't matter only seems to make things worse. James isn't willing to give up his pride for anything though...is he?

What if tomorrow never came? What if the sun never rose? What if the music stopped at midnight? If the Phoenix lost his voice? The dragon lost his fire? The world…the world would end; shattering the balance of your perspective. At least for one boy. Or two.

In what should be his seventh year at the famous Hogwarts, School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter once again instead finds himself fighting for his life. Dumbledore is dead, Hogwarts is under threat and the Wizarding World is once again at war, he has to help. But along the way, and with a little help from his friends, he will come to find though, that there is more to this than meets the eye.

"There are some strange things going on at the moment - I don’t know if you’ve noticed. There seems to be a total Parental Chat epidemic going around. Really, there must be something particular in this year’s summer heat." - Harry, Luna, Hermione, Ginny and Draco are all subjected to a dreaded Parental Chat.

Hermione has a major crush on Harry, and on their little "day out," a little girl is injured. Who is this little girl? Probably not an important girl, but whatever!

Sometimes, the simplest words can be the hardest ones to say.

"Maggie knew in her heart that her mummy and daddy kept each other happy and always would." A story of family and dealing with death.

Tonks plays Patience in the evening. Set during OotP.

Carrie Dashwood left England fourteen years ago with no intention of ever returning. However, events intervened that forced her to face her past, to return to the life she left behind, to confront dark secrets that she never wanted to be revealed. Based loosely on the novel Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.

Back for their sixth year, Blaise and Ron are assigined to a Potions project together. Blaise discovers a startling new development in her life, and when he finds out what it is, Ron enlists her help to get Sirius back. Snape acts mysterious, Harry gets angry, Draco gets confused, Ginny gets defensive, Hermione does some problem solving, and...oh - Tonks teaches DADA!

Missing scenes from OotP: Why did Ron go all funny, really? Was it something we missed...Or was something, in fact, missing? And did anyone else suffer a similar fate? ``This tale takes place just after the Department of Mysteries battle, and is rated PG-13 for mild language and a healthy breeze 'round a couple of pairs of privates.

Harry's the last virgin in the boys seventh year dormitory, and when Ginny and he decide to go further with their relationship, he turns to Neville for magical help and advice. But Neville's spell goes horribly, gender-bendingly wrong...

The final battle is over, but not everything turned out as everyone hoped it would, at least for Remus it hasn't. A memory hex throws Remus' life into complete chaos, the problem is he doesn't even know it ... but Severus does, and is willing to do anything to somehow have a life with a man who by morning never remembers that they are no longer enemies ... (SS/RL, HP/DM, challenge fic issued by Redcandle17 based on the 50 First Dates film)

Harry has been missing his Godfather. He, Hermione and Ron enter the Underworld to seek Sirius. Dumbledore sends Snape to find them - but so too does Voldemort.

Remus and Sirius exchange Christmas gifts at Hogwarts and at Grimmauld Place.

Harry meets a new girl named Kayla after a terrible summer at the Dursleys. Voldemort finds a new way to get to the Hogwarts students, and Harry ends up in the Hospital. Again. And who likes Ginny?

Kingsley Shacklebolt wasn't at the Hogwarts Express to wish Harry a happy summer with the rest of the Order. Why? Because he and a certain snarky Potions Master were discussing guilt, responsibility, trust, surrender, love, and death.

(Sequel to "Chocolate Eyes" but another prequel to "Interrogator") Why exactly did Hermione leave England and everything she knew? Why did she desert the one person that could actually have made her happy? Where is her Gryffindor bravery? Is anyone in the mood for dessert?

Order of the Phoenix members decide to surprise Harry with his first ever birthday party, with a rather extensive and surprising guest list.

Visions from the Dark Lord are incapacitating Harry. Snape decides to help, regardless of whether Harry wants his help. When a relationship develops then becomes more than just lust, can they hold on to what they have? Features a possessive Snape and a sarcastic cynical Harry with the tried and true side plot of ‘must kill Voldemort’ thrown in.

Severus Snape is the new headmaster of Hogwarts, and his first duty is not to kill the new deputy headmaster. Harry/Snape slash.

They always met in secret. Always for love. That night, it was different. 'I hate you.' ... 'Why' DMHG Romance set during HBP, slightly dark, ONESHOT

It's the summer after their fifth year and the trio is back at Grimmauld Place. Late one night, Harry and Ron are in the kitchen trying to figure out why certain people are treating them differently. When Dumbledore joins them, the answers he gives surprises them.

Placed during Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Umbridge is everywhere. Minerva and Albus find love, but can it last with Umbridge lurking around? For anyone who hates Umbridge! MM/AD.

Ginny has just finished her fifth year at Hogwarts and is ready to start her sixth. However, she discovers something during the summer that makes her change her mind about going back to school.

When Severus accepts Lily's invitation to experience a taste of her life before Hogwarts, he expects nothing more than a pleasant evening away from his house. What he gets is more than he had ever dared to dream for.

For three years he was their silent companion, privy to their most intimate secrets and weaknesses. They gave him boundless trust. He witnessed their joys and sorrows. For three years he bided his time, waiting for the chance of escape and deliverance. This is their story seen through his eyes, a retelling of Philosopher’s Stone from the point of view of Peter Pettigrew.

This is a trilogy. All take place after HBP. Part one deals with Draco; part two is centered on Harry; part three will focus on Snape and then all. All your questions will be answered. Is Dumbledore truly dead Why is Draco so ill? What happened to him? Has Harry found anymore Horcuxes?

The sequel to Third Year. In which Sirius waxes eloquent about cryptology, Remus' lip is distressed, and both gentlemen are very, very mistaken.

The weirdest day in Lily Evans life to date. At least it starts out that way. She discovers a few things about a certain someone who she didn't like, which makes her change her mind about him.

Oh, dear. It seems as though Dolores Umbridge has made public her prejudices against part-humans and half-breeds. A newly-married couple has been given a nasty shock thanks to a front-page Daily Prophet headline, there's backlash at the Ministry, and -- hmm -- some of this sounds like Real Life.

It's hard to keep your balance when the world has shifted.

“My name is Niamh Connolly; I’m about to start my sixth year in Gryffindor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I’m too tall, too ugly, too shy and have a huge crush on Bill Weasley. I guess you could say that that just about sums me up.” ``Bill/OC. In Bill’s school days. Heartbreak, happiness, arguments, an evil Slytherin called Harriet, a chess tournament and some romance…what more could you want?

Ron and Ginny must brave Muggle London to convince an embittered Squib to help the Order of the Phoenix. Prequel to "An Emergency Like No Other."

Lily and James go out for the night, and Sirius comes over to baby-sit little one-year-old Harry!

MWPP era. Alternate Universe to Half-Blood ``Prince. Lupin and Snape in their early childhood and later school years, ``as seen through the eyes of a Ravenclaw student (OFC) as she develops a ``fascination for our favorite Slytherin. Rated PG for some oblique ``reference to war and Death Eater violence.

Hermione discovers that having a boyfriend isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, especially when one of your best friends is acting like an overprotective big brother about it. She eventually finds out that her friends are a lot sneakier than she ever gave them credit for.

(cowritten and betaed by Kaystar) Harry thinks life can't get any worse after Sirius's death. One day Hermione calls and what they think will be the realationship of a lifetime starts. When Hermione is at the Burrow things begin to change. One encounter with Ron may change the way the trio thinks about each other forever. Can Ginny help them sort everything out?

One of my "lost" fics. This is a moment or two right before the end of OotP that JK forgot to write. I decided it was my duty to write it for her. ;) Harry/Ginny

How does life go on after the death of a loved one? Returning to Hogwarts has never seemed less exciting a prospect to Harry Potter, now in his sixth year. Even the return of Remus Lupin to the school cannot chase away the feelings of guilt and sorrow. Withdrawn from the rest of the world, Harry finds an unlikely ally in Draco Malfoy. Explorations into prophecy and magical theory prompt Harry unto a dangerous quest, and with Snape as his reluctant mentor Harry resolves to find any way to bring back the one he loves the best.

Something is threatening to fight its way through Harry's seams and he does not know what it is, or if he should fight it. Harry's path to discovery. Harry/Draco

Guess who's having a Wandpoint Wedding? Due to faulty Contraceptive Potion, someone finds herself knocked up, and her significant other wants to "make an honest woman out of her." Unfortunately, there are several major obstacles between them and the altar. Two-days-earlier prequel to "Wardens of Wizardkind."

A montage spanning seventeen years depicting the kaleidoscope of thoughts and emotions portrayed by Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew and (briefly) James Potter as they live through the events covering the period from 1978 to 1995.

Harry loses faith and hope in all around him, and wonders if there is a reason for it all. Dumbledore consoles him and shows him the Pool of Possibilities, and Harry gets to see a world where Voldemort was never born.

Harry comes out of the closet with an odd taste in men. Hermione and Ron argue more than usual, and things not meant to be said are brought into the open. Unforgettable dreams of Quidditch players ensue, as well as some wacky love proclamations when a secret is spilled!

Harry/Luna songfic based on the song "I Never saw Blue Like That" by Shawn Colvin.

Hogwarts, 1974. Choices are made, and the repercussions reverberate through many lives. If only someone had been less caught up in himself, it all might have been different. He might still be alive....

A stolen moment between Ron and Hermione. A very, very short outtake taking place in the final chapter of HBP.

Ron takes a trip to Diagon Alley and becomes side-tracked by Narcissa Malfoy. (Ron/Narcissa)

Harry finds out the hard way that change can be a good thing. H/Hr.

Harry has a bit of a staring problem, and it seems that several people have noticed.

Hermione cared about Ron with all her heart, but he dumped her like yesterday's waste. What happens when she starts dating someone close to him? Ron isn't the only one who has eyes for the new Hermione.

Harry has always been the hero, and Buffy has always been the one to save the day. In one world everything has always depended on the Slayer, and in the other everything has always depended on the Boy-Who-Lived. But what happens when the future of the world resides in two people who are trying to redeem their ties to dark power? A story of friends, foes and fiascos.

Harry seeks guidance after Sirius disappears, but gets help from the person he least expected. Harry finally tells his \

Hermione Granger's seventh year at Hogwarts was supposed to mark her passage from girl to woman, but little could she have guessed how literal this passage would be, and what it could have to do with a certain Potions Master and a disastrous ride on the Hogwarts Express. (SS/HG)

Harry watches a certain girl and thinks... try to guess who it is without looking ahead! (WARNING: contains OOTP spoilers!)

Draco pulls out all the stops for his second date with Ron. Harry is unsure whether some of those stops might not have been better off left pushed in. Slashy banter ensues. Sequel to "The Queen Who Lived" and hovering between AT and Riddikulus.

"If only you were pure," she hisses, harsh syllables burning through you. "If only you were... worthy." ``Tonks falls in with the wrong crowd, and again has to face her mother's sister. But this time without a wand.

Draco gets out of Voldemort's clutches alive. Now he has to make sure life might be worth living.

Everything can change in an instant, but that doesn't make it ``easier to hold on to the moment.

The internet comes to Hogwarts as a Muggle Studies project, but quickly spreads to the other students. Ginny meets someone called Dragontamer in the Quidditch chat room, and they team up to deliver verbal smack downs to anyone who dare oppose them, mainly Ernie Macmillian. When she finds out who her sparring partner is, what will her reaction be?

When Draco mistakes Seamus's cellphone for his, he starts receiving mysterious messages from a certain Gryffindor that weren't meant for his eyes. Harry is smitten with the Slytherin Prince, but dares not yet to act upon it.

What does romance look like from the perspective of a young woman having an affair with an older, married man? Pansy Parkinson takes a good look at herself and learns that love does not always mean happy endings. LM/PP.

I'll never find anyone just like you. Believe me. I've looked.

¡This is the ALTERNATE ENDING of The Unforgettable Fire! Voldemort makes a choice that turns the course of time. By numerous turns of fate, Ginny is forced to develop new powers she’s never heard of. Complications with Draco, Dumbledore, and Harry abound when Ginny’s life goes haywire and ends up at Mungo’s in a fit of power. Draco/Ginny all the way.

An analysis of the religious and philosophical ideas that underlie JK Rowling's Harry Potter novels.

If you think you've got what it takes you work for the self-proclaimed evilest Dark Wizard in the history, read this story and think twice. It will serve as a guideline for all you need to know if you want to be a Death Eater (there is a quiz that you can do and it'll tell you!!).

It's Harry's seventh year and Lord Voldemort is determined to win this war once and for all: He is gathering his army somewhere in the United Kingdom. In answer, Dumbledore asks for reinforcements to Aurors all over the world. With them come their respective families and new students arrive to Hogwarts, along with an unexpected DADA teacher. A story about a war, ideals, pride, occlumency, prejudice, rules (or their breaking), shame... ponytails and football?

Draco's devised a perfect plan to get rid of two of the Dark Lord's enemies.

Draco's about to find out what his animagus form is.

It's sweaty, nasty and humid for student and teachers alike at Hogwarts. What's to come if one can't sleep? Lots of fluffy, smutty goodness to follow!