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When it’s all too much you find the best escape you can think of, even if it’s dangerous and deadly. When the world seems too much to bear you find your own relief. And one Harry Potter finds his relief in the cold steel of a dagger. No one knows what is under the mask of the Boy Who Lived; they don’t see what’s under the surface of his carefully built façade. But then two of the most unlikely people find out his secret or secrets as they later find out; Draco Malfoy and Severus Snape and their views of the Gryffindor Golden Boy change when they find all they thought about him to be a lie. Draco Malfoy’s not all he shows himself to be...

It's Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and soon, he discovers how interesting his new class, Creative Writing, and his professor really are. Hermione actually gets a bad grade, and this professor is quite different from all the rest. Little does Harry know that there's more to writing a story than it seems...

When the Marauders find a spell that allows them to spy on whomever they want, how can they resist? But how will they find time for it, what with moonlight romances, Lucius Malfoy, and someone's undergarments?

Coming out of the closet isn't easy, especially when it's your godson you're coming out to. But Remus insists, so Sirius decides to tell Harry about their relationship. To a poor, confused Harry and a near-hysterical Ron, comfort comes in the form of Fred and George, who seem to have taken it upon themselves to scar as many minds as possible.

Ginny Weasley travels to America in search of herself. She applies for a job at the Charmed Ones home, unknowning who they are. Eventually Draco/Ginny. Part AU 'cause of later Sirius.

How James fell in love with Lily, how Lily fell in love with James, how both of them hurt Peter, and how Peter betrayed them in the end.

The war with Voldemort is over, but Harry's lost everything that was important to him. He decides to start a new life, complete with Muggle neighbors, a Muggle house, and a Muggle lifestyle. Will the world he's become so accustomed to let him go that easily? Starts two years post Hogwarts.

“Remind me to kill Ron,” Harry said thickly. “What’s the point of having your best friend around when you try to get drunk out of your mind, if they’re not around later to make sure you don’t wake up in a puddle of your own vomit behind the Hog’s Head?”````Ron and Harry. An unexpected morning after a very unexpected night. Written for the Ron Ficathon.

Sequel to There Might Still be Hope. There are things in this world you can't change and some things you don't see until it gets too late--and Harry learned these the hard way.

The sixth year at Hogwarts is about to begin. Tensions are mounting as Harry discovers new secrets and embarks on new adventures. However, Voldemort's presence is getting stronger and Harry knows that he will soon have to face the Dark Lord again.

My take on what led to the events of Half-Blood Prince, why Draco was supposed to kill Dumbledore, and how he was convinced.

They'd known each other forever, and she dared to think she knew him better than anyone. In the end, she was proved wrong.

Harry and company return to Hogwarts after destroying all but one of Voldemort's Horcruxes. When Voldemort crashes the gates of the school, a new sacrifice is required to fulfill the prophecy and bring peace to the world.

A mother doesn't know what she's saying. A son believes every word she says. And a lover comforts. One-shot.

After half a year of searching for Horcruxes, Harry is tired and grumpy at Christmas. But after an unexpected Luna gives him a wonderful present from his past, Harry is left with only more guilt since he doesn't have a gift for her. But things aren't as bad as they seem. Not really.

Ginny doesn't know where Harry is; only that he is with Ron and Hermione. They disappeared the morning after Bill's wedding, nearly a year ago. And the day they vanished, Lord Voldemort declared open war on the wizarding world. Ginny wants desperately to track down Harry and fight along side him again, but the tattered remains of the Ministry say she is too young. Desperate to help in some way, Ginny instead follows her mother out into the field hospitals, and discovers a talent for healing the wounded. But when familiar faces start to show up among the wounded, will Ginny be able to help or will it be too late?**ONE SHOT**

Harry has a lot on his mind at the end of book 5. He'll either be the victim of, or the murderer of, Voldemort. People he has loved have died to protect him. Even worse, he is turning sixteen, and the girl he loves only sees him as a friend. What's a boy to do but wallow in self-pity? Part One of a three part series.

Morgan is an amazing sixteen year old girl. Born in England, but raised in America, she comes back to her native land to end her Witchcraft learning days at Hogwarts. There she meets the famous Trio and the story unfolds. Morgan has a secret that only herself, her father and the Headmaster know about, yet she's somehow connected to Harry and the prophecy. Love is in the air. To see what happens, read this fic.

Sequel to 'Flight of the Weasleys'. The end of the term has finally arrived and Angelina tracks down Fred to get her . . . revenge. A wee bit on the racy side—my characters got away from me.

What would happen if Harry and Hermione were caught in the act by their children? This was inspired by a question asked aboard the HMS Pumpkin Pie. First in a series.

The curse on the last Horcrux has left Harry, Hermione, and Ron badly wounded. As each of them sacrifices for the others, they learn just how strong they are.

After the debacle in the Department of Mysteries, Andromeda Black receives a letter from her old Headmaster informing her that her cousin Sirius is not only innocent, but dead. Not only that, but her daughter is in St Mungo's, her elder sister has fled, and her brother-in-law is in hell. Someone is going to pay for this. A fantasy of revenge.

Bill Weasley has been sent on a mission for the Order. Sent into a foreign land, where almost nothing is familiar, everything holds danger, and what IS familiar... well it's driving him crazy.

1997: Having risen in the ranks of the Death Eaters and having acquired more responsibilities in the Order of the Phoenix, Severus Snape has yet again been passed over for the position of DADA instructor for another questionable figure, and is well on his way to having a breakdown. Draco Malfoy, ostracized by his fellow Slytherins, looks for confidence elsewhere. And Neville Longbottom might just push Harry Potter out of the spotlight.

[Pre Hogwarts H/Hr] A sickened Harry is tired of condoning the taunts and jeers his relatives give him. He runs away but not before encountering someone. A small girl that makes him see that perhaps he can be a hero…

Hermione gets the courage to tell her parents about her living situation. Originally a cookie on the Menage a Trio thread.

Dumbledore--much to the dismay of several students--has decided to throw a Hallowe'en Masquerade Ball. The Trio, along with a few friends, are horrified at the prospect, and immediately resolve to do everything in their power to get out of going. Along the way, they make new friends, form strange alliances, and even find love. A tongue-in-cheek look at various fallacies within the fandom.

"But he did know that she was the most beautiful person he had ever seen."

Ginny Weasley is sad; she sleeps when she is sad. She sleeps a lot lately. Now her mother has to make a decision: let her sleep, or let her fly away?

Crystal is Harry's sister. After Dumbledore's death he doesn't trust her and is really mean to her. A sequence of powers and dreams tell her that Harry is going to die in the war, but he doesn't believe her. After a huge argument Crystal falls into the hands of one Draco Malfoy.

Draco and Ginny have been secretly dating for years and years. The war is over and nothing they have tried to separate Ginny from Potter has worked. Song-Fic to Good Charlotte's 'My Bloody Valentine' with a twist...what happens when the crying girlfriend isn't so sorry about the events?

After his troubling fifth year, Harry Potter has some questions about life, death, and everything in between. Can the church down the street help him find what has really been missing in his life all along?

After their mother's death, Harry's twin children, Lily and James, read the stack of letters she left them. As they read, they discover a secret about their mother James wishes he never knew.

Harry said he'd come for Draco and Draco said he'd always follow. Now, it's Harry's turn to follow.

Ginny takes a nighttime stroll and runs into the last person she'd expect.

Harry can't stop thinking about the one girl he knows he will love forever. . . Hermione. He regrets ever having feelings towards Cho and wants Hermione. What he doesn't know is that she wants him too. H/H -my first fic please read!

Draco decides that it's high time that he have sex.

It's late, nearly midnight. But for two members of the Order of the Phoenix, crouched in the shadows outside of Borgin and Burkes, time is irrelevant. At any second, one of the Dark Lord's followers will arrive to pick up a package, and they must be ready for him. What exactly is the mysterious package and why is it so important to Voldemort?

Harry visits Hogwarts for one last time and Ginny is more than grateful. She’d been feeling so alone until he got there. But how was she to know that this would a night to remember that would one day be told to her kids? Fluffy H/G one-shot.

It's three o'clock in the morning and most everyone at Hogwarts is asleep. Except one lonely, solitary character, making their nightly rounds around the castle. Who is this mysterious character, and why are they so sad? Songfic of 'On My Own', from the musical 'Les Miserables".

King Draco I is a powerful, vindictive, cruel womaniser. He uses obscene tactics to obtain those he wants, be they male or female. He abuses those he loves, he draws the blood of his enemies without remorse, and he connives his way to the top. He is potent, he is violent, he is tainted, and he is weak. A slight parallel with the King Henry VIII story.

In the aftermath of the Second War, Harry finds that surviving it was merely half the battle. With nothing to do, trouble with Hermione and at the Burrow, and through the reality of life after war, he has only one clear constant. Find the person who murdered his friend in the last moments of the fight, and make them pay.

"And right then, I knew I had you in my hands. Right then I could have crushed you. [...] The thought was delicious! I never forgave you for rejecting my friendship, when I first offered it to you. This was my opportunity to get back at you."

An impossible love that spans decades.

"This is wrong," he says, fear and desire shining in his eyes, his mouth set in an uncertain pout. But his hand does not move from its spot, my skin burning beneath it. ``HG/SB

A bittersweet post-Hogwarts fic about Neville and Luna going to visit Neville's parents at St. Mungo's.

A father in Akazban, fear, conflicting loyalties and consuming darkness… a few things Draco Malfoy must face. Set at the start of sixth year at Hogwarts.

Harry likes Draco, but is dating Ginny. Draco likes him back, but Pansy is always by his side. And they get together often enough, but no one knows about it. Until Draco can't take it any longer. Where does all this gets them at? (D/H)

Four years after the final battle, Voldemort and countless others are dead. Harry Potter has been missing since the battle, and is believed to be dead by almost everyone in the wizarding world. But in Muggle England, Harry is desperately trying to escape his past, and the past isn’t going to let him go...``[Eventual H/D slash]

Comfort can come from the most unlikely places. Ron wakes up after a dream. Fluff, slash, incest, twincest.

After death, Snape finds himself in a world where Harry, not Lily, is the first magical person he meets.

“So now all I have to do is find you a man, and we’ll be set.” Kingsley and Tonks discuss her potential love interests.

After 36 years of close friendship, Albus Dumbledore & Minerva McGonagall have fallen in love. Now what do they do?

What would happen if your friends failed to recognize you? What would happen if you were suddenly loved? Would it change your perspective? You bet...Harry Potter and Tom Riddle experience each other's worlds when they accidently switch bodies.

It started with a crush. Then he asked her to the Yule Ball. After that, it became known throughout the whole wizarding world that Harry Potter and Hermione Granger were a couple. But while Harry and Hermione are in love, Voldemort is devising his best plan yet. True love prevails over everything else - but will it prevail in this case?

All children, except one, grow up.``It had been Remus's favourite childhood story. (Sirius/Remus)````"Not that Peter Pettigrew was much of a Pan; he hardly even qualified as a Lost Boy sometimes. But Sirius Black, that dangerous boy his parents should have warned him about, he was the most reckless, roguish, rambunctious boy Remus had ever met."

Mindy Potter briskly started up the stone staircase. "Do you trust me?" Looking into steel gray eyes, she knew this would come. The more she longed to expose the truth, the more in danger she was. Being Harry Potter's twin wasn't easy. She had only found recently, living her normal Muggle life, in her normal Muggle family. But that wasn't even half of it; the other made living with this unbearable. She was living a lie, a big complex lie. She hated the fact that she may never be known as Potter, for now, she was Mindy, a sixth year Slytherin. There was a reason for this besides putting herself in mortal danger, considering that she was wanted by Voldemort. She cautiously spoke, "I trust you."

They say "Absolute power corrupts absolutely" and "God's in his heaven, all's right with the world." But what if what's right for the world isn't right for you? Would you let it go or would you go back to that power? That is, as always, Harry Potter's decision to make.

Harry and Dudley encountered a strange house... and person... one Halloween night. Ten years later, Dudley is bent on proving that the mysterious person was indeed Harry, traveling in time.

No one seems to notice how tired she is, and that worries him... but maybe he should take a look at himself first. (Remus/Tonks)

Two months after his alleged death, Sirius Black returns to Number Twelve Grimmauld Place to comfort a grieving Remus Lupin and share the Secret of the Veil with his beloved godson Harry. (SLASH: Sirius/Remus)

Many years after the end of Hogwarts, Draco has recieved... unconventional orders from his master. Ginny and Draco ponder on their lives so far and what the orders might mean

Are the Dursleys really the only family Harry has left? Are Ravenclaws really as smart as they say? Who will guard Hogwarts while Harry is defeating the Dark Lord? And will everything here be a question?``Perhaps we will find out exactly how how AHrry came to be our hero and even a bit about the powers of the Four Founders...

Hermione brings dessert back to the common room for Ron and Harry who are off at Quidditch practice. Harry goes to bed without his dessert but Ron, with Hermione's help, enjoys his immensely.

A solitary soul sits, swaying in the breeze. He muses over Harry and Hermione, their odd relationship, and how they've grown. He comments on how they've changed, how they've bonded, and what may come. Warning: includes self-harm and very minor sexual references. H/Hr.

Minerva and Severus have a Christmas tradition. Who will win this year, and what will they choose for their prize?

Little-noticed second spoiler briefly appearing on AOL before the Ministry of Magic threatened an Unforgiveable Curse on the perpetrators.

Minerva McGonagall's childhood is not a perfect picture. She didn't live a happy, carefree childhood. She was an utterly miserable, bitter, cynical person... until she met Tom Riddle. He charmed her, he seduced her, and he destroyed her soul.

"I double check my locks at night." Angelina keeps herself more heavily guarded than the prison of Azkaban and when Fred leaves she is forced to deal with the memories he's left behind.

George isn't speaking to Fred. How will he fix it?

It's Harry's seventh year and Christmas is here! But Harry is anxious about the looming terror of the Horcrux hunt; so anxious that he blows up at Ron and Hermione, wishing that he didn't exist! It will take convincing from a certain deceased headmaster to show Harry just how valuable he really is! Based on Frank Capra's classic film.

One would think things would have come to light a bit faster, but the more she expected it, the slower everything seemed to happen. H/Hr.

"You wish I was Sirius."``Two weeks into the summer holiday, Harry recieves a visit from his former professor, Remus Lupin and discovers that, even when life seems unbearable, you're not really alone when it comes to grief.

Ron watches Harry and Hermione and decides to put a plan to set them up into action. Of course, Ron just might not be the best plan-former... but let's see if it works out! H/Hr.

"If these walls could talk, they would have quite a story to tell." Ginny reflects on her relationship with her brother and how the rules often change without warning.

Sometimes finding your soulmate can be a difficult business. In Severus Snape’s case, the process involves a defective timeturner, a slightly more rugged version of Tom Riddle, and the quest for a perfect vegetable marrow. As the champagne corks begin to pile up back at Hogwarts, Snape takes an involuntary dive into a flowerbed, sputters incoherently, and manages to rewrite history. In that order.

James has always loved Lily's laugh. When things go bad between them, he tries his hardest to make her smile again.``It takes five years, but he eventually gets it right. Songfic to Dashboard Confessional's "Hey Girl."

When Dumbledore decides to give Harry Occlumency lessons, Harry is givenarare peek into the Headmaster's mind.

Just a short OotP interlude, or my version of what happened while Harry was in Umbridge's office and Snape "found Sirius alive and safe". The last Snape-Black dialogue ever. ::sniff::

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar..." There are some things that require analyzing and deep thought. There are some things that have layers and layers of complexities to peel back to find the truth. There are some things that can never be explained no matter how much one looks into it. And then there are some things that are plain... and simple.

Hermione is her normal worrying self. She worries about Harry as he has shut down to everything around him. What will stop Hermione from crying every night? What will save her from the stress?

She was in too deep, and it felt good.

It's sixth year at Hogwarts, and Snape's as easy-going as ever when it comes to Potions at NEWT level. Fortunately, however, our hero hasn't been left to fend completely by himself...

"Couldn't betray the Order, not even to save you." AU, July 1981

Inspired by the Bert and Ernie Sing-Along LP! Casting Severus Snape as Bert and Harry Potter as Ernie! (Bert and Ernie of Sesame Street.) Warning: Harry is wildly OOC. Snape is fairly OOC.

They had had many fights before... so why did this seem so final?

Cho can't get Cedric off of her mind. As hard as everyone tries, she is still haunted by his presence. Written to the song "My Immortal" by Evanescence.

Harry Potter discovers a new and unnerving power that allows him to uncover his friends' true feelings for each other as well as his own. But first, he must differentiate between the two!

Ted Tonks reads a fairy tale to his five-year-old daughter and discovers her special gift.

Set in her seventh year. Hermione develops super powers after a potions accident. Hermione/Snape

Snape meets Petunia at a train station and apparently it isn't the first time. Petunia, a Goth??

Silver is for Slytherin and gold is for Gryffindor. Very mild slash, and a mystery narrator.

At the end of the war, Harry Potter finds someone to live for. (SLASH)

Far away from his Hogwarts dungeons, Severus Snape wakes up next to a sleeping woman. – He’ll get used to it, eventually. Snape/OFC

Dumbledore finally realizes he is growing old, and decides to step down from all his positions. Shocked, Minerva, Severus, and Harry come to realize...their lives will change forever.

On the morning of New Years Day, Bill Weasley recounts the million and one kisses that have changed everything, for better or worse, and why waking up next to Harry makes all of them worth it. Epilogue to "Glad It Was Me." (SLASH: HP/BW)

She's not really sure who she is. By night, she sings in a jazz club in the city. By day, she tries to dredge up the pieces of a life she's forgotten. All she remembers is a blinding flash of light ... and someone screaming ...

Severus Snape and Lily Evans haven't spoken for months. The Slug Club Christmas Party forces them to.

Pain requires comfort and release. Especially when you're an eighteen-year-old boy who stands a good chance of not living to see nineteen. Even more especially when you're a sullen Potions master who's been bottling up pain all his life. (Slash: HP/SS)

Or, A Discourse on the Damned. An examination of Azkaban through its prisoners.