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In 1960, a spell of vengeance was cast against the Snape family. In 1997 Harry, Draco, Remus, and Severus find their lives are about to drastically change because of it … (AU, H/D, RL/SS)

James and Lily are married. After an enjoyable night with Sirius, James notices that Lily is not her usual self.

A companion fic to "An Angel in Disguise," because it features Jim!the Janitor and eight-year-old Harry. An essay assigned by a substitute teacher yields some surprising results.

It wasn't how Remus would have chosen for Harry to learn that some secrets need to remain secret. A trip into Remus' closet will reveal more than skeletons. (set after HBP -spoilers)

A ten-year-old girl arrives at Hogwarts not knowing what to expect. Her Sorting is an experience most others do not go through as she learns that it truly is our choices that choose who we truly are, far more than our abilities.

When Narcissa Malfoy comes to Hogwarts to see her son, she bumps into the one person she is most anxious to avoid.

A woman reminisces about how he was brought to the light and his final moments on earth as she visits his grave alone before the people with the funeral service. Painfully easy to tell who 'I' am and who 'You' are. WARNING! Written to be a tear jerker.

“Is there any new information, Daddy?” asked Lillian. Remus and Sirius fell silent and Abigail put down the book she had been engrossed in. Harry looked around at his expectant family. “Well, yes,” he admitted, “there have been rumours of Dementor rebellions and a reform in the North.” Abigail looked up at him, her eyes wide. “What is the ministry going to do about it?” Twenty years after the end of the second war, when the shattered lives have been pieced together and the memories of the terror have finally begun to fade... the horrors borne by those who came before us begin to resurface. They call us the children of the war, the survivors, but they can't see what we really are. We are scarred.

Ron needs me and Harry needs Ginny; I think we both know that. Yet, I still find myself here under Ginny’s orders. I find it is impossible to say no to her; about as impossible as telling a lie under the influence of Veritaserum. Hr/G.

A heated interdepartmental Quidditch game leads to a game of one on one for two rivals. Pairing: Ginny/Marcus Flint

There was no turning back now, was there? Draco Malfoy was undoubtedly a marked man, and he was barely a man at that. Professor Albus Dumbledore was dead and the second war was about to begin. What was left for the young Slytherin? Did he fight with those he had sided with his whole life, or did he pursue a new path?

Guilt, grief, and obligation haunt Severus Snape, and he is forced to deal with the feelings they leave behind.

Ginny has never been in love, until now. He hates her, but can she change that? Harry's POV, MorbidTruth's challenge.

Remus Lupin reflects on his first love and how that still impacts his life years later. A story of unrequited love, and how it can sometimes have a silver lining.

Draco comes to Hermione, asking her for help. Sequel to I Just Keep Running.

Ginny Weasley has horrible nightmares about her dark past and about the future she can never have. It can't get any worse right? Wrong, because when the Dark Lord is out to get her there is only one person who can save her, and he turns out to be a very unlikely hero.

Some major changes in life happen in the matter of moments--or in a heartbeat. Will Sirius and Remus acknowledge that they already have what they didn't even know they wanted? SB/RL.

Pansy Parkinson reflects on her life, love and of course Draco Malfoy. Who is Pansy Parkinson? Perhaps only she herself knows. A realistic look at the young Slytherin from her own perspective.

What would happen if you were transported into an alternate reality with your nemisis? How would you adjust if everything you were accustomed to was different? What if something you hated became something you loved? D/G/H triangle and Hr/R/Padma triangle.

When a mysterious dog appears on the Hogwarts grounds, Professor McGonagall is forced to seek temporary shelter with Professor Flitwick. Written for the hp_friendships challenge on LiveJournal.

Behind every seemingly perfect couple there are much darker roots. Molly and Arthur Weasley are no exception. Behind the whitewashed front perfected over the years lies the grimy truth of when Molly met Arthur and the lies they have fed to preserve the almost saintly image they hold. An AU version of the Weasley couple.

Harry Potter has never been comfortable in this exchange, has never leaned into a kiss, has never done the impossible. All that changes one evening when the butterflies in the pit of his stomach fall apart in the sheer importance and beauty of mouths. A post-OotP H/D slash one-shot.

AU: Written Pre-HBP. Eighteen-year-old Severus Snape is having a very bad day. After getting into a argument with his "future wife" (until he finds a way out or they kill each other), Potter and Black steal his chocolate eggs his mother sent him. After a very unexpected kind act by someone equally as unlikely, Severus does something he regrets.

Nanny Ogg goes to Hogwarts to help out in the kitchens and ends up practising her very special brand of magic. Will Granny (assisted by Snape) save the day? Will Snape find true love? Will Hogwarts ever be the same again?

Draco Malfoy, sneaking around the Forbidden Forest on a full moon. A mysterious werewolf appears, and a bite changes the life of another.

‘They're still children at heart. Mischievous little souls who sneak around in the shadows and have great adventures.’ Ron Weasley reflects on himself, his friends and in particular, one bushy haired girl.

Professor Marchbanks of the Wizarding Examination Authority has a little score to settle with Dolores Umbridge.

"He is not drunk, who from the floor Can rise again to drink some more.......... But he is drunk who prostrate lies, And cannot drink --- and cannot rise!" ~Irish toast

Harry is thinking about why he loves Ron. Ron's stuck in a "safe" relationship with Hermione. It's obvious he doesn't love her, but is it Harry he's in love with. Ron bursts in on Harry's thoughts and Harry comes clean. How's Ron going to react?

When Draco and his father have a falling out, Draco's world begins to change dramatically. Dreams begin to plague his sleep, and nothing is the same any more. When the war breaks out across the British Wizarding World, Draco has to decide whether to follow in persuit of these strange dreams or reconcile with his father. Fight against everything he's ever known, or against all those he's ever cared about.

Molly sends Harry to Grimmauld Place to check up on Remus.``Harry is looking for comfort. ````This story has slash, depiction of a male/male relationship. If that is not what you are looking for, please do not read it.

Ginny is unexpectedly cursed into a sleeping death by Draco Malfoy, only to awake to a twisted world wherein she is forced to marry the one man she despises most.

Without the journey, endings and beginnings are meaningless. It doesn't matter where you start, it matters what you do after you start. We all know how Harry Potter started, how his legend began...with his parents. However, we don't know much about them, we only know their end - death. We have immortalized them in our minds, and forgotten them. We have reduced them to the mere parents of the boy-who-lived. So, now come back with me, and watch their journey. Watch them grow in another time. Learn about the generation history is so eager to pass over. Join me, and observe their journey unfold into the destiny of the wizarding world.

It's the holiday season, and Harry is alone and missing some holiday company. This is the script for Spell-Cast.com's 2006 holiday podcast play.

There are moments in life, when a wizard simply needs a drink. A large, neat firewhiskey. And meeting Hermione Granger on her never-ending quest for better world is such a moment. Especially if the quest is a shopping trip; if she doesn’t buy books, but a gown with low décolletage and a hat with ear-holes; and if she turns simple shopping for robes into a small scale revolution. ``Short story from the post-Hogwarts The Phoenix and the Owl universe.

In a world where reality is an illusion, two young people desperately try to find their paths, hidden from them by the shards of their broken lives. In their search for logic and sense, they stumble across each other...

Draco and Ginny's angstiness brings them together for an enchanted meeting in the Astronomy tower. Full of starlight and snogging!

The afterlife bears a surprising resemblance to a railway station...

When Harry Potter dies, the Wizarding World is shocked. But death is yet another adventure, and as Harry finds out, a big one.

It's Harry's 7th year at Hogwarts. The unicorns have come to human form and are here to save them all. But what they don't realize, is that the world is in more danger than they thought. Evil comes full force, Malfoy returns and needs help, Ron gets a little cheeky, and many romances are formed. Harry has girl trouble to the highest extent but that's not the height of his troubles. Will he even make it to the end of the year?

The spirit of Lily Potter returns to the Potter's house in Godric's Hollow, on Harry's birthday. Harry and his family have moved into the house, and Lily is seeing Harry for the first time since You-Know-Who's return in Harry's fourth year. Story from Lily's point of view. Thanks for reading and reviewing.

MWPP era. When James and Lily are invited to visit their former Headmaster, the information he must relay is not at all pleasant: that Lord Voldemort is plotting against their seven-month-old baby. An adventure of defiance, betrayal and love. Rated R for possible violence and language.

Phineas Nigellus reflects. Short one-shot, set after OotP.

It's a new year at Hogwarts and there's a new DADA professor and Potions Master. And just what does Dumbledore want?``Also Entitled: What Should Have Happened. AU to OotP.

Irma Pince has a secret that she didn't know she was keeping. How does she react when Severus removes the charm that reveals that she really is Eileen Snape?

A little revenge gets massively out of hand...one version of the events of the night Sirius tried to kill Snape...

A short piece looking at Harry's girls.

Draco isn't really sure how Pansy convinced him to come here. Well, yes he does know. But that doesn't make it any better ... Warning: Trio love, gay!fanon!Draco and drunken!slutty!Pansy. You have been warned.

The invention of the Wolfsbane Potion was accomplished by three of the most unlikely people imaginable: Remus Lupin, Severus Snape, and Mariella Goring. Two halfbloods and a pureblood. Two Gryffindors and a Slytherin. Two Order members and one Death Eater. Two lost souls hoping to atone for one terrible day, one terrible death, and one hopeful spirit seeking to do some good in the world.

Ron, determined to be a protective older brother, decides to send Dean a friendly owl over the summer defending his sister's virtue. He is surprisingly bad at this... read to see him struggle with deathless prose, a lack of firearms, and unhelpful older brothers.

You can't live in a dream world forever... or can you? The actors for the Harry Potter movies are doing their last movie... they'll miss it, but after recieving a letter, they might not have to...

Ron, afer finding out about the "fiction" world of Harry Potter, decided that he needs to send Rupert Grint a letter. He tells a bit about the "real" world and how crazy everyone thinks he is. Includes discussion of the professors and blingful!Dumbledore.

During their fifth year at Hogwarts, the Marauders get a very interesting surprise when a contagious, personality-altering potion is slipped into James' drink. Who did it and what will happen in the process of finding that out?

Eliza Smythe, a young witch brought up on a magical pyrate ship, finishes her schooling at Hogwarts by order of her father, Captain Smythe, the Soothsayin\' Hooligan. Shortly after she begins attending, she receives half of treasure map from an old friend. Adventure ensues. Yay!

The sequel to Breaking Glass. A short fic set during, right before, and right after Easter vacation, mainly concerned with relationships. Contains Draco's surprising talent for music, a ghost with no gender, the reason for Harry and Draco's dinnertime talkativeness, an extremely twisted family relationship, and SLASH (H/D, OC/another OC).

When some nasty Slytherins figure out that hurting Harry through Hermione will be easier than they thought, can Hermione keep their friendship afloat, or will they stop talking all together?

Hermione is silently reeling over the death of Sirius. Will one conversation, with the person you least expect, help her deal with her grief?

Dung Fletcher wants this breakfast to be perfect; a meal to remember. There just a minor problem...

Harry and Remus go back one last time to Grimmauld Place for Sirius' personal remains. Up in the attic, in Kreacher's dusty world of secrets they find a painting hidden for years...

Harry faces down Voldemort, and explains the real reason for the final battle. (slash)

Ron tries to tell Hermione how he feels about her ... but gets an unexpected response. A short R/Hr/H fic.

Where would you go if there was no one you could turn to? Who would you confide in if your world turned its back on you? A post-OoTP fic. *Will contain slash, nothing too graphic though*

"Perhaps the sage beneath our feet bore some emerald prophecy. When we left Hogwarts in its shades of rainbows and shadows, we left behind our crimsons and our vermilions, letting them slowly rot away with the pink I had burned."````Not all love stories have happy endings, but that doesn't make them any less colorful. A story about how you never forget your first love, how they always leave their canvas hanging on some corner of your heart; and how you jump between the present and the past in the memories that still haunt you.

Actions do not always mean what they seem, forgiveness does not always come with a price, and death is not always goodbye. A Remus/Sirius fic. Post OotP. Rated R for slight language, but nothing very graphic at all. A bit angsty and quite a tearjerker, so let the reader beware!

Meet fifteen-year-old Elizabeth, as normal as can be... well, up until her world is turned upside down her own mother -- The Order, the trio and DEs will be major players too. Chap 1: ‘What did you expect, dear? A magic kids school? Brooms? Wands? Secret villages? People wearing cloaks, living in the Middle Ages? Writing with... with quills, and parchment? Really, Beth...! Hocus Pocus! Silly.... Sheer folklore... dear.’

Remus is going about his everyday life when a letter that can't have been written drops into his tea.

Luna tells a bedtime story to her daughter of lawn-gnomes striking back at two children.

"Young Harry Potter was always different from the other children, preferring the company of his books and the dusty corners of the local library to playing games in the park with his sisters. Aged fifteen, he was exactly the same, except for one thing: an obsession." [One-Shot] [Slashy] [AU]

Before Harry's last fight with Voldemort, he thinks about what might happen and how much Hermione (mostly Hermione) and Ron mean to him. Prequel to "Blessed." [Not sad.]

Five years. That's how long Neville Longbottom has put up with Severus Snape, and he is fed up. With the help of the Weasley Wonder Twins, Neville takes out his comical revenge on his greatest fear. With a boggart in a hat box and a camera, I can't imagine what will happen next.

Sirius Black wanted to be a good godfather. He really did. Now he has a second chance.

Sequel to "The Shotgun Bride." The further adventures of redneck!Draco and Ginny as they deal with family, friends, marriage and everything else that comes their way.

Cho is thinking about her feelings for Cedric, Harry and Michael.

A lonely evening for Ron, spent in solitude away from friends and family, when all of a sudden an old friend shows up at the door beaten, bruised and poisoned. Now, with the help of his friends, he's out to find how it happened and who's behind it. What he didn't expect was to fall in love during it all.

He should have guessed something wasn't right the first time, but he would have plenty of opportunities to wonder what exactly was wrong with his small, quiet wife... Explores the depth of Tom Riddle's effect on Ginny Weasley, and her slow spiral into something much more than insanity, where she brings everyone else along for the ride. Rated R for some racy bits and mild gore. A lovely Gin N' Tonic for the dark at heart.

Maia Christine Knight is a relatively normal, average Slytherin girl. It's an image she wants to keep up. However, her father is back - actually has been for over a year, but finally remembered her. It isn't easy being the Dark Lord's daughter (whom he dotes upon), especially when you're given the task of 'seducing' Harry Potter. Yep. As predicted, it all does end in a crazy mess. It doesn't help when you have to deal with an amorous Malfoy, jealous rivals, and a suspicious Granger. But she has help from her friends, in the form of the brilliant but violent Theo Nott, the 'weirdo' Blaise Zabini, and Steph Nott (she's having more fun with this than she should be). Unbeknownst to Maia, though, Dumbledore and Snape have ahold of her diary...

How is it to spend four days upside down in a toilet? Montague tells his story!

A short fic involving what Voldemort says to Bellatrix after taking her from the Ministry of Magic.

Harry is hurt. He doesn't understand what is going on with his lovelife anymore.

It's Halloween and Draco is bored stiff out of his mind. So, what does he get up to in the Forbidden Forest? Who does he, unfortunately, meet there unexpectedly? Something goes terribly wrong; will Draco have to live with it forever? Find out who and what Stompy is!

Set in seventh year. A wide rift has formed between the Trio and events are moving to either reconcile them, or drive them apart forever.````Work In Progress - feedback greatly appriciated

The Second War has ended, and several months have passed since the Final Battle. It is now the night of 31 December, and while the rest of the world is out celebrating the dawning of a Voldemort-free year, one young man is preparing to end his life. He has lost everything he cared for, including the love of his life, and can see no reason to continue living. Will someone come and save him before it is too late?

Ron's doing his best in Muggle Studies, but he'd be lost without Hermione. Putting his work aside, Ron finds himself staring out the window, watching the sun set. He soon realizes he's not the only one. R/Hr.

This is another version of my take on the moment that Cho walks by Harry and the gang on the train at the end of book five. In my last take, Harry gets a bit snippy at the end. But what if he was still in love with her?

After returning to Hogwarts for his fifth year, Harry learns of a secret that no one has ever been told. He and his godfather, Sirius Black, investigate further and learn something that shocks them greatly.

"She was supposed to like the city, the grey and the persistent kitten-patter rain. She was supposed to like the dusty empty quiet of a tiny one-bedroom flat. She was not supposed to be sitting naked and cross-legged in an impersonal white bathtub, letting her freckled skin soak in the soapy water and become wrinkled, watching with a somewhat mindless fascination as water droplets trickled one by one by one from the water faucet, wondering what in the world possessed her to be there, just right there and then. " D/G/H post-Hogwarts.

Ron and Hermione have invited Harry to move in with them, and Harry wants to. The only problem is explaining exactly why to Remus and Sirius...``Harry/Ron/Hermione and Remus/Sirius

We all fear what we don't understand. (Remus/Tonks, Post second war)

Andromeda Tonks sees a ghost from her past in Diagon Alley.

Boys behaving badly! Harry and Ron make a bet to see who can get a date to the Harvest Ball first.

The first war has been over for almost a year. Everyone has started recovering until the five year reunion for Hogwarts class of 1978 brings back some old memories for one of the last surviving Gryffindors.

“I’m putting the parchment in my trousers for safe-keeping, and then going for a stroll in the Great Hall. I’m hoping I won’t be stripped in public.” ``“You can’t put my essay in your trousers!”

Hermione reflects upon their years together. Sequel to "The Power He Knows Not".

At the first Quidditch game of Harry's sixth year, Ginny shows off some brilliant Chasing, the Slytherins attempt vengeance, and Harry feels unusually protective.

She has been named for one of the greatest of the line, but Bellatrix must prove her worth... for to be worthy of one's name is the only way she can prove her dedication to the cause of the Blacks, to the cause of keeping the bloodline pure.

It is a few years after Neville Longbottom's graduation from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The wizarding world is back to some semblance of normalcy. Neville is well-suited to his job, he has his own place, and enjoys the rather new sensation of what some might call confidence, from time to time. Now all he needs is "the girl."

Underneath this smile, my world is falling apart. The cloud I have been floating on has transformed into an island and I'm sinking. You're the one that loved me and now by stopping, you've condemned me. You gave me all this love and now you say you want it back.

“Indifference and neglect often do more damage than outright dislike...” -Albus Dumbledore, OotP. After Harry’s fifth year, he is sent back to the Dursleys, and all is not well. Harry is extremely emotionally unbalanced, and quite depressed. This story tells of the damage done to him through the neglect and indifference shown by the Durselys. Warning: attempted suicide and cutting feature heavily in this story

Inspired by the Halloween Costume discussion on the O&U thread in the SCUSA forum. "It was a night of firsts..... The mystery of what had happened to the Head Boy and Head Girl had been solved..."

Harry Potter is insane. The years of the Dark War has taken it's toll on Harry, and with no-one but himself for company, Harry distances himself from the wizarding world, and mourns the deaths of his friends and family. His hatred for Voldemort increased, his insanity growing. But a familiar stranger visits Harry, and soon he finds himself further and further into the wizarding world. Secrets are leaked, and destinies are Fulfilled...