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

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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...

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).

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!

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?

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?

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*

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

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...

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

"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.

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

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!

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

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

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.’

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

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

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.

"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]

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.

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.

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.]

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

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

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

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...

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!

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?

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.

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.

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

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?

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

"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'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.

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

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.

“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!”

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."

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Draco and Ginny mess up the potion they are working on. Filch is suspicious. Hijinks ensue.

Four letter words are so simple, and yet can be so very powerful at the same time.

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..."

Or, "The Extremely Satisfying Deaths of 'Professor' Umbridge". See three short stories of everyone's most hated teacher being eaten, fried, baked, shot, and blown to smithereens!

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...

Severus Snape considers an old photograph and his emotions while visiting Lucius Malfoy's manor.

This is the story of James and Lily's graduation as Head Boy and Girl. James proposes, what does Lily answer?

“Fear of heights,” he says after many minutes of odd silence. Turning to his left, he leans on the blond’s shoulder for support and swings his leg down from his perch. “Is only a form of self-doubt.” He brushes himself off with one hand; for some reason, it is a moment before he removes his hand from the other boy’s shoulder. But the blond does not care. “You can’t trust yourself not to jump.” H/D

“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

I don't know what this is about, read it, cos I'm pretty. Starts after OotP. Harry becomes emo (i.e an angsty whiner). Philosophies change.

'Yes, Narcissa Malfoy has feelings. That would come as a shock to many of the gossips and ignorants of the wizarding world. But then, there are very few who are neither gossips nor ignorants, very few who have seen enough and been intelligent enough to interpret it as I have. Oh yes, I have feelings. Far too many, in fact.' Narcissa tells all.

Theory about what may happen in book 7 based upon JKR stating in an interview that she is a Christian.

When Harry comes in from a discouraging Quidditch practice, his departing action may cause things to change.

When a Death Eater joins the Order, old prejudices must be cast aside. In a time when it is dangerous to trust anyone, Ginny Weasley's fate is intertwined with that of two Slytherins as the final battle against Voldemort draws near.

On the longest day of the year, Hermione meets Remus Lupin in a pub. They are both suffering from melancholic midsummer madness. During the days that follow, things begin to happen.

What goes on when Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Cho and Draco enter the Big Brother game show? Who will be voted out first, and what is this strange fascination with armpits?

At the end of August 2013, Harry and Ginny Potter are invited to Hogwarts to investigate a spate of anonymous letters and vandalism. But poisonings and brutal murder convince them that things are more serious - and then their son Sirius gets involved... See Harry and Ginny as Quidditch man and wife! See the conflict between the Professors! See the mysterious Ancient Runes Teacher! Learn what happened to Hermione's old dorm-mate, Mary-Sue Moonchild! And learn how the Ministry persuaded Professor McGonagall to nationalise the Hogwarts House-elves!

Severus Snape doesn't like Lily Evans one little bit. Really. Not at all.

As far as I can tell, the main problem with growing up in a cupboard is that it gets you used to living in a cage. - Harry's POV. One-shot.

A new prisoner of Azkaban...a comatose person to the rescue...very dark beginning...

"He is the cause of my writing. His grey eyes bore into me like no other's had. He had left his mark on me forever. Draco was the most handsome man I had ever met. I hated that he knew it." This is a story about how Draco and Ginny came to love one another.

Have you ever realized that all you know about Hermione is what she said about herself and what she did in front of others? And that the trio is much too lucky for it to be natural?

Remus Lupin faces his first transformation after the death of Sirius Black. Snape brings him the Wolfsbane Potion, but something seems to be amiss.

Lavender is swept up into a whirlwind of mystery, adventure and romance as she begins her seventh year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She will make both friends and foes, unravel secrets, save lives, and fall in love... (L/who? Read to find out!)

He was running from his father. She was running from a friend. A cruel twist of fate found her in his home. Now they must learn to deal with each other. Megan hated Draco, and he hated her, but somehow, they must learn to deal with each other, find out each other's secrets, and maybe, just maybe, they can break free from their troubled minds.

In his early twenties at the break of the nineteenth century, Harry goes to bohemian Montmartre on a search for love, a many-splendored thing. There he meets Courtesan Draco, The Duke Severus and Lucius Zidler. No sad endings, only bohemian love. HP/DM. Slash.

He would always remember ringing the doorbell and knowing that James would be grinning when he swung open the door.... A fic about the problem with Remus Lupin. (Rated for mild language.)

Harry has many lessons to teach, and to learn. His student will teach more of life, than an entire lifetime.

War rages in wizard Britain, yet Severus Snape has never been better off. As he rises in the Dark Lord’s inner circle, he seems ever closer to fulfilling his grand ambitions. But he is haunted by memories of his childhood friend Lily Evans, now married to his sworn enemy. As the stakes get higher, Severus must once more decide where his true loyalties lie. Either choice will mean betraying one of his friends – and the consequences could be fatal… [COMPLETE]

A Remus/Harry wartime fic, written for the Confession challenge on the wishforthemoon HP/RL community challenge. In the midst of war, Harry decides to tell Remus something before it's too late.

There are seven Deadly Sins. Each one drives the sinner into evil and destruction, of themselves and of others. The Death Eaters are all guilty of Sins. Some are most guilty of one in particular, and this is what led them into the life they chose. Lust, Pride, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Gluttony, Envy....The downfalls of the Death Eaters.

“I’m such a wimp. It’s been two years, and I still can’t come here without starting to cry.” He wiped off his face again, and then looked down on the ground. “But I just miss you so damn much.” Oneshot.

The war is over and Harry contemplates what to do with his life when a letter arrives from a certain someone...

"Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf." ~Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero), Epistles (IV, 5)

Two days after the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, Ginny Weasley sits at the banks of the Great Lake, remembering a game she once played with Ron, and contemplating who she is, what she was, and her decision to reclaim her innocence.

Speculation about the star signs of James and Lily

Harry's seventh year. He comes into contact with some "interesting" characters and walks away with some "interesting" gifts. HP/HG OC/OC other character pairings, lots of OCs. Written pre-HBP.

Twelve-year-old Barty Crouch meets a stag in a forest.

“You are a burning man, Remus,” you say, leaning back on the couch, holding one mug of coffee.

Three hundred years. Three Muggle Prime Ministers. The same difficult decision. Written for omniocular's September AU challenge, prompt 106: The Muggles actually know all about the wizarding world and are keeping tabs on them. The wizards have no idea and think themselves superior until war erupts.

Being a painting isn't as bad as Neville had feared. Harry/Neville, Post-Hogwarts

'Snow crunched beneath their boots, sharp and clear as crushed glass. Draco's breath shivered in little puffs in front of him, like one of Potter's Muggle cigarettes--but his hands felt uncomfortably hot and sweaty in his thick dragon-hide gloves.' Harry/Draco slash. A little interlude in winter-time.

Harry lies in a fallen graveyard, about to be killed by Voldemort. Happiness, sadness, longing and family all come together in this tale of a traitor. R/Hr G/H L/N