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Hermione has an unusual collection.

When the least likely of students approaches Hermione with a plea for her help, she can't resist. Nor can she resist the opportunity it presents to change the course of one young wizard's life.

You know when you watch the Harry Potter movies and there are some parts you just HAVE to laugh hysterically at? Well, if you do, are they Ron's quotes? If you have answered yes, to both of these questions, then you should read this fic because it explores 'all those weird Ron quotes,' and DO they have a basis in reality - or at least dream reality.

Two unexpected allies join Harry, Ron, and Hermione in their quest for the Horcruxes. This fiction describes preparation for the search rather than the search itself, and the emphasis is on bonding among the characters--particularly Harry, Remus, and Sirius. Questions are answered, secrets revealed, and plans made. Ties of friendship are explored more closely than romantic ones, but the assumed romantic pairings are Remus/Sirius, Ron/Hermione, and Harry/Ginny. Action begins on August 1st of what will be Harry's seventh year at Hogwarts, and continues over the next few days.

Post-Hogwarts. Auror Draco Malfoy is on the verge of being fired. Given one last chance to redeem himself, he is sent to investigate dark activities at a muggle university, where he stumbles upon a certain saviour who disappeared from the wizarding world two years ago. Harry/Draco slash

The first chapter of this story was written as a reply to the "Highly Unlikely" challenge on The Potion's Master's Muse. This Christmas-themed challenge involved having the Potions master do something highly out of character while keeping him as in character as possible. As the story continues after Christmas, it travels from twelve, Grimmauld Place to Muggle London to Hogwarts with a multitude of canon characters. There's some politics and some romance, with the emphasis always being on a snarky Snape. It takes place parallel with OoP and slightly beyond.

Post-DH. Al, hoping to distinguish himself from his father, enters his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and befriends the most unexpected group of people. Meanwhile, the wizarding world enters a new era of political turmoil, as the Minister-to-be is assassinated, and Harry and the others find themselves in a wholly different, much more subtler conflict.

One night, staying in the Grimmauld Place, number twelve, Severus Snape witnesses something about the Black-Lupin marriage he doesn’t want to believe true. Little by little, he finds out that not only is it true, but also Sirius Black doesn’t think that a simple rape is enough to control his submissive husband. SLASH RL/SB RL/SS

Harry Potter has never once asked why he so often ends up fighting alone at the end. Not when he went to save Ginny Weasley from the Chamber of Secrets. Not when his name came out of the Goblet of Fire. Not even when he learned about the prophecy. He has never pitied himself for his situation or wished for relief from his responsibility, but for his friends he would ask that someone else take his place. Someone strong. Someone brave. Someone who knew what they were doing. He never expected someone to actually make it happen. But someone did; they sent him to a world where he grew up with his mother's best friend, and Neville Longbottom was marked. Set in the Prelude to Destiny/Backfire Universe.

In "Chance", James told his story on how he tried to win Lily over. This is her version of the events.

Remus joins his friends James, Sirius and Peter for their second year at Hogwarts. This year, things start off quiet but as the year progresses strange things lead up to the possibility of a professor's death.

What happens when you put a hopelessly "romantic" man-whore and a girl with a soft spot for bedtime activities (not THOSE activities, silly!) together in a dark bedroom? Well, I don't happen to know either, so I suppose we'll find out together, won't we? Come with me, Tia C. Spencer, on a lovely ride through the countryside... er, lakeside... okay, so we won't actually be riding NEXT to anything, but it will be lovely, I promise you that. How can it not be, with me as your illustrious (and quite possibly mad) companion? And no, contrary to beliefs very likely impressed upon you by this summary, I'm not a gormless prat. Well... not entirely.

Harry is subconsciously falling for a certain close female friend. In the mean time, he and his friends realize that sufferable sacrifices must be made as new gains and losses come to mind. With the Maneosioan War going on, which will determine either the final domination or defeat of the Dark Lord, will the power to weaken Voldemort be found in Harry Potter himself, or will they find it in those who they least expect - each other?

Draco loves Laura, he has since the day he met her. The only problem is that she doesnt know...but she has a Secret Admirer....Hhmmmmm

Dumbledore is dead, and Hermione has stayed at Hogwarts to research spells that will help the Trio in their quest for the Horcruxes. There, she has a most unlikely visitor, who informs her that there is a more important task, even more important than defeating the Dark Lord, awaiting a person brave enough enough to undertake it.

Take one failed actress, her super-genius cousin, two very different wizards and a miracle cure. What do you get? Trouble - that's what.

AU: Harry finds a way to bring Sirius back and in turn finds new allies in old friends in his quest for freedom.

Sequel to Worser Angels, Better Angels, and Almost Human. Draco and Snape leave Hogwarts for the summer. Angsty conversations and adventures ensue. In this chapter: Draco gets therapy.

When Remus Lupin left Hogwarts at the end of The Prisoner of Azkaban, he left behind more than just a job. Anna Vector has always loved her job teaching Arithmancy but this year, the year the Tri-Wizard Tournament returns to Hogwarts, is different. Responsibility, love, a big black dog, a vengeful Death Eater and the Ministry of Magic are distractions during this pivotal time in the battles between good and evil, desire and duty, and people and politics. A sequel to By the Numbers.

Granted great power from the mysterious book of Black, a young girl comes under the care of the wizards and witches of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where she must learn the limits of her power and confront those that wish to take it from her.

Five meetings with Harry Potter. He never stays long, but he always leaves with the promise that he'll come back in the end. And all Ginny can do is wait for the end to come.

Sirius Black is eleven years old and going to Hogwarts! Follow him from first year to James' death. See him grow, change and drift from his family and everything he was expected to become. What made Sirius so different from the rest of the Blacks?

Minerva McGonagall's life and adventures during World War II after she leaves Hogwarts

A seventh-year Harry/Draco story.

Something dark and deadly is stalking the streets of London. Fledgling Auror Harry Potter finds himself confronted by shadows from the past, and he finds that not all monsters are born of hellfire and Dark magic. H/Hr, with peripheral pairings tossed in.

Sequel to Fears: Part 1

Luna is in love with Harry, but so is her best friend, Ginny. Will Luna have to forget her feelings to make Ginny and Harry happy? Isn't love putting somone else's happiness before yours?

Destroy the Horcruxes--that's Harry's goal, until an Aperio throws him and two other unknown people into a world where the prophecy never existed, his parents and Sirius are alive, and Ginny went to Azkaban for opening the Chamber.

The offspring of Fred and George are at Hogwarts, creating some mischief of their own. But things are not as they seem, and sometimes, mischief can lead to danger.

Rupert Giles faces his wizarding past, Buffy Summers deals with the pitfalls of being a Hogwarts professor, Snape is... well, Snape, and Harry Potter wonders just *what* he has done to deserve this... (HP/BtVS crossover)

What does it take to be a Weasley? A bunch of little OneShots where the Weasleys explain in first person their lives and the problems they must face everyday. All end in the same battle against You-Know-Who. Relationships of all kinds and sometimes angsty.

Lily's untold love story--with James, Snape, Sirius and lots more! James loves Lily; Lily hates James; and Snape...well, we'll see how he turns out.

What would have happened if James, Lily, Sirius, and Remus met Inu-Yasha, Sessho-Maru, Kirara, Sango, and Miroku? Well that's the idea behind this concept. You'll have to read to see what happens...

Severus Snape discovers that there's more to his pointless death than his miserable life counted on. A story of redemption, love, and second chances.

Just before Harry begins his 6th year at Hogwarts, Remus unintentionally gets involved in a wind-up designed to make Dudley jealous,``and this results in an unexpected intimacy between Harry and Remus. As Remus tries to present the same face to the outside world that he has always shown, whilst having an illicit relationship and falling in love, he finally``learns what's important in life and what his priorities really are.

Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley bond over their nightmares. But Ginny has a secret. A secret she will fight to keep. WARNING: This story contains SI.

When Hermione kisses Severus Snape, feared Potions Master of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, on the cheek as an act of gratitude, she doesn't know what impact the little gesture will have on her life.

No one ever said that being Harry Potter’s girlfriend was going to be easy, but after seven months at it one sly Slytherin thought she’d mastered it... That is, until she was forced to explain their relationship to the inquiring minds of the Order of the Phoenix. It was all downhill from there.

I thought that love would last forever: 'I was wrong.' On Harry's sixteenth birthday, he and Lupin are still coming to terms with Sirius' death. But how do you cope when you've lost everything? Not slash.

Some stories are worth hearing again and again, be it a story of love, a story of war, a story of death, or a story of life. But a truly good story ... you can never be content to hear it only once. ..::..

In this companion piece to Lucius Malfoy's Death Eater Application Form, Severus Snape is applying for a job at Hogwarts. And he's not best pleased about it.

Harry accidentally traveled back in time but lost his memory in the process. There he had some strange dreams about a lonely boy called Tom Riddle. What happened when the future enemies met? No Slash

The summer after fifth year starts as badly as any other, but Tonks comes to the rescue. Harry works through his grief with the aid of Hermione and Luna. Meanwhile, the machinations of Draco spell trouble for Harry, leading him into a time of change.

On a Christmas visit to Hogsmeade, Harry Potter meets a young man named Clarence who claims to be an angel sent from Heaven. But it isn't what you think, folks! A chance encounter with a saddened old lady leads Harry to perform a few Christmas miracles, learn a few lessons about faith, life, and death, and find a long-lost family treasure in a place he never expected. Merry Christmas, FictionAlley!

When Prince Charming didn't return after the evil wizard was overthrown, the heartbroken heroine escaped to create her own life- far away from the prince. But when a Weasley wedding invitation arrives, there's no room for excuses: she has to go home.

Firewhiskey. It fuzzes his brain, soothes his nerves; it makes him forget all about his problems for a while. But it doesn't erase them. In fact, it only makes them worse when Mrs. Weasley finds an empty whiskey bottle under his bed and makes a scene right before he leaves. During his Seventh Year at school, Harry finds himself not only confused, hurt and angry, but deciding on what area of expertise he wants to spend the rest of his life doing. And Olean has decided to pop up, using the defeat of Hogwarts as his main 'coming-out party.' Can Harry protect the school while trying to protect himself and his friends? For Olean has an agenda: the destruction of the Souriom de Solfiace and everyone, no matter the connection, intertwined with it.

It's twelve years after Harry graduated Hogwarts and a lot of things have changed. There are four new Potter's running around the wizarding world and Harry's head of the Department of Magical Games and Sports. His life ``is about to take a crazed turn when he attends a dinner party hosted by the distinguished Pansy Weasley. Will it ever be the same? Does he want it to be?

When a Muggle woman breaks up with a wizard, there's no need for her to remember the magical world anymore, is there? Will Charlie Weasley Obliviate his ex-fiancee?

Truth or Dare is a completely harmless way of passing the time. Or so Harry Potter thought. Of course, he forgot about his insatiable need to Prove Himself. One simple game will cause a chain of events during which Harry will find out a little about those he thought he knew, and those he knew he didn’t. But Harry doesn’t yet realize that he will find himself as well…

Something is wrong. It seems that the only person who remembers the existence of Harry Potter is Harry himself...

Harry goes to 'rescue' Hermione from the library. The two take a definite detour on the way back to the common room.

Remus has never cheated on Severus. In fact, he has never as much as kissed another guy. However, he is now pregnant -- even though Severus is sterile. Convinced he's been cheated on, Severus leaves Remus alone with his pregnancy -- until he realizes that Remus might die. But it may already be too late...

It is Harry's last year at Hogwarts. Voldemort is gone, and Harry is relieved to finally have a year to relax. Or does he? When Ginny informs him of some interesting news, what will his reaction be? G/H, Hr/R

Harry is depressed. He has lost himself, and no one notices. His life is a mess, and he doesn’t care. No one even notices the change, except Draco. Why is he the only one who notices?

Remus Lupin, Werewolf. Can he hide his terrible secret, involving the Wolf that bit him so long ago, and a relative whose exact tie to him must not be revealed? Severus Snape, spy. Can he manage to salvage everything and still come out alive? Harry Potter, older, more serious and resolved to complete the task he was marked for. Albus Dumbledore, trying his best to keep his world intact, but are his methods really the best? Lucius Malfoy, Death Eater. Ambitious to the last, loyal to nobody but himself. A Muggle who finds a unique way to bridge both worlds. Will the Seer be able to see the answer before it’s too late?

Hermione's a rather unusual Animagus. One night, she comes across a stranger...

Harry wakes up in unfamiliar surroundings and meets a woman known only as the Dungeon Master. She sends him and several companions from his own universe on a quest to conquer an evil wizard (no, not that one). Crossover with the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. Takes place during the summer before Fifth Year and largely ignores OotP.

Harry's all grown up but his adventures are far from over. He now has his daughter to worry about. And, much to Harry's dismay, Ema has another ``prophecy swirling around her that puts not only herself, but her best friend, ``Muggle-born Ari in mortal peril.

She was bored. He was reading. Armed only with her wit, Tonks sets on a one woman mission to catch the attention of a sullen werewolf.

Hogwarts isn't reopening and Voldemort is back and more alive then ever. Sirius is gone and so is Dumbledore. Living through the heartbreak from Ginny and the pain from the deaths, Harry is left to find the Horcruxes with Ron and Hermione by his side. What happens when he meets a girl that has a surprising past which has a lot to do with Harry?

“I am completely horrified right now,” Draco responded blandly. “And strangely intrigued...” The ever popular scenario: Veritaserum in the Potions Lab. H/D. Humour.

It's the start of Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts and all is not well. Harry is tormenting himself over the responsibility he feels for the deaths of Sirius and his parents and for the safety of his friends. His dreams are haunted by Trelawney's prophecy. Upon his return to school, the outlook is bleak. What's up with Draco? What's up with Trelawney? With an inter-school Quidditch Cup and a familiar face as the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, Harry must put his guilt aside if he is to foil Voldemort's latest scheme.

The memories of Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs, remembered by them, written by them... Two are now dead, one is a traitor, and the other, is completely alone... This is the story before The Boy Who Lived.

After five years away, Hermione returns to Britain with a shocking surprise. And Harry won't like it.

Draco hates Harry. Harry hates Draco. Right? Wrong. Draco loses his pants, Harry gets smashed, and what is going on in that Quidditch shed anyway?

It would take something stronger than magic to make Dudley Dursley a hero. Harry/Dudley

A Sirus/OC romance. After the Ministry finally clears Sirius, he tries to rebuild his life with help from Harry, Remus and an old flame.

While Harry visits the remains of his parents' home and their graves, he meets up with Hogwarts' replacement for Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration class. She has been sent by Professor McGonagall to try to talk Harry into returning to Hogwarts to finish out his last year. Will she prove herself helpful to Harry in finding and destroying the horcruxes? Will she help Harry with his lovelife? Only one way to find out...

**Marauders Era** Farren Graham is a seventh year Muggle-born at Hogwarts. During her final year, she finds herself becoming involved with some of the least expected people: Sirius Black and Severus Snape. This is her story. Read the shags, the fights, and how she connected everything.

Harry wonders how to live a life with no purpose. Draco discovers what it's like to have someone save him. Lupin agonises over a secret love. Sirius cares too deeply for his friends. All are blind. Mysterious forces comment, bending fate to their will. But these violent delights have violent ends, and some things were never meant to be. Instability amasses at Hogwarts until one fateful night, where the moon sheds light on true emotions and balance is restored by any means possible. Post-HBP. Harry/Draco. Sirius/ Lupin.

Post-OoTP. Story starts summer after fifth year and will extend through seventh. Feeling abandoned for the second summer in a row Harry starts to make some changes to his life. Realizing he has become the center of a large war, he begins to walk his own path and come to terms with his destiny. Harry learns about life, himself, what friendship truly means, and just how horrible war can be. The story will largely be about how Harry deals with what life deals him, and includes a Harry/Tonks relationship.

What happens when Bellatrix Lestrange's strange niece comes to Hogwarts and is not exactly a hit with the students? And what IS she hiding behind the persona that she presents to them everyday? All secrets will be revealed and some will be stickier than others...

It starts off with a particularly bad day, gains true momentum during a rainstorm, finds itself exploding with the remodeling of Severus Snape's nose, and ends up at the beginning, proving only that Remus Lupin and Sirius Black are both idiots, only in completely different ways.

Where does Harry disappear to when Harry kills Voldemort? How does Minerva know Harry will be back?

In the summer after Harry's fifth year, Remus Lupin discovers that the wolf is not the only monster within. This is the continuation of "Here be Monsters."

Harry Potter is a bad apple - a delinquent - a horrible example of a boy entering his teen years. Why, the Dursleys can tell you that right away! There's nothing special about him, even if he once thought the scar on his forehead looked like a thunderbolt and that he used to think about flying. No. To put it simply, there's just nothing magical about him.

After the final battle, Hermione developes a rather unique relationship with Harry. The question is how do Ron and Ginny fit into it?

When Severus is asked to impersonate Ron Weasley, will he find himself falling for Ron's fiancee--Hermione Granger? And will Hermione find in the new Ron exactly what she's been wanting?

Esme and Severus married, with children! Another fluffy Snape story - continues where Owls and Musings left off.

Hermione's little obsession is revealed.

Bellatrix Lestrange delights in cruelty, and she can torture with words as well as with a wand. One night alone with Severus Snape is all she needs to break him.

AU. When Harry Potter gets upset... he writes. When his cousin acts like an idiot... he writes. When his uncle yells at him... he writes. What if the story of Harry Potter and Hogwarts was nothing more than a teenager's fantasy, acted out in his imagination and recorded on paper?

Lily Evans hated James Potter...but not always. A change of heart came around one day, and James and Lily started falling in love. This is dedicated to all the hopeless romantics out there.

When Hermione is close to Sirius for days on end, she feels that danger, that rumble held just below the surface. When he turns his eyes upon her, she holds her breath and waits for the thunder to come. It doesn't, his steady gaze is beautiful and she knows there is something dangerous behind it, but it never makes a sound.

Pairing our beloved Professor Snape with someone is not an easy task. Being the perfect git he is, not many (sane) women would fancy being on the receiving end of his affections. If he’s at all capable of loving someone, his feelings better be directed towards a strong and independent woman who has the guts and the sense of humour to stand up to him. Why? Because it's never safe to be around a former Death Eater who very easily gets annoyed... But when Hogwarts gets a new Potions mistress who is not only skilled in her field of work but also happens to be an excellent Quidditch player, a Beater (very few girls are), Snape's got to learn to watch his steps!

script version of Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter, Boy who lived, Chosen one, Saviour of the Wizarding world! In truth he's just a boy struggling to become a man and dealing with the death of his Godfather. As Harry starts his sixth year at Hogwarts, Voldemort's power has increased and war is ravaging Britain, no one is safe. Harry has withdrawn from everyone he cares for, hoping to keep them safe. However, life at Hogwarts won't be as he expects, with new teachers, new lessons and a quest for an ancient power that will challenge everyone's knowledge of Earthen Magic. Harry must learn that he can't bear the burden of destroying Voldemort alone. That someone he loved may not be dead after all. For this year will test Harry both mentally and physically.

Draco betrays his family. Harry needs to recover from Sirius's death, among other things. Dumbledore brings them to Hogwarts for the summer for safety reasons. New friendships, prophecies, bonds, final confrontation, and more!

Lupin and Snape have their differences. But when Lupin's life is put in danger, it turns out that Snape cares enough to take action. How much trouble will they get into in order to protect each other? And what, exactly, is driving them to want to make their lives fit together? When plan after farfetched plan fails, Lupin and Snape will have to take a big step and acknowledge that spending their lives together is far more important than being practical. Written for the Master and the Wolf Fuh-Q-Fest challenge #35: Remus was about to be put down by the new regulation from the Ministry. What did Severus do?

Growing up is never easy - especially when your mother is in Azkaban, your father is a Death Eater, and James Potter won't stop bullying you. A glimpse into the childhood Severus Snape might have had.

"You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them." ...``What Ron didn't expect was for Hermione to actually write it. A missing moment from OotP.

Canon-style story taking place in year six. Story leads off with a fun scene of Harry helping McGonagall rescue Professor Snape, for which he is not particularly grateful. Malfoy takes revenge for his father’s troubles, leaving Harry at death’s door. Harry’s troubles are only just beginning at this point as a super magical creature comes after him, making the teachers scramble to protect him. All of this makes Harry’s magic change as well as his thinking about who can help him the most when the final battle arrives.

Draco is not good enough.

The subject of Muggle Studies has been inadequate, to say the least. The need for new curriculum means someone must spy out the Muggle world for information. Guess who gets to do the honors? How can the great greasy bat from the dungeons be the best person to fix it? And who will he be forced to work with to get it done? Beta'd by Somgliana.

The Philosopher's Stone story ... but from a Slytherin perspective! Neve Coulden, an astute, sharp-tongued Slytherin, enters her first year at Hogwarts, along with Harry Potter and friends. There is, however, something about Neve that sets certain older Slytherins on the offensive. Join new characters, such as Roisin MacKeve, the good-humoured orphan of Evan Rosier, and Death Eater Julian Avery's venomous daughter Arlene, as well as old ones like Severus Snape and Draco Malfoy, in this rollicking rollercoaster ride through danger, cunning plans and house ridicule, as all the while Lord Voldemort plots his return ...

Severus Snape is a sheltered boy, kept under the watchful eye of domineering father Pravus Snape and socializing only with handpicked future Slytherin students. However, when he receives his acceptance note to Hogwarts, he quickly learns many things about the dangerous world outside of his sheltered family home. A dark wizard is teaching at Hogwarts...

In her seventh year, Hermione finds herself increasingly attracted to her Arithmancy partner, Blaise Zabini. But is he really all he seems?

Parvati Patil has a twin sister and a best friend. One knows her better than she knows herself. And the other one doesn't know her at all.

Sequel to "Just a Wizard" Can our new couple learn to get past their petty squabbles long enough to realise they just can't live without one another? A truly wild ride including maple syrup, a lake, kidnappings, milkshakes, and men in bikinis??

When Ginny sneaks into the Slytherin common room one night to prove herself to the Trio, she's in for more than she bargained for....