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Harry must face mens' 'unaccountable bias in favour of beauty'.

This is an Alternate Universe fic set in Harry's fifth year. Harry encounters an interesting new Hogwarts student, an unlikely friendship, and a bit of a mystery concerning Voldemort's heir.

Takes place immediately after The Order of the Phoenix, but through Hermione's perspective. There are Dark things afoot, reuniting of friends, and possibly some romantic flirtations.

He cannot remember his past, and she thought she could leave hers behind. Will Hermione be forgiven and Sirius remembered? Can they become the people they once were even as they're doing something completely different -- falling in love? Si/Hr, D/G.

Pain. It would never leave him. It never got better, never got worse. Never changed. Always the same. He took comfort in its stability. Then he fell in love with Draco Malfoy. Needless to say he found a whole new definition of pain.

Seventh year is going to be quite busy for our favorite couple and their friends. They must balance NEWT classes, 2nd level Auror classes, relationships, jealous friends, dangerous classmates, as well as keep their cool in the face of the worst wizard in a century. (Sequel to Deer to Me)

Four years after Voldemort’s defeat, Draco and Harry are forced to meet again. Draco expects to bury his feelings for Harry once and for all, but will he succeed? SLASH! (Draco/Harry; Bill/Draco)

The war is nearly over. The avengers are closing in. But the losing party has prepared a legacy - a wound in the side of reality, which will outlive even their final defeat. (Note: WRITTEN BEFORE DEATHLY HALLOWS)

All Emily ever wanted was to meet some nice people. What she finds is only a cruel world to bring her down. Why do people have to be so shallow? Hopefully, this year will be different.

Post-OotP - Harry returns to Hogwarts with his thoughts on Sirius, and somehow finds himself talked into resuming Occlumency lessons with Snape! Hermione is being very mysterious, and Ron is quite the ladies (and mens) man! Will Harry find himself confiding in his once worst enemy? Meanwhile, someone we thought was lost is working his way back to the Wizard world. HP/DM, HP/SS, RW/DM, RW/HG and implied SS/RL, SB/RL.

Hermione is facing the breaking point. How much longer can she go on living a charade? Her life begins to spiral out of control and she finds herself further and further away from where she started. (D/Hr) WARNING: cutting, abuse, rape etc.

A mildly fluffy romantic comedy set in Post-Hog London about what happens when Ginny ever-so-politely asks Harry to deflower her.

Seven Weasley siblings. Hermione loves them all in different ways. A series of moments, non-chronological, in which she sees each of them in a different light. AU.

In which Harry quits in spectacular fashion. Nobody is happy about it... not even Draco Malfoy. (Written before HBP. Sixth year. H/D slashy overtones.)

It was what he did every night. By eleven, he was supposed to be sleeping. At or a little past midnight, his father would enter the room and tell him goodnight, although he wasn’t supposed to hear it. But he did. Draco heard all the goodnights from the past month because he wasn’t sleeping. Why rest when there was something else, something infinitely better to hear every night? Had he been really asleep, he would have missed it all. Rated R for violence, sex, and language. Eventually Draco/Hermione/Lucius, no slash.

What happens when a magical attack sends Harry Potter into the Mauraders' ``seventh year? And how does he deal with it when he has to return to the hard way... One day at a time.

One unforeseen incident brings Draco and Ginny into each other’s lives. They meet, they bicker, they hex and they try to uncross their paths but more incidents abound. Misunderstandings, duels, pranks, detentions. And therapy sessions with Professor Trelawney. Will they eventually learn to manage their anger and stop making each other’s life miserable? Or will they discover something more? Features sixthyear!Draco, feisty!Ginny, curious!Hermione and curious!Blaise. And a whole lot more about growing up, change, and discovering the true self.

Peeves flew away, disappointed. His plan to entice a particular couple in a particular part of the castle had failed. And so he did not see another couple - a bushy-haired girl and a boy with messy black hair and glasses - bump their heads together at the very same spot...

Another year at Hogwarts and new love is popping up in unlikely places. Can love survive the odds?

Harry's summer is miserable, because he is coping with the results of an unimaginable sacrifice. He finds himself under a lot of pressure, both from his teachers and his friends. A weapon that would enable Lord Voldemort to wield the power of the four Hogwarts Founders has been found, and an exceptionally different and aggressive girl is training him in fighting arts, adding to his burden. Harry becomes a very versatile wizard... but is it enough to help him survive his fifth battle with Voldemort? Exactly how much can one fifteen year-old wizard take before he reaches his breaking point?

Harry has to either kill Voldemort, or be killed. This much is certain. But has anyone, besides the now deceased Dumbledore, really paused to give thought to exactly what this means? A sensitive, emotional, and kind young man having to watch more loved ones die, to bear whatever atrocities happen to him personally, and to finally be forced to murder another human being? This fic explores one possible outcome, five years after the defeat of Voldemort. Hermione, with Ron, has been incessantly trying to locate Harry, or at least ascertain his fate, to bring some measure of closure. Hermione's latest investigation leads to nothing, again, but she runs into a talented, melancholy young musician performing outside the Three Broomsticks...

The war is over--what are the men of war to do? Instincts that kept them alive through Voldemort's second reign leave them undesirable in society after his defeat. In disenfranchisement, bitterness, and loss, there is shared ground, and in accepting that common space, Remus and Severus find that they are not, perhaps, so different after all and that right and wrong are more difficult to separate in times of peace.

The Marauders use a rare type of Time-Turner to travel twenty years into the future. In that time, Lord Voldemort wants Abigail Black dead. He may try to kill Sirius to get his way. But when they lose the Time-Turner, they must go on a journey to get a new one led by Callista Lupin, Remus's daughter. But the one obstacle is that Remus falls in love with his own daughter.

In all the world, she is the only one who cares about him-- he whose soul is eternally damned. Ginny/Draco AU, set in my extrapolation of post-war Potterverse.

The Ministry wants all so-called Dark creatures under control. Werewolves, vampires, veelas - even half-humans are to be marked, disabled, and eventually destroyed. However, not all of them are going to submit to this terror. SLASH SSLM SSLMRL HPDM

Harry returns for his seventh year at Hogwarts only to find he's forgotten something rather important over the summer. Harry/Draco slash, mpreg.

When one confronts her past, things never go according to plan.

Malfoy was the simplest person he knew, at times - pure malice and petty, childish revenge - and the greatest enigma at others. Draco Malfoy is facing a lot of difficulties this year: the decision of whether or not to be a Death Eater, contending with the infamously inquisitive nature of the Trio, and, most importantly, managing a relationship with the passionate Miss Pansy Parkinson. And, when Snape sends him mixed messages and the Dark Lord begins to brew a new plot, things can only get worse...

It's Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts. He must come to terms with the events of last year and the fact that Voldemort has sent someone after him. New relationships form and people change. Harry has to discover who he can trust and who his true enemies are. *OOTP Spoilers*

In a desperate attempt to get rid of his feelings for his enemy, Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter creates a magical mess. During his final year at Hogwarts, Harry will learn just how powerful love really is. Slash.

Harry Potter's in a mess now, as he struggles to help the Order of the Phoenix develop a powerful new weapon, fight off a task force of deadly criminals, learn a new sport, try to learn more of Snape's mysteriuos past, Sirius's unresolved affairs, and a monster that is out for his blood. All this while keeping his grades up

He was the Chosen One, the Boy-Who-Lived, the one who would defeat Voldemort and bring about the sought for time of peace. None of that came to pass. Due to a series of events whose true sequence was lost in the sands of time, Harry Potter was destroyed, and a Dark Age was ushered in over the Muggle and Wizarding worlds alike. Almost twenty years into The Dark Lords’s rule, in this time of misery and despair, a young slave, Felicity, stumbles upon secrets from the past and attempts, with the help and hindrance of those she encounters along the way, to right past wrongs. If, that is, she is able to make a sacrifice that would change her, and those she loves, forever.

Harry has a secret. He wants to tell the Weasleys and Hermione but is afraid of how they are going to react. You see this isn't just any old 'hey guess what' kind of secret. This is the kind of secret that changes lives, that changed his life. But what does Draco Malfoy have to do with it?

In the wake of Dumbledore's passing, both Severus and Harry struggle to fulfill their last promises. Their goal is the same, but the end result is something neither of them ever expected. (HP/SS)

Charlie and Ginny go out walking, after midnight, thinking about their babies... and talking (seriously) about first times.... ``H/G, Charlie/Tonks. First chapter of The Weasley Family Picnic

My interpretation of James and Lily's sixth and seventh years at Hogwarts according to the Harry Potter series. Filled with romance, humor, and suspense. Enjoy!

Draco and Ginny are the parents of two young sons. See who wins the age old battle for control of the Malfoy household. Who knew kids could be so crafty? Certainly not the hapless parents! The Cabbage Capers fills in gap between the And Baby Makes Three and Fifteen Years timelines.

What if the characters in Harry Potter were real? And what would happen when they find out about the whole HP craze? Will this information help them gain an edge against Voldemort and his Deatheaters? Or will it be used against them to help the Dark Lord finally defeat The-Boy-Who-Lived? (Eventually a D/Hr fic)

Sequel to Harry Potter and the School for Wizards. His second year out of Hogwarts, Harry is a wanted fugitive. Homeless and jobless, an opportunity seems to come out of nowhere. Is it too good to be true, or can the Boy Who Lived find happiness somewhere else? Will he find romance with Hermione or Ginny?

After Voldemort's defeat, Harry finds himself finally free to do what he wants. Now, if only he knew what he wants...

In the immediate aftermath of the Final Battle, five witches gather to help their hero.

Blaise and Hermione haven't spoken to one another in three years; suddenly they are once more a part of each other's life. When you think you can't hurt any worse, and you think your hope can never be revived, love shows up and makes a fool of you.

It’s Harry’s eighteenth birthday party, and he and Draco make drunken conversation which may lead to something more. Involves secret identities, autographs, kissing, tickling, and a bit of “Who’s your daddy?” Slash.

Harry & Ginny's twin sons claim their legacy.

Severus Snape returns from a gruelling night of potions brewing to find Harry asleep.

I am James Potter and I am perfect. Or so I thought. I was grandly disillusioned by Lily Evans in fifth year. She is the most amazing girl imaginable, but she doesn't know that. She doesn't even know I like her, which is odd considering I ask her out about every other week. I always get a negative answer. This is my story and this is how I won over Lily Evans. It wasn't as easy as it sounds.

Hermione enters the unknowing Weasley family into a competition. When they win they find themselves heading off to New Zealand for fourteen days, skiing in the Southern Alps. What happens over there? HP/GW HG/RW

What if two people were forced to spend the rest of their lives together? What if they were forced to get married? Based loosely off the Marriage Law Challenge at WIKTT...Hermione/Draco

Camilia is a sixteen year-old orphan from a notorious wizarding family in the US of A who has no idea she's a witch, and her world is about to be turned upside down. Enter a portkey, the forbidden forest, and a mysterious piece of parchment, and Harry is in for a disturbing sixth year...

Every year when Harry returns to Hogwarts there is always an adventure waiting for him. It is known worldwide that almost anything can be overcome if you stick together. This story shows just what can happen if that isn't the case; if friends don't stick together, but listen to the tempting voices of the mind. This is a story about betrayal.

It is their fifth year at Hogwarts and Harry, Hermione and Ron are closer than ever. Hermione has her eye on someone, but he hasn't shown signs of returning her interest, and the Christmas Ball is only three weeks away. So she hatches a desperate plan, involving Draco Malfoy! H/Hr, R/Hr, D/Hr ...other/Hr?

Harry is hurting after Sirius's death. One day, while he and Remus are cleaning out Sirius's room, they discover a story of sorts that the Marauders wrote during their fifth year at Hogwarts, about, what else? The many gruesome deaths of Severus Snape! These stories help Harry get through his troubles about Sirius and help him get through his depression.

He is mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf.````So said William Shakespeare – and it seems that the entire wizarding world agrees with him. Yet when a young werewolf, Remus Lupin, is offered the chance to go to Hogwarts, he is determined to prove them wrong. Once there, he immerses himself in his studies, desperate to prove his place in the wizarding world. Yet he is drawn to the other students his age, and when his new friends endanger his cover as a normal human being, he is forced to make a difficult decision . . .

In Harry's seventh year at Hogwarts, strange things are afoot. As Ron and Hermione discover new feelings for each other, Harry discovers new feelings for Ginny, but he is not the only one. Ginny is confused and has problems of her own; Draco needs to get his priorities straight. Where exactly does Blaise Zabini fit into all this, and who will help Harry when he really needs it?

When Harry finds out that a foreign exchange student is attending Hogwarts he is in for an interesting sixth year. Hermione is excited at first, but then she learns to hate their visitor when she discovers she may be outshone in books, smarts, and looks. But is this newcomer who she says she is? Or does ``she have a secret that only time will tell? Filled with snobs, animals and song. A story that you should enjoy to the last drop.

Originally intended to be a one-shot ficlet, this story has quickly taken on a life of its own! Two enemies are thrown together after being informed that they're being hunted by Death Eaters - but will they survive each other before the Death Eaters come?

When Ginny Weasley's best friend, Jade Farrell, is to marry Ginny's ex-schoolmate Blaise Zabini, everything seems in order. That is, until Ginny discovers she will be co-wedding planner together with none other that Blaise's own best friend, Draco Malfoy.

Ginny was ready to confess her love to Harry ... until she made a shocking discovery. She ran into Draco Malfoy. Literally. What happens when they enter a secret and unlikely friendship? Will it turn into something more?

Summer after fifth year. Harry and Draco have plunged themselves into deep thought over their lives- and both have emerged with new insight. But do their choices coincide with each other, or will they fall prey to the other's chosen future? Fear and hatred can rarely stand up against courage, love, and resolve. (eventual H/D)

Gryffindors and Slytherins have been fighting with each other for as long as Harry has been at Hogwarts. But now, with Voldemort back and growing ever more powerful, perhaps it's time for that to change. Will students who've been enemies for so long be able to put old differences aside? It won't be easy, but sometimes unexpected things can happen... Sixth year, Harry/Pansy, implied Draco/Hermione.

Ron gets a Love Letter from a Secret Admirer!! Can you guess who it is? Ron attempts to figure it out, but can you guess who it is?

Love. Betrayal. Confession. Deception. Politics. Misconceptions. Facades. Choices. Escapes. Mistakes. Time-turners. Professor Snape becomes an impromptu psychologist when he decides to find out what's wrong with Pansy Parkinson. Conversations about school quickly become analyses of the faults of Slytherin society, what's really underneath Pansy and Snape's facades, and questioning why Dumbledore trusts Snape. When a time-turner gets involved, a twist of time becomes a twist of fate, bringing about three decisions that will change the world: Whom will Harry trust, whom will Pansy trust, and, in the end, whom will Snape serve?

Harry declares a vendetta against Draco Malfoy and his lowlife cousin Dudley for sexually assaulting Ginny in order to get revenge on him.

Snape and Harry must learn to work out their differences in order to win the war.

Dumbledore sends Harry back to the Dursleys after his fifth year. No one is happy with that decision, but who is brave enough challenge the world’s greatest wizard over the summer living arrangements of an orphan?

What would you do if you woke up looking like Snape? And what if it was your BIRTHDAY? Dun dun dun! Revised version of What is Known and What is Left Forgotten, changed and made to fit the descriptions of the Severitus challenge.

Forced to transfer from their beloved Durmstrang to Hogwarts, Artemis and Cassandra Malfoy face more than hostility over the House Cup. Their loyalties are strained right from the start when they get sorted into different houses. And to add to their stressing new lifestyles an ancient prophecy is discovered describing monumental battle that could determine the fate of the Dark Lord. A battle between twins - a battle that only one will survive.

It has been a bad summer. Now it is going to be /badder/. He'll have to confront his worst fears. He'll come eye to eye with the creatures that have been haunting him for thirty years... be afraid. Be very much afraid. It's time to meet - The Pack! SS/RL harmless slash.

In her fifth year at Hogwarts, Millicent Bulstrode starts doing what she feels is right, not following her friends.

Receiving his mother's diary as a gift, Harry discovers an unknown part of Lily's life that not even her closest friends knew of.

Oct 31, 1981 - A home in ruins, a family destroyed. Remus, Severus, and Sirius quickly make a decision, and the boy known as “Harry James Potter” soon becomes a name only spoken in whispered speculation. Ten years later, however, old enemies re-surface and Remus, Severus, and Sirius have new decisions to make. Using any means possible they will fight for the child they raised, but how far will they go to protect their family? (AU 1st year starting fic; eventual HP/DM, RL/SS, others)

Glimpses into the life Dudley Dursley manages to make for himself after the Second Wizarding War.

It's been fifteen years since Voldemort rose to power. Harry Potter is the last bastion of hope, but people no longer look up to him. Harry Potter is engulfed in darkness. He is known to some as the great betrayer. To others, he is the Wizard Slayer. Dark wizards are afraid to even speak of Harry Potter's name. He is as feared as Voldemort. Some even think of Harry Potter as a dark wizard himself. For dark wizards, there is no jail. There are no laws. There is no such thing as an illegal spell when there is no Ministry of Magic to enforce laws. There is only death. No one knows how sane Harry Potter really is anymore. The only thing for sure is... One must die by the other's hand.

After a sixth year prank, Dumbledore is determined to watch Snape for any ill effects. For all his apparent wisdom, however, not even he could have foreseen the extent of those effects. AU after HBP.

There's a fine line between doing the right thing and giving in to revenge. Voldemort is defeated, but Harry finds himself still without a godfather and with little else to celebrate. He hasn't spoken to anyone since casting the killing curse a month before. With each passing day, disillusionment grows. Draco is surprised by what he sees.

Harry gets better at Occlumency, thanks to meditation and Snape not being around. Eventual Harry/Ginny.

There are some Light families that hide in shadows, and Harry Potter is the least of Dumbledore's worries.

A sequel to Translating Mad things Girls do so Guys can Understand them. Hermione comes across Ron's History of Magic notes. A missing moment from OotP.

Alice Tyler is ready to start her seventh year at Hogwarts. Despite the growing amount of Death Eater attacks, Alice is determined to enjoy her final year. On her to do list is plotting to get her best friend Lily to finally go out with her cousin James, all the while staying fiercely independent herself, of course. But things are about to happen that Alice didn't intend, and a chain of events is started that may lead to the destruction of her and her friends. The world works in mysterious ways, and sometimes even the best of plans backfire. Slight AU.

Myfanwy Tewdwr's family has lost their fortune and reputation with Voldemort's downfall. In need of money, Mr. Tewdwr asks an old friend for help--Lucius Malfoy. Lucius is looking for a new maid, and Myfanwy is desperate for the money. She is shipped off from the coast of Wales to the huge Malfoy Manor, where she is expected to face a lot more than dust bunnies.

A post-OotP, year six fic featuring a crossover with post-season two Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The two heroes meet in the unlikeliest of places and are thrown into an adventure involving the very origin of supernatural power. Pairings: H/B, H/Hr, D/Hr, and many others!

In the summer following her fifth year, Hermione is kidnapped in a Death Eater attack by the escaped Lucius Malfoy. Lucius - under Voldemort's orders - is to instruct her in the Dark Arts. Upon discovering this, Hermione prepares for torture, humiliation, and misery - but forgets to consider her teacher's son, Draco Malfoy.

After Voldemort has been defeated, both Draco and Harry seem to have lost everything. Trapped in a Muggle addictions treatment facility, they begin to realise that a future without magic and power is not entirely devoid of hope.

(RL/SB) AU. The Prank goes wrong, Severus Snape dies, and the Marauders dispose of the evidence and get away with it -- and after that, what can't you do?

A Post-HBP tale of Harry's efforts to prepare to face Voldemort for the final time. His quest spans the globe as he acquires the skills and objects he needs to finish off Voldemort for good. He learns that he is not alone and true friends are worth their weight in gold. Rated to be safe. Several character deaths.

Harry is bothered by strange erotic dreams in his sixth year at Hogwarts. What do these dreams mean? And what exactly is up with Neville and Greenhouse number eight?

Harry struggles to come to terms with the events at the Department of Mysteries. Sirius’ death and his friends’ injuries weigh heavily on him as he begins another long summer with the Dursleys. He feels like he has been through so much already; too much. Is he prepared to become the hero he must in order to defeat Voldemort and save the wizarding world? Harry has learned a lot of things in his years at Hogwarts, and the hardest of these is that changes come, whether you are ready or not.

Hermione and Draco? Impossible? The two most unlikely people to fall for each other? Sometimes everything is not always as it seems... Secrets are to be revealed, as the Dark Lord slowly gains power, returning greater and more terrible than before...

Every great love story has to start somewhere--and this one begins in the dingy front hall of Number 12 Grimmauld Place. First in the "Marauders Redux" series.

Sirius, James, and Peter seem to think that since I read so much, I should write as well. Something like keeping a journal. So they gave me this. This “nifty, big, red, beautiful book”, according to James. Peter says to make it my life’s work, adding to it as my life progresses. They’re all idiots, but maybe I’m even worse, since I’m here writing in the blasted thing. (This fan fiction is an AU)

Marietta didn't want to betray her friends to Umbridge. Why did she? What is it like being Cho's best friend? Will the word SNEAK ever be erased?

Ginny was sick of being overshadowed by her brothers, believing she'll never live up to their standards. However, an incident on the train to Hogwarts will show that she's not what she seems.

Dumbledore gives a end of tem project, all sicth and seventh years are paired off and pretend to be " muggle and married". Ron and Hermione are, of course, paired up. Ron doesn't know how to take the news. Hermione isn't really sure either for that matter.... Harry just thinks it's funny until it forces him to confront his feelings for Ginny. R/Hr, H/G in later chapters.

When Draco and Hermione discover that Draco's lived his entire life under a nasty collection of spells, it's the first step for the Harry Potter crew as they learn nothing and no one in the wizarding world is quite what they believed. This is the first chapter in what's planned to be a looong fic incorporating a lot o' plot and a lot o' different ship pairings (for now just Hermione/Snape and foreshadowings of Harry/Draco).

Harry Potter had once believed that his seventh year at Hogwarts would be a year to cherish. Yet as September approaches, Harry finds himself reluctant to return. When he does, the castle is nearly empty, its corridors silent, the teachers half-hearted and afraid, and the High Table devoid of the familiar twinkle-eyed headmaster. Those of Harry's friends that did return have changed as well: Ron seems to be hiding something, Hermione is obsessed almost to the point of insanity over finding the Horcruxes, and Neville is acting more violently than before after every Death Eater attack. Harry himself is becoming increasingly attached to the question of "What if...?" and also, the words "Neither can live while the other survives."

After an extensive visit to Hogsmeade's new pub, Draco is, well, astonishingly comfortable with waking up next to Pansy. It is Pansy's dark hair which is tickling his nose, isn't it? Isn't it??

From the age of eight, Draco and Luna have been hiding a secret frienship that has held strong for many years. But when Luna does something that is seen as a betrayal by Draco, can their friendship last?

What was life like for the Marauders when they were in Hogwarts? This fic explores the sixth year of James, Remus, Sirius, Peter, Lily, and hey, why not throw in a few new characters? James wants Lily, Lily wants peace, Sirius is Hogwarts' most wanted, Remus falls for someone he thinks he can't have, and Peter fights that inner battle of good and evil. Who knows where this will take us?

When Severus Snape returns home after a venture for his master early, he becomes witness to a secret that will turn his whole world upside down.

What starts out as another one of their fights turns into something much more unexpected.