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A strange woman comes to teach DADA. As Snape's former student, things aren't that great between them. But when Snape gets ton know her more they might be more alike than he thought...

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

The trio are stuck in the hospital wing following the mayham in the Ministry of Magic. Hermione is sick of it, Ron's enjoying the break and Harry can't make up his mind. Add a visit from Ginny who is eager to improve the bedside manner of her brother, and it's certain that love doctor Ginny will succeed! R/Hr implied G/H

Rita Skeeter enjoys writing about Harry. Now that Hermione is letting her write again, she decided to do a huge piece on him.

"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)

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

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.

Harry returns to the Dursleys' for the last time. He sets off in search of the four remaining Horcruxes and faces the Dark Lord in one final showdown. Romance runs thick, as the war can not stop happiness from trudging on. Expect some fighting and some loving to keep you entertained as this Book Seven mock-up takes flight.

When Ron loses in job in the Department of Magical Games and Sports after``injuring the star Seeker of the Montrose Magpies, he takes up a job as coach of the London``Leprechauns, the worst team in the United Kindom Junior Quidditch League. Can he unite the``ragged group of players and teach them the true meaning of the greatest sport in wizardly``history? Will they win the championship? And will Ron be able to concentrate on his team``when his Hogwarts sweetheart is engaged to his rival team's head coach?

Ginny stumbles upon Harry as he reflects on the events of his fifth year at Hogwarts... and sparks fly....

"Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable." ~ C.S. Lewis

Takes place approximately one year after "Born Under A Bad Sign", but reading "BUaBS" is not necessary. The threat of Voldemort is inescapable, and his presence takes its toll on everyone. Follow the lives of Draco Malfoy, Albus Dumbledore, and Lord Voldemort himself as the Dark Lord's shadow spreads itself again over the magical people of Great Britain. Will he seize ultimate power, or will fortune prevail once more? THIS CHAPTER: Prologue; opening scenes.

"You have pretty eyes, Harry. Everyone says that they are emerald, like your mother's, but they are wrong. Lily had plain green eyes."``Everyone knows that Voldemort has a twisted, insane mind. No one knew just how deep that madness went...... slash, Voldemort/Harry

In which Lily tells James she's pregnant.

Remus has been ordered to take Harry to Grimmauld Place, but he knows that Harry will not react well when he learns he has to spend the rest of the summer locked up in Sirius’ house.

Severus Snape. Things aren't always what they seem. Post-OotP fic.

“I feel that if I try to go back I’m not going to be able to survive being invisible.” No one said that a life in hiding would be easy. Hermione Granger, of all people, should know that. After being in hiding for three months, Hermione gets a surprise visit, and gets entranced by the sweet melody he plays. HG/SS Rated R for possible later content.

Sequel to 1978. James, Sirius, and Remus, through a complete fluke, wind up in the future, right in time to visit Harry, Hermione, and Ron. Someone is ill, someone dies, someone's romance continued and all but one Marauder knows what will happen. (H/H, RL/PE)

Ghost!Sirius decides to pay a little nighttime visit to his godson so he can deliver some very crucial information ... or, at least, what he thinks is vital, that is....

As Snape and Sirius are coming to an understanding with one and another, even forming a friendship, Snape's old mistakes come back to haunt them. What happens to a man who has lost almost everything only to lose another friend? Vengeance must be taken when everything else has been drained away.

Back in the ancient days of magic where there were no wands, only hand and thought magic, that was where the greatest battles were fought. It was unlike duels of this current day and age, it was pure magick battles. Merlin, one of the greatest wizards of history, must fight against the growing forces of darkness lead by the malevolent Morgana LeFaye. Can he and his allies suppress this evil?

It's about Lily and James. How and why did they die? Do you know the REAL Lily? What did actually happen the night that night they got killed, and what happened before?

A closer look into exactly why Ginny hexed Zacharias on the train. (one-shot ficlet.)

Leona Blake takes you through the final year at Hogwarts for the Marauders and Co. Observe as they wreak havoc close in competition to Peeves!```` Action, adventure, romance, drama, and lovely angst come together as this original character takes a final chance at the love of her life and watches her two best friends fall in love! The madness, the chaos, the lovely denial, but most importantly, Snivelly's underpants! All that and a bag of dung bombs in this explosive tale!

Everyone watches when Hermione sleeps.

Hermione might stay with Viktor Krum for Christmas, how is Ron going to take it? Knowing him, not well. R/Hr with a slight reference to H/G. Set in Harry's POV during sixth year.

A final meeting and an unintentional goodbye between Draco and Hermione. ``Sequel to Chimera's Touch and This Mortal Coil.

He's old, he's cranky, but he's still Harry. Listen in on an conversation between him and his new biographer.

The second – and last part of “The Phoenix and the Owl”. Several years have passed and our heroes are a bit tired. We get a couple of retrospectives, the last battle--which has been fought and won--and a happy end. Not fully Hollywood-style, though.

It is our choices that define us, for better or for worse.

He is a responsibility, nothing more.

Deep and mournful sobs echoed from the boy’s throat. Harry never cried, not even when Sirius had died and when Remus had killed himself. But there he was now, sobbing like a child in the early morning light. Standing on a stool next to a tree, with some sort of rope around his neck... WARNING: INCLUDES SUICIDE.

Ginny finds herself married to Draco Malfoy who is now the most powerful wizard in the world. Things are changing rapidly for the worse and her life seems to be spinning out of control. The only who seems to understand her feelings of loss and seclusion is the one man she thought she hated the most.

In the aftermath of recent events, there are those who cannot see past their grief. Remus Lupin is one of them. He must learn to accept the past and look on to the future. Set near the end of OotP. (Spoiler Warning)

While Snape agonises over Lily, another redhead comes to his office. Deathfic.

Two little lies lead Harry and Ron to the truth - a Harry/Ron AU ending to Chapter 4 of Some Perfect World.

Series of written poems from Harry to Draco and back again. Harry muses outloud and Draco shoves it back into his face and makes him eat it. Only he's more eloquent about the whole ordeal, or tries to be at least. He loves me, he loves me not...and he reminds you of the wintertime.

Lucius Malfoy confronts the ultimate dilemma. Featuring hair problems, the Evil Overlord Gift Guide, the results of Slashing Hexes, Draco's obsessions, Lucius' sanity issues, and what passes for normality among Malfoys.

Sometimes, young love can be ageless. Years have passed since Tonks last called "Wotcher!" at Bill across the Gryffindor Common Room, and those years have led them to different points in life -- different points on the globe, even. Still... there are people you never quite forget, people that leave a mark. People that still, after five or ten or fifteen years, can make you feel like seventeen and just in love. And home.

It is a stormy Saturday morning in Harry's third year, and despite the rain the Gryffindor/Hufflepuff Quidditch match is going ahead. Perhaps Harry is the only one to notice Sirius watching from the stands - but Sirius notices everything, albeit through a haze of memory and misery. He sees the way Harry flies, and oh! how it reminds him of James!

You never hated him. If anything you loved him as much as your own son. But that was why you had to force it out of him. Because it would kill him. Just like it killed Lily.

After suffering his darkest moment, Draco encounters someone who can redeem him, someone he previously despised. Together, they seek vengeance on the ones that made them suffer. And they will get it, despite the many distractions they will face.

No, it does not have to be a Mai Tai for Draco Malfoy... tonight it is Gin Bramble.

After making plans to meet up with a friend, Luna Lovegood oversleeps, and when she arrives at their meeting place, unexpectedly saves her friend's older brother.

In a darkened room two boys will make something new begin... A HarryxDraco dark ficlet. Prequel to Ashes

On the night that the unicorn is slain, Bane and Firenze each hope for a change in the other. Firenze/Bane.

When the world needs help with dark magic, they call on Harry Potter. But the Boy-Who-Lived has been out of sight for the past three years. Sent to find him is Hermione Granger, a one-time friend and lover. Follow their journey as they reunite, fight, and learn to love again. Friends, old and new, embark with them on this heroic quest to rid the world of the last and most dangerous bits of dark magic.

The trio is in their last year, and something is wrong. The Sorting Hat is making mistakes and what's up with this mysterious first year?

The Hogwarts Chronicles, a story of four witches and wizards who came together despite extraordinary circumstances; and created the greatest magical legend ever - Hogwarts School. The Four Founders of Hogwarts School come from very different walks of life. This is their journey as they move from childhood to their teenage years, the beginning of Hogwarts, and their eventual death.

A foray back in time to retrieve a Horcrux means that Harry has an unexpected encounter with someone he didn't intend on seeing. Suddenly, Hermione's rules about not meddling with the past become a lot harder to keep. Gen, Harry, Dumbledore. Oneshot.

PG for a stupid-humor rewrite of chapter 32 of GoF. Harry and Cedric run from Wormtail, who, in this version, is rather incompetent at "killing the spare."

“I don’t like you!” the boy screamed at Charlie, tears flying out of his eyes. “When I’m b-b-bigger, after I go to H-Hogwarts, I’ll Avocado you!” Thirteen-year-old Nymphadora Tonks never knew she had a cousin. But when she and her friend Charlie find a seemingly innocent boy sniffling behind a display of Cleansweep brooms, her cousin Draco is revealed to her. But what is this Avocado he keeps on talking about? Perhaps Draco isn't as innocent as Nymphadora thought...

A conglomeration of scenes, quotes and actions from the Harry Potter series scrunched together into short skits to prove for sure that no Harry Potter character should take part in intellectual combat with another. Slight exaggeration and warping of people, places, things, and nouns in general that have to do with HP may ensue.

Neville reflects on the past, dreams, and his friendships with Hermione, Harry, and Ron... And we learn a surprising thing about Neville: What he does not fear.

It's Hermione's wedding day, supposedly the happiest of her life...so why has she chosen today, of all days, to visit her parents' grave and dwell on her sadness? But a chance encounter will make her see things slightly differently...

Just your not-so typical day in the Weasley/Granger household.

Draco has finally found the girl of his dreams. She'll do anything for him, even if it means killing the one she once admired- the famed Harry Potter. Ginny Weasley would make Father proud.

It is the morning following the battle at the Ministry of Magic. The Order of the Phoenix has won the day. But Remus Lupin has lost the last of the three wonderful friends he met at Hogwarts. Like a lot of other people, he doesn't understand why it happened. But with the help of some more friends, he tries to reason it out.

Angelina got a terrible feeling in her gut and tears pricked at her eyes. Why? Why couldn't they leave us alone? It was no longer about Muggleborns and blood purity. It was about nothing at all, nothing but fear and destruction. Now they were destroying their own world, too! Angelina felt an utter hopelessness and would have collapsed right there under the complete madness of it all, but then she caught Fred's eye. In that moment, she was so filled with love that she felt capable of anything. Co-winner of the March, 2007 FA challenge.

Hermione visits Harry on a whim.

After Hogwarts, Draco has gone mad, but his father won't send him to St. Mungo's. Lucius is fighting to keep the illusion that everything is as it was before. while Draco is fighting for his sanity in the one place where he is dissadvantaged - his own home.

Ginny likes her family's enemy. But does he like her back? (D/G, with hinted H/Hr.)

‘A seductive story based on “hex” appeal’…and who said food and magic wasn’t a way to a man’s heart? [Extended summary inside!]

Evil deeds can tear a family apart....

Your hair was wet, and your cheeks and lips colored pink-red, from the potion, but your eyes were shining. “So”, you whispered, “I was the thing that you would miss most, Diggory?” Cedric Diggory's POV during the Goblet of Fire, one-shot, bit fluffy, ignorant foreshadowing.

Snape hates Christmas. In this short ficlet, find just one of the reasons why.

DM/GW - Draco has to prove himself worthy to the Dark Lord to become a Death Eater. While he is searching for useful information, he comes across the journal of the Potter's housekeeper. It tells of an ancient charm that may end up aiding the Dark Lord or defeating him. It all depends on where Draco's loyalties lie. But where does Ginny come in? She is fighting against Voldemort alongside Harry, Ron, Hermione and the usual Hogwarts gang. You also may see a little of Sirius, Remus, and the old crowd. Will Draco choose to go against the wishes of his father or will he become a Death Eater?

Draco passes the time by playing Quidditch--later catches Ginny drawing a picture of him in her sketchbook. Draco's POV. Companion to 'Fading Lines', but stands alone.

The situation with Voldemort has died down, and now Ginny ‘Ice-Witch’ Weasley is working in the Ministry. Her task? To check up on the influential families of incarcerated Death-Eaters. First stop, Malfoy Manor, where Ginny may get more than she bargained for. A chaptered bit of fluffy D/G

Lily can't belive it. Lily's friends can't believe it. Heck, James's friends can't believe it. Has James really given up on Lily - forever?

There was a time when Remus would have given anything to see Sirius Black dead.

As Lily watches her child sleep, innocently sucking his thumb, James arrives home with some alarming news. A one-shot, written to show the type of emotions James and Lily must have been experiencing during those tumultuous times with their newborn son.

Some need more than words to tell their story. Gen -- Features Minerva McGonagall & Severus Snape.

A short little drabble on the mystery of why Snape hates Harry so much.

Mrs Weasley is fed up with eight-year-old Fred and George. They won't go to bed and almost wake up little Ginevra. Not only that, they have got Ron involved in their late night charades. When she drops off to sleep, the twins tell their younger a siblings a bedtime story

Snape\'s perspective throughout HBP.

On a completely normal day Harry Potter slips over something. It turns out this "something" is actually Voldemort's weapon of DOOM!``Harry, being the hero, has to make sure Voldie doesn't get his slimy hands on this very important weapon.``This, of course, isn't as easy as it might sound...

The beginning, end and perhaps the beginning again of Sirius' and Remus' romance. Sweet and fluffy, in a three-headed dog kind of way.

PG-rated Hermione/Ginny unrequited femslash, set during GoF, on the day that the boys find out Hermione has a date to the Yule Ball. Ginny knows too, exactly what Ron is feeling. Sweet, angsty, and short. No spoilers for OotP.

What happens when my character is transported into another world away from Harry Potter's? And it's the Muggle world of all places! Read and find out how she gets back to where she belongs or is she already where she belongs?

The final fight between Harry and Voldemort. What else can I really say?

This essay discusses the differences between Gryffindor and Slytherin, as well as the system of placing students into houses using the sorting hat.

'Draco watched him go.'

For Ron, living in Harry's shadow is one thing. Playing second fiddle to Malfoy, though, is something he'll never, ever do. (SLASH: Ron/Harry, Draco/Harry)

The title pretty much says it all. Will eventually be G/D

Glittery account of unrequited love, set at the superficial heights of glam rock. Lily/Narcissa femmeslash. Expect angst and confusion.

Harry's been nursing a secret crush on Remus, and when he comes of age, he decides to find a way to let Remus know.

Ginny and Draco are paired up for a flour baby project! And surprise, surprise they must save the Trio. Can they help save the world, and get along while taking care of a five-pound sack of flour? And what is this new evil thing that makes Voldie look like a playground bully?``D/G all around!!!!!!

Draco leaves Harry after the war. Is it the right decision? Slash H/D

For the first two weeks of their sixth year, Hermione has been feeling shunned and left out by Ron and Harry. Finally becoming fed up, she storms down to the Quidditch pitch and wishes that she was really through with them.``R/Hr Fluff! Whee!

Narcissa in invited to Malfoy Manor for dinner on Christmas Eve.

Sometimes echoes just won't go away. Sometimes the past won't leave you alone. Narcissa and Lucius deal with the consequences of the past.

In the midst of the war, Harry loses himself. Harry/Draco.

Always he had been there, to cry, and to bear witness. But time withers the ablest of bodies, the strongest of hearts, the noblest of spirits. Two centuries after the final battle, a solitary figure searches for solace in all that remains of his past: the shattered memories of yesteryears.

Ron finds himself visiting Hermione alone after Harry can't find a way to join them. Will a epiphany lead Ron to discover his own true feelings for Hermione, and can he bring himself to reveal them to her? A day without parents and a trip to the theatre may give Ron the chance he's been waiting six years for. R/Hr

Audrey Vivica Serena Rose Sierra Blaire Trixton van der Mintly is the daughter of the Minister of Magic of America. People look at her in awe and comment on how perfect she is and what a wonderful life she has led. But these are the people who don't know Audrey. Audrey has just recovered from unthinkable horrors in her past that include a horrible disease and the death of her mother. When Audrey is accepted into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, she thinks she has finally gotten her life back on track, until unmentionable horrors decide to pay her a visit once again.

Lucius wants Draco to be like him. But he's not. Story of sixth year, struggle of a son to deal with the sins of his father and finding one's self.

It's not so easy, you know, being a Dark Lord and intimidating people and all that. It's all about the act. It's a matter of practice. Assistant Director: Severus "I have to know my motivation" Snape. Beware of complete and utter nonsense.

Harry Potter arrives at Hogwarts for another eventful school year. What he doesn't know is that more strange things are bound to happen. Hooded figures haunt his dreams as well as the persistent warning of a Ball of Fire that he must destroy. The only problem is what is the Ball of Fire? How can he destroy it? Why does he need to destroy it? (AU)