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Sometimes the price that must be paid is too great to bear. S/H, also featuring Harry and Ron and with glimpses of lots of canon characters. A this could be how it happens scene of Voldemort attacking Hogwarts in their Seventh Year.

Minerva McGonagall's childhood is not a perfect picture. She didn't live a happy, carefree childhood. She was an utterly miserable, bitter, cynical person... until she met Tom Riddle. He charmed her, he seduced her, and he destroyed her soul.

As Draco is dying, he looks back on his Death Eater days, his time working for Dumbledore, and his relationship with the Weasleys. Another songfic, companion to "Brothers in Arms."

George isn't speaking to Fred. How will he fix it?

The effect of spells on sex, and the effect of Harry on someone weak, all wrapped up in a big ball of wrong. It is Harry/OC, but trust me - Mary Sue went home.

It's Harry's seventh year and Christmas is here! But Harry is anxious about the looming terror of the Horcrux hunt; so anxious that he blows up at Ron and Hermione, wishing that he didn't exist! It will take convincing from a certain deceased headmaster to show Harry just how valuable he really is! Based on Frank Capra's classic film.

"You wish I was Sirius."``Two weeks into the summer holiday, Harry recieves a visit from his former professor, Remus Lupin and discovers that, even when life seems unbearable, you're not really alone when it comes to grief.

Sometimes finding your soulmate can be a difficult business. In Severus Snape’s case, the process involves a defective timeturner, a slightly more rugged version of Tom Riddle, and the quest for a perfect vegetable marrow. As the champagne corks begin to pile up back at Hogwarts, Snape takes an involuntary dive into a flowerbed, sputters incoherently, and manages to rewrite history. In that order.

One would think things would have come to light a bit faster, but the more she expected it, the slower everything seemed to happen. H/Hr.

"I thought you were never going to come inside." Sirius smiles. "Well, I do so like my door. We have a very fond and special relationship. I thought it best not to subjct you to our passionate embraces". Remus lets his smile turn into a somewhat wicked curve. ___ It's the first meeting of Remus and Sirius after meeting in the shack. Can they go back to the times of before or have they changed too much.

"If these walls could talk, they would have quite a story to tell." Ginny reflects on her relationship with her brother and how the rules often change without warning.

Ron watches Harry and Hermione and decides to put a plan to set them up into action. Of course, Ron just might not be the best plan-former... but let's see if it works out! H/Hr.

Excerpt: 'It was once believed that my first words were “I’m going to be a Gryffindor.” It was once said that I chanted these words like a mantra. It was once told of how I took all the Personality Tests and the House Aptitude Examinations, and I was destined by all professional accounts, to be in Gryffindor. `` It is now a known fact that I was not a Gryffindor.' This is the story of a would-be Gryffindor who was destined for...er, different things. Follow her through her seven years at Hogwarts, as she makes new friends, new loves and learns how to cope with being herself. (Completely Non-Mary Sue with eventual R/Hr) Enjoy!

When Dumbledore decides to give Harry Occlumency lessons, Harry is givenarare peek into the Headmaster's mind.

Everyone knows that at the end of Harry's third year, Pettigrew escaped and took with him Sirius's chance of getting his name cleared. What happens when he is caught, and Harry finally gets a home, family, and a parent figure who loves him more than life itself?

Just a short OotP interlude, or my version of what happened while Harry was in Umbridge's office and Snape "found Sirius alive and safe". The last Snape-Black dialogue ever. ::sniff::

"You're so innocent, Harry," Ginny said. "I need a tonic." A H/G vignette, with slight Hr/R overtones.

She was in too deep, and it felt good.

"Couldn't betray the Order, not even to save you." AU, July 1981

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar..." There are some things that require analyzing and deep thought. There are some things that have layers and layers of complexities to peel back to find the truth. There are some things that can never be explained no matter how much one looks into it. And then there are some things that are plain... and simple.

It's sixth year at Hogwarts, and Snape's as easy-going as ever when it comes to Potions at NEWT level. Fortunately, however, our hero hasn't been left to fend completely by himself...

Hermione is her normal worrying self. She worries about Harry as he has shut down to everything around him. What will stop Hermione from crying every night? What will save her from the stress?

A songfic to Faith Hill's "Cry." What would you do if your world was crumbling around you and no one seemed to care? This is one girl's story. Not for the faint of heart.

Things change, people change, lives change. Yet can one percieve that change in one they've disliked for so long. And is fate going to be appeased by feeble declarations of love?

As Hermione spends her last moments at Hogwarts dancing with Harry...she realizes that she has to let him go...forever.

Harry Potter discovers a new and unnerving power that allows him to uncover his friends' true feelings for each other as well as his own. But first, he must differentiate between the two!

They had had many fights before... so why did this seem so final?

James Reflects on becoming a father in the times of Voldemort. This is a song fic to Creed's "Arms Wide Open."

(Sequel to Remus and the Dementor) Yes Remus fans, this is yet another fic about Remus' buddies finding out the truth! ooh! Aah! Hope you enjoy it and find it worthy of our dear Remus.

Inspired by the Bert and Ernie Sing-Along LP! Casting Severus Snape as Bert and Harry Potter as Ernie! (Bert and Ernie of Sesame Street.) Warning: Harry is wildly OOC. Snape is fairly OOC.

During a time of 'peace' the unexpected happens. An ancient evil reappears and launches an all-out war with Voldemort, sending the wizarding and muggle world into fear. Amidst the chaos of the world, seven Hogwarts students are caught in the middle of it all, but the problem lies far beyond them. Used only as pawns in the two greatest Dark Lords' chess game, they must make alliances to save each other and the world. Draco gets naked. Voldemort helps Harry. Ron gets caught with his pants down...literally. A new student appears, and Pansy is important.

Seventh year at Hogwarts and everyone finds out who they are attracted to. Some very interesting relationships, as well as new characters. This is not for slash-haters.

Far away from his Hogwarts dungeons, Severus Snape wakes up next to a sleeping woman. – He’ll get used to it, eventually. Snape/OFC

Silver is for Slytherin and gold is for Gryffindor. Very mild slash, and a mystery narrator.

After Sorting Harry, the Hat reflects on its failures...

Snape meets Petunia at a train station and apparently it isn't the first time. Petunia, a Goth??

At the end of the war, Harry Potter finds someone to live for. (SLASH)

Set in her seventh year. Hermione develops super powers after a potions accident. Hermione/Snape

On the morning of New Years Day, Bill Weasley recounts the million and one kisses that have changed everything, for better or worse, and why waking up next to Harry makes all of them worth it. Epilogue to "Glad It Was Me." (SLASH: HP/BW)

Pain requires comfort and release. Especially when you're an eighteen-year-old boy who stands a good chance of not living to see nineteen. Even more especially when you're a sullen Potions master who's been bottling up pain all his life. (Slash: HP/SS)

Severus Snape and Lily Evans haven't spoken for months. The Slug Club Christmas Party forces them to.

She knows he's bad for her, but she just can't walk away.

She's not really sure who she is. By night, she sings in a jazz club in the city. By day, she tries to dredge up the pieces of a life she's forgotten. All she remembers is a blinding flash of light ... and someone screaming ...

A pair of eyes watches their every move, and reflects on love and loss in Hogwarts. H/D sap.

A Lily-centric look at her family and her days at Hogwarts. Times weren't so tough, Petunia wasn't exactly evil, and James and Sirius get on her bad side because they're, well, eleven-year-old boys. This fic is about fun, and remaining true....

Or, A Discourse on the Damned. An examination of Azkaban through its prisoners.

Ronald Weasley sets forth to understand his sexuality. Slash.

It’s the night before the ultimate battle with Lord Voldemort…

These are the dangers of lurking.

Harry returns to Hogwarts feeling alienated. As usual, it isn't long before unusual things begin happening. There is mystery and danger and a chance for love, if Harry is brave enough to take it. ``Draco returns with a mission he cannot accomplish without Harry Potter. Difficult and dangerous, should he fail, he begins to doubt. But a shocking revelation will put everything he ever believed to the test.``Ginny returns full of loneliness. Her choices will lead her down a dark path, where she will have to choose between love and ultimate power.``All three share a fate that will decide the destiny of their world. Will they be able to set aside their despair and unite to save their people? Or will everything they hold dear fall to ruin?

In the last moments of his life, James has some serious thoughts about all of what he has done.

Much awaited ~sequel~ to Provocative New Uniforms. Harry, Ron and Hermione meet Legolas, vain elf of the Woodland Realm!``It's not a requirement to read the first fic in this story, but if you don't, you may wonder why there are Mood underpants, abs, and W.C. (no, not the toilet) in this story.

It's been thirty years but Draco still watches.

Tonks meets her young cousin Draco for the first time in less than auspicious circumstances.

The Weasley family, Arthur, Molly, and their three sons, is perfectly happy despite the stresses of the war against Voldemort. But what happens when the war comes home? Set approximately 16 years before PS/SS

Ginny explains to James how the new baby was made. James sees things . . . a little differently. Written for The Quidditch Pitch February 2008 The Birds and the Bees Challenge.

Harry is about to commence his sixth year at Hogwarts. However all is not as easy it as it seems. Harry must deal with the effects of the prophecy as well as the death of his godfather Sirius.

While helping Harry hide out, Hermione makes a split second decision that changes both of their lives forever.

On a trip to the Quidditch World Cup in Rome, Ginny sees Draco for the first time in eight years. To her surprise, a torch she didn't know she was carrying is relit.

Draco wants everyone to keep off his property...but how exactly does he plan to do that? *H/D slash*

What if a girl who had no idea she had any magical powers, stumbles through Platform Nine and Three Quarters into Harry Potter's magical world? How does she handle her knew found world? With a little help from the Hogwarts teachers and the Trio she makes it through a year at Hogwarts to graduate with the others. Romances abound and adventures ensue.

In the world of high fashion, all that matters is how much money you``have and how many partners you've divorced. Can the least-expected fall in``love with each other? Not your average Cho/Draco story.

Jackie Moran didn’t think she had a father. Sirius Black didn’t think he had a daughter. They were both wrong. When Sirius dies, Jackie is left as sole heir to the Black estate, and Sirius’s connection with the Order of the Phoenix. Over the summer, she teams up with the Trio, who are again camped at Grimmauld Place, and unexpected friendship and near romance ensues. But can Jackie leave her punk rocker USA life for the dangerous British one? Pre & Post-OotP

During PoA, Lupin discovers a boggart in the staff room closet and a bit more....

Whumpf!! Harry Potter lands with a thump, right on top of a very disgruntled Draco Malfoy....

A bar, a drink, a future, and a doomed world. How different people cope with utter loss.

Sybil Trelawney had made just one true prophecy before her death at the hands of Lord Voldemort, never knowing the words she didn’t even remember would shatter the world. As the Dark Lord acts prematurely, forcing a traitor to become a hero and driving the frantic parents to make a heart-breaking decision, the fate of Harry Potter is changed forever. AU

Daina Catrima Loyd begins her story as a typical Muggle-born witch, and ends as one of the most powerful sorcorers in the world. Along the way she manages to fall in love, turn evil, almost get killed, blow up some buildings, survive getting killed at least once, and make some pretty bizarre spells. It's really amazing how far one will go to get rid of that 'typical' label.

There was once a girl who loved a boy. [Percy/Fleur]

Sixth year brings many new things for Harry. Such as:``New students, one with a large secret; A new DADA teacher, who is perfect Auror material, but not perfect teaching material; An annoyed Snape, but when has that been new? and Vampires!

Remus Lupin reflects on the life of Lily Evans-Potter and the major impact it had on him.

Draco is looking for an engagement ring for Astoria, but is it really what he wants? Ginny will help him find out...

Remus has an unusual request for Tonks regarding his old love. She doesn't really know how to react to it. Rather dysfunctional post-HBP Remus/Tonks.

"You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your relatives," goes the saying. How unfortunately true. An OotP-compliant look at the Black family, affectionately nicknamed as "why canon extrapolation is so much fun."

They always knew there would have to be sacrifices. They just never understood how deep it would go. Maybe the lucky ones were just living on borrowed time...

Professor Dumbledore told Sirius to "Lie low at Lupin's." He didn't tell him what to expect: anger, confusion, bitterness---and love. Remus/Sirius slash.

Fred and George want to hook up Harry and Ginny so they make a love potion. ``But they ought to know that the use of love potions have become cliched and love potions are hardly drunk by the person for whom it is intended. ``H/G fluff

Bill Weasley was resigned to the boredom of a desk job at Gringott's Head Office. Little did he realise even a desk job can hold some excitement of its own. Bill/Fleur. Set between GOF and OOTP.

Once upon a time, there was a boy who liked a girl. He asked her out. She said no. He asked her again. And again. And again. And again... L/J ficlet, short and sweet.

"The human life is like the shadow of a flying bird, which lasts only as long as the bird is flying overhead. But eventually the bird will pass by, or cease to fly, and then the shadow is gone forever." -The Shadow of a Flying Bird, Mordicai Gerstein. When you have friends, it may seem like that's all you need in life. But when your friends are disappearing one by one and your whole world seems stood on its head, when you start to realise there's more to life than you've always thought, you may need to do more than step back and smell the roses. You may need to acknowledge that the roses are even there first.

The Smythe family has finally recovered from the attack that permanently cursed four quadruplets, leaving one totally mute. The quads come to Hogwarts for their fifth year after four years of tutors and integrate themselves into normal magical life despite their handicaps. However, the silent one still holds her secrets... Takes place in Harry's Second Year. AU--Gilderoy Lockhart/OFC. Dark at times.

Sixth year. Harry isn't in the best of states, with his dreams haunted by images of death, destruction, and a mysterious predator out for his blood. Add in the fact that Voldemort is invading his dreams, claiming the Prophecy is void, trying to pull him to the dark. An accident happens in result of this menace, in which Harry must find the strength to recover from. The events inadvertently make Harry the guardian of a terrible power, one that has been protected by a secret sect for milleniums, one sought out by many. In order to survive and fulfill his duty, he must trust in himself and what knowledge he possesses. That doesn't mean it will be easy though...

When her private demons were buried, his own would be revealed and his oldest and only friend would be his final strength. Just as he had been for her in her weakest moments. D/Hr

Harry had finally found love. But his heart was broken soon after. She’d stabbed him in the back, then twisted the knife.

The Road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Here we see what was going on in Albus Dumbledore's mind as he made the decisions leading to the catastrophes of Harry's Fifth Year.

Harry and Draco have been living happily in the Muggle world but unexpected forces brought them to the battle again. This story is full of romance and angst parts but also funny ones. The story has a prequel done by another author.

Angelina is in her final year at Hogwarts, but things are changing. What's happening to her world, is this good or bad? How will she deal with new and old obstacles? Why does Neville find it necessary to avoid her at all costs? And WHAT will she wear to the ball?! Fred/Angelina

"You're a vampire?" I whispered... Hermione Granger has stumbled across a terrible secret... His teeth ripped into my skin... And now she has to pay the price... The pain ripped through me like a knife...

Four years after the defeat of Voldemort, Hermione finds she has a chance to defeat him again. This time, however, she faces a much different enemy than the monster she knew. This is DH compliant up to a point. It is, however, very much an AU.

'Hairy Snout, Human Heart' - a book written by an anonymous wizard, published in 1975? Or the diary of Remus Lupin, a boy who wrote of the horrors of his lycanthropy just as he started Hogwarts?

Petunia Dursley wanted nothing more than a clean, well-run home and a normal, ordered life. She hadn't wanted to be common, but she loathed the idea of becoming her sister. Her sister who had died so brutally at the hands of a man who now wanted Petunia dead for the exact same reason: the boy.

The summer before sixth year Draco goes to Pansy's house to talk about his father's imprisonment and wallow in self-pity. They end up talking about their nonexistant relationship instead.

School, boys, family and Quidditch - it's just another year in the life of Morgan Braddock.

This is an AU fic that takes place during OOTP with a Squib whose parents are taken by Death Eaters. There is a blossoming romance with Sirius, though later on in the fic.

Luna comes out and tells us all what really goes on behind her blankness...

Do you believe in fate or free will?

Draco wants to be on the winning side. Does he really need to change?

Prejudice runs both ways when the Malfoy and Prewett families are entangled in something with far-reaching consequences.

A transfer student comes to Hogwarts and is sorted in Slytherin and Gryffindor. She catches the eyes of both Harry and Draco but is she really who she seems? And if she has never been to Hogwarts before why does everyone seem to know her?

For as long as she's been alive, Sibyll Trelawney has forseen death, destruction and chaos. Only now, it's come back to visit upon her, and it is witnessed by young Harry Potter. What follows after that can only be considered unexpected as the wizarding world gears up for what is to come.