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A pivotal tale and seminal theory about life-debts, immortality potions, and the night that Severus Snape turned his life from Darkness.

"When you assume, you make an ass out of you and me." - Paul, 8 Simple Rules. Slash.

She kept her heart under lock and key as not to have it broken. But the irony was that, in the end, her heart was broken anyway. DHr, Oneshot.

Sirius' lover arrives at 12 Grimmauld Place, giving Tonks a new view on her own feelings for Remus. One-shot, third person limited PoV (Tonks).

She's watched him her whole life and been in love for as long as she can remember. Even if she drifts into the shadows she will never stop loving him. Because love knows no age limits. H/G

What would happen if Ron and Hermione decided to be museum thieves? When they have to steal a talking portrait who thinks a whole lot of herself from the London Institute of Thrilling and Mysterious Artifacts, all sorts of craziness takes place. Tears, laughs, a snog or two, lies, and PartnersInCrime!RonandHermione occur.

I am a miracle worker. My name is Ron Weasley and I made Hermione Granger late for work. R/Hr fluff.

Driven by his memories of Snape's escape, Harry takes up Occlumency again. He'll need a Legilimens to test him, though, and since Snape and Dumbledore are both gone, he turns to a someone he can trust, with a knack for picking up new spells: Hermione.

Find out the story behind Nearly Headless Nick's death, and how love reunited two lovers who were seperated by death.

Another post-prank fic: not wildly original, but angsty fluff rather than angst. SB/RL

And so Harry Potter lived to a ripe old age, became Minister for Magic and had twelve children. What if at least one of Trelawney's prophecies actually came true?

Romance blossoms between two friends. Is it the start of something good? Or will it all end in tears? A Remus/Lily fic. Originally written for the Moon Petals Challenge.

A picture is worth a thousand words and some can tell the future.

Tonks lost her flat and gained a substitute mother, a pensive housemate and an unacceptable room. She's expected to be annoyed--instead, she smiles. Expectations and nature are only distantly related in the house left by Black, but just as in any family feud, a side must be chosen: in her case, numbness or the terror of joy. (Loose retelling of E. M. Forster's A Room With a View.)

Sirius and Regulus disembark the Hogwarts Express and return to 12 Grimmauld Place for the summer. Their journey home is rife with conflict and danger--as much from themselves as from others.

The first Ministress of Magic in over a century has a lot on her plate. Voldemort is on the rise, Hogwarts is in danger, and people are dying. The corruptness of the Ministry is extreme. She just wants to do her job and do it well. But there will be many obstacles in her way.

It's Harry's sixteenth birthday and Harry gets a visitor he has never met before. Remus is in love.

Set in the _Slytherin Rising_ AU. A certain Machiavellian Ravenclaw finds out about Harry Potter's horrid home-life...and we find out what happens when Ravenclaws lose their tempers.

I thought destruction meant death, illness, everything bad to happen to the environment. But I soon learned that other things - people - could destruct as well.

Best friends tell each other everything. Right? But something is bothering Sirius and he's not telling his best mate Remus about it any time soon. What is it?

For the March2007 challenge. Fudge pays an unexpected visit to Hogwarts.

The name is Weasley. Molly Weasley. I'm an Unspeakable in the Department of Mysteries. Molly Weasley is probably the most underrated character in canon. Most writers show her as some kind of throwback to the fifties. So Portia's out to fix her image!

"After she finished work, Elspeth went down to the cemetery on Woodthorpe Road so she could see the ghost." A Potterverse story with a twist in the tail. One-shot.

'There's the barest hint of bitterness in her face as she sets about unhooking her change of clothes after what she considers the cruellest practice she's ever been a part of.' Ginny Weasley is more than a little tired of the way Draco behaves with the team. She makes it her goal to give him a kick in the right direction.

AU, in the summer after Harry's fourth year, Draco Malfoy saves his life and fakes his death to protect him. He hides in America and after two years returns to England.

One wintry and cold night on Christmas Eve, Harry and Draco find themselves in a deserted Diagon Alley. When perchance Harry unconciously needs a helping hand from Draco Malfoy, it is bregrudgingly accepted. The first beginnings of something else in their taciturn relationship begin to appear, in nowhere else but a room to rent at the Leaky Cauldron, on Christmas Eve. H/D Oneshot.

In 1960, a spell of vengeance was cast against the Snape family. In 1997 Harry, Draco, Remus, and Severus find their lives are about to drastically change because of it … (AU, H/D, RL/SS)

You've seen the movie (or have you?). Well it doesn't matter, because this fic bears little to no resemblance to the fine picture. I present, therefore, for your amusement, your favorite characters from the "Smoke Two Joints" series taking a mad trip through Diagon Alley. Acid; LSD; Lysergic Acid Diethylamide. Psilocin. Psilocybin. Plenty of Tetrahydrocannabinol, for good measure. Read the fic. Laugh it up. Peace out. ````Rated "R" for some profanity and extreme drug use.

When Ginny goes to tell Harry how she STILL feels about him a deadly surprise awaits her.

The Second Rising of Voldemort has ended. Harry defeated Voldemort three years ago but the war raged for another year. The past two years have been spent rebuilding the Wizarding World after the most brutal war it has ever undergone. These are the stories of the survivors.

A ten-year-old girl arrives at Hogwarts not knowing what to expect. Her Sorting is an experience most others do not go through as she learns that it truly is our choices that choose who we truly are, far more than our abilities.

James and Lily are married. After an enjoyable night with Sirius, James notices that Lily is not her usual self.

Hermione grieves the loss of her love, but comes to realise something... read to find out!

A heated interdepartmental Quidditch game leads to a game of one on one for two rivals. Pairing: Ginny/Marcus Flint

A companion fic to "An Angel in Disguise," because it features Jim!the Janitor and eight-year-old Harry. An essay assigned by a substitute teacher yields some surprising results.

There was no turning back now, was there? Draco Malfoy was undoubtedly a marked man, and he was barely a man at that. Professor Albus Dumbledore was dead and the second war was about to begin. What was left for the young Slytherin? Did he fight with those he had sided with his whole life, or did he pursue a new path?

Ron needs me and Harry needs Ginny; I think we both know that. Yet, I still find myself here under Ginny’s orders. I find it is impossible to say no to her; about as impossible as telling a lie under the influence of Veritaserum. Hr/G.

A woman reminisces about how he was brought to the light and his final moments on earth as she visits his grave alone before the people with the funeral service. Painfully easy to tell who 'I' am and who 'You' are. WARNING! Written to be a tear jerker.

Ginny has never been in love, until now. He hates her, but can she change that? Harry's POV, MorbidTruth's challenge.

Set during Christmas, fifth year. Hermione and Ron talk obout Percy, Muggles, Kurt Cobain, and drink hot chocolate.

Dumbledore dwells on recent and past happenings, and tells Snape about the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. Set prior to PoA.

Some major changes in life happen in the matter of moments--or in a heartbeat. Will Sirius and Remus acknowledge that they already have what they didn't even know they wanted? SB/RL.

When a mysterious dog appears on the Hogwarts grounds, Professor McGonagall is forced to seek temporary shelter with Professor Flitwick. Written for the hp_friendships challenge on LiveJournal.

Pregnant and alone, Mrs. Paul Grover reflects on the accident that left her life in pieces.

Seamus just wants Ron to come out from under his bed. He has some rather unusual methods of getting him out. Hey, at least it works! S/R S/O

What would happen if you were transported into an alternate reality with your nemisis? How would you adjust if everything you were accustomed to was different? What if something you hated became something you loved? D/G/H triangle and Hr/R/Padma triangle.

Ginny Weasley has horrible nightmares about her dark past and about the future she can never have. It can't get any worse right? Wrong, because when the Dark Lord is out to get her there is only one person who can save her, and he turns out to be a very unlikely hero.

Draco comes to Hermione, asking her for help. Sequel to I Just Keep Running.

Part two of "The Wedding Series" Remus and Sirius on their honeymoon.

Remus Lupin reflects on his first love and how that still impacts his life years later. A story of unrequited love, and how it can sometimes have a silver lining.

A woman stands over the body of a former lover.

Harry Potter has never been comfortable in this exchange, has never leaned into a kiss, has never done the impossible. All that changes one evening when the butterflies in the pit of his stomach fall apart in the sheer importance and beauty of mouths. A post-OotP H/D slash one-shot.

It's the holiday season, and Harry is alone and missing some holiday company. This is the script for Spell-Cast.com's 2006 holiday podcast play.

Behind every seemingly perfect couple there are much darker roots. Molly and Arthur Weasley are no exception. Behind the whitewashed front perfected over the years lies the grimy truth of when Molly met Arthur and the lies they have fed to preserve the almost saintly image they hold. An AU version of the Weasley couple.

Lily has been having bad dreams, but when she wakes up in fear, she meets an unexpected visitor who has a task that she may not be ready for. Yet when she disembarks on the journey she realizes that there is no turning back and she must now face her destiny of death and yet in the process save the most precious thing of all, her son.

"He is not drunk, who from the floor Can rise again to drink some more.......... But he is drunk who prostrate lies, And cannot drink --- and cannot rise!" ~Irish toast

Ginny is unexpectedly cursed into a sleeping death by Draco Malfoy, only to awake to a twisted world wherein she is forced to marry the one man she despises most.

AU: Written Pre-HBP. Eighteen-year-old Severus Snape is having a very bad day. After getting into a argument with his "future wife" (until he finds a way out or they kill each other), Potter and Black steal his chocolate eggs his mother sent him. After a very unexpected kind act by someone equally as unlikely, Severus does something he regrets.

Songfic to The Thunder Rolls. A storm brews outside. Is it possible that it is controlled by a lone woman witnessing the storm? Or is the storm roiling within her?

Sirius Black's interest in wizarding comics leads to some startling discoveries.

Draco Malfoy, sneaking around the Forbidden Forest on a full moon. A mysterious werewolf appears, and a bite changes the life of another.

Nanny Ogg goes to Hogwarts to help out in the kitchens and ends up practising her very special brand of magic. Will Granny (assisted by Snape) save the day? Will Snape find true love? Will Hogwarts ever be the same again?

When Draco and his father have a falling out, Draco's world begins to change dramatically. Dreams begin to plague his sleep, and nothing is the same any more. When the war breaks out across the British Wizarding World, Draco has to decide whether to follow in persuit of these strange dreams or reconcile with his father. Fight against everything he's ever known, or against all those he's ever cared about.

Without the journey, endings and beginnings are meaningless. It doesn't matter where you start, it matters what you do after you start. We all know how Harry Potter started, how his legend began...with his parents. However, we don't know much about them, we only know their end - death. We have immortalized them in our minds, and forgotten them. We have reduced them to the mere parents of the boy-who-lived. So, now come back with me, and watch their journey. Watch them grow in another time. Learn about the generation history is so eager to pass over. Join me, and observe their journey unfold into the destiny of the wizarding world.

It's Harry's 7th year at Hogwarts. The unicorns have come to human form and are here to save them all. But what they don't realize, is that the world is in more danger than they thought. Evil comes full force, Malfoy returns and needs help, Ron gets a little cheeky, and many romances are formed. Harry has girl trouble to the highest extent but that's not the height of his troubles. Will he even make it to the end of the year?

The afterlife bears a surprising resemblance to a railway station...

It's a new year at Hogwarts and there's a new DADA professor and Potions Master. And just what does Dumbledore want?``Also Entitled: What Should Have Happened. AU to OotP.

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

There are moments in life, when a wizard simply needs a drink. A large, neat firewhiskey. And meeting Hermione Granger on her never-ending quest for better world is such a moment. Especially if the quest is a shopping trip; if she doesn’t buy books, but a gown with low décolletage and a hat with ear-holes; and if she turns simple shopping for robes into a small scale revolution. ``Short story from the post-Hogwarts The Phoenix and the Owl universe.

The spirit of Lily Potter returns to the Potter's house in Godric's Hollow, on Harry's birthday. Harry and his family have moved into the house, and Lily is seeing Harry for the first time since You-Know-Who's return in Harry's fourth year. Story from Lily's point of view. Thanks for reading and reviewing.

MWPP era. When James and Lily are invited to visit their former Headmaster, the information he must relay is not at all pleasant: that Lord Voldemort is plotting against their seven-month-old baby. An adventure of defiance, betrayal and love. Rated R for possible violence and language.

What is it that causes Bartemius Crouch Senior to break his own laws by helping his son to break free from Azkaban? What could affect him so greatly that he disregards the rules by which he has so adamantly lived? And who is the person who led him to do it all?

In a world where reality is an illusion, two young people desperately try to find their paths, hidden from them by the shards of their broken lives. In their search for logic and sense, they stumble across each other...

It's early in Draco's sixth year at Hogwarts, and already things are``going wrong. Pansy breaks up with him for a mystery boy, the Dark Lord is reading his personal mail, and Quidditch is losing its appeal. Oh, and then Granger starts talking to``him. Draco/Pansy, Pansy/?, Draco/...

Irma Pince has a secret that she didn't know she was keeping. How does she react when Severus removes the charm that reveals that she really is Eileen Snape?

Draco and Ginny's angstiness brings them together for an enchanted meeting in the Astronomy tower. Full of starlight and snogging!

Ron, afer finding out about the "fiction" world of Harry Potter, decided that he needs to send Rupert Grint a letter. He tells a bit about the "real" world and how crazy everyone thinks he is. Includes discussion of the professors and blingful!Dumbledore.

In his search for a job, Remus stumbles into something else entirely. Set four years after the death of Lily/James. Slash.

A short piece looking at Harry's girls.

You can't live in a dream world forever... or can you? The actors for the Harry Potter movies are doing their last movie... they'll miss it, but after recieving a letter, they might not have to...

Draco isn't really sure how Pansy convinced him to come here. Well, yes he does know. But that doesn't make it any better ... Warning: Trio love, gay!fanon!Draco and drunken!slutty!Pansy. You have been warned.

The invention of the Wolfsbane Potion was accomplished by three of the most unlikely people imaginable: Remus Lupin, Severus Snape, and Mariella Goring. Two halfbloods and a pureblood. Two Gryffindors and a Slytherin. Two Order members and one Death Eater. Two lost souls hoping to atone for one terrible day, one terrible death, and one hopeful spirit seeking to do some good in the world.

This is the first chapter in the story that is basically Snape's life. How he started out good and then went downhill. Lily/Snape for the beginning, but... you'll see.

It's the story of Sirius Black time spent in Azkaban. So far it's only about his first night and day in Azkaban, but future chapters will cover his prison years up to his escape in PoA. Sirius is sort of in shock at first, then all his emotions come flooding in. He keeps trying to "think happy thoughts" to keep the despair away, but that's rather difficult when a dementor walks by every two minutes. Contains some flashbacks to the Marauders' Days at Hogwarts, as well as a post-Hogwarts scenario. Those are the funny parts; the rest tends to be rather serious (or Sirius...).

When the Gryffindor Four started marauding, they were careful not to give themselves away.

When some nasty Slytherins figure out that hurting Harry through Hermione will be easier than they thought, can Hermione keep their friendship afloat, or will they stop talking all together?

Harry and Draco get sent to New Orleans for the summer where they stay with the LeBeau's. But as ever trouble isn't far behind them. A year full of danger, adventure and a little bit of romance soon follows. Crossover with X-Men.

During their fifth year at Hogwarts, the Marauders get a very interesting surprise when a contagious, personality-altering potion is slipped into James' drink. Who did it and what will happen in the process of finding that out?

Eliza Smythe, a young witch brought up on a magical pyrate ship, finishes her schooling at Hogwarts by order of her father, Captain Smythe, the Soothsayin\' Hooligan. Shortly after she begins attending, she receives half of treasure map from an old friend. Adventure ensues. Yay!

"You betrayed me, Severus. Betrayal does not go unpunished by me." Severus Snape, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry's Potions Master, lifted his head defiantly, ignoring the pain coursing through his body. Death Eaters milled around him, their ivory masks contrasting drastically with their black robes. Severus smiled inwardly. He would show him. What is that Muggle term... I might be down, but I am not out. Interesting. Here I am thinking about the very people I was trained for the better part of my life to hate.

Actions do not always mean what they seem, forgiveness does not always come with a price, and death is not always goodbye. A Remus/Sirius fic. Post OotP. Rated R for slight language, but nothing very graphic at all. A bit angsty and quite a tearjerker, so let the reader beware!

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

Meet fifteen-year-old Elizabeth, as normal as can be... well, up until her world is turned upside down her own mother -- The Order, the trio and DEs will be major players too. Chap 1: ‘What did you expect, dear? A magic kids school? Brooms? Wands? Secret villages? People wearing cloaks, living in the Middle Ages? Writing with... with quills, and parchment? Really, Beth...! Hocus Pocus! Silly.... Sheer folklore... dear.’

"Perhaps the sage beneath our feet bore some emerald prophecy. When we left Hogwarts in its shades of rainbows and shadows, we left behind our crimsons and our vermilions, letting them slowly rot away with the pink I had burned."````Not all love stories have happy endings, but that doesn't make them any less colorful. A story about how you never forget your first love, how they always leave their canvas hanging on some corner of your heart; and how you jump between the present and the past in the memories that still haunt you.

Where would you go if there was no one you could turn to? Who would you confide in if your world turned its back on you? A post-OoTP fic. *Will contain slash, nothing too graphic though*

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

The moon is an intoxicating thing, and it can cause tranformations on many levels.

Another dark monologue. He's being buried and yet...he's still alive because immortals never die. Even when they should.

He should have guessed something wasn't right the first time, but he would have plenty of opportunities to wonder what exactly was wrong with his small, quiet wife... Explores the depth of Tom Riddle's effect on Ginny Weasley, and her slow spiral into something much more than insanity, where she brings everyone else along for the ride. Rated R for some racy bits and mild gore. A lovely Gin N' Tonic for the dark at heart.

A lonely evening for Ron, spent in solitude away from friends and family, when all of a sudden an old friend shows up at the door beaten, bruised and poisoned. Now, with the help of his friends, he's out to find how it happened and who's behind it. What he didn't expect was to fall in love during it all.