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A short piece looking at Harry's girls.

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...).

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!

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?

"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.

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

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?

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.’

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!

"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*

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

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

This is a story about love. Is adoration the true fuel of love? When the pedestal is taken away, can that love survive? When a lie is revealed, can it still?

Luna tells a bedtime story to her daughter of lawn-gnomes striking back at two children.

After Hermione disappears at the end of Harry's summer, unusual things begin to catch his attention. Snape begins to look like a real vampire each day, and Harry starts having visions of a girl prowling around the school every night...

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

Sequel to "The Shotgun Bride." The further adventures of redneck!Draco and Ginny as they deal with family, friends, marriage and everything else that comes their way.

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

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.

Story written, actually, for an honours English class. Severus Snape reflects on his mentor and the rest of society, after Goblet of Fire.

I Was Here. Behind the branded goodness and heroism, and a life of responsibilities, trifles and violence, what is life for Harry Potter? What can bring a hero’s demise other than defeat? Thoughts before the grave. The true story of Harry Potter according to Harry Potter himself.

Remus is in a monstrously bad mood when he thinks his favorite Weasley forgot his birthday, but what if the werewolf is wrong? [Slash]

It’s Harry’s fifth year. Something sinister is attacking him. New spells create havoc with our favorite hero. Can Ron and Hermione save him in time (along with some help from Madame Pomfrey and gasp! Snape)?

"Young Harry Potter was always different from the other children, preferring the company of his books and the dusty corners of the local library to playing games in the park with his sisters. Aged fifteen, he was exactly the same, except for one thing: an obsession." [One-Shot] [Slashy] [AU]

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.

The Second War has ended, and several months have passed since the Final Battle. It is now the night of 31 December, and while the rest of the world is out celebrating the dawning of a Voldemort-free year, one young man is preparing to end his life. He has lost everything he cared for, including the love of his life, and can see no reason to continue living. Will someone come and save him before it is too late?

Hermione works hard, some would say too hard. What happens when perfect, amazing Hermione finally cracks under the self-inflicted pressure? Set in seventh year, a scene with monologue interspliced.

Maia Christine Knight is a relatively normal, average Slytherin girl. It's an image she wants to keep up. However, her father is back - actually has been for over a year, but finally remembered her. It isn't easy being the Dark Lord's daughter (whom he dotes upon), especially when you're given the task of 'seducing' Harry Potter. Yep. As predicted, it all does end in a crazy mess. It doesn't help when you have to deal with an amorous Malfoy, jealous rivals, and a suspicious Granger. But she has help from her friends, in the form of the brilliant but violent Theo Nott, the 'weirdo' Blaise Zabini, and Steph Nott (she's having more fun with this than she should be). Unbeknownst to Maia, though, Dumbledore and Snape have ahold of her diary...

Ron's doing his best in Muggle Studies, but he'd be lost without Hermione. Putting his work aside, Ron finds himself staring out the window, watching the sun set. He soon realizes he's not the only one. R/Hr.

We all fear what we don't understand. (Remus/Tonks, Post second war)

"She was supposed to like the city, the grey and the persistent kitten-patter rain. She was supposed to like the dusty empty quiet of a tiny one-bedroom flat. She was not supposed to be sitting naked and cross-legged in an impersonal white bathtub, letting her freckled skin soak in the soapy water and become wrinkled, watching with a somewhat mindless fascination as water droplets trickled one by one by one from the water faucet, wondering what in the world possessed her to be there, just right there and then. " D/G/H post-Hogwarts.

After returning to Hogwarts for his fifth year, Harry learns of a secret that no one has ever been told. He and his godfather, Sirius Black, investigate further and learn something that shocks them greatly.

At the first Quidditch game of Harry's sixth year, Ginny shows off some brilliant Chasing, the Slytherins attempt vengeance, and Harry feels unusually protective.

Hermione reflects upon their years together. Sequel to "The Power He Knows Not".

The first war has been over for almost a year. Everyone has started recovering until the five year reunion for Hogwarts class of 1978 brings back some old memories for one of the last surviving Gryffindors.

With barely two days remaining before they leave school for good, Remus and Sirius spend a quiet summer evening down by the lake. Written for the R/S FQF Summer Challenge. Prompt: Fireflies

Underneath this smile, my world is falling apart. The cloud I have been floating on has transformed into an island and I'm sinking. You're the one that loved me and now by stopping, you've condemned me. You gave me all this love and now you say you want it back.

Andromeda Tonks sees a ghost from her past in Diagon Alley.

It is a few years after Neville Longbottom's graduation from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The wizarding world is back to some semblance of normalcy. Neville is well-suited to his job, he has his own place, and enjoys the rather new sensation of what some might call confidence, from time to time. Now all he needs is "the girl."

“I’m putting the parchment in my trousers for safe-keeping, and then going for a stroll in the Great Hall. I’m hoping I won’t be stripped in public.” ``“You can’t put my essay in your trousers!”

Draco and Ginny mess up the potion they are working on. Filch is suspicious. Hijinks ensue.

Four letter words are so simple, and yet can be so very powerful at the same time.

"...misery loves company, even in the form of a notorious Slytherin whom miserable Remus could have ripped to shreds." Friendships fray as Severus Snape has a brush with death and returns to the unwitting killer to talk, reassure, corrupt and conform. Comparisons to Lord Voldemort are made.

This is the story of James and Lily's graduation as Head Boy and Girl. James proposes, what does Lily answer?

Draco has waited his WHOLE life for someone he might actually fall in love with to come along. She has shown up in the beginning of his 6th year. The only problem is Harry is falling for her, too..Harry's and Draco's future is left in this one girl's hands.. who will she choose? A story of love, drama, and suspense.``H/D slash

There are journeys in life that begin with a bound into the dark. This is one of them. When Hermione is asked to join the staff at Hogwarts, she does so under the notion that Severus will be there with her. She's grown to admire having a debate partner, and one that challenges her to think. But when she begins her job, he's not there! That sets off into motion the longest chase in history, but will that chase turn into a love chase?

Inspired by the Halloween Costume discussion on the O&U thread in the SCUSA forum. "It was a night of firsts..... The mystery of what had happened to the Head Boy and Head Girl had been solved..."

“Indifference and neglect often do more damage than outright dislike...” -Albus Dumbledore, OotP. After Harry’s fifth year, he is sent back to the Dursleys, and all is not well. Harry is extremely emotionally unbalanced, and quite depressed. This story tells of the damage done to him through the neglect and indifference shown by the Durselys. Warning: attempted suicide and cutting feature heavily in this story

“Fear of heights,” he says after many minutes of odd silence. Turning to his left, he leans on the blond’s shoulder for support and swings his leg down from his perch. “Is only a form of self-doubt.” He brushes himself off with one hand; for some reason, it is a moment before he removes his hand from the other boy’s shoulder. But the blond does not care. “You can’t trust yourself not to jump.” H/D

In which Draco is clever, Harry gets mad, and death-eaters chase poor Sirius.

"We're not the sort of thing that's meant to be seen... especially by little girls who are troubled enough by their thoughts at night. We are, all of us, imperfect in a way... we should not be seen or heard. But we are safe here at Hogwarts. At Hogwarts we can do no harm."

Harry Potter is insane. The years of the Dark War has taken it's toll on Harry, and with no-one but himself for company, Harry distances himself from the wizarding world, and mourns the deaths of his friends and family. His hatred for Voldemort increased, his insanity growing. But a familiar stranger visits Harry, and soon he finds himself further and further into the wizarding world. Secrets are leaked, and destinies are Fulfilled...

Snape has been pissing many people off lately, especially Sirius. With the help of Lily, James, Peter and Remus they make up a genius plan, which is sure to make Snape loathe them more and teach him a lesson, never to mess with the marauders again. But will all go well?

At the end of August 2013, Harry and Ginny Potter are invited to Hogwarts to investigate a spate of anonymous letters and vandalism. But poisonings and brutal murder convince them that things are more serious - and then their son Sirius gets involved... See Harry and Ginny as Quidditch man and wife! See the conflict between the Professors! See the mysterious Ancient Runes Teacher! Learn what happened to Hermione's old dorm-mate, Mary-Sue Moonchild! And learn how the Ministry persuaded Professor McGonagall to nationalise the Hogwarts House-elves!

I don't know what this is about, read it, cos I'm pretty. Starts after OotP. Harry becomes emo (i.e an angsty whiner). Philosophies change.

On the longest day of the year, Hermione meets Remus Lupin in a pub. They are both suffering from melancholic midsummer madness. During the days that follow, things begin to happen.

James and Sirius are Aurors... Voldemort is stronger than ever... Remus is being lured into something... Lily is sensing something dangerous will happen and has a mystery of her own to discover... Moody plays a key role in this story about death, mystery and action.

When Harry comes in from a discouraging Quidditch practice, his departing action may cause things to change.

'Yes, Narcissa Malfoy has feelings. That would come as a shock to many of the gossips and ignorants of the wizarding world. But then, there are very few who are neither gossips nor ignorants, very few who have seen enough and been intelligent enough to interpret it as I have. Oh yes, I have feelings. Far too many, in fact.' Narcissa tells all.

Severus Snape doesn't like Lily Evans one little bit. Really. Not at all.

Remus Lupin and a dinner of roast beef successfully conspire to get under Snape's skin. Snape finally throws both caution and one of the oldest rules in the books to the winds and gets an answer to his question. (Snape/Snape, Snape/Remus)

The larder has been looted, the milk is missing, the greenhouse glass is broken... Meanwhile Dumbledore finds and loses important documents, Hermione receives a gift and Crookshanks makes new friends. A small TSE/JKR crossover with world's most famous half-Kneazle in the leading role.

What goes on when Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Cho and Draco enter the Big Brother game show? Who will be voted out first, and what is this strange fascination with armpits?

His owl is a nutter, his potions teacher wears plaid socks, and someone left a mysterious nappy somewhere in the dorm. Ergghhhlack. But still, add some prank pulling, good friends, and mysterious poking people, and school might not be as bad as it seems.

As far as I can tell, the main problem with growing up in a cupboard is that it gets you used to living in a cage. - Harry's POV. One-shot.

Theory about what may happen in book 7 based upon JKR stating in an interview that she is a Christian.

He was running from his father. She was running from a friend. A cruel twist of fate found her in his home. Now they must learn to deal with each other. Megan hated Draco, and he hated her, but somehow, they must learn to deal with each other, find out each other's secrets, and maybe, just maybe, they can break free from their troubled minds.

A Remus/Harry wartime fic, written for the Confession challenge on the wishforthemoon HP/RL community challenge. In the midst of war, Harry decides to tell Remus something before it's too late.

Have you ever realized that all you know about Hermione is what she said about herself and what she did in front of others? And that the trio is much too lucky for it to be natural?

This has definitely been done enough, but this is my version of how WPP found out about M. Or maybe one of my versions is more correct...

In his early twenties at the break of the nineteenth century, Harry goes to bohemian Montmartre on a search for love, a many-splendored thing. There he meets Courtesan Draco, The Duke Severus and Lucius Zidler. No sad endings, only bohemian love. HP/DM. Slash.

Dean Thomas had always been able to see the future. He never did anything about these visions, however. Until the day he foresaw that Harry Potter was going to die.

Remus Lupin faces his first transformation after the death of Sirius Black. Snape brings him the Wolfsbane Potion, but something seems to be amiss.

Lavender is swept up into a whirlwind of mystery, adventure and romance as she begins her seventh year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She will make both friends and foes, unravel secrets, save lives, and fall in love... (L/who? Read to find out!)

War rages in wizard Britain, yet Severus Snape has never been better off. As he rises in the Dark Lord’s inner circle, he seems ever closer to fulfilling his grand ambitions. But he is haunted by memories of his childhood friend Lily Evans, now married to his sworn enemy. As the stakes get higher, Severus must once more decide where his true loyalties lie. Either choice will mean betraying one of his friends – and the consequences could be fatal… [COMPLETE]

He would always remember ringing the doorbell and knowing that James would be grinning when he swung open the door.... A fic about the problem with Remus Lupin. (Rated for mild language.)

"He is the cause of my writing. His grey eyes bore into me like no other's had. He had left his mark on me forever. Draco was the most handsome man I had ever met. I hated that he knew it." This is a story about how Draco and Ginny came to love one another.

“I’m such a wimp. It’s been two years, and I still can’t come here without starting to cry.” He wiped off his face again, and then looked down on the ground. “But I just miss you so damn much.” Oneshot.

A new prisoner of Azkaban...a comatose person to the rescue...very dark beginning...

Cho goes on a trip to "visit her parents" - and Harry discovers she has really been in Hogsmeade, with quite a few other men! (Songfic)

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.

'Snow crunched beneath their boots, sharp and clear as crushed glass. Draco's breath shivered in little puffs in front of him, like one of Potter's Muggle cigarettes--but his hands felt uncomfortably hot and sweaty in his thick dragon-hide gloves.' Harry/Draco slash. A little interlude in winter-time.

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

Hermione contemplates her loss when she voyages out onto a river alone. D/Hr songfic.

(Post-Hogwarts) Harry starts dating Gabrielle Delacour and everything is good, for about a day. Then things don't work so well. Sonfic to Puddle of Mudd's "She Hates Me"

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...

"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)

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

“You are a burning man, Remus,” you say, leaning back on the couch, holding one mug of coffee.

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

Twelve-year-old Barty Crouch meets a stag in a forest.

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 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

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.

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.