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It is said that the most powerful form of magic, is choice. What will happen when Harry is faced with a choice that will save one world and destroy another? The Founder's of Hogwarts themselves set a challenge, a relative challenge that revolves around Severus Snape and Harry Potter. Will Harry make the right decision? ... But then again ... it is his choice.

Over fifty people died at the Battle of Hogwarts. There are dozens of stories of loss, betrayal, heroism and sacrifice. These are some of those stories.

Just a few oneshots I've written over the years.

Harry sees a suspicious-looking bruise on a young boy's back and believes the child is being abused. He decided to investigate and runs into a problem. The boy's father has Diplomatic Immunity. In spite of this Harry is still determined to get the child into a loving home.

When a Polyjuice Potion goes terribly wrong, Harry and Draco are stuck in each others' body with no way out. But even though this situation seems bad enough, hold on because the worst has yet to come.

The mirror of Erised’s other use is found out... and it leads to trouble for Harry...

When Bill Weasley does not return from a simple curse-breaking job, Ginny gets worried. Brushed off by her family as an over-concerned younger sister, Ginny sets off alone to find Bill, unaware of the dangers she'll encounter on the way. It soon becomes clear that she can’t find her brother on her own and she strikes up an unlikely partnership with Draco Malfoy. They journey to Mesopotamia, with an ancient tablet as their only clue to Bill’s whereabouts. Can they find Bill in time? Or will they too become victims of a magic that is older the time itself?

It is said that if a person witnesses something so tremendously traumatizing, so incredibly daunting, life as that person knew could come to an end. Not physical death, but emotional. Hermione Granger was emotionally dead.

The night that Sirius vanishes behind the veil, Severus Snape and Remus Lupin find themselves faced with each other. Though enmity has divided these two adversaries for years, can they overcome old misconceptions and finally connect? Or will old grudges and reluctance to forgive prevent one man from finally receiving the emancipation he rightfully deserves? One-shot fic on redemption, understanding, and finding alliance with those you never thought possible.

Draco finds himself in a bit of a predicament when he discovers a hunter at Hogwarts. Who is it and what do they want?

What if Hermione was really nothing like the public image she projects so well? Everybody in HP fandom thinks they know Hermione---or do they? We never do see things from her POV, after all---and in his day, Tom Riddle was apparently good enough to fool everybody but Dumbledore.

As Harry starts his fifth year, he learns things about his past that were not meant to be known. He's confused. Severus is confused. The only person who can answer their questions has been dead for fourteen years.

When Theodore Nott is forced to jump off his fence, it sets off a year of revelation, danger, and change - for him, Anne, and everyone around them. Sixth story in the "Distractions" series.

Draco saw her photograph in the morning paper and he remembered. Bellatrix Lestrange was Voldemort's loyal servant, the most devoted, the most talented of the Death Eaters, who had learned the Dark Arts from the Dark Lord himself, and she was Draco Malfoy's aunt. So what does her nephew think, when Professor Snape tells him that the Death Eaters have escaped from Azkaban?

Love for their son. That is the only way the family was able to survive the discrimination they must endure. Being shunned by your culture can't be the easiest, especially when there is none other that would accept you.

In the sequel to Casualties of War, Harry and Draco return to Hogwarts for their fifth year, and must try to rebuild the lives that they used to lead. Harry/Draco, Remus/Sirius, others.

Sometimes things happen that just don’t make into the story. They get lost in the shuffle or don’t quite ‘fit’ into the narrative. Possibly these things, these missing scenes, are unimportant. Possibly they don’t add much of anything to the larger story. But that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. These are missing scenes from the story “A Little Knowledge.”

Sixteen years ago, Lily Potter made the wrong choice. Is there such a thing as a second chance? About as AU as it gets.

In which Snape is a better actor than even he guessed, and Harry makes a bargain with the devil.

Harry watches Ginny and Draco, thinking, wondering... Angst galore.

When you sleep you are ascended into dreamland - whether it be a nightmare or not, you are at your weak point. Anything could happen around you and you wouldn’t know about it, nor will anyone know what is happening inside your mind. You’re buried too deeply within that dream portal, thriving for another adventure - may you forget or remember it forever. In dreams you’re drifting into another world and no one will notice you’re gone....

Severus Snape spends a year at a Muggle university, and finds things are not as he has been taught. The first set of chapters in a life.

It has been three years since Hogwarts has ended and Hermione Granger is living her life alone. With her cat Crookshanks and her self-written book, life couldn't be better, until word reaches her of a stranger in town. A stranger with extra-ordinary emerald green eyes.

When a stranger with a sword on his belt and looks exactly like Harry shows up on the grounds of Hogwarts, the Trio and Dumbledore (and Parvati, who gets wrapped up in this) race to help him go back to his world. But with Voldemort on the rise, can they do it in time?

AU. TomxHarry. In a world where slavery is the norm and humans are surrounded by so called 'monsters', a boy becomes the property of a very dangerous man and gets dragged into his world of secrets.

Young Severus Snape has finished Hogwarts. He has a job and has joined the Death Eaters. But he is about to learn something which may change his life...

Silver comes to pay Draco a visit.

When Harry wakes up one morning chained to a bed next to an old enemy, what is he to do? Leather. Handcuffs. Snogging. Payback. Wild Costume Party. Magical Bonding. And a mysterious gift. HP/DM slash.

"We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction," Aesop Fables. After the stormy end to his fourth year, all Harry wants is calm. But mysterious dreams and an equally mysterious student foretell a tempest. Minister Fudge's decision to leave the dreaded Dementors at their post, the menacing prison Azkaban, may give Lord Voldemort the means of destruction he seeks. A brazen plan for recruiting the future faction of the Dark Forces may have already been set in motion. Gray clouds on the horizon speak of terrible events to come.

He’s been hit by an arrow tipped in a red potion that has set his blood afire, and now Harry Potter lies still on the sidewalk. A magical-induced fever brings about regret, but sometimes remorse comes too late. H/D.

Spring, 1981: Voldemort is at the height of his power. The Potters are still alive. And on a dark and stormy night, Death Eater Severus Snape returns to Hogwarts. He comes to turn himself in and expects to be reviled, but he learns more than he bargained for. This bitter Slytherin also finds understanding from a most unexpected source. The time has come at last for Minerva McGonagall to do penance for the sins of her past. After forty years, she will pay for the mark upon her wrist.

Sequel to Miasma. When Harry is living with Remus and Sirius, Voldemort is slowly regaining his followers, including Severus Snape.

A series of short vignettes featuring some of our favorite (and not so favorite) minor characters.

Taking place after GoF, Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny discover something about themselves which leads to many adventures, lives lost and loves found. The weight of the wizarding world rests on four very young shoulders.

Harry is finally away from the Dursleys and lives with his new family. A sudden decision to adventure into Knockturn Alley takes him on a dangerous adventure where he meets someone unexpected.

On Harry's 15th birthday someone shows up at the Dursley's house to take Harry away. They tell him that he is no longer safe at number 4 Privet Drive. Then when Harry returns to Hogwarts there is a new student in the fifth year. But is this new student really who they seem? And are Snape and Harry really as different as they think? Find out!

Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts, a followup to where JKR had left us at GOF, as what I think would be or should be, well, at least in my head. Ventured into most of the hints that we got from JKR about OOTP, including a female DADA teacher and a bad death.

"This is how it is - this is why you're not in the Order - you don't understand - there are things worth dying for!" The chilling tale of a boy who dared to defy the proud name of Black and how that boy came to be the man he was.

What was the "matter" that made Dumbledore trust Snape? Why did Snape change sides? This story answers these and other questions.

A lonely warrior finds some unexpected holiday cheer.

Harry couldn't forget the look on Dumbledore's face before he died. When Snape proposes an alliance, Harry senses a trap. But with no idea how to destroy Voldemort, can Harry afford not to accept the help of the Dark Lord's most trusted servant?

Lucius Malfoy is not the abusive husband and negligent father he's made out to be. Evil as the Dark Lord himself, is it possible for Lucius to rear a family? The dark and epic tale of the Malfoys told by one of their own. See the dark. Live the dark. Be the dark.

AU: Sirius becomes a father. Read about Sirius raising a teenage Harry Potter.

Parvati stays up late one night, trying to fight away the grief she's feeling when someone comes along to help her find a way through it.

What did Dumbledore and Snape argue about in the the Forest in HBP? What really happened the night Dumbledore died? This story is one fan author's attempt to answer these questions, told from Snape's point of view.

Ginny Weasley can't forget that night three years ago. It's been so long, and yet, she remembers the events that happened in the Chamber of Secrets like it's yester eve. Do you want to know what really happened before Harry Potter came to rescue Ginny? Ginny knows, and she desperately wants to forget.

Seventeen-year old Hermione reflects on the months and their events after she turned fifteen and how one ring-a gift for her fifteenth birthday-protected her and also nearly destroyed her.

With a new Marriage Law being passed, Blaise Zabini makes Hermione Granger an offer of marriage but not all things go as planned, by either of them.

‘There is only oil, more precious than gold & certain types of information.’ It is 1942. While German tanks trundle over White Russia, Gerald Wilkes, traitor to England and adulterer, is about to be betrayed by his wife. A twisted historical chronicle of how Grindelwald lost the War, complete with Marxist Muggle-huggers, shifting tenses, corrupt Archbishops, 3 Acts and a guest appearance by Adolf Hitler.

Set during Harry's fifth year, students at Hogwarts discover a new ghost roaming the halls, one that does not seem to be aware of her surroundings or that she is dead. Despite the efforts of the entire student body to conduct seances and contact her, it is Harry she seems drawn to for help. Along with Ron and Hermione, Harry tries to find out more about her, especially as she grows aware of her predicament and realizes that not only is she a ghost, she know all about him. Harry is torn between helping this desperate being and trying not to lose his hard won composure after last year's traumatic Triwizard Tournament

Harry writes a letter....

Continuing the saga of Harry's twelve children, his daughter Kay discovers she is not quite a witch; she's something else!

Harry is back at Hogwarts for his sixth year, and is carrying a lot more baggage than his trunk. He's dealing with the loss of Sirius, the shock of hearing of the prophecy, and the ever-escalating war against the Death Eaters. But there's more-- there's a girl. A girl with a secret that blows Harry's mind, and creates almost as many questions as it answers.````Harry's in for even more trouble this year...

When Harry was 8, Mrs. Figg moved out of the neighbourhood. One of her friends named Severus Snape moved in to continue what she was doing. Will Snape be able to protect the Boy-Who-Lived from a certain killer?

Betrayal. Death. A deadly trap. Capture. And the trial that there ensued. If you are looking for a light story, look somewhere else. This is not such a story. This is the tale of the Trial of Ronald Bilius Weasley.

Co-Written with Hanacandi. Ginny Weasley has a secret; she can't see Harry Potter anymore. Can you?

Odayaka and Emerald Rose are on the run from Odayaka's REAL father, Alucard, the most powerful vampire in the wizarding world. They are sent to Hogwarts to escape, but will love blossom? (AU, MARY SUE)

Hermione is shocked to come home the summer after sixth year and find her family murdered, her reality shattered beyond recall. Draco returns to his home to be immediately mired in plots of rescue, subterfuge and mystery. She is lost, distraught and enraged. He suddenly finds himself questioning everything that seemed so solid so short a time before. When their paths cross, they find that their families' fates may have become irrevocably entwined. What will they do? And can they save one another, or will each destroy the other?

Lily, James, Sirius, Harry and Remus, all very different people narrating an event, which occurs after Harry’s fifth year at Hogwarts. Sirius is desperate to get back to Harry, the question is; will he?

You never want to disappoint your father... much less if his name is Lord Voldemort

Harry Potter makes a wish that Tom Riddle never became Voldemort. His wish is granted, but how will it come true? How will it affect the wizarding world? Crossover with Sailor Moon.

Often we humans do great things in the name of love. Terrible, but great. This is the tale of Virginia Weasley's greatest deeds and love, in her case, is a single red rose, that by any other name would still have thorns. Ron/Ginny incest; also Ron/Hermione, Harry/Ginny.

Severitus after HBP.... I thought it\'d be interesting, since Harry hates Snape as much as Voldemort...

Severus Snape threatens an owl, faces a moral quandary, and talks to a wall.

Mr Borgin and Mr Malfoy started to haggle. Harry watched nervously as Draco drew nearer and nearer to his hiding place. Draco walked forward... he stretched out his hand for the handle... and opened the door.

Christmas, 1994. Two men, a cave, a hippogriff, some blankets, a hot meal, a blizzard, a bottle of vino rosso, and a conversation. (Remus/Sirius)

The curse of a bygone age threatens Hogwarts and the township of Hogsmeade. The only thing that stands between a possible new era of mass witch-hunts are the teachers of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

In 1978 a pregnant muggle woman was murdered in London, but her baby survived. Now, twenty years later, Lydia Spinelli is back in London to come to terms with her macabre entrance into the world. What happens when this young muggle is able to see a ratty pub that no one else can see? PLUS: Three ancient scrolls in an unknown language hold the key to the baffling puzzle of an object that has the power to destroy true evil... or destroy magic for all eternity if used by the wrong hands. Does it also hold the answers Lydia is seeking?

After graduating Hogwarts, being rejected by Harry, Ginny goes to the only person that she feels loved by, and in turn discovers something even more rewarding. Dark Fic! Draco-Ginny

The wizarding world is changing. The lines between good and evil are blurred, and Percy Weasley is caught between his family and the Ministry of Magic. Seeking structure and security in a society slowly turning to chaos, Percy's discoveries lead him down a path that will force him to question everything he thought he knew.

Alternate Universe - A road not taken, a turning point at the end of Harry's second year changes the ending of a familiar story and creates the beginning of a new one. An alternate universe romance with a twist.

Some new arrivals at Hogwarts begin to cause trouble, trouble which puts a Weasley family secret in danger of being exposed, and something is definitely wrong with Snape. Can Harry unravel the mystery of the House of Ravenclaw before his best friend is thrown into the limelight?

Harry's out of school and Voldemort is dead, but he's still an angry, angst-filled, brooding teenager. Despite that, he's been offered a chance to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts his first year out of school. Will Hogwarts survive Harry, the teacher? Will he finally tell Snape off? Will a first-year student manage to bring the Boy-Who-Lived to an untimely end?

Remus considers his future, Sirius makes a promise, James and Lily one-up each other, and everyone owes Peter a debt. The calm before the storm.

Draco looks back on the worst mistake he ever made, and what that mistake cost him. Can you miss something so terribly that it takes a part of your soul? Of all the things Draco has lost, what does he miss the most?

*Sequel to The Horrors of War* Voldemort is dead but the Death Eaters are still out there and dangerous. Will Harry and Hermione ever be able to find peace?

A violin is the perfect gift for a beginning professional violinist. But not all gifts are given with good intention. Who's behind the suddenly mysterious sickness of Ginny Weasley and what role does the violin play?

Harry, Ron, and Hermione are all friends, and friends would never hurt each other, right? AU.

Hermione's world seems to be falling apart around her. She needs someone to notice, and when Ron finds out, how far will he go to save her?

What might have happened if someone else had found the Potters' front door on Halloween day, if Lily and James had survived Voldemort's final attack, if Harry grew up in a close-knit family far away from the wizarding world, if it was now Harry's eleventh birthday and there was a whisper of trouble in the air... R/S, L/J, AU

When primeval magic answers a prayer and gives you a second chance - a life when there is time - you must seize it. Even if you don't have a say on the circumstances. Time travel. Salazar Slytherin/OC.

After losing her best friend, Hermione is determined to avenge him, even if it means giving up everything she's ever believed in and striking a bargain with the darkest evils of wizardkind. (Sequel to *Trinity: Brothers*).

McGonagall goes shopping on Christmas Eve and runs across a drunk, despondent, suicidal Severus Snape. It's more fun than it sounds, honest!

It starts in the summer following Harry’s fifth year. Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny will uncover an ancient secret that will affect their friendship in unforeseen ways. Follow them on an adventure that will test the limits of their trust, love, and relationships ultimately leading to an explosive final battle with the Dark Lord.

It is a survivor: unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality. It kills on sight, and what it doesn’t kill, it cocoons into a wall for its offspring. It has a tough armoured shell for skin, lethally quick, and has acid for blood. It is the Alien, and has Harry discovered one in a tunnel deep below Hogwarts? Aliens/HP crossover horror story set in Harry’s seventh year.

It's October 1981. War hangs heavily on the hidden wizarding community: in Godric's Hollow, the Potters are preparing to vanish. Angst, betrayal, pain, torture, and choc chip cookies feature heavily. Beginning on Wednesday 25th October 1981, each chapter of this fic will cover one day of the week of the Potters' Fidelius Charm.

In the first hour after Voldemort's defeat, Remus Lupin is hit with a Memory Charm that goes wrong. His friends wait to see if he will recover.

Anam Cara was originally conceived of as a short, holiday add-on to Darkly Bound. Because the heroine has such a talent for placing herself in impossible situations, it soon developed into this full length sequel. Lovers of characters who demonstrate no understanding of the words "quit while you're ahead," read on.

‘There is a story here, just one thread in the knotted up wool ball of history, stretched out and twisted, curled around a finger like a noose. It is not truth, because it is words, and in the sin of writing down life, it changes.’ July 31st 2030: for the second time in his life, Harry Potter makes a choice. Truth. Words. Fate. Reality. Magic. And stories themselves. Stylistic metafiction.

Just after the Christmas holidays during his sixth year, Draco caught Ginny alone in an abandoned classroom, and he did something to her that was unforgivable. But then, much later, she had the chance to do something unforgivable to him. And together, they learned that their combined fates could not be fought. But do some sins lie beyond absolution?

Buffy Crossover. When Oz stumbles across a Death Eater 'party' he is captured and sent to Voldemort's dungeons. Enter Ginny Weasley; hungry, scared and prisoner. A budding friendship develops between the two but when Oz is taken away, can he survive? Can he keep his laconic nature? Ginny/Oz friendship.

Dumbledore has been killed, and Snape and Draco leave Hogwarts (for good?). Where have they gone? What was passing through their minds? A look at a missing scene in "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince".

Hermione goes back in time with one mission; to kill Tom Riddle before he ever comes to power. How hard can it be? Impossible, she realizes, as a love between them steadily grows. Now Hermione has a choice to make. Will she save the entire wizarding world from certain destruction, or will she take the life of the one boy she's ever loved?

It's tough to be a werewolf in a society where you are misunderstood and feared. How does Remus Lupin, the first werewolf to attend Hogwarts, handle this responsibility? A look at the MWPP Hogwarts years. Told in a series of 100 word vignettes.

AU Sixth Year. NON-SLASH. Tensions are running high in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Everyone who knows anything knows something is about to happen. And it is in the midst of this that two unlikely people find a little more than a common ground...

Seventeen year old Severus Snape is sent to live with his uncle, an Auror, during the summer of 1977 but soon finds himself drawn into a web of political intrigue, passion, and war.

Ginny Weasley sat alone in the common room, reading in front of the fire. She had been completely unaware of any of her surroundings, until she felt a small breeze sweep past her, and felt a chill creep up her spine. She was startled to see a tall boy with black hair sitting in the chair next to hers, when she turned back around. “Hello, Ginny. I see you’ve grown up since I last saw you,” the boy said calmly.

Harry finds it difficult to juggle dating the most difficult Slytherin in the wizarding world and learning what needs to be learnt to fight Voldemort. Or maybe life just hates him. Either way, Hermione gets to be smug about it.

Two years post the wizarding world apocalypse, Severus Snape is still working for his redemption for crimes committed as Death Eater, even though Dumbledore is long gone. When word comes in from the muggle-world that there is someone who he may be able to save and in doing so - may be able to save himself - he takes the chance and finds himself lead to a girl drowning as deeply in the darkness as he is.

After resigning from Hogwarts, Professor Lupin wonders what he can do for his old friend, Sirius Black.