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They say you never forget your first crush, your first kiss, your first time. Blaise Zabini remembers them all, but there are other 'firsts' he values more.

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His Teacher by DeGe
07/12/2004

A supposed Death Eater appears and tells Harry that she will teach him exactly what he wants to learn. Harry follows her. He doesn’t answer to his friend’s letters, he doesn’t come back to Hogwarts. And what does he want to learn the most? Can you trust mysterious benefactors? Does revenge poison your mind? Or is it the heroism that messes with your sanity? And will Harry stand through this and stay alive?

Words: 20,749
Chapters: 8
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War breaks out in the winter of Draco's 6th year; by summer he's in New York City attending a new version of Hogwarts, bored and stuck in therapy. Then his scheming, illegitimate half-sister offers him a challenge he can't refuse....and this time it's more than his reputation at stake, it's his heart! D/G, D/Hr, and more.

Words: 19,986
Chapters: 4
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Remus Lupin has always been different. What happens when he gets a chance at a "normal" life?

Words: 1,209
Chapters: 1
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When Hermione goes to Los Angeles as part of an exchange program, she discovers that many things are different in Southern California -- and it's not just the curriculum. Romance, mysteries, and sunshine await...

Words: 5,433
Chapters: 5
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As Hermione recovers at home from the events at the Department of Mysteries, she first has to inform her parents about the dangers of the magical world, and then has time to think about her future.

Words: 2,085
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Was and Will Be by Rosali
04/24/2005

History is a circle that goes round and round. We'll see how this can change if you have love on your side. Seventh year is almost over and a whole new life approaches our heroes - a life with more surprises and changes than they would've ever imagined.

Words: 58,484
Chapters: 5
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Dumbledore checks through the Permission Slips pupils have returned, and remembers the past. Yes, it\\\'s another sequel to The Permission Slip (Riddikulus).

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It's Christmas and both Severus and Hermione would rather it weren't. After a chance meeting they end up spending Christmas evening together... Short story, set six months after graduation.

Words: 6,472
Chapters: 3
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Purple and Orange by unworthy
03/10/2004

George Weasley is tired of being known as Fred's twin. Over the years he's changed dramatically with deaths and growing up. His parents are nagging and Fred is getting more and more irritating to live with. Then he meets Enid, a purple haired girl with a weird personality.

Words: 4,697
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Harry walks through King's Cross, thinking about his last year at Hogwarts and all the changes it brought to his life and how the future is now his for the taking.

Words: 1,668
Chapters: 1
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Lingering Effects by rissa
01/30/2003

What do you mean, they snogged in the Great Hall? In front of EVERYONE?

Words: 2,909
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All Right by Cruisedirector
03/14/2005

Sometimes it takes a few minutes just to understand the question.

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James Potter has a lot of things on his mind. Yes, our beloved Head Boy has a significant problem with the Head Girl. And what with and a graduation ceremony looming, James manages to leave things a little too late. L/J

Words: 4,451
Chapters: 3
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Hard Nut to Crack by nerf
08/29/2006

James, Sirius, Remus and Peter are approaching their last year of Hogwarts--complete with romance, pranks and lots of fun!

Words: 11,399
Chapters: 4
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Every great friendship -- and every bitter rivalry -- has its beginnings. As they begin their journey as Hogwart's first-years, Sirius, James and Remus discover the first threads of friendship that bind them together, while at the same time separate them from such children as Severus Snape.

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For the students leaving Hogwarts in the spring of 1978, the future would not be happy. In a few years, they would all be dead, insane, in prison, or cut off from humanity. ````But they didn't know that yet.

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A series of vignettes about the interworkings of Remus and Tonks' relationship.

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When the Minister's life is threatened, Harry, Hermione, and Ron pull 24 year-old Ginny into a high stakes game of life or death, where much more is at risk than what they originally believed... Rated R

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What Salazar Slytherin was really like. A sequel to "The Truth about Gryffindor"

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Secrets by 1731Maya
03/03/2004

It was an extra starry night and the moon shone down on Ginny’s face. She absolutely could not sleep unless it was pitch black, but, having her luck, she was stuck with Darla Raff who couldn’t sleep without light and kept the blinds open all night.

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Harry started awake, his breath freezing in his lungs. Unsure exactly what had brought him from sleep, he blinked a few times and rolled onto his back. That was when he realized what was wrong. He jerked up in bed, the sheets slipping down his chest as he cast about blindly in the darkness.

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If Harry's parents had survived Voldemort's attack, what would Harry's life be like? He certainly wouldn't be as famous as he is now. Would he have made friends with Draco Malfoy and be in the Slytherin House at Hogwarts? Maybe he would even have a younger brother or sister. This story reveals what would have happen if Harry Potter's parents HADN'T died...

Words: 3,840
Chapters: 3
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AU. It's Harry's third year, and the Champions are already chosen, but then a new teacher appears, he's called Professor Zabini...

Words: 7,190
Chapters: 8
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All You Wanted by AliceMione
06/11/2002

When Hermione suddenly neglects her usual habits, it' Ron of course, whose got to help her. In someway he's got the timeof his life now,yet there're always two sides to any situation and Hermione's Change is no exception.

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Blinded, branded traitor and abandoned by the Dark Side, Draco is taken in by a muggle hospital where Harry happens to volunteer. Voldemort and his followers have vanished. Is the Dark Side gone for good? Harry continues his quest for the remaining Horcruxes...Slash!HD

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Ever wonder what would happen if you took characters from different walks of life and put them together? Add cheesy songs, cameos by certain sexy actors, and a pair of teenage girls who call themselves Bob and Fred, and you've got this story.

Words: 8,082
Chapters: 5
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"If you proceed downstairs into the Department of Mysteries, Cornelius," said Dumbledore, "you will find several escaped Death Eaters contained in the Death Chamber, bound by an Anti-Disapparation Jinx and awaiting your decision as to what to do with them." (OotP Chapter 36) Cornelius has a problem. Lucius has a plan.

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Shortly after the 'incident in the Potion's lab', Hermione starts to realize the way she's acting not only bothers her but hurts her friends as well. And what does Draco really want? Sequel to

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"I dunno know where we sent him," said Fred. Where did Montague go when the Weasley twins shoved him into the vanishing cabinet? Follow his journey as he tumbles through a world of socks, gets caught in a strange Quidditch match, and dreams of blonde beauties coming to his rescue. A tale worthy of the Quibbler’s front page. It just so happens that the magazine’s biggest fan (and master of unbelievable storytelling) gets the scoop and helps him return. Hundreds of references to canon events with special tribute to JKR’s love of socks. Gen fic. Warning: Slytherins are (implicitly) cruel to animals.

Words: 20,196
Chapters: 7
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Nemesis by sherlock holmes
04/29/2004

Harry's seventh year at Hogwarts. Voldemort is planning something, something which involves Harry Potter's destruction, and Harry has no idea what is happening to him....

Words: 10,441
Chapters: 4
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It's stepbrothers Tom Riddle and Rubeus Hagrid's third year together at Hogwarts. Rubeus finds a unique creature at Hogsmeade... while Tom starts hunting one in the castle. The Chamber of Secrets has been opened...

Words: 22,969
Chapters: 5
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After Harry defeats the Dark Lord, he finds himself in an unfamiliar Hogwarts with a very friendly snake and a handsome and helpful Slytherin boy named Tom Riddle.

Words: 11,667
Chapters: 2
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Just Kiss Me by Heaven
09/20/2002

Harry and Hermione sneak down to the kitchens for pumpkin pie, but sparks start flying!

Words: 2,749
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The Doll by Kelsey Potter
01/11/2004

Sirius Black once had a family. They were lost to him forever one night, leaving him with nothing but a fragile, delicate yarn doll that his older sister made for him. Ten years later, Sirius started at Hogwarts-and he still had the doll his sister made him. Years later, he passed the doll on to his godson, who lost the doll the night his parents were killed. Fourteen years later, the boy-who-lived returned to his parents' home to see what he could find.

Words: 6,660
Chapters: 4
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Four friends receive a package and a mysterious note one summer's night, and settle in for an evening of shocks and surprises. Prisoner of Azkaban, MST'ed.

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Hogwart's has never done anything as conventionally Muggle as a school play before. This all changes when Professor McGonagall falls in love with A Nightmare Before Christmas. An unlikely production with two unlikely stars...can the show go on with the leads alternately loving/hating each other? Or will someone really break a leg?

Words: 7,167
Chapters: 4
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Extremely unique (in my opinion)-- 'Lucius Malfoy had no illusions. He knew he was probably the least likely candidate to win Father of the Year, but he had only acted in his son’s best interests. But what if he had been wrong all this time? What if his son didn’t need power or money; what if he only needed her? That was the precise moment that Lucius Malfoy changed. For better or worse, this girl had affected him. She had unknowingly saved a drowning man that had not even known he was drowning...'

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Remus Lupin is committed to doing all he can for the Order, all he can do to protect Harry, all he can do to rid the world of Voldemort. But something is distracting him from his duty and he is not used to his heart ruling his head. Nymphadora Tonks is young, eager and naive. As she tries to prove that she is a capable witch and find a place for herself in the Order of the Phoenix, she finds herself falling for the last person she expected to.

Words: 2,426
Chapters: 1
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Not Supposed to Be by Shorea
05/05/2006

What happens when a one night stand ends up being everything it isn't supposed to be and more? Severus Snape finds the answer as he awaits the sorting of a very special someone.

Words: 2,256
Chapters: 1
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The story of Petunia's life. It begins with a romance--Lily's--and ends with a wedding, Petunia's. Twists and turns abound! Petunia explains what she thinks of her sister, why Harry was treated the way he was, and many other things. Told from Petunia's POV, most of the time.

Words: 9,566
Chapters: 4
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Ginny's diary - explore the inner whingings of Ginny, and listen to her ramble about her crush - that blond sex god of a Slytherin, Draco Malfoy.

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Chapters: 3
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Hermione Granger\\\'s report at the end of her fourth year. Also, a letter from the substitute DADA teacher to Dumbledore.

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This is the true story (true story) of seven strangers (well, not exactly strangers) picked to live in a house, work together, and have their lives taped. To find out what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real--The Real World: Hogwarts!

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Even the most innocent of hearts can be twisted and turned to evil. A story where child innocence and goodness will be lost to evil. Everyone has a destiny, but for one child, it may be the darkest destiny of them all. This is a TR story that is VERY unique and unlike all the rest!

Words: 13,561
Chapters: 5
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A Mother's Tears by Fyre
05/12/2003

When Minerva McGonagall was still young, long before the legendary Voldemort or even Harry Potter were even considered important, in the wake of the Second World War and the defeat of the Dark Wizard Grindelwald, one mistaken judgement on her part leads to a lifetime of repercussions.

Words: 9,143
Chapters: 3
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Hidden Depths by zarah
07/08/2003

A short sequel to 'Reckless Freedom'. Tonight, Draco and Hermione indulge themselves in more than just a kiss... nothing too graphic, I assure you.

Words: 1,236
Chapters: 1
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Draco and Harry must unite to defeat Voldemort. Will they get along? A bunch of stuff happens in this fic. Romance, snogging, action, depression and a whole lot more!

Words: 2,753
Chapters: 1
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The Affair by Riventhorn
01/18/2007

Draco and his wife are at a restaurant, having a quiet dinner. And then Potter walks in the door.

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Chapters: 1
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Once Voldemort had an elite group of Death Eaters. Then one of them turned away to support the side of good, betraying a friend in the process. Now The Dark Lord is back, and so is Severus Snape's friend.

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Chapters: 6
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When Severus Snape gets a bottle of Herbal Essences shampoo in the post, he thinks nothing of it... until after he tries it. After getting fooled by a free!Sirius, Snape is cursed with the Madonna Curse. Chaos ensues...

Words: 4,434
Chapters: 4
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It's Christmas, and Harry is alone at his flat in London for a few days before the Weasleys arrive. An unexpected visit from Sirius turns it into one of the best holidays Harry's ever had.

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Focus, Weasley by raindrop
02/13/2006

“This is ridiculous,” Ginny mumbled. Her eyes were darting from the book to the stone floor. “Fine,” she suddenly said, “I will not let your lies ruin my reputation as a superb snogger. But I want that book first.” Ginny is having troubles with Potions, Draco Malfoy and moral issues in general. What else is new? Includes green potions, slapping, rage, and nice bums.

Words: 3,055
Chapters: 1
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Family Ties by summergirl
06/06/2003

Harry and Hermione are now married, have had kids, and have grown old together. Now in their fifties, they have decided to research their family history. They come across some surprising information about Hermione's family, and follow Jacob Granger, soldier for the Confederate Army, through the trials of war.

Words: 4,391
Chapters: 7
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PS... by thistlerose
08/06/2003

The summer after Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts, Lupin finds a letter that Sirius wrote for his godson, but never sent. Without reading the letter, Lupin delivers it to Harry.

Words: 3,907
Chapters: 1
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A Lion's Heart by Maddie
07/25/2003

Jaina has lived her entire life without her father, and she thought she was content... but it only takes one day to shake her entire world. As she learns more about the unbroken family she never knew, she struggles to unravel the mystery of her father's death with little success. And when Jaina dives into a mystery surround someone she is hesistant to trust, she will not stop until she discovers the truth about her father and herself.

Words: 10,178
Chapters: 5
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The day had started out badly and it only got worse. Find out what happens when an employee from the Ministry of Education visits Hogwarts. It can't be good...

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When she is eight years old, she meets a young boy named Rodolphus Lestrange. From then on, Bellatrix Black is infatuated with him. See what becomes of the relationship and what gets in the way.

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Several young Slytherins, including one Severus Snape, face a ``transfigurations exam with dismay...

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Poor James. Poor Sirius. Not even in Hogwarts yet, and they're already getting into trouble. But it's not their fault, honest. They really don't know where they are, why they are where they are, or any of the other details. Can they triumph? Can Sirius stop being such an idiot?

Words: 6,645
Chapters: 4
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A love letter from Moony to Padfoot, written while on holiday in France.

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Everyone is supposed to have a destiny, but how different will destiny be for Severus Snape when Fate is led astray? (AU; SS/RL, others)

Words: 15,789
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Hermione's trapped in her own mind, unaware that she's not in the physical realm. Will Severus be successful in rescuing her? Albus sends him on a mission into her mind to awaken her. But can things be that simple? SSHG.

Words: 8,988
Chapters: 4
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Andromeda Black had it all; great sisters, a name that was respected (and feared), and wealth beyond belief, but she gave it all up for love. This is a coming of age story about a Pureblood, who wasn't concerned with a person's blood status. Follow Andromeda as she struggles to break free from the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black, and becomes an enemy to her sisters.

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The mysterious AIP has a plan to foil the evil Mrs. Norris. But the question on everyone’s mind is: Who is the AIP? Why do they even exist? And why do Ron and Hermione SHAG constantly, but deny rumors of them being an item?

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Lily Potter met an interesting Egyptian girl through a school letter-exchange eight years before she and her husband died via the Avada Kedavra. The two women became close friends, and, on an impulse, she named Iris her baby Harry’s godmother. Instead of going to live with his aunt and uncle, he went to his godmother, and grew up knowing exactly what he was. Now, it is time for him to go to Hogwarts, in a foreign country, thousands of miles away from everything he holds dear.

Words: 8,894
Chapters: 2
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Imprisoned by crystalusagi
06/26/2006

After Voldemort is defeated the first time, Severus Snape is thrown into Azkaban where he shares a cell with Sirius Black. They develop an unusual friendship, which blossoms into something more, before Snape is released into Dumbledore's hands.

Words: 5,662
Chapters: 6
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When Harry Potter turned 17, he discovered he had a special power he'd much rather do without. Harry Potter was, to put it simply, a demon magnet.

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"Mr. Crouch had complied with the rule about Muggle dressing so thoroughly that he could have passed as a bank manager; Harry doubted even Uncle Vernon would have spotted him for what he really was." - GoF -- Three months after springing his son from Azakaban, Bartemius Crouch Sr. has dinner with Vernon and Petunia Dursley.

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Under the request of the Order of the Phoenix, Hermione goes undercover into the Slytherin house for any useful information on Death Eater activity. Hermione Granger by day and Jessica Lavoy by night, Hermione learns that things aren't always as they appear.

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New Hermione by AnnMari
09/28/2003

When they saw her they couldn't believe it. She was cute.

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Two students find a different place to be alone together -- but what if they\\\'re overheard by a teacher?

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Sarah is new to Hogwarts and is sorted into Slytherin. There happen to be some problems with Slytherin's Prince, Draco Malfoy. Did they know each other before Hogwarts? 6th year.

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Sirius and Remus agree to go to the seventh years' dance together - only to shut James up. They didn't expect anything to happen between them. Until something did. Songfic to Toby Keith's You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This.

Words: 2,189
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Meant to Be by granger2malfoy
08/27/2006

Harry and Hermione deal with many things that have happened between them. When the time comes, they realize that some things are meant to be. //PostHogwarts with flashbacks during their seventh year.//HHR// Pre-HBP

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Did you ever wonder what happened to Sirius's flying Motorcycle? Harry meets Seraphine, she's a reckless vegetarian who thrives on speed anyway she can get it. Seraphine is the last person he would except to understand his ``grief, but she's always there to help him, in more ways than even he realizes. Harry starts to fall for this yoga enlightened rocker chick, but her hand belongs to someone else. She taught Harry how to ride hisgodfather's Ducati Monster, and now she looks to him for help with her own monster.

Words: 10,087
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Survivors II by DrT
12/11/2004

The action of my short story Survivors, told from the point of view of the ultimate survivor, Alastor Moody.

Words: 7,642
Chapters: 1
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The Postal Mission by RaeWhit
09/28/2004

Why hasn't Harry Potter responded to the invitation to attend Hogwart's School of Witchcraft ad Wizardry? An unsympathetic faculty member is set out to discover the reason.

Words: 3,836
Chapters: 1
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Dead Before Dawn by Hijja
10/17/2002

In the night before the final battle of Light and Dark, two mortal enemies meet at the Shrieking Shack for one last time. Harry. Draco. A hint of slash. A lot of hatred. An extreme resolution.

Words: 2,204
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Ginny has always taken a back seat but not anymore. With the help of her best friend and a few others, Ginny makes a fresh start and finds an unexpected love interest. This is truly Ginny's new beginning.

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The Slytherin trio were always the best of friends, but what happens when two of them become more? Love, anger, drama, wandless magic and self powers enlighten this story to the brim. Will they end up together in the end?

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Disastrous events occur when all four Marauders come together to celebrate Harry's first birthday. Topped off with girlfriends, wives, old school professors and, yes, pranks.

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Harry's fifth year. Harry must face the normal pangs of adolescence along with his own unique problems. Filled with Quidditch, a Halloween Ball, R/H, H/G and of course Voldemort. The world is a little different now that Voldemort has returned...

Words: 4,318
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Born of the Sun by Rose Fay
12/08/2002

They were enemies in a divided land – one a Saxon yeoman, the other a Norman lord. But their destiny was more powerful than the clash of swords, for their fates were bound together by the secrets of earth and air, with ties as irrevocable and unbreakable as the laws that created fire and water. Godric carried the Phoenix Sword. Salazaar wielded the Dragon Saber. But both were caught in an inescapable web of fate, power, romance, and betrayal. The prequel to the White Bird sequence.

Words: 7,011
Chapters: 2
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So Close by Jaz
05/15/2002

When Draco warns Harry of a planned attack by Voldemort, he reveals a little more than originally intended.

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Sight is a precious gift many take for granted. However, to be truly able to see, one must see with his heart and not with his eyes. This is the story of man who lost everything but gains so much more with the help from the least expected of places. It is his beacon of light in a sea of darkness.

Words: 6,648
Chapters: 3
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What if Blackadder was a wizard? Edmund Blackadder has to deal with his servant Baldrick, an incompetent Minister Fudge, Voldemort, Azkaban, and an idiot named Percy Percy.

Words: 5,705
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A girl from America is transported to England and meets up with Harry. Draco is having some problems of his own at home. I know this sounds pretty typical, but please read and review!

Words: 7,725
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Harry Potter is in love with Severus and Remus, who are together. Before he graduates, Harry Potter spends the night with them. Hurt and in pain because he thinks his feelings aren't returned, Harry leaves Hogwarts. Harry finds out that he is pregnant. Will he tell Severus and Remus? Is there any hope for the three men?

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AU Harry Potter fic. Ginny Weasley is a regular High School student in Salem, Mass. Follow her as she goes through her life in High School. Includes: Hormones, Puberty, Snogging, Fights, and spunkiness galore. See our favorite characters like you've never seen them before: normal human beings. Also includes a vast array of many ships!

Words: 1,766
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Ron Weasley and Millicent Bulstrode find themselves in each other's arms under very odd circumstances. They both feel that they are stuck in the shadows of their best friends, namely Harry Potter and Pansy Parkinson. Because of their respective houses, they must hide their forbidden love from their friends and family. Adventure ensues. This fic is not all "lovey-dovey" romance, however. It also involves humor, adventure, and some angst.

Words: 3,637
Chapters: 4
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Guys' Night In by Crabbegirl
07/02/2004

What would happen if our favorite Hogwarts boys held a slumber party of their own? Bickering, laughs, raunchy exchanges and a few revelations.

Words: 7,357
Chapters: 1
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