Sometimes all that's needed for enormous differences is a small change, as small as the order of a few sentences in a heated row. Lily Evans unconsciously makes one such change while arguing with her best friend, and the magnitude of consequences her actions cause holds the potential to reshape not only herself and the people around her, but their world's very future. A What-if AU

He can't leave the room. Her room. And it's all the Order's fault. Confined to a small space with only the Mudblood for company, something's going to give. Maybe his sanity. Maybe not. "There," she spat. "Now your Blood's filthy too!" DM/HG. PostHBP. Now complete with epilogue.

AU: Lily takes life and death in her own hands and goes to the one person she had always trusted, Severus Snape. Now, after her death, he is left to keep his promise and to raise a child on his own. NOTE: nothing in this story is cannon.

"This train will take you where you have to be. Severus, listen to me, this is a rare occasion." Albus held his shoulders and he realized he was shorter than the headmaster. That couldn't be, he'd been taller than Albus ever since he was nineteen and finally stopped growing.

When the Ministry introduces a marriage law and Harry and Ron leave to find Voldemort's Horcruxes, Hermione is left to face her final year at Hogwarts alone. With Draco Malfoy as her appointed match, it will be a miracle if they don't kill each other, unless Voldemort kills them first, that is.

Lonely and outcast by his classmates, Remus wishes on a moonshadow for a friend who understands him. To his amazement his wish is answered not once, but three times, by his former enemies, the Marauders. SBRL and some JPLE as well, of course.

... How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cruciatus. Albus Dumbledore always worried about the parallels between Harry Potter and Tom Riddle. But let's be honest, Harry never really had the drive to be the next dark lord. Of course, things may have turned out quite differently if one of the other muggle-raised Gryffindors wound up in Slytherin instead.

The entire Wizarding world believes Lily Potter was murdered by Voldemort on that fateful night in 1981, including the man who would've given his immortal soul to save her. But there's another side to Lily's sacrifice, ancient charms and hidden truths that may have the power to change everything.

An innocent Valentine's Day Potions assignment leads to a string of events which nobody could have predicted. Months later, the familiar safety of the Potions classroom is long gone, and everyone must choose where their loyalties lie. Even those most intent not to. S/L, eventually AU.

Every year it was the same, Severus Snape cleared his face of all emotion, apparated to Privet Drive and visited a little boy whose only desire in the entire world was to have someone that would love him. Winner of Potions and Snitches Halloween fest 2014.

Harry returns to Hogwarts for his second year. A year that will be filled with books, good friends, basilisks, quidditch, prattish friends, horrible dreams, and pranks.

Harry Potter had gone missing from the wizarding world when he was just 4 years old. Despite everyone's frantic searching the boy is still missing the summer of his 11th birthday. Severus Snape feeling guilty for not protecting the boy decides to go search for potions ingredients in the forbidden forest, to clear his head. He's been needing snake parts anyway.

Years after the war, Hermione decides to leave the wizarding world. What starts as a vacation ends up being a new life with a new identity in a new country. Finding a job at a quaint bookshop, she settles into her new muggle life, leaving her old life as Hermione Granger behind. That is until a certain familiar blonde wanders in. Why is Malfoy living like a Muggle?

11 yr old Harry misses the Hogwarts Express. Snape is sent to find out why. What he finds changes any preconceived notions he might have had about the Boy-Who-Lived. AU, manipulative!Dumbledore, DE's, Voldy, but no horcruxes. UPDATED COMPLETED 2015

The summer after the debacle at the Ministry, Draco Malfoy is sent to live with Harry Potter. He writes letters to Severus Snape, telling him how he's doing- and what's really going on in Harry Potter's house. [Complete]

When a more studious Harry Potter entered Gringotts with Hagrid, the Goblins managed to talk to him privately - Dumbledore never saw that one coming. A Ravenclaw Harry story. Warning: child abuse, character bashing, and pureblood society.

A young Harry learns the everyday power of words. He's going to make the Dursleys happy by being "normal". Then they'll love him, just like they love Dudley! It's a flawless plan... right? Smart!Harry, Manipulative!Harry, canonical level child neglect/abuse. Complete. Part 1 of the "Perfectly Normal" series.

Just another Pureblood!Hermione story. A hidden adoption revealed, a brother found, a new world to figure out: "What are you hoping for?" he asked as they stood ready to do the spell. "I don't know," Hermione admitted. "You?" His knuckles were white on his wand. "A sister," he said, his voice very low, "I'm hoping for a sister." Winner 2015 Energize WIP Awards. COMPLETE.

What would happen if Harry met someone other than the Weasleys and made a new first friend. Year one originally Harry the Hufflepuff.

Hermione is sorted into Slytherin; how will things play out differently when the brains of the Golden Trio has different friends? AU. Darkish Dramione. COMPLETE.

Lily forgives Severus. And then they buy weed in a Muggle bookstore. With the First Wizarding War on the horizon and the fate of a world balancing precariously between the two of them, the consequences are instantaneous and reach farther than either of them could have guessed. Perhaps they should have actually read the book. Lily always did like to skim through the pages...

What if Severus Snape had taken Hermione Granger under wing secretly during her time at Hogwarts? What if Draco Malfoy really wasn't the bigot he let everyone think he was? (Follows canon mostly up until the end of GoF, and then detours off into AU territory w/Severus as father figure)

The locket almost broke up a seven year friendship within a few weeks. Imagine what a soulpiece could have done over the course of a decade.

During the summer before sixth year, Harry finds an injured bat in the garden and decides to try to heal it...and an unwilling Snape learns just what kind of a person Harry Potter really is. No slash.

Brewing potions helps Hermione focus and think. So, when Snape catches her and offers her a chance to brew in his private labs, she quickly agrees despite his cryptic demand that in exchange she will give him one hour of her time. After Dumbledore's death Hermione wants nothing to do with him, but what happens when Snape demands his hour during the Final Battle?

By all appearances, Hermione Granger runs a successful bookshop, lives a happy life, and wants for nothing. However, when a person from her past starts asking uncomfortable questions, Hermione realizes that things are never as they appear.

Severus Snape did not have much. But the one thing he knew for sure was that he had always had one friend. This is the tale of Sir Growls, brave protector, loyal, strong and true, and his fight for his friend... which started as a gift on Christmas.

On the morning of Christmas day, Severus apparated into the same doorstep he had visited every Christmas to make a very special visit for Harry. It was the one time of the year that they both looked forward to. Severitus Christmas special. Non-slash.

*ONE-SHOT* Draco Malfoy has a secret. An Infatuation. An Obsession. '"I have to admit Granger, I was less than pleased with some of the things you drew in this book of yours" he said, pulling his hand away before he could do something crazy like sliding it into her hair and tugging her close so he could snog those pouting lips of hers.' Sequel: UNREQUITED SNOWSTORM.

Snape is heartbroken after Lily's death, so Dumbledore suggest that he assists Remus Lupin in his part-time job as a teacher for muggles. It turns out that a very special boy is attending those classes; a sad little boy that not even Snape can turn his back to. Snape.Lupin.Harry bonding. No slash. Child abuse.

When Hermione is told that she is going to die, she arranges for her daughter to receive a letter every year that she is at Hogwarts. In these letters, Hermione tells her daughter the truth about herself, the whole truth. Slight AU. Set after 7th book (prior to epilogue) into next gen.

AU. Time Travel. Snape goes back in time, holding the knowledge of what is to come if he fails. No longer holding a grudge, he seeks to shape Harry into the greatest wizard of all time, starting on the day Hagrid took Harry to Diagon Alley. No Horcruxes.

Ten years post-war, Hermione has a career bettering elvish welfare at the Ministry. Unfortunately, she must write to the Malfoys to bring their elf in for a mandatory meeting. She hopes Draco's wife Astoria will reply, but to her chagrin, she receives post from Draco himself. The two become unlikely correspondents and begin to share more with each other than either expected.

Gen, Snape as Harry's father. Some thought the world lost after the Dark Lord killed Neville Longbottom, the prophecy child. Only Severus Snape, the Dark Lord's Potions master, knew about the child Lily Potter had given birth to in the prisoners' pens before she died—and who his father was. A Death Eater's son becomes the secretly reared and hidden savior. COMPLETE.

When Harry was hit by the killing curse, a horcrux was created. In this story, Harry is affected by the piece of Voldemort's soul inside his head in a more noticable way than in the books. Muggles, not knowing any better, decide he must be mentally ill. What effects might the treatment on a psychiatric ward have for the boy-who-lived and the wizarding world?

When Dumbledore comes across Harry and Draco arguing, yet again, he decides it's time they learnt to get along. Dumbledore's plan leaves the boys in each other's bodies for the weekend where they both discover a few secrets. Short story.

The Black sisters ended up divided after the Dark Lord fell. Bellatrix ended up in Azkaban, Andromeda made an outcast and Narcissa remained alone with the Malfoy name and wealth to protect her. Follow the sisters through their lives and learn how things ended up they way they did from when they were children to the end of Deathly Hallows.

It's the middle of sixth year, and Harry has been suspicious of what Draco has been up to. Draco, is confused. For once in his life, he isn't sure what the right path is. It should be easy, kill off Dumbledore and finally win his father's respect. So why does it seem so wrong? So what happens when Draco finds that he is on the wrong side of the war?

Sirius breaks out of Azkaban to save Harry and prove his innocence, but he finds that forgiveness may be harder to come by than he originally thought. Sequel to A Failure to Communicate.

Challenge Response: The blood quill gives Harry an infection. As he slowly deteriorates, he refuses to go to the Infirmary until a certain Potions Master finds him in a corridor.

A simple request for Harry to get his vaccinations has some unexpected consequences. Can Harry survive the summer trapped with his snarky potions professor?

Remus cheated on Sirius, or at least that's what Sirius thinks. Can James fix this misunderstanding? Or will he be too late for Remus' sake? SLASH RL/SB

After the Dursleys abandon six year old Harry in a park in Kent, Harry comes to the realization that he is an elf. Not a house elf, though. A forest elf. Never mind wizards vs muggles; Harry has his own thing going on. Character study, pre-Hogwarts, NOT a creature!fic, slightly cracky.

Hermione Granger is now 27, working as a psychologist in muggle London. Unhappily engaged to Ron, Hermione finds her own happiness by helping others manage their sadness. One day, however, Hermione's routine life is turned upside-down when a certain blonde Slytherin arrives at her office seeking a therapy session...

'"They tore her apart and then wiped me out of her mind to send me a message. To mess up my life. To break..." he trailed off. Blaise nodded his head with understanding. "To break your heart," he finished for him.' Dramione. One-shot.

Tonks felt it was a "red hair" kind of day. Little did she know how much a simple change of hair color would impact Severus Snape. SnapeTonks friendship, hints of SnapeLily, oneshot

13-year-old Harry is dragged into another world where he was adopted by Snape. Where his mother is still alive. Where he can't stop feeling like a stranger. And Snape discovers that a new Potter has appeared. One who won't leave him alone. Who knows Snape's deepest secret. As both Harrys search for a way home, they begin to question what home really is.

Remus remembers how he became friends with Sirius, and recalls his bullying as a child. In the present day, however, he struggles to decide what to do about his feelings for the boy. Contains slash, and lots of angst. Rated M for later chapters.

Gone were their boyhood dreams of grandeur as harsh reality was ushered in. R/S

Sirius isn't mad. He's insane and it's gotten worse since Remus was brought in the picture. Now, James doesn't know who to save, as they spiral into darkness. But what James doesn't understand is, they don't need to be saved. They just need each other...

Marauders Era. Remus is in the final year of Hogwarts, and ready to face the challenges ahead. He just didn't expect to hit wolf puberty, or the problems that came with it. So hormones, exams, friendships and mating seasons... normal teen stuff, right?

I look around my temporary sanctuary, there's blood on the floor, in pools by the showers and all around me, seeping out the door, and it's splattered on the mirror- it's Sirius's only chance to escape the hell his parents have created for him

AU! Sirius Black is a wealthy and slightly self centered socialite on a mission, to avenge his dumping. Remus Lupin is a no luck but bad luck street rat and prostitute who is hired to help. Sniff? Do I smell unexpected love? RL/SB, and a little JP/LE

Involves a sadistic Fenrir Greyback, a lonely Sirius Black, and an enslaved Remus Lupin. SBRL

After Snape's visit to Surrey, Harry writes him a thank you letter that triggers an extended correspondence between the two of them. Sequel to The Guiltless.

Watch as Harry and Draco's sons, Albus and Scorpius, become friends and then lovers, causing havoc and mayhem for all of those around them! DH Compliant! SLASH! EXPLICIT!

I'm just your average 16 year old student. Who may or may not cost my house victories and conduct conversations about my nether bits in public. And I am NOT obsessed with a certain Mr. Black. Honest.

Sixth year AU, written pre HBP. When Harry appears at the Welcoming Feast wearing a glamor only Snape notices, Snape decides to find out what the glamor is hiding. His investigation leads to a number of shocking revelations about both Harry and himself.

Severitus challenge response! Before his fifteenth birthday, Harry receives a letter that alters his entire life. Now it is up to him to reveal the truth to the other whom it concerns. Will he find the courage or will he repeat his mother's mistake?

Remus Lupin has never experienced love other then that of his mother. When he starts to feel different towards a certain marauder, things rapidly change - but for the better or worse? Only time will Tell. (RL-SB, Slash)

COMPLETE! Strolling through Diagon Alley Lucius Malfoy comes across a little boy who could have been Draco's twin. Has his family tree been expanded, without his knowledge? Has Draco been keeping secrets? Or is he oblivious to the fact that he may hav

Remus loves to wake him this way. Slash, RemusSirius One shot.