"You played that game all the time when you were younger, you and Lily. What would you trade for this braided bracelet? What would you trade to have a pearl-backed hairbrush like Mum's? What would you trade for an ice cream?" But there was just one thing Petunia Evans wouldn't trade for the whole world.
Too often, children are caught up in the struggles of adults. Too often, they are forced to grow up before their time, their innocence shattered, to fight for their lives. They are the children of war.
"One more question," he promised quietly, turning away from her for a moment before asking it. "What's my name?" He locked eyes with her again. She stared at him blankly. "...I don't know."
Join the Marauders, Lily, Marlene, Mary and Alice for seven years of pranking, laughter, danger, magic, and yes, romance. See the world through the eyes of a doomed generation growing up during the rise of Voldemort and the Order of Pheonix. PG-13
James Potter finds himself at the brink of a promising Quidditch career in the midst of a burgeoning war and his final year of magical schooling. When he is forced to choose between his Quidditch dreams and The Order of Phoenix, will James realize that while Quidditch leaves his head in the clouds, maybe what he needed all along was someone to keep him grounded?
"I saw it, you know. I saw you look at him for that one moment. For just a moment before the battle had really begun. You locked eyes with him, with Potter, of all people, the person you once swore was an arrogant toerag." Written for Potterheadx10's "The Letter Competition" Challenge on HPFC Forums.
One night in the Gryffindor common room, the Marauders discuss how they would like to die. Little do they know, all but one of them will get their wish. One Shot.
AU. Frank Longbottom survives the Cruciatus curse with his sanity unscathed. Alice, however, isn't so lucky. Now, Frank must face his greatest flaws and deepest doubts in order to pick up the pieces of her memory, and save the world in the process.
Neville and Luna fall in love in the whimsical, crazy way only they can, with a little help from one crazy Wrackspurt.
A muggle girl, Maggie, spots a couple of seemingly normal boys leaning on a seemingly normal wall in London. Unfortunately for her though, those two boys are James and Sirius, and she's about to become the victim of a huge inside joke.