I commit to memory her calling me handsome, how the 1968 cabernet mixes with rose perfume and freshly baked bread. I love her now in a way I never have before, and I'm not going to make it out in one piece. :Lily survives Voldemort's attack and Snape searches for redemption. Slow burn.

"Has it occurred to you that maybe I am tired of hatred? I've lived my whole life with hatred shoved down my throat, I was practically fed intolerance at my mother's breast, and what has it gotten me?" After the war, Harry and Draco enter an odd friendship. And who can blame Harry if the blonde git gets under his skin so much? HP/DM slash, a bit angsty, mostly post eighth year.

A toddler found wandering in garbage. No one who could handle the odd things that he made happen. A street family who takes him in. No one realizes the savior of the wizarding world is a lost boy until a dark-haired man finds him.

AU The life of Harry Potter not as the Chosen One, but as an ordinary boy. Read what happens through life, love, and adventures at Hogwarts after Voldemort chooses Neville as the subject of the Prophesy.