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My ultimate fave has got to be The Marauders' Series, they're all on this page but so far only 1 & 2 are completed and 3 is halfway done. There are also some side stories, you gotta read 'em to understand what happens when the Marauders have their little comments during the actual chapters.

Summery: Basicly, James has a time hole in his room and the Harry Potter books fall through and the Marauders being who they are, read them and discover the future of James' son. Course between lines they make their own stupid comments, fight, make out and are even joined by others.
WARNING: Slash couples include Remus/Sirius & Harry/Draco, tho it's nothing more then a few cutsie-wootsie comments and some snogging.

Link: http://www.angelfire.com/wizard/queenstrata/tms.html

Also, my best friend has a pretty good story coming together called 11 Grimmauld Place.

Summery: Mandi is the new girl in town and she's upset b/c her father and brother can both do magic, unlike herself. She's actually upset that she MAY take after her muggle mother. Little 8 yr old Sirius has a major crush on her and does what he does best, rebels against his parents and becomes great friends with her. This story tells the tale of Sirius' and Mandi's love, with some Marauder action in between.
NOTE: She added Tonks into the story at the same age as the Marauders b/c she's so fond of the idea of trouble making Marauders & trouble making Tonks as a team. Also, she had the idea of having the houses of Grimmauld Place across from each other, not side by side.

Link: http://immeritus.org/ForumsPro/viewtopic/t=4790.html
(Thats a Sirius Black fanclub, you can find many more great fanfics there as well)

And this one has become quite popular. Its known as HP 8/JP 1
Not too fond of it myself but it's a highly recomended fanfic, so why not post it? I do love Teddy's character and portrait!Snape's role.

James Potter and the Hall fo Elder's Crossing

Summery: Quite obviously this takes place during James Potter II's first year at Hogwarts (so before the prolouge in DH) He's afraid of living in his father's shadow, and without realizing it, he does anyway. He, like his father, ends up in a life or death situation and feels the need to save the world b/c he is, afterall, a Potter.
Note: Since times have change, many things in Hogwats have changed. You'll see what I mean when you read it yourself. Oh, and the password is "genisolaris" to save you the time of getting it yourself.

Link: http://www.elderscrossing.com/wizard.html

Name:Tea And Sympathy
Author:Jocemum
URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2490727/1/
Discription:HPB Spoiler Warning! Hermione is helping remove traces of the Order from the compromised Headquarters when the traitor returns. At long last: COMPLETE!
Rating: K
Characters/Ships/Warnings: Severus/Hermione
My Thoughts: This fanfic is not only well written, but has a very good plot. Now I don't want to spoil anything, so I won't say much. But It was a very enjoyable read, and a lucky find even for those who don't enjoy it's particular pairing.
Things to Add: Jocemum is a wonderful author, and you should take a look at all her fanfiction, if you enjoy this one I know you will love all her fics. This fanfic also has a side story you can find here: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3070799/1/Coffee_and_Enmity

Name: Eight
Author:Lily Elizabeth Snape
URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3093741/1/
Discription: Eight year old Harry was cursed with rotten guardians. Snape is a wizard with an unusually cold disposition, which he has for a reason. Can Severus give the childhood he was never privileged enough to have to the little one?
Rating: T
Characters/Ships/Warnings: Severus, and Harry Potter. NOT SLASH. Mentions of Child Abue.
My Thoughts: Although I do not normally enjoy stories that feature Harry as a weak abused child, but I must say I really enjoyed this Fanfiction. It's high quality, well written, and keeps Severus in character. If you like Severitus then you will enjoy this one.
Things to Add: Once again, if you enjoy this fanfiction of her you will enjoy her other fanfics. I actually have talked to this writer, she is very nice, it is a WIP but still being updated.

Name:Blackened Sunrise
Author:The Itch
URL:http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1020928/1/
Discription: Having vanished at the end of 4th year, Harry Potter is forced to return during 6th and he's changed. Not necessarily for the better, either
Rating:M
Characters/Ships/Warnings: Character Death. Very AU
My Thoughts: This fanfiction actually saved my life. I won't go into deary personal detail, but it did. It's an awesome read if you don't mine Power!Harry, and some Blood and Gore.
Things to Add: This fanfic, I think has been abandoned. But I still enjoy reading, and have high hopes for some day seeing the actually novel it's based off of being published or at the very least the fanfic being picked up again.

Name:Dumbledore's Men
Author: Jocelyn
URL:http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2514159/1/
Description: Sequel to Duel. The war is over. But something has survived. Snape and Harry learn their shared devotion to Dumbledore is a connection not easily broken. Snape mentors Harry. Now Complete.
Rating: K+
Characters/Ships/Warnings: Severus and Harry again, not slash this is a Severus-Mentors fanfiction.
My Thoughts: This fanfiction is also, like all fanfics I read, well written and has an excellent plot. A very good addition to the Snape-Mentors fandom.
Things to Add: You can find the first fic here: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2488992/1/Duel . I'd also like to note, Jocelyn is the daughter of Jocemum, whom was inspired by Jocelyn to write fanfiction, and like her mother if you enjoy this fanfiction you will enjoy all her other ones. I'd also like to suggest her fanfic, Battle of The Wills. Found here: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2009130/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Battle_of_Wills

Name:A Potions Accident
Author: Arualcopia
URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3154690/1/A_Potions_Accident
Discription: A slight twist to the usual deaging stories. What if the accident created a gas? What if it effected the entire class? How does Snape deal with fifteen toddlers?
Rating:K
Characters/Ships/Warnings: Most of the Teachers, and Harry's potion's class. Do not read in class.
My Thoughts: I found myself laughing hilariously at this fanfic when I was in my 12th grade year, scaring most of my computer class, and gained a detention for using the computer in my class for recreational purposes, during class. I'd have to say it was well worth it. Very cute fanfiction.
Things to Add: If you enjoy de-aging stories you will like this authors stories.

Name:Harry Potter and the Slytherin Connection
Author:KrystalRoze
URL:http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1447698/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Slytherin_Connection
Discription:It's Harry's fifth year and he's finally able to escape the Dursleys only to find that Voldemort has other plans. After numberous failed attempts to rid himself of the Gryffindor brat, Lord Voldemort now knows he must change tactics. COMPLETE.
Rating: K+
Characters/Ships/Warnings: Harry, Vodemort, Severus, Lucius, Sirius, and a many more!
My Thoughts: I'd have to say at this point this is one of my favorite fanfics. It's AU, and Excellent! I suggest you read this one, it keeps to canon personalities and ships. I can't suggest this fanfic enough.
Things to Add: It's has three sequels first found here: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2006321/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Unexpected_Inheritance . Second here: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2021674/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Trelawney_Prophecy and the third here: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2078709/1/Harry_Potter_and_Salazars_Talisman

These are all my gems from fanfiction.net I'll get to recing the rest of my fav's after I've slept some ^_^;

part two:
Ripped and Torn:

"The first step is to find out if your father is still alive," Hermione said, the next morning, making a face over the vile-tasting hangover potion that she had just swallowed.

"How do you propose that we do that? None of my family have had any contact with the b*****d since he ran off with Miss Loose Knickers in 1967."

"Do you know where he went?"

"Oh yes, that was no secret. He moved in with Miss Hot Pants on the other side of town and we used to see them staggering out of the local on weekends."

"Fine. Then what we need first is a Muggle telephone directory. That's a list of people who have phones. It's a kind of ... "

"I know what a phone is. I am not totally ignorant about Muggle civilization, you know. I lived in the Muggle world until I was eleven, and pretty damned awful it was, too."

"Then Apparate us to somewhere with a local phone book."

"If I must. Have you ever been to the East Riding before?"

"No."

"You haven't missed anything. On three, then."

A couple of people on the street half-turned around to look at the young woman in robes whom they didn't remember passing, but she smiled engagingly and--assuming that she was about to hit them up for a few quid for a worthy cause--they went on about their business.

She was standing in front of a city library. Hermione hurried inside, located the shelf of telephone directories, and pulled down the local-area one.

"Snape, Snape, Snape," she murmured, running her finger down a column of names.

"Do you mind not doing that? It reminds me of the way they called out my name for infractions when I was in school."

"There's no Tobias Snape listed," Hermione said, ignoring his grousing. "What was his girlfriend's name?"

"Gladys. Remind me never to name any daughter of mine Gladys."

"It's a deal," she said absentmindedly. "It's not one of my favorite names either."

A faint wave of pleasure rolled through Snape's being.

"Gladys Snape, 21 Banger Terrace!" she said, closing the phone book. "Let's go have a look, shall we?"

* * *


The plump woman who peered out at them through the narrow opening of the front door shook her head. "No, poor Toby's been gone these seven years or more. I lost him just before Easter of the year that the truck smashed into the front of Bridget's Irish Tea Room."

She was neatly dressed in a mauve blouse and brown tweed skirt with a cameo pin at her throat. Her gray hair was tightly curled, and she smelled of eau de cologne. She peered at her visitor through gold-rimmed spectacles that were perched on the end of her snub nose.

"Cliodna's crimson cunny! What happened to the woman? She can't be more than sixty or seventy years old, and just LOOK at her!"

"Where was he buried?" Hermione asked, and then added hastily, "It's for his son, you know. He'd like to pay his last respects to his father... "

"HAH!"

"... and since I was going to be in the neighborhood I told him I'd ask."

"Oh! I see. Well, poor dear Toby wasn't buried, precisely. His ashes were scattered across the football pitch during half-time. He did love the footie, you know!"

Inside Hermione's head, Snape was slowly counting to ten.

Gladys Snape bent a little closer. "I wouldn't say it to poor little Severus -- and why anyone would settle a sweet little lad with a name like that I do not know -- but his mother was a bit of a strange one. She wore the oddest clothes and she talked to herself. Acted as if she expected the household chores to do themselves. Between you and me, I suspect she drank."

* * *


"So now what?" Hermione asked, sitting at a table in Bridget's Irish Tea Room, sipping a cup of weak tea and nibbling at a cinnamon-flavored pastry with lurid green icing. "After seven years, I don't think there's much of poor dear Toby left on the pitch."

"We'll have to pilfer the family vault."

"The Prince family's, you mean?"

"Yes. Internments there go back for over three hundred years."

"But none of them is your father," she pointed out.

"They are my forefathers, and my grandfather acted in loco parentis after my mother and I moved in with him. That is to say, he grumbled, doled out a miserly allowance, yelled at me not to track mud over the floor, and complained about the stench of my potions experiments in the basement."

"I still think that's stretching things a bit."

"When it comes to potions that require an incantation, it's the spirit that counts."

"All right," Hermione said wearily as she got up, tossed some Muggle money on the table, and headed for the door. "Lead on."

She ducked into an alley near the tea shop and they Apparated.

* * *


The Prince family home was an ancient stone keep on a headland over the ocean.

"It's charmed to look like a heap of rubble to curious Muggles," Severus said, "and the repelling charms make it totally uninteresting."

"Who lives here now?" Hermione asked.

"My grandfather."

"What? I thought we were coming here to get his bones."

"No, we're going to get my great-grandfather's bones, which technically belong to my grandfather--being from his family and on his property--and we're going to take them away without him being aware of it. Thus they will be unknowingly given."

"Severus... "

"I know how magic works."

"Maybe so, but this all sounds pretty damned dodgy to me -- especially coming from someone who used to make me re-chop my mugwort stalks if they weren't exactly one-sixteenth of an inch thick."

"After you know the right way to do things, you can learn when to take liberties."

"You're telling me that everything you forced into us in five years of Potions class was unimportant!"

"Not precisely unimportant, merely overly-exacting. The vault is around to the left and down the slope."

A quick Alohomora! opened the ancient oak door of the family vault, which was one of the traditional sort and made of black marble to look like a miniature castle. Hermione stood back to let the stale air escape from it.

"Phew! I don't like this one little bit."

"Relax. The last person buried in here was Great Uncle Agrippa, and that was twenty years ago."

"Who am I looking for?"

"Domitius Ahenobarbus Prince. Try that ebony coffin to the left."

Grimacing in distaste, Hermione eased up the heavy wooden lid. "Eeeuu, he's gone all to bones and bits, and his skull is grinning at me."

"Maybe that means he's happy to see you. Take whatever's loose."

"Honestly, Severus!"

* * *


"I hope I never have to do anything like that again," Hermione said, dropping the yellowed finger bone into her drawer. She made a face and began brushing the cobwebs off of her hair.

"I doubt that the occasion will arise," Snape said.

"Is that everything?"

"Everything on the list," Snape conceded. "All I need now is a temporary body."

"I know where to get that," Hermione said, wiping the vault dust off of her face. "One more stop and we're done."

"Where are we going?"

"St. Mungo's, to see an old acquaintance."

Hermione Apparated into a London alley, made her way to Purge and Dowse, the permanently-closed department store that masked the wizarding hospital, and announced to the dummy in the window that she was, "Lavender Brown to see Gilderoy Lockhart."

"When I said that you were ruthless, that was an understatement," Snape said with admiration.

"I'm hardly going to do this under my own name," Hermione muttered as she stepped through the department store window, "and if there's anybody I'd like to see get into trouble, it's her. Three in a bed, was it!"

She made her way up the narrow stairs to the Janus Thickey ward and walked through the doors as if she had every right to be there.

The healer on duty, who wore a name tag that said Strout, looked up as the ward door opened and smiled at her. "My, my, we have a visitor. You look familiar, dear. You've been here before, haven't you?"

"Oh yes," Hermione said, in her best chirpy manner. "I came to see Gilderoy Lockhart once and I simply had to come back again. I admire him so much!"

"Isn't that lovely! You just come right on in, the poor lamb will be delighted to see you. He hardly ever has visitors, and he's such a sweety! He's right over here."

One Stupefy and a Side-Along-Apparition later, and Hermione had Lockhart right where she and Snape wanted him. That is to say, locked up safely in one of the Hogwarts dungeon store rooms, with enough Cockroach clusters and Hiccup Sweets to keep him occupied for a while.

"We'll need a great big cauldron," Hermione said. "Big enough for him to sit down inside it."

"Surely your Charms lessons included the Engorgement spell?"

"No problem there. Now the only things left to do are to prepare the basic rejuvenation potion and to get you into Gilderoy Lockhart's body."

"A truly disgusting idea. I think the man wears perfume."

"Probably sent to him by one of his deluded admirers."

"Of which you were one, were you not?"

"That was a long time ago!"

"Ah. As it happens, I do know the transfer spell that Wormtail used. The Dark Lord taught it to him and he was bragging about it one time while he was skulking around my house. It depends on the willingness of the subject, and I assure you that I am more than willing. You will have to cast it, of course."

"It's dark magic, I suppose?"

"Of course it's dark magic! When have you ever heard of anything in connection with the Dark Lord that wasn't dark magic? Although, come to think of it, he did know a rather nice charm for turning Toad in the Hole into Beef Wellington."

"Where are we going to do this?"

"Somewhere where we shall not be disturbed."

"Moaning Myrtle's bathroom then."

"That is a revolting location for my resurrection!"

"I am NOT going to lug all of that stuff out to the Forbidden Forest, no matter how much it may appeal to your Slytherin instincts. And if you're thinking about Myrtle, don't. She got so spooked by the battle that she's been hiding in Hagrid's rain barrel."

"Oh, very well. If I have to come back to myself while listening to gurgling plumbing and looking at ribbons of unfurled bog rolls, so be it. Let's fetch Lockhart and get on with it."

* * *


Hermione lowered her wand and looked nervously at the tall dark-haired wizard rising slowly out of the immense cauldron.

"Severus?"

He stepped out of the great pot, running long-fingered white hands along his wet and naked sides. He lifted his head and glared at her.

"Wave set! That self-centered prat actually used wave set on his hair!"

"Severus!" she exclaimed with relief, and flung herself into his arms.

Snape was both gratified and touched. His arms closed around her and he rested his chin on top of her bushy curls, breathing in the soft scent of her hair and feeling the warmth of her body against his. It was very nice to have real sensations again.

He pulled back a bit and tilted her chin up so that he could look into her eyes. "Maybe we should have stopped half-way. I could have had Lockhart's body, you know. I believe you expressed an interest in blond and well-groomed at one time. He was undeniably attractive."

"To some women," she said softly. "But my priorities have changed. I've grown up a bit in the past few years you know."

"Yes, I've noticed," he said with a smirk, moving a hand to cup her smooth rounded curves.

"Wait! You have to get ready for a symposium!"

"Sod the symposium," Severus Snape said, and kissed her.


-- end--

Here are some really great stories, some of my favorites! biggrin

Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4037141/1/
Tittle: Time Lapse
I love it: This is a short, sweet SSHG time travel fic with a twist! Its dificult to describe, but very good!

Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2384309/1/
Name: But Daddy, I dun wanna!
I love it: An adorable fic about Severus and his children. I love it, because it shows a soft, fatherly, slightly OC, side of him.

Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3855111/1/
Name: The Baby Diolouges
I love it: A truly odd fic, about Severus' soul being born to Hermione, as her son Hugo. Fabulous, and creative.

I just stumbled upon one of the best fanfictions I've read since The Marauders Series. I love it, I'm nearly done reading it. It's taken me two days and staying up late to get to chapter 53/62 tonight, now I'm heading off to sleep since I feel sick, but I wanted to share this awesome discovery with my fellow students here at the Haven before I forgot again!

Title: Casting Moonshadows
Author: Moonsign
Rating: Mature
Summary: Really don't want to spoil anything, but basically it shows the horrible lives of Remus and Sirius outside of school, goes through the school years full of pranks and teenage angst, brings Remus and Sirius together in such a confusing way that it's extremely adorable, and a Gryffindor supporting hedgehog.
Warnings: Slashy, minor sexual content, abuse, cursing, drinking...and should The Marauders in general be warned about? lol

Just from the warnings you can tell it'll be a real tearjerker, so make sure you have tissues at the ready, I wasn't at first and I don't think I've cried so hard over Remus and Sirius since the 7th book. My mum thought I was crazy...but that's nothing new lol
Anyway, I hope you all enjoy!

I don't know if anybodys said this yet, but hell- it DESERVES more than one mention. The Shoebox_Project is really considered by some people the best Remus/Sirius marauders era fic EVER!

It has art too.

And If you haven't heard of it, OMG read it now ^-^

And If you're not into slash, its not really slash until later. Other than that its just a friendship fic. I never read friendship fics- but I made an exception for this one biggrin (Until it goes to the slash, that is)

I also love anything by FullMoonDreams on LJ But Once in a Blue Moon is by far the best