Mystery/Suspense
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Eleven Steps to Desperation
by Memory
5 Ratings, 0 Likes, 0 Favorites )When love and reason fight, something terrible may happen. A dark story.
1,792 Words, Started 09/23/2010, Completed 09/23/2010
Truth Of The Matter
5 Ratings, 0 Likes, 10 Favorites )Draco Malfoy has just been released from Azkaban, and needs to report to Hermione Granger for approval on all his work. But things are not as they appear. Fed up with all the secrets, he devises a way to divine the truth from a certain Gryffindor.
6,666 Words, Started 02/04/2010, Updated 03/01/2010
Charming the Future
by silverdoe
5 Ratings, 0 Likes, 1 Favorite )Ever wonder how Muggle-borns obtain magic? This story may explain it.
7,014 Words, Started 10/30/2010, Completed 10/30/2010
Countdown
5 Ratings, 0 Likes, 2 Favorites )Harry awakes alone on his anniversary, but Draco did leave a note. Harry has to follow the clues to get to Draco at the end.
13,271 Words, Started 10/07/2008, Completed 10/30/2008
The Owl, the Spider, and the Orphaned Dragon
by kereia
5 Ratings, 0 Likes, 6 Favorites )Three months after the Battle of Hogwarts, Katie Bell’s Quidditch team accepts an invitation to an exhibition match against the Vatra Dornei Dragons in Romania. When the appearance of a real dragon prolongs the match for a week, Katie soon finds herself caught in the sinister machinations of a smuggling ring while she juggles her responsibilities as a Chaser and her growing attraction to an old friend.
7,262 Words, Started 01/18/2009, Updated 01/27/2009
Execrable Erratum
by acciobook7
5 Ratings, 0 Likes, 21 Favorites )A 2400 word drabble telling a tale of kidnapping, violence and sex.
2,472 Words, Started 08/29/2007, Completed 08/29/2007
Felix Felicis
by phoenix
5 Ratings, 0 Likes, 0 Favorites )Severus has always known that being a double agent was dangerous. Moreso now that Albus is gone and everyone thinks he's truly loyal to the Dark Lord. But he remains Dumbledore's man. All he needs is a little luck.
6,136 Words, Started 05/05/2013, Updated 05/05/2013
The Dragoness and Athos
5 Ratings, 0 Likes, 0 Favorites )Mystique is the new club for Wizarding singles in search of a mate. The person sitting across from you could be anyone.
4,820 Words, Started 02/21/2012, Completed 02/21/2012
Thirty Years Later: A New Evil Rises
5 Ratings, 0 Likes, 6 Favorites )Revised:
It's the year 2027. 25 years have passed since the end of the Second War and the Final Fall of Lord Voldemort. Harry Potter had dedicated himself to the prevention of rising Dark Witches or Wizards. Because of his work, no other Dark Witch or Wizard has ever taken a foothold. A peace of sorts has come.
But now that peace has been shattered. Destroyed by the arrival of a Dark Witch that has hidden in the shadows and has emerged, determined to bring fear, terror and havoc in her wake. She will show the world what it truly means to be terrified.
13,588 Words, Started 01/25/2006, Updated 12/06/2006
Affairs of the Mind
by lady_t
5 Ratings, 0 Likes, 7 Favorites )Hermione is a married woman ... she has barely known another man's touch ... if temptation arises will she succumb?
2,642 Words, Started 03/19/2010, Updated 03/19/2010
A Big Bad Wizard
5 Ratings, 0 Likes, 5 Favorites )“That—that doesn’t sound at all like you, Arthur.”
52 Words, Started 04/06/2011, Completed 04/06/2011
The Shrieking Shack
by black spot
5 Ratings, 0 Likes, 4 Favorites )Horror story. Ever wondered what happens in the Shrieking Shack that even the ghosts shun it?
720 Words, Started 01/26/2006, Completed 01/26/2006
Moonlight Investigations
5 Ratings, 0 Likes, 0 Favorites )Private Investigator Remus Lupin investigates a series of grisly murders in Hogsmeade, only to discover the last man he would have ever expected to see close to the crime scenes... Snape/Lupin
8,358 Words, Started 04/07/2008, Completed 04/07/2008
Diabolical
5 Ratings, 0 Likes, 2 Favorites )As an up and coming official in the department of Magical Law Enforcement, Hermione Granger has been given a case that will stretch the boundaries of her considerable knowledge. When she realizes that her loved ones are in danger, she'll have to open her mind and rely on others if she and Draco are to survive.
5,522 Words, Started 01/13/2010, Completed 01/13/2010
Gardiner and Shipe
by mt_nestor
4 Ratings, 0 Likes, 1 Favorite )A test of a new Time-Turner not only sends Hermione back into the past but entangles her in the investigation of an unsolved mystery.
6,978 Words, Started 08/05/2014, Completed 08/05/2014
Vendetta
4 Ratings, 0 Likes, 1 Favorite )Viktor Krum is being accused of collaborating with the Dark Lord during the second Wizard War. Several old friends begin an investigation into the unfounded accusations.
6,527 Words, Started 08/15/2010, Completed 08/15/2010
A Woman for Hire
by Aling
4 Ratings, 0 Likes, 5 Favorites )Hermione Granger loves her work almost as much as she loves her boyfriend. Warning: dubious morals abound.
3,482 Words, Started 01/26/2010, Completed 01/26/2010
Begin to Hope
4 Ratings, 0 Likes, 0 Favorites )In 1997, Voldemort defeated Harry Potter.
In 1998, the whole world went to hell.
In 2017, Voldemort destroys the New Order, prompting eleven children to take Voldemort on themselves.
9,959 Words, Started 12/22/2006, Updated 02/25/2007
Hallelujah
by laurielove
4 Ratings, 0 Likes, 2 Favorites )'She tied you to her kitchen chair, she broke your throne and she cut your hair, and from your lips she drew the hallelujah ...' A fic based on these lines by Leonard Cohen.
7,532 Words, Started 04/23/2011, Completed 04/23/2011
Dear Lily
by Bella Snape
4 Ratings, 0 Likes, 2 Favorites )This entry is Snape musing on the before and after of his first Defence Against The Dark Arts lesson.
1,356 Words, Started 07/20/2006, Updated 07/22/2006
The Bodyguard
by tei hakuto
4 Ratings, 0 Likes, 6 Favorites )Lord Orion Shagswell, famous Playwitch writer and seducer extraordinaire, has a mysterious and dangerous stalker. What happens when a Libertine meets a Japanese warrior?
10,584 Words, Started 07/03/2006, Updated 07/24/2006
Only a Little Death
4 Ratings, 0 Likes, 3 Favorites )100 words of feeling the tension...
126 Words, Started 02/10/2006, Completed 02/10/2006
The Plushie or A Reality All Its Own
by Pearle
4 Ratings, 0 Likes, 7 Favorites )A plushie, by its very nature, could not do anything remotely human, its sole function in life being to collect dust. But where would our story be if that were the case? Then again, the mind knows no limits when engaged in the magic of writing. Or engaged in Magic, it would seem...Severus Snape/Hermione Granger (One-shot)...Please be warned, it does contain spoilers for several of Shiv's wonderful stories.
3,080 Words, Started 01/09/2006, Completed 01/09/2006
When the war is over, you can read the paper
by SS Lupin
4 Ratings, 0 Likes, 7 Favorites )Auror Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts to teach and realizes the war still needs to be fought within the castle’s heavily warded walls.
11,790 Words, Started 03/04/2008, Completed 03/04/2008