Summary: Regulus is having a really bad night, and Sirius wants to cheer him up, despite the fact that they're not on speaking terms. And there's a secret he finally wants to reveal to his brother.
Just a cute little brotherly fluff, because I love Black brothers' reunions, and because they both deserve better.
A Lion in a Pit (ao3) - ElisabethPrewett
G, 29k
Summary: Ginny Weasley usually didn’t let anyone stop her ambitions. When her brothers refused to let her play Quidditch with her, she stole their brooms and proved them who she was. When her brothers told her she was to small to do magic, she stole a wand and proved them who she was. When a hat told her she wasn’t a Gryffindor, she didn’t know who she was.
Black Mulberry (ao3) - nxrthmizu
G, 134k
Summary: What if Harry James Potter was a quiet, sensible child? What if Harry James Potter was a Slytherin? What if people remembered that Harry was James’s son— But also Lily’s child?
Cabinet Conundrum (ao3) - Blackkitten23
E, 49k
Summary: Draco decides to test the Vanishing Cabinet before telling anyone about it, but when he appears in the Room of Requirement he sees Harry Potter talking with Filch in a different language. The Malfoy overhears some information that may change the war … if he can find someone to translate what he heard that is …
Children of Menace (ao3) - morbidzmistress
N/R, 6k
Summary: Nothing was as it was supposed to be. Ginny wasn’t supposed to be here, she was supposed to be cozy in Gryffindor tower at the end of the night. And now it was a nightmare instead. Everyone knew Syltherins were menaces to society and spawn of the worst sort.
Exile (fanfiction.net) - bennybear
T, 184k
Summary: After the war, Draco is saved by his late grandfather’s foresight. With his unanswered questions outnumbering the stars in the sky, he struggles to come to terms with reality. Will he fail yet again? Canon compliant. Prequel to my next-generation-series.
Falling Apart (ao3) - Zain
T, 216k
Summary: Severus had always known that he would die in a painful, most horrifying way ever since back when he was almost beaten to death by his father, then mauled by a werewolf, then thrashed around by a maniac overlord. His miserable, luckless life only seemed to lead to that one day when he would be struck down by a bloody snake, of all things.
Bleeding out in front of Harry Potter was just the last humiliation Lady Destiny had in store for him.
Suddenly staring into Potter senior’s eyes again while being levicorpused was just the icing on the cake.
From the Desk of Minerva McGonagall (ao3) - Realmer06
T, 8k
Summary: Professor McGonagall makes a habit of writing to the parents of her students once a term. However, her owl has recently taken to pretending he has a broken wing whenever the name ‘Weasley’ is mentioned.
Ginny Weasley and the War for Hogwarts (fanfiction.net) - ebjameston
T, 104k
Summary: We all know what Harry, Ron, and Hermione were doing during the Deathly Hallows. But what was happening at Hogwarts? The story of Ginny, Neville, Dumbledore’s Army, Headmaster Snape, and the battle to survive the darkest year in the school’s history.
Summary: Hermione was eight when she summoned her first demon. She was lonely. He asked what she wanted, and she said a friend to have tea parties with. It confused him a lot. But that wasn’t going to stop him from striking a promising deal with the young witch.
Home Is (Calling For You) (ao3) - FiresFromOurHearts
G, 1k
Summary: Something lurks in Hogwarts, so Hogwarts calls back one of her best protectors. (Salazar Slytherin would like to remind everyone that history is written by the victors).
I Know Not, and I Cannot Know; Yet I Live and I Love (ao3) - billowsandsmoke
G, 31k
Summary: Severus Snape has his emotions in check. He knows that he experiences anger and self-loathing and a bitter yearning, and that he rarely deviates from that spectrum… Until the first-year Luna Lovegood arrives to his class wearing a wreath of baby’s breath. Over the next six years, an odd friendship grows between the two, and Snape is not sure how he feels about any of it.
Just a Random Tuesday… (fanfiction.net) - Twisted Biscuit
G, 58k
Summary: A VERY long Tuesday in the life of Minerva McGonagall. With rampant Umbridgeitis, uncooperative Slytherins, Ministry interventions, an absent Dumbledore and a schoolwide shortage of Hot Cocoa, it’s a wonder she’s as nice as she is.
Summary: Ginny Weasley’s first year at Hogwarts includes befriending Bellatrix’s daughter, annoying Draco, and discovering Tom Riddle’s secrets.
Left of the Line (ao3) - JoWithTheFlow
T, 18k
Summary: It started, as many things did, with Cedric. They had been stronger when they worked together, a Hufflepuff and a Gryffindor, embodying the best traits of their house each and using them to fight and win against the spider in the maze. It had been the seed of an idea that bloomed in Harry’s fifth year—the Houses were stronger together. To survive, he needed not just bravery, but hard work, wisdom, and resourcefulness too.
It wasn’t just about him, either. They all needed each other.
Little Lion Boy (ao3) - ShanaStoryteller
N/R, 11k
Summary: Draco is sorted into Gryffindor.
It’s all part of the plan, really.
Secrets (ao3) - Elizabeth Culmer (edenfalling)
T, 155k
Summary: CoS according to Ginny. Nobody noticed anything wrong for an entire year – how did she slip so far from her family and friends? Angst and betrayal, but also mysteries, jokes, an enchanted suit of armor, and a guaranteed happy ending.
Summary: Harry Potter enters his second year at Hogwarts surrounded by power, allies, enemies, secrets that whisper to him from the castle walls, and a past that won’t give him any peace.
Severus Snape prepares himself for another year of keeping the most chaotic student he has ever had the (mis)fortune of meeting alive.
The Aftermath of a storm (ao3) - M4GS838
Summary: Black brothers seem to hate eachother. Quite a bit of fighting.
The Phoenix Song (ao3) - pottermum
M, 54k
Summary: AU After the events of her first year, Ginny is determined to be ready for Tom’s eventual return. Elsewhere, Harry has been rescued from his Muggle relatives by a godfather he never knew. When horrific events bring these two together, they learn they are part of a prophecy to end Tom Riddle once and for all. But what is the power he knows not, and why can they both hear the song of the phoenix?
The Professors’ Point of View (fanfiction.net) - alittleinsane963
T, 258k
Summary: Admit it, you’ve always been curious about what the professors were thinking while Harry, Ron, and Hermione got themselves into all kinds of shenanigans.
We Are Not Death Eaters (ao3) - Fayanora
G, 5k
Summary: Not all Slytherins are Death Eaters. Most aren’t, in fact. And many Slytherins are just as brave as Griffindors. Our narrator, one such Slytherin, relates a tale of being in a group of anti-Voldemort Slytherins, explaining why there were no Slytherins in Dumbledore’s Army, and where they were during the final Battle of Hogwarts.
Winter’s Debt (fanfiction.net) - La Guera
T, 16k
Summary: The War is over, and Draco Malfoy has lost more than most. On his way to certain death, he reflects on family secrets and promises that must be kept.
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