The Dogs of War

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Stories occurring between Snape's and Yaxley's conversation on the grounds of Malfoy Manor until Kreacher brings Harry his sandwich.
(The Time Period of Deathly Hallows)
46 stories currently

Dark Lord Ascending

Title: All That Must Be Said
Author: shiiki
Line from canon: "Last week Professor Burbage wrote an impassioned defense of Mudbloods in the Daily Prophet."
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 1 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: R, for dark themes and death
Word Count: 4100
Notes from author or recommender: I found this story on the femgen site. I really liked it and felt it covered an unusual topic.
Link for the story: Here

Title: Of Fear in Gilded Cages
Author: princeofblood
Line from canon: To his right, his son, Draco, who had been gazing up at the inert body overhead, glanced quickly at Voldemort and away again, terrified to make eye contact.
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 1 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: PG-13
Word Count: 3164
Notes from author or recommender: Draco's point of view of the Death Eater meeting at the beginning of Deathly Hallows
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Title: Homecoming
Author: willowwand
Line from canon: To his right, his son, Draco, who had been gazing up at the inert body overhead, glanced quickly at Voldemort and away again, terrified to make eye contact.
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 1 in Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: G
Word Count: 245
Notes from author or recommender: A brilliant little story from a very different viewpoint.
Link for the story: Here

In Memoriam

The Dursleys Departing

The Seven Potters

Title: Crossing the Threshold
Author: shimotsuki
Line from canon: "Harry, guess what?" said Tonks from her perch on top of the washing machine, and she wiggled her left hand at him; a ring glittered there. . . ."I'm sorry you couldn't be there, Harry, it was very quiet."
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 4 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: PG-13
Word Count: 3579
Notes from author or recommender: External forces push Remus and Tonks into getting married much sooner than they would (or should?) have done -- with almost no chance to prepare themselves for this major change in their relationship.
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Fallen Warrior

Title: ask me no questions, i'll tell you no lies
Author: fireworkfiasco
Line from canon: Muttering about fresh air, [Harry] set down his glass and left the room. As he crossed the dark yard . . . Harry stopped at the gate into the garden, staring out at its overgrown plants.
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 5 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: PG
Word Count: 1217
Notes from author or recommender: A bit of a stretch on canon here because the scene in the book involves Harry in Voldemort's head again and then a discussion with Ron and Hermione. However, I think this could easily take place after that, so I'm sticking it in.
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Title: Discussion in the Dark
Author: honouraryweasley12
Line from canon: “Where are you going?” said Tonks and Fleur together. “Mad-Eye’s body,” said Lupin. “We need to recover it.”
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 5 in Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: G
Word Count: 2324
Notes from author or recommender: Very sweet story where Tonks and Fleur talk about their similarities and differences during the tense wait for their lovers to return.
Link for the story: Here

The Ghoul in Pajamas

Title: Everything's Fine
Author: phoenixfeather47
Line from canon: "I've also modified my parents' memories so that they're convinced they're really called Wendell and Monica Wilkins, and that their life's ambition is to move to Australia. . . .[they] don't know they've got a daughter, you see."
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 6 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: PG-13
Word Count: 12,300
Notes from author or recommender: A long, but excellent story about Ron being with Hermione through this trauma of modifying her parents' memories. Plus, there's a bit at the end that takes place during the camping when Ron is gone, and that is also very well done. It really fills in a huge gap in the canon.
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Title: Ron's Preparations
Author: Whizbee
Line from canon: "We can't hide my whole family, it'll look too fishy and they can't all leave their jobs," said Ron. "So we're going to put out the story that I'm seriously ill with spattergroit, which is why I can't go back to school."
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 6 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: PG
Word Count: 5224
Notes from author or recommender: A new type of story for me, but a fun one, about why and how Ron decided to pretend he had spattergroit.
Link to the story: Here

Title: Orchestrating Disappearances
Author: Whizbee
Line from canon: "I've modified my parent's memories so they are convinced they're really called Wendell and Monica Wilkins, and that their life's ambition is to move to Australia.... [They] don't know they've got a daughter, you see."
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 6 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: PG
Word Count: 3767
Notes from author or recommender: Great story about how Hermione modified her parents’ memories.
Link for the story: Here

The Will of Albus Dumbledore

The Wedding

Title: Summer Dance
Author: charma10
Line from canon: "Come and dance," [Ron] added abruptly to Hermione. She looked taken aback, but pleased too, and got up. They vanished together into the growing throng on the dance floor.
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 8 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: G
Word Count: 1350
Notes from author or recommender: Ron and Hermione dancing at the wedding, cute lead-in for their tentative relationship in Deathly Hallows.
Link for the story: Here

A Place to Hide

Kreacher's Tale

Title: I Heard a Noise
Author: KDSanders
Line from canon: Ron had had a fit of gallantry and insisted that Hermione sleep on the cusions from the sofa, so that her silhouette was raised above his. Her arm curved to the floor, her fingers inches from Ron's. Harry wondered whether they had fallen asleep holding hands.
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 10 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: G
Word Count: 300
Notes from author or recommender: Very brief, obviously, but cute.
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The Bribe

Title: The Little Ones
Author: furiosity
Line from canon: "And it's also another way of weeding out Muggle-borns, because students must be given Blood Status -- meaning that they have proven to the Ministry that they are of Wizard descent -- before they are allowed to attend"
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 11 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: PG
Word Count: 2000
Notes from author or recommender: A sort-of dark, but definitely worth reading story, about what happened on Platform 9-3/4 that fateful September 1st. Shows Neville, Ginny, and Luna really springing into action.
Link for the story: Here

Title: Last Day at the Office
Author: Ilene
Line from canon: "... Arthur heard a rumor that they tried to torture your whereabouts out of Scrimgeour before they killed him; if it's true, he didn't give you away."
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 11 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: G
Word Count: 1241
Notes from author or recommender: An interesting take on Scrimgeour. I do like his thoughts about Alastor Moody in this story.
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Title: Breaking Point
Author: shimotsuki
Line from canon: "They used the Cruciatus Curse on Tonks's family. Again, trying to find out where you went after you visited them. They're all right - shaken, obviously, but otherwise okay."
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 11 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: PG-13
Word Count: 2821
Notes from author or recommender: Cruciatus is used liberally here to great effect, so be forewarned. Explores Lupin's character and what made him run away from Tonks when he found out she was pregnant.
Link for the story: Here

Magic Is Might

Title: Hogwarts Rebellion
Author: Kathryn
Line from canon: Harry . . . strode toward them and threw down the newspaper on top of their scattered parchments. A large picture of a familiar, hook-nosed, black-haired man stared up at them all, beneath a heading that read: Severus Snape Confirmed as Hogwarts Headmaster
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 12 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: PG
Word Count: 5220
Notes from author or recommender: This is the first chapter of Deathly Hallows from Ginny's point of view, starting when Arthur shows her this article. So far, two chapters are up and it is excellent. I know that the intent of this site was not long WIP, but I really couldn't leave this out. Future chapters will not be linked, but you can follow it on PhoenixSong.
Link for the story:Here

The Muggle-born Registration Commission

The Thief

The Goblin's Revenge

Title: The Sword of Gryffindor, or How it Came to Be in that Icy Pond
Author: snuggle_muggle
Line from canon: "One of the kids who tried to take the sword was Bill's younger sister. . . .She and a couple of friends got into Snape's office and smashed open the glass case where he was apparently keeping the sword. Snape caught them as they were trying to smuggle it down the stairs."
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 15 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: G
Word Count: 4500
Notes from author or recommender: This was an interesting story to write. I had to do a lot of rereading of Deathly Hallows to make sure I got all the details correct. Oh, the torture!! I hope that you all enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
Link for the story: Here

Godric's Hollow

Title: Longing
Author: Kathryn
Line from canon: . . . .after a while Harry found himself taking [the map] out simply to stare at Ginny's name in the girls' dormitory, wondering whether the intensity with which he gazed at it might break into her sleep, that she would somehow know he was thinking about her, hoping that she was all right.
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 16 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: PG-13
Word Count: 5832
Notes from author or recommender: A marvelous story about what Ginny was going through back at Hogwarts while the trio were out camping, all tied in with memories of her time with Harry during the previous year.
Link for the story: Here

Title: No Coward
Author: LadyKatie
Line from canon: “DON’T -- ” screamed Snape, and his face was suddenly demented, inhuman, as though he was in as much pain as the yelping, howling dog stuck in the burning house behind them -- “CALL ME COWARD!”
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 28 of Half-Blood Prince
Rating for the story: PG-13
Word Count: 1944
Notes from author or recommender: This is a really wonderfully crafted story about Snape’s last Halloween, after he had killed Dumbledore, and could sense his own death coming quickly.
Link for the story: Here

Title: Graveyard
Author: hogartinized
Line from canon: . . .the place where the last of Lily and James lay, bones now, surely, or dust, not knowing or caring that their living son stood so near, his heart still beating, alive because of their sacrifice. . . .
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 16 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: PG
Word Count: 680
Notes from author or recommender: Ginny and Harry return to the grave of Harry's parents after the Battle of Hogwarts. A bit angsty.
Link for the story: Here

Bathilda's Secret

The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore

Title: Better Off Said
Author:kjcp
Line from canon: The very same summer that Dumbledore went home to Godric's Hollow, now an orphan and head of the family, Bathilda Bagshot agreed to accept into her home her great-nephew, Gellert Grindelwald.
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 18 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: PG-13
Word Count: 6000+
Notes from author or recommender: An examination of the contraversial relationship between Dumbledore and Grindelwald
Link for the story: Here

The Silver Doe

Xenophilius Lovegood

The Tale of the Three Brothers

The Deathly Hallows
Title: Solving the Clues
Author:SnorkackCatcher
Line from canon: Ron continued to try to hit on the correct password, muttering strings of random words under his breath.
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 22 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: PG-13
Word Count: 8550
Notes from author or recommender: A fun read by a great author who said he was trying to work out in his own mind why you would want a password for a radio show. This is a great story if you like crosswords also as they figure prominently.
Link for the story: Here

Title: To Believe
Author: jesspallas
Line from canon: "Romulus, do you maintain, as you have every time you've appeared on our program, that Harry Potter is still alive?"
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 22 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: PG-13
Word Count: 3347
Notes from author or recommender: This story shows Tonks and Remus' relationship around Christmastime that dark year and how they try to help out some of the displaced Muggleborns.
Link for the story: Here

Malfoy Manor

Title: A Manor of Speaking
Author: BrandedFaithfully
Line from canon: Ron had burst into the drawing room; Bellatrix looked around, shocked; she turned her wand to face Ron instead . . .
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 23 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: PG-13
Word Count: 3644
Notes from author or recommender: A very good fic of Ron's POV during and immediately after the events at Malfoy Manor
Link for the story: Here

The Wandmaker

Shell Cottage

Title: A Great Wizard in the Making
Author: faithwood
Line from canon: "You'll be godfather?" [Remus] said as he released Harry.
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 25 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: PG
Word Count: 3126
Notes from author or recommender: Faithwood is one of my faves; this story really touched my heart. Harry/Ginny with lots of Teddy.
Link for the story: Here

Title: The Little Bear Cub
Author: gilpin25
Line from canon: Lupin fell over the threshold. He was white-faced, wrapped in a traveling cloak, his graying hair windswept. He straightened up, looked around the room, making sure of who was there, then cried aloud, “It’s a boy! We’ve named him Ted, after Dora’s father!”
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 25 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: R
Word Count: 5409
Notes from author or recommender: Teddy’s birth, beautifully written. Very in-character.
Link for the story: Here

Gringotts

The Final Hiding Place

The Missing Mirror

The Lost Diadem

Title: He Alone Shall Lead Them
Author: luvscharlie
Line from canon: "We lost Luna at Christmas, and Ginny never came back after Easter, and the three of us were sort of the leaders."
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 29 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: PG
Word Count: 2939
Notes from author or recommender: Nice story about Neville's feelings as he assumed leadership of the DA.
Link for the story: Here

Title: Fortifying the Keep
Author: aggiestories
Line from canon: ...that's when the passage to the Hog's Head opened up. I went through it and met Aberforth.
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 29 of Deathly Hallows
Rating: PG/Teen
Word Count: 3856
Link for the story: Here

Title: A New Alliance
Author: jncar
Line from canon: ...that's when the passage to the Hog's Head opened up. I went through it and met Aberforth.
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 29 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: PG
Word Count: 3,288
Notes from author or recommender: I love Neville, and Deathly Hallows elevated that love to a whole new level, so I'm sure this is only the first of my post-DH Neville fics. Written for the August challenge at omniocular for the prompt "Neville's first meeting with Aberforth."
Link for the story: Here

Title: The House of Blue
Author: misanagi
Line from canon: "... and then Michael Corner went and got caught releasing a first-year they'd chained up, and they tortured him pretty badly. That scared people off."
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 29 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: R (for violence and discussion of torture)
Word Count: 5000
Notes from author or recommender: Gryffindor isn't the only brave house or the only one to suffer the consequences of bravery under the Carrows.
Link for the story: Here

Title: Your Father's Son
Author: kerrymdb
Line from canon: "... Gran's on the run. She sent me a letter," [Neville] clapped a hand to the breast pocket of his robes, "telling me she was proud of me, that I'm my parent's son, and to keep it up."
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 29 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: G
Word Count: 1650
Notes from author or recommender: I originally wrote this with the intention on using this as my entry for the femgenficathon, but decided that it wasn't in the right spirit. So I offer this to you all instead. When I saw that Neville kept the letter than his gran wrote him in his robe pocket, I knew that it meant a great deal to him and wanted to explore what she might have written.
Link for the story: Here

Title: Tumble
Author: fireworkfiasco
Line from canon: “We’re his army,” said Neville. “Dumbledore’s Army. We were all in it together, we’ve been keeping it going. . . .”
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 29 in Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: PG
Word Count: 1340
Notes from author or recommender: I always love fireworkfiasco’s stories and this is no exception. Some of Ginny’s thoughts while Harry is away and she and Neville are still at school.
Link for the story: Here

The Sacking of Severus Snape

Title: The Sleeper Awakes
Author: snorkackcatcher
Line from canon: "It's been coming on for a while," said Percy ... "But I had to find a way out and it's not so easy at the Ministry, they're imprisoning traitors all the time."
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 30 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: PG-13
Word Count: 10,300
Notes from author or recommender: Percy’s story during Deathly Hallows and how he came back to his family and Hogwarts. SnorkackCatcher is a great writer and this is an excellent look at what may have been going on at the Ministry during that time.
Link for the story: Here

Title: Visiting Arthur
Author: Arnel
Line from canon: "Percy sent back his Christmas jumper." "Without a note," added George. "Hasn't asked how Dad is or visited him or anything."
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 23 of Order of the Phoenix
Rating for the story:G
Word Count: 2266
Notes from author or recommender: This story consists of 2 parts, the first is a secret trip to see Arthur after he was bit by the snake, and the second is a moment between father and son after the Battle of Hogwarts.
Link for the story: Here

The Battle of Hogwarts

Title: Failure: Her Greatest Fear
Author: thesteppyone
Line from canon: "Hermione stabbed it. Thought she should. She hasn't had the pleasure yet."
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 31 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: R
< b>Word Count:4450
Notes from author or recommender: I had always wanted to see this scene written, and I was so happy to find this one because it means I didn't have to write it myself!
Link for the story: Here

Title: A Time to Weep and a Time to Laugh
Author: parakletos
Line from canon: Fred's funeral after his death in Deathly Hallows
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 31 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: PG
Word Count: 3562
Notes from author or recommender: A bittersweet description of what Fred's funeral might have been like, as his family works to remember him as he would have liked.
Link for the story: Here

Title: Fangs for the Memories
Author: clawed_fics
Line from canon: Harry’s eyes dropped to the objects clutched in Ron and Hermione’s arms: great curved fangs, torn, he now realized from the skull of a dead basilisk.
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 31 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: PG
Word Count: 3,023
Notes from author or recommender: Ron and Hermione go down into the Chamber of Secrets and cross a threshold in their relationship.
Link for the story: Here

The Elder Wand

Title: Come Home
Author: lantis222
Line from canon: "I regret it," said Voldemort coldly. He turned away; there was no sadness in him, no remorse.
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 32 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: G
Word Count: 1316
Notes from author or recommender: Snape's death, from his point of view. There is some really lovely interaction with Lily in this story.
Link for the story: Here

The Prince's Tale

Title: Why He Hates Halloween
Author: snapesgirl21
Line from canon: Snape took the page bearing Lily’s signature, and her love, and tucked it inside his robes. Then he ripped in two the photograph he was also holding, so that he kept the part from which Lily laughed,....
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 33 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: G
Word Count: 2165
Notes from author or recommender: Five different vignettes of Severus Snape at five different Halloweens.
Link for the story: Here

The Forest Again

Title: The Last Stand
Author: jazzonia
Line from canon: They were neither ghost nor truly flesh, he could see that. . . .Less substantial than living bodies, but much more than ghosts, they moved toward him, and on each face, there was the same loving smile.
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 34 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: PG
Word Count: 1,050
Notes from author or recommender: The forest scene from the "ghosts" point of view.
Link for the story: Here

Title: What Matters Most
Author: Sherylyn
Line from canon: Harry swung the Cloak back over himself and walked on. Someone else was moving not far away, stooping over another prone figure on the ground. He was feet away from her when he realized it was Ginny.
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 34 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: PG
Word Count: 9459
Notes from author or recommender: A beautiful story about that last bit of Deathly Hallows and beyond from Ginny's point of view.
Link for the story: Here

Title: I Want To Go Home
Author: sky
Line from canon: "But I want to go home," whispered the girl. "I don't want to fight anymore!"
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 34 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: PG
Word Count: 4,420
Notes from author or recommender: This is a sad story, but it explains very well what Ginny was doing out on the grounds when Harry saw her on his way into the forest.
Link for the story: Here

Title: Respite
Author: antoshevu
Line from canon: How neat, how elegant, not to waste any more lives, but to give the dangerous task to the boy who had already been marked for slaughter, and whose death would not be a calamity, but another blow against Voldemort.
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 34 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: PG
Word Count: 3500
Notes from author or recommender: Oh, I do not think you could really read this story without getting chills as Dumbledore’s plot is fully revealed to Minerva. She takes it with all the pleasure you would expect. I admit it, I started crying. But then, I’m a moosh.
Link for the story: Here

King's Cross

Title: Uncloaking
Author: shiiki
Line from canon: “You have guessed, I know, why the cloak was in my possession on the night your parents died. James had showed it to me just a few days previously.”
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 35 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: PG
Word Count: 2359
Notes from author or recommender: I had wanted to write this scene myself, but was glad when I saw that someone else had done it. It brings in the “Tale of the Three Brothers” and everything. Very nicely done.
Link for the story: Here

The Flaw in the Plan

Title: Afterthoughts
Author: loverlydaisy520
Line from canon: [Harry] turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower, and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there.
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 36 of the Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: PG
Word Count: 3564
Link for the story: Here

Title: What Followed
Author: rhweasley4evah
Line from canon: [Harry] turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower, and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there.
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 36 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: PG-13
Word Count:2100
Notes from author or recommender: A slightly different take on what Ron and Hermione do after Harry leaves Dumbledore's office. Most stories assume the three are together, but the text really does not say that, so this writer has them heading a different direction.
Link for the story: Here

Title: The Hope of Her
Author: Ellyse
Line from canon: "I'm putting the Elder Wand . . .back where it came from. It can stay there."
Chapter and book canon quote is found in: Chapter 36 of Deathly Hallows
Rating for the story: PG
Word Count: 4200
Notes from author or recommender: Another after-battle story with Harry and Ginny reuniting. It's cute and I really love the end.
Link for the story: Here