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1001 Tonks is captured by Death Eaters during a mission for the Order. She wakes up chained in a dark room, but there is no one in sight. In fact, she doesn’t see anyone while she’s held hostage. After two days, she hears a few Death Eaters’ talk about why Voldemort wants Tonks kept alive: he needs Remus Lupin. Why? He was the one RAB gave the real locket to. Why could Regulus Black trust Remus Lupin over anyone else? Since all he had to go on was the Death Eater’s word, why did Remus trust him back? CREATED BY AMY Titles
1002 Half the trio is fighting again, which isn’t a big surprise, but Hermione loses her nerve and shoots a spell at Ron. The Silencing Charm never gets to the intended target, but there’s a quick burst of blue light and no one can speak. Literally, their voices are gone. How do they go about trying to fix the problem without being able to verbally communicate, and more importantly, figure out why Hermione’s spell backfired on everyone in the first place? CREATED BY AMY Titles
1003 What happens when all the magic in the world turns off? What witches and wizards can survive like Muggles? What’s wrong with magic? How does the death of Dumbledore tie into it all? Without magic, could Voldemort be defeated more easily, or is it exactly the opposite? CREATED BY AMY Titles
2001 Remus’ first girlfriend finds out he’s a werewolf. CREATED BY AMY
1004 Scabbers has been in the Weasley family for over a decade, but no one’s ever really said how he got to be there. Percy in his medieval craze, Fred and George digging through London sewers, and a prank of extraordinary proportions leads to the knighting of a smelly old rat. And what’s with the name Scabbers anyway? CREATED BY AMY Titles
2002 Dumbledore relived his memories when drinking the potion (HBP). CREATED BY AMY
1005 Fred and George weren’t lying when they told Ron that spell would turn his ‘stupid, fat rat yellow’, the youngest Weasley brother just didn’t know that the sunshine and daisies directed their color-changing to the human, not the rat. How does Peter Pettigrew react when he transforms and finds his skin unnaturally shaded? CREATED BY AMY
1006 Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle are Hogwarts’ most amazing failures and Malfoy’s most trusted lackies. They are constantly made fun of for their lack of intelligence, but what if they aren’t as dumb as they look? Malfoy wants them to drink Polyjuice Potion that will turn them into girls, but they refuse. What happens when Malfoy is outnumbered, outmuscled, and outwitted? CREATED BY AMY
1007 Fred and George Weasley are more dependent on magic than they realize. It’s another usual day when they wake up, but the trouble is, they can’t find their wands. This is certainly the single most difficult day for them to lose their precious possessions, since several Weasley Wizard Wheezes inventions are going haywire. Sparks flying, are the Weasley twins able to control their joke shop while it’s out of control without the use of magic? CREATED BY AMY Titles
2003 Lily walks in on James and another girl snogging. CREATED BY AMY
1008 At first sight, the baby on her doorstep frightened Petunia. When she read the letter from Dumbledore, she began to sob. It was her sister, after all. Vernon analyzed the situation and he made her realize how much she used to detest her sister. But was it really realization that made her change her mind to make her nephew’s life miserable, or was it stubbornness in not being able to cope with losing her sister (both when she left for Hogwarts and when she died)? Petunia had a mental battle throughout the first eleven years she sheltered Harry, in which her husband constantly reminded her of why they treated the boy the way they did. Perhaps the real reason Petunia wanted to shield Harry from magic was because she didn’t want to lose him, too. CREATED BY AMY
1009 There’s quite the accident in the third years’ Potions class and Snape is furious that his Billywig bottles were smashed. Now the entire class is in detention while the teachers collect the pesky bug. Snape knows the exact amount, however, and he’s missing an entire jar-full. The Billywigs get around the school and, since their sting causes giddiness and levitation, there are a lot of happy, hovering students in the halls. CREATED BY AMY Titles
2004 Mrs. Weasley finds out Harry is Fred and George’s financial backer. CREATED BY AMY
1010 Oliver Wood wasn’t always so uptight, especially about Quidditch. A bad family situation led him to obsess over the only activity that ever made him happy, and only after he got onto a pro team did his parents acknowledge his skills. He didn’t struggle through the years to impress his parents, but to make his life a little more enjoyable. He never realized how insanely into the sport he’d become because he loved it so much. CREATED BY AMY
1011 Quidditch is the most popular sport in the wizarding world and most of the sport’s real fans are crazy about their favorite teams. A semi-finalist match to the Quidditch World Cup between Ireland and Germany brings in a lot of fans, so when a few questionable plays are made, it leads to some pretty violent outbreaks in the stands. How crazy can Quidditch make these people? CREATED BY AMY Titles
1012 With everything Harry’s gone through, Dumbledore suggests he go to the school psychiatrist. Yes, there is one and the position is not new. The reason no one has ever heard of it is because, well, no one’s ever needed to see one before. Harry might be ridiculed for the outrageous things the psychiatrist wants him to do to release his anger and grief, but over all it seems as though his emotions are under control. It seems… CREATED BY AMY Titles
1013 A five-year-old Ron Weasley listens to bedtimes stories read by his father from books like The Adventures of Beetle the Bard. Ah, but when Mr. Weasley leaves the room, he’s left with Fred and George and they tell their little brother a few horror stories about a certain creepy-crawler that result in an irrational fear of spiders for the rest of Ron’s life. CREATED BY AMY Titles
2005 Sirius illegally imports a magic carpet into Britain. CREATED BY AMY
1014 According to Wood, you can’t cancel Quidditch, but what if they did? Forever. The Ministry shut down all Quidditch and Quidditch-related activities at Hogwarts because they found it to be too violent a game for children. The school reacts, and even the teachers get in on the protests that follow. CREATED BY AMY
1015 Some Gryffindor guys are using superglue for a Muggle Studies project and spill a bunch on Harry’s invisibility cloak, but he doesn’t notice because he fell asleep writing a Potions essay next to it. The next time he puts it on, he can’t get it off. CREATED BY AMY Titles
1016 Fred and George are sneaking around in a secret passageway when they find an interesting artifact. They make the mistake of touching it at the same time, and they switch bodies. No one notices the difference, and when they tell everyone what happened, no one believes them. The twins realize how alike they are and try to start acting like different people. The only problem is, when they return to their own bodies, they have to be each other again because of how they acted in each others bodies. CREATED BY AMY
1017 What if Thestrals really were bad omens? Harry starts seeing a few around school, following some students he assumes are ‘marked for death’ and it starts to worry him. He tried to tell Dumbledore but he says he shouldn’t worry about them. When Harry attains his own omen, a talk with Luna Lovegood makes him realize that he’s the only one who sees them. CREATED BY AMY
2006 Luna brings Neville hunting for Crumplehorn Snorkacks. CREATED BY AMY
2007 Fred and George really send Ginny a Hogwarts’ toilet seat (PS). CREATED BY AMY
1018 An angry student wants to take revenge for a horrible grade that the Ancient Ruins professor gave him/her on a project. The student persuades a few House-elves to put a Babbling Draught in the teacher’s drink, but some tampering the drink in the kitchen turned it into a different potion. When the professor drinks the potion, he can only speak in riddles (or rhymes). The class is hard enough trying to understand normally, so how do the students get through their N.E.W.T. Ancient Ruins class when they can’t understand their teacher? CREATED BY AMY
1019 Dean Thomas has Muggle parents, and he decided not to tell them anything about the war going on in the wizarding world. He never planned to just in case they took him out of school, so what does he tell them when he has to go ‘on the run’? Does he tell his parents anything? CREATED BY AMY Titles
1020 Ron writes a book on the full adventures of the trio titled Seven Years to Save the World, which would eventually make him famous. While he wrote, his editor wanted him to change some of the parts of the book, especially downplaying Harry’s role, but Ron argued that he’d give an account of the whole truth or nothing at all. CREATED BY AMY Titles
1021 It’s odd that of the three, Sirius was the one not to marry. He was the best looking, the most carefree and reckless…no, wait. It’s not that odd. It would be odd if Sirius obsessed over girls the way they obsess over him. Let’s say Sirius isn’t the desirable, handsome one of the Marauders. He gets rejections every day, his hair is awful and he smells?! Can Sirius really be Sirius if he isn’t attractive? CREATED BY AMY Titles
2008 Everything Fleur plants in her garden dies. CREATED BY AMY
1022 Remus is just about to sit down to a hot cup of tea by the fire when Sirius bursts in babbling about how he didn’t know where else to turn and that they wouldn’t leave him alone. Following close behind him is a crowd of drunken louts, crazy and plastered, and they won’t go home. Remus has a large party on his hands while he wants to strangle Sirius with them. CREATED BY AMY
1023 Hermione Weasley didn’t want to have children, and being a child of seven, her husband didn’t understand the concept, but when Hermione has an affair with someone at her work, she feels so bad about it that she tells Ron she’ll have as many kids as he wants. Looking at her children just reminds her of how unfaithful she was to her husband. CREATED BY AMY
1024 Ginny tries her hand at baking and makes a delicious cake she calls “Death By Chocolate”. It’s so popular that she decides to sell the recipe to the Ice Creamery in Diagon Alley. All of the sudden, the people that have eaten the cake are getting gravely ill and Harry and Ginny have to reverse the effects of her deadly cooking while they themselves are sick. CREATED BY AMY
1025 Things in the wizarding world are quite peaceful after the defeat of Voldemort, but on the 10 year anniversary of his death, some Death Eaters return to the country for vengeance. Britain needs a Minister who knows how to deal with problems like this, and everyone is asking for Harry Potter. He struggles with the choice of helping rid the world of the last of Voldemort’s followers by filling the position because of the decisions of his mentor. He doesn’t yet know if power will become more important than love. CREATED BY AMY Titles
2009 Correspondence – Harry finds a box full of letters from Lily to Sirius. CREATED BY AMY
1026 George is devastated by his brother’s death after the battle at Hogwarts and it takes him months to mourn. His first night back in the apartment above the joke shop is terrible for the lone twin, and he decides it would be too painful to reopen Weasley Wizard Wheezes. The most unlikely of his brothers helps George through the rough time and changes his mind about opening the shop, because Percy promises that he’ll manage it with him. CREATED BY AMY Titles
1027 After a long week at work, Ginny suggests that Harry do something relaxing. He calls up Ron, who had been talking to Dean Thomas the day before, and he suggested they go fishing—the Muggle way. They make a day trip of it (Harry, Ron, Dean and Seamus), but what they failed to realized previous to launching the boat was that none of them know how to fish. CREATED BY AMY
1028 Love makes you do things you wouldn’t normally do, and say things you don’t mean. Draco Malfoy and Ginny Weasley had been dating for a little over ten months when Draco popped the question. Ginny blindly excepts his proposal, but soon finds out she never really wanted to marry Draco. She tries to find a way to back out of the marriage without hurting her fiancé, and who should help her in doing so but Harry. CREATED BY AMY
2010 Harry and Ginny grow closer by sharing how it felt to be possessed by Voldemort. CREATED BY AMY
1029 Godric’s Hollow was abandoned after the Potters’ death, but once Harry moved out of the Dursley’s, he figured he had two living options. One of them being Grimmauld Place, he really didn’t want to return there. He tries to destroy the old remains of Godric’s Hollow, but there seem to be protective charms surrounding the building. He and his friends and even some co-workers from the Ministry try to level it, but nothing works. Harry asks if they can rebuild the house from the remains and receives a big surprise when he visits the house the next day. CREATED BY AMY
1030 Teddy Lupin looks likes his parents, but he acts like his godfather, so when he turns seven and starts to show his first signs of magic, he wreaks havic on his grandmother’s house. Andromina has to ask the advice of a stern witch who she knows will be able to handle the situation—Mrs. Longbottom. CREATED BY AMY
2011 Lavender asks Dumbledore to change what grade levels the Divination professors teach. CREATED BY AMY
1031 Mr. Wealsey asks the trio if they’d like to go back to the Department of Mysteries. Harry, of course, declines the invite, but Ron and Hermione want another look. This time, an Unmentionable chaperones them through the mazes of the Ministry department, but that doesn’t stop a brain from attacking Ron again. Hermione is also attacked, and once they are untangled from the mess, they quickly leave. When the three of them get home, Harry is the one to deduce that his best friends have switched brains. How does he react to a stupid Hermione and a brilliant Ron? CREATED BY AMY
1032 George falls in love with a Muggle girl, and Fred teases him about it. When George can’t make it to a date with her one evening, he asks Fred to let her know for him, but how can the troublesome twin resist? Fred poses as George on his date and makes a fool out of his brother. CREATED BY AMY Titles
1033 Sirius buys a motorbike to enchant it, but wants to take a test drive on the ground first. The thing is, he’s never driven anything in his life. He’s in it deep when a policeman pulls him over and asks for his license, because obviously he hasn’t got one. CREATED BY AMY Titles
1034 A week after Fred’s death, George threatens Hermione for her Time-Turner and makes her swear not to tell anyone that he’s got it. He sets himself up to turn back time to change what happened to his brother, but medaling with time is dangerous, and George isn’t careful enough. Now things are even more disastrous than they were before and he has to fix it to make sure the rest of his family doesn’t die as a result. The hardest thing is that when he fixes it, he has to do the same thing he did the first time, but with the knowledge that he’s letting his brother die again. CREATED BY AMY
2012 His third year, Sirius is accused of being gay. He takes it upon himself to prove that that accusation is very false. CREATED BY AMY
1035 Igor Karkaroff, a known death eater, was imprisoned in the First War, but was released for exposing several other Death Eaters. There was bound to be some anger amongst the remaining members of Voldemort's followers when that occurred - how could they let the snitch live when he knew them all? A great chase went on to capture Karkaroff which would make him long for his jail cell. How did the ex-Death Eater get out of it alive? He sought the only protection he was guaranteed - a school. CREATED BY AMY
2013 Ginny’s mourning of Fred, Tonks and Lupin drives her to starve herself, and Harry starts to notice when no one else does. This could be the start to rekindling their relationship. CREATED BY AMY Titles
1036 Pius Thicknesse, the Minister proceeding Scrimgeour, was under the Imperius Curse by the Death Eater Yaxley for his entire campaign, or so Yaxley told Voldemort. Yaxley was never any good at the Imperius Curse, so he confronted Thicknesse the only way he knew would work - threatening death. The Death Eater must go through some nerve-wrecking trials to keep the Minister in line without the Dark Lord finding out. Once Bellatrix finds out about it, Voldemort is not pleased that Yaxley risked the Ministry's defeat because he wanted to impress his master. CREATED BY AMY
1037 Tom Riddle asked for a job at Hogwarts as the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, but Dumbledore knows better than to allow him access to the school, but if he lets him disappear again, how will he keep track of the wizard’s activities? Dumbledore gives Riddle the job so that he can keep an eye on him, but his decision may cost a few students their grades…and possibly their lives. CREATED BY AMY Titles
1038 Unlike her sister, Narcissa Black did not hate Sirius because of his beliefs. No, it was not her cousin she despised, exactly. Cissa was never into the ‘pureblood pride’ theme. She was just a girl with dreams of romance and love and all the other fantasies of a young lady. The reason she hated Sirius was because he was sorted into Gryffindor and ruined the family name. Her parents sought desperately to reclaim pride in the name of Black and a good way to do that was to use one of their expendable daughters as bait for the other pureblood families. Andromeda refused to be a pawn, so they went for the weakest of the bunch, and Cissa was chosen to be the playmate, and eventually wife, of one Lucius Malfoy—rich in blood and wealth—but she did not love him. So why did Narcissa give up her future? Weakness is a terrible thing, but guilt is worse. The next time the two cousins meet, it isn’t over crumpets and tea. CREATED BY AMY Titles
1039 Snape steps out for a week from his teaching position and an inexperienced substitute is called in. The Potion’s Master didn’t leave very detailed instructions, only writing ‘Memory Potions’ on a slip of paper on his desk. So when the sub attempts to explain he/she doesn’t do a splendid job and the student’s potions come out…quite wrong. The spells are too big to control and pass throughout the entire school. No one remembers who they are, where they’re at or what they’re doing there. Show the process of the adventurous students who try to figure out all these questions and slowly come to some realization, and initially shock, at the purpose of the sticks in their possession. And does Snape’s return worsen matters or does he set everything right again? CREATED BY AMY Titles
2014 Andromina finds Remus and Tonks’ will. CREATED BY AMY
2015 Peter does something really stupid, but when Sirius tries to make a joke out of it, he can’t think of anything. After several attempts, he realizes he can’t come up with any more jokes. CREATED BY AMY Titles
1040 Peter Pettigrew received an Order of Merlin for standing up to murderous Sirius Black, but what happened to that honor when Sirius was revealed to be innocent and Peter found guilty? After Sirius’ death and the confusion following the defeat of Voldemort, the new minister wanted to make friendly with Harry Potter by presenting him with his own Order of Merlin, along with one for Sirius. Harry, though, thought back on what his godfather had said about previous Blacks’ awards and refused to accept them, saying he was disgusted by the inscription ‘services to the Ministry’. He knew Sirius deserved one, but not for being close to Harry. The minister’s reaction is astounding, and the wizarding world is appalled—but at whom? CREATED BY AMY
1041 As an April Fools prank, Harry slips some potion in Ron’s goblet at breakfast, intending him to make a fool of himself by falling madly in love with the first girl he saw, but Ron was not supposed to see Pansy Parkinson first. The whole day the love-struck Gryffindor fawns over Parkinson. As the potion starts to wear off, Pansy realizes that she actually enjoyed it, though she doesn’t dare show it. The following morning she begins fawning over Ron, pretending she’s now the one under the influence of magic, but Ron sees through it. He’s stunned at her approach and doesn’t quite what to make of it. This is Pansy we’re talking about. CREATED BY AMY
1042 Hermione’s just had the worst day of her life. She received her first detention since first year for helping Ron and Harry with their potion and Snape had taken hers, saying he wouldn’t grade it. Her first mistake was experimenting with spells when she was angry. It happened so suddenly, she hadn’t realized what she did—she ended up in Potion’s class, Ron whispering to her from his table. She has to keep repeating her bad day, and the same exact things happen to her over and over again until she wises up and finally tries to do something different, but she finds that’s a lot harder than it sounds. CREATED BY AMY
1043 Next to the Wolfsbane Potion, there have been no cures to the effects of a werewolf’s bite, but an aspiring young witch created the complete cure of werewolfism. Because it was so expensive, no werewolves could actually afford the cure, however, and the creation got little notice. Once the werewolf population started to get out of control, the Ministry bought the potion from the witch, because the cost outweighed the destruction the werewolves were causing. They made it a law that all werewolves were to receive the cure. Some were rebellious and refused to get cured. The Ministry enlists Remus Lupin as a bounty hunter to bring all the werewolves in who refuse to receive the cure, but if he takes the job, the Ministry won’t allow him to be cured himself (they don’t want him to be at a disadvantage) until the job is done—which might be years. He struggles to decide if he should do what is best and tries to convince himself that he can go a few more years knowing he could be free of the wolf. But can he? CREATED BY AMY Titles
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