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Hey I'm looking for a fic, can't remember if its old or new. The story goes: Harry has suffered memory loss of some sort and cannot remeber being married to Draco and having a kid with him, their kid hates draco but adores Harry and this makes Draco depressed and what makes it worse is Harry acts the way he still did in school Draco. Draco is pregnant with another kid but refuses to tell harry and we find out that the kid has to claw the way out of draco and she decides to end their lives because she can see how depressed Draco is.
I am really rubbish with summaries ='[
Thanks for the help!!!
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A friend of mine is dying for some George/Luna fics. any suggestions?

Hi guys,
I hope general fic searches are welcome here (if not, please tell me so and I'll delete my post) : I'm searching for Harry/Ron fics where they slowly realise that what they feel for each other is more than common friendship. I'd like a really slow buildup (that still leads to smut eventually plz) and you'll get bonus points if one or both of them didn't know he liked boys. I'm an H/D shipper but I can see H/R being quite good, I just haven't read the story that will make me like it yet. Thanks in advance !

Hey everyone! I read "The Final Apparition" by knightmare a while ago and wanted to read it again. The author might also go by shade or shade aka knightmare. I did a search and wasn't able to find it since knightmare seems to have deleted any accounts. I remember reading it on AFF that first time.

I was wondering if anyone knows of a site I missed or if anyone has a copy of the story. I would greatly appreciate any help.

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Hi!
I just recently got into Drarry fic. I read this one fic, but I can’t remember which fic it was. I can only remember one part of it:

Draco and Harry were investigating something in the castle and they were under the invisibility cloak. They snuck into this room where Dumbledore and Snape were discussing something secretive, I can’t remember what it was. They were in a corner, up against the wall, and Draco was in front of Harry, pressing him against the wall. Somehow, it led to Draco rubbing himself against Harry and Harry kissing his neck. Then Draco moans and they were afraid that Dumbledore or Snape had caught them.

I’m also looking for some good Drarry fics. Because I’ve just gotten into the fandom I would love for some recs. They can be any length, but please, all happy endings. I don’t mind the angst. Actually, I love the angst. I’m not a huge fluff fan, unless it’s a funny fic. And please, only R or NC-17 fics. I would love some of the following:

*Infidelity fics (Just them cheating on other people, no Drarry cheating on each other.)
*Hogwarts fics
*Fics where they start off hating each other.
*Draco and Harry pretend to be in love/boyfriends/like each other
*Draco and Harry are forced together. i.e. a spell or potion
*Rentboy fics

And if anyone has a fic that fits all/most of the above, that would be great!
Thanks!

Hi

The story i'm looking for is from Snape's POV and he is sitting at an awards ceremony after the war is over. there are two people getting awards, him and sirius. the minister is giving a big speech, praising the work of one man and Snape expects it to be him but the award is given to Sirius. The next award goes to Snape and when he goes up to accept it, everybody in the room stands up and starts clapping (Harry stands up and claps first).

After, Snape leaves and Sirius follows him. Slash ensues.

Thanks so much for any help :)

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Hello :),
Does anyone know where one might find Heaven Shine a Light Down on Me by Dark Cyan Star.I'm not sure if the author has put it back up online or not, so if you know where it is could you please tell me. Or if anyone has it saved could you send it to me or something...please!!!
Vena.
email: venacavarex@hotmail.com

I've been looking for this fic for over a year and it's driving me nuts!

It was Harry/Draco and slightly AU. All wizards/witches go through this process that lasts a night or so; it's very painful and seems to be similar to puberty, in a way. Everybody is paired up before this happens to them, though, and the other person helps them deal with the agony. There are several stages one of which is where the person changing gets very horny and does everything they can to convince their partner to have sex with them [no, Harry and Draco don't have sex at that part]; another stage is where they are so sensitive that if something rubs against them, their skin can peel off [it was either that or they get so itchy that they will itch until they scratch off their skin]. After the process is finished, they change in some way and it becomes physically obvious what they are destined to be. Draco ends up being a healer, which is apparently very rare. After "changing" you're more or less bonded to that partner.

It's quite a long one, each chapter a couple thousand words and anywhere from 15-30-ish chapters long, if I remember correctly.

I also have this vivid memory of Draco proving himself to be a healer by fixing a woman's face who was horribly disfigured, even re-growing her eyes.

I can't remember what Harry was, but his change was before the story started and, through a round-about way, he ended up changing alone.

I'm not sure if I'm making this up, but I seem to recall reading a fic slashing Harry and Snape in which Snape was an incubus. I think they met up at a club at one point...little vague on that...and for a while Snape was refusing to physically be with Harry because he was afraid that he would either harm Harry or have to turn him into an Incubus too.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?

Hello,
I'm searching for good fics that involve Remus and Harry as main characters. Not necessarily slashed together, I'm just in the mood for more Remus.
Also, more specifically, I'm trying to find a fic I read a while back where Remus was Harry's guardian and forced him to go through a ritual that would end in an arranged marriage to a husband that Remus chose for him. For a while, it looked like Draco Malfoy was a front runner to be chosen. Sound familiar to anyone?
T

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Hey LJers,

I just wanted to let you all know that we are going to be performing some mogilefs maintenance over the next few days. We will be upgrading our current version to latest stable as well as changing some db config information to better handle the amount of files we are currently hosting. This shouldn't cause a big impact on site stability, but you may see some minor delays with userpic / scrapbook images appearing or other requests associated with our mogilefs. We would love to not have that happen, but unfortunately with some of the steps we need to take we have to cause a delay with images. I figured this was a better solution than taking down all of LiveJournal because well lets face it, we all need our daily LJ fix ;)

Thanks,