Christmas With Lily by ladybracknell

Rated: 3rd-5th Years •
Summary: It's Christmas Eve in the Gryffindor common room, and nothing is stirring except two Gryffindor prefects. Remus/Lily

Always At Your Service, My Queen by Mistletoe

Rated: 3rd-5th Years •
Summary: What would you do if the person you were the most loyal to was the person who could break you the instant it was necessary?

“My Queen, I can help you.”

If there was no way the Queen of England was going to have a healthy male heir without you?

“Maria, this birth will be pure in the face of God.”

If the only thing Maria Torres could do was directly defy the orders of Queen Katherine of Aragon?

“The potion is ready.”

Honey by Rhi for HP

Rated: 1st-2nd Years •
Summary: Nine year-old Snape is all alone and hungry...

The Soul's Surrender by florian_f

Rated: 3rd-5th Years •
Summary: What could have been the final battle ends in Harry's death. Is it really the end, though? Something just doesn't seem quite right to Hermione, and a desperate search leads to a dark discovery about Harry Potter.

Roses and Thorns by Phoebe Gruzelier

Rated: 3rd-5th Years •
Summary: Love's not a bed of roses...
there's also pain, betrayal and heart-break.

A lonely and neglected girl. A stubborn young Order member. A sarcastic Healer. Hermione's been trusted with a secret. But with knowledge comes danger...

Againster a backround of prejudice, family ties and surpression, two powerful love stories are playing themselves out. But the clock is ticking against them...

War Torn by OliveOil_Med

Rated: 1st-2nd Years •
Summary: Kalama Jameson has just ended her first year at the Kailani Shamanic Institute when the war in Britian is just beginning. Even all the way in Honolulu, news of the violence is travel fast, and so is the threat of danger. Kalama is barely home for a day when her stepfather and her little sister confront her and beg her not to go back to school next autumn, in the hopes that is she stays away from that world, it will keep her safe.

But there is a lot more that Kalama has to lose besides her own education. Before her mother died, she made a promise that she would become a witch and carry on her real father's legacy. So now, she must decide which is more important: the only people in the world who love her, or a promise to the dead.

I am OliveOil_Med of Ravenclaw, and this is my entry for the Fire Challange.
2nd Place Winner of the Fire Challange!

Following His Father's Footsteps by bling_baby

Rated: 3rd-5th Years •
Summary: James Potter, son of the famous Harry Potter, starts his fifth year at Hogwarts with great enthusiasm as he expects that this will be his best year yet. He is unaware however of the sinister things that lies in store for him and his friends.
But first not only does he need to find out who he's fighting but who he's protecting...

EXTRACT FROM CHAPTER 3:
He was breathing deeply, his chest heaving in an out with such intensity that he could almost cry due to the lack of oxygen. If his pulse hadn't slowed down, the blood no longer rushing to his head, he would not have noticed that someone else was there with him.

Her eyes were dark, but ghostly at the same time and her skin was as pale as he ever remembered. Her gaunt face revealled one of some anguish, her soul clearly still tortured.
"Hello, Caprilla."

Let No One Put Asunder by DeeDeeVee

Rated: 6th-7th Years •
Summary:

With the war over, Harry is looking forward to sharing a life of peace & happiness with Ginny. But once again he finds himself pitted against someone out to destroy him; someone on a deadly quest for revenge but whose identity is a mystery.

'Til the Last Moment by Rachel_Marie

Rated: 1st-2nd Years •
Summary: In his 4th year at Hogwarts, Severus Snape is given the chance of a lifetime. His father finally wants him to come home for Christmas. But one thing after another happens and an unlucky turn of events causes him to lose his way. He only has a day to get home. Or he risks never seeing his father again. Is there any chance of Severus finding happiness this Christmas?

I am Rachel_Marie of Hufflepuff and this is my entry for the Winter Snows Challenge Prompt #1.

To Draco, With Love by Hutchinson

Rated: 1st-2nd Years •
Summary: Draco somehow managed to get his very own advice column in Hogwarts' school paper, where he gives his sage opinion to those who dare to ask for it. Feel free to write in for advice about love, life, school, family, anything you can think of! But remember... with Draco, you tend not to get the answer you expected!