Stories by NouvRouv

Lily and James Potter are dead. The Longbottom have disappeared. Sirius Black has killed Peter Pettigrew and twelve Muggles after betraying the Potters to Voldemort. Afraid of what could happen to Harry in the aftermath of Voldemort's disappearance and with Petunia refusing to take him in, Dumbledore decides to have him grow up in an isolated wizarding village in Romania. AU.

After the Basilisk's attack, and with Sirius Black loose, Dumbledore must make a decision. To have Dementors roaming Hogwarts, further risking the students' wellbeing, or to move their location temporarily? During the Welcoming Feast, students find out that the decision made was for Durmstrang to 'host' Hogwarts and its students until Sirius Black would be caught.

By all accounts, Alphard Black was the perfect Black. There was, however, a single problem. Very few knew, and those few would not speak a word of it. See, dear reader, Alphard Black was horribly, terribly infatuated with Muggles.

With OWLs knocking at his door in a few months, a bored and reactive Sirius Black gets banished to his uncle Alphard as punishment. Only to find that with Alphard Black as an uncle, his punishment is in fact not only a welcome respite from his immediate family, and not only a chance to deepen his knowledge of Muggles, but the start of him realising what it means to grow up.

Accompanying piece to 'Alas, what pitiful longing' that contains Remus's and Magdalena's budding friendship and intimacies, outside of their interactions with Sirius, since the defeat of Greyback, until the epilogue.

Having just escaped from the Dementor's kiss, with instructions from Dumbledore, Sirius Black is to remain in hiding at a strange, foreign witch's house. How hard can it be to simply lay low? When you have spent more than a third of your life in Azkaban, it is harder than one can imagine. Not canon compliant & no horcruxes.

Abraxas Malfoy is being a dutiful father of the groom by helping organise the wedding, choosing the music, the orchestra, and promptly becoming infatuated with one of the young musicians. His second lovestory, however, is not welcomed by everyone, and causes discontent within the family.

A look into Viktor Krum's romantic life in Durmstrang, prior to the Triwizard Tournament, and an answer to why he clung onto Hermione Granger so soon his arrival to Hogwarts. This work acts both as a standalone prequel and sequel to 'Ode to lone souls'. The work in itself can be enjoyed as-is as well. If you're following the main story, this work has no spoilers.

Keep your friends close, and witches taking you to an all-expenses paid trip to your birthplace closer. A few years out of Azkaban, Karkaroff is brought along a train ride to act as a translator for a Durmstrang colleague that utterly despises him. He decides to go along and enjoy the ride, but by the end of it, ends up enjoying a bit more than just the train.

The death of a Durmstrang Headmistress spurs long-forgotten memories for both Albus Dumbledore and Phineas Nigellus Black. Slowly, they each start to remember the effect she had in their lives, for better or worse. Some recollections are to be shared, and some, to be remembered privately. Contains violence and mild sexual themes.