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'The mouth snapped at him, thick saliva dripped from the elongated fangs and the yellow eyes gleamed at him in hunger.' Remus Lupin's past.

Every man tends a secret garden, and Neville Longbottom is no exception. He is a good boy, a diligent boy, and he does his best to tend it well in the moldering house of his grandmother, but every secret garden has a dark place where even the hands that tend it dare not venture.

Everyone has a limit, a point at which even the most opimistic person in world loses all hope. When suddenly they know there is no point anymore because it will all end badly. Yet some people still go on hoping after this because there is nothing else they can do when they are so removed from the wizarding world that it's all just stories in a newspaper. But they still feel the pain and even when there is no hope left they have to keep grieving and remember those who've died because it's all they can do.

You think muggle-borns are opressed? Wait until you meet Joseph Bloauiex, human/goblin mix!

Ever wonder what would happen if the Meterpreters gave advice?

Narcissa Malfoy wanders through her garden and wonders of what has she become, and if she could ever escape her prison.

A re-telling, of sorts, of the journey through the tunnel to the Shrieking Shack in which Harry decides it's not a good idea to visit Hagrid when a mass-murderer is on the loose.

Everyone understands Lavender Brown. They understand her obsession with passion-pink-lipstick, they comprehend that she gossips and creates scandals. The only problem is that nobody really knows Lavender… they can’t, because she doesn’t even know herself.

"Everyone knew Argus Filch was horrible. Whenever Miles Bletchley opened his mouth to complain about their awful school caretaker, his peers were quick to nod and moan in agreement. But Miles felt that no one truly hated the caretaker the way he did. And Filch seemed to reserve extra special hatred for him." Miles Bletchley/Argus Filch slash. Written for the OTP Valentine's Day Challenge.

One Hogsmeade trip, Sirius decides it would be a good idea to make Remus dance with him.

"Harry thought she looked like a picture he'd seen in 'Holidays With Hags'..." What it's been like to grow up as the fat, ugly Slytherin.

As the sextet find some time to have a good chat and sort some things out, a large force of Death Eaters are on their way to cleanse Hogsmeade. Lots of non-fluffy fluff, whizz-bang special effects, and a Death Eater with a splitting headache. Rated for violence, gore and huge nasty pointy teeth.

Reporter Noelle Eyre is doing another interview. This time she is interviewing a portrait of Hogwarts founders, but one's missing. I'll give you four guesses as to who.

Remus searches to save Sirius. Inspired by the quote: "Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."``-Josephus Daniels

He thought he had left behind his true home forever, until a familiar face teaches him otherwise. Maybe it hadn't been home at all. Closure. Post-OoTP.

There is very little I can say when I feel this way.

Harry would die for the stars. Draco knows better.

Music, magic, madness, and a morning in Azkaban.

Severus Snape was sent to Cornwall in the summer of 1996 by Dumbledore to do 'Order work' which really meant relax. Follow Snape's excursion in the Muggle world with a new identity and new discoveries to technology and being social. It's a laugh, really.

What happens when Lucius finds out about his wife's little hobby?

The newest Weasley has faced problems before, but things are starting to get more complicated as she finds herself in a new relationship.

Draco thinks back to his last night with Harry. One-shot. Draco's POV.

AU. "I was born in Azkaban..." Following the death of her French grandfather, the daughter of Bellatrix Lestrange is brought to England to live with her relatives, the Malfoys. The story begins in the summer holidays between CoS and PoA.

A look into why Peter Pettigrew went bad. Year One

Albus Dumbledore is not who everyone thought he was. Aberforth Dumbledore doesn't understand English for a reason. The Ithryn Luin have completed their purpose in Middle Earth, and the fourth age is ended...

Hermione goes to visit Ron the night of his poisoning. Can she find it within herself to put all the heartache he's caused her aside? Is she willing to give him a final try? HBP Spoilers, song-fic to Beth Nielsen Chapman's 'Deeper Still'

She never thought she'd end up here, with him.

What really happened that Halloween night? It was a night of murder and mayhem, but who killed whom? How did Voldemort mark Harry?

Sometimes the answer hurts too much, and waiting is all you have left. H/D slash.

Draco has died gruesomely and Hermione is left behind to lament his loss. Tchaikovsky and an old cracked mirror are her only confidants, and she struggles to accept the truth. Draco is dead and he's not coming back. Implied HG/DM romance. Warning, though: contains graphic death imagery and currents of self-harm.

A fic loosely based on the song “Carry This Picture” by Dashboard Confessional. It’s after the war, and Harry is dead. Ginny decided she needed a change of scene to pull herself out of her deep depression. She headed to Florida and fell in love. G/OC

Percy works late. Arthur plays Father Christmas.

"The cold stone remains there still, a silent reminder of what was lost..." Songfic to Savage Garden's Free to Fly.

Draco and Harry are More Than Friends, Ron sulks, Hermione meddles, and everyone speaks in proverbs.

Bellatrix Lestrange's mind is beautiful in the most twisted of ways... Companion to Perfection.

James Potter returns home from a Quidditch match, only to discover that in his absence baby Harry has discovered a new-found eloquence. Just a random one-shot created for the L/J cookie jar.

“Hello, Remus.”``I didn’t even have to look up from my parchment; I knew that voice so well. ``“Hello, Sirius.”

It's Remus' sixteenth birthday. The Marauders have a little gift planned for him, but all he wants is to be something instead of the nothing he thinks he is.

Short sad one shot, Voldemort is defeated, but is it really over? Draco/Ginny story, but does not include a happy ending. Told from Ginny's POV.

Remus feels betrayed by Sirius after he leads Snape to him [Chapter Eighteen of the Prisoner of Azkaban (on page 261 in the UK hardcover)]. sbxrl, jp+ss, jp+le.

Mad, Mad Passionate Love returns, bigger and more disgusting than before! With interhouse romances popping up everywhere, how can Hogwarts cope with the onslaught of such powerful passions? Lots of fanon stereotype fun, including Pathetic! Draco, Sexy! Snape, and Fiery! Ginny. "But I love you," Tom had said, tears streaming from his bright red eyes. He couldn't blame Albus… he wasn't nearly as handsome as he'd been the year before, when his eyes had still been a normal color and he had actually had a nose.

Brethren... two brothers separated by much more than a difference in blood, they re-meet in a time that is both dark and ultimately life-changing for them both. Will the bonds be forever broken or can the past really be forgotten?

After an uncomfortable encounter in the Library, a young Severus finds himself wondering what exactly he feels for Lucius Malfoy, unaware that Lucius might actually be contemplating the same thing.

"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain." Ginny reflects on her parents' reaction to Tom Riddle's diary.

The future Mrs. Lestrange speculates on the ups and downs of being a female Death Eater: marriage, love, and sex, not to mention torturing Muggles.

"Nobody ever tells toys that the child they look after, comfort and play with in their youth will grow up and forget you. I thought she would love me for ever. But she left and forgot me." A look at life through the eyes of a Wizarding toy

Seamus doesn't really understand these Muggle traditions, but he is trying, Dean must admit.

The ground was muddy and soaked by the heavy rain. Thick raindrops hit her face, wetting her clothes, but she didn’t feel it. Numbness was all she felt. She saw it happening, disbelieving. She saw how the light emerged from the tip of her wand and formed a mist around the sixteen year-old boy who stood a few steps from her. The dark trees around them made this night even darker than it already was.

Sometimes it's very hard to fit in, and sometimes it's hard to realise that you already do.

What happens when a 1970s game show classic collides with the Potterverse? Much mayhem, flying knickers and the inappropriate use of Magic Markers, for a start.

Hermione and Draco go on a whirlwind of insane adventures due to some insane writer's preferences for a challenge. The story begins with a wet little romp through the Hogwarts grounds. [Includes: Snape in galoshes!]

"She shouldn't have died like that." "She shouldn't have died at all!" * Everything can change in seven years. Hermione's dead, and now Harry must confront everything he thought he left behind.

The golden trio are in their fifth year but Hermione is feeling blue. The happy, cheerful boys she first made friends with are rapidly disappearing. Hermione spends the day remembering all those times she’s had to be there for them and all the times they haven’t been there in return. Unless she stays strong she may lose them completely...

Professor Snape in a pink thong and matching bra?? SCARY!

Moaning Myrtle has kept quiet for over fifty years ever since her death... it's time she's spoken up for what she wants to do and what her thoughts on Harry Potter and other things that has happened in her life...

A dark secret from Ginny's past has prevented her from having an intimate relationship with everyone she's ever dated. Will Neville's patience and understanding give her what she needs to take back control of her life? An angsty N/G love story.

'She knew that his eyes would fail, that his faith would erode, that his wings would crumble to dust. And that then, he himself would dissipate into the wind like the smell of wood smoke on a winter’s day.' But all is not lost. There is hope. She is hope embodied.

Remus is counting; first to one, then to four and then, finally, only to two.

"I hate you, Harry Potter... I wonder if you could ever love me too." The line between love and hate is very thin. Draco Malfoy knows this all too well.

Oh great, somebody call Oprah, a new series I'm writing, they're called letters to no one, Ginny is on the way. Lily is whining about how conceited, immature and handsome James is.

The troll wasn't let loose and Hermione was never given that encounter to bond with Harry and Ron. She has no friends. With her gamble to create a life in the wizarding world failed, she isn't thinking straight. She looks over the ledge of the tower, but is interrupted by someone. A gen fic with NO PAIRINGS and the two starting the basis of even more hate. Rated for swearing.

H/G fluff. Hermione and Harry join the Weasleys at the Burrow for Spring Break and the regular romance, fun, and clichéd happy endings ensue. Butter dishes, fluff, and fun for all.

Remus gets a letter from a certain Rubeus Hagrid; an attempt to help a certain boy hero sets Lupin on a trip down memory lane. Very minor RL/JP slash.

"So you understand then the predicament in which we are mired." When Remus Lupin is captured, it could spell the end of the Order. The unlikely intervation of Severus Snape brings an unsettling salvation. RL/SB overtones. One-shot.

Song-fic to 'I'll Try' about how Harry is coping with his life.

Harry is trapped. Ron and Hermione are arguing again, but this time it\'s very personal. Harry just wished he could escape the room, however, realisation of just how important love is finally begins to set in. Set in the summer after HBP.

Imagine if all of the Hogwarts kids lived in a little town called St. Francis, Wisconsin. Imagine if they all played instruments. Imagine if they all went to 'band camp.' Well, you don't have to imagine! Here's a story about it! This is based on a true story. Each of the characters represents me and my friends and our adventures at 'band camp.' It's not THAT kind of band camp, though! Get your mind out of the gutter!

How do you pick up the pieces when what you thought would be, will never come to pass? One character must come to grips with reality, and deal with the loss of a love.

Draco Malfoy is going to jail! In another series of``letters, Harry, Ron, Crabbe, Goyle, and Voldemort talk about Malfoy's arrest. Sequal to "Harry Potter, Auror of the Ministry."

Shortly after Regulus's death, Sirius reminisces about his brother.

Practice Room Number Three became synonymous with comfort, soft music, and sometimes a pair of protective arms enclosing anyone who needed reassurance. Just one rule – never a word was spoken within its boundaries.

[Written pre-OotP, set post-Hogwarts.] I thought you loved me; I loved you. I thought you cared about me; I cared about you. But now I've realized, finally realized, that to you, I was nothing but a stepping stone. I was just there to help you up in society. I wasn't anything more. D/G (Warning: Ginny is not the nicest/best person.)

Things are what they are supposed to be.

When Ginny Weasley began writing in Tom Riddle's diary, she had no idea what it would lead to...

Harry began to pace up and down the small space. “My whole life’s been like something out of a bloody book! And this is just not the way the story ends. I’m supposed to be able to fight the evil, not just sit down in a cave and wait to die.” -- JK Rowling finds Harry so real, she felt almost like she was channeling him. Well... what if she was?

Cho remembers Cedric.

Crysta finds a Time Turner lying around. On her way to bring it to Dumbledore's office, she pulls one of her famous gymnastics stumbles and rops it, shattering the poor thing. She gets sent back to the Marauders' time and is stuck there until she can get a new Time Turner. And she's not supposed to do anything to change the past. And she ends up changing it forever. (Sirius is alive and Harry's a seventh year.)

A little over the week after the final battle with Voldemort Ginny Weasley, the only survivor, wakes from a coma like state to find that everyone in the Order was killed, including her entire family, Neville Longbottom, Hermione Granger, and Harry Potter. She walks that night, trying to come to terms with what has happened.

Grief can push even a good man to extremes. How far will Lupin go?

The Trio's summer before sixth year is going to be a lot different than before. From an attack to intercepted letters to a big fight to finding out OWL marks, this will be one summer never to forget!

Remus doesn't quite know how he feels, but he knows what it's not. Implied R/S pre-slash.

Years since he as murdered but why does it seem so weird? Why is it so hard to deal? But what happens if he came back?

"Smiles can be faked. Do not assume everyone who smiles is happy." Harry finally succeeds in defeating the Dark Lord, or so everyone believes-- everyone except Harry. Something grows in his mind, beginning as a whispery voice but then much stronger, causing his loved ones to disappear from his sight. Only one person seems unaffected by this disease, or what ever it is, and that one person may be the only one capable of helping Harry. The question arises, though, does that person want to? H/D

A collection of essays taking an in-depth look at some of the questions surrounding Peter Pettigrew.

My life is all about memories: Some good, some bad, some utterly embarrassing. But, then again, what else is to be expected of the daughter of the famous Harry Potter? But still even though I have many, I'd like to tell you about my very first memory....

It's the sixth year at Hogwarts for Remus Lupin and the other Marauders. An idea is born, a plan is generated, and action is taken at night.

Sirius Black is a young wizard whose outlook on life has been tainted by his emotionally abusive family. He is fervent to continue school so he can escape his demanding parents and become his destiny...

Harry thinks about losing a father figure yet again. His reaction is anything but ordinary.

Pansy is pretty enough for Draco. She's beautiful for the executioner.

Follow Sirius Black through part of his escape from Azkaban.

On the eve of war, Hermione finds out what Draco has been hiding all year.

The wizarding world has finally defeated Voldemort. Everyone believes that Voldemort is dead. But is he really dead if he lives in your dreams. "Why, Why are you haunting me, Voldemort?"

(Marauder-era.) Typical Hogwarts Christmas for Remus and Sirius... except Sirius has disappeared.

A time-line without dates. Events that shape and demonstrate the development of a boy. Lists his surroundings and actions as they are known. They say with these two things you can understand a person.

Lucius finds Harry beside the dead body of Draco Malfoy, his only heir. When accusations are thrown at him, Harry wonders about things.

Ginny's husband is punished for grievous misjudgement.

Alone on her twenty-first birthday after a fight with Ron, Hermione Granger runs into a stranger from her past in the seediest part of London. Who is he, and how has her life taken such a turn for the worse?

Possibly the fluffiest-ever take on the apocalypse. The Earth's orbit is about to take the planet through the middle of a massive asteroid swarm, and the world has a few months to face certain death. Call me strange, but I actually see the ending here as quite optimistic. In a way.

Ginny is alone and calling for her Romeo. London city is alive and free, yet for Gin there is nothing but black emptiness. A short story of lost love and frozen tears. It's a cold world, and this is ice.

Memories still linger in the halls of Hogwarts, replayed, untouched, and unbroken.