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Ron's always been funny about his pets, and with everything happening to his oldest and furriest friend, his third year is shaping up to be the worst of his life.

It's not always safe to trust people you run into in pubs, but sometimes it's better than family. James and Sirius at eight years old.

A response to a challenge on the Bunnies Board - Draco comforts Ginny, but must be in slimy Draco character.

Whatever *did* happen to the bust of Paracelsus? Hermione Granger certainly had nothing whatsoever to do with it, thankyouverymuch.

"I can't tell you lot to be careful, because you won't. I can't tell you not to go, because you won't listen. I suppose I'll just have to tell you to come back with your shield or on it. Good luck." Harry, Ron and Hermione leave to find the Horcruxes. Ginny is left behind, but not forgotten.

After the war he's become someone else. He disregards her like she's nothing. A songfic from the viewpoint of a girl in distress; bet you can't guess who it is! Songfic to Smile Empty Soul's "For You."

Love pays no heed to reason, rhyme or logic, and Nymphadora Tonks is in love. Remus Lupin is something else entirely. (Remus/Tonks)

This is a companion piece to Alone: Narcissa's Story, from Harry's POV. He's feeling alone and can't quite understand why Draco decided to leave after all they've been through together. Angst and Slash, D/H of course.

Tom Riddle visits a seer to glimpse his future and decide which path to follow.

There was a locket and a note, courtesy of R.A.B. Someone had to have left it there, and something had to have happened to the real Horcrux. Major HBP spoilers and speculation inside.

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry sits high, overlooking a lake in an isolated part of the countryside. ``At night, the lake looks black in the moonlight, like blood does, and the windows open like eyes with candlelight behind them. From the outside, you can circle the castle and find the windows of Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff, but you will not see Slytherin. They are reached through the dungeons. (One scene that embodies exactly what Slytherin House is. Set in the James Potter years. Rated what it is basically because it's a little creepy.)

All his life he'd longed for solitude. Other desires had come and gone; power, fame, fortune, love, respect, some fulfilled and others simply forgotten. The one constant, the dream that had survived through it all, was this.

Sequel to Just Before Midnight. Don't really need to read that to understand this fic. Draco sinks. Darkfic.

We know that Sirius Black is gone. What actually happened when Sirius Black fell beyond the veil? Did he really die or did he just go another realm, reality or dimension? Set before end of OoTP, a missing moment. It's my creative take on it.

This fic is inspired by Arcly's fanfic plot generator. Description: ``Today, we're going to write a story about Fred Weasley and Ron Weasley which begins up a tree and concerns some nude mud-wrestling.

Draco has a miserable life. Every time he walks around this world, cursing himself about being a Death Eater, he experiences heart pain. The name Harry crosses his mind, but can Harry be enough to save him form this pain? Song from Evanescence. H/D Slash!

A look at Percy Weasley's break from his family, from Percy's point of view. Why Percy might not be as much of a git as we all think.

"I knew this was your way of saying that you loved me. I can admit that I always waited for the words, but knew I didn't need to hear them. They were in your touch, in the way you would look at me as if I was the only thing you needed in the world. No oxygen, no food, no shelter. Just me, and you would live forever." H/G.

What happens when Dumbledore decides that a play (or not, maybe) is what the students at Hogwarts need?

Once, in his naïve days, he’d read about scars in an old medical book he found in a second hand bookstore. A futile attempt at trying to explain to himself why everyone was so fascinated by his own, famous scar. But that was long ago. His new scars are those of a different kind.

Bill Weasley looks back on the day his father left. Oh, don't worry, Arthur never left them. I'm talking about the Weasleys' biological father, Justin Mages. Bill writes a letter to this man, but he has to force himself to remember that horrid day. This is what went on as Bill writes the letter.

Pre-DH. Song fic to the song "Butterfly Kisses." Anyone who knows Arthur Weasley knows that he has seven children - six sons and one daughter, Ginny. A story of the lives of Arthur and Ginny, and how Arthur's "little girl" grows up. Not slash!

Inside the house a man and a woman sat close together, staring out of the second floor window, also watching and listening. The woman held a child close in her arms, clutching him as if his life depended on her constant crooning and kisses on the forehead. The man also reached over every few seconds to touch the child's cheek or smooth down his hair. `` “I can't stand this anymore, James,” the woman whispered.

What would you do if you had to watch as the only person you ever loved was killed trying to save your life? Minerva's POV. MM/RL Rated for violence and language.

An alternate look at Petunia.

Hermione Granger’s dream to fly saved her life. She was left alone with nothing but herself, she’d given up magic and lived her life by a window. A simple dream can lead to so much more…

Draco reflects as he says his goodbyes to Malfoy Manor.

Some things are not meant to be spoken, merely understood and accepted.

In a conversation taking place shortly after the events described in Tom Riddle's diary, Albus Dumbledore, Transfigurations professor, learns that a headmaster must put the school first, but at what cost? Dumbledore must convince Headmaster Dippet to save a student from an undeserved fate while preserving the reputation of the school.

With the war finally over, Molly Weasley sits in the kitchen at Grimmauld Place to greet her family.

Dumbledore's locked Harry and Draco in a dungeon. He's a bright man, that old codger. Of course, if he knows what goes on behind locked doors, he certainly isn't letting on...

Lucius passes through the Veil and finds himself in a place which isn't death.

Sequel to "Away". Ginny's family, friends, and the rest of the wizarding community deals with their loss.

Driven mad by the horrific sights of war, Draco stumbles across a lonely battlefield, looking for someone he does not remember. H/D.

After Sirius' death, Harry remembers a day when he'd succumbed to the dragging hurt of his parents' death, a day when Sirius comforted Harry in a way neither of them had been expecting... (Angst and slash ahead)

Hermione remembers life with Harry after the war and how they would play at forced innocence in their Garden. Failed love, regrets, and lost innocence mark the path leading from Eden.

Draco writes a monologue for History of Magic which is strangely parallel to the conversations and actions of his ancestor Lord Escalus Malfoy, 800 years earlier, during the Burning Times.

The story of a Mother\'s love. He had lived through part of a war, a dreadful war that had taken his father’s life, along with his mother’s heart.

There must have been a reason. Peter Pettigrew was not always a traitor. Something made him that way...

"I don't know what the Hat was thinking. Oh, wait, yes I do--it was thinking, 'Gee, it's a little first year who doesn't know crap about the world she's going into. I think I'll make Slytherin sound appealing, and NOT WARN HER THAT EVERYBODY IN SLYTHERIN WILL HATE HER.' Yeah, that's a great idea." Emma Dobbs reflects. Written for the Muggle-Born Slytherins challenge.

While Harry and Hermione were meeting the centaurs, where were Neville and Draco?

As Regulus battles one of the biggest decisions of his life, he meets up with Sirius, who he hasn't seen in two years. Title explained inside. One-shot. Companion to Conversations with a Hat, Chapter 3.

Severus' life, as described by the Tarot.

Peter is flung into the future and decides that he doesn't want to become Wormtail. He's disgusted and decides to find him so justice can be served.

It's a small world after all. He knows his pain, he feels it, but he doesn't know. This is your worst nightmare. Companion piece to Teardrops.

What happens when a werewolf loses his pack? How do you keep someone from tipping over the edge of grief? After the death of the Potters and Peter, someone has to help Remus back to the land of the living.

Harry contemplates his past, and wonders about the future... Short, and full of angstful goodness!

Harry ponders the place where forgotten heroes live.

I knew that this was the beginning of her life – the birth of a warrior queen.

Just a short one-shot about Draco. Songfic to the song 'I Am'.

A troubled Ron lies awake at night, only to find he's not the only one with things on his mind.

“Tell me, Harry…” Tom murmurs as he puts the cigarette into his own mouth and inhales while watching red marks appear on Harry’s skin as the embers burn his fleshy tissue. “Tell me why you never smoked before you came here.” Dark Tom Riddle-Harry Potter.

Ron gets a tip about Draco in a broom closet with *gasp* a Hufflepuff! Slash Draco/Marcus the Hufflepuff.

Part 11 in the Monochrome Series. Things start to stale in an already rocky relationship and an outsider observes this breakup of young love. A poetical series about the romantic life and trials of Harry and Draco.

Everywhere you turn there's sharp little reminders, digging into your feet, springing to mind when you least want or expect it. (Character death.)

"A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him." ~H. Mathews

Sirius Black jumped off the bike before it properly stopped. It rolled and fell against one of the standing walls of the ruined house. He ran, almost tripping over the wreckage, towards Hagrid's looming figure, sitting in the remains. He heard it then... crying...

The heart bleeds in a language indecipherable.

Nobody ever really looks past the mask of 'Gryffindor Golden Girl.' Maybe if they did they would discover that she does have opinions on things other than her schoolwork.

Taking place between the summer before Harry's sixth year and the final battle, this short one-shot finds Harry lost within his own thoughts as he muses about his destiny, his state of mind, that bloody prophecy, and everything going on around him of which he is only vaguely aware.

"What if it had all been different."

The trio finds that Magic is not the only thing that is celebrated at Hogwarts -- Locus Liberi, the school's literary magazine, is back again. Harry gets yet another memento of his parents in the pages of a previously published issue. Beware of Quidditch Haiku and poetic rivalry.

Albus Dumbledore agrees to interview an applicant for the divination job. A kiss and a prophecy prevail.

Told through the eyes of a 'nameless Ravenclaw third from the left,' the relationship between Draco and Harry exists between the lines of the story. Perhaps all is not what it seems in the facade that is love.

There is a siege against Hogwarts, and inside the school the students and teachers draw together for warmth, friendship, and what could be love. Many pairings, mainly H/D.

"Everything they ever did was funny... Except for the things that weren't." [One-Shot] [MWPP-era]

Ron is exiled in his dreams, and there he comes to terms with a situation that he prefers to ignore. (Takes place at the same time as The Crying Game)

After a long battle, the trio has returned to Hogwarts with the hope of a bit of safety. Ron promised Hermione that things would be fine in the morning but knew he was wrong. He had to end it all, he just couldn't go on.

Voldemort decides to kill two birds with one stone: get James out of the way and take control of Godric's Hollow -- by framing James for a murdering someone very close to Lily. Can she help him? Or, more importantly.... WILL she?

What was it that made Lily Evans stop loathing James in their seventh year? This first-time fic writer takes a stab at it.

AU. TWINCEST. What if it so happens that Fred and George were taken as children and made to perform in a circus? The throwing of knives, mirrors, sound, nightly endeavors. Snake women, magicians, dancers.

After an attack on the school using the Imperius curse a Slytherin victim tries to deal with the consequences of his actions. An OC driven fic with lots of Fred/Angelina. Companion piece to Unbreakable, Troubled Mind and Unforgiveable Sinner.

Just before Valentine's Day, Hogwarts is filled with utter chaos. Not from Voldemort, but from Neville Longbottom's toad knocking over a potion that released a very deadly scent... of lust.

There were seven Lupin children, five girls and two boys. One boy would grow up to be loved by his family, his friends, and his students. As for the other? He wouldn't grow up at all...

Harry runs into the woods to escape arguing and yelling in The Burrow. He finds Ginny who also ran from the house and after a heated discussion find they have a very unique connection.

Draco’s obsession has a beginning, middle, and end - in all the wrong order. H/D

They were all he had in life, until that fateful night when the man he would come to hate, would destroy them...

Harry is thinking about Sirius. And Sirius is doing the same thing from behind the veil. Songfic.

Everyone thought Draco Malfoy was an ordinary lazy conceited adolescent with no allegiance to anyone except a mirror. No one ever suspected Argus Filch, the simple squib, of having sinister plans for Harry Potter. Wow was everyone wrong!

A one shot reflection; A winter through Draco's eyes.

Two future Death Eaters are talking by the lake before their initiation ceremony.

Draco gets his soul back in a business transaction.

Hermione loves the dark, evil, greasy git of a potions master, Snape. Snape however, not only doesn't return her feelings, but detests Hermione with a passion. Why does Hermione keep trying despite his rejections? What will happen if she finally stops trying? Rated PG-13 for scary themes and a little language. A one-shot, song-fic to the Dixie Chicks' "Let Him Fly." Lots of Angst and one-sided romance.

Words unspoken linger in the air, growing opaque and brittle with the passing of years. To speak them finally is to give them life, or to curse them to fall flat and shatter at your feet. ...

Remus worries about Luna's academic problems and eventually finds a solution that does both of them good.

Draco had always been enamored of beauty. Minor H/D. Part of Scenes From A Hat, Part Two.

"As I stare, my limbs lifeless, her eyes open. I see nothing but green." Snape reflects on the past and plans for the future. One shot, post HBP.

One side of the dark man of the potions world...and his secret love for the Mudblood yet captivating Lily Evans... A look back at all the love that he had had for her while still at Hogwarts years later.

The day after the Chamber of Secrets incident, Virginia Weasley reflects on Tom and the Chamber, and how they have changed both her and her view of the world. "So the night comes and goes, and there's no one there to nurture, but yourself and you know that you've nothing left to lose..."

Harry commissions three rings to be made for the Trio. Harry begins to realize he has feelings for Hermione. The Trio needs to defeat Voldemort and they hope to use their combined powers to accomplish this.

A ficlet exploring the Marauders' relationship with time.

He's a fugitive from the law, wanted for a crime he didn't commit. But on an island off the coast of Greece, Sirius has plenty of time to think and to recover from his past, and finds that life on the lam can have its bright spots.

A psychologically scarred Hermione lives in post-apocalyptic England, leading the war-weary resistance against the forces of the Second Empire. However, the end is nearer then she thinks....

A guardian's view from the front gates of Hogwarts.

America is a place of new beginnings; a short glance in the mirror of what could've been. [AU; sug. Harry/Colin, slash, gen]

Fifteen years prior to the events at the end of "Goblet of Fire" and the beginning of "Order of the Phoenix", there were two Death Eaters. One was trying to redeem a tortured life, one was in fear for his own. Only Albus Dumbledore would bring them together. Both will discover life demands many sacrifices. This is Snape's story.

Short fic about Harry after he's met up with Voldemort yet again. Really overly dramatic and quite short. Sad stuff

Nona and Rage are two rebels who don't care about anybody. Nona and Rage got kicked out of their realm, and landed in the mortal world. Magic keeps them alive, and only magic can destroy them. They desperately want to use magic and are about to. Toying with the prophecy is the goal in this game. Nona is the first to come to her senses. However, now they can’t stop.

Hermione should have never trusted Draco Malfoy...

It's about a boy who wants something, and it's within his means to get it. And so he reaches his hands and curls his fingers around it, taking it for himself.