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"When he used to believe, life had been like that. And now, life was worse than just losing a Quidditch game because everything he believed in, so lovingly and hopefully, turned out to be the opposite. Mundane, bad and ugly. He wasn't even living his own life. His life was stolen." Sure, he was rich and handsome, came from a distinguished family and had more than a handful of talents, but that didn't stop the hatred or the jealousy or the anger. He would still be second-best, watching from the side-lines while he was the one they all praised, the one they all worshipped, the one they all loved so much. He was just not good enough in their eyes. It was always that way and would never change.

Lily Evans never really had a relationship with her sister. Things don't change as she enters Hogwarts and she remembers her first time with magic.

Not even the greatest, deepest love of a mother can fill the space where a father belongs. A mother lies dying on a hospital bed minutes after the birth of her daughter. During her last moments of life, she thinks about the love for her child that grew throughout the pregnancy, and imagines what kind of life they'll have. But no matter how much she tells herself the father will never matter in the fantasy world she already has planned for her and the light of her life, the second she hears the heart monitor stop, everything will change.

"If you fool me once, then shame on you. But if you fool me twice, then shame on me." -Slash- Remus Lupin speaks to James Potter one last time before letting him go for good. James-Remus and implied Lily-James.

Remus mourns after James and Lily die and after Sirius dies. Sunrises, Memories, Tears.

When Sirius ran away from home, it was ten years in the making. But no, it wasn't because of abuse or something equally dramatic. Really, it was just another holiday.

Songfic to My Immortal by Evanescence. This is based at Sirius' sentencing after the Halloween 1981 incident, seen from Remus' point of view. Non-slash.

A nine-year-old boy writes in his diary the evening of his birthday. Mystery. One-shot, but part of my "Fifteen Minutes In London"-series. Can be read separately from the other parts.

Mafalda Hopkirk, having lived in Hogsmead in her childhood, runs away to the deserted shack on top of the hill on the night of the full moon. One-shot.

Draco confronts a few inner demons and why he acts the way he does in the short but very dark vignette.

The story of a little girl and an eclipse that really isn't about a little girl and an eclipse.

He watched her as she walked away. She was in Potter’s arms now, but when the sun set she would be in his arms- she would be home. D/G

Blaise Zabini, the Care of the Magical Creatures teacher at Hogwarts, arrives for the summer holidays to a small inn in Aberdeen with his cat Macavity, a Kneazle. The very first day at the inn he encounters a mystery, which he solves with some help from Macavity.

Draco is off on a date with Pansy Parkinson. But why did he agree to it in the first place, and why does Harry seem so calm about it all when HE is supposed to be dating Draco...? D/H slashy goodness.

Remus and his tormented relationship with the moon, as inspired by Ponderosa's pic Helplessness. Mirror to Razorqueen's fic, Not Enough, written from Sirius' POV.

Loss isn’t any easier to take the second time around. Left behind once more, Remus Lupin makes a midnight visit to the Department of Mysteries in an attempt to cope with the death of his closest friend. Is a fall through the black veil the only answer? Or will the unexpected appearance of a friend help him find the solace that he seeks? And just who is the mysterious lady in the photograph? Is she destined to be part of his future?

Songfic to Kim-Lian's Garden of Love. Cornelius Fudge contemplates on the happenings in OotP.

Memory. We use it to define who we are. Without it, we have no past. ``Harry can recall events. But names? Faces? Blank. As he tries to regain his lost memories, Harry must face the newest danger threatening the Wizarding world.

Post-Hogwarts. Ron and Draco live together, but none of his friends know. They have a Christmas party and Draco must hide himself somehow; hilarity ensues.

The Cruciatus Curse causes physical pain. Voldemort tests a new spell, one which causes mental/emotional pain, on his own personal lab rat: Peter Pettigrew.

Sibyll Trelawney is a daughter and granddaughter of Seers, yet her Sight has never been clear.

Meet a Death Eater you never knew about. Why haven't you heard of her? Perhaps because she'd never live up to your expectations.

I, II, III. Putting out the cigarette is always the hardest. SLASH HP/DM. Quote: Harry knows he’s nothing to Draco. Maybe a game of some sort. It doesn’t matter to him either way, as long as Draco will give him feeling like he did today.

"You have to leave me a little something, you see. I have to have her, my little bit of light." Who holds the power in Malfoy Manor, anyway? (Lucius/Pansy)

Silent reflection by a lake. It explores the world around Harry, but not really.

A little ditty I wrote about Harry's love for Draco. Very angsty! Told through a combination of remembering a conversation, and the present.

Ginny has had enough. She's tired of being the different one. A barrier separates her and the world, but not for much longer...

After being tortured into insanity, Alice and Frank Longbottom live in a closed ward for permanent spell damage at Saint Mungo's. The Healers say they cannot recognize their family members. The Healers call them insane. Alice Longbottom drifts through time, experiencing small blips of sanity when her son, Neville, comes to visit. This is her story.

Death Eaters have taken Hogwarts. The Order has fallen. Who will save them? Only the greatest witch in all fan fiction. But who will save us from her?

A brief look into the mind of Harry, and the battle that is taking place there.

Draco and his counterpart encounter a pleasant surprise one night. AU fic set post-Hogwarts. Written for the Draco!Vampire challenge.

Short one-shot in which Draco reflects upon Harry, the relationship they share, and the hell it has become. Slash! (just so you know) HP/DM, DM/PP, DM/BZ

Destiny, Death, Dream, Destruction, Desire, Despair and Delirium are the fundamentals of human existence. During the course of the war, Hermione encounters each of them in turn. (Harry Potter/Sandman crossover) Warning: character death.

Helga sends her mother a letter which tells about the events she has experienced. She tells about her feelings and maybe more...

It's James and Lily's wedding day and it has made Remus contemplate on what his own life will hold in the future and how his life is always going to be full of contradictions. It's slashy so avoid if you don't like.

A recurring dream keeps haunting Hermione. Every night she dreams about a night that she has forgotten. A mystery man's love for her is one that she probably wished she had forgotten forever.

David Amarethia is an American exchange student with some pretty cool powers. But what if he isn't what he seems to be, what if Hogwarts is in the middle of a war that has been ragging since the beginning of time, and what if this kid is all that stands in the way of the wizarding world and total darkness.

As Dumbledore calls Remus Lupin back to Hogwarts, Lupin looks back on his life, and dreams of past, present and future.

He finds it difficult to believe that outside these dusty walls, time passes. Inside, here, without proof of its existence, time has ceased to have any meaning.

"She does her homework by candle-light now, so as to stay away from the glares and whispers. There is no one there with her, and she sometimes longs for someone to speak to, someone to poke fun of her brains, even. Any trusted company is better than being alone, she thinks." One-shot. Major character deaths. Angst galore.

The story of Peter Pettigrew. Peter contemplates.

It really does bite being a snake. When Harry Potter came and took his master away, did he not even stop to think how the Basilisk felt? The monster's mind is a complex thing. PoV from the Dying Snake in the Chamber, and just a curving path that tells how it had gotten there any way.

"You’re not the only one who has fallen.” A young man’s shattered and disquieting thoughts on the death of his other half. One-shot. Slash.

There's only one person who can convince Lucius Malfoy what's best for him.

Fifteen years after he thought he'd left it behind him forever, Remus Lupin is back at Hogwarts. It is all much as he'd left it in 1978, with one notable exception: where once he'd roamed the corridors of the castle alongside Sirius Black, now he hunts him down. And try as he might, he just can't stop thinking about the events that led up to this change.

A short fanfic about what life might have been like for Harry, Ron, and Hermione if they had defeated Voldemort. The three friends go back and look at how the Dark Lord destroyed their lives.

An angsty love fic that is almost entirely a true story. Two teens battle a real life love war... one in Durmstrang, the other at Hogwarts. None of this fluff crap... the story of my best mate's heartbreak is upon you. Deal with it.

Why did Sirius decide he couldn't be the Potter's Secret Keeper? Why did he think Remus was the spy? My take on the subject...

Harry's dying inside-out, Draco's dying outside-in. In a world without stars, it gets harder to tell the difference between want and need. (A HP/DM warfic)

A one shot songfic based on the song "Hold On" by Good Charlotte. Lily and James have both built up so many walls around themselves that they can't let anyone in to help. They both have problems, but they have to go on with their fake lives, pretending nothing is wrong. They both don't really want to live their lives anymore...

In a world where love is strong, it will not always prevail...``*songfic*

In the cold of the Chamber of Secrets, Ginny takes a last look at her murderer before she dies. Step into Ginny's thoughts. Step into the Chamber of Secrets.

Students keep catching fire in Snape's classes. What is going on? Who is behind it? And what will Snape do?

Professor Blaise Zabini gives lectures in a wizard college in Cambridge, when a valuable book from the college library is stolen and suspicion falls on Blaise's friend, the new lecturer from Australia...

This song-fic takes place during the time that the Weasley family was awaiting word on the condition of their father. Perhaps because she's the youngest, or possibly because she's his only daughter, Ginny is having a particularly hard time of it. What was she thinking during those desperate hours? Here is one possibility. Song is property of Tori Amos, from the album Little Earthquakes.

All Harry wants is to live a normal life after the war, but he finds that that is harder said than done. His impressions of everyone and everything is jumbled, and Draco suddenly plays a big part in his mental health. Featuring an angsty Boy-Who-Lived, a proud Draco Malfoy, and a sobbing Hermione Granger.

What happens one day when the notorious Deanna Tyler (of Slytherin Rising fame) get bored. What mayhem will commence?

Here, in this hospital, the everlasting Lumos hung high on the ceilings, and the gray hair that once was gold gleamed dimly in the light. Here, he did not feel so deeply the pull of death, the inexorable swing of the heavy pendulum – light, dark; warmth, frigidity; life, death.

Do angels only come to tell us how life would have been without us if we will be missed when we are gone? What if each and every one of our actions has accidentally hurt someone in a way that we never intended? Is a life worth saving if it has inflicted pain on hundreds of others? Or is the continuation of that life the punishment that that person deserves? What is the greatest punishment that a guilt-ridden person could face? Bitterly, Severus Snape ruminates.

Peter Pettigrew, after his betrayal of Lily and James. Reflections on why he did what he did, why he regrets it, and why it will be the greatest thing he has ever done.

Harry gets some badly-needed advice from someone who knows exactly how he feels.

Short one-shot. Emotions, the future, and the hope of being accepted have effected this well know character. Her name is never mentioned so figure it out on your own. I'm guessing here, painting a picture of a character I've never seen painted before. A student at Hogwarts finds herself losing her knowlege and power as she begins to fear a future she cannot see. She showers her reality with deceit until she cannot find the truth amongst the lies.

The years of the Second War were terrible. Death and danger were everywhere, and each day could be your last. But Hermione remembers these oppressive years as some of her best years, filled with adventure, love, pain, loss, and desire. ````Follow a 30 year-old hermione's memories back to the war that she so treasures.

Harry Potter, living in a time long after the war has ended, is informed by a mysterious source that Draco Malfoy is still alive and sets out to find him.

Oliver, the Quidditch fanatic. That's all we know about him, and maybe the only thing that we will ever know about him. What do you think he's really like?

The Mirror of Erised is a harsh mistress. Within its glassy depths a person can truly lose themselves.

Perhaps one of the Dark Lord's most loyal followers to the cause Nyx Nerezza was. She loved seeing others in pain- even more when she knew she was the one inflicting it. Some would call her sadistic. Some would call her schizophrenic. Be that as it may, Nyx Naeva Narezza was still the Dark Lord's most loyal follower since Bellatrix Lestrange and Lucius Malfoy.

The makings of a long fic chronicling the respective journey's of Albus and Aberforth as they take very different paths after their sister's attack.

In the wake of October 31st, 1981, Remus Lupin makes a choice. Pieces of 1981, 1993, and the emptiness inbetween. Remus/Minerva.

7 Drabbles: Alone, Demons, End, Family, Love/Hate, Reflections, Whisper and 2 Poems: The Battle and The Four. Pairings if any are SSLE, RWHG, SSHG, DMHG, GWTR.

Nice, such a bland adjective. But sometimes the perfect way to describe a relationship. Lavender thought that things were just nice. Oneshot exploring Lavender/Parvati.

Remus can never remember.

Ginny Weasley unexpectedly bumps into someone at school on Christmas Eve, and the two get to know each other a little better under the mistletoe. A fluffy one-shot. GW/BZ.

The sixth-year students get to vote for head boy and head girl.... but what happens when one of Harry Potter's fans promises his hero a victory since he's the one that's got the whole school hooked? WE WANT POT!! WE WANT POT!! Chaos insues.....

This story was inspired by the statement of Tom Riddle, that Hagrid would sneak out of Hogwarts to wrestle ``mountain trolls. It is a harsh winter. The trolls are starving and they might show up at Hogwarts. Hagrid is tasked to protect the school grounds.

Draco is at the end of a hall where the darkness and cold end his life. Pansy is in her bed where her dreams are always ending.

Well, I just don't know. I bet a lot of people will find this boring, but I personally love this sort of extended history stuff. I wrote this to make an imaginary background in charm theory, where it might have come from, and it's signifigance to modern day wizardry.

Several years of agony and war packed into three pages. A reflective one shot that deals with Draco Malfoy as a human being and even more as a Malfoy. Slightly repressed, with a hint of scenery. Contains themes from "A Slytherin Scarf" by Umbralin.

Harry Potter wants to learn about his family. Problem is no one tells him much of anything. Therefore, a disgruntled Harry starts looking for answers, but will he like what he discovers?

This song-fic takes place during the time of Ginny being under the possession of Voldemort in CoS. It's an example of what she may have written in that special diary. Song property of Tori Amos, from the album "Little Earthquakes."

More than anything, Regulus needs answers. (Sequel to Once Again Pure)

~I don't want. I was cruel. I was unkind. I don't want.~ Short fic. Draco POV, implied slash.

What if Draco ran away before taking the Dark Mark? Includes New Identity! Draco and WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! MAJOR HBP SPOILERS! Don't say I didn't warn you.

Ginny's liked Harry for so long that it's hard to let go, at least in her mind.

A POV style Slytherin romance. Pansy/Millicent

Ron and Draco see things from the other side.

Draco's thought's on his life, past and present, chiefly concerning one 'Harry-bloody-perfect-Potter'...

Draco Malfoy is Slytherin's golden boy. He's everything that the founder of Slytherin had hoped for in his students. But then he gave everything up for some idea that he didn't understand. He couldn't even remember why he said what he said. Then, while in London, Draco meets an immortal, Nikolaus Verravissi, who offers him the rest of eternity. Draco isn't sure what to do. Should he give up his soul to live forever but be feared or give up his life and be revered as a hero to the cause?

Sirius Black is back at Twelve Grimmauld Place. And while cleaning up the house, he stumbles across a crystal sphere that once belonged to his “dear” aunt Elladora. It brings back memories of old times, but also things about the future. What had happened if Sirius had seen his own death? CONTAINS OOTP SPOILER!

He comes to her and strokes her head. He doesn't whisper promises of happiness, because they will evaporate come the next full moon, and his head in her lap, and they will stare at the moon together. Hermione/Remus, post-Hogwarts. Warning for Character Death

His heart casts no shadow, because it is the shadow. Remus/James. For Fallen, the R/J FQF.

Hermione's dead and Harry's worse than dead. How will Harry handle the love of his life's departure? A very angsty one-shot. Song-fic to NickleCreek's "Hanging By a Thread". Contains suicide, character death, and over all unhappiness.

Hermione has always been able to rationalize everything. But now she's at a complete loss. When did it begin? How can she understand without knowing when it started? Harry/Draco, with some unrequited love and angsty pondering. There are some things even Hermione can't comprehend.

Murder, mayhem and drinking games based on "the Simple Life", oh my! HP/Sleepaway Camp Crossover.

Lucius is standing at his son's grave, thinking of the choices he's had to make and the price he's had to pay. Could it be that Lucius had a heart after all? Songfic of Building a Mystery by Sarah McLachlan.

Draco Malfoy can tell you how to cope with frightening burdens, though his method may not be fun. A Draco character sketch, set during and immediately after his sixth year.

There are many ways of falling. This is just one of them. Harry decides to take a walk in the night and Draco falls from the sky.

"When Salazar tells me I am the Messiah come forth a second time, I incline to agree and so he asks whether he might please cut off my wings." - Myrtle’s death triggers a small transformation in Hogwarts’ finest mental wreck.

Sometimes it's hard to let people in, but often it's much harder to face letting them go. A Neville/Lavender fic.

The sorting of Narcissa Black.