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Behind every picture-perfect smile, there's bound to be a lie. There is no exception when it comes to the teenage portraits of the Four "Great" Founders that supposedly got along swimmingly until the end. Godric and Helga seem to be the perfect couple, while Salazar is in love with the hot-headed Rowena. Now, if only Rowena would see it that way...

There once was a man named Thomas, who knew exactly what was real and what was not. Logical, level-headed, and very, very cynical. Superstition and fantasy were for idiots and wooly thinkers. Science and cold, hard facts, Thomas knew, would win out over any kind of metaphysical mumbo-jumbo you could ever find.``But, when Thomas takes a wrong turn on a bicycle tour of Scotland, he'll find out there is more out there than he thought he knew. A LOT more.

Harry beating his girlfriend? Impossible! Not this nice, charming guy, right? ``What made him do it then?

Her flowers were handed to her and she smiled, smiled as though she was the happiest person alive, when in reality she wasn’t and from this day on, would never be. She would go through life as though she were half a person. She would never felt the happiness she felt when she had been with him. But she could never be with him.

Prequel to "Fallen Angel." How Harry saved Draco, only to fall himself.

Oliva McGuire, a sixteen-year-old boy, has lived through everything a child shouldn't experience. He was brought up in a family of selfish drunks, and led to believe he is a problem, as well as a mistake. No matter what he does, he doesn't feel in place in the muggle world. But somehow he has become an outstanding student, who has beliefs, which he follows. This is a story of his adventures through the good and the bad. Oliva has many areas to discover, many people to delete from his memory and many resolutions to be fulfilled. But first he must find himself.

During a fit of drunken rage and rancor in the summer after Goblet of Fire, Draco wishes for Harry's death... His wish is granted, but with terrible consequences.

Blaise finds himself speculating on matters following an encounter with a certain redhead and an uncomfortable conversation with Pansy, after which he comes to a few conclusions.

The events of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban through the eyes of Remus Lupin.

Under the unleashed anger of a storm, a little boy runs away from the orphanage - from the pain and hurt and all the pent up anger inside. ````This dark little one shot tries to understand the beginnings of a young boy who will grow up to take the wizarding world by storm.

"They didn't notice her, most of the time. Most of the time she didn't think about that, though. Most of the time she listened--listened to the sky above her, listened to the clouds as they softly rustled together, listened to the sighing of the grass, listened to the whispers of the dead in their graves and the flowers that grew from them." Luna-fic.

It all started with a challenge... And then a dress at a Christmas Ball that sets Harry and Hermione out to begin a new phase in their relationship. Written for the PP.org New Year's Eve Challenge Fest.

Sirius fell through the veil...but where did he go? Who awaits him? Will his heart be heavier than the feather?

Draco Malfoy is alone in the world. His mother is dead, his father has disowned him, his boss fired him, and the only woman he's ever loved has left him. Draco is left to consider everything that has happened in his life, and also send a few important messages to the people he needs most, and the people he never needed at all. A songfic to Johnny Rzeznick's "I'm Still Here," from Treasure Planet.

They say that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. I don’t know about other men, but when it comes to Ronald Weasley this saying is more than true. Post Hogwarts Ron-Luna one-shot.

In a world of war, Christmas isn’t always celebrated traditionally.

Lord Voldemort's second chance at life.

Near the end of Fifth Year, Harry and Ron share their worries about surviving into adulthood.

Feeling betrayed and angry, one finds comfort in the bitterness of champagne and the moon's company, until joined by another... BZ/DM.

Harry and the gang try in vain to figure out what year they are set in.

Sometimes people aren't exactly what we believe them to be. Sometimes they are. And sometimes it's left to us to decide which is the right answer. Will this story persuade you that people can be literally made what they are?

Ginny wakes up to a something very odd.

Draco's hurting but Hermione doesn't know.

Harry leaves on a plane. Draco couldn't stop him. Short, not fluffy, slashy to no end.

The sorting hat barely touched his head before yelling out Slytherin. Why? This is a musing on why Draco Malfoy was so easy to sort. A fic-let, really.

Draco Malfoy is Harry Potter's Secret Keeper. "You tell him that it's stupid, and he's made a wrong choice, and he ignores you – like he always does. Draco is his Secret Keeper, and he always will be."

Draco's missing something or is it he's missing someone? The song in this fic is called "More To Life" by Stacie Orrico.

A story which times Hermione's decline from Ron's P.O.V; a sad romance.

From the ashes of a world gone wrong, she rose to the strains of hallelujah.

One day shortly before graduation, Hermione casually mentions being married one day, causing Ron to realize he has some thinking to do. Mix together one daydream, a couple of rows, and a little making up, and you get a fuzzy R/Hr fic. Enjoy!

Rikendry "Rikka" Clark just transferred from her NYC school to Hogwarts during her 6th year. When she is put into Slytherin house, however, the school's rivalries are turned upside-down. First of all, Rikka is the first Slytherin muggle-born ever, and she knows Dark Arts. Will Rikka survive the year and keep her secret to herself? Full of dances, new teachers and a world-wide wizard dueling tournament.

One dark and rainy August day, a seemingly random assortment of people gather furtively in a run down old building on a remote corner of Diagon Alley. They face the death of a friend, enemy, role model, student...everyone face the loss differently, and that can have explosive consequences.

It was only a quick game while they were waiting. But it didn't turn out quite the way the boys anticipated...

Snape has a new research project. It's pure science, but unfortunately, elements of humanity seem to be getting in the way.

Sequel to The Pawn. Though no longer the Ministry of Magic’s pawn, Harry find that the path to be one's own master is a long and arduous one.

After Voldemort's defeat, Severus Snape feels he's let everyone down. Unable to forgive himself for the things he did under Voldemort's direction undercover for the Order, Snape wallows in self-pity until he meets someone who can convince him of his own innocence.

There's such a thing as being too British.

Remus's memories of Sirius, from when they first discovered he was a werewolf to present time. SB/RL slash.

Remus and Tonks hide in their own ways: from everyone else and from each other. When that hiding ends, will they be the only ones to benefit?

Draco and Harry sneak into the Forbidden Forest for a smoke, and end up learning a thing or two about one another.

Herbology has gotten much more complicated and so has her day. Join S. Fawcett of Ravenclaw in her time with conniving!Draco in the library. Will she survive his ministrations or not?

Have you ever wondered about what it would be like after the Dark Lord is finally vanquished? Draco Malfoy takes a stroll down memory lane and finds something surprisingly disturbing at the end.

Written for McTabby's blame someone else challenge, this is a piece about the rules governing the interaction between Weasleys and Ravenclaws.````Rule 4. If one is desperate, a Weasley is always worth having around for companionship, if only for entertainment value. With the potential for entertainment comes also the potential for embarrassment, and one is therefore encouraged to choose your Weasley wisely.

After a rather harsh comment made by Peter, Sirius is forced to reconsider his feelings for Lily. A bit angsty, but with a fluffy ending.

What do you do when the girl you want is straight? Parvati's having that issue, and Pansy just wants to help. Really!

Severus Snape is distraught at Christmas having lost the love of his life earlier that year. A dark morose destroyed Snape. Fearing he is suicidal Dumbledore visits him. (not slash) happy ending

Hermione looks back over the path that led her from the safety of the trio to becoming Ginny's lover and Voldemort's servant.

'Am I not beautiful? Am I not still young? It has only been a few months since Draco was born, only a year since our marriage… and yet, he has never touched me since that night. ' Narcissa thinks about her marriage to Lucius and wonders why he does not want her anymore.

The War has ended. Many have been lost. In the middle of night, Severus sneaks to look at three portraits. He reflects the past in his mind - everything that was, would have been, and would never be. Only at night, he could cry. Implied SLASH RL/SB/SS

She’d avoided him, chosen solitude and seclusion instead of facing the enormous amount of possibilities that stood before her. And she hated herself for it.

Ginny is trying to prove herself. She has joined the ranks of the Dark Society and is the top Death Eater.``Harry is living in the Muggle world while working for The Order. A call for a mission sends in into the spiral to save a friend and his own life. Draco is trying to break off from his father and Voldemort's premade destiny. The only thing keeping him in the dark society is life of a younger girl. Tom Riddle has perfected his perfect sceme. His best plan was taking in that worthless witch Ginny Weasley. All he has to do now is wait for Harry Potter to come to the rescue and the end will become real.

Cho boards a midnight train to tell Harry something, but finds that some things are better left unsaid.

The sequel to my fic 'Dragon Dance, Phoenix Dance'. The day after DDPD, the dance is what nobody at all is talking about, due to the fact that it makes everyone very uncomfortable. The only one it doesn't seem to bother is the blonde girl who pushed Draco to dance in the first place, and *she* has just invited Draco and Harry to dinner.

"He is Dark. I am Light. We are both Black. Black as night. Black as sin. Black that obscures and blinds both Dark and Light." Internal monologue from Sirius Black. Companion to "We Were Brothers Once"

Auror Frank Longbottom makes a hash of young Severus Snape's life and career plans.

We don't know a lot about Remus Lupin, but these five scenarios definitely did not happen. AU.

Draco watches Harry more often than he’d care to admit. No-one understands how shallow Harry’s life is, including himself, until one Quidditch match, everything becomes clear. H/D slash

It all started with a cauldron of fluorescent orange slime- and ended with love. An odd combination, but it's an odd world. Ginny’s been declared a hopeless cause when it comes to Potions- so Snape’s finally assigned her a tutor. The Trio is gone from Hogwarts to finish what was started seventeen years ago along with many others. But no worries- from Voldemort to Potions, to Ginny, it's all a contained situation. Poor girl. Doesn't she know that it's only a matter of time till it bursts?

Pansy Malfoy looks back on a childhood memory, the turning point in hers and Draco's marriage.

Sometimes falling in love requires finding common interests. One winter day Harry takes a wintry walk in the wood to clear his thoughts and discovers that he and Draco may share some common ground apart from the Quidditch pitch. This is a fic that takes place in Harry’s seventh year at Hogwarts. This fic is slashy at heart, but like a well trained postal owl, it is tame by nature.

The Mask of Anarchy is a poem that leads Hermione to investigate the death of her friend. Involved in her investigation is a new DADA professor and her friend. Snape enters the scene as well as Lupin when it is discovered that Voldemort is behind all of it. The plot thickens when Snape finds out one of the Death Eaters is a sister of the new DADA Professor. Harry becomes tempted by Voldemort's powers after the loss of someone close to him, and everyone works to protect him from himself. Includes SS/HG, DM/??, LM/??, RL/??, RL/HG, SS/?? as well as some others.

Ginny lets slip about Ron and Hermione's previous relationship. How will Harry feel?

Two strangers meet in the desert under interesting circumstances. Alternate universe one-shot loosely based off of Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car".

Severus Snape's son, Alexander Snape, comes to Hogwarts in the middle of sixth year and is sorted into Gryffindor. He acts the part of a loner, but Harry, Ron and Hermione think there's more to it than that.

The diary of Severus Snape if he were ever to live with me for three months (in America, in the Muggle world, and invisible to the Muggle eye).

When a long lost friend comes into Hermione's perfectly happy life, she starts to wonder whether she's made the right choices...

Harry Potter comes to a realisation of who he his, what he has achieved, and what he can do. Sometimes the clarity of the truth is all that is needed.

Voldemort's been defeated by Harry, and Lupin and Dumbledore look on as Harry lies in a pool of his own blood.

This is a snippet from a Journal Sirius and Remus gave Harry for christmas, in the story. It's extreamly Angsty.

Take a delightful peak into a peculiar alternate universe where "magic" is synonomous with "occult"! WARNING: The following fic contains irony, Monty Python humor, camp, and maybe a spot of liquified brain matter. Don't worry about that. ^_^ (Satan and the Occult claim no ownership to Harry Potter.)

All I do is hide, which is something I have never done before. I used to be strong; I used to be able to stick up for myself. But then you came into my life and all that changed. You made me hide, you took all the innocence I had and that everybody loved and turned me into the female you.

Love, Lavender mused. It should have been hand in hand, a careful kiss in the corridor outside the common room, smiles freely given across the heads of their classmates. ``Not like this.

Sometimes there is nothing to be sorry for.

People had always looks up to her. She'd been the envy of the entire school. One very unlikely one will find out the truth, however, about the past of the smartest girl in school.

A midnight meeting between four friends eases the pain a little after Christmas. Implied R/H. *Missing Moment*

A one-shot about Albus Dumbledore and his impossible love for an impossible man.

“Wow, Draco, I always wondered if we’d run into each other one of these days…but not meaning it literally.” Harry chuckled, clearly not as startled having run into his old “acquaintance.” “Scourgify,” Harry said, immediately cleaning the remains of the caramel ridiculously-long-named coffee beverage. “Let me buy you another.”``Harry and Draco "run into" each other after almost two years of being apart. Can things be the same? Contains coffee drinks with riddiculously long names, spastic Draco, and conversations that take interesting turns. HP/DM.

"Do you really want me? Am I something special? I am throwing myself at your mercy just spare the life of this worth less human," cried the girl on the ground at his feet. He smiled an evil grin. "You do not think he is worthless. Why should I see him as?"``"He holds more then you could ever see. To you it is of no value but to me it is all the riches of the world. Do you comprehend what is being said to you?" she asked as her body shakes from being tired of crying. "I do comprehend but I still see no reason," he said as he began to circle her.

T'was the night before Christmas... A look at the life of Remus Lupin during his twelve lost years.

Remus and Sirius take a moment to relax and buy shoes, but their ideas on shoe shopping are very different. Pure fluff.

Petunia is the sister of Lily Evans. Petunia is the sister that hated Lily Evans. Petunia is the sister that was jealous of Lily Evans, because Petunia could only wish she were Lily Evans.

The thoughts of various people, including our heroes as they get sorted into their houses First night.

Padma won two tickets to a concert of the Weird Sisters... But who to ask to go with her...

Ten years after Hogwarts, Draco Malfoy must deal with the sins of his past. Memories are tearing him apart. Memories of his life as a Death Eater and his life as a spy. Draco must make up for his wrongdoings but first he must think back...

Post OoTP. Snape is assigned to a dangerous and all but impossible task by Voldemort, and it is in the Order's best interest for him to deliberately fail in achieving any end result. However, when Harry finds out about Snape's assignment, the necessity of failing clashes with Harry's agenda.

When everyone around Harry begins thinking practical, Harry has a hard time adapting

Aleka is definitely not your average girl. Her family was taken captive by pirates, and she was raised as one. Now, a mysterious letter comes to her saying that they have answers about the one person she has been trying to forget.

Remus/Sirius. All Remus wants to do is bake the gingerbread to take to the Potters, but Sirius would rather snog him senseless. Short little ficlet.

...Viktor still had his back to her. He was fiddling with something -- doubtlessly a diamond ring. Hermione looked back at the scroll of parchment in her hand. Both loved her -- but who did she love? Hermione looked between Viktor and the letter once more, then took out the quill she always carried with her and scribbled something on the back of the letter in her hand. She tied it to Pigwidgeon and watched the owl fly away. When he was out of sight, Hermione took out her wand."Apparatio The Burrow." So ends Sarah Christine’s Work This Life Out My Way. Is that cold or what? Some justice for our Viktor, if you please....

Regulus Black had eight kisses. His first was the most important. (Written for the Regulus Black Group Cookie Challenge #6 - "Regulus's First Kiss.")

Draco Malfoy. Eighteen, out of Hogwarts, imprisoned in a block of ice by his father wearing only boxer shorts. Could he be any sexier?

Two Muggle-borns get their letters and go to Hogwarts. I know it's been done before (MANY TIMES) but (hopefully) it's a bit different. You also find out who Hermione's friends were before she went to Hogwarts. She was Muggle-born afterall...

As Peter Pettigrew begins his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, things in his world begin to change. For the next ten years, these changes will affect his life and lead him, ultimately, to betraying an old friend.

In a Wizarding World now free from the horrors inflicted by Lord Voldemort and his followers, life has all but returned to normal. But there are some who have still not won their battles. Who struggle against bonds that continue to stifle them and deny them a normal life, long after the hand that originally bound them, has disappeared. She is one of them. But the arrival of a battle weary young boy is about to bring her back. He sparks a memory inside her. Triggers a feeling is always there, lurking in the back of her mind. “Remember,” it says. “Remember.”

Neville Longbottom contemplates the circumstances which caused the demise of his wand. Post-OotP.

Ron\'s heart is broken, and he doesn\'t know what to do. But what seems like the end of his world may be just the beginning. If only he could see what Hermione has known for so long.

Draco and Hermione’s secretive relationship gets put to its very first test: meeting Lucius Narcissa Malfoy. Features a round trip to Malfoy Manor, a bad boy, and some rather unexpected reactions.

For some, it is a time of rest. For others, it is a time of action. Some win, some lose, but the losses keep piling up on both sides. The view into a young man's thoughts while running at oh two hundred greenwitch mean time. The second story of the Love In Idleness arc.

Bernard Goldsmith is in for the shock of his life when he finds out that his wife is faaar from normal...abnormal noises, strange things in the storage room.

For those who have read 'The Seriousness of Sirius Potter' or 'The Intentional Accident', then this provides a bit of backstory for Michael Wood. If you haven't read them, then it's a rather nice Oliver/Katie story.