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In order to save her child, a mother has to sacrifice her own life. These are her thoughts, as she approaches the end...

Companion fic to Fire but also a stand-alone. "I have to admit he was sublime. A slug, yes, but sublime. He was spoiled, rich, snobbish, and a future Death Eater. Everyone knew it, and they either detested him or worshipped him for it. I knew he was evil, oh, yes, everyone know Draco Malfoy was evil. But he had smooth skin, robes that were trimmed with silver although it wasn’t really allowed, and hair so blond it looked silver. Then he had those eyes, those cold, gray, icy eyes that could swallow you whole. At least, they swallowed me. "

Several years ago, Draco Malfoy was sent to Azkaban from the cause of a certain Miss Weasley. But now he's back for revenge and will stop at no means to finish what he started. But time is running out. Emotions are churning. Anxiety and suspicions run high. The Dark Lord is waiting.

A fire doesn't always kill-sometimes it can even refine a person's destiny. Founders' era fic.

"She stared at her reflection in the mirror and tried to imagine the girl she’d been back then, or even before that. She couldn’t. It was like trying to imagine an imaginary friend she hadn’t pretended to see since she was six. As far as her mind was concerned, that girl no longer existed, and she hadn’t even been real. But that girl had existed. She knew it, because she had been that girl..."

Virginia creeper: native woody vine of the grape family, tall growing and popular as a wall covering in the temperate United States. It has blue-black berries and clings by disk-tipped tendrils, some branches hanging free in graceful festoons. The five-fingered leaves—brilliant yellow to red in the fall—are sometimes confused with the three-fingered poison ivy. ``````A boy fighting for the lives of all he knows and cares for--and a great many he doesn't. A girl trying to make her way in a new and unfamiliar world. An ancient magic binding them both. And above it all, a darkness surrounding the home they have grown to know and love, drawing ever closer, threatening not only them but all around them.

Your favorite girls are back again! This time it's Halloween and the girls have more than a few tricks up their sleeves...

A short ficlet on the dark side of Ravenclaw. Set in the Founder's days.

She hated her sister. Perfect Lily with perfect friends and perfect grades and perfect everything. And her, left behind.

Seamus overhears a conversation that really gets him thinking. Companion to "Clearest Indication".

Written for the ARWSLL Christmas Challenge, this little ficcy features the feature Mrs. Lestrange, some flashbacks, Kyra Montague, and realizations...

Everyone's got a story. Even Severus Snape. A one-shot Snape-centric fic.

Fred and George have always been the perfect duo, but one harbours a secret resentment for his twin. What happens when one of Hogwarts' favourite jokers wants out?

Remus at the funeral of his best friend.

The broom sat quietly in the window of the shop, waiting.

Well, basically, this is making fun of all Mary Sue-ness. And no, ShangDuck13 and Ava Rain were NOT HIGH when this was written. Anyway, using her beautifulness and perfect hair flippage, the ultimate Mary Sue saves the day. Or something.

Second part of the 'Colours' Sequence, but stands alone. "Lucius’ eyes had been blue, as blue as the sky was when there were no clouds and it was winter and so cold your tongue turned into one big icicle inside your mouth if you weren’t careful. Draco remembers his eyes, but that’s probably because he sees them every morning and every night in the mirror when he’s brushing his teeth, washing his face, shaving off the few hairs on his chin that might have been a beard if he hadn’t been a Malfoy."

Draco waits in prison for the dementors to come for him. While he loses all hope of rescue, he thinks of Harry.

He draws her in with his charming spell. Is it him or the heavenly water that's calling to her? Ron/Hermione fluff

Oh, I knew—I knew from the very beginning that this was a terrible idea. That filthy Mudblood and I paired together made a terrible Head Boy and Head Girl. It was the one thing that we ever agreed upon. Did anyone listen, though? No, and look where it got us. Hermione Granger is lying dead in our common room. *Warning* Death fic.

"It is funny how I was the one who knew all your secrets, who knew who you really were. Yet every one of them knew before I did. No one told me I had to find out for myself. And you of all people didn’t even tell me." Told from Ginny's POV.

This is a short story about Snape after he returns to Voldemort. It is slightly suicidal.

Songfic. Harry has a dark secret that he has to tell Cho, but how can he? Cho/Harry post-Hogwarts

Who will Harry turn to when he loses everything? (Harry/Lucius)

Past meets future and slaves are made. *tom/voldemort*

By now everyone's heard about Sirius's death, and everyone is quick to comfort Harry. But no one seems to realize that someone else is hurting too.... This is Remus Lupin's side of the grief. Songfic (Michelle Branch and Evanescence).

Summary: The war is over just in time for graduation for all the seventh years. Hermione is one of the lucky ones to have survived. Of course, her friends weren't so lucky. It is during the party that Hermione finds herself lost in the music and for once letting herself see beyond looks and into a cold Slytherin's heart.

Sirius is gone from Harry's life forever, taken as quickly as he was introduced. Neither can handle it any longer. Hear what they have to tell each other even though they are unsure if the other can hear...

Sirius receives a letter from Andromeda informing him of his younger brother's death.

It is the end of the war, and Draco has lived to see it, but is it possible that he wishes that he didn't?

I laugh silently. It's so ironic that I finally stand on a stage with the career I've always dreamed of and sing a love song to you, of all people. I've tried to hate you, Sirius. God have I tried. I want to and I should; yet I cannot.

Draco reminisces his past relationship with Harry, and recalls how he takes it for granted. After all, Malfoys aren't supposed to love... right? Harry/Draco, slash. Post Hogwarts.

You've waited for twenty years for this moment.``Twenty years for the perfect man.``You gaze at each other for a few minutes, and you drink in his beauty. That scar, that beautiful scar on his forehead, his striking eyes and his thick silky hair. You move in to kiss him. Just one kiss. A soft, sweet reminder of the love that you share.``"A penny for your thoughts?" he asks. You smile. ``"I'm just thinking about how much I love you," you reply, turning to face him. He smiles that sexy smile in return.``"I love you, too, Ginny," he whispers.

How do you get an injury? ``It gets inflicted. ``How do you get a scar?``First you let it bleed.````" Even if she was lying with a pale face, floor filled with blood, she was still so beautiful..."

By using a Pensieve, Harry Potter finds that he can travel into the past and change certain circumstances; what he doesn’t know is that each change will greatly impact his life. Every trip into his memories digs him into a deeper hole until the worst occurs – he is trapped in an alternate future where Voldemort has the ultimate weapon. And the only way out is to either kill Voldemort...or be killed, without a chance to change what he had done. Today’s lesson: Never tempt fate.

Written for the hd_fqf on Livejournal, "During the war, Draco is fighting against the Order and for the DEs. In the battle, when he's about to get killed by an Auror, Harry saves him."

Harry escapes for one glorious morning from Privet Drive and runs errands alone.

Draco's life takes an unexpected turn as he's driving home from work one night...

Severus Snape is haunted by a memory that he'd rather not remember in the most eccentric manner.

Nobody knows exactly why it happened. Perhaps it was the depletion of the ozone layer surrounding the Earth. Perhaps it was the knowledge of the upcoming doom about to befall the school, due to an attack from the Dark Lord. Or maybe it was just really, really hot outside. Whatever the reason, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry went insane.

After a particularly violent fight with Draco, Hermione disappears. Naturally, Draco is the main suspect. But what if he's innocent? No one seems to buy that, and that worries Draco. But when Fudge tells Draco he could be looking at Azkaban, he panics and decides to go find Hermione himself. Following a dream of a memory, he sets off to find a girl he hates and to save himself. Will he get there in time?

Mary Weasley finally gets all she wanted -- but soon realizes what she wanted all along was standing there, right in front of her.

James and Lily in a skating rink.

Takes place sometime towards the end of GoF. Harry's been ba-a-ad and Cho doesn't like it. Ginny Weasley comes along and secrets are revealed. The girls are having their night out and Harry has his boys(only) night out with none other than...

Saying goodbye to his last best friend was difficult enough the first time. Having to let go a second time was going to be just about impossible.

It's a hot summer's day, which is unusual in September, and all most of Hogwarts is thinking of is where to get a good suntan and how many items of clothing they can get away with taking off. But Max McKinnon, Raven and Blaise Zabini have other priorities: Harry Potter is going to get a good kicking, and if Slytherin House is ever going to ally with the winning side this must be stopped...

Seamus’ POV realising that he never really saw Harry. All he saw was the hero. Memories of a room mate. Can be companion to ‘Martyr’, one shot.

What goes through Tom Riddle's head at the time of his first killing? It seems that ickle Tommy has a liking for blood....

As Harry is about to begin his sixth year, a group of first years discuss the famous Harry Potter. They wonder what this hero is like, but are they ready for their answer?

Everyone dies alone. (Takes place at least ten years after Hogwarts graduation.)

In the wee hours of August 7th, Ginny writes to the ones she loves to tell them that she won't be coming back. Harry doesn't understand, until he reads between the lines.

They fought united. For one cause. For one man. One man lost to the blood and death of war. They fought united.

Narcissa talks to angels. Darkfic. Drug abuse. Songfic, "She Talks to Angels," by the Black Crowes.

Is this a dream?/If it is please don’t wake me from this high/I’ve become comfortably numb/Until you opened up my eyes She always loved being alone. Until a certain someone opened her eyes to love. OOC.

Everyone has heard the series of events that occured that faithful night when Lily and James were murdered. But this is the true story down to every last detail.

Ron and Harry are thrown into the world of Muggle babysitting after asking Hermione for help one too many times. Now they must play Final Fantasy VII (or some incarnation of it) with her little cousin. Let's face it: Muggles are weird. Especially little ones with too much time on their hands.

Yes...it's yet another Lie-Low-At-Lupin's fic. Yes...Sirius and Remus finally acknowledge that they have always loved one another. But no, it is neither fluffy nor happy; their reunion after so many years of separation is anything but, and the feelings they have both suppressed for so long are strong enough to destroy them.

Someone's writing a letter to Harry, contemplating things long past, and confessions about true feelings.

Bellatrix reflects on her two visitors, Harry and Voldemort. (Dark fic, implied violence, possession, and necrophilia).

Under the influence of Voldemort, Draco and Blaise must gather ingredients for a dark potion under Dumbledore's nose and will go to any length to get what they want. Cho's trying to deal with her dying father and the Trio get caught up in the chaos. Betrayal, deceit and countless heartbreaks will ensue.

Hall Randall, a werewolf, was hunted down by muggle men but what will he do when he met Remus, the boy he bit? You need to read The Plague to understand this story fully.

As each of us die, we leave behind glimpses of our lives that linger in places we have been. Those memories, those pieces of our lives, are the most powerful form of magic there is. We ourselves are not important. It’s what’s inside of us. What lives on when we are gone.

Christmas. Of all the holidays the Marauders have spent together, Christmas was the best one! So, why should this one be any different? Just because Lucius and Snape are staying at Hogwarts this year doesn't mean things will go wrong, right? WRONG!

Draco is sent on a mission that determines whether he will join Lord Voldemort's inner circle or not. Only one problem: It involves dealing with Muggles, to be more specific, the Dursleys. He approaches his first mission with gusto, only to find out that it's not what it seems, he'll have to dig deeper into the inner circle to find out secrets about the Boy Who Lived.

So Harry Potter has played Hero one more time. This time everything he has known is suddenly shattered (including Hogwarts) with the exception of him and Draco Malfoy? What will 'they' do?... if there even is a 'they'

Harry has had to put up with a lot of loss in his life, there's always been someone to help him through. But when he loses that person, there's no one else left, especially when he feels he has some unfinished business... (Implied H/Hr.)

The impact of chess on Ron Weasley's life.

The meek shall inherit the earth, and the faithful will follow you to death and beyond. An alternate look at Hufflepuffs.

Old Man Fate works hard to keep things working in the world. It doesn't help that his assistant, Cupid, who makes couples fall in love, likes to take matters into his own hands. So what happens when he decides Harry and Draco should no longer hate?

A big, bearded wizard holding a large cardboard box stood nearby. The box was emitting rasping noises.

Regulus Black on Voldemort, Horcruxes, death, and his arrogant, insufferable, beloved brother.

Kenneth Towler askes Fred Weasley to set him up on a date. The lucky female? Lavender Brown.

Neville finally falls in love with a girl. But will their love lead to disaster, even death?

I’m short. Extremely, undeniably short. Shorter than short. I’m guessing that you have probably never known someone as short as me. I mean, even my littlest students are taller than me! It is really very pathetic when you have to stand on a stack of textbooks to see over your desk. And to need to stand on seven whole Charms textbooks?

A distraught orphan contemplates murdering the man who betrayed his parents.

Four Valentine's Days, Marauders-style.

At the age of nine, Harry runs away and joins the circus.

Harry feels compelled to address a letter to his deceased godfather. A small mystery follows. A quick fic that turns out to be a little sad.

Maybe his body destroyed his heart in an act of self-preservation. He's always had a ruthless immune system. Dark Draco, with some ambiguous Harry, Ginny, angry Ron.... also, bruises. Draco should keep his cold hands to himself.

I don’t regret what we’ve become, what these years have made us – not in the least. But I want a happy ending.

"Ring around the roses, / A pocket full of posies. / Ashes, ashes, / We all fall down." -- The children sing, and Remus lives. Four interlinking drabbles with slight James/Lily and Remus/Sirius.

As their lives fall to pieces around them, Helga Hufflepuff and Rowena Ravenclaw discover the spiteful trick fate has played on them. Each were led up to a forbidden destiny they cannot succumb to - lest they bring down the wrath of society. Founderfic, Helga/Rowena, Godric/Rowena, Helga/OC, Godric/OC. Femmeslash.

Harry's been MIA for three years. Not one phone call. Not one letter. Then, one day he shows up in the bedroom of a certain witch who certainly wasn't expecting him. More than a little strange. Not for the younguns.

“Lumos.” A small beam of light reveals three feet of emptiness. Beyond is nothing but stifling, moist darkness. Accompany sixteen-year-old Severus into the tunnel where he goes through the single most terrifying experience of his entire life.

Ginny reflects on life after Harry...romantic, tragic, wistful...

I just tell myself that he's not worth it. That I'm better off without him. That I can do better. But how can you do better than him? He's got everything. He is everything, for St. Mungo's sake. you couldn't possibly do better. It's impossible to find someone better than him.

How will Harry and Ron cope with their greatest loss, and deal with their new empty space inside them? She was their best friend....

It was the end of the first war that Snape made a promise to those he held most dear but who have since passed.

A sort of prologue to my fic "Forty Shades of Bewilderment". A ballad of sorts about Kelsey Potter, Harry Potter, Cedric Potter (or Cedric Diggory), Percy Weasley, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Ginny Weasley, Jenny Wren, and Jessica Potter. Each stanza ends with "long time ago".

Snape's allergies to one of the ingredients in the Wolfsbane potion causes his problems to multiply.

On Harry Potter's fifteenth birthday, someone close to him bares her heart and her worst fears to her diary. An in-canon character examination of Hermione.

How could Harry and Draco become friends? They can't! Maybe, just maybe, they can be the best of enemies instead.

"Zoë, want to play a game of chess?" Ron said, gesturing to the seat across from him. ``Ron has a conversation with his niece, Zoe, about life, Hogwarts and chess.

Someone finds Ginny in the prefects' bathroom, floating in the bath, with her wrists slit. This is a confession of their love and desire.

"Some may judge me to be dumb. Some may say that Herbology doesn't prepare them for what they will face on the battlefield. I agree. But it's not only Herbology I teach them. It's patience and an eye for details; trust in their abilities and love for their chosen professions. Not something that will help them during the fighting. Because that's what I'm best at, working behind the scenes, preparing the warriors for the time after the war." Professor Sprout muses about her place in the world.

A not so innocent bystander tells what happened on the corner of Capulet and Montegue. *character death*

The Weasleys are being evacuated for their own safety as Voldemort's reign grows stronger. One day in the summer of their seventh year, Harry, Ron, and Hermione find themselves fighting for everything they hold dear...

Hermione's life is not what it seems. What happens when she is discovered to be a cutter by Hogwarts most feared teacher?

When Bellatrix and Neville meet for the last time

As Snape struggles to deal with the consequences of the Occulmency lessons, he meets a former classmate that has come to him as a last hope.