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What if you've spent most of your life fighting something, and you finally win? Ginny offers words of wisdom, and Harry discovers that there's more to life than Voldemort.

Minerva McGonagall watches the Sorting of 1971, and sees choices. AU.

Draco has been visiting Harry's grave since he died. He is sorry, so sorry that it wasn't he who died instead. ````Can Harry comfort him from beyond?

Sirius faced me, placing his hand on my shoulder. “I’m leaving for a very long time. And I don’t plan on coming back to see that miserable old hag that calls herself our mother ever again.” The story of the day Sirius Black left number twelve Grimmauld Place through the eyes of Regulus Black. One shot.

It had all pretty much gone downhill since he'd graduated from Hogwarts. Who would really want to spend their life with a poor old werewolf? It didn't matter anymore... nothing did... there was nothing that would change. Remus/Lily. Songfic to 'Paradise'

Grasping the cold steel handle of the jagged blade, she inhaled deeply. “It…could all be over. It could all….be over.” She took a deep breath. That dagger looked so friendly right about now. It seemed to grin at her, daring her, taunting her, saying, “You know you can’t go through with this. You know you can’t go though with this.”```` But inside her head another voice spoke. Calm, cool and collected it said, “Ending your life won’t making anything better and you know it! So suck it up, get some pride and put that damn family heirloom in the china closet where it belongs!” Both voices belonged to her and her alone.

The last person you would expect in Azkaban muses. Based on Oscar Wilde's poem of the same name.

Draco and Ginny meet up in a chilly courtyard and Ginny swoons... over his scarf. G/D

Just a couple of weeks after so-and-so's death, Harry is back living with the Dursleys, and thoughts of what have happened since his time at Hogwarts begin to sink in before he begins his sixth year.

Remus and Tonks are proud parents! RL/NT, R/Hr

Hogwarts, but not as you know it. Harry, but not as you know him.

Hermione learns the concequences of wandering around 12 Grimmauld Place. Implied Regulus/Hermione.

Carry Smith thinks she is an ordinary girl, until one day she discovers she is a witch. This story is the journey trough her first year, all her trials and tribulations, and the prophecy that will change her life.

The Marauders and the Blood Medallion is the first book in the saga of The Adventures of the Marauders. This saga tells about the adventures of James Potter, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew.

Draco returns to the Manor to find it quiet - which is so different from when his father was present. What does Potter have to do with it?

The war is over and the Light side has lost. Hermione Granger reflects on the men she loved and lost.

Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban, Remus Lupin has been hired to teach Defence Against the Dark Arts, and Severus Snape is having some thoughts during the first staff meeting of the autumn term.

Have you ever wondered if Ron has any other family that live in America? Well here is his cousin fourteen year old Gia Weasly who has a life that most witches and wizards would dream of. She was attending Salem's Institute of Magic and Witchcraft for young witches and wizards. She was beautiful, popular, top of her class and the best chaser on her school team. But what will a certain cousin and his two friends and Lord Voldemort have in part of this story? In this story you will learn that when disaster strikes, you will be surprised about how well you are connected with those who have gone through the same situations and how wonderful friendships and family really are.

It's time for the Hogwarts Talent Show for a new year. Acts include 'Return of the Dead' and 'Harry and the Prefects'. A must-read for slash fans! H/G, H/D. Character death!

A married Ginny recieves a letter from Harry, who everyone had thought lost forever. He wants to meet with her, but she's happily married to Neville, with children. Should she follow her heart or stay true to her wedding vows? Neville/Ginny

Percy heads home for Christmas... The house was dark, and appeared as if none had been there for months upon end. Dust was gathered on the window pane, and the weeds had overgrown the already overgrown garden.

On the eve of the final battle, Peter Pettigrew reflects on how things came to this.

When Draco Joined the side of good no one wanted to know him, especially Potter inc. But when they finally started to warm to him, one particular member warmed a little too much. Feeling neglected, Draco has turned back to the side of evil and Harry has gone to get him back, but is he too late?

"He can’t come back, Harry." I was choking on the words even as I said them. Not wanting to believe them any more than Harry, and hating them for being true. But I had to say them. “He can’t come back because he’s dead.”

This is my interpretation of what occurs on the other side of the veiled archway in the Ministry of Magic: Department of Mysteries. OotP Spoilers

Petunia hates Lily. She hates what Lily is. She hates magic. Yet, she's found a different, more dark brand of magic that she is contented by and begins experimenting with it in the summer holidays.

Narcissa has a problem. No one seems to care, except for Draco. What is behind the problem?

Whatever Remus may tell himself, he has always belonged to Sirius. A study of love that surpasses romance.

"Tragic romance is no new thing to the world...The story is so old, no one can remember exactly how it started. But these two, they have decided to write another chapter." Not all love stories have a happy ending... NOT a song fic. D/Hr.

Parody of songfics and weird pairings. Set to "My Beloved Monster" by the Eels. It's weird and disturbing, just to warn you.

Remus thinks about letters from his past and writes one of his own to Sirius.

Songfic to Hero from the Spider-Man soundtrack. Harry reminisces about his life as a 'hero' and his feelings for a certain someone. Takes place at the beginning of Harry's 7th year.

One-shot, intended as a supplement to OotP, a "missing scene" if you will. Years after their affair, Bellatrix finally exacts her revenge on Remus in the Department of Mysteries.

Timeframe - post-Hogwarts; pairings - Hagrid/OC, implied R/Hr; Hagrid and Catherine are trying to adopt a child. Wait...Hagrid, a father?

Valentine's Day is just another day to argue for Ron and Hermione. But Hermione wants Ron to see her in a different light, and Ron is too stubborn to notice what she's trying to tell him. A sweet, fluffy one-shot inspired by the holiday.

Harry Potter is all grown up now and has doubts about his various attempts to bring peace to the wizarding world.

"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven." ~Ecclesiastes 3:1

Padma reflects on Parvati, her brother, her mother and father, Mandy Brocklehurst, her former boyfriend, Voldemort, her best friends, and Hogwarts all in a hazy afternoon, during the summer holidays.

"It's a ritual they generally don't talk about. Both of them think about it a great deal, whether upon waking the next day or at dinner some weeks later, but they most assuredly do not talk about it. Remus fears bringing it out in the open will breathe life into it, somehow, make it completely unavoidable and utterly final. Sirius simply doesn't know what to say."

Harry is missing, Hermione is worried, Draco is being insufferable and Ron’s got a theory.... It’s just another day at Hogwarts.

Draco, for no discernible reason, has decided to walk to San Francisco. Yes, we're pretty sure he's crazy. Harry joins him, thus proving himself doubly insane. Much bickering, hitch hiking, and general slashiness to ensue.

Sirius is taken to Azkaban, leaving behing a wife and young daughter. This is the story of Selena Black and her thirst for avenging her mother's death. While she is more than happy to go after her mother's killer, she is surprisingly lacking in want to do the same for her father - find out why and more!

Draco is in love. But where goes the line between love and madness?

Draco sits in the Infirmary after the CoS Gryffindor/Slytherin match, waiting...

"Patta cake, patta cake, baker’s man, bake me a squib as fast as you can. Pat it and prick it and mark it with V..."

Songfic. James did something horrible, and Lily found out. How can she forgive him, but most of all, how can he forgive himself? Prepare to cry.

Minerva McGonagall has led an amazing life and had several amazing loves. This story is told in her journals of who and how she loved and then lost those loves. Of how, she saw red blood stream from all her loves.

A day in the life of the sixth year Gryffindors. Involves potions disasters, Chocolate Frog cards, and sneaking into the Slytherin dorm.

Tom Riddle takes us back to Hogwarts in the early 1940's. He writes a narrative about what really went on when the Chamber Of Secrets was first opened.

Voldie in love?!?!? But with whom? You'll never guess who, and you'll never guess how! And, with infusions of Monty Python and the Holy Grail and LOTR, how can you go wrong?

This fic is my interpretation of what led up to Umbridge's decision to send the Dementors to Little Whinging in the summer before Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts.

This is the last battle between Godric and Salazar. Who will come out victorious? Was it maybe someone else who destroyed Salazar other than Godric? Read, and find out.

Remus doesn't make resolutions, not even when the War is finally over. That doesn't stop Ginny from asking.

Hermione receives a letter asking her to volunteer for war. She reluctantly agrees even though she is terrified that she'll never see her family, friends or love again. One-shot. Hermione/Draco.

It’s the irony of it all that just really gets me. The irony of the book of life, written by someone long dead; the irony of writing about something beautiful, when there is ugliness all around; the irony of writing about sight, when you are blind. The irony of writing about love, when you can love no more, oh, that’s the greatest of them all, that it is. R/Hr

It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall, and as he did all he could see was the mermaid. He knew she was the mermaid, although her form shifted like the tides, and some numbed part of his brain was telling him about shock and hallucinations, but all he could see was her, and he was still falling.

How does Molly Weasley really feel about her clock? What tortures has it put her through? Set on the night of the battle at the Ministry of Magic

Seven years after the final battle, Snape considers a few personal demons.

She would never do that. She couldn’t. After all, it was him.

Hermione and Ron are meant to be together, but will they forever miss their chances to be together? Ron already has, and seems to have given up forever (see my fic A House That Might Have Been). Will Hermione have the courage to voice her feelings for a second time, or will she marry Krum? Sweet companion piece to A House That Might Have Been.

Did you ever wonder what Remus Lupin said to that unfortunate man who'd been bitten by the werewolf and was sharing a ward with Arthur Weasley at Christmas in OotP? I did. This story is the result of my wondering.

I'm fairly certain I don’t love him. No. It’s more of a fascination. I'd love to know what makes him tick…what urges him to do the things he does…to say the things he says. I've berated myself constantly; too many times to count even, there isn’t any way to explain my deranged fascination. I must be sick, or barmy, mental at the very least, but I'm intrigued. A COMPANION PIECE OF SORTS TO FATHER'S MINION.

Evil did not begin with Lord Voldemort nor will it end with him. Prophets ranging from an ancient priestess to the current Sybill Trelawney foretell a darkness greater than all others. A final, twelfth prophet holds the key to helping Harry and the Order of Phoenix overcome Voldemort and the new reign of darkness-- but where could this missing prophet be?

Minerva McGonagall and Xiomara Hooch have been friends for a long time. But how long is a long time? What happens when they meet as young girls? Will two girls who are completely different ever get along?

How do I explain? ``How do I put words to something with no words?``How do I make you understand? ``How do I show you war? ``How can I ever show you death?

Nearly Headless Nick is a ghost because he was afraid of death - how about the others? What do the Hogwarts ghosts think about death, their own in particular? Is there any hope for them?

Set on September 1st, 1971, this ficlet recounts Sirius and Remus' first arrival at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Read about the fears of a young werewolf who longs for acceptance and a pure-blood boy who just wants to find a place where he belongs.

She's a witch, she's a witch... How do you know... She turns me into a newt.... Well if the truth be told, the scene really didn't go that way, but Monty Python had to work in our word. Monty Slytherin, however, were free to tell the truth about the Witch.

Hermione initiates; Ron concludes; Harry assists; Draco suffers for his sins.

During a snowbound winter, Sirius' desire to protect Remus grows stronger.

Harry's had a lot to think about over the summer before his fifth year, and for the first time, he puts his thoughts on parchment.``"I guess that writing your feelings out does ease the pain a bit after all."

It's Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts. A long-lost (but not forgotten) potion reappears in the worst possible way, forcing Snape to fight through painful memories in an attempt to redeem himself. From Snape's POV.

Sequel to A Moment in Time. Whatever happened to Draco after that moment? And what about Hermione?

Hermione has all the answers except for this one. Who does she like better Draco or Ron? Hermione is confused which is new for her, lights explode, tea is drunk, Ron sings, and Draco makes snide remarks, but not necessarily in that order. All in all a fun, light read.

A take on Percy's point of view during the events of Christmas in the Half-Blood Prince.

"I remember you," the Dark Lord said. "I remember you, Ginny Weasley."

Hermione is in love, and like any good scholar, she is willing to wait for as long as a good thing takes to happen. Percy/Hermione.

Pansy is in love with Draco, but Draco is with Harry. What do you think she will do to get them back together? Will she go too far?

Draco insults/injures a house elf and is punished in the most unbearable way. Chaos and comedy ensue. Will he survive and make it from Rags to Quiches?

"Your parents, you have been told, are heroes." Neville Longbottom reflects.

You realize that the shadow of your father isn't quite as big as you always thought it was supposed to be. You realize that it would be all too easy to step out of it. D/G.

Ginny is doing her homework late at night in Gryffindor Tower when suddenly she feel like she's being watched. Is someone there that shouldn't be there? Let's have our red-haired heroine find out.

Sirius Black put up with his family for sixteen years. But one day he ran away. It was freedom, it was liberation, but in a way it hurt. Because some things are painful, even to a sixteen-year-old boy.

Harry's annual escape from Privet Drive is a bit more harrowing than usual.

A young Severus Snape is learning Occlumency from Dumbledore under the watchful eye of the portraits on his office wall.

Severus picks up a little girl after an attack. Is her happiness due to shock, or is there something else involved?

This is a story of a girl, Kat Meyers (not American), who has been friends with the gang for all their years of Hogwarts. Over the summer before fourth year, something happened to make the outgoing girl stop talking and smiling and being the friend Harry used to know. What's happened and what's with the pointe shoes? Could it be something to do with Voldemort? Is Harry really the only one Voldemort's after?

What's it like for Angelina Johnson to be one of the few black students at Hogwarts? Well, to be honest, she's never given it much thought. After all, there's much more bigotry in the wizarding world against Muggle-borns and half bloods. But after befriending an angry young African American Muggle-born student at the Salem Wizarding Academy in the U.S., Angelina learns an important lesson about her heritage as a black witch.

At the annual Order reunion, Fred and George's children decide to follow in their fathers' footsteps... Chaos and general silliness ensues! Mild George/Alicia, Fred/Angelina, mentions of Lee/Katie.

Remember when Harry and Malfoy first became enemies? How Malfoy asked Harry to join his side? What ``if Harry did?

A songfic to Mandy Moore's 'Cry.' Draco has a change of heart and makes a life altering decision during a heart to heart conversation with Ginny.

Peter wages a losing battle with his own fear. Set in early 1981.

After the war, all Theodore Nott has left is his childhood home and a ghost that won't let him forget.

A pantomime version of Harry Potter. Cue bad jokes, silly songs, quotes and puns galore and the obligatory custard pies. The plot - Voldemort plans to take over the world, Draco crossdresses and Ron collects Happy Meal toys. All together now: "Oh no he doesn't!"

Will Remus ever forgive the perpetually young Flora for breaking his heart?

Ginny has always loved Hermione from afar, but the worst thing about falling in love is hitting the ground.

Harry and Draco live off of each other. Silent understanding passes through emerald/grey/green/blue eyes.

Gilderoy Lockhart arrives at Hogwarts after three years in St. Mungo's. He has got his memory back, partially atleast. So who does he see in the portrait? And pray tell, why does he fall in love with that person?

They say that hindsight is 20/20. Here is a tale told in hindsight. Begin at the end and see the mistakes, the confessions, the forbidden. Power is in passion, but knowing the outcome, what is changed? BZ/HP. Implied DM/BZ. Implied DM/HP.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione are on the train after their third year at Hogwarts, and Harry feels that he must have missed something in the movie. How did Professor Lupin know how to use that map?