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Harry's gone and he probably won't come back. He left everything to keep her safe. But he didn't think of the effect it would have in the one person he loves the most in the world. Now he's coming back for a little while to try and fix things.

Neville gets ready to ask Hermione to the Yule Ball. When that fails, he asks Ginny. What was he thinking through all of this? This mousy Gryffindor has some spunk after all. One-shot, missing scene fic, a Neville story.

Just lots of talking, really. Remus and Severus have a conversation after James and Sirius, the buggers, make a fool out of Severus yet again.````Set after the scene Harry observes in Snape's Pensieve. Very light slash.

Minerva McGonagall was not present in the Department of Mysteries. However, her understanding of the death is just as painful as everyone elses. Three parter, spoilers for OotP.

A one shot from Harry's point of view about the war around him and those he loves. (H/D)

When everything takes a turn for the quiet side of life, Zacharias must actively seek out his own battles to fight and picks the government as his worthy adversary. And through it all, Harry can only sit back and watch, and occasionally rustle his newspaper. Intentional Zacharias/Harry.

He wasn't looking forward to sitting in a Muggle club, awaiting the arrival of an informant. But his dull assignment turns into something more when a stranger (whose eyes look so familiar), and a few rounds of double Scotch turn things around. One-shot, poem fic, Snape.

At the end of "Phoenix", Lucius Malfoy is arrested as a Death Eater. What happens to Draco now that his father's identity is made public? Set within Azkaban itself.

Two roads diverged in a wood.

"Armando Dippet had never fallen out of a chair before. But that day he did. He slipped right out of it and onto the floor." (Armando Dippet/Professor Kettleburn.) Written for the Overlooked and Obscure Characters Ficathon.

Severus starts regretting a past mistake.

An angsty Cho Chang monologue. On why she cries. Mentions tradition, angst, family, confusion, Cedric and Harry. A chance for Cho-fans to read an interpretation of what she went through, and Cho-haters to take a look from her point of view.

Depression and Sorrow engulf Remus Lupin's life. He can think of only one thing... and it haunts him like a ghost.

Severus reflects upon his vows - past and present - and his own motives. This leads him back to the one person he has ever loved: R. A. B.

Sky Monroe has always been alone. Alone with no memory of her past and no friends. Until one day, a stranger comes along and sends her off and her greatest adventure: A quest to find out the truth and a whole lot more including the presence of evil...

Harry Potter on estate life, and what it feels like to go back to Privet Drive after the fifth year...

Harry's world was dark and bleak until Ginny came into his life. He thinks about the past, Ginny's sacrifice, and her part in the winning of the war. Post-Ootp

As Harry’s hand reached out and grasped the glass doorknob, he knew one thing was for certain – this night would be bad. And tomorrow would be beyond imagining.

Far away across the field/ The tolling of the iron bell/ Calls the faithful to their knees/ To hear the softly spoken magic spells.

"My hands are stained." On Harry's first day at Hogwarts, Snape ponders damnation and redemption.

Ron and Hermione are fighting again and if there is any hope of peace in Gryffindor Tower, it's up to Ginny. Can she stop the fighting so she and the other fifth years can study in peace?

"And in the mirror he read his truth and counted all the new-old ways he'd failed." Remus Lupin reflects on the many ways in which he fell short.

Harry was crap at dancing. Ginny doesn't much care.

Remus Lupin has seen life and he has seen death. But as he confronts the latest of his griefs, he must come to terms with the duty that has befallen him in the wake of tragedy.

The Final Battle takes place at Hogsmeade, during Harry's seventh year at Hogwarts. He defeats Voldemort, but loses his life to a Death Eater after fulfilling the Prophecy. But before dying, he has made an indelible mark in the heart of one whose love was as absolute as her faith. Can Luna survive without him to live for? And can someone take his place?

A set of seven short stories depicting the relationship between Minerva McGonagall and Sirius Black.

Druscilla Morgan is sent out into the magical world after living a secluded life on an island with her grandmother… Strange things are happening, and she knows nothing about her past… and but she doesn’t know may indefinitely be her downfall…

The summer day had ended, yet not everyone had been granted sleep. He had wanted to be alone, and she had wanted a drink to defeat her insomnia. He remembered, and she watched. And both had wondered.

Harry Potter searches for the remaining Horcruxes, familiar faces aid him in his journey to stop the Dark Lord.

Hermione tries to get Harry to stop isolating himself from his loved ones - after all, cutting himself off from them is only causing pain. One-shot, H/Hr.

Some people suggest it was just selfishness on Snape's part to stop his Occlumency lessons with Harry, but perhaps Snape's reasons run far deeper. A Snape's POV response to the OotP chapter "Snape's Worst Memory."

His heart constricts along with her long tail and for a moment, just that minor second, Tom understands affections and perhaps the need to weep, bleed, and protect. This is all, of course, before he becomes another creature...free of the traditional views of love.

"Tom never left you, not completely. He’s just been… dormant all these years. Waiting for his chance. Hurting you in whatever way he could. Tom was a memory, right? A memory trapped in a diary. Now he’s a memory trapped in you, and he won’t let you forget.”

When the war is over there have been betrayals of the worst kind. The only thing Draco wants now is vengeance for the death of the girl he loved.

"She was all that he ever truly had, and then she was gone, away from his cruel words and cold stares. He never realized he needed her more than anything. Could he even have her back, hold her again and be complete again? Hope fluttered in him, and he wondered if he dared to acknowledge it."

Symbiosis - n. A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

Regulus' thoughts on his way to Hogwarts and during his Sorting.

'The inelegant rumble in my stomach causes my face to contort in concentration. Of all the times to get wind, why now?!' Professor Snape is standing up there blowing like a huge bag of hot air.

During his first Quidditch game at Hogwarts, Regulus must balance his loyalties - in true Slytherin fashion.

The tragic event of March 11th of Harry's seventh year starts a vicious cycle of death and despair for several students and quickly spreads to the rest of the wizarding world. But even after the Final Battle, the war rages on. With people still dying and turning up missing there seems to be no end in sight. But Snape has a secret that may change all that, but at what cost? In the end is he a Killer, Hero, or just another Victim?

{The natural force of attraction exerted by a celestial body, such as Earth, upon objects at or near its surface, tending to draw them toward the center of the body.} She forgets all about hating him when he touches her like this. (D/G)

"What is your ambition, Miss Lestrange?" "Sir?" "To be worthy of your name, perhaps, or to redeem it in the eyes of men, or maybe to be so ordinary that you will be swept away in the tide of the unfulfilled desires of lesser hearts and beached by the lacklustre dreams around you." Contains references to self-harm. Also contains french poetry.

A year after Harry dies fighting Voldemort, his husband, Ron Weasley goes through Harry's old things. But what Ron finds changes his life forever.

The sequel to The First Piece of Silver. Peter Pettigrew meets Regulus Black at a party, Voldemort courts Dark creatures, and wheels are set in motion. Peter thinks he's doing the right thing. He's wrong.

The Founders were the beginning of everything; they started off so happy, so what went wrong? And why did Salazar really disappear?

Even though Remus feels that he has been to enough funerals to not be affected by Sirius's death, a visit from Harry right before the funeral shows him he might be wrong.

R for later chapters. In the year 2004, the next generation is born, and ready or not, they’ve got to finish where their parents left off.

Voldemort reflects on his childhood. Then his years at Hogwarts. And finally, his rise to power. Entrances made by Voldie and Bellatrix.

Nymphadora Tonks receives a visitor in the hospital after the attack in the Ministry. All she can say is 'Oh'. Part one of a trilogy of one-shot R/T fics on the topic of healing and carers.

The Final Battle approaches and the question of whether Draco can be trusted to make the right decision is finally answered ... by Crookshanks.

Katie Bell never knew her father, but it never really bothered her. She had her mother, her grandfather, and her daydreams about Oliver Wood to occupy her time. But what happens when lies from her mother's past threaten to affect her future? (Takes place during OotP)

Viktor Krum has always loved Hermione but she has never felt the same way for him. This is a Viktor perspective of Ron and Hermione's relationship to the words of Damien Rice's Cannonball.

Christmas time at St. Mungo's - An Auror tries to reassemble his shattered mind, but some things are best left forgotten. PG-13 for language and impolite Longbottom/Lestrange interactions.

This takes place right after we see Sirius leave Harry and Dumbledore at the end of Goblet of Fire. Sirius meets up with Remus to call together the Order of the Phoenix.

This is a light story intended to intoduce a new magical beast. I have decided not to use the dragon in my original story as it is not strong enough to do battle in the way I want it to. There is also a brother who comes to his brother's romantic rescue. A little Ron/Hermione. A gentle, but fun story.

It was an accident. Hermione was not supposed to fall for Fred. Literally. F/Hr funny fluff.

A prophecy is a prophecy, but the law is the law. Harry Potter must obey both, though he doesn't have to like it. Post book seven, and the war is over.

There is danger in dwelling on past mistakes, as Dumbledore and Snape discover. Missing moment from PS/SS.

"The hardest part about taking care of a person dying inch-by-inch isn't the sleepless nights, the wrenched back from lifting once (or twenty times) too often, or the isolation. The hardest part is afterwards." Gregory Goyle/Millicent Bulstrode (GG/MB) (Sequel to 'Memory Like Old Lace')

Every night, young Sirius Black would leave his bed and sneak out of the dormitory. One night, a lovesick Remus follows him and sees a peculiar sight. Based on the ancient Greek myth of Echo and Narcissus.

Hermione has finally made it to Graduation Day but not without a few bumps along the way. As she prepares to leave she reflects on the past at Hogwarts. Warning:Character Death

"My favourite colour is pink. It’s not because Parvati likes it. Everyone thinks I do what Parvati does, because sometimes I do. But sometimes, I don’t..." - Life through the eyes of a girl that sees what others don't. LB/DT

Just a one-shot angsty, yet slightly fluffy look into Hermione's late night musings.

In the aftermath of You-Know-Who's destruction, Draco Malfoy has adopted an almost hermetic existence, cutting himself off from both magical and Muggle worlds, as far as that's possible. But can he be left to brood in peace, when both old friends and an unknown Muggle girl seem intent on disturbing his solitude?

Harry writes a letter to the godfather he lost and we see his deepest hurts and fears.

Salazar returns to Hogwarts, half-sane and raving about Dementors...

"Dying inside, never forgiven, branded forever... no one cares, no one knows, no one hears. I’m alone..." Who will listen to cries of the lost souls? Some things remain forever unsaid. Ch1-Draco’s POV after the events in the tower.

Mrs Black is snogging Caradoc Dearborn on his last Order mission. Written for Fiction Alley Park's Valentine's Day OTP challenge 2005.

Thirty minutes can be forever or no time at all. Thirty minutes can be good, bad, painful or kind, but however you experience them, they cannot be undone. (H/D slash)

Lily invites her boyfriend Severus to meet her family. Lily/Severus.

Sequel to I Still Remember in which Sirius has moved on. Very angsty.

It all started with a smirk, and a bow. Songfic of Mandy Moore's Cry. That stupid dance in fifth year. Oh, if I could undo it... And yet, I know I wouldn’t. His touch sent shivers through my whole body. He sneered at me coolly when I turned and asked for a dance. It was oddly comfortable in his arms. We danced for the rest of the night but he hardly said ten words. At the end of the last song he bowed, kissed my hand and swept out leaving me yet again shocked in the middle of the floor.

Harry Potter wants a certain blond co-worker, but Malfoy has no idea Harry's interested in him. Harry is desperate and will do anything to get Malfoy's attention. Tired of acting as Harry's stand-in therapist, Hermione gives Harry a journal for his birthday, in order to help him work out his feelings. What follows is a series of Harry’s ramblings and scribbles about his feelings and various failed attempts at courting one Draco Malfoy.

Where illusions are shattered! Where dreams are trodden in the dust! Where morons with an Imac type this s**t directly in with no revision. Watch for following pairings: Harry/Dumbledore, Padma/Dobby, Myrtle/life-size inflatable Aaron Carter doll in garter belt. Or maybe not, I don't know.

As Halloween of 1981 draws near, the Potters must go into hiding, but first they must choose a Secret Keeper. Told from Sirius Black's point of view, this is a companion piece to Keeping Secrets.

Ginny, Luna, Bellatrix, and a dungeon. Genfic, dark.

How did Tonks’s parents meet and fall in love? What was their relationship with Sirius Black? And why ever did they name their daughter Nymphadora? These are just some of the questions I had about Tonks and her family. This fic is my attempt to answer them. Andromeda Black/Ted Tonks, a hint of NT/RL at the end.

Is it possible for someone to do the right thing for the wrong reason? In a letter to his son, Draco Malfoy explains why he thinks it might be the case.

Severus would have never thought a time would come when they, when he, would need Neville.

"I suppose it's a sign of growing up when you realise that your parents can be wrong, isn't it?" An adult Luna Lovegood talks about her part in the war.

Waiting for Harry to return from a mission, Draco worries.

Sequel to 'The Diary'. Death Eaters once made a promise to their master, the Dark Lord Voldemort, and now that promise could mean everything to the fractured lives of the Potter family and friends.

What you didn't see in Snape's Pensieve.

Harry/Cho. "It’s been years since he last saw her and he’s amazed by how different and how very much the same she is."

"He deserved to be here. He had earned his place." Draco is watching and waiting. GenFic … but Draco/anyone if you squint hard enough. Oneshot.

Just a little Lockhart story, subtitled They Think I've Lost My Mind.

And I who am here dissembled/ Proffer my deeds to oblivion, and my love/ To the posterity of the desert and the fruit of the gourd.

We have all lost.

The Muggle picnic planned for the Hogwarts students is anticipated by all--except for Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley. They both have the same problem, and when one event leads to another...how will such a simple thing turn their whole day around?

On his first birthday after the Battle of Hogwarts, Angelina visits George with some news. Written for the Rebirth Challenge at The Quidditch Pitch.

A short piece that looks at Sirius' death from his own perspective in the immediate events leading to his passing beyond the veil.

He might as well be a slave.

One week in the lives of two soldiers, partnered together by good fate or ill. (Post-Hogwarts Severus/Harry slash written for Resonant. Warnings for sexual references and violence.)

During Voldemort's first attempt at power, two old friends meet in Granada. But something isn't quite right.

When Harry is rescued from the Dursleys, deaf, mute, and barely alive, the others must help him cope with years of abuse and his new disabilities. As a strange bond awakens between he and his friends, they all come into powers that haven't been seen in millennia, while suffering from dreams about strange artifacts and a white phoenix named Life, who holds the secret to Voldemort's destruction, or his victory.

He’d seen its other side, when for so long had believed it had only one facet – a face that turned him into a monster. But he’d learned that night that there was another, just as he was not the monster every day of his life. (Subtly SB/RL set in Marauder time. A short piece that explores the significance of the moon to a werewolf, and how a chance encounter may change it indefinitely.)

Ginny has been in love with Tom for years, and now she has brought him back to life. But just as she had to pay with her life last time, so does she this time. Only Harry isn't there to save her... Rated R for implied sex.

The incessant falling of rain beats out a monotonous rhythm on the windowpane. Every drop is reminiscent of a faraway memory, lost in the sorrow and fear. Fear of being turned away, fear of being wrong, fear of yourself.

Remus returns from the Department of Mysteries to a old house full of restless, haunting ghosts. R/S, R/H. SLASH