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There comes a time in everyone's life when they're blinded by their love for someone. It's as if they're looking in a mirror, but they cannot see the reflection. What does it take for love to end? And why does Sibyll love Gilderoy so?

Harry's left Hermione, but she doesn't know why. Her little daughter is having a hard time coming to grips with it, too. Read to see what happens!

The war may have ended, but the suffering only began when the prophecy was fulfilled.

Ginny is thinking about her relationship with Harry, and how it all went wrong. Song is property of Tori Amos, from the album Little Earthquakes.

“Why aren’t you happy with yourself?” you asked me. ````"Isn’t it obvious?" I wanted to scream. "How can I be good enough for myself when I’m not good enough for you?" But I didn’t. Instead I just gave you my look. The one that I give everyone; it’s so easy to misinterpret. To you it says, “I’m okay with myself, and I don’t give a crap what you or anyone else think.” You don’t see that I’ve put my soul in my eyes, hoping against hope that you’ll see it there and understand. But you don’t, Harry. No one ever does.

!Fluff Warning!``Persuasion is the highest form of flattery.

Sirius, alone in the drawing room at Number Twelve, Grimmauld Palce, feels the need to do something reckless.

"And run they do. Oh, they may like to play at idealistic revolutionists, but deep inside they’re a bunch of cowardly mudbloods. Mudbloods. That’s what brought us here. That’s what brought her here. Granger. Bushy haired, buck toothed, muggle born Granger who isn't bushy haired or buck toothed anymore. Just muggle born. Just a mudblood." -- Everything Draco's ever known changes when he walks in on a group of mudblood thirsty Slytherins torturing Hermione. Rated R for some graphic stuff.

One ruby amid the emeralds``Like a drop of blood``On grass.``One gilded lily amid``The solid silver``Glass.``One age-old lineage``Shattered.``Toujours Pur,``Toujours Pur.``One ruby amid the emeralds``Like a drop of blood``On grass.

"And if you need somewhere to rest / Somewhere to lay your head / You’ll know where to find me / Stay, stay, stay with me" Comfort sought in the wee hours of the morning and a script that neither has the ability to rewrite. Post-Hogwarts Harry/Draco slash.

After the death of Cedric Harry can't seem to stop blaming himself. Taking an old muggle habbit to use he finds solitude in a forgotten bathroom... Until someone finds him.

Post-Voldemort, the Ministry auctions off the Death Eaters. Katie Bell purchases Marcus Flint in order to get revenge for Oliver's death, but she encounters an unexpected problem.

This story takes you on a wild emotional ride as you experience the weeks surounding the final defeat through Hermione's eyes.

Cho Chang has just gotten back to Hogwarts after spending her sixth year in an exchange program in Academia de Esperanza, Santiago, Chile.  If she was sophisticated before, now she is even more so, with a touch of South America in her dress, a bit of the exotic in her accent.  Can Draco resist?  I think not.

During the trios Fifth year at Hogwarts, Hermione's cousin is forced to join them because of a supposed accident involving both of her parents. After strange things begin to happen at Hogwarts, and an ancient prophecy is revealed, students are forced to realize that Hermione's cousin may be not be just the new girl, but the very tool that could be used to unleash the apocalypse by Voldemort himself.

Sirius Black has only been in Azkaban a few short months, when already the grief and pain he feels is almost too much to bear. He decides to write one last letter to the only person he has left. This is only the first chapter of seven about Remus and Sirius, and how they cope with the pain caused by the events on October 31, the night that Lily and James died.

A difficult good-bye turns into a confessional for a boy that has never before spoken of his past to anyone. A response to the Gen Ficathon.

“Grandmother, there’s someone at the door.” An ageing Hermione recalls her youth.

Severus Snape has never known what it's like to have control of himself. His chains have always made him bitter, and he has his first master to thank.

Hufflepuff isn't generally a house that stands out. But as Hannah Abbott discovers, they may have something which nobody else does.

Harry hates Draco and Draco hates Harry even better. He gets a wonderful opportunity to play nasty dress-up games with Harry. Harry fights back. Sixth year, post OotP. Warning for cross-dressing and maybe even pre-slash, if you want to see it. Another Anti-Romance; definitely no romantic fluff.

Rosie Finnigan, a first year Hogwarts student, makes friends with the mysterious woman who shows her photos from her childhood. Rosie helps the woman come to terms with her painful past. ``"When Professor Longbottom had heard them saying that during Herbology, he had told them he knew her when she was a girl and she wasn't mad. Just very, very, sad."

A quasi self-insertion occurs early in this fic, but don't let it dissuade you. This story is about how envy affects love and hate; it occurs in an AU where Voldemort is victorious. If I've achieved what I wanted to, by the end you'll have sympathy and understanding for both Gryffindor and Slytherin.

A poignant twist on the standard Diagon Alley scenario. While Hagrid is busy with others, Snape is sent to pick up a child, much to his chagrin and ill temper. However, after a curious scene on a crowded street, he comes to rethink his initial impression of her.

Hermione's feelings are hurt as Harry unknowingly hurts her in the most unexpected way.

The name of Mary Sue has gone down in Hogwarts legend for a person provided with certain extremely unamiable personal features. But who was the original Mary Sue? And why is she remembered? Be warned: there is a distinct shortage of laughs in this story.

Remus and Tonks, content in pretending.

Harry writes a letter. SLASH Harry/Severus

When Luna Lovegood's daddy finds out that his little girl was in the thick of the fight with the Death Eaters at the Ministry, he gets... upset.

Later in the evening of June 24th 1995, Albus Dumbledore relives the fated night of the Tri-Wizard tournament, all the while pondering the choices of Severus Snape and the future of Hogwarts and the Wizarding world as he knows it.

Written for the HP_SS_Gen_Fest challenge 36: An emotionally damaged Harry flees to the Muggle world after years of fighting. The war is not over though so someone needs to bring him back. The only person available is Snape, who could care less about the mental well-being of his former student. Will this change though when he sees what the expectations of the wizarding world has done to the young wizard?

A meeting for coffee in a busy bookstore/cafe leads to a reflection of thoughts and an unexpected twist. For Ishuca, as part of the war of words. Harry/Draco

‘No need to be held and loved, when you can merely spurt your deepest fears to someone you've known for years.’ ````The war is raging in the wizarding world and two lost souls find solace in each other. A very short and bittersweet ficlet. D/Hr

Scorches and claw marks left by the dragons may not be enough to heal the memories of a childhood loss.

When Lily goes into labour, Sirius finds himself questioning whether he really wants a baby to come between himself and his best friend.

Hermione Granger knows the manner of a hero's death. (OotP spoilers, no romance, no death. Only bad dreams.)

He hadn't been the same since Sirius had died. Lupin and Hagrid's deaths didn't help things. What was the point in living anymore? So he could be the great hero from a prophecy? The prophecy didn't say who would survive. It might not even be him. Harry was sick of it. Sick of all the hero worship, the panic all around him was slowly driving him over the edge. That was part of why he was currently sitting on the edge of a cliff, thinking about death.

On a warm April day, the Dark Lord Voldemort died and 15 year old Harry Potter became a murderer. With his life spinning out of control, he finds himself in despair. How can Lucius Malfoy save him from his downward spiral? And who is Ms. Dana Malfoy? AU fifth year fic.

It's his first day at Hogwarts, and Severus Snape has already managed to alienate every other person he's met, despite his best efforts at cracking jokes. All except one shy blond Slytherin boy called Nick Nickleback, that is. A Marauder-Era fic, although the Marauders do not star. Blood and Brothers details the first two years at Hogwarts for Severus Snape and Nick Nickleback. No slash (or any sort of romantic relationships, period. PG-13 for swearing and future blood and gore.)

It's Draco Malfoy's sixth year at Hogwarts. He has always approved of his father being a Death Eater. If he changes his mind will he be able to survive the consequence?

Sometimes, a few moments is enough.

James and Peter don't handle Remus and Sirius's little revelation very well. Fortunately, there's a pretty redhead named Lily Evans there to (reluctantly) save the day. First-person LE. An OC is thrown in free of charge. :-)

Little Harry knows what he wants for his sixth birthday. This is a sad childhood fic. One-shot.

Ficlet, set in the Lightning Letters Universe. Draco comes home after the War.

The Dark Lord's power is growing in the wizarding world as Bellatrix Black is heading into her seventh year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Unwillingly betrothed, Bellatrix tries to find herself again when she feels her future is lost. What made this Slytherin turn to the dark side and become Voldemort's leading lady? Read the true accounts of Bellatrix Lestrange.

Draco is still the inconsiderate prick we know and love but suddenly some unexpected events threaten his steel exterior. Will he accept these new experiences or will he harden his soul further?

Polyjuice Potion, may the mayhem begin. Who is who? Who is snogging with who? Why does Draco have to tie himself to Crabbe or Goyle. Lots of slash.

By the time you read this I hope to be dead.

ONESHOT Hermione is Minister of Magic and responsible for all of the prisoners of Azkaban. She signs her name and their fates are sealed. Easy enough, but what will happen when she recognizes the name of someone she believes to be innocent?

In my third year, I became infatuated with a boy. A boy I knew I couldn’t have, no matter how hard I tried. You see, he was in love with someone else. You could see it in his eyes. Every time he looked at her, the hunger in his eyes, as if just the sound of her voice would send him in a dizzying spiral. There was something else. He was my best friend.

Things aren't always what they seem.

A short songfic to The Who’s "Behind Blue Eyes." Slight Draco/Ginny.

Everyone hates Snape - it's a given at Hogwarts - at least until the night he rescues eleven-year-old Hermione Granger from a terrible demise. Then our Potions master finds himself on the receiving end of a serious schoolgirl crush, complete with love letters and doe eyes! Severus is SO not amused... but boy, his fellow teachers sure are! This is GEN, set in year one. PG is just for one scary scene. Predominantly Hermione and Severus, with Dumbledore and McGonagall.

What if when Harry destroyed Tom Riddle’s diary in the Chamber, Riddle’s memory wasn’t quite as gone as they all thought? After all, Ginny certainly remembers the experience. What happens when she begins to hear Riddle’s voice in her head?

"Everyone knows Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and especially Gryffindor all have their share of Muggle-borns right? Why is it then that no one stops and wonders why it is that none are in Slytherin?" -- Terence Higgs is the only muggle-born Slytherin in his year so he must deal with learning about a different world all alone.

Here is a story that is set between Draco's fifth and sixth year. How lives changed in only a three month period. Twenty-five people die as six others are injured living to tell their children how quickly life can change and to be thankful for what life is like now, but not what it may become in the future. For the future could be changed in a matter of seconds.

Think you know the real Ginny Weasley? Think you understand that sweet innocent child that would never hurt a fly? Think again, discover the real girl behind the mask.

Some people react badly to love, others don't know what to do with it.

Minerva McGonagall's thoughts during a memorial for James and Lily.

Hermione Granger has been seeking her revenge for a decade. But when she finds what she's looking for, is it really what she's wanted all along?

Harry Potter and his closest friends have been captured been renegade Death Eaters, had their wands brutally broken before their eyes, and are in dire need of a resue that will probably never come. So, why are Dean and Seamus so happy?

What happens when you are colder than ice, and you think nothing can break through your hard shell? What happens when you're wrong? Draco is losing control.

Hermione's childhood pen pal and friend recounts his relationship with her. He's bitter and lonely, she's nowhere to be found, apparently. Set a few years before its companion fic, Fireflies.

This fairytale is dead and her Prince Charming is nowhere to be found. [Tom/Ginny, Ginny/Harry, R.]

They always said time changes things, but Ginny found you actually have to change them yourself. She also found that things didn't always change, but she did.

Voldemort is up to his old antics again. Harry learns a number of potentially unpleasant truths about his past. And what is Hermione doing with the Big Book of Nefarious Dark Wizard Plotting Devices, anyway?

After Harry ended a short fling with Hermione, she has trouble adjusting from being 'The Girl' to just being 'a girl' again. She's frustrated in that Harry is perfectly cheery now in Christmastime, while she just can't seem to get over him. Told in her PoV. With lyrics from "Stuck" by Stacie Orrico.

After the war, Draco Malfoy finds that some battles are just beginning.

After a freak accident sends Draco Malfoy and his surrogate family into disorder, Draco must comes to grips with his rocky-road relationship with his half-sister, Chloe Lupin-Snape. Warning this story contains Severus/Remus and Harry/Draco

Set during Virginia Weasley's sixth year. Virginia ends up in detention with Malfoy, but he's not the person she's made him out to be. They're both about to have different second impressions of each other than they ever expected.

Set the evening after the MWPP-era Defence Against the Dark Arts OWL. Severus Snape angsts about the true reason he insulted Lily Evans.

Draco Malfoy. Ginny Weasley. Both worlds apart, in more ways than one, or is it really? With the onset of the Second War, both teenagers, one broken and one tainted, will find out that sometimes some wounds run too deep to be healed. D/G

Hermione writes a letter that cannot be read.

Draco shows up at Harry's door one day, asking him to take him in, but will he?

After his seventh year at that place, Petunia has a final meeting with her nephew.

It doesn't look at all like a memory...

Two short vignettes, one each for Ron and Hermione, of their thoughts after the Skeeter article pertaining to Hermione, and the fateful Potions class in which the reading took place.

A ruined house, a knock at the door, a cold breakfast. One choice and history is changed forever. AU.

Lord Voldemort abducts Hermione. But why? Oneshot.

With the war lost, Remus and Tonks are in hiding. He is trying to kill off every memory of before, she has too many thoughts to be put into words.

When Ginny Weasley catches Harry Potter with someone else, she flirts with the idea of evil. ``Rated R for language and for one sexual situation and one sexual innuendo. D/G, H/L, R/Hr

Harry is suffering his usual daily torments from Piers and Dudley. But this time, a little magic is involved. Pre-Hogwarts.

There are moments in people's lives that change everything. Hermione makes a decision and her life changes forever. Is it too late for love?````Companion fic/sequel to "She's Out of My Life".

“March used to climb these trees every afternoon at this time of year, grabbing at McIntoshes and Macouns, turning the stem of each apple exactly eight times as she recited the alphabet, the way girls do to learn the identity of their true love, making sure to pull the twig free only after she’d reached the first letter of his name” -Here on Earth, by Alice Hoffman. This story is based off of that quote - pretty much, it's unrequited Hermione/Harry, but there's a twist as to why it's unrequited but I won't give it away. PG for the tiniest hint of slash.

Draco visits his father in Azkaban, and they end up doing more than talking. [Warning: Incest]

Over the summer, Draco Malfoy becomes yet another one of Voldemort's victims. Too proud to ask either parents or teachers for help, he finds understanding and help in perhaps the least likely place of all: Blaise Zabini.

He's having a hard time letting her go, but he knows she needs to be happy. That doesn't mean he's going to be happy himself. It's alright, because there's beauty in the breakdown.

Sixteen-year-old Bellatrix lives a life of darkness, evil, hatred, angst, faithfulness, and seduction. Follow Bella through her triumphs, emotional strifes... her seductions, and of course: Faithful service to the Dark Lord. *In Character!*

Ginny's fiance is sent off to the war against Voldemort -- on the front lines, no less -- and she receives letters from him and the Ministry of Magic. And they don't bear good news. Not really a songfic, just.. inspired by a song.

Draco abandons Harry to grasp an only chance in defeating Voldemort. Harry quietly mourns his death, but people don't see Draco, who remains even after he died, in the form of a spirit, trying to finish what he never did in his mortal life. Written to the song from Casper's soundtrack, Remember Me This Way.

This is a story about Millicent Bulstrode and motivations and reasonings behind her actions. Sometimes people only see the surface state of certain people, and never look any deeper. It is important to look deeper, because there is more to people than their appearance and actions, expecially to Millicent Bulstrode.

An explanation for Sirius' angry reaction to learning that Snape was to teach Harry Occlumency. Before the beginning of OotP, Snape interrogates Tonks.

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. -- Kindness, Naomi Shihab Nye Oh yes, he has lost things. Lost his friends, lost his family, lost his love and his world. He has lost his direction. Lost his dreams, lost his faith. Lost his temper, lost his mind. The war is won, and Remus Lupin is lost. --- After Voldemort's defeat in 1981, Remus Lupin is left alone, and he is an angry and bitter young man. But out of loss, kindness can grow, and sometimes an unlikely person provides the opportunity for redemption. This fic covers the years 1981-1997.

An aside to Switch. SLASH. "The person underneath - where does he go? Does he slip by the wayside - or does he just die?"

The Dark side won. The Light side lost. Dumbledore gave Hermione her last gift: time.

After OotP, Remus is mourning. Severus sees him crying one day, steps inside and talks to him, being his nasty self - until he tells an old story. Oddly enough, this seems to comfort Remus some way.

Harry hates the night. It is in the night that his worst memories have been made. And this night is no exception.

It is only just that one Malfoy should follow another, in all things. ````WARNINGS: Incest. AU. Child abuse. Slash. Angst. Insanity. And. Um. A mild foot fetish?

Harry has a dream that he's just five, and he is pretending he is a knight and bringing his mother, his fair lady, a rose from a magic tree.

Harry approaches a thought, carefully. How do you grapple with something like that?