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Neville learns just who was behind the mask of 'Mad-Eye' Moody, during his fourth year, and considers what it means to him, reflecting on what happened to his parents and him during his childhood. A counterpoint story to the Crouch Jr. perspective fic - The Scars Of Trust.

Snape and Harry have more in common than either would have believed.

"You will never hear me singing 'la la'" Four hearts. Two couples. All linked by heartbreak. "I guess 'la la' means 'I love you...." (SS/HG and DM/GW) Songfic to The Verve Pipe's "La La"

When Harry Potter is convicted for several brutal murders and imprisoned in Azkaban, the magical world unknowingly forges a weapon that will destroy not only its enemy, but its creator.

The final battle has come and gone, and only one man walks away. How will a letter from beyond the grave affect the survivor?

Sometimes there is nothing worse than having your faults pointed out to you. Especially when they are coming from your soulmate.

'I scare myself sometimes. I catch myself thinking all sorts of crazy things… but it’s so tempting to just forget… to pretend…' he says, and you nod unhappily in agreement. But pretending won't solve anything, it only makes the hurt worse when you finally face it.

When a Muggle girl who loves fantasy moves into 6 Privet Drive, what will she find out about the mysterious boy in the bedroom next to hers? A bit of everything--humor, action, suspense, and angst. Deals with the forbidden and out-of-reach. Dudley gets beat up by a girl. It's all good.

"If you didn't shimmer once when you turned, just one second, I could shut my mouth...You beautiful idiot, why can't you see? Perhaps you choose not to. I suppose that is what I really fear. I could live- with a good deal of practice, and, most of all, compensation- with being quite obviously and inanely in love." Draco ponders Harry and things that melt. Companion to Cold to Fire.

Buried his mind there, didn't he? For fives years, he did. Five years. And he was insane. It was deep, and it was hidden, under layers of papers and TVs, shows and Muggle beer, clinging onto the poles of the bar like a sailor to the mast of a sinking ship, yelling on about how we all are castaways of circumstances in the end, as though he'd already reached it.

The follow up to Giving Up Little Girl Dreams.``When Ginny catches Harry with someone else she flirts with the idea of evil.``Rated R for one implied sexual situation.``D/G

The Head Girl and the Potions Master have been having a secret affair. One night she goes to see him...and learns the truth about their relationship. Very angsty.

What made Severus Snape kill Dumbledore? Is he really a loyal Death Eater? Take a step into his mind to find out what really happened.

Ramblings on unrequited love in the wizarding world for one witch in particular.

Bill helps Fleur "eemprove 'er eenglish," and Fleur helps Bill handle his fears. All in all, an even trade.

Meet Slytherin 'keeper Bletchley - not the most typical of Quidditch players, or the best of students. Her take on a year filled with her persistent feelings for others, ambitious hope and the desire to play in a certain Quidditch match.

Sirius Black is dead, Hermione and Ron are worried, Ginny is sad and Harry is completely depressed. See how one conversation between Sirius and his godson can turn everything around - or at least begin to.

Sirius Black and Severus Snape start getting along. Kind of.

"The euphoria she had connected with their marriage had long since ebbed." A short one-shot featuring Narcissa Malfoy on her recent marriage with Lucius Malfoy.

On her thirtieth birthday, Pansy thinks on where she’s been and where she’s going.

A lone wizard watches an ordinary Muggle home, pondering the inevitable path that led him to this point.

Hermione Granger is depressed. Her life seems to have hit a mental road block. She can't find love anywhere. But what will she do? A songfic to Paint it Black.

Love hurts, dunnit?

It's happening. Again. But I won't wait on him. Not this time. I have work to do. I won’t be his slave anymore.

When there is no hope left, when the world you knew is gone forever, when everything around you is dead or dying, there is only one thing that remains to be done - the writing of the epitaph. An epitaph for what once was. An epitaph written in the ashes of the old world...

The last words of the dead are painful. Especially if they're meant for someone else. D/G/H

Based on Severitus. Everyone has skeletons in their closets, but in Harry's case, these skeletons can turn out to be sword-wielding undeads. Which was why Snape tried so hard to keep them under rugs. And what does the Mirror of Erised have to do with all these?

EXTREMELY FLUFFY! H/G, Elton John's "Your Song", Harry's PoV

Hermione will do anything to be with her beloved again, even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice. (TR/HG)

The Second War is over and Voldemort has been killed but Harry pays a horrible price, the loss of his best friend.

A young Lucius Malfoy is pressed into an engagement...and forced to leave behind what he really wants. Mild slash.

How can she forgive him? He betrayed her trust, broke her heart. Can she ever believe him, even on their first date?

Hermione and George are grieving, but will they have sense enough to know that it is better to grieve together than to grieve alone? Mildly violent themes.

Snape's memories of the fateful night at the end of Book Six. This takes the view that Snape is not the bad guy he appears to be. This is what I hope really happened!

"I kissed his hand. 'Harry, Harry, Harry,' I murmured, over and over. For each time I said his name, I wanted to cry a tear. But I had promised myself I wouldn’t cry anymore. That didn’t help Harry. And it was all about Harry now. " After the final battle, Harry hovers between life and death. Hermione and many others tend to him, hoping that he will come back.

She would never be anyone else's. She was his.

HBP SPOILERS. This is a one-shot Ron/Hermione moment set during the chapter “The White Tomb” in HBP. …None of it, whatever it was, whatever it contained: the war, the deaths, the emotions and the feelings – none of it seemed entirely real at that moment… No matter how real they all knew it was… A bit angsty but it has some light-hearted moments including one containing Ron and Hermione that would make every R/Hr fan proud! (R/Hr obviously)

Harry hated yellow. He knew, logically, that it was a transitory thing; he had never before had a problem with yellow, and this irrational anger with the colour had only started since – But he didn’t think about that.

Lily and James Potter get a glimpse of the world as it is now. AU.

Harry/Draco. Draco has always known he would have to choose a side. Being Draco though, he decides to choose neither.

In which Ron makes an announcement and Ginny has to let go.

Remus Lupin leaves Hogwarts after hearing of a witch who may be able to cure his condition.

Ron turns over in bed, unable to sleep. Why is Harry the only one to have survived the Killing Curse? What was so special?

Remus is alone. When he's alone he thinks. Thinks of one particular man's influence on his life...

It takes Ginny three weeks to realize that Sirius doesn't want to talk to her.

It's some time later and Harry is getting married. Sequel to "Unreasonably Inadequate."

Implied slash: Harry/Draco mainly, with bits of Harry/Ginny & Draco/Ginny, and lots of cheating people! Mainly angsty memories, and dreams.

Songfic to B*Witched's 'Blame it on the Weatherman'. Taken from Harry's POV, this reveals his feelings post-Sirius and reveals more than JK Rowling tells us in the books.

Post Hogwarts by about eight years. All of the events of Harry's life are becoming too much for him. How does he deal with them and Voldemort lurking around the corner? Chapter one is an internal battle of will in the Burrow.

Post-Hogwarts, but barely. Pre-War, but barely. Harry has to either save the world or die trying. Draco wants no part of any of it.

Remus Lupin's life ended November 1st, 1981. The consequences of our actions, and the people who pay. Mild slash.

Seventh year is almost at an end when Draco gets word from his parents that they are having another child! Draco thinks back on his childhood and begins to worry for the baby's future. What should he do?

In mourning and alone, one person comes to Narcissa's side one snowy morning, telling her what she wants to hear in her time of grieving. . .

Post-War, Harry lives, ill and alone. One day someone pays him a visit. Slash - one shot - HP/DM - PG

How to make Gingerbread Women:````Mix one Peter Pettigrew, a woman he loved and a woman he became obsessed with together. Add healthy amount of angst. Bake until memories are golden. Sprinkle hindsight on top. Serve cold.

Crying is the only thing Harry seems to know anymore...

Every day a battle takes place within you between good and evil. The phoenix and the serpent are fighting inside, each struggling to be the one that emerges triumphant, clutching your soul. Welcome to my world.

One ran. One pursued. And one tried to understand. There was one night. There were three men. There was one emotion.

“Lies are easier to believe than the truth. They can’t hurt you unless you decide to let them. The truth doesn’t even wait for you to decide."

What’s worse, to be traitor to your family because you can’t see the truth, or traitor to the Ministry because they’re acting like politicians everywhere? The question presented to Percy, and one he eventually learns the answer to. Mild P/O slash.

It’s a cold winter. Draco contemplates his decisions and their consequences in love and war.

Step into the mind of one whose very soul is broken... ````A first-person ficlet that shows you the broken soul and tormented spirit of one of the cannon's seemingly jolly characters.````The White Room is a purely angst ficlet that takes you beyond the mask and deep into the very heart and soul of its sole character. ````Discover a side of him you've never seen before...

Ginny ponders about her relationship with Harry...

I sleep alone.

Lily Evans is the most popular girl in school. She’s top of her year, smart, beautiful and uncommonly kind to everyone. But what her friends at Hogwarts don’t know is that Lily leads a double life. Something lurks beneath her dazzling smile and within the emerald depths of her eyes. That something threatens to tear her apart emotionally and physically. It is the reason she never returns home for Christmas, the reason she dreads the summer holidays, the reason she is terrified of her own mother.

I was hoping you would write to me a message in the stars, as if the stars themselves were not enough...Hermione has been waiting for his message. Harry is on his way home, though how he is going to stand her rage I'm not sure. Character death, songfic.

Hermione receives a gift from Draco and it proves to be fatal. Now the students of Hogwarts must deal with the loss of one of their own.

Ever hate a picture of yourself so much you wanted to destroy it? How Filch sees Mrs. Norris is not quite how Mrs. Norris sees herself. Filch really should have known better.

Paranoid!Sirius when he's on the run from the wizarding authorities. It's an insight into the mind of a man who's had to deal with too much.

Harry has a talk with the portrait of a certain headmaster

There are some people in this world whom life just never seems to work out for; you know the ones I’m talking about? I knew a boy like that once. He was my son, before he became a caricature of himself, a soulless man unrecognizable to me. ````A tragic story of a familar mother and a man who was once just a lost little boy.

A closer look at a seldom-examined character: Rita Skeeter tries to justify her way of life.

In her first year, Ginny Weasley went through more than most wizards could go through in a lifetime. How could anyone think that she would be unaffected? Ginny thinks back on Tom and how he changed her, while deciding what to do with her own life.

Sequel to All Bets Are Off. When a loved one dies, Seamus mourns and longs for his homeland.

Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny must fight to save Hogwarts from an ancient evil doing the Dark Lord's bidding. But when that evil and the Dark Lord's Death Eaters destroy Hogwarts, where will the students find a safe haven? How can this evil be destroyed? Only Harry’s seventh year will tell, when the infamous prophecy comes true. Rated for mild language and possible character death.

Draco addresses the ultimate conflict: love versus loyalty. He has made his promises, and he never breaks his promises... (Songfic to "Easy as Life" from Aida. H/D)

A prequel to I Await the Day. Harry writes a letter to Sirius a year after he is taken to Azkaban. Slight implied Slash. Short.

In one night, Dudley's life has changed forever. As he leaves everything he knows behind, he tries desperately to remember what happened. But all that's left is a gaping hole.

Songfic to Alanis' "U R". After the war, Hermione contemplates the future.

Still depressed over Sirius's death, Remus is forced back to reality when Neville spends a few days at Grimmauld Place when his grandmother falls ill. They look over photographs together and discuss the past. SB/RL slash, one-shot.

Takes place between CoS and PoA. A bridging of the gap between the books; Sirius' reflection in Azkaban on his time as a marauder at Hogwarts.

Alone and lonely in 12 Grimmauld Place, Sirius tries to convince Remus to keep him company.

In the past five years Harry, Hermione, and Ron have fought battles fit for adult wizards. Now school is out and the war has begun. Enemy lines have been drawn and some have been crossed. When it comes to fighting against the Dark Lord who will stand on the lines of good or evil.

"Today marks the end of her debt to Lily, paid in blood." On Harry's 17th birthday, Petunia bids farewell to her nephew. She anticipates freedom the instant he is placed in his guardian's care, but is given poetic justice in its stead.

For as long as he could remember, Draco had been proud to be a Malfoy. Post-OotP character study.

From Molly Weasley's point of view comes a happy memory with a sad ending. Molly remembers happier times when she is faced with a horrible truth. The Weasley nine... has been reduced to eight.

Just a little ficlet with Ron and Hermione talking at midnight, telling each other their problems. Short and sweet.

There is no such thing as a victimless crime, and there will never be such thing as a happy ending.````In war, everybody loses.````Draco has a white rose.`` ``The rose is stained with Harry Potter’s blood, sweat and tears. It stands in a glass cabinet suspended by Magic on Draco’s desk. The nymphs in the snow globe next to it are scared of it.

Cho's feelings and encounter with Draco after leaving the Great Hall in the end of GoF.

Is there any end to the pain and the loneliness? Is there a cure for the emptiness that eats at him? Is it better to have loved and lost?

Bellatrix is bored, Severus has been picked on by James and Sirius, and Peter Pettigrew is in the wrong place at the wrong time. He needs to learn who his friends are.

What's happening to Remus? What about James? And- wait, is it just a dream? Or is it a vision... a vision of what will be...

Instead of violence, there is thought; mutilation can be both physical and mental; sometimes there are no gods, only actors on stilts. Harry/Remus light slash.

Adara is a headstrong 5th year Slyhterin. She doesn't conform, not to anybody, but will this ultimately cost her her best friend?

When Vicky witnesses the death of her uncle, her world is turned upside down. She turns to the only person who can help her, Draco Malfoy. The two teenagers are thrown together in a whirlwind of chaos, lies, deceit and feelings that will take them from awkward teens to grown adults. Will Vicky realise what her feelings for Draco really are? Will Draco act on the feelings he has for her? But by the time he does, will it be too late?

After a long separtation due to opposing views two lovers must say goodnight for the last time.

It is after Hogwarts, and Harry's world has fallen apart. His two closest friends are dead, killed trying to save him from Voldemort. The boy who lived just wants to die. Can anybody save him?

For several long seconds, George's mind refused to comprehend what his eyes were telling it.

Not all girls sit around playing the 'does he or doesn't he?' guessing game. Ginny's confession, however, drives her to give all she's got; even if it risks finding a truth she didn't anticipate...