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Cats have nine lives, but humans are only given one. Ginny, alone at the Burrow, muses on this.

A different take on Tom Riddle, and what caused him to go evil. "Many people wonder about the mind of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named... they muse that it must be like the mind of a demon, evil to the very core... They could not be more wrong."

Justin had loved Cedric, knowing that he would never be loved in return. Hiding in his books and in his journal, Emily, Justin finds that the pain never went away. They say time changes things, but sometimes it only makes things worse.

I would sacrifice the last remaining shred of my dignity just to have you by my side again. Just to have the chance to tell you the truth.

A teenage boy says all the things he always wanted to say to his greatest enemy. An inner monolouge from Harry to Voldemort. (Think of it as a letter Harry never sent.) Songfic to "Won't Back Down" by Fuel. (rated for mild language)

People will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. How much of an impact did Draco leave in Harry's heart? SLASH H/D. One-shot

Sequel to 'Leaves in Autumn'. One person's thoughts on the afterwar, and how it has affected life. Recollections on one hero's life, loves, and the matter of last words. SLASH

Sirius' life passes before Remus' eyes.

Because mommy always said not to play with matches. Post OOTP. SLASH.

One for sorrow, Two for joy, Three for a Girl, Four for a Boy, Five for Silver, Six for Gold, Seven for a secret never to be told. Will Harry ever be happy? Will Hermione suceed?

He loved her and she left him. He cannot bear the pain anymore, and he will end it on his own terms. If it means ending her as well, so be it. Draco/Ginny. Rated R for possibly disturbing contents, suicidal themes, and brief sexual references.

A character who for the most part is neglected has to face the war and what it means. She must bear it all with silence and simply continue.

After many hours of brooding, Harry finally decides to reveal his love for Hermione. However, a shock confession from Ron changes everything. What will Harry do next? Is anyone, even Ron, worth the sacrifice?

She's watched him play the game for as long as she can remember.

My take on Draco Malfoy's childhood, growing up in Malfoy manor.

Madam Pomfrey visits the Restricted Section of the Hogwarts library and is reminded forcefully of her own schooldays. [A short piece written for the FictionAlley "What's Your OTP?" challenge.]

How did Tom Riddle get the idea to search for relics of the Founders to use as Horcruxes? Why did he kill Dorcas Meadowes personally? And who is this Dorcas Meadowes, anyway? A story of the pursuit of knowledge, the quest for power, and love (or something dressed up like it) gone awry. Post HBP. Tom Riddle/Dorcas Meadowes, Dorcas Meadowes/OC.

Watch the transformation of shy, innocent Minerva Duncan into the formidable Professor McGonagall. Her story so far!

“I am She-Who-No-One-Remembers-To-Name. I live in the shadows.” A few days before the unfortunate deaths of James and Lily Potter, Dumbledore acquires an unexpected responsibility. An infant appears in the great hall, and suddenly, Harry Potter is not the only child from whom “we can expect great things.” Now a young woman tries desperately to explain that dark is not always evil, and that power does not always corrupt. This fic is AU and covers from the year that baby Harry defeats Voldemort to the end of OotP.

My whole life was painted in gray hues. So vague and ambivalent. Unstable and unsure. I used to be so happy and content to be gray. But now, I’m wishing my life would have a splash of decisive color.

She could walk through the graveyard without blinking, bypassing the graves of fallen childhood friends. She could walk through the halls of Hogwarts without missing a step, tracing back a path to her first day as she rushed through the school. She could even make her way to the Forbidden Forest and trample through it, ignoring the splashes and stains that still marred the aged trees and wasted ground. But on this day, Harry and Ron know they have to be the rational ones, and they know that they must make Hermione face the one thing she has been avoiding since she walked towards Hogsmeade five years ago, covered in blood and sweat and refusing to turn around and see.

The last thing we do: will it be something that is filled with confessions, or regrets of never making them? Will it harbor feelings, whether loving or hostile? As Luna Lovegood reflects on the death of her first love, she knows that the last thing she'll do is never forget.

“I’m going to tell you what you might call a fairy tale, but it’s a real story, my life story … so far.”

Snape wants what he can't have.

Harry and Hermione have married and moved back to live with Muggles. When Ron comes to visit them, Harry begins to suspect that his best friend is having an affair with his wife. Inspired by the song "Mr. Brightside" by The Killers.

I am milk, I am red hot kitchen.``What does this really mean? Harry, Draco, and moonlit angst.

Song-fic to Fuel's Hemmorage (In My Hands). Draco and Hermione loved each other once, but let it go. Now, after five years, will it be love or hate or just memories?

The Archive of Ages depicts the events that led to the end of the wizarding world.

Hermione\\\'s second and third flying lessons, told from her point of view, set during PS/SS. No relationships at all.

Severus Snape has bad hygiene -- in the opinion of Sirius Black. Who pointedly tells him so. Severus Snape has dirty blood -- in the opinion of Regulus Black, who unwittingly tells him so. One telling leads to the other -- and both have surprising repercussions once they all start school.

There is one standard definition for murderer: a person who kills a person or people. That is what he did. Now he's trapped in a prison, known as a traitor; now he's trapped because he's a murderer.

In the end, they tell them that they won, but the world is nothing like it ought. Post-war Ron and Ginny. Warning: incest, character death, dark dark dark.

There are few things worth dying for. One of them is immortality.

We all know that while Harry's at the Dursley's Voldemort can't get him... but he can get close enough. You may assume that because of the title this is fluffy, stereotypical, and involves Harry meeting a wonderful yet strange girl who gives him a pet snake on his birthday... If you thought that you would be wrong. Very, very wrong.

Ginny and Harry reflect on their feelings for each other.

Each small shot glass glittered in the low lamp light of the tavern, the alcohol dancing in their cups and sparkling at him in a mocking fashion. He glared blearily at the row of glass cups, wanting to take each and everyone and thrust them into the fire. Instead, he counted to make sure that they were all there, waiting to corrode his memory for that night. Like they did the night before, and how they would tomorrow night, and would continue to do every single night until his liver was finally washed out of existence. Rated for severe alcohol abuse, images and description of war-time atrocities, and language. Includes alludes to past Harry/Ginny.

The follow up to my story 'Sunrise,' which told of the first day James and Lily spent with Harry. This story tells of the last.

After OotP, Harry is trying desperately to cope with Sirius' death and the prophecy. Every moment of every day, either one or the other occupies his mind. His life is thrown into even more turmoil when Barry Hope, the unexpected heir to Sirius' fortune, comes into the picture and reveals a past to his godfather he could never have imagined.

A short one-shot from Lucius's point of view about Little Ginny, corresponding to my fic Ashes to Ashes. Lucius is a disturbed man, and it only gets worse with age...

'But I wanted to tell you were that I loved you. I yelled. Screamed. And fought against them. And somehow I came free. I grasped your hand.``“I love you,” I said. “Promise me…"'

A life is forever altered and another life is taken.

Lupin returns to number 12 to find a surprising guest waiting for him. He has lots of flshbacks as to 'where it all went wrong' in his life

Harry Potter has gone through so much in the 4 years he's been at Hogwarts. He's never had a chance (or been allowed) to grieve, but what if he finally had to?

Hermione does what she must.

This is simply a monologue of Severus Snape. It takes place directly after book 4. It is dark and has some profanity and hints of slash.

Two men with everything and nothing in common. Two pairs of eyes meeting across a crowded room. A dangerous, unvoiced desire that will, in the end, destroy one of them. Vernon Dursley and Lucius Malfoy, slash implied.

When Hermione and Ron start going out, does Harry feel like a third wheel?

Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy have only one son, right? Sure, that's what they want you to believe. Draco has a younger brother named Cassius, who Draco has no memory of due to a...shall we say, convenient...Memory Charm placed on him when he was nine years old. Lucius and Narcissa never talk of Cassius, and Draco was raised as an only child. What happens when Draco is tortured with the Cruciatus curse and some memories come back to him, bit by bit? How will he react to this secret?

He hated this - he hated that Potter had reduced his proud, powerful father into going into hiding. He hated that he had to support Narcissa's act of the weak, grieving, disillusioned wife who still believed her infamous husband was innocent. But Draco knew it was a fool who called his mother weak. Irritating yes, petty certainly, but not weak. At least not where his father was concerned.

The thing I hate the most is that, no matter how hard I try, I can’t hate you.````Angsty H/D. Warning: Implied slash.

Love is the force that has protected Harry Potter up to this point. But what helps you can only hurt you in this world of betrayal and death. There is salvation in one thing, in one place. It is the evanescent happiness... of death.

Harry Potter, abandoned at the Dursleys by his friends, finds he cannot cope with the events of the previous year. Unfortunately, the solution he turns to is one that haunts the shadows of the Muggle world.

Voldemort's chamber - the hallowed ground of evil, and the secret meeting place for his fervent followers. For it is here where the young boy Severus Snape first gives himself to his master. It is his first step onto a path he will spend his whole life trying to turn away from.

James made a mistake and now Lily is upset. Lily’s POV. Song Fic to Kelly Clarkson's Miss Independence. Sequel to “Make a Change”.

'Go east, young man,' says Dumbledore. 'Come back broken, young man,' says Voldemort. 'Drat,' says Quirrell. A brief study of the most-neglected DADA teacher, the ghost that haunts him, and the blood of a unicorn.

'He was always the heir.````And I?````I was always just the spare.'````Regulus struggles with living in his brother's shadow.

I believed in him. I believed everything he told me to believe. I do not believe it anymore.

Harry is going home after fifth year and not all goes as it should. You'd think blood magic should protect Harry.

Even the sky seemed to be in mourning for him as there was no moonlight or stars twinkling in the velvet sky... only clouds that overshadowed Privet Drive.

It's been a year since Cho Chang broke up with Draco Malfoy. She loved him almost as much - if not more - than Cedric. But now she's saying goodbye for good. She wished they could've gone on together, but it just wasn't meant to be that way. Cho's saying goodbye to Draco Malfoy...for good. Inspired by Michelle Branch's "Goodbye to You"

Harry is adrift in a sea of paralyzing guilt. An unexpected ally attempts to break through to him.

"Ginny sat slumped against the wall of a dark and barren corridor, her head lolling on her knees and a half-empty bottle of Firewhisky slipping from her grip." Unable to handle her memories, Ginny seeks condolence elsewhere. Viscous memories remind her why she is how she is. "...A wave of pain, the scent of you is bliss."

"'Pfft. Whatever. He's my enemy…or rival…or something.' (Or something, says a nasty little voice at the back of his mind.)." (our favorite blonde-haired badboy thinks about a certain green-eyed hero...)

Everyone feels alone sometimes, lost sometimes. No one knows what love is, but don't we all pretend that we do? Sirius is confused, while Remus seems to be an utter mystery to him. Here's their story, told by Sirius. It is set from Marauders' seventh year.

Ron has killed Voldemort after the Dark Lord killed Harry, and a certain lover is pouring his secrets. Angsty, sadness, and roses. Slash.

A young Death Eater takes on the task of burying a former colleague. Post-war.

This takes place, maybe, a few weeks after 'A Lighter Shade of Black'. And believe me, Severus Snape isn't pleased with how things turn out. It turns out that Albus Dumbledore was wrong.

Remus/Sirius at school. James wonders why Remus and Sirius have been waking up so early.

“I’m okay…”``No matter how much she remembered about that night…it had been her fault. Dead.``For her. She couldn’t drive the memory out of her head. She was scared to sleep,``because the same nightmare kept coming back to her, night after night. The final``battle; her worst fears come true.````Hermione has come face to face with her worst nightmare and survived. Now she``wishes that she hadn’t lived at all.

The summer is nearing its end, as Harry and friends enjoy the last few days of hot summer days. In the mean time... Lucius recieves the request to perform a certain deed by the Dark Lord himself. Draco is clueless, but he also has a life that he is forced to live. How will he be affected? Or better yet... Provoked.

What does a mourning mother do after coming home from her son's funeral?

Hermione misses her lover in the middle of battle.

Sirius always thought Remus would die before him. Now he's been proved wrong.``It's quiet and empty behind the Veil, and Sirius has only memories... And dreams.

Ron and Draco. Two betrayals, a love lost, and three words a thousand times unsaid. Warning: Angst and Slash ahead.

Tonight

It is said that the best way to deal with your grief is to talk about it. Harry has no one during the summer after his fifth year.

Wouldn't it figure that on one of the worst days of George's life, the weather would be unrelentingly cheerful?

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A post-OoP piece in the spirit of \

It seemed like such a good decision at the time... (D/G)

Many history books speak of Slytherin House and its members as though all they are is evil. Now it is time to look past that prejudice, to uncover the true story behind the legend… and to follow within the footsteps of three generations. One of them existed at the very beginning; another came into being at a turning point in the history of its House, while yet another lived on in the Dark Ages. Three generations with three stories to be told, revealing exactly that which history did not tell… [Stand-alone prequel to the Slytherin Forever! Series.]

It is Remus Lupin's sixth year. Following a joke played on Snape by Sirius, a joke that almost got both Snape and James killed, Remus is on trial. Locked in a cage at the end of the hall, watching his little sister and his best friends struggling not to cry, he reflects on his family life, how he became a werewolf... and the painful memory of the last time he was here, on the other side of the cage, watching his sister struggle with herself as she awaits her fate. Told first person from Remus Lupin's point of view.

Their families hated each other of generations. One chance look meant everlasting love. If only the war hadn't exploded in their faces. They weren't Romeo and Juliet-- for one thing, one of them was left alive. They were Draco and Ginny, and once upon a time, they dared to dream of happiness. Living a life that betrays all he once stood for, Draco Malfoy is haunted by guilt, uncertainty, and quite possibly Ginny Weasley herself.

After awful and painful experiences in the hands of the Dark Lord, Severus finds a moment of comfort in Lucius' arms.

It was supposed to be a simple assignment, but it revealed that which is far from simple and the aftermath is more than anyone could have imagined...(H/D)

Harry wakes up to find Number 4 Privet Drive in chaos. He and Aunt Petunia are the only ones whole...

Three days after Voldemort's defeat, in the dead of night, Ginny finds her way to the boys' dormitory. (Harry/Ginny)

"I always wake up and reach for you. But I only see Harry, pale and cold in the moonlight. Body clenched tight into a ball, his backbone a rigged curve, afraid to feel, to be felt. He thinks I hate to touch him." Implied H/Hr/R.

Bellatrix Lestrange was desperate.

Following the events in the Department of Mysteries in "Order of the Phoenix," Hermione pays Ron a visit in his sickroom, only to discover the Ron she's always known is lost in the mind of a madman. Can she help bring him back?

Someone reflects on her lover's death. She finaly realises that she didn't know what she had until it was gone, and now she has no one. Angsty and upsetting.

After the death of a hero, there has to be somewhere to lay the blame...

Lily and James Potter. The perfect couple. You don't see how she puts on too much makeup when she leaves him at night, or how he drinks a bottle of firewhiskey after she's gone. A look into the anguished mind of James Potter, father and reluctant husband. Slash content.

Harry deals with the death of a loved one, his sixth year at school, new-found love, and the Dark Lord. Should be interesting...

My name is Draco and I was told writing was therapeutic. I guess they didn't take some things into account.

A tear-stricken Remus looks back on life with, and without, Sirius Black...``OotP Spoiler!!! Angst-fic. Slash. Song-fic to Delta Goodrum's 'Lost Without You'.

Cho is in the library being lonely. Hermione is in the library being Hermione. ~*Pre-Slash*~

Draco hates a lot of things and he will gladly list them if asked. The list will be long and meandering, switching quickly from one seemingly unrelated item to the next. Slash. boy!Blaise/Draco.

Did you ever wonder what The Boy Who Became Lord Voldemort was like as a child? Who the first victim of his madness was...

Marietta likes Cho. But will Cho ever like her back?