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The threat of Voldemort is increasing daily. The magic world calls for salvation, but who knows where to find it? Few, like Dumbledore, know where, but will an unexpected invocation of deep magic destroy all hope? warning, slash and much angst!

Ginny is stuck in a dungeon waiting for someone to rescue her. It isn't a prince on a white steed. It's a dragon.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. (Please note--very dark.)

Harry's been brought to stay at The Order's headquarters. He believes that finally he'll have a chance to talk to Sirius face to face but it's not as easy as he expected.

When Ron and Hermione are killed during Voldemort's defeat, Harry is lost. After months of wandering the school at night, Draco Malfoy finally confronts the hero. The result is neither anticipated nor desired by either boy. With Harry's first human interaction in months, however, things may simply run their course. Slash.

Harry has fallen so deep into a depression that he commits suicide. Unfortunately, he hasn't been allowed to cross over. Instead, his "guardian angel" has come down to show him what will happen to those he left behind. The "angel" gives him a second chance, but will what Harry sees change his mind about taking his life?

AU. Peter Pettigrew did not betray James; Sirius, who was Secret Keeper after him, also did not betray James. As ghosts, they have a different view of the world... Maybe, just maybe, it was James and Lily Potter who betrayed them.

In 1948, the village of Blackwater - a center of civilization in the wizarding world - was wrecked to ashes by the forces of Grindelwald, causing its inhabitants to question the existence of magic - wiping it out of the village. Thirty-six years later, Remus John Lupin, fresh out of psychology study in a muggle college, wanders into the lost village. Confronted by immense prejudice and self-denial, the ability to resolve the denial is in the hands of Remus, and in the questions of two children - a nine-year old orphan and an unwilling metamorphmagus.

James Potter has been living his life on an estate near Devon. How does he find Real Life?

Petunia Dursley deals with the aftermath of Marge's... blow-up. An alternative look at Harry's aunt and the deal she made with Dumbledore all those years ago.

Written in response to a challenge. NOT a songfic - just a few lyrics from The Rolling Stones song, Paint it, Black. This is the short story of a woman in mourning over the loss of a loved one. Quite dark with a vaguely twisted ending.

Peter listens as Sirius tries to convince James to make Peter the Secret Keeper. Then the night that the Potters were killed, Peter watched Sirius come to the wreckage of the their home. Finally, the confrontaion in the alley. All from Peter's point of view.

Harry has more than the usual amount of parents, but considering he is dealing with more than the usual amount of emotional pain right now, he really can't care. In between bouts of insanity he's depressed. Can anyone save him?

Harry contemplates the balance of his and Draco's relationship.

You know who I am. Or you think you do. I am just another dark wizard to you, am I not? You think I was some twisted mind easily deduced and simplified with Aristotle's textbook-like laws of the spirit. You could not be more pathetically and heart-wrenchingly wrong. Mine is a story of sorrow, of loss and of horror. I have set these words down in preparation for the time when I must kill Godric Gryffindor. Read it at your own risk.

We all know how Harry reacted after the death of Sirius. But how did others react? A look into the minds of Lupin, Dumbledore, Ron and Hermione and how Sirius' death affected each of their lives.

Tonks is struggling with the death of Sirius. Can she get through it alone or does she need Remus?

Lily and James are married, they're already in hiding with their infant son. They're starting to realise that being a young married couple, and young parents might not be so easy after all. And maybe love isn't enough.

A Harry/Draco post-war ficlet. Quote: "I beat you," Draco said with a maniacal grin settling comfortably onto his face quietly now, as blood loss really was a hassle and staying conscious definitely overrated.

What if there was more to 'the power he knows not' than Harry or the Headmaster knew? What if Harry's whole life was a test? How would the Wizarding World pass? What would be the consequences of the Wizarding World's neglect and betrayal?

Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks have been married for five years, but Remus still can't let go of Sirius. Nymphadora does her best to ease his pain in the only way she knows how. Nymphadora-Remus and Sirius-Remus.

"Remus Lupin watched rats."

Something horrific is happening to Ginny, but it is impossible to explain to anyone. Draco is swallowed up in the past, unable to stem the tide of change as a new age sweeps over the castle and the trio especially. As broken friendships, terrible secrets and impossible love triangles are revealed, Draco and Ginny struggle against their pasts and futures, and each other.

Song-fic for Good Charlotte's "My Bloody Valentine". Based four years after graduation, Draco finally breaks down after being denied Hermione's love. Madness aplenty.

For years, Neville Longbottom has managed to keep himself locked out of his own body. But the dreams and screams are always there, just waiting to engulf him and take him away forever.

A post-war finds Voldemort at the height of his power. Harry Potter has been seriously injured in a battle with Voldemort. He is slowly regaining strength, in hiding alongside his few remaining supporters. Outside the window of the hidden room, both the wizarding and muggle worlds are falling to pieces... Harry vows to stop Voldemort once and for all.

Remus had a disturbing childhood, which has negatively affected his life so far. Harry tries to help him overcome his emotional demons.

The Malfoys. Wealth, power, respect, good looks--the perfect family? Not by a long shot.

Severus Snape has always been hated and feared by most Hogwarts students due to his cold, uncaring, and cruel persona. And when he was younger, he was, in fact, a very cruel and nasty person, along with the majority of the Slytherins. But what happened in his past that changed him and made him choose to become a spy against Voldemort, when he had been an avid supporter of the Dark Arts?

One-shot. The war is over. Moony has asked the other members of the Order to leave Wormtail at his mercy. They finally meet in the Shrieking Shack for a final "good-bye" before only one Marauder is left.

“I wonder when you stopped caring about me?” Ginny asked. Hermione answered. For the both of these young women, it's a different blank page. Hr/G Femmeslashyness

Sirius--still getting in over his head on the side. He doesn't count on the changes a few years, a lot of makeup, and a potion or two have on Snape. aka: This is your Snape. This is your Snape on goth while ingesting dubious potions. Takes place two years after "Never Leave a Puppy Unattended." (SB/TR, SB/SS)

They have won, of course. Doesn't goodness always prevail? asks a quiet, polite voice, Hermione speaking to her in the back of her head. Of course goodness wins. They just fail to mention the price of victory. Warning for Major Character Death and Suicide

Years after Harry has defeated Voldemort, he finds himself on the same Quidditch team as Oliver Wood...again. As the games wage on, however, Harry realizes that he is playing against Oliver on a very different level. Hr/H, future OW/Hr

Oneshot, songfic. "Hate Me" by Blue October. During the Second War, Harry battles his demons, and tries to push everyone away, including the one he loves the most. She won't stay away, though, and Harry struggles between wanting to keep her safe, and not wanting to hurt her anymore. AU because of HBP.

What CoS did not tell us about Tom Riddle and his motivations.

Harry is sitting glumly in the attic of Number 12, Grimmauld Place, morose over Sirius' death. Could a significant visit from Lupin which leads them to a familiar place from the past change Harry's perspective?

An End and a Beginning. Harry has lost much in his journey but, perhaps, gained more. A short story after the end of the war and the beginning of the journey that follows.

Harry sends a letter of goodbye to his Godfather, Sirius Black.

A new school-year: after the escape of the infamous Sirius Black, Remus can't help but feel a certain unease about himself. How does this affect his interactions with Snape? How will he cope, knowing the crimes commited by Sirius?

Harry Potter has always been unusual. But how unusual will he become when a brutal massacre at Bill and Fleur's wedding leaves him simmering with rage and revenge? Confronted with a darker side of him self and with unlikely allies, what's going to be next? How will he deal with the ever growing threat of a world full of despair and darkness?

It's been over three months since the death of Harry's godfather, but for Harry the pain is still very fresh. He is distancing himself more and more from his friends and is very slowly becoming the one thing he truely loaths.

It's a typical day for Remus - nothing's going on. All that changes when he foils an attempted robbery...

The September of Harry's seventh year, too much has happened. Too many people he loved have been lost. He resolves to cut himself off from everyone he ever loved for fear of hurting them or killing them, and he succeeds. In fact, he succeeds so well that he actually forgets that he ever knew any of the people who once meant so much to him. It will take a very special person to bring back his memories and make him remember when...

Remus/Sirius. After the full moon, they share the tang of blood.````Answer to the Googlism Challenge, in which a result gotten off www.googlism.com is used as the first line of a fic. The result I used was "Sirius is reunited with his half."

Ginny Weasley got married, and Draco gets drunk while thinking about their past relationship.

This is the the story of a small veela girl who was once bitten, twice shy. She's not as clever as she should be, and not nearly half as clever as she thinks she is at first--but she learns better eventually. She's Gabrielle Delacour, and she has her eye on someone--who has his eyes on her.

A Severus Snape and Sirius Black scene. Hatred and something more... You mourn when you lose a friend; what do you do when you lose a rival?

Harry, obsessed with thoughts of his parents, jumps back in time with one choice, save them, or warn them? Either way, Hogwarts is different when he gets back. A touch of Eminem in this fic, mainly Lose yourself.

It's the 7th year, and some horrible things have happend at Hogwarts... It's all Draco's fault, too.

Sirius wakes up hungry and finds a veritable feast lying next to him.

Sometimes what you see hurts the most of all -- and what you do only makes it worse.

The war is over, and Harry thinks the only way to move on is to leave everything behind. Can Remus change his mind?

Draco has changed his life, and reflects on how it happened. There's only one person that he will never forget, and hopes to meet her again one day. Hermione Granger. But irony is ever-present in Draco Malfoy's life.

Harry spends another miserable summer with the Dursleys, and finds that friends and foes are not always what they seem.

Because Harry and Draco can never really be together.

Narcissa is fed up with her husband and her life in general, leading to her making a rash decision.

Ginny Weasley is over Harry Potter, and has been for nearly two years, right? Well, not really. Ginny reflects on her feelings for Harry Potter, and the ironic and fickle nature of fate.

Tom Riddle is the epitome of everything Merope Gaunt wants. Merope is everything that Tom scorns.

Sirius Black runs away from his parents' house on the second day of the Christmas holidays, and will not return for twenty years.

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When Draco is thrown out of the Manor will he give up his ways? Or his name? And what does Harry have to do with all this?

Ginny's impression of the adult world is vague, somehow connected with the magnified worries of her nonage being taken from their microscope, and, with the end of the year, she is leaving behind their sanctuary: hers and his. Ironically, running from everything leads only to her own abandonment. Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it...

This is the story of Anja. She is a Muggle whose parents were killed by the Death Eaters. Lucius Malfoy saves her life and takes her back home to the Malfoy Manor.

Draco knows the war is over. So why is his lover crying?

Harry takes a long hard look at the life he has left, and decides he doesn't want to live it anymore.

How Sirius was "adopted" by the Potter family.

Lucius finds out about a hidden relationship. This is a song-fic for the first part of Nobody Came by Silverchair.

“It is not the act that defines the crime,” my father says plainly, madness dancing in his eyes. “It's the victim who shall always be remembered.”``One-shot. Lucius Malfoy has been imprisoned in Azkaban for the past three years. Upon Draco's final visit to his father, he reflects on the lives of those affected when he was locked away.

It's seventh year; Draco has just come of age and is contemplating his future. Should he stand up for what he really wants, or should he just wait as he always has, hiding in the shadows?

Harry remembers. Harry runs.

Hermione Granger doesn't have the perfect life everyone thinks she does. Living with family members who don't love her or who love her too much, Hermione soon must learn that family matters. And that hers matters the most. Either it’s for the best or the worst.

A young woman stood at the front window of her house, staring absently out at the glistening rain. Her eyes held no trace of tears, for she had long since milked all the tears out of her body. Now she only trembled, wishing in vain that she could once again feel a fraction of the happiness she used to know.

Sitting in the Hospital Wing the night after the full moon, Remus Lupin reflects back on that afternoon, when his friends paid him a visit, and Sirius confesses what he told Snape the sunset on the evening of the full moon.

“You must really think you’re something, Nott,” she remarked, her tone daring to be airy, “but you are a Slytherin, all one in the same, what separates you, might I ask?”

Vignettes from Remus' life with, and without, Sirius.

Hermione Granger's last words to the one she loves.

Ginny's been having problems. Boy problems, school problems... you name it. She's even been having problems eating...HP/GW

We all know that there's more to Draco Malfoy than meets the eye. But how much more? Alone in his room, a painful secret is revealed about him that sheds a new light on his every word...

Passion. Anger. Blood. In June, 1976, James' life seems so simple. There is nothing outside Hogwarts walls that can serve as a threat. But when there is a family death, and some shocking revelations are made about his uncle, his entire life becomes filled with danger. Read on as James is forced to mature, falls in love with someone deemed unorthadox for his blood status, and as his actions change his world forever.

Hermione wants to be happy. She just wants to be happy.

Draco contemplates life on the ledge, standing on Hogwarts' tallest tower.

The princess is gone, the prince is under a curse, and the knight does not know how to save him. Sirius/Remus.

Minerva McGonagall was too late to save her friend Myrtle from an untimely death in a dismal bathroom, but she was certain she knew who had committed the murder. Over fifty years later, she remembers her two old friends--the one who was ripped from life at fifteen, and the one whodunnit. Lord Voldemort's first murder.

Draco Malfoy is secretly in love with Harry Potter... to the point of obsessed. But some obsessions can be lethal... this is one of them. And Harry can't know about it. Told from Draco's POV. Somewhat dark fic. Post--OoTP

That scene from GoF where Karkaroff encounters Harry at the doors to the Great Hall. Mention of Slash.

Short, to-the-point, one shot fic. It's after the final battle, Hermione and Draco are at a pitchfork in the adventure of love; do they go together down one road? or do they part? Angsty and romancy. Won't take you but two minutes to read.

It's the day after the Headmaster's death, and Severus Snape has a job to do.

A life saved after a moment of carelessness. A debt incurred because of the same. Two families with a grudge against one another. A fee that is impossible to pay. The battle of wills between Draco Malfoy and Ron Weasley has only just begun.

Pansy has nowhere else to turn.

Remus sits on the roof of Gryffindor tower, what could happen and what did happen, it doesn’t make a lot of sense and its not very sane. One-Shot.

Although she's never noticed before, her life has always been this fake. Everything is an empty promise, a parade of foolery. Now that her eyes are open, she knows nothing matters. What can be left for a girl like her?

How far would you go to be able to love the enemy?

The fifth part of the Angels. The night before Broken Wings. Read them in any order. Harry reflects on the choices he has made, and the bitter irony of life. Hopefully.

The story of Remus Lupin and Sirius Black, from their Seventh Year at Hogwarts to the night Sirius fell through the veil in the Department of Mysteries.

His hands were larger than he remembered, and it sickened him in some distant chamber of his mind, made him feel clumsy, grotesque, dirty. The shape of his fingernails made him want to claw at the walls - they were bitten nearly to the quick; he couldn’t remember chewing them.``A single red drop rolled down his chin and fell into his shirt sleeve. His top teeth dug into his lower lip - deep, raw, chapped and gnawed.``So this was the result of fear?

A short fliclet about that night at the Potters. Only this time the wrong one survived.

Severus and Hermione share a few quiet moments.

Their love was forever in their hearts, yet they knew Destiny would come, claim them, and rip them apart; yet they shared an empathy that would last forever in their souls.

The world ends with merely the flutter of a veil. (A series of Drabbles relating to Sirius's death)