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Penelope Clearwater is disappointed with the quality of romantic advice offered to modern witches.

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)

Three things didn't happen to Percy Weasley on February 29th in 1988, 1992 and 1996. This short fic and character study examines how Percy might have differed if only they had.

Even in the wilds, there is room for kindness.

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.

A look at life with the Black family when Sirius was a young boy. Sirius and Bellatrix are good friends until they start to grow up and have different viewpoints on life.

He stares at his hands a lot these days. Most people don't notice it 'cos they're too busy patting him on the back and congratulating him for finally killing Voldemort, saving the wizarding world, and all that. But I notice it. I notice it and then I stare at his hands, too. (Harry/Ron pre-slash)

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.

Draco risks everything to be with Harry in his last moments and discovers the key to ending the war.

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?

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...

Everyone has trouble dealing with their emotions, and everyone searches for the best way to cope. Sometimes you just can't help anyone. Harry is looking for a way to cope, aren't you?

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.

Draco's been using her, and Ginny can't take it. She pushes him away, and yet can't get him out of her head. A D/G fic set to the song "Pretty Girl" by Sugarcult.

Harry Potter always tries to do what he believes is right, but the road that leads into Hell is often paved with good intentions. Now, just when all seems lost, Harry finally discovers that some of his most important decisions were never really his to make in the first place. Post-HBP (spoilers) One-shot

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

Harry returns home to Hermione after a night out fighting the forces of darkness, in the middle of a long, hard war. This is their thoughts on that night.

Two months after Voldemort's death: Harry and Snape have to confront each other, themselves and a boggart. SSRL implied. Redemption intended. One-shot.

Ginny spends the night in the hospital wing after the battle at the ministry of magic. Her thoughts. (Missing Moment --- H/G Angst.)

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.

After Dumbledore is murdered, Draco Malfoy and Professor Snape talk about what's going to happen to them next.

Harry and Ginny are to play host to their family and friends on Christmas day. Everything's going fine until an unexpected and unwanted guest arrives. Sequel to 'Gambling With Granddad.'

Four friends, torn apart by grief. She can see the Thestrals, he wants to die, he's lost in guilt, and she's moved on. Be strong, or give up, it's their choice, either way. It's 2 o'clock and they're ready for the rain - The last in the Time Trilogy, following on from 'Midnight' and 'Sunrise'.

Hermione has spent her entire life saying goodbye; life teaches her some significant lessons about herself, and about the importance of greeting the future. R/Hr.

Seamus never spoke much to Dean and the others about life at home, they wouldn't understand. They only had to deal with the horror stories, he had to deal with the horror... Some kids at Hogwarts had to face a terror not of Voldemort, but of men.

Hermione is in love with Harry but due to an argument in the great hall she runs through a corridor and straight into none other than Malfoy and has a shocking suprise.

Harry kills Voldemort and lives happily ever after, right? Not quite. A two part story that delves into the continued woes of Harry Potter. In the midst of his victory, Harry is arrested for murder and practicing dark magic. He's got other plans and so does Ginny.

Lilly is a fifteen year old girl who is trying to cope with life. She has the full attention of Draco. Read the story of her life, watch her world fall apart and then as she puts it back together.

It's been a year since Hermione Granger was killed at the hands of Death Eaters. Ron Weasley, her devoted and loving husband, stands at her gravesite, thinking of her.

Draco joins a band. Ginny is having serious late night run-ins leaving her badly bruised, and Hermione has discovered a dangerous plot buried within the whisperings of the Hogwarts school.

Sequel to Fortitudo. A similar series of vignettes showcasing the talents of each Hogwarts house. But strengths are not always used for good.

Midsummer; a Ministry ball. Politics leads Lucius to approach Hermione. Politics obliges her to accept. But it's music that compels them to dance.

Once Hermione and Ron left Harry, but he never knew the reason. Somehow, Malfoy seemed to know. Will Harry find out why? And the blue rain from the sky fell and his tears his hands cleaned...

Sirius Black is a collection of contradictions, accumulated over time from experiences and a certain knowledge. His experiences supposedly determine his actions, dictate how he acts, who he befriends, and who he hates. But so also do his friends influence his decisions, in what they do to and for him. An extended character sketch with the storyline woven through, and snapshots that tell the story.

Extremely weird fic, concerning the nature of time, power in the wizarding world, and random in-jokes.

The events of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban through the eyes of Remus Lupin.

Near the end of Fifth Year, Harry and Ron share their worries about surviving into adulthood.

Under the unleashed anger of a storm, a little boy runs away from the orphanage - from the pain and hurt and all the pent up anger inside. ````This dark little one shot tries to understand the beginnings of a young boy who will grow up to take the wizarding world by storm.

Harry beating his girlfriend? Impossible! Not this nice, charming guy, right? ``What made him do it then?

Hermione finds herself having an odd conversation with a dead man. Post Deathly Hallows

Draco's missing something or is it he's missing someone? The song in this fic is called "More To Life" by Stacie Orrico.

During a fit of drunken rage and rancor in the summer after Goblet of Fire, Draco wishes for Harry's death... His wish is granted, but with terrible consequences.

There once was a man named Thomas, who knew exactly what was real and what was not. Logical, level-headed, and very, very cynical. Superstition and fantasy were for idiots and wooly thinkers. Science and cold, hard facts, Thomas knew, would win out over any kind of metaphysical mumbo-jumbo you could ever find.``But, when Thomas takes a wrong turn on a bicycle tour of Scotland, he'll find out there is more out there than he thought he knew. A LOT more.

Lord Voldemort's second chance at life.

Snape has a new research project. It's pure science, but unfortunately, elements of humanity seem to be getting in the way.

There's such a thing as being too British.

Sirius is unwillingly risen from the dead and sent to Grimmauld place. But when an unexpected turn takes him to a somber place, he is wondering how much, and who, he has missed.

One dark and rainy August day, a seemingly random assortment of people gather furtively in a run down old building on a remote corner of Diagon Alley. They face the death of a friend, enemy, role model, student...everyone face the loss differently, and that can have explosive consequences.

After Voldemort's defeat, Severus Snape feels he's let everyone down. Unable to forgive himself for the things he did under Voldemort's direction undercover for the Order, Snape wallows in self-pity until he meets someone who can convince him of his own innocence.

From the ashes of a world gone wrong, she rose to the strains of hallelujah.

'Am I not beautiful? Am I not still young? It has only been a few months since Draco was born, only a year since our marriage… and yet, he has never touched me since that night. ' Narcissa thinks about her marriage to Lucius and wonders why he does not want her anymore.

She’d avoided him, chosen solitude and seclusion instead of facing the enormous amount of possibilities that stood before her. And she hated herself for it.

A Founders story, casting Salazar, Rowena, Godric and Helga into the real events around the turn of the last millenium. Salazar plays a monk expelled from his monastery for his ability to speak Parseltongue, Godric is a wizard from the Danelaw, a dangerous person at a dangerous time, Helga is a witch captured in the north and sold into slavery far to the south, while Rowena is the wife of the powerful but Dark wizard who draws them all together. The founding of Hogwarts!

The Mask of Anarchy is a poem that leads Hermione to investigate the death of her friend. Involved in her investigation is a new DADA professor and her friend. Snape enters the scene as well as Lupin when it is discovered that Voldemort is behind all of it. The plot thickens when Snape finds out one of the Death Eaters is a sister of the new DADA Professor. Harry becomes tempted by Voldemort's powers after the loss of someone close to him, and everyone works to protect him from himself. Includes SS/HG, DM/??, LM/??, RL/??, RL/HG, SS/?? as well as some others.

Draco looked in the mirror, his reflection stared back. It was foreign to him. He never liked his reflection. It is like a lie to him.

The sequel to my fic 'Dragon Dance, Phoenix Dance'. The day after DDPD, the dance is what nobody at all is talking about, due to the fact that it makes everyone very uncomfortable. The only one it doesn't seem to bother is the blonde girl who pushed Draco to dance in the first place, and *she* has just invited Draco and Harry to dinner.

"He is Dark. I am Light. We are both Black. Black as night. Black as sin. Black that obscures and blinds both Dark and Light." Internal monologue from Sirius Black. Companion to "We Were Brothers Once"

Two strangers meet in the desert under interesting circumstances. Alternate universe one-shot loosely based off of Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car".

Pansy Malfoy looks back on a childhood memory, the turning point in hers and Draco's marriage.

Hermione is so confused! When Ron and Hermione have had a big fight, and she aches to find solace in another. When Ginny bets her that she can't find a new byfriend within a two-week range, Hermione falls for two other men, both of which are forbidden to her. What can she do?

Voldemort's been defeated by Harry, and Lupin and Dumbledore look on as Harry lies in a pool of his own blood.

This is a snippet from a Journal Sirius and Remus gave Harry for christmas, in the story. It's extreamly Angsty.

...Viktor still had his back to her. He was fiddling with something -- doubtlessly a diamond ring. Hermione looked back at the scroll of parchment in her hand. Both loved her -- but who did she love? Hermione looked between Viktor and the letter once more, then took out the quill she always carried with her and scribbled something on the back of the letter in her hand. She tied it to Pigwidgeon and watched the owl fly away. When he was out of sight, Hermione took out her wand."Apparatio The Burrow." So ends Sarah Christine’s Work This Life Out My Way. Is that cold or what? Some justice for our Viktor, if you please....

Petunia is the sister of Lily Evans. Petunia is the sister that hated Lily Evans. Petunia is the sister that was jealous of Lily Evans, because Petunia could only wish she were Lily Evans.

Ten years after Hogwarts, Draco Malfoy must deal with the sins of his past. Memories are tearing him apart. Memories of his life as a Death Eater and his life as a spy. Draco must make up for his wrongdoings but first he must think back...

A one-shot about Albus Dumbledore and his impossible love for an impossible man.

Post OoTP. Snape is assigned to a dangerous and all but impossible task by Voldemort, and it is in the Order's best interest for him to deliberately fail in achieving any end result. However, when Harry finds out about Snape's assignment, the necessity of failing clashes with Harry's agenda.

People had always looks up to her. She'd been the envy of the entire school. One very unlikely one will find out the truth, however, about the past of the smartest girl in school.

When everyone around Harry begins thinking practical, Harry has a hard time adapting

Sometimes there is nothing to be sorry for.

Kathryn Black has been plagued by nightmares as far back as she can remember. So what happens when she goes to Hogwarts with her twin brother and meets someone she saw being attacked by a werewolf five years ago?````Marauder era.

Love, Lavender mused. It should have been hand in hand, a careful kiss in the corridor outside the common room, smiles freely given across the heads of their classmates. ``Not like this.

T'was the night before Christmas... A look at the life of Remus Lupin during his twelve lost years.

For those who have read 'The Seriousness of Sirius Potter' or 'The Intentional Accident', then this provides a bit of backstory for Michael Wood. If you haven't read them, then it's a rather nice Oliver/Katie story.

For some, it is a time of rest. For others, it is a time of action. Some win, some lose, but the losses keep piling up on both sides. The view into a young man's thoughts while running at oh two hundred greenwitch mean time. The second story of the Love In Idleness arc.

They reminded each other of the seasons. A look at Draco and Ginny's relationship.

It was a cold night, espicially for a night in June...when we were near enough to hear what was going on, we were too near to turn around...and 5 seconds later we were in the middle of the mess.````Ron's view of Voldemorts last battle. Comparison fiction to The Sound of Silence.

Ron is the boy who lived.

Ginny goes to a Ministry-run bachelorette auction and is won by the person she least suspects-but secretly hoped for.

Bounty hunters, werewolves, mysterious letters, and more! When Emma, a bounty hunter for the American Councils of Magic, receives a letter from Hogwarts, her life is turned upside down. Together with her team of fellow bounty hunters, they must gather to help The Order defeat the Dark Lord once and for all.

What's life like for a toad before The One arrives in his life? A look at Trevor the Toad.

Severus's love from his Death Eater days comes back... How does he react?

Ella comes to London in search of someone who can help her rid herself of her family's curse. While in hiding, she gains the heart of the last man she would ever expect, but will it be too late? Eventual SS/OC.

Its the end of Harry's seventh year and it is is finally going to happen. It is the final show down between Harry and Voldermort. What will happen? Who will survive? A short fan fic come and read.

Harry will keep his promise to deliver Snape's portrait to the Headmaster's office--but only after enlisting its help with an important assignment. Even Snape's image can be a handful, but Harry isn't worried. There are so many ways to dispose of an obstreperous portrait . . .

Ron's mood has matched the stormy weather all day and Hermione's determined to find out why and help him out of his slump-- and neither wind, nor rain, nor...the boys' locker room? will stop her.

An elderly Harry Potter reminisces on his life and confesses to a murder committed in his youth.

"I wish I could say that there was one my heart was telling me to choose but unfortunately my heart has abandoned me. Nothing is pure. What once brought pleasure now brings pain as well. What once brought pain brings unwanted pleasure. And this is when the choices come in." Draco must make the hardest choice of his life.

When Snape's daughter starts to go to Hogwarts, she is confronted with perhaps her greatest fantasy and her worse nightmare: becoming her father. It is a psychological journey through the mind of a seventeen-year-old, confronted with the 'annoying' society, the presence of Houses, while trying to be independent and strong.

Percy is unappreciated. And this is a fact.

May was living a life she loathed, and no one (except maybe Sirius) seemed to be able to help her out of it.

Ginny didn’t know when things had changed. Maybe there wasn’t a specific time or place that it happened. Maybe it had simply been there all along, under the surface, waiting for the right moment to come back and kick her in the head. And it had done so, with a vengeance.

Ron reveries about the difficulty to familiarise with something new – his mental and physical love for a boy. How can shame have space inside him, next to an emotion that otherwise feels so right? And why does it seem that he is the only one feeling bothered about it?

Sirius haunts his old favorite bar, and meets an unexpected patron in the alleyway. Throw in some alcohol and an old flame and you get a very...steamy...Halloween.

It’s a shame how someone’s pride can get in the way of things. Slytherins can fall in love too you know. After all, they are human. Some want to love and some refuse to. Love is only made for Gryffindors, one had said; but love can be such a beautiful thing. If selfish pride gets in the way, one must just move on. If only that were easy to do.

Deep in the hidden places of Hogwarts, Albus Dumbledore watches over a colleague and friend as he plays a dangerous game.

Snape's thoughts after Remus Lupin was hired as Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher and Sirius Black escaped from Azkaban. Warning: very bitter Snape

Harry is ten years old and has a dream about something that happened few years ago, but was wiped off his memory.

It's 1981 and Barty Crouch Jr. is desperate for word from or about Regulus Black. Hint of Barty/Regulus.

The Burrow is empty, even when it's full.