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It's a misty, Friday afternoon and Draco Malfot is stuck in the cold Astronomy Tower finishing up an assignment. Then a flash of red catches his eye and he wanders over to the window, not realizing that it was the beginning of a remarkable sight. After all, watching the rain kiss Ginny is an unforgettable experience.

Fear gives way to pride - pride to rashness - and rashness to regret. Some things are better left unspoken; some dreams are better left undreamt. When learned the hard way, only time can bring it back to a shadow of what once was beautiful... and sometimes, we also learn, the price to pay for catharsis and redemption is far too high.

Lily is learning just what it means to be a witch. Magic twists the telling of it.

The last battle is fought, and Ron is thinking back on the things that happend after Harry Potter died. Can he finally have Hermione, as he have wanted to for so many years? Will she even have him?

Hello is normally a very nice thing to hear, but for Harry it just gets him locked in a closet. Lucky it was just a dream! How will Draco respond to Harry and his little nightmare?

"But the lonely man didn’t see it. He didn’t pay any attention to it, for his eyes were focused on the ground below. The ground covered in crimson blood and motionless bodies. He was focused on the battlefield where the fates of many had been decided during the night, a night he would never forget. A night that would always be remembered as the night when The-Boy-Who-Lived defeated the Dark Lord."

Ginny muses on what it's like to live your life in someone else's shadow.

Draco relives the night of graduation. Harry is taken from his bed. When they meet again, the only word that suits the situation is pain.

Sometimes there is only one path you can take. Sometimes it’s the wrong one...

Ginny Weasley was found today in one of the most tragic deaths in history. She died burning inside Phoenix Crypt. It seems that, after blowing the entire wall out, and emptying every single coffin of its inhabitant, she poured kerosene atop all of the bodies as well as her own, lit them all on fire, and flung herself onto the piled bodies of her twelve children and husband...

A/U. Remus arrives at the scene after the attack on Godric's Hollow. Lily is dead, James is near death and Harry by some miracle has survived. Sirius arrives and in the ensuing confrontation attacks Remus and takes Harry. When help arrives James is rushed to St Mungo's, leaving a distraught Remus to cope with what has happened.

Oliver watches Percy banish a boggart and realises that what Percy fears the most is also his greatest desire. Also focuses on Percy and Oliver's *platonic* friendship. Inspired by Simple Plan's Crash and Burn, but not a songfic.

Harry Potter/Medium crossover. Humorous in some ways... Told from the eyes of the characters, this is the story of a 17 year old medium named Roxie Lestrange, who is captured by Voldemort. Roxie finds a new friend, discovers a unique and powerful magic ability, and saves a friend from death. This is her story.

Remus Lupin has lost everyone he cared for to Voldemort. Lily and James were killed, Peter died fighting, Harry has been taken to live with his aunt, and Sirius- Sirius Black betrayed them all. Now Remus must face his first transformation alone.

Sirius' thoughts before during and after he does something bad. Again.

'Death. Black Death. Death all around now, good death and bad. The war is because of so much. So many. And the boy, him too. It's all because of the boy.' War touches everything, and the struggles to survive can be so much more painful than death itself.

Lucy's true colors come out...

Ollivander/Rowena drama, romance and angst! Includes the founding of Hogwarts, the creation of the Chamber of Secrets, passionate love, grand battles and much more! This is how it all begins.

Red. Nothing else describes her life as good as this colour. Nothing else would be fitting to describe a life, in which happiness and tragedy come as close as it gets. Post-Deathly Hollows. One-Shot. Molly Weasley mourns.

When Hermione strangely disappears, Lucy is the only person who can find her...

Sirius and Lucius have an intense encounter at a funeral, and it changes both their lives.

There is a piano in the Shrieking Shack. Remus thinks it was Dumbledore’s idea. It definitely wasn’t his.

What if it was discovered that Harry isn't an only child, and his only sibling has fallen into the wrong company? Harry has always been good at being the hero, saving everyone who needs help, but what happens when he can't save them, when the one person who needs saving is him. What happens when he wants to fight back, but if he does he's risking family? What happens when water becomes thicker blood? What happens when he meets his pathological enemy?

Two women, a generation apart, seek asylum from the least likely of sources. How their request is handled greatly differs, and yet, Petunia cannot help but to think of the same person each time.

WARNING: OC Abundance. No one expected the end of October in 1981 to be any calmer than the rest of the year had been. Just, no one had expected James and Lily to die either, so who knows.

In another sequel to the Permission Slip (Ridd), Poppy Pomfrey faces a dilemma —_should she tell her parents about the permission slip, or pretend it doesn\\\'t exist?

Companion fic to Facing. After Sirius's death, Remus visits the veil the way another might visit a grave. “I don’t expect anything. If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the course of my life it’s that a person’s expectations are liable to fall flat. However, knowing your godfather, it wouldn’t surprise me if he’s managed to somehow defy everyone else’s expectations for a final time.” And Sirius is in essence defiant. Not a resurrection fic.

"Six O'Clock Monday, Potter." Where did Snape go after he left Grimmauld Place? A missing moment from Order of the Phoenix

Tom Marvolo Riddle\'s second year in Hogwarts, mostly. He\'s sitting in a library, mainly. It\'s a short fic, but it fleshes out some ideas I have for the origin of characters such as Moody, Filch and of course, Mr. Riddle sir.

You have already left far away/I will also slowly get out/Why must I be yielding to you even for separation?/I really do not have a talent/The silence is not this fast/I will learn to give you up///Remember when....

Pansy tells exactly why Draco "puts up" with her.

"Father’s blood was darker than the sky- it was as blue as the depths of the ocean and murkier. His veins were filled with history; every Malfoy that had ever walked the earth lived on in his body. And now, they exist in my veins. It is a great responsibility, for blood is our heritage. Our lives are spent trying to be worthy of the honour accorded to us." The making of a Malfoy. Implied Draco/Lucius.

Songfic to Vanessa Carlton's "Twilight". Get the tissues ready, it's a real tear-jerker. Very sad romance between Draco and--well, I'll leave it to you to guess.

During Prisoner of Azkaban, Ginny and Hermione became friends. The catalyst was an event familiar to all witches and women.

Year after year, Danielle never forgets what the Dark Lord has done to her family before she came to Hogwarts. But someone's willing to bring back the Christmas spirit that Danielle once had.

The tears that cling to her eyelashes are the only things he sees as his mind flashes back to that day inside the library, and the sound she had made deep in her throat. Not a day has gone by since then that he hasn't watched her, dreamed of her, been haunted by her. Ghosts are merely spirits that have yet to cross over. It is time for her to move on.

Harry asks Hermione a question that she isn't prepared to answer. When she finally comes up with one, is it too late?

Post-OotP. Remus reflects; Harry vents. They make a promise and find a little bit of peace.

In the Christmas holidays Draco discovers a fellow student held captive in his home.

Something's going on in the Ministry. Elections are being held, suspicion is from here to there, Voldemort's back and more powerful than ever before, and it looks like he has competition for the Dark Wizard status. But Who?

Draco is leaving the last goodbye. But to whom?

After Sirius's defection, Bellatrix comes to see him, to confront him about his decision and try to convince him not to betray his family. Examines the relationship between the cousins, and how their loyalties have torn them apart. Sirius/Bellatrix.

My name is Lucius Malfoy. My son is dead.

Back for second year, Harry chooses to follow a new path and he's going off the rails. He's depressed and angry; tired of trying to be someone he's not. Lashing out and driving everyone away feels like the only thing that will keep him from losing it. As unlikely as it seems, Professor Snape may be the one person capable of providing the guidance Harry needs and wants.

The events just prior to Sirius' fall through the veil. His final thoughts and his last courageous stand against the Death Eaters. The demise of one of the last Marauders.

Before anything else, Molly is a mother.

After his capture at the Ministry of Magic and incarceration at Azkaban prison, Lucius Malfoy readies himself to receive the Dementor’s Kiss in punishment for his crimes. But will a desperate attempt at escape allow him to evade the Ministry Aurors and flee back to his home and safety?

Someone is looking for shelter...

He'll die by the hand that made him what he was... but whose hand made Draco him?

She’s a whisper in water, a secret for him to hear. He’s the one who grows distant when she beckons him near.

AU Left on the Dursleys' doorstep, Harry is kidnapped by Moody and taken to a better home. However, misfortune follows him wherever he goes and he is soon at an orphanage, ostracized and alone...that is, until he's adopted by Nicholas Flamel.

At an unknown time in the future, a young man stands at a gravesite, mourning the love that killed him to acknowledge, and that killed him to lose.

The cup was Helga Hufflepuff's most treasured possession. But how did she come to own it?

His life is merely a game; entertainment for his father. He's one team, Lucius is the opposing side. His girlfriend, Pansy, is playing for both sides, so she doesn't care who wins or loses. However, time is running out, and how they play doesn't matter too much; Voldemort may make the final call.

"It is so very fragile, this final splintering of life, so tremulous and slow that it seems that the whole world is slowing down for a few minutes to give Draco Malfoy an extended swan song." Slash, Draco/Neville

When Crystal's father forces her and her mother to move to America Crystal is devastated. Her mother refuses to explain why they had to move. Her mother is afraid of magic. Why hasn't Crystal heard from her father in over three years? Why has Crystal been forced to practice magic in secret? The plot thickens bit by bit as the first chapter is put together....

Believing Harry to be dead, Ron moves to the States to start over.

"Dudley's gang had been chasing him as usual when, as much to Harry's surprise as anyone else's, he was sitting on the chimney. ...All he'd been trying to do was jump behind the trashcans. Harry supposed the wind must have caught him mid-jump." (SS/PS, 25, American Edition)

"A new day has come for me. A new life." In his sixth year at Hogwarts, Draco Malfoy fell in love. He became a new person. Then she died, and he was cold and heartless again. This is his story about being in the dark without her, and how her best friend slowly brought him back into the light. Love, hate, betrayal, death, humor... this fic has it all.

Even though Ginny is almost fifteen, she is still haunted by the memory of Tom Riddle. He comes to her in her dreams asking her to save him, keep him alive, and then disappearing into thin air. Her dreams become reality as she begins to see him in the faces of strangers and even close friends. Can these people help pull Ginny out of the depths of dispair? Or will she give up and let the evil overtake her?

Inspired by the song "Mary, Did You Know?" I heard the song while at a celebration, and I got visions of this piece. It's Christmas, post-war at Hogwarts. Harry has defeated Voldemort only days prior, and most of the school had to stay for Christmas holiday for safety reasons. Lily, did you know...?

Remus wasn't the only werewolf at Hogwarts in the 70s: there was another, a girl called Kerynn; but when Voldemort starts gaining power, and war breaks out in the Wizarding World, can the shadows that have dwelt within them both be kept hidden, or will they emerge?

Had Sirius Black not lost been in a foul temper on the night December 23, 1980, Neville might have normal parents. But none of that would have mattered had Peter Pettigrew not attended Mr. Jugson's Christmas party as a spy, flirted with Bellatrix, and found that he liked sitting on the top of the fence. Flattery and alchol do wonders, but even mice have pride. One-shot.

Mistakes are always made and many have colossal consequences. One family blindly pledged their allegiance to Lord Voldemort and are facing the penalties that followed his downfall. If only Narcissa Malfoy followed her instincts and didn’t let her sister and husband persuade her into a life of darkness, things wouldn’t have turned out so wrong.

Ron and Draco talk about the night that Harry died. Draco is the only person that knows what happened that night and Ron wants to know, but is Ron willing to pay the price even if it is death?

What cruelties can the world impose on two teenagers? And how dark can their lives really become? Draco/Ginny one-shot.

Ginny knows that love can hurt, but it shouldn't hurt like this. So why does she let Draco treat her this way? Obviously, D/G.

When Hermione Granger is assigned Severus Snape's old quarters, she never expects to find his ghost haunting them. But is everything really as it appears? SS/HG.

Ronald Weasley is the owner of the famous cabaret known as Jezebel. He is a coldhearted man, who never hesitates to sleep with his 'dancers' or pick a fight with an associate... at least, not until Hermione Granger comes along. Her parents have sold her over to him in order to earn themselves for money. She is the only dancer in the place who doesn't want to be there -- that is, of course, until her new master falls in love with her. Ever so slowly, she begins to love him back. But when his extravagant way of life is threatened, he must choose between life and love. Featuring Fleur as a bellydancer, Sirius and Remus as cops, and Harry as a pickpocket. An AU fic.

Harry thinks about how his life has changed since the events at the ministry and Sirius' death. Warning: Angst

AU Deathly Hallows. Harry breaks his promise to Ron and Hermione, gets captured by Death Eaters, and is kept alive by Voldemort for his own nefarious reasons. There, Harry finds himself in a difficult situation with an even more difficult ally. Co-written with Mimi the Cornflake Girl.

Yes, we know what was happening to Harry in Umbridge's office and in the forest, but what about certain other people?

Songfic set to Pat Benatar's Fire and Ice. Ginny has seen Draco go through so many girls, wishing he'd only be loyal to one--her. But when he sets his sights on her, will she let him have her or play hard to get?

"Becca, he says they've got the best potion master in the world and he could easily help her, the Dark Lord need only ask it. And he'd do it for free. Becca, it's the best chance for her." He grew quiet. "The only chance for her. If I'm right..." He didn't finish his sentence. When faced with the loss of his child...a man will do anything to save the infant's life...even join up with the wrong side.

'Tom Riddle had always been as his name proclaimed him; a human riddle, a walking, talking, living, breathing enigma.' A young Minerva McGonagall reflects on her former classmate and wonders what she's supposed to think of him now.

Hermione looks back at life after and near the end of the War and remembers that there was only one promise that Harry couldn't keep in his life, OF his life. One-shot fic.

It’s been seven years since the final battle with Voldemort, in which Harry made the Wizarding world safe once more, but at a great price; Ron. Life went on; Harry and Ginny were married, and are now expecting their first child. However, Ron’s death still haunts Harry, and he has never been able to explain what happened to anybody else. Ginny wants more than anything to start a new beginning with the birth of the baby, but can she get Harry to finally open up about Ron and give her family the closure they so desperately need?

Sticks and Stones can break your bones but words can never hurt you...right?

Harry comes to stay at the Burrow the summer between Ginny's 4th and 5th years. After a Quidditch-related incident, Ginny realizes that she can get Harry's attention, and maybe even cheer him up a bit, by putting herself in danger. At first, her plan seems to be working, but when she has to resort to more and more dangerous acts, both she and Harry will have to face their greatest fears head on...

A vignette written from Ron's POV about when Harry and his friendship ended.

After a rough patch, they see who comes crawling back first.

What would you do if you had a perfectly happy life and it was suddenly torn apart? If your brother ends up with the only deadly ailment not curable by magic? If your sister attempted suicide? This is the life story four Hogwarts-going quadruplets.

A day in the life of a typical wizarding family during the First War, when Voldemort paralyzed Britain with fear and every day was borrowed time.

There are consequences to having your own free will, as Regulus finds out after Sirius runs away. Written for the Regulus Black Y!Group's cookie challenge.

Harry returns to Hogwarts, the scene of the last showdown between himself and Voldemort, and recounts how he lost the only people who meant anything to him.

Seven words, and she’d kill him. Seven words, that’s all he needed. If she waits, waits seven words; he’ll die for his cause. If she doesn’t… if she doesn’t, well then, he’ll just be another nameless death, one among thousands dead. But she would wait. He knows she will. She has to. ``Draco/Luna

Cho Chang thinks her life over and comes to some conclusions. She writes a letter, to Hogwarts, to explain her behavior, and apologize for it...

In the beginning, there was depression. On a journey, there was friendship. And through the battle, they stuck together. This is their story.

She should be laughing at him. "Severus, such sentimentality is reserved for us emotional Gryffindors. You know that." Yes, Lily should be laughing at him. Yet, he was here, standing over where her life should never have taken her.

Harry’s completely in love with a Ravenclaw sixth year, Sarah, `` and is blind to the dangers. Hermione is distressed after Draco betrays her, `` so she finds solace in Ron. Draco is planning to steal Hermione back, but the `` solution he finds would mean he could never forgive himself...``What exactly is being in love like for them? And how far would they go to prove it? A long one-shot fic. H/OC, very mild D/Hr, major R/Hr. Hermione’s POV.

The Dark Lord is back and as he rises to power what will one student decide?

History has a habit of repeating itself.

Sirius Black's fiancée was killed the night of his trial, leaving his two kids alone. They are taken to their Aunt Mildred's house, where they are treated like slaves. The youngest, Emily is forced to live alone after her brother is sent away. Her aunt forbids her to go to Hogwarts or any other place that has to do with magic.````Now she is 13 and her only goal is to get to Hogwarts. She manages to escape and the world becomes her candy store.

We are past the times of Voldemort and the Boy Who Lived. Now we join Harry in heaven, and watch him through his Mother's Day escapades.

How exactly was Hogwarts founded? What was their story? Well, here it is.

A mystery vision visits Sirius after a nightmare.

"I see nobody waving at me as I enter the Grand Hall. Nobody greets me as I stand there, plain as a black rose on white snow. But, the houses no longer exist as I stand there. I see my love trying to eat with my friends, my friends trying to appease the ragings of his soul. Others sitting with one another, comforting, touching, feeling. What I would give for one more chance to feel again, to be not so numb, transparent, imaginary. "

It's all just too much for Harry...

The Department of Mysteries is exactly that. It is a mystery. People go missing all the time there. Sirius Black disappeared and everyone thought that he was dead, but is he, really? A story of where Sirius Black really went when he fell in the Department of Mysteries.

After tragedy struck once again in his life, Harry Potter went away leaving Ginny and everyone he loved behind. Now, after four years, he is forced to come back home. Will he be able to forgive himself? Will he be able to ask for forgiveness?