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Walking. It is something you do to calm yourself when you're not walking to go somewhere. You walk alone in the wilderness with only your thoughts to keep you company. What happens when the last surviving member of an old family finally confesses to his crimes? A twist you may not expect.

While Harry and company are off hunting horcruxes, it's up to Luna and the rest of the DA to hold down the fort at Hogwarts. But, that's not as easy as it may seem.

Second of my Snape vignettes. Snape sees Harry Potter for the first time and muses on what he will become to the wizarding world.

Companion piece to "The Unsinkable Molly Weasley." This is the story of Molly's days as an Unspeakable.

Snape has a terrible scare, and Lupin is the sole audience to one of the Potions master's most secret confessions.

A one shot following Severus Snape from the end of HBP to the final battle, with flashbacks to his past.

Even when you feel like there's nothing left to feel, things can still touch you. And when there's nothing you can touch, you can still feel him, right there, because he needs you. And maybe there's nothing you can do, but you can tell him to live. H/D

The tumultuous life of a girl is thrown into complete chaos when she discovers she has certain powers. The meeting of a very powerful wizard will change her life as she knows it. And just what is her connection to the Wizarding world?

May your heart bleed on you, ``May it seep down and cause you more pain, ``Sorrow, and anguish than anyone has ever known. ``I thought you loved me....

Ginny Weasley is at the peak of her career-she's a powerful Auror, high on Voldemort's hit list for her victories against him, and the romantic interest of Harry Potter. Then in a suspicious "accident" on one of her missions, she is blinded, and all that disappears. She's alone and disgraced. Then a pale haired boy from her past comes to see her-bearing the message that his Lord will give her back what she wants the most-her sight. But how high is the price? (D/G)

January Rain just wants to die, can someone save her after she takes a slow working poison?

This is my outtake from the end of OoTP, Chapter Thirty-seven.

'Would it be better if I told her to go off to this school and not look back? That would be as good as telling her to marry Potter and let that be that. But, I love her too much to ever let her go. Ever. I love her so much that it often hurts when I am without her. When she is not beside me, I feel as though I can’t breathe. I am dependent on her. Addicted. She’s like ecstasy. Or speed. Only, she’s good. And pure. '

Voldemort comes after Harry to take his revenge.

Remus is scared, and for the life of him cannot figure out why...

As Lily finishes the cleaning after one of The Marauder's little get togethers, she and nine-month-old Harry have a little conversation about dogs, girls, and life.

Regulus Black: start to finish.

Five women, each with a man on her mind, but not, perhaps, the men you'd expect.

Two days after the final battle, George reflects on what happened and attempts to cope with the results. Can he find the strength to carry on? Contains spoilers for "Deathly Hallows".

The assassination of Ronald Weasley sends Harry and Hermione on a mission for vengeance, if they can escape the paparazzi long enough. With no help from the Ministry, can the two friends catch up with his killer while they sort through everything unsaid between them? A Post-Hogwarts story.

Family and fathers and nighttime and the cycles the bind. Because with seven children things always come in repetitions, repeats, redos.

A girl spends her days in Hogwarts listening only to the portraits, until she learns from an unexpected source that her fellow students have lessons to teach her as well.

Ginny Weasley is trapped in a dream. A dream that never ends and never reveals the truth. When she is employed at Malfoy Manor after a vicious breakup with Harry Potter, things start to reveal themselves and Ginny's real character and deepest thoughts and wishes start to emerge.

A unnamed older Slytherin meditates upon one of the younger Slytherins and comes to a suprising conclusion. Guess who before you reach the end.

A reflection of Harry from Molly Weasley's point of view.

Morning dawns after the night of the battle at the Ministry and Molly is summoned to keep vigil at the bedside of her youngest son. As Ron fights for his life, her thoughts stray in many directions, always returning to the child who is lying in front of her.

Draco wants to be Harry's friend, but unfortunately, he has got it all wrong. Crabbe and Goyle are not very good friends, are they?

“Remus wasn’t going to cry today. He had already cried. He had been crying for the past two months. An ocean of salt-water tears.” Remus goes to visit Sirius before his conviction. Slash! S/R

Snape's found a new friend in Muggle English teacher Daniel Deschamps, but are Sirius and Lupin willing to allow it to exist?

It is Harry's first Christmas and everything's going great. Or is it? Peter hasn't shown up, grudges are shown, and Lily knows the truth. It definitely isn't Harry's best first Christmas and it's Lily and James's LAST Christmas. VERY Dark and Angsty.

Harry is serving Potions detention, alone together with a certain, long-time rival – “Here we are, face to face across the cauldron. This potion tasted bittersweet, but not bad; I’ve certainly tasted worse. But it burns as it starts to work. I think you know by now it’s not the one that Snape assigned. I slipped in my own secret ingredient before it was ladled it out, so there’s no going back. There will be truth between us.” (R for mature themes and mild slash)

How Snape left the Death Eaters, saved the Weasley twins, and delivered James Potter's Invisibility Cloak to Dumbledore.

How do you tell your girlfriend's parents their daughter died in a car crash? Ron has to do just that. Songfic to Pearl Jam's Last Kiss.

When Voldemort returns after the third task, Dumbledore asks Snape if he is ready. Here we look at his private reaction to this question.

Something was poking Sirius in the side of the head. It was sharp and uncomfortable and oddly familiar. Sirius Black gets a visit from an old friend. One-shot.

This is a little reflective piece from the Point of View of Neville. It basically discusses how he sees some of his life's events and how he is growing into a stronger person.

After the final battle and the loss of his two best friends, Harry Potter doesn't have the spark in him that he once had. While on the job in The Leaky Cauldron, he discovers a disheveled Draco Malfoy. Trying to protect him from a vicious Severus Snape, however, proves to be a mistake.

The dream team are in their Fifth year and closer than ever. A jealous Ginny lays a trap for Hermione that involves the Giant Squid. But what does Voldemort have to do with it? Slight H/Hr

Lily Evans deals with a sixth year at Hogwarts, and a first year as Head Girl. To her frustration, the Head Boy is none other than James Potter. As the year progresses, they fight many evils, Malfoy, Voldemort, N.E.W.T.'s, an unexpected ball, and their growing affection for each other.

It's Harry Potter's last year at Hogwarts... and the most deadly events are yet to come.

Have you ever wanted another chance to live life over? Make things right? Have you ever been forced to?

There is no choice. Parvati's life depends on her sister's mission....take out the Boy Who Lived. It's the hardest thing she's ever imagined. But even if her will holds out, can Padma catch Harry off guard?

The war is over. Sirius is dead. And Hermione is worried about her best friend. Harry seems to have pulled himself away from reality and has closed himself off from everyone, making his friends concerned for him. One-shot fic. Hermione's POV.

"Pansy-- large-flowered garden plant derived chiefly from the wild pansy of Europe and having velvety petals of various colors." See how Pansy Parkinson fits this description.

The last few dying moments of Draco and Hermione's lives, as they lie bleeding in the snow. Inspired by the lyrics of 'My last breath', sung by Evanescence.

Lucius has been condemned to the Dementor's Kiss. On the day of his execution, he thinks back on all the other deaths he has witnessed. Features lovingbutstrong!Lucius and Narcissa.

'Man is a wolf to man'. Based on Kafka's The Metamorphosis, but doesn't require knowledge of the work. Building cities and filling out the angles of your name. Remus!fic.

Sometimes things change that were never meant to. For Draco, change destroys. A galleon, a portkey, a thief, and confrontation - all in one class with the centaurs. Slash, written before OotP. (Therefore no spoilers!)

This fic is from Petunia Evans's point of view when her life turns upside down with the revelation that her little sister is a witch.

Post-OOTP: Thoughts drifting through James, Sirius and Lily's minds. Told as if they could speak to Harry.

The war is over... each side has lost much. In the ruins of the Astronomy Tower, Draco could make the biggest mistake of his life. Can Harry save him from himself? mentions of H/D slash. Songfic to Jumper by Third Eye Blind

Driven by his memories of Snape's escape, Harry takes up Occlumency again. He'll need a Legilimens to test him, though, and since Snape and Dumbledore are both gone, he turns to a someone he can trust, with a knack for picking up new spells: Hermione.

"My name is Harry Potter. I am the boy who lived; the so called Saviour of the world. There is one person I couldn't save." After the war Harry must come to terms with the fate of his son, battle his demons and care for a broken family.

A pivotal tale and seminal theory about life-debts, immortality potions, and the night that Severus Snape turned his life from Darkness.

Draco and Ginny have never had it easy from the very beginning, and the the years of bitter events have left a mark on their children. An argument too far and Elizabeth watchs the past and present roll out in front of her...

An orphaned American learns that she is a witch and is invited to attend Hogwarts. Her life rapidly improves until her past comes back to haunt her.

She kept her heart under lock and key as not to have it broken. But the irony was that, in the end, her heart was broken anyway. DHr, Oneshot.

AU, in the summer after Harry's fourth year, Draco Malfoy saves his life and fakes his death to protect him. He hides in America and after two years returns to England.

For Remus Lupin, it's hard being the only werewolf in school. No one else can understand what he's going through. No one else can hear the sinister voice of the wolf. Keeping his mind his own has become a constant battle, a battle which he fears he will lose, a battle which he almost does lose.

"After she finished work, Elspeth went down to the cemetery on Woodthorpe Road so she could see the ghost." A Potterverse story with a twist in the tail. One-shot.

Love changes us, bends us, breaks us, wheither it is accepted or rejected. Which is worse...

Ron goes to save a captive Hermione, only to find that things have changed. Hermione/Voldemort, dark[ish] fic.

Voldemort sets out to get his revenge on Snape in an unique way.

I thought destruction meant death, illness, everything bad to happen to the environment. But I soon learned that other things - people - could destruct as well.

Best friends tell each other everything. Right? But something is bothering Sirius and he's not telling his best mate Remus about it any time soon. What is it?

Sirius and Regulus disembark the Hogwarts Express and return to 12 Grimmauld Place for the summer. Their journey home is rife with conflict and danger--as much from themselves as from others.

The name is Weasley. Molly Weasley. I'm an Unspeakable in the Department of Mysteries. Molly Weasley is probably the most underrated character in canon. Most writers show her as some kind of throwback to the fifties. So Portia's out to fix her image!

The first Ministress of Magic in over a century has a lot on her plate. Voldemort is on the rise, Hogwarts is in danger, and people are dying. The corruptness of the Ministry is extreme. She just wants to do her job and do it well. But there will be many obstacles in her way.

Harry was always meant to die.

Set in the _Slytherin Rising_ AU. A certain Machiavellian Ravenclaw finds out about Harry Potter's horrid home-life...and we find out what happens when Ravenclaws lose their tempers.

The Second Rising of Voldemort has ended. Harry defeated Voldemort three years ago but the war raged for another year. The past two years have been spent rebuilding the Wizarding World after the most brutal war it has ever undergone. These are the stories of the survivors.

Christmas Day 1985, Snape receives a letter that changes his life. The two most important people in his life are gone. What type of memories is this letter going to stir up for him? A prequel to Secrets and Protection

The summer of Harry's sixteenth birthday takes him back to forgotten memories of his childhood, leading up to the day where everything went right and Harry makes a mistake that will haunt him forever.

The truth is, she thinks, I'm very good at believing. It was a talent, after all... Seventh year; Ron talks, Luna listens. Vaguely linked to Shades of Purple.

Harry Potter's scar is an outward sign of a battle he fought and won. But another around him carries scars, both physical and mental, of a different battle that is still being fought. Is he winning or losing?

Oliver and Wood and Katie Bell are cheating on each other with the same man, and when it's all over, Marcus Flint knows he will be the one alone.

Your name is Minerva McGonagall. You are thirteen. And you are scared.

Guilt, grief, and obligation haunt Severus Snape, and he is forced to deal with the feelings they leave behind.

Pansy Parkinson, in the Fifty Galleon universe.

“Is there any new information, Daddy?” asked Lillian. Remus and Sirius fell silent and Abigail put down the book she had been engrossed in. Harry looked around at his expectant family. “Well, yes,” he admitted, “there have been rumours of Dementor rebellions and a reform in the North.” Abigail looked up at him, her eyes wide. “What is the ministry going to do about it?” Twenty years after the end of the second war, when the shattered lives have been pieced together and the memories of the terror have finally begun to fade... the horrors borne by those who came before us begin to resurface. They call us the children of the war, the survivors, but they can't see what we really are. We are scarred.

A ten-year-old girl arrives at Hogwarts not knowing what to expect. Her Sorting is an experience most others do not go through as she learns that it truly is our choices that choose who we truly are, far more than our abilities.

It wasn't how Remus would have chosen for Harry to learn that some secrets need to remain secret. A trip into Remus' closet will reveal more than skeletons. (set after HBP -spoilers)

Andromeda was Sirius' favorite cousin for multiple reasons and they were closer than any than other two members of their family. She was the one who taught him how to smoke and he was the one who gave her a way out and in the end the Black family lost two of its brightest stars.

This is his sister's story. She and her twin were separated from Harry and one was born and raised in darkness. One of the twins will betray Harry and her sister. Which twin will betray her twin and what will happen when Harry finds out he has two sisters?

There was no turning back now, was there? Draco Malfoy was undoubtedly a marked man, and he was barely a man at that. Professor Albus Dumbledore was dead and the second war was about to begin. What was left for the young Slytherin? Did he fight with those he had sided with his whole life, or did he pursue a new path?

Dumbledore dwells on recent and past happenings, and tells Snape about the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. Set prior to PoA.

A companion fic to "An Angel in Disguise," because it features Jim!the Janitor and eight-year-old Harry. An essay assigned by a substitute teacher yields some surprising results.

James and Lily are married. After an enjoyable night with Sirius, James notices that Lily is not her usual self.

Severus Snape stood at the edge of the cemetery, watching the small group near the open grave. Or rather, watching one of them in particular: a woman in black, her pale face dry of tears, her thick brown hair pulled back sharply from a face etched not with grief, but anger. The widow of the man being lowered into the ground. *What would have happened if I’d told you, instead of letting you find out the hard way, Honoria? Would you be mourning my death now, instead of his? Would my son be mine?*

Questions of mortality between Bill and Fleur, and why tomorrow is a gift.

Life, Death, the way back. Harry experiences all of these and the final battle begins and ends with the most unlikely heroes.

Draco comes to Hermione, asking her for help. Sequel to I Just Keep Running.

Oliver Wood is obsessed with Quidditch, and the Gryffindor team don't quite get it.

Pregnant and alone, Mrs. Paul Grover reflects on the accident that left her life in pieces.

The same story as "Don't Say No" but with a slightly different ending.

Pansy Parkinson reflects on her life, love and of course Draco Malfoy. Who is Pansy Parkinson? Perhaps only she herself knows. A realistic look at the young Slytherin from her own perspective.

Ginny and Draco are together with a son, but can years of living on the Dark Side just disappear? Apparently Not. Updated

A woman stands over the body of a former lover.

Draco Malfoy, sneaking around the Forbidden Forest on a full moon. A mysterious werewolf appears, and a bite changes the life of another.

It's the holiday season, and Harry is alone and missing some holiday company. This is the script for Spell-Cast.com's 2006 holiday podcast play.